savor

savor (countable and uncountable, plural savors)

[B]y our Sences which conceiue al Colours, Sounds, Sents, Sauors, and Féelings; wée may ſee, heare, ſmell, taſt, and feele, that one ſelfſame workman made both the Sences, and the things that are ſubiect to the Sences.

1587, Philip of Mornay [i.e., Philippe de Mornay], “That there is a God, and that All Men Agree in the Godhead”, in Philip Sidney, Arthur Golding, transl., A Woorke Concerning the Trewnesse of the Christian Religion, […], London: […] [John Charlewood and] George Robinson for Thomas Cadman, […], →OCLC, page 7:

Matr[euis]. Gurney, I vvonder the king dies not, / Being in a vault vp to the knees in vvater, / To vvhich the channels of the caſtell runne, / […] / Gurn[ey]. And ſo do I, Matreuis: yeſternight / I opened but the doore to throvv him meate, / And I vvas almoſt ſtifeled vvith the ſauor.

1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act V], signature [L3], recto:

[W]hy is not my life a continual Joy? and the ſavor of Heaven perpetually upon my ſpirit?

1649, Richard Baxter, “What Affections Must be Acted, and by what Considerations and Obje[c]ts, and in what Order”, in The Saints Everlasting Rest: Or, A Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints in Their Enjoyment of God in Glory. […], London: […] Rob[ert] White, for Thomas Underhil and Francis Tyton, […], →OCLC, part IV, section 9, paragraph 5, page 747:

[page 848] Taste, gives knowledge of the savors of material things. […] [page 849] The primary facts of knowledge, form, color, sound, weight, savor, odor, etc., can be obtained only by the direct action of material things upon the senses and cannot be taught from books.

1896 March 16, Charles R[ufus] Skinner, “[Exhibit No. 16: Teachers’ Training Classes.] Regulations for Teachers’ Training Classes.”, in Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, One Hundred and Twentieth Session, volume XVII, number 71, part II, Albany; New York, N.Y.: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., state printers, published 1897, →OCLC, section XIII (Syllabus), pages 848 and 849:


savor

en-verb

savor (third-person singular simple present savors, present participle savoring, simple past and past participle savored)

savors (present singular third-person)
savoring (participle present)
savored (participle past)
savored (past)
savor (infinitive)

So theſe olde huddles hauing ouercharged their gorges with fancie, accompte all honeſt recreation méere follly,^([sic]) and hauinge taken a ſurfet of delyght, ſéeme now to ſauor it with deſpight.

[1578], Iohn Lylly [i.e., John Lyly], “Euphues”, in Euphues. The Anatomy of Wyt. […], London: […] [Thomas East] for Gabriell Cawood, […], →OCLC, folio 7, recto:

BY novv, perhaps, thou ſauoreſts^([sic – meaning savorest]) ſome Godhead: yeat, is ods. / VVith paſte and preſent times doeſt dreame Pluralitie of Gods. / So did in deed the Monarchies, ſo Miſcreants novv not fevv: / But liſten here vvhat Gods they vvere, and learne them to eſchevv.

1602, William Warner, “The Thirteenth Booke. Chapter LXXVII.”, in Albions England. A Continued Historie of the Same Kingdome, from the Originals of the First Inhabitants thereof: […], 5th edition, London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant for George Potter, […], →OCLC, page 317:

VViſedome and goodnes, to the vild ſeeme vild, / Filths ſauor but themſelues, vvhat haue you done?

c. 1603–1606 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] His True Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Nathaniel Butter, […], published 1608, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], signature H3, verso:

In ſuch a ſeaſon, vvhen the Idle Humerous vvorld muſt heare of nothing, that either ſauors of Antiquity, or may avvake it to ſeeke after more, then dull and ſlothfull ignorance may eaſily reach vnto: […]

1612, Michael Drayton, “To the Generall Reader”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for M[athew] Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, →OCLC, signature A, recto:

Beauteous Penthea […] is novv ſo yoak'd / To a moſt barbarous thraldome, miſery, / Affliction, that [s]he ſauors not humanity.

c. 1625–1632 (date written), Iohn Ford [i.e., John Ford], The Broken Heart. A Tragedy. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Hugh Beeston, […], published 1633, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, signatures B, verso – B2, recto:

We will go to the hall, and partake of the food which I ween steameth up and savoreth well of marjoram and thyme.

1856, Catius Junior [pseudonym; Elizabeth R. Torrey], “Discourse Interrupted by Phelim, a Jester”, in Theognis: A Lamp in the Cavern of Evil, Boston, Mass.: Wentworth and Company, →OCLC, page 48:

Leaping from the tower of Beaurevoir into the ditch and preferring death to falling into the hands of the English, after the Voices had forbidden it.—This was pusillanimity, tending to desperation and suicide; and in saying that God had forgiven it, "thou savorest ill as to human free-will."

1888, Henry Charles Lea, A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages. […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, pages 368–369:

An explanation of life phenomena that savors of the laboratory and chemism repels me, and an explanation that savors of the theological point of view is equally distasteful to me. I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word "natural" to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics.

1915 May, John Burroughs, “Preface”, in The Breath of Life, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], →OCLC, pages vi–vii:

[L]et me savor the sweetness of the name of Jesus as Thou [the Virgin Mary] savoredst it in thy heart, for it is just and meet, right and for our salvation, Queen of Heaven, thrice-blessed . . .

1959, Günter Grass, “No Wonder”, in Ralph Manheim, transl., The Tin Drum, New York, N.Y.: Pantheon Books, →OCLC, page 138:

But thanks to the charmless chunk of schmancy condos now going up on Brooklyn’s Fourth Avenue (the Champs Élysées of auto parts stores), the rooftop sunsets we savored in summers past were, it turns out, our last.

2007 August 10, Lynn Harris, “On the Roof, a Weaning From Weeding”, in The New York Times:

This winter, there is a diverse buffet of movies for you to choose from. Most people order the widely franchised cheeseburger because of its biggie-sized portion, its reliably adequate flavor, and its bright, attractive packaging. Don’t get me wrong; on opening day, I’ll be sitting in the front row savoring the cheeseburgery deliciousness of “Quantum of Solace” and “Twilight.” But after the initial cinematic hunger subsides, the diner, like myself, who craves a heartier meal, will take a second trip through the buffet line and search for a meal with a more complex flavor and memorable substance.

2008 December, James Matney, “Raise your glasses in lactoast to independent films”, in The Vox (The Spokesman-Review), page 3, column 1:


ophthalmoscope

(ophthalmology) An instrument for examining the interior of the eye (that is, for ophthalmoscopy).


caramel

caramel (third-person singular simple present caramels, present participle caramelling or carameling, simple past and past participle caramelled or carameled)

caramels (present singular third-person)
caramelling (participle present)
carameling (participle present)
caramelled (participle past)
caramelled (past)
carameled (participle past)
carameled (past)

General American, Mary–marry–merry merger

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-caramel.wav

Borrowed from French caramel, from Spanish caramelo, from Portuguese caramelo, dissimilated from Late Latin calamellus, diminutive of calamus (“reed”) (and a doublet of chalumeau and shawm). Alternatively from Medieval Latin cannamellis, which is a compound of canna + mellis.

To turn out, place the dish over the mould, and invert both together, when, if the caramelling has been complete, the pudding should slip out without any difficulty at all.

1900, M. M. Mallock, The Economics of Modern Cookery: Or, A Younger Son's Cookery Book:

(transitive, cooking, dated) To caramelize.


cochineal

en-noun

cochineal (countable and uncountable, plural cochineals)

/ˌkɒt͡ʃɪˈniːl/

The noun is borrowed from Middle French cochenille (modern French cochenille), from Italian cocciniglia or Spanish cochinilla; further etymology uncertain, possibly from Latin coccineus, coccinus (“scarlet-dyed; scarlet in colour”) (whence Italian coccineo (“scarlet in colour”)) + Italian -iglia (suffix forming collective nouns), Spanish -illa (“diminutive suffix”). Coccinus is derived from Ancient Greek κόκκῐνος (kókkĭnos, “scarlet; (figurative) blushing”, adjective), from κόκκος (kókkos, “kermes oak (Quercus coccifera); insect of the genus Kermes living on the oak; scarlet dye made from crushed kermes insects”) (possibly from Pre-Greek) + -ῐνος (-ĭnos, suffix forming adjectives).
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, cochineal is not derived from Spanish cochinilla (“pill bug, especially the common pill bug (Armadillidium vulgare)”), a diminutive of cochina (“female pig, sow”) (from the animal’s shape), which coincidentally has the same spelling as cochinilla (“cochineal”).
The adjective is derived from the noun.

noncog

The Cochineel is an Inſect, bred in a ſort of Fruit much like the Prickle Pear. […] The Silveſter gives a colour almoſt as fair as the Cochineel; and ſo like it as to be often miſtaken for it, but it is not near ſo valuable.

1697, William Dampier, chapter VIII, in A New Voyage Round the World. […], London: […] James Knapton, […], →OCLC, pages 228–229:

A prodigious quantity of insects of all sorts (but no mosquitoes) assailed us at our evening meal. […] There were some that were larger—earwigs, cochineals, a little mole-cricket, and an enormous mantis. I stuffed a number of them into my poison-bottle.

1930, André Gide, “Back Again”, in Dorothy Bussy, transl., Travels in the Congo […], red seal edition, New York, N.Y.: Modern Age Books, published 1937, →OCLC, part 2 (Back from the Chad), page 194:

The cochineal insects belong to the genus Dactylopius and are interesting not only on account of the dye, used in confectionery, that is obtained from them, but also because of the effect certain kinds have on their host-plants. The cochineals that infest certain kinds of prickly pear of the genus Monacantha have such an adverse effect on the plants, that the latter are completely destroyed. […] One of the cochineals that infest the last-named does have a killing effect at times, but by no means so marked.

1936, H. K. Munro, F. A. Fouché, “Introduction”, in A List of the Scale Insects and Mealy Bugs (Coccidae) and Their Host-plants in South Africa = ’n Lys van die Dopluise en Wolluise (Coccidae) en hul Voedsterplante in Suid-Afrika (Union of South Africa, Department of Agriculture and Forestry Bulletin; no. 158), Pretoria, South Africa: Government printer, →OCLC, page 6:

The red dye—or cochineal red as it is called—is present in the body of cochineals, as is clearly apparent if one of the bugs is accidentally squashed. Cochineals were cultivated for their dye in the New World long before the arrival of the Spaniards. When Hernán Cortés entered Mexico in 1519 he was much taken by the widespread use of red in Aztec culture, and was downright dazzled by the magnificence of Montezuma's [i.e., Moctezuma II's] robe.

2003, Thomas Eisner, “The Opportunists”, in For the Love of Insects, Cambridge, Mass.; London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 318:

(countable) A scale insect of the species Dactylopius coccus, native to the tropical and subtropical Americas, which lives on prickly pear cacti (genus Opuntia).


damson

en-adj

damson (comparative more damson, superlative most damson)

more damson (comparative)
most damson (superlative)

From Middle English damascene, damasyn, damacene, from Latin prūnum damascēnum (“Damascene plum, plum of Damascus”). Doublet of damascene.

der

damson:

The color of the fruit of this tree, a very deep purple.


cantaloupe

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-cantelope.wav

From French cantaloup, from Italian Cantalupo (a place name), from Italian canto + lupo, literally "howl of the wolf".
Named after a former Papal summer estate near Rome, where the melons were first grown after being introduced to Europe.

Cucumis melo Cantalupensis Group, a cultivar group melon with sweet aromatic orange flesh, including two main types:

(UK, Ireland) Cantalupensis Group sensu stricto, with non- or slightly netted rind, also known as true cantaloupe or European cantaloupe, found in the Middle East and Europe.

Trevor, like an Aussie outbacker, eats snacks and a pickup meal of bread, cantaloupe, olives, mangoes, and melon.

2010, Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Peter Carey: A Literary Companion, page 100:

(Australia, Canada, US) Reticulatus Group (now merged into Cantalupensis Group), with strongly netted rind, also known as American cantaloupe, muskmelon or rockmelon.

cantaloupe:

An orange colour, like that of cantaloupe flesh.


greige

The adjective is borrowed from French grège and Middle French grège (“of silk: raw, unfinished; of the colour of such silk, greyish-beige”, adjective), from Italian greggio (“raw, unrefined; unbleached”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Vulgar Latin *gregius (as in lana *gregia (“untreated wool as obtained from the flock”)), from grex (“flock (of sheep, etc.)”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ger- (“flock, herd; to gather”).
The noun is borrowed from French grège and Middle French grège (“raw or unfinished silk; the colour of such silk, greyish-beige”, noun), from Italian greggio: see above.
The spelling of the word is probably influenced by beige, likely because it was thought to be a blend of grey and beige.

bor

To those who still deludedly think they prefer Star Wars over Ghostbusters, all I need to ask you is this: you don't really want to be a Jedi, do you? In a greige cowl, getting off with your sister, without a single gag across three films?

2009 June 29, Caitlin Moran, “Sorry Star Wars fans, but Ghostbusters is the best film ever made”, in The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-04-11:

Of a colour like that of unbleached or undyed fabric, between grey and beige.

harmaanruskea

of a colour like that of unbleached or undyed fabric, between grey and beige


greige

en-noun

greige (countable and uncountable, plural greiges)

greige:

Brilliant, sparkling reds will complement the bright, new beauty of Fall fashions and accent the subtle reserve of pale Priority beiges and greiges.

1943, S[idney] J[oseph] Perelman, “Bend Down, Sister”, in The Dream Department, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →OCLC, page 74:

The rise of the neutral family of greige colors has put the decorating emphasis squarely on accents. The August issue of Better Homes & Gardens, for example, features an article showing which accents look best with greiges and other popular colors.

1959, Paint, Oil and Chemical Review, volume 122, Chicago, Ill.: Trade Review Co., →OCLC, page 12, column 2:

To accessorize the server, we arranged a grouping of mahogany candlesticks in a variety of interesting shapes, a small greige-colored vase, and a platter that incorporates the colors of the candlesticks as well as the greige of the vase.

2005 September, Lauri Ward, “Views on Retirement: Moving from Coast to Coast”, in Home Therapy: Fast, Easy, Affordable Makeovers (A Perigee Book), Perigee trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Group, published September 2006, →ISBN, page 256:

Canadian colour consultants The Paint People recently reached the same conclusion, declaring on YouTube “the death of greige: a paint colour category that has absolutely dominated interior design for well over a decade”.

2022 May 25, Elle Hunt, “It’s not beige, it’s not grey: it’s greige – and it’s why all our houses look the same”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-08:

A colour like that of unbleached or undyed fabric between grey and beige, closely akin to taupe.

harmaanruskea

(textiles, archaic) Clothing, textiles, etc., which have neither been bleached nor dyed, nor otherwise fully processed; greige goods.


BCG

birth control glasses
birth control glasses#English

(US, military slang) Initialism of birth control glasses.


lemony

en-adj

lemony (comparative lemonier, superlative lemoniest)

lemonier (comparative)
lemoniest (superlative)

The walls were painted a lemony yellow colour.

We were served a lemony cheesecake for dessert.

[…] she guided the spirited little pair along the dusty road, and then in between the long stretches of fir-wood, whence came delicious warm breathings of that lemony aromatic scent of the growing pines brought forth by the mid-day sun.

1884, George Manville Fenn, chapter 2, in The Rosery Folk, volume I, London: Chapman & Hall, pages 17–18:

My class was wearing butter-yellow piqué dresses, and Momma launched out on mine. She smocked the yoke into tiny crisscrossing puckers, then shirred the rest of the bodice. Her dark fingers ducked in and out of the lemony cloth as she embroidered raised daisies around the hem.

1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 23, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 144:

“This is the lemoniest cake I’ve ever tasted!” Delores exclaimed, and Hannah could tell that her very proper mother was dangerously close to smacking her lips in appreciation.

2012, Joanne Fluke, chapter 14, in Cinnamon Roll Murder, New York: Kensington, page 142:

Resembling or characteristic of lemons, especially in terms of aroma, taste or colour.

sitruunainen

resembling or characteristic of lemons, especially in terms of aroma or taste


four-eyes

As soon as he saw me he hailed me as “Four eyes,” in reference to my spectacles, and said, “Four eyes is going to treat.” I joined in the laugh and got behind the stove and sat down, thinking to escape notice.

1913, Theodore Roosevelt, “In Cowboy Land”, in An Autobiography, New York: The Macmillan Company, page 136:

(idiomatic, derogatory) A person who wears spectacles/eyeglasses.

betaurrekodun

(derogatory) person who wears spectacles


peeper

Check out the gorgeous peepers on that guy!

1938, Louis Armstrong (and lyrics by Johnny Mercer), Jeepers Creepers
Jeepers creepers, where'd ya get them peepers?
Jeepers creepers, where'd ya get those eyes?

The witness stand. Goldminers giving evidence, sure he's violent didn't I see him with my own peepers chasing those poor kids up on the roof.

1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), page 36:

(colloquial, chiefly in the plural) The eye.


inaudible

Dogs can hear this whistle, but for people it is inaudible.

At first his voice was almost inaudible; but soon the spirit mastered the body, and his hollow but distinct tones gained a supernatural strength.

1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXXII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 267:

Unable to be heard or not loud enough to be heard.


diable

From French (à la) diable, from diable (“devil”), from Old French. Doublet of devil, diablo, and diabolus.


chimerical

chimerical (comparative more chimerical, superlative most chimerical)

more chimerical (comparative)
most chimerical (superlative)

/kɪˈmɛɹɪkəl/

From chimera, from Latin chimaera, from Ancient Greek χίμαιρα (khímaira, “she-goat”). This term entered English in or around 1638.

uder

a chimerical goal

"Yes; I have a turn both for observation and for deduction. The theories which I have expressed there, and which appear to you to be so chimerical, are really extremely practical—so practical that I depend upon them for my bread and cheese."

1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet:

With his head bent, and his big feet spread apart, he began explaining his reasons for thinking the abbé’s plan chimerical.

1869, Leon Tolstoy, War and Peace (Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude):

Being a figment of the imagination; fantastic (in the archaic sense).


hyperbolic

hyperbolic partial differential equation

A hyperbolic isometry f has two (distinct) fixed points on ∂ℋ.

2001, A. F. Beardon, "The Geometry of Riemann Surfaces", in, E. Bujalance, A. F. Costa, and E. Martínez, editors, Topics on Riemann Surfaces and Fuchsian Groups, Cambridge, page 6 http://books.google.com/books?id=RjbQdcP7DgwC&pg=PA6&dq=hyperbolic

(geometry, topology, of an automorphism) Whose domain has two (possibly ideal) fixed points joined by a line mapped to itself by translation.


tinnitus

en-noun

tinnitus (countable and uncountable, plural tinnituses)

From Latin tinnītus (“a jingling, ringing”).

(otolaryngology, pathology) The experience of auditory sensations, such as a ringing or pulsating sound, occurring in the absence of any external stimulus.


shifty

en-adj

shifty (comparative shiftier, superlative shiftiest)

shiftier (comparative)
shiftiest (superlative)

Shifty and thrifty as old Greek or modern Scot, there were few things he could not invent, and perhaps nothing he could not endure.

1857, Charles Kingsley, chapter 1, in Two Years Ago, volume 1, Cambridge: Macmillan, page 34:

Resourceful; full of, or ready with, shifts or expedients.


jasmine

en-noun

jasmine (countable and uncountable, plural jasmines)

Etymology tree
Middle Persian yʾsmn'
Classical Persian یَاسَمِین (yāsamīn)bor.
Arabic يَاسَمِين (yāsamīn)bor.
French jasminbor.
English jasmine
Borrowed from French jasmin, from Arabic يَاسَمِين (yāsamīn).

etymon

National Museum of Singapore
William Farquhar
jasmine

Italian jasmine

Chrysojasminum humile, syn. Jasminum humile


black eye

"You got a black eye out of him, and that's for publication. We can't have this reign of terror, Mr. Malone."

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

A periorbital hematoma; a visible bruise surrounding a person's eye; an assault causing such a bruise; the eye involved.


chypre

French Chypre (“Cyprus”), the name of a perfume created by François Coty in 1917.

Any of a family of fragrances built on a base consisting of bergamot, oakmoss and labdanum.


blinded

blinded by perinatal vertical transmission of gonorrhea

Deprived of sight in a way that is or may be permanent, by damage to the eyes or brain.


canthus

Borrowed from Latin canthus (“the tire of a wheel”).

bor+

the lowly East with its deer head (dark trace of long tear at inner canthus

I could sit here while the milk makes white shadows in its glass, while darkness mutters behind the window, and wait for a tear to show itself in the creased canthus of your eye.

2004, Andrew Sean Greer, The Confessions of Max Tivoli, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 263:

A ground electrode located between Fpz and Fz. The electro-oculogram (EOG) was recorded bipolarly from two electrodes placed at the outer canthi of the right eye and below the left eye.

2015 August 26, “Effects of Relaxing Music on Mental Fatigue Induced by a Continuous Performance Task: Behavioral and ERPs Evidence”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

corner of the eye
corner of the eye#Noun

(anatomy) Either corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet.


bespectacled

en-adj

bespectacled (comparative more bespectacled, superlative most bespectacled)

more bespectacled (comparative)
most bespectacled (superlative)

The Commissioner, ascetic-looking, an Oxford graduate, narrow-shouldered and elderly, tired-eyed and bespectacled like the scholar he was, like the scientist he was, shrugged his shoulders.

1917 April, Jack London, chapter XXIV, in Jerry of the Islands, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 329:

Solanka was uninterested in this bow-tied, bespectacled, markedly un-Jedi-knight-like young man, and as a former science-fiction buff despised the lowbrow space opera of the Star Wars cycle.

2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 34:

The choristers were as bespectacled as the audience. Are Protestants more bespectacled than Catholics because of too much Bible reading?

2002, Steven Barclay, A Place in the World Called Paris, page 149:


CNV

en-noun

CNV (countable and uncountable, plural CNVs)

choroidal neovascularization
choroidal neovascularization#English

(ophthalmology) Initialism of choroidal neovascularization.


odoriferous

en-adj

odoriferous (comparative more odoriferous, superlative most odoriferous)

more odoriferous (comparative)
most odoriferous (superlative)

/ˌəʊdəˈɹɪfəɹəs/

/ˌəʊdəˈɹɪfɹəs/

/ˌoʊdəˈɹɪfəɹəs/

/ˌoʊdəˈɹɪfɹəs/

From Latin. By surface analysis, odor + -i- (“bearing, carrying”) + -ferous.

surf

Lewis the eleventh had a conceit everything did stinke about him, all the odoriferous perfumes they could get, would not ease him, but still hee^([sic]) smelled a filthy stinke.

1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], chapter 1, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 3, section 1, member 3:

True, the rich spices, the perfumed woods, the fragrant oils, which would feed the sacred fire of my funeral pyre, would save my mortal remains from that corruption which makes the disgust of death even worse than its dread. A few odoriferous ashes alone would be left for my urn.

1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Enchantress, page 20:

Moreover, as that of Heidelburgh was always replenished with the most excellent of the wines of the Rhenish valleys, so the tun of the whale contains by far the most precious of all his oily vintages; namely, the highly-prized spermaceti, in its absolutely pure, limpid, and odoriferous state.

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 77, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

The males, and rarely the females, of many kinds of bats have glands and protrudable sacks situated in various parts; and it is believed that these are odoriferous.

1874, Charles Darwin, “Secondary Sexual Characters of Mammals—continued”, in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. […], 2nd edition, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, Part II (Sexual Selection), page 529:

Frankini disguised as Mr. Beefo: "Who wants to get out and smell that wet beef?"
Captain Man: "Me, I do, Me! Oh yes, so odoriferous!"

2018, Dan Schneider, Daniel Warren, “Magical Beefery Tour”, in The Adventures of Kid Danger, season 1, episode 7:


taxi yellow

en-noun

taxi yellow (usually uncountable, plural taxi yellows)

taxi yellow:

“No,” Emma said, “this could be important. Not taxi yellow, so what kind of yellow did it seem?”

1999, Gillian Roberts, Time and Trouble:

The car was painted an authentic “taxi-yellow” and featured an off-white or red interior, complete with driver.

“I remember. The walls were taxi yellow,” she added, hoping he might smile.

A bright yellow color used for New York taxicabs.


fandango

fandango (countable and uncountable, plural fandangos or fandangoes)

/ˈfæn.dæŋ.ɡəʊ/

Borrowed from Spanish fandango, of uncertain origin. Possibly related to Portuguese fado, or of West African origin.

fandango:


nidor

nidor (countable and uncountable, plural nidors)

For her part Vicki smells little, not even the nidor of antifreeze at the stock car races at Lake Doucette.

2007, Samuel F. Pickering, Autumn spring, page 28:

The long, yellow face was framed in side whiskers; there hung about him the nidor of stale cigar smoke.


creamy

en-adj

creamy (comparative creamier, superlative creamiest)

creamier (comparative)
creamiest (superlative)

creamy chocolate

Of food or drink, having the rich taste or thick, smooth texture of cream, whether or not it actually contains cream.

cremós

of food or drink, having the taste or texture of cream


hooded

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celeste

en-noun

celeste (countable and uncountable, plural celestes)

Borrowed from French céleste (“heavenly”), from Latin caelestis.


tropia

A visual defect of the eye; strabismus or squint.


slant

Late Middle English, from a variant of the earlier form dialectical slent, from Old Norse or another North Germanic source, cognate with Old Norse slent, Swedish slinta (“to slip”), Norwegian slenta (“to fall on the side”), from Proto-Germanic *slintaną. Probably influenced by aslant.

kalteva lokero

depression with sloping bottom to hold watercolors

(mining) A run: a heading driven diagonally between the dip and strike of a coal seam.

(biology) A sloping surface in a culture medium.

kalteva pinta

biology: sloping surface in a culture medium

(US, ethnic slur, derogatory) A person with slanting eyes, particularly an East Asian.


dubonnet

en-noun

dubonnet (usually uncountable, plural dubonnets)

[…] greens, and blues through deep-toned dubonnets, grays, and greens.

dubonnet:

The reddish purple colour of the apéritif Dubonnet.


invisibility

invisibility (countable and uncountable, plural invisibilities)

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From Middle French invisibilité, from Latin invisibilitas.


obsidian

obsidian (usually uncountable, plural obsidians)

From Latin obsidianus; named after Obsidius, who was, according to Pliny, the Roman who discovered the stone in Aethiopia.

The Neolithic culture from 8000 to 6000 B.C., however, was a brilliant period of the revival of crafts, the transformation of gathering into gardening, the growth of a cross-cultural obsidian trade, and the rise of towns.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 130:

(mineralogy) A type of naturally occurring black glass produced by volcanoes.

lawaglas

a type of black glass produced by volcanoes

obsidian:

A slightly bluish black, the color of obsidian glass.


obsidian

en-adj

obsidian (comparative more obsidian, superlative most obsidian)

more obsidian (comparative)
most obsidian (superlative)

Looks like a yellow biscuit of a buttery cue ball moon / Rolling maverick across an obsidian sky

1975, “Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)”, in Nighthawks at the Diner, performed by Tom Waits:


glassy-eyed

glassy-eyed (comparative more glassy-eyed, superlative most glassy-eyed)

more glassy-eyed (comparative)
most glassy-eyed (superlative)

Having a fixed stare and a wide-eyed appearance, due to boredom, preoccupation, or lack of emotion, attention, or interest.


cadmium yellow

en-noun

cadmium yellow (countable and uncountable, plural cadmium yellows)

cadmium yellow:


harlequin

harlequin (countable and uncountable, plural harlequins)

From earlier Harlicken, from Middle French Harlequin (in Italian Arlecchino, the name of a popular servant character in commedia dell'arte plays), from Old French Harlequin, Halequin, Herlequin, Hellequin, Hierlekin, Hellekin (a demon, malevolent spirit), probably of Germanic origin, connected to the Old English figure of Herla Cyning (“King Herla”, a mythical figure identified with Woden) or possibly to Old Frisian helle kin, Old English helle cyn, Old Norse heljar kyn (“the kindred of Hell”). Related to Middle English Hurlewain (“a mischievous sprite or goblin”).

cog

harlequin:


stinking

en-adj

stinking (comparative more stinking, superlative most stinking)

more stinking (comparative)
most stinking (superlative)

From Middle English stynkynge, stinkinge, stinkinde, stinkende, stynkande, stynkand, from Old English stincende, from Proto-Germanic *stinkwandz (“stinking”), present participle of Proto-Germanic *stinkwaną (“to stink”), equivalent to stink + -ing. Cognate with Dutch stinkend (“stinking, stinky”), German stinkend (“stinking, stinky”), Danish stinkende (“stinking, stinky”), Norwegian stinkende (“stinking, stinky”).


stinking

From Middle English stinkinge, stynkynge, equivalent to stink + -ing.

From the magnificent ejaculation of the Waimangu geyser, to the tiniest of gaseous emissions, descriptions of the thermal reserve were rife with dischargings, bubblings and stinkings, quiverings and palpitations, orifices and protuberances.

2013, Phaedra. C Pezzullo, Cultural Studies and Environment, Revisited, page 42:


guyliner

I threaded my way through a crowd of Goths slouching against cars in guyliner and black pants[…]

2011, Joanna Pearson, The Rites and Wrongs of Janice Wills, page 29:

Trevor looks kind of emo, rail thin, dark hair, guyliner, wears black all the time.

(informal) Eyeliner when used on men; usually associated with the goth and emo subcultures.


fustic

en-noun

fustic (usually uncountable, plural fustics)

From Middle English fustik, from Middle French fustec, variant of fustet.

[…]nor can I tell to this day what wood to call the tree we cut down, except that it was very like the tree we call fustic, or between that and the Nicaragua wood, for it was much of the same colour and smell.

1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC:

A tropical American tree (Maclura tinctoria), whose wood produces a yellow dye.

Cotinus coggygria
Cotinus coggygria#Translingual

A European tree, Eurasian smoketree (Cotinus coggygria), whose wood produces an orange dye.

A yellow dye obtained from the wood of these trees.


café au lait

café au lait (countable and uncountable, plural café au laits or cafés au lait)

café au laits (plural)
cafés au lait (plural)

/ˌkæfeɪ əʊ ˈleɪ/

/kæˌfeɪ əʊ ˈleɪ/

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Borrowed from French café au lait (literally “coffee with milk”).

bor

café au lait:

Seen all of a piece like this, in a picture that fits snugly into the lens of any camera, Kersey is a peaceful, multi-coloured Toytown of a village, whose red-tiled roofs are subdued by just the right amount of weathering and lichen, and whose overhanging gables thrust forward in a quiet brilliance of red-and-yellow ochre, pink, white and café-au-lait.

1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 240:


azo dye

(organic chemistry) Any of a large number of mostly yellow to red synthetic dyes that contain an azo or diimide (-N=N-) functional group.


chrysoine resorcinol

(organic chemistry) a golden-yellow azo dye used as a food coloring


quinoline yellow

(organic chemistry) a yellow food coloring now known to be toxic and banned in some countries


rutilant

en-adj

rutilant (comparative more rutilant, superlative most rutilant)

more rutilant (comparative)
most rutilant (superlative)

From Late Middle English rutilaunt (“shining with a gold or red colour”), from Latin rutilantem, accusative masculine or feminine singular of rutilāns (“reddening”) (or directly from the latter), an adjective use of the present participle of rutilō (“to redden”) (from rutilus (“(yellowish) red”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”)) + -āns (suffix forming the present active participle of first conjugation verbs). The English word is cognate with Italian rutilante (literary), Portuguese rutilante, Spanish rutilante.

inh

[S]tately Hyperion or the lordly ſonne, the moſt rutilant planet of the ſeuẽ, in Lent when Heralius herring enters into his chiefe reign and ſcepterdome, ſkippeth and danſeth[,] the goats iumpe on the earth for ioy of his entrance.

1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 36:

[T]he colour of a Comet ſignifies the Nature of the Ruling Planet. This was of a Fiery Red, but mixed with a dusky Silver colour, which made it look but dim in appearance, (unleſs in clear Nights before the Moon was up, for then it look'd more Rutilant:) and therefore it was likewiſe in this reſpect of the Nature of Mars and Mercury, [...]

a. 1682, George Wharton, “An Excellent Discourse of the Names, Genus, Species, Efficient and Final Causes of All Comets, &c.”, in John Gadbury, compiler, The Works of that Late Most Excellent Philosopher and Astronomer, Sir George Wharton, Bar[onet]. […], London: […] H[enry] H[ills] for John Leigh, […], published 1683, →OCLC, pages 170–171:

Thy Candour, which the Opticks Quondam drew, / And o'er the Viſible Ideas rang'd, / Was by the Gore of that Lewd Goddeſs chang'd / To Rutilant Purpureous Sanguin Hue.

1707, “The Life of Estevanillo Gonzales, the Pleasantest and Most Diverting of All Comical Scoundrels”, in [Andrés Pérez de León (or Francisco López de Ubeda); Fernando de Rojas; Juan de Ávila], translated by John Stevens, The Spanish Libertines: […], London: […] Samuel Bunchley, […], →OCLC, chapter XIV, page 507:

Nitrous acid. #92;#123; It is nitric acid holding nitrous acid in solution, nearly absorbs its weight from it; then in a rutilant vapour more volatile than nitric acid.

1813, “CHEMISTRY”, in John Mason Good, Olinthus Gregory, Newton Bosworth [et al.], editors, Pantologia. A New Cyclopædia, […], volumes III (Cea–Czo), London: […] G. Kearsley; […], →OCLC:

His [Percy Bysshe Shelley's] genius lay outside the general trend of our poetical evolution; he is exotic and unique, and such influence as he has had, apart from the effect on the pulse of the individual of the rutilant beauty of his strophes, has not been very advantageous.

1897, Edmund Gosse, “The Age of Byron: 1815–1840”, in A Short History of Modern English Literature, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 314:

Mother's milk, Purefoy, the milk of human kin, milk too of those burgeoning stars overhead, rutilant in thin rainvapour, punch milk, such as those rioters will quaff in their guzzlingden, milk of madness, the honeymilk of Canaan's land.

1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 403:

[Jack] Kearns is as rutilant a personality as [Joey] Maxim apparently isn't, and from many of the newspaper stories that appeared in the weeks leading up to the fight one would have thought that Kearns, not Maxim, was signed to fight [Sugar Ray] Robinson.

1956, A[bbott] J[oseph] Leibling, “Kearns by a Knockout”, in The Sweet Science, New York, N.Y.: North Point Press, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, published 2004, →ISBN, page 63:

She was now 16 and sending off her first radiations and vibrations dressed in Varda's own rutilant colors.

1964, Anaïs Nin, Collages, Denver, Colo.: Alan Swallow, →OCLC:

He had a round head as bare as a knee, a corpse's button nose, and very white, very limp, very damp hands adorned with rutilant gems.

1969, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 11, in Ada, or, Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Harmondsworth, London: Penguin Books, published 1970, →ISBN, part 2, page 347:

In their absence, the rosy, rutilant glow of Stone Canyon Road was rendered bogus and counterfeit. Like the period houses that lined the stage streets on Metro's Lot 3, Judy [Garland]'s dream house was little more than a set, a beautiful façade, with nothing, nothing at all, behind it.

2000, Gerald Clarke, “Production No. 1060—The Wizard of Oz”, in Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland (A Delta Book), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing, published March 2001, →ISBN, page 111:

(literary or sciences, also figuratively) Shining or glowing with a red colour or light.

rutilante

shining or glowing with a red colour or light


gimlet-eyed

en-adj

gimlet-eyed (comparative more gimlet-eyed, superlative most gimlet-eyed)

more gimlet-eyed (comparative)
most gimlet-eyed (superlative)


fruity

fruity (comparative fruitier, superlative fruitiest)

fruitier (comparative)
fruitiest (superlative)

(informal, sometimes derogatory, chiefly US, of a male) Effeminate, flamboyant; homosexual.


orcein

en-noun

orcein (usually uncountable, plural orceins)

(chemistry) a dye, related to litmus, that is extracted from the lichen Rocella tinctoria; used as a microscopic stain and as a food colouring


orchil

orchil (countable and uncountable, plural orchils)

From Old French orchel, orseil (modern French orseille), of uncertain origin.

Lecanora tartarea
Lecanora tartarea#Translingual

The purple dye, orcein, extracted from them (especially Lecanora tartarea) and often used as substitute for Tyrian purple.


fallow

en-adj

fallow (comparative more fallow, superlative most fallow)

more fallow (comparative)
most fallow (superlative)

[Alt: A photograph of a light brown deer.]
From Middle English falwe, from Old English fealu, from Proto-Germanic *falwaz (compare West Frisian feal, Dutch vaal, German falb, fahl), from Proto-Indo-European *polwos (compare Lithuanian pal̃vas (“sallow, wan”), Russian поло́вый (polóvyj, “wan, light yellow”), Serbo-Croatian plâv (“blond, blue”), Ancient Greek πολιός (poliós, “grey”)), from Proto-Indo-European *pelH- (“pale, gray”).

der

a fallow deer or greyhound

fallow:

How does your fallow greyhound, sir?

a. 1597, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, act 1, scene 1:

Of a pale red or yellow, light brown; dun.


azorubine

en-noun

azorubine (countable and uncountable, plural azorubines)

(organic chemistry) a red azo dye used as a food colouring, mostly in baked goods


woad

woad (usually uncountable, plural woads)

From Middle English wode, from Old English wād (“woad”), from Proto-West Germanic *waiʀd, from Proto-Germanic *waizdaz (“woad”), from Proto-Indo-European *woydʰ-. Cognate with Old Frisian wēd (“woad”), Dutch wede (“woad”), German Waid (“woad”), and with French guède, Italian guado (“woad”) (both borrowed from Frankish). See also weed.

To prevent this, it was enacted, that no wines of Gaſcony and Guienne, or woads of Tholouſe, should be imported into England, except in ships belonging to the King, or some of his ſubjects; and that all ſuch wines and woads imported in foreign bottoms ſhould be forfeited.

1814, Robert Henry, The History of Great Britain, 5th edition, volume XII, page 309:

But in the middle of the sixteenth century indigo was introduced from the East Indies: and in the seventeenth century its use became extended, and supplanted that of woad.

1856, Albrecht Daniel Thaer, The Principles of Practical Agriculture, page 462:

Huge quanitities of alum and woad were disembarked each year at Southampton.

1983, E. B. Fryde, Studies in Medieval Trade and Finance, page 360:

For example, woad, a blue dye obtained from the plant Isatis tinctoria, was used throughout the Mediterannean and Europe and is often identified as indigo.

2007, Richard L. Myers, The 100 Most Important Chemical Compounds: A Reference Guide, page 152:

(countable and uncountable) The blue vat dye made from the leaves of the plant through partial drying and fermentation.


yellow-green

en-adj

yellow-green (comparative more yellow-green, superlative most yellow-green)

more yellow-green (comparative)
most yellow-green (superlative)

yellow-green:

web yellow-green:


complementary colour

en-noun

complementary colour (plural complementary colours)

(British spelling, colour science) Either of two colours which, when mixed, produce a white or grey.


olfactory

From Latin olfactus (“an act of smelling; the sense of smell”) + -ory, from olfaciō (“to sniff, smell, scent”) + -tus (action noun suffix).

af

(relational) Concerning the sense of smell.


olfactory

(chiefly in the plural) The sense of smell.


distasteful

en-adj

distasteful (comparative more distasteful, superlative most distasteful)

more distasteful (comparative)
most distasteful (superlative)

From distaste + -ful or dis- + tasteful.

Near-synonym: unpalatable

The food had very distasteful flavour.


gawp

Come in for a gawp at the sweets and pastries that run three rows deep at this rustically contemporary (or contemporarily rustic) cake shop.

2019, The Rough Guide to South America on a Budget:


smoky

smoky (comparative smokier, superlative smokiest)

smokier (comparative)
smokiest (superlative)

From Middle English smoky, smokie, equivalent to smoke + -y.

a smoky oil lamp

[…] is it I
That drive thee from the sportive court, where thou
Wast shot at with fair eyes, to be the mark
Of smoky muskets?

c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

1894, George Santayana, Sonnet, in Sonnets and Other Verses, Cambridge, MA: Stone and Kimball, p. 5,
Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine
That lights the pathway but one step ahead
Across a void of mystery and dread.

The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.[…]It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped.

2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

a smoky whisky

[…] thei abstain from a smoky peace of Bacon or hard salted and poudred biefe or suche lyke […]

c. 1551, Thomas Beccon, chapter 9, in A Fruitful Treatise of Fasting, London: John Day:

[S]ome Dutch officers complained that the ſoup was ſmoaky, and the beef was tough, we adventurers declared that we never had taſted a more delicious repaſt; [...]

1796, J[ohn] G[abriel] Stedman, chapter XXX, in Narrative of a Five Years’ Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America; […], volume II, London: J[oseph] Johnson, […], and J. Edwards, […], →OCLC, page 392:

I smelled it the moment I entered—that sweet smoky reek.

1990, Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World, New York: Picador, published 1998, Part 1, p. 84:

Having a flavour or odour like smoke; flavoured with smoke.

And let thy mustie vapours march so thicke,
That in their smoakie rankes, his smothred light
May set at noone, and make perpetuall night.

1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC:

[…] I too gave notice to the various wild inhabitants of Walden vale, by a smoky streamer from my chimney, that I was awake.

1854, Henry David Thoreau, “House-Warming”, in Walden, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, page 271:

And now the sky was a bright sea sown with islands; they shrank and crumbled and drifted away, islands no more, but a multitude of plumes and flakes and smoky wreaths hastily scudding, for the sun had lifted his tranquil eye on the heavens […]

1914, James Stephens, The Demi-Gods, London: Macmillan, Book 4, Chapter 34, p. 293:

He [the bull] had horns galore, a coat of gold and a sweet smoky breath coming out of his nostrils […]

1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 381:

1594, Thomas Kyd (translator), Cornelia (Cornélie) by Robert Garnier, London: Nicholas Ling and John Busbie, Act V,
He wrencht it [his sword] to the pommel through his sides,
That fro the wound the smoky blood ran bubling,
Where-with he staggred;

Dark was the Path, and difficult, and steep,
And thick with Vapours from the smoaky Deep.

1717, “The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice”, in William Congreve, transl., Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books, translated by the most eminent hands, London: Jacob Tonson, page 334:


rhodamine

(organic chemistry) Any of a class of pink to red polycyclic fluorone dyes.


harken

en-verb

harken (third-person singular simple present harkens, present participle harkening, simple past and past participle harkened)

harkens (present singular third-person)
harkening (participle present)
harkened (participle past)
harkened (past)

desctree

Sranan Tongo: arki
Aukan: aliki
>? Saramaccan: háika

Ev'n from the depths of Hell the Damn'd advance, / Th' Infernal Manſions nodding ſeem to dance; / The gaping three-mouth'd Dog forgets to ſnarl, / The Furies harken, and their Snakes uncurl.

1697, Virgil, “The Fourth Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 143, lines 690–693:

How, then, am I mad? Harken! and observe how healthily—how calmly I can tell you the whole story.

1843 January, Edgar A[llan] Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart”, in J[ames] Russell Lowell, R[obert] Carter, editors, The Pioneer. A Literary and Critical Magazine, volume I, number I, Boston, Mass.: Leland and Whiting, […], →OCLC, page 29, column 1:

[T]he mother who had shaped him if any had toward the man he almost was, [...] whom he had revered and harkened to and loved and lost and grieved: [...]

1942, William Faulkner, “The Bear”, in Go Down, Moses, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →OCLC, section 5, page 326:

(transitive, intransitive, chiefly US) Alternative spelling of hearken: to hear, to listen, to have regard.


hearken

en-verb

hearken (third-person singular simple present hearkens, present participle hearkening, simple past and past participle hearkened)

hearkens (present singular third-person)
hearkening (participle present)
hearkened (participle past)
hearkened (past)
hearken (infinitive)

From Middle English herkenen (“to listen (attentively); to pay attention, take heed”) [and other forms], from Old English hercnian, heorcnian, hyrcnian, from *heorcian (“to hark”) infixed with -n-, from Proto-West Germanic *hauʀijan, from Proto-Germanic *hauzijaną (“to hear”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱh₂owsyéti (“to be sharp-eared, hear well”), from *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”) + *h₂ṓws (“ear”) + *-yéti (denominative suffix). The spelling of the English word was probably influenced by hear, and can be analysed as hark + -en.

nb...

ercne, erkne, hærcne, hærcnen, hærcnien, harcnien, harken, harkenen, harknen, harkni, harkyn, hearken, heorkenen, hercnen, hercni, hercnie, hercnien, hercnigen, hercnin, hercne, hercnen, herken, herkin, herknen, herkni, heorcnen, heorkni, heorknien, herken, herkene, herkken, herkne, herknen, herkon, herkyn, herrcnenn

der

Thenceforth ſhe paſt into his dreadfull den, / VVhere nought but darkeſome drerineſſe ſhe found, / Ne creature ſaw, but hearkned now and then / Some little whiſpering, and ſoft groaning ſound.

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 33, page 103:

This King of Naples being an Enemy / To me inueterate, hearkens my Brothers ſuit, / Which was, That he in lieu o' th' premiſes, / Of homage, and I know not how much Tribute, / Should preſently extirpate me and mine / Out of the Dukedome, and confer faire Milane / With all the Honors, on my brother: […]

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 I, scene ii], page 3, column 1:

With pleaſure he hearkens the heart-ſoothing chear / Shakes Morpheus and ſlumber away; / While joyful he ſtarts, and with ſpeed doth appear / The foremoſt to welcome the day.

1785, “Hunting Songs and Cantatas”, in The Humming Bird: Or, A Compleat Collection of the Most Esteemed Songs. […], 3rd edition, Canterbury, Kent: Printed and sold by Simmons and Kirkby; London: J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, number 50, page 17, column 2:

Tho' I cannot speak a word, I shall hearken what ye say, / And be often—often with ye when ye think I'm faraway.

1832 December (indicated as 1833), Alfred Tennyson, “New Year’s Eve”, in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, stanza X, page 99:

And now a sweet bird calls its scattered mates, / And gaily hearkens the unburdened heart.

1869 December 18, “A Storm”, in William, Robert Chambers, editors, Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, number 312 (Fourth Series), London, Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers, →OCLC, page 816, column 2:

Up in the spire / The watcher set high o'er the half-hid town / Hearkens the sound of chiming bells fall down / Below him: […]

1870, William Morris, “January”, in The Earthly Paradise: A Poem, part IV, London: F[rederick] S[tartridge] Ellis, […], →OCLC, page 88:

(transitive, archaic except poetic) To hear (something) with attention; to have regard to (something).

Who ſo hearkeneth vnto me, ſhal not come to confuſion, & they that worke by me, ſhal not offende; [they that make me to be knowen, ſhal haue euerlaſting life.]

1560, [William Whittingham et al., transl.], The Bible and Holy Scriptures Conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament. […] (the Geneva Bible), Geneva: […] Rouland Hall, →OCLC, Ecclesiasticus XXIIII:25, folio 433, verso:

She hearkens for his hounds and for his horn: / Anon she hears them chant it lustily, / And all in haste she coasteth to the cry.

1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC, [verse 145], lines [868–870]; republished as Shakespeare’s Venus & Adonis: […], London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent and Co. […], 1896, →OCLC, verse 145, page 51, lines 868–870:

And vnto Adam he [God] ſaid, Becauſe thou hast hearkened vnto the voice of thy wife [Eve], and haſt eaten of the tree, of which I commaunded thee, ſaying, Thou ſhalt not eate of it: curſed is the ground for thy ſake: in ſorow ſhalt thou eate of it all the dayes of thy life.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 3:17, column 1:

Nowe therefore hearken, O Iſrael, vnto the Statutes, and vnto the Judgments which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may liue, and goe in and poſſeſſe the lande, which the Lord God of your fathers giueth you.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 4:1, column 1:

When ſhe [voluptuousness] ſpreadeth her delicacies on the table, when her wine ſparkleth in the cup, when ſhe ſmileth upon thee, and perſuadeth thee to be joyful and happy; then is the hour of danger, and let reaſon ſtand firmly on her guard: for, if thou hearkeneſt unto the words of her adverſary, thou art deceived and betrayed.

1750 November, “Maxims for the Conduct of Life”, in The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure: […], volume VII, number XLVIII, London: Published […] by John Hinton, […], →OCLC, page 224, column 1:

If the advice of an old man is, then, worth hearkening to, children, you will quickly, go different ways to your places of shelter and safety.

1827, [James Fenimore Cooper], chapter III, in The Prairie; a Tale. […], volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: Carey, Lea & Carey […], →OCLC, page 48:

O mother Ida, manyfountained Ida, / Dear mother Ida, hearken ere I die.

1832 December (indicated as 1833), Alfred Tennyson, “Œnone”, in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, stanza II, page 52:

Thou who art of all things Lord, / Well I know, in Galilee, / Hearkenedst to Thy mother's word, / Teach me such a child to be.

1844, [Helen Taylor], “Monday”, in The Child’s Book of Homilies. […], London: Edwards and Hughes, […]; Hatchard and Son, […], →OCLC, part II (Homilies for the Week), page 70:

We were not many minutes on the road, though we sometimes stopped to lay hold of each other and hearken. But there was no unusual sound—nothing but the low wash of the ripple and the croaking of the inmates of the wood.

1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Sea Chest”, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC, part I (The Old Buccaneer), page 29:

[T]he mother who had shaped him if any had toward the man he almost was, […] whom he had revered and harkened to and loved and lost and grieved: […]

You do not, in short, speak in order to encourage others to speak freely but in order to discourage others from disseminating or hearkening to error. You do not seek to enfranchise the community but to bind it to the truths you take to be salutary.

1999, Stanley Fish, “Fraught with Death”, in The Trouble with Principle, Cambridge, Mass., London: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 93:

(intransitive) To listen; to attend or give heed to what is uttered; to hear with attention, compliance, or obedience.

слушам

to listen; to attend or give heed to what is uttered


appetizing

en-noun

appetizing (usually uncountable, plural appetizings)

Calque of French appétissant, French -ant being equivalent to -ing. See also appetite

And of all the foods that are represented in the city, perhaps none has remained so tied to Jewish tradition and identity as appetizings.

2019 January 23, Yamit Behar Wood, “The Appetizing World of Murray’s”, in Jewish Journal:

Alina Sheffi, a slicer at Russ & Daughters, stands at her usual spot in the long, narrow space behind the glass display case full of cream cheese, sides of lox, pickled herring, white fish, schmaltz, and all other manner of appetizing.

2020 November 11, Joshua David Stein, “Good-bye to the Lox Sherpa of Russ & Daughters”, in Grub Street:

any food traditionally eaten with a bagel, as an accompaniment, topping or filling; including dairy products and pareve but not meat


appetising

en-adj

appetising (comparative more appetising, superlative most appetising)

more appetising (comparative)
most appetising (superlative)

Plain and unexciting, perhaps, but they are solid, well cooked, appetising and filling, and moreover cheap.

1964 April, “Letters: London stations—a consumers' guide”, in Modern Railways, page 274:

(chiefly British spelling) Alternative spelling of appetizing.


plunket

en-noun

plunket (countable and uncountable, plural plunkets)

Burels at this time seem to have been made in lengths of 20 ells and sold at 8d. the ell, while the better quality cloths - browns, plunkets, blues, and greens - were nearly twice the length, and cost about 22d. the ell.

1964, L. F. Salzman, English Industries of the Middle Ages, page 199:


look on

en-verb

look on (third-person singular simple present looks on, present participle looking on, simple past and past participle looked on)

looks on (present singular third-person)
looking on (participle present)
looked on (participle past)
looked on (past)

My performance seems somehow always to get worse when there are other people looking on.

(idiomatic) To watch; to observe without participating.

I look on him not as a boss, but as a friend.

We don't look kindly on people like you.

(idiomatic) To think of something in a particular way.

считам

to think of something in a particular way


flavescent

en-adj

flavescent (comparative more flavescent, superlative most flavescent)

more flavescent (comparative)
most flavescent (superlative)


blake

blake (comparative blaker or more blake, superlative blakest or most blake)

tlb

(UK dialectal, Northern England, poetic, uncommon)

blaker (comparative)
more blake (comparative)
blakest (superlative)
most blake (superlative)

From Middle English blak, blac (“pale”), from Old English blāc (“pale, pallid, wan, livid; bright, shining, glittering, flashing”) and Old Norse bleikr (“pale; yellow, pink; any non-red warm color”); both from Proto-Germanic *blaikaz (“pale; shining”). Compare Scots bleg (“light, drab”). More at bleak.

inh

White shows the rye, the big of big of blaker hue,[…]

1747, Josiah Relph, A Miscellany of Poems,: Consisting of Original Poems, Translations, Pastorals in the Cumberland Dialect, Familiar Epistles, Fables, Songs, and Epigrams, page 13:

[…] the E. blake (identical with AS. blac, G. bleich, pale) is provincially used in the sense of yellow. As blake as a paigle, as yellow as a cowslip.

1859, Hensleigh Wedgwood, A Dictionary of English Etymology: A - D, page 184:

Miss Lizzie's ower dark for my fancy. I mind nowt aboot your dark lasses - as blake as marygowds an' as black as corbies.

1876, Elizabeth Lynn Linton, Lizzie Lorton of Greyrigg: A Novel ..., page 271:

Noo, that's a bit o' neyce blake butter. Thoo nobbut leeaks blakeish.

1911, Richard Blakeborough, Wit, Character, Folklore & Customs of the North Riding of Yorkshire, page 340:


sapor

From Middle English sapour, sapoure, from Latin sapor. Doublet of savour /savor.

But, though the ſavour bee ſo baſe, the ſapor is ſo excellent, that no meat, no ſauce, no veſſell pleaſes the Guzurats pallat, ſave what reliſhes of it.

1638, Tho[mas] Herbert, Some Yeares Travels Into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique. […], 2nd edition, London: […] R[ichard] Bi[sho]p for Iacob Blome and Richard Bishop, →OCLC, book II, page 125:

(now rare) A type of taste (sweetness, sourness etc.); loosely, taste, flavor.


aqueous humour

(ophthalmology) The clear, watery fluid that fills the front of the eye between the cornea and the crystalline lens.

humor aquós

the fluid that fills the front of the eye


yel

en-verb

yel (third-person singular simple present yels, present participle yelling, simple past and past participle yelled)

yels (present singular third-person)
yelling (participle present)
yelled (participle past)
yelled (past)


fluorescein

(organic chemistry) Any of a class of yellow xanthene dyes which are visible when highly diluted; used forensically to detect traces of blood, and in analytical chemistry as an indicator in silver nitrate titrations

fluorescéine

any of a class of yellow xanthene dyes which are visible when highly diluted


olfaction

Borrowed from Middle French olfaction /olefaction, from Latin olfactus, perfect passive participle of olfaciō (“to smell (transitive)”) + -tion.

bor+

‘I think the single most extraordinary aspect of olfaction is that we all smell the world differently,’ Beauchamp told me.

2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 105:

The sense of smell; the detection of airborne molecules.


perfumed

en-adj

perfumed (comparative more perfumed, superlative most perfumed)

more perfumed (comparative)
most perfumed (superlative)

The perfumed pages of the letter contrasted with its doleful writing.

Scented, having been given a pleasant smell.


scented

scented (comparative more scented, superlative most scented)

more scented (comparative)
most scented (superlative)

a plant with skunk-scented leaves

(chiefly in combination) Having a smell of any kind.


blondie

A sweet, chewy, generally vanilla-flavoured and chocolate-free baked good: a blond-colored brownie.


wide-eyed

wide-eyed (comparative more wide-eyed, superlative most wide-eyed)

more wide-eyed (comparative)
most wide-eyed (superlative)

She was like her mother: tiny, curly-haired, and wide-eyed.

2017, Jennifer S. Holland, For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival., National Geographic (March 2017)http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/03/macaques-monkeys-indonesia-endangered-pet-trade/
Cartoonish, wide-eyed infants cling to their mothers or play together low to the ground.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wide, eye, -ed.


meline

A meline musteloid carnivorous mammal, usually burrowing, nocturnal, and having a flat stout body, short legs with long-clawed toes, and a long snout.

1894, Isaac Kaufman Funk, A Standard Dictionary of the English Language, page 153, definition of "badger"

Having the qualities of or relating to a badger.


berylline

berylline (comparative more berylline, superlative most berylline)

more berylline (comparative)
most berylline (superlative)

He held out his leg so that I could examine the shackle about his ankle. His berylline flesh was swollen about it, as I have seen the bark of a tree swollen that had grown through an iron ring.

1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter III, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 28:

Beryl-like; having a light blue-green colour.


bleary-eyed

bleary-eyed (comparative more bleary-eyed, superlative most bleary-eyed)

more bleary-eyed (comparative)
most bleary-eyed (superlative)

Near-synonyms: exhausted, weary; see also Thesaurus:fatigued

Bleary-eyed walkers prepared their kit for the final mountain, while the onboard crew fed and watered them, boosting people's energy levels for the last challenge.

2024 August 7, Paul Bigland, “'3 Peaks by Rail': ain't no mountain high enough”, in RAIL, number 1015, page 51:

Tired, because of lack of sleep, and having blurred or reddened eyes.

γλαμυρός

tired, because of lack of sleep, and having blurred or reddened eyes


keek

en-verb

keek (third-person singular simple present keeks, present participle keeking, simple past and past participle keeked)

keeks (present singular third-person)
keeking (participle present)
keeked (participle past)
keeked (past)

From Middle English kyken, kiken, keken (“to look, peep”), probably from Middle Dutch kiken, kieken or Middle Low German kîken (“to look, peep”), from Old Saxon *kīkan (“to look”), from Proto-West Germanic *kīkan, from Proto-Germanic *kīkaną (“to look”).
Cognate with Dutch kijken (“to look”), German Low German kieken (“to look”), Estonian kiikama (“to look, to peek”), German kucken, gucken (“to look”), Danish kigge, kikke (“to look, peep”), Swedish kika (“to peep, peek, keek, pry”), Icelandic kíkja (“to look, check”). Perhaps related to kick.
The words peek, keek and peep were used more or less synonymously in the 14th and 15th centuries.

cog

She was laid in my arms. Not able to sit up, I just keeked at her beautiful facie.

2019 May 10, Moreen Simpson, “New arrivals proved big challenge in early days”, in Evening Express:


bistre

en-noun

bistre (countable and uncountable, plural bistres)

A brown pigment made from soot, especially from beech wood.


ocher

[…] facing the sea with buff and ocher houses that rise five or six stories above a curving boulevard […]

1973 July, Melville Bell Grosvenor, “Homeward with Ulysses”, in National Geographic, volume 144, number 1:


ocher

en-verb

ocher (third-person singular simple present ochers, present participle ochering, simple past and past participle ochered)

ochers (present singular third-person)
ochering (participle present)
ochered (participle past)
ochered (past)


acridity

en-noun

acridity (countable and uncountable, plural acridities)


beery

en-adj

beery (comparative beerier, superlative beeriest)

beerier (comparative)
beeriest (superlative)


optometry

The art and science of vision and eye care.


eye patch

An opaque patch worn so as to cover an injured or infected eye or an eye socket in order to protect or conceal it, or to treat amblyopia in children.


feuillemorte

From French feuille-morte, feuille morte (“a dead leaf”).

feuillemorte:

Of the color of dead or dying leaves: dull yellowish or orangish brown.


brown out

en-verb

brown out (third-person singular simple present browns out, present participle browning out, simple past and past participle browned out)

browns out (present singular third-person)
browning out (participle present)
browned out (participle past)
browned out (past)

The pilot pulled up hard into a tight loop and browned out, losing sight of the target.

To experience a partial loss of vision having the characteristics of a brownout, to suffer a brownout.


whitish

en-adj

whitish (comparative more whitish, superlative most whitish)

more whitish (comparative)
most whitish (superlative)

From Middle English whitisch, whytyssh, equivalent to white + -ish.

The skin was somewhat pigmented, especially in certain regions, while over the whole there appeared whitish, rounded or oval mottlings or dapplings, most obvious where the surrounding cuticle was most deeply colored.

1910, The Year Book of Dermatology, page 124:


delphinium

en-noun

delphinium (countable and uncountable, plural delphiniums or delphinia)

[dɛɫˈfɪnɪəm]

From the genus name (translingual Delphinium).

(countable) A cultivated plant, belonging to the genus Delphinium, with tall blue-colored spikes containing flowers; a larkspur.

delphinium:

(countable and uncountable) A shade of blue, named for the flowers.


domestic blindness

(informal) The inability to see something that is plainly visible, in an everyday home situation.


anthracite

anthracite (countable and uncountable, plural anthracites)

/ˈænθɹəˌsaɪt/

From Latin, from Ancient Greek ἀνθρακῖτις (anthrakîtis, “a kind of coal”), from ἄνθραξ (ánthrax, “charcoal”). By surface analysis, anthrac- + -ite.

uder

A form of carbonized ancient plants; the hardest and cleanest-burning of all the coals.

anthracite:

In the past, when the author was studying, architects only employed a very restricted palette of colours: the white of modernism, black, a “friendly” shade of anthracite and light grey!

2013, Sylvia Leydecker, Designing Interior Architecture, page 32:


broon

en-noun

broon (countable and uncountable, plural broons)

Conserved from Middle English broun, from Old English brūn as opposed to the Standard English pronunciation.


broon

en-adj

broon (comparative more broon, superlative most broon)

more broon (comparative)
most broon (superlative)

(Geordie, Scotland) Of the colour brown.


noisette

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From French, diminutive of noix (“nut”). The rose takes its name from the French gardener of Charleston, South Carolina, who produced it in 1817.

A hybrid rose, from the China rose and the musk rose.


sourness

en-noun

sourness (countable and uncountable, plural sournesses)

From Middle English sowrenesse, sournesse, from Old English sūrnes (“sourness”), equivalent to sour + -ness.

[O]ur Tympanouſe ſtatiſts / (In their affected grauitie of voice, / Sovverneſſe of countenance, maners crueltie, / Authoritie, vvealth, and all the ſpavvne of Fortune) / Thinke they beare all the kingdomes vvorth before them; […]

1603–1604 (date written), [George Chapman], Bussy D’Ambois: A Tragedie: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for William Aspley, published 1607, →OCLC, Act I, page 1:

Mrs. Ferrars was a little, thin woman, upright, even to formality, in her figure, and serious, even to sourness, in her aspect.

1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume II, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 226:


aromatherapist

alternative medicine
alternative medicine

(alternative medicine) A practitioner of aromatherapy.


Berlin green

Berlin green (countable and uncountable, plural Berlin greens)

(organic chemistry) Ferric ferricyanide; a complex cyanide with a structure similar to that of Prussian blue, used as a green dye.

(art) A color of oil paint thought to resemble the color of the chemical.


red lead

A bright red, poisonous oxide of lead, Pb₃O₄, used as a pigment and in glass and ceramics.


CDR

CDR (countable and uncountable, plural CDRs)

(ophthalmology) Initialism of cup-to-disc ratio.


diplopia

diplopia (countable and uncountable, plural diplopias)

As for Bodhidharma the only painting extant is too late to have been done from life. The sage’s eyes are crossed from his exertions. Diplopia giving the impression of the pineal eye, the Third Eye in full flower.

1985, Lawrence Durrell, chapter 3, in Quinx, New York: Viking, page 61:

That doctor also noted the diplopia and sent her for a CT scan.

2018 December 13, Lisa Sanders, M.D., “Why Was the Woman Having Trouble Seeing, if Her Eyes Were Fine?”, in The New York Times Magazine:

(pathology) An ophthalmologic condition where one perceives two images for a single object; double vision.


vair

vair (countable and uncountable, plural vairs)

From Middle English veir, veire, from Old French vair, veir, from the accusative singular masculine form of Latin varius (“variegated”).

(heraldry) An heraldic fur formed by a regular tessellation of bell shapes in two colours, (for example in the image, blue and white).


sightless

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In his return, arriving at a rising ground, a knoll, he heard a rustling of the leaves in his front: an enemy was suspected ; he gathered his men around him, each taking his tree. The enemy was sightless to Boyd, and his party, yet the approach around him was sensible to every one.

1812, John Joseph Henry, An accurate and interesting account of the hardships and sufferings of that band of heroes who traversed the wilderness in the campaign against Quebec in 1775, William Greer, page 201:

The toiling world is sightless to those who cannot see.


reeking

The station has been refurbished both at ground level and below ground, where the wide, fluorescently lit platforms are an almost unrecognisable metamorphosis of the dingy, reeking Low Level of old.

1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 713:


cockeyed

en-adj

cockeyed (comparative more cockeyed, superlative most cockeyed)

more cockeyed (comparative)
most cockeyed (superlative)

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I'm not going to go along with your cockeyed plot.

As time went on, and the desultory rifle-fire rattled among the hills, I began to wonder with increasing scepticism whether anything would ever happen to bring a bit of life, or rather a bit of death, into this cock-eyed war.

1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter III, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:

While he [Bob Dylan] spent six decades singing about heartache, apocalypse and betrayal, a cockeyed humor has always informed his bleak worldview.

2021 May 24, Jason Zinoman, “Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan, Our Most Underappreciated Comic”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(informal) Absurd, silly, or stupid; usually used in reference to ideas rather than people.


timber wolf

en-noun

timber wolf (countable and uncountable, plural timber wolves)


visibly

en-adv

visibly (comparative more visibly, superlative most visibly)

more visibly (comparative)
most visibly (superlative)

He was visibly upset while reading the news live on air about the school shooting.

Three years later, the unwatered cactus was still about two feet tall, a dark green color. The watered cactus was a paler green, its trunk visibly swollen with moisture. It had grown to be over five feet tall.

2013, Leslie Morgan Steiner, The Baby Chase:


sulfur yellow

sulfur yellow:

A yellow colour similar to that of the element sulfur.

kénsárga

a yellow colour similar to that of the element sulfur


inky

en-adj

inky (comparative inkier, superlative inkiest)

inkier (comparative)
inkiest (superlative)

The gloved and jewelled bards who sing / Of Pippa, Maud, and Guinevere, / Have hardly done the 'handsome thing' / For you, my inky Cytherea.

1877, Henry Kendall, “Ode to a Black Gin”, in The Australian Town and Country Journal, page 24:

(obsolete, literary) Dark-skinned; black.


exophthalmos

en-noun

exophthalmos (usually uncountable, plural exophthalmoses)

(pathology) An abnormal protrusion of the eyeball from its socket.


sloe-eyed

Macdonald's wife was an immensely stout, raven-haired, sloe-eyed, talkative body, the most motherly woman I have ever known.

1903, Joseph Conrad, F. M. Hueffer, Romance:

Royal Beaudry carried about with him in his work on the Lazy Double D persistent memories of the sloe-eyed gypsy.

1917, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 19, in The Sheriff's Son:

[S]warthy, sloe-eyed Mexicans, with huge sombreros on their knees, lolled in the shade of a tree.

1918, Zane Grey, chapter 35, in The U. P. Trail:

First you're another sloe-eyed vamp, then someone's mother, then you're camp.

1971, Stephen Sondheim, I'm Still Here (Follies song):


interocular

/ˌɪntəɹˈɒkjələɹ/

interocular distance


autokinesis

Spontaneous or voluntary movement; movement due to an internal cause.


X-ray vision

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(literally) Vision into the X-ray portion of the light spectrum, enabling visibility through certain solid matter.


asthenopia

From astheno- (“loss of strength”) + -opia (“relating to the eyes”).

af

(medicine, ophthalmology) An eye condition that manifests itself through nonspecific symptoms such as fatigue, red eyes, eyestrain, pain in or around the eyes, blurred vision, headache and occasional double vision.


one-eyed

From Middle English ooneyed, on-eied, on-eiȝed, from Old English ānēġed (“one-eyed”), from Proto-Germanic *ainaugidaz, equivalent to one + eyed. Compare Old English ānīeġe (“one-eyed”), Scots ane-eit, aan eet (“one-eyed”), Saterland Frisian eenooged (“one-eyed”), West Frisian ieneagich (“one-eyed”), Dutch eenogig (“one-eyed”), German einäugig (“one-eyed”), Danish enøjet (“one-eyed”), Swedish enögd (“one-eyed”), Icelandic ein-eygður, ein-eygur (“one-eyed”).

in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king


pistachio

en-noun

pistachio (plural pistachios or pistachioes)

pistachios (plural)
pistachioes (plural)

→ Japanese: ピスタチオ (pisutachio)

→ Korean: 피스타치오 (piseutachio)

→ Malay: pistacio, pistasio

→ Thai: พิสตาชีโอ (pís-dtaa-chí-ôo)

→ Welsh: pistasio

From Italian pistacchio (1590s), from Latin pistācium (“pistachio”), from Ancient Greek πιστάκιον (pistákion), from πιστάκη (pistákē, “pistachio tree”). Of Iranian origin. Compare Northern Kurdish pisteq, Persian پسته (peste), Middle Persian pstk' (pistag, “pistachio nut”), Old Armenian պիստակ (pistak) (from Iranian), Arabic فُسْتُق (fustuq), Turkish fıstık.

cog

pistachio:

A pale green colour, like that of a pistachio seed.


olfactometer

A device used to measure the acuity of a person's sense of smell.

A device used to measure odour intensity, and concentrations of volatile organic compounds, by means of their smell.


Bermuda green

en-noun

Bermuda green (countable and uncountable, plural Bermuda greens)

Bermuda green:

(golf, countable) A green whose surface consists of Bermuda grass.


Bermuda green

en-adj

Bermuda green (comparative more Bermuda green, superlative most Bermuda green)

more Bermuda green (comparative)
most Bermuda green (superlative)


buttery

buttery (comparative butterier, superlative butteriest)

butterier (comparative)
butteriest (superlative)

From Middle English buttry, equivalent to butter + -y. Piecewise doublet of butyric, butter ultimately being from Latin būtȳrum and -y being a doublet of -ic.

The buttery-tasting cookie was actually made with margarine, but you couldn't tell by tasting it.


buttery

From Middle English boterie, from Old French boterie and Medieval Latin buteria, from Late Latin botāria, from a variant form of butta (“cask, bottle”). The form was probably influenced by butter.

(UK) A room in a university where snacks are sold.


olfactible

olfactible (comparative more olfactible, superlative most olfactible)

more olfactible (comparative)
most olfactible (superlative)

From Latin olfacere (“to smell”) + -ible.

Having an odor; capable of being smelled.


eyestrain

en-noun

eyestrain (countable and uncountable, plural eyestrains)

(medicine, ophthalmology) Tiredness or pain in the eyes, sometimes accompanied by headache, caused by excessive or improper use of the eyes, or by uncorrected defects of vision.


eyewash

eyewash (usually uncountable, plural eyewashes)

an eyewash station on every floor of the building

a bottle of eyewash

(countable, uncountable) The washing out of the eyes with copious solution (usually water alone) to quickly remove an irritant, as for example in laboratories and industrial plants; the washing solution itself.

(countable, uncountable) A soothing medicated lotion for the eyes.

Talking of being eaten by dogs, there's a dachshund at Brinkley who when you first meet him will give you the impression that he plans to convert you into a light snack between his regular meals. Pay no attention. It's all eyewash. […] He wouldn't hurt a fly, but he has to put up a front because his name's Poppet. One can readily appreciate that when a dog hears himself addressed day in and day out as Poppet, he feels he must throw his weight about. His self-respect demands it.

1960, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter XI, in Jeeves in the Offing:

(uncountable, slang, figurative) Camouflage; disguise; false front; pretense; nonsense.


eyewash

en-verb

eyewash (third-person singular simple present eyewashes, present participle eyewashing, simple past and past participle eyewashed)

eyewashes (present singular third-person)
eyewashing (participle present)
eyewashed (participle past)
eyewashed (past)

But others said that eyewashing was a standard security practice that had been in existence for decades.

2016 January 31, “‘Eyewash’: How the CIA deceives its own workforce about operations”, in The New York Times:

(intelligence) To keep information secret by sending false information to many people in one's own organization, and correct information to a select few.


ermines

Attested in this form (with s) since at least 1562, in Legh's Accedens of Armorie, which defines it ("Sable poudred with Argent, … Ermines is his proper name") and contrasts it with both ermine and erminois. Related to ermine, but the derivation is unclear; the OED suggests "possibly [from] OF. herminès, pl. of herminet" (a supposed diminutive of hermine); modern French calls the fur contre-hermine.
The Fifteenth Century Book of Arms (c. 1460) uses ermyne in a way that sometimes contrasts with ermyn (“ermine”) ("John Garther beryth of ix pecys ermyñ and ermyne"); The Ancestor says the image of that blazon "shows the furs as those usually called at this date erminees (or erminee) and ermine—erminees being ermine with the colour reversed. It is evident that the maker of this roll, whose blazonry is sadly to seek, was uncertain by what name to call the ermine with the black field and white tails. On a later page of this MS. [fo. 59] we find ermine described as ermyñ and its reverse as ermyne)." The Middle English Dictionary defines that use of ermyne as "having the fur ermines, consisting of black with white spots (instead of black on white)", although they derive it from, and it appears to be, erminé ("ermined") instead, hence the Fifteenth Century Book also records a bend "sabyll ermyne" and a lion sable with "ermyne appon the sabyll".

He beareth Or, a Cheuron Checkey Ermin & Ermines.

1572, John Bossewell, Workes of Armorie, II, 129:

(heraldry): In blazon, coloured with a heraldic fur of a black field with white spots; counter-ermine.

kontrahermelin

of black colour with white spots on a coat of arms


heterochromia

en-noun

heterochromia (countable and uncountable, plural heterochromias)

(medicine, ophthalmology) An anatomical condition in which multiple pigmentations or colorings occur in the eyes, skin or hair.


short-sighted

en-adj

short-sighted (comparative more short-sighted, superlative most short-sighted)

more short-sighted (comparative)
most short-sighted (superlative)

Near-sighted; myopic; unable to focus on distant objects.


blue-green

en-noun

blue-green (countable and uncountable, plural blue-greens)

From blue + green.
* (color): Compare with the color called orange in Modern English, which was called geoluread (“yellow-red”) in Old English and Middle English.
* (politics): from blue representing conservatism and green representing environmentalism


green-blind

(physiology) Unable to see the colour green because of an inability of the retinae to respond to that light of that colour.


gingery

en-adj

gingery (comparative more gingery, superlative most gingery)

more gingery (comparative)
most gingery (superlative)

a gingery broth / stir-fry

Nostalgic, gingery hints of Spanish geranium wafted in her mother’s room […]

2005, Truman Capote, chapter 6, in Summer Crossing, New York: Random House:

Having a flavour or aroma of the spice ginger; containing that spice.


nearsightedness

The property of being nearsighted, myopia.


snow-white

From Middle English snow whit, snowe-white, snouwite, snawhwit, from Old English snāwhwīt, from Proto-West Germanic *snaiwhwīt, from Proto-Germanic *snaiwahwītaz; equivalent to snow + white. Cognate with Dutch sneeuwwit (“snow-white”), German schneeweiß (“snow-white”), Swedish snövit (“snow-white”).

(ethnic slur, offensive, slang) A Caucasian person, especially a woman.


wine-colored

wine-colored (comparative more wine-colored, superlative most wine-colored)

more wine-colored (comparative)
most wine-colored (superlative)

wine-colored:

Having the rich, deep red color of red wine.


raven-haired

raven-haired (comparative more raven-haired, superlative most raven-haired)

more raven-haired (comparative)
most raven-haired (superlative)

`Attractive, raven-haired, about twenty-three and with a figure like Diana Dors.'

1965, James Holledge, What Makes a Call Girl?, London: Horwitz Publications, page 101:

Having hair that is very black and lustrous.

黒髪の

having hair that is very black and lustrous


eagle-eyed

eagle-eyed (comparative more eagle-eyed, superlative most eagle-eyed)

more eagle-eyed (comparative)
most eagle-eyed (superlative)

We like old signs at railway stations, and eagle-eyed John Macnab, from Falkirk, spotted one in our photograph of a Virgin Trains Class 390 at London Euston (RAIL 889).

2019 November 20, “Stop & Examine”, in Rail, page 79:

Having great visual acuity, especially the ability to see at a distance.


barnyard

She always felt that eggs tasted better from barnyard chickens.

(agriculture) The yard associated with or surrounding a barn.


barnyard

barnyard (comparative more barnyard, superlative most barnyard)

more barnyard (comparative)
most barnyard (superlative)

Henderson too barnyard for Casa Loma, so they are rejecting further arrangements by him.

1973, Walter C. Allen, Hendersonia: The Music of Fletcher Henderson and His Musicians, page 509:

The bad part was that Thor and Chief, with their vivid and clever imaginations, had made up a whole cast of characters, some of them with very barnyard names, and soap-opera lives.

1999, D. K. Barber, Baldy and the Mohawks, page 12:

They’ve come to be called "snout" houses, a label that sounds more barnyard than city street and, in any event, certainly doesn’t sound pretty.

2011 August 8, Rick Smith, “Cedar Rapids, Marion take aim at 'snout' houses”, in The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa:

Mr. Oliver, the brewmaster at Brooklyn Brewery, has a quirky way of describing his creations. He refers to the more complex ones as “a little bit barnyard,” “having a funky nose” or “like a good sourdough bread.”

2013 February 13, Linda Hervieux, “Brooklynite Hits France, With Plans to Seduce”, in New York Times:

Cheeses made from goat’s milk tend to have a more barnyard and tangy taste than cow’s milk.

2016 July 20, “How To Add a Cheese Board to Your Summer Menu”, in Modern Restaurant Management:

(of food or drink) having an earthy flavor.


capri

Named after the colour of the sea around the Italian island of Capri, especially in the Blue Grotto.

capri:

A deep shade of sky blue between cyan and azure.


listenable

listenable (comparative more listenable, superlative most listenable)

more listenable (comparative)
most listenable (superlative)

Mozart's music was popular because he wrote listenable works.


lime

en-noun

lime (countable and uncountable, plural limes)

From Middle English lyme, lym, lime, from Old English līm, from Proto-West Germanic *līm, from Proto-Germanic *līmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂leyH- (“to smear”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Liem (“glue”), Dutch lijm, German Leim (“glue”), Danish lim (from Old Norse lím), Latin limus (“mud”).

der

Sellers moved on until he was actually trusted to operate the limes, the spotlights that can make or destroy an artist's act.

1980, Peter Evans, Peter Sellers: The Mask Behind the Mask, page 30:

Then out of the blue, a spotlight much like the “limes” in a theatre, lit up what seemed like a Punch and Judy tent […] He struggled even more, when from out of the shadows and into the bright light of the limes, stepped Uncle Jolly.

2018, Robert Charles Hines, Twists and Turns: 13 Tales of the Uneasy, page 121:


lime

From French lime, from Spanish lima, from Arabic لِيمَة (līma), from Persian لیمو (limu). Doublet of lemon.

lime:

web lime:

(uncountable) A brilliant, sometimes yellowish, green colour associated with the fruits of a lime tree.

WARNING: This is a lime. While it does not show explicit sex, as a lemon would, references to sexual situations abound.

1998 June 8, Gary Kleppe, “[Ranma][Fanfic] Tangled Web”, in rec.arts.anime.creative (Usenet):

Even with all the sex in Garden of EVA, I still think the main stories are better for just being the lemon-scented limes that they are.

1998 December 29, jiml...@earthlink.net, “[EVA][FanFic][Lemon] Garden of EVA 0:6x - Wet Dreams Bite!”, in rec.arts.anime.creative (Usenet):

I have no intention of writing any lemon scenes, limes are possibilities but unlikely and if they occur they will be few in number.

2001 November 27, Schemer, “[Ranma/SF][FanFic] A Learning Experience - Chapter 01”, in rec.arts.anime.creative (Usenet):

(fandom slang) A fan fiction story which contains sexual references, but stops short of full, explicit descriptions of sexual activity (coined by analogy with lemon).


bromidrosis

(medicine) Fetid or foul-smelling perspiration.


savoriness

The property of being savory, one of the five basic tastes.


Byzantium

From Latin Bȳzantium, from Ancient Greek Βῡζᾰ́ντῐον (Būzắntĭon), named after its legendary founder, Byzas.

byzantium:

A dark shade of purple, close to Tyrian purple and palatinate purple


homonymous

(ophthalmology) Having homonymous hemianopsia (blindness in the same side of both eyes)


beady

en-adj

beady (comparative beadier or more beady, superlative beadiest or most beady)

beadier (comparative)
more beady (comparative)
beadiest (superlative)
most beady (superlative)

beady liquor


garlicky

garlicky (comparative more garlicky or garlickier, superlative most garlicky or garlickiest)

more garlicky (comparative)
garlickier (comparative)
most garlicky (superlative)
garlickiest (superlative)

"I had rather see an English beef-steak and horse-raddish than this eternal succession of greasy stews and garlicky ragouts," returned Grumpall.

1786, Mrs. Johnson, Juliana, volume 3, page 22:

Jersey lamb is sometimes garlicky early in the season. Avoid buying it; you can easily tell it by the garlicky smell. It can only be rendered eatable by stewing, or frying it with plenty of onions. To plain roast or boil garlicky meat is in vain.

1857, Eliza Leslie, “Lamb”, in Miss Leslie's New Cookery Book, Philadelphia, Pa.: T. B. Peterson and Brothers, 306 Chestnut Street, →OCLC, page 182:

My companion's Caesar salad, garlickier than most versions, featured homemade croutons.

1982, Serena Jutkovitz, SJ's Winners: An Exceptional Approach to Round-the-world Wining and Dining in the San Francisco Bay Area, San Francisco, Calif.: Russian Hill House Books, →ISBN, page 202:

It opened up a new world of taste and provided me with one of the keenest—and the garlickiest—gastronomic experiences of my life.

2012, Liz Primeau, “A Pungent Love Affair: The Art of Eating Garlic”, in In Pursuit of Garlic: An Intimate Look at the Divinely Odorous Bulb, Vancouver, B.C.: Greystone Books, D&M Publishers Inc., →ISBN, page 31:

A burger with garlic aioli, caramelized onions, and garlicky mushrooms could be anyone's perfect meal, whether they're on GAPS [Gut and Psychology Syndrome] or not.

2014, Hilary Boynton, Mary G. Brackett, “The GAPS Introduction Diet”, in The Heal Your Gut Cookbook: Nutrient-Dense Recipes for Intestinal Health Using the GAPS Diet, White River Junction, Vt.: Chelsea Green Publishing, →ISBN, page 73:


xanthopsia

A visual defect, a form of chromatopsia in which everything appears yellow.


asquint

From Middle English asquint, asquynt, asqweynt, equivalent to a- (“on, at”) + a word related to Dutch schuinte (“tilt, slant, slope”), Saterland Frisian Schüünte (“slope, slant”), West Frisian skeante (“slope, slant”), German Low German Schüünte (“angle, slant, slope, pitch”). Compare also Middle English askoin, askoyn, of skwyn (“on a slant, askance”), Dutch schuin (“oblique, slanting, sloping”), West Frisian skean (“oblique, slanting, sloping”), German Low German schüün (“slanting”), Norwegian Nynorsk skeina (“to move obliquely”).

cog

Eyes asquint, he saw she was driving much too fast.

Faces never lie, it is said. […] When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy and sometimes asquint.

1841, R[alph] W[aldo] Emerson, “Essay IV. Spiritual Laws.”, in Essays, Boston, Mass.: James Munroe and Company, →OCLC, page 128:


asquint

[B]oth the muſes and the graces are his hard Miſtriſſes, though he daily Invocate them, though he ſacrifize Hecatombs, they ſtil look a ſquint, […]

a. 1632 (date written), John Donne, “[Characters.] The True Character of a Dunce.”, in Paradoxes, Problemes, Essayes, Characters, […], London: […] T. N. for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1652, →OCLC, page 68:

It is not to be supposed, however, that in the delivery of such passages I was found at all deficient in the looking asquint—the showing my teeth—the working my knees—the shuffling my feet—or in any of those unmentionable graces which are now justly considered the characteristics of a popular performe


pungency

en-noun

pungency (countable and uncountable, plural pungencies)


infacility

(medicine) The inability to quickly adjust one’s focus when looking from near to far (or the converse).


peppery

en-adj

peppery (comparative pepperier, superlative pepperiest)

pepperier (comparative)
pepperiest (superlative)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-peppery.wav

Resembling or characteristic of pepper, especially in having a spicy taste.


phosphene

From French phosphène, from Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs, “light”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “to appear, shine”).

A sensation of lights induced by mechanical, electrical, or magnetic stimulation (rather than optical) of the retina or visual cortex, or by random firing of cells in the visual system.


sixth sense

Adding to the traditional five senses of touch, taste, smell, sight, and hearing.

Among themselves they communicate by means of what Perry says must be a sixth sense which is cognizant of a fourth dimension.

1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter V, in At the Earth's Core:

Luckily, on evidence which I could never understand, Dominic detected something suspicious. Perhaps it was by virtue of some sixth sense that men born for unlawful occupations may be gifted with.

1919, Joseph Conrad, chapter 3, in The Arrow of Gold: A Story between Two Notes, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, […], →OCLC:

What Ghaznavi had considered animal intuition or some sixth sense was merely the razor-edged faculties and savage wit of the barbarian.

1934 August, Robert E. Howard, The Devil in Iron, Chapter IV, published in Weird Tales

Extrasensory perception
extrasensory perception

Extrasensory perception; the ability to sense things by means other than the known bodily senses.


vitreous humor

(ophthalmology, US) The clear gel that fills the eyeball between the lens and the retina.


stone-blind

References sandblind ("partially blind", alteration of samblind), and stone dead ("unquestionably dead").

While recently addressing a large open-air audience in the district city itself, a man came forward and warmly invited me to dine with him. On inquiry, it turned out that he had formerly been stone-blind, but had been completely restored to sight by a simple operation at the hospital. Now, here was a man who would speak well of us, at all hazard ; and who, as a matter of fact, came home to his friends to tell them how great things the Lord had done for him.

1915, William Campbell, Sketches from Formosa, Marshall Brothers Limited, page 82:

A deaf man may be anything from hard of hearing to as deaf as a post; a blind man may be as blind as a bat or an owl; he may be gravel-blind or stone-blind; a bald man as bald as a coot or as a billiard ball.

1942 October 3, John Ware, “Nomenclature of Night Blindness”, in British Medical Journal, volume 2, number 4265, →PMID, page 409:


true blue

From true (adjective) + blue (“steadfastly faithful or loyal”, adjective). The symbolism of the colour blue as representing constancy, faithfulness, loyalty, and truth may derive from the constant colour of the sky, or the tendency of certain blue dyes to resist fading, especially those made in Coventry.
Adjective senses 1.1.2 (“of or pertaining to the Tory, and now the Conservative, political party”) and 1.1.3 (“of or pertaining to the Scottish Presbyterian or Whig political party in the 17th century”) probably both allude to sense 1 (“steadfastly faithful or loyal”). Sense 1.1.2 may also allude to sense 1.1.3 which is older, and sense 1.1.3 may partly allude to the blue colour of the flag of Scotland.

истински

representing the true essence of something — see also authentic, genuine

For his Religion it was fit / To match his Learning and his Wit: / 'Twas Presbyterian true blew, / For he was of that stubbon Crew / Of Errant Saints, whom all men grant / To be the true Church Militant: […]

1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]. Canto I.”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC, page 8:

This was a tough true-blue presbyterian, called Deans, who, though most obnoxious to the Laird on account of principles in church and state, contrived to maintain his ground upon the estate […]

1818 July 25, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter VII, in Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC, page 190:

And werenae the folk guid sound Whigs and true-blue Prebyterians I would hae seen them ayont Jordan and Jeroozlem or I would have set hand to it.

1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Bass”, in Catriona, London; Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson & Sons, →OCLC, page 168:

Steadfastly faithful or loyal; unwavering in loyalty; staunch, true.

(Scotland, historical) Of or pertaining to the Scottish Presbyterian or Whig political party in the 17th century; hence, steadfastly Presbyterian.

jyrkästi presbyteerinen

of or pertaining to the Scottish Presbyterian or Whig political party in the 17th century; steadfastly Presbyterian