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"word": "chamber lye"
},
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{
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"word": "potash lye"
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{
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}
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"An alkaline liquid made by leaching ashes (usually wood ashes)."
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"ref": "2019, Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift, Hogarth, page 372",
"text": "She had not left the lye in too long so that the hair would fall out in clumps later.",
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"feminine"
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"word": "մոխրաջուր"
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"feminine"
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"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"word": "灰水"
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"word": "alkala solvaĵo"
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"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"word": "leelis"
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"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"feminine"
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"tags": [
"feminine"
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"feminine"
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"tags": [
"feminine"
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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"tags": [
"feminine"
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"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "lessiu"
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"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"word": "lixívia"
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"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "leșie"
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{
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "щёлок"
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{
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"code": "gd",
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"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"masculine"
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{
"_dis1": "28 72",
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"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"word": "lihiya"
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{
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"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
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"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"word": "ด่าง"
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"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
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{
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"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
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{
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"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"word": "nước tro"
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{
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"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
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"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
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"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
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"tags": [
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"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"tags": [
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"english": "sodium hydroxide",
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{
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{
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{
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{
"rhymes": "-aɪ"
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{
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[
"lie",
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{
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"ref": "1962 October, G. Freeman Allen, “The New Look in Scotland's Northern Division—II: The new Perth marshalling yard”, in Modern Railways, page 273, photo caption with indicating arrow",
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[
"rail transport",
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[
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],
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{
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{
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{
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{
"homophone": "Leigh (some placenames)"
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"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with homophones",
"English uncountable nouns",
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"Requests for review of Persian translations",
"Requests for review of Quechua translations",
"Requests for review of Vietnamese translations",
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{
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"ref": "2019, Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift, Hogarth, page 372",
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"code": "sq",
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"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
{
"code": "hy",
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{
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{
"code": "rup",
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"feminine"
],
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{
"code": "bg",
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"roman": "lúga",
"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "лу́га"
},
{
"code": "ca",
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"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lleixiu"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "huīzhī",
"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"word": "灰汁"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"word": "灰水"
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{
"code": "cs",
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"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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{
"code": "da",
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"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
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"common-gender"
],
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "loog"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"word": "alkala solvaĵo"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"word": "leelis"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"word": "lipeä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "caustic alkaline solution"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "potasse"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "lixivia"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cenrada"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Lauge"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
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"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
{
"code": "grc",
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"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
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"neuter"
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{
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
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{
"code": "is",
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"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
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{
"code": "id",
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{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "liscivia"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cenerata"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ranno"
},
{
"alt": "あく",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
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"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"word": "灰汁"
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{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
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{
"code": "km",
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{
"code": "la",
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"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
"code": "mk",
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"tags": [
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},
{
"code": "mk",
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"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
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"masculine"
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"word": "цеѓ"
},
{
"code": "mk",
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"feminine"
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},
{
"code": "gv",
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"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "lut"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "lut"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lessiu"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "buğada",
"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"word": "بوغاده"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"word": "ług"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"word": "lixívia"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "leșie"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ščólok",
"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "щёлок"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "buac"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "лу̑г"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "caustic alkaline solution",
"tags": [
"Roman",
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