"Middle English, from Middle French or Latin; Middle French clistere , from Latin clyster , from Greek klyst\u0113r , from klyzein to wash out; akin to Welsh clir pure, Old English hl\u016btor clean":""
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"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a quintessence or efficacious principle":[]
},
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"\u02c8klis\u0259s"
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"examples":[],
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"New Latin":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-041650"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a plate on the anterior median aspect of an insect's head":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8kli-p\u0113-\u0259s"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Latin, round shield":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1834, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-071212"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": one of the shield-shaped sporophylls composing the fertile spike in members of the genus Equisetum":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-\u02cc\u014dl"
],
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"New Latin clypeola , from Latin clypeus round shield + -ola -ole":""
": shaped like a round buckler or shield : scutate":[],
": furnished with a clypeus or with a shieldlike plate or process":[]
},
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"\u02c8klip\u0113\u0259\u0307t",
"usually -t+V",
"-\u0113\u02cc\u0101t"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"clypeate from Latin clype us round shield + English -ate; clypeated from Latin clypeus + English -ate + -ed; clypeiform from Latin clype us + English -iform":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-170533"
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"geographical name",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": clydesdale":[],
"river 106 miles (171 kilometers) long in southwestern Scotland flowing northwest into the":[
"Firth of Clyde (its estuary)"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8kl\u012bd"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1894, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-232024"
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"type":[
"geographical name",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": any of a breed of heavy draft horses originally from Clydesdale, Scotland with long silky hair on the legs":[],
"valley of the upper Clyde River in Scotland":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8kl\u012bdz-\u02ccd\u0101l"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1786, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-234027"
},
"cly":{
"type":[
"noun",
"transitive verb"
],
"definitions":{
": seize , steal":[],
": pocket , purse":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\"",
"\u02c8kl\u012b"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"perhaps from Low German kleien to scratch, from Middle Low German; akin to Flemish klauwen to scratch, steal, German klauen , Old High German kl\u0101wa claw":"Transitive verb",
"perhaps from cly entry 1":"Noun"
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-001008"
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"Clytemnestra":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the wife and murderess of Agamemnon":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cckl\u012b-t\u0259m-\u02c8ne-str\u0259"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin, from Greek Klytaimn\u0113stra":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-001626"
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"Clydesdale terrier":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a small terrier of a breed resulting from selective breeding of the Skye terrier and distinguished by tiny erect ears, a long and silky coat, and short legs":[]
},
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"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"from Clydesdale , valley in Scotland where it originated":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-003831"
},
"Clydeside":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8kl\u012bd\u02ccs\u012bd"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Clyde , river in Scotland + English side":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-004918"
},
"Clydesdale":{
"type":[
"geographical name",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": any of a breed of heavy draft horses originally from Clydesdale, Scotland with long silky hair on the legs":[],
"valley of the upper Clyde River in Scotland":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8kl\u012bdz-\u02ccd\u0101l"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1786, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-005228"
},
"Clydesider":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a native or resident of the region along the Clyde in Scotland":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-d\u0259(r)"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-011943"
},
"Clydebank":{
"type":[
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"burgh in west central Scotland on the Clyde River population 28,799":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8kl\u012bd-\u02ccba\u014bk"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-023129"
},
"clyer":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a tuberculous lymph node in cattle":[],
": tuberculosis of the bovine lymphatic system":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8kl\u012b(\u0259)r"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Dutch klier gland, scrofula, from Middle Dutch cliere ; akin to Frisian kl\u012br gland":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-031217"
},
"Clymenella":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a genus of polychaete worms common in shallow waters of the northern Atlantic coasts \u2014 see bamboo worm":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cckl\u012bm\u0259\u02c8nel\u0259",
"\u02ccklim-"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Clymene , an Oceanid (from Latin, from Greek Klymen\u0113 ) + New Latin -ella":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-032005"
},
"clymenid":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": of or relating to the Clymenidae":[],
": a clymenid ammonoid":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8klim\u0259n\u0259\u0307d",
"\"",
"-\u02ccnid"
],
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"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin Clymenidae":"Adjective"
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-033951"
},
"Clymenidae":{
"type":[
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a family of extinct Devonian ammonoids having the siphuncle at the dorsal margin of the whorls":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"kl\u012b\u02c8men\u0259\u02ccd\u0113",
"kl\u0259\u0307\u02c8-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Clymenia , type genus (from Clymene + New Latin -ia ) + -idae":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-034139"
},
"clype":{
"type":[
"intransitive verb"
],
"definitions":{
": to tell secrets : tattle":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8kl\u012bp"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"alteration of earlier cleip , from Middle English clepien to call":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-034317"
},
"clypeal":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": of or relating to a clypeus":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8klip\u0113\u0259l"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin clypeus + English -al":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-035232"
},
"Clypeaster":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a widely distributed genus (the type of the family Clypeastridae) of large burrowing cake urchins":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6klip\u0113\u00a6ast\u0259(r)"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Latin clypeus round shield + New Latin -aster":""
