{"def":{"short":"properly, a hard breather, i.e., the name of two unclean creatures, a lizard and a bird (both perhaps from changing color through their irascibility), probably the tree-toad and the water-hen","long":["an unclean animal of some kind",["an unclean bird",["perhaps the ibis, water-hen, species of owl, barn owl"],"an unclean lizard",["perhaps the chameleon"],"perhaps an extinct lizard or bird, exact meaning unknown"]]},"deriv":"from H5395","pronun":{"ipa":"t̪ɑn̪.ʃɛˈmɛt̪","ipa_mod":"tɑn.ʃɛˈmɛt","sbl":"tanšemet","dic":"tahn-sheh-MET","dic_mod":"tahn-sheh-MET"}}