cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
prosopolepsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pɹəˈsəʊpəˌlɛpsi/
Forms: form: prosopolepsies
Etymology: Reflecting New Latin combining forms: prosopo- + -lepsy; from Ancient Greek πρόσωπον (prósōpon, “face, person”) + λῆψις (lêpsis, “taking, seizure”).
Senses: glosses: a premature opinion or prejudice against a person, formed from external appearance
wikipedia: classical compound
Sclavic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Sclavic
form: most Sclavic
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Slavic.
misaffected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more misaffected
form: most misaffected
Etymology: From mis- + affected.
Senses: synonyms: ill-disposed
glosses: lacking sympathy
scolopacine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin scolopax (“a snipe”), from Ancient Greek σκολόπαξ (skolópax).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or relating to the Scolopacidae, or sandpipers.
Related terms: scolopacid
praisement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: praisements
Etymology: From praise + -ment.
Senses: glosses: appraisal (judging the value of something)
praisements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of praisement
misadvisedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more misadvisedly
form: most misadvisedly
Etymology: From misadvised + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a misadvised manner.
perishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perishments
Etymology: Compare Old French perissement.
Senses: examples: text: To bestowe life is no perishemente but auantage.
ref: 1549, Erasmus, “(please specify the book of the Bible, or other title)”, in Nicolas Udall [i.e., Nicholas Udall; et al.], transl., The Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Newe Testamente, London: […] Edwarde Whitchurche:
glosses: The act of perishing.
perishments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perishment
conchyliometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of conchometry.
seedman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seedmen
Etymology: From seed + -man.
Senses: examples: text: Early in the century, Momma […] sold lunches to the sawmen in the lumberyard […] and the seedmen at the cotton gin […].
ref: 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 1, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 4:
glosses: Alternative form of seedsman.
seedmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seedman
alineation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alineations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of allineation.
alineations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alineation
carnivoracity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of carnivore + voracity?
Senses: examples: April 18, 1730, Alexander Pope, letter to Mr. Gay
Mr. Cleland always speaks of you: he is at Tunbridge, wondering at the superior carnivoracity of our friend: he plays now with the old Duchess, nay dines with her, after she has won all his money
glosses: greedy appetite for meat
racistly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more racistly
form: most racistly
Etymology: From racist + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: However, cultural pluralism was rejected by many whites, who ethnocentrically and racistly affirmed the inherent superiority of their own group, and who maintained that accommodation between the races could be established only on the basis of dominance and submission. They demanded separateness, but not equality.
ref: 1968, Elliott M. Rudwick, (Please provide the book title or journal name), University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page 298:
text: The only way that the world is ever going to be free is when the youth of this country moves with every principle of human respect and with every soft spot we have in our hearts for human life, in a fashion that lets the pig power structure know that when people are racistly and fascistically attacked, the youth will put a foot in their butts and make their blood chill.
ref: 1970 March 5, Bobby Seale, Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton, Black Classic Press, published 1991, →ISBN, →OL:
text: In his senility, he still loves racistly, blesses racistly, shoots straight and is cuckoo with the notion that white folks are not white folks but just plain folks.
ref: 1981, Frank Chin, The Chickencoop Chinaman; And, The Year of the Dragon: Two Plays, Seattle: University of Washington Press, published 2002, →ISBN, page 3:
text: As Luc Besson knock-offs go, Safe is only better than Haywire, Steven Soderbergh’s Besson knock-off that excited critics who routinely, racistly dismissed the superlative kinetics and deep feeling in Colombiana.
ref: 2012 April 27, Armond White, “Safe reviewed by Armond White for CityArts”, in New York Film Critics Circle:
glosses: In a racist manner.
peckerhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peckerheads
form: pecker head
Etymology: From pecker + head, from pecker (“penis”).
Senses: examples: text: I dunno what this peckerhead thinks he's doin' but he's about to fall off that bridge.
synonyms: dickhead
glosses: A dickhead: an unpleasant, stupid or mean person.
Related terms: peckerwood
peckerhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peckerheads
form: pecker head
Etymology: From picker + head, alluding to the similarity between the terminal box on a motor and the rotating head of used to pick fruit.
Senses: synonyms: pecker
T-box
pothead
glosses: An electric motor's terminal connection or wiring box.
tallitot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tallit
tallises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tallis
coefficiencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coefficiency
coefficiency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coefficiencies
Etymology: From co- + efficiency.
Senses: examples: text: Now the managing and carrying on of this work by the Spirits instrumental coefficiency requires , that they be kept together without distradion or dissipation
ref: 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC:
glosses: joint efficiency; cooperation
Bialystok
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Białystok.
high yellow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high yellows
Etymology: After the golden yellow skin tone of some multiracial people.
Senses: examples: text: Being a light-skinned girl, you get called names. You get called 'lite-brite', you get called 'high yellow', 'redbone'.
ref: 2014 January 10, Colorism: The Secret Shame (Oprah's Lifeclass), season 5, episode 2, via OWN:
qualifier: sometimes racially offensive
glosses: A black person with light skin with yellow undertones.
Synonyms: high yaller
high yellow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more high yellow
form: most high yellow
Etymology: After the golden yellow skin tone of some multiracial people.
Senses: examples: text: Now, you gonna get your little narrow, high yellow ass back into the theater and enjoy Soul Plane 2.
ref: 2007 October 8, 12:23 from the start, in ...Or Die Trying (The Boondocks), season 2, episode 1, spoken by Granddad (John Witherspoon):
glosses: Having a light skin tone.
raw_tags: of a black person
Related terms: colorism
redbone
cissexism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cis- + sexism or cissex(ual) + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: In that context where cissexism and cissupremacy are the oppressions in question, a cisgender woman would not count as a marginalized person.
ref: 2016, Nora Berenstain, “Epistemic Exploitation”, in Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, volume 3, number 22, page 570:
glosses: Bias or prejudice favouring cisgender people; transphobia.
Related terms: cissexist
cisgenderism
sarigue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarigues
Etymology: Borrowed from French sarigue.
Senses: glosses: A small South American opossum (Philander opossum) with four white spots on the face.
hagiographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hagiographically
form: most hagiographically
Etymology: From hagiographic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of a hagiography
dig into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: digs into
form: digging into
form: dug into
form: dug into
Senses: examples: text: She is going to dig into Egyptian basket-weaving this semester.
glosses: To research a particular subject.
examples: text: Bobby really dug into his potatoes.
glosses: To begin eating heartily.
moustached warbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moustached warblers
Senses: glosses: A passerine bird, Acrocephalus melanopogon.
zweckrationalität
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From German Zweckrationalität.
Senses: examples: text: This thinking, supported by this array of heroes in bronze, can only further persuade people that whites may be masters of zweckrationalität—technical rationality—but are deficient in wertrationalität—basic human values.
ref: 1999, James W. Loewen, Lies across America: What our historic sites get wrong, Simon and Schuster, page 449:
glosses: Technical rationality; rationality in accordance with organizational demands instead of moral demands.
Related terms: wertrationalität
wertrationalität
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From German Wertrationalität.
Senses: examples: text: This thinking, supported by this array of heroes in bronze, can only further persuade people that whites may be masters of zweckrationalität—technical rationality—but are deficient in wertrationalität—basic human values.
ref: 1999, James W. Loewen, Lies across America: What our historic sites get wrong, Simon and Schuster, page 449:
glosses: Rationality in accordance with moral demands instead of organizational and technical demands.
Related terms: zweckrationalität
introvertly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more introvertly
form: most introvertly
Etymology: From introvert + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of an introvert
HFFA
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more HFFA
form: most HFFA
Senses: examples: text: She’s not as sexy as you first think — you’ll see she’s just HFFA once you start talking to her.
glosses: Hot from far away (but ugly up close)
nosey parkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nosey parker
nosey parkers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nosey parker
raws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raw
rehost
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rehosts
form: rehosting
form: rehosted
form: rehosted
Etymology: From re- + host.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To host again or anew.
rehosting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rehost
rehosts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rehost
rehosted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rehost
pintable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pintables
form: pin-table
Etymology: From pin + table.
Senses: glosses: A pinball table.
pintables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pintable
Hapke parameter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hapke parameters
Etymology: Named after astronomer Bruce Hapke.
Senses: glosses: Any of a set of parameters for a quasi-experimental model used to describe the directional reflectance properties of the airless regolith surfaces of bodies in the Solar System.
wikipedia: Bruce Hapke
Dahlesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɑːlˈɛsk/
Forms: form: more Dahlesque
form: most Dahlesque
Etymology: From Dahl + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: The origins of the loathsome Dursleys come directly from snobbish Dahlesque caricatures of people of limited culture and intelligence.
ref: 2002, Julia Eccleshare, A Guide to the Harry Potter Novels, page 36:
glosses: In the style of Roald Dahl (1916–1990), British novelist, whose children's books are characterized by black humor and grotesque villains.
Related terms: Dahlian
operous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more operous
form: most operous
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of operose.
Related terms: operously
blenk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blenks
form: blenking
form: blenked
form: blenked
Senses: glosses: To blink, shine, or look.
hobbitses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the common use of this plural by Gollum in the fictional works by J. R. R. Tolkien.
Senses: glosses: plural of hobbit
wikipedia: Gollum
J. R. R. Tolkien
wonings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woning
sexposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of sex + exposition, coined in 2011 by Myles McNutt to describe the numerous scenes in the fantasy TV series Game of Thrones in which characters talk while they have sex with prostitutes or watch them having sex.
Senses: examples: text: There were similar grumbles about season GAME OF THRONES eps, but it always had the Dinklage turning in reportedly great performances--including a redefinition of, ahem, "SLAPschtick"--and its infamous sexposition[…]
ref: 2012, Ken from Chicago, “HBO's "Luck" has few viewers”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet):
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: (The practice of providing) exposition against a backdrop of sex or nudity.
perichondritides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perichondritis
perichondritis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perichondritides
Etymology: See perichondrium and -itis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: inflammation of the perichondrium
Related terms: perichondritic
togated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin togatus, from toga (“a toga”).
Senses: examples: text: And now, I suppose, my Striplings are formally clad, and togated, newly arrived at the Vniversities
ref: 1634, Miles Sandys, Prudence:
glosses: Dressed in a toga or gown; wearing a gown; gowned.
Synonyms: word: betogaed
word: togaed
word: togate
word: toged
plantule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plantules
form: plantula
Etymology: From French plantule, diminutive of plante (“a plant”), Latin planta.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
plantules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plantule
Germanish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Germanish
form: most Germanish
form: germanish
Etymology: From German + -ish. Compare Dutch Germaans (“Germanic”), German germanisch (“Germanic”), Swedish germansk (“Germanic”).
Senses: examples: text: [...] till at last it wrote in a Germanish hand, with the m's and the r's and the l's all exactly alike, [...]
ref: 1934, Clemence Dane, The Babyons: the chronicle of a family:
text: The new Italian Roman Empire and the new germanish-German Reich are actually the oldest of presences.
ref: 2004, Eugene Davidson, The Unmaking of Adolf Hitler:
glosses: Germanic.
examples: text: "What's dis about Peggy readin Germanish books? Sure she can't understand the Germanish language," he said in an irreverent, mocking tone.
ref: 1992, Michael Collins, The man who dreamt of lobsters:
glosses: German.
examples: text: […] at everyone in uniform, and stole anything Germanish that they could pry loose.
ref: 2010, Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken:
text: He had a grand stage presence, a voice noble in quality and in volume, a fine dramatic style of singing, with tragic power, and humor, too, although these were rather Germanish; […]
ref: 1882, The century illustrated monthly magazine:
text: The sharp-nosed round-cheeked dead-eyed nurse with a weird Germanish accent that would sell Gately little sampler bottles […]
ref: 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN:
glosses: Of, like, or resembling anything German; German-like; somewhat German.
German-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more German-like
form: most German-like
form: Germanlike
Etymology: From German + -like.
Senses: glosses: Like or resembling the German people, their language, or their culture; Germanish.
Germanlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Germanlike
form: most Germanlike
Etymology: From German + -like.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of German-like.
nocturnal penile tumescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nocturnal penile tumescences
form: NPT
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: morning wood
glosses: An erection during sleep or on waking up.
Ranterism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ranter + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The practice or beliefs of the Ranters.
Ranter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ranters
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A member of an alleged sect in the time of the English Commonwealth (1649–1660) who were regarded as heretical by the established church.
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: One of the Primitive Methodists, who seceded from the Wesleyan Methodists on the ground of their deficiency in fervour and zeal.
Related terms: Ranterism
Ranters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ranter
perispore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perispores
Etymology: From peri- + spore.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The outer covering of a spore.
perispores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perispore
cockerney
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cockerney
form: most cockerney
Etymology: Imitative of cockney pronunciation, with epenthesis.
Senses: examples: text: His finest creation, cockerney geeza Lee Nelson, is worth the price of admission on his own.
ref: 2006, The Theatre Record, volume 26, numbers 14-26, page, published 1120:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of cockney.
cockerney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cockerneys
Etymology: Imitative of cockney pronunciation, with epenthesis.
Senses: examples: text: I told her I'm a Cockerney. Her uncle is a sailor too.
ref: 1939, Time, vol 4, part 2, page 61:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of cockney.
Cockerney
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Cockerney
form: most Cockerney
Etymology: Imitative of cockney pronunciation.
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of Cockney.
Cockerney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cockerneys
Etymology: Imitative of cockney pronunciation.
Senses: examples: text: I told her I'm a Cockerney. Her uncle is a sailor too.
ref: 1939, Time, vol 4, part 2, page 61:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of Cockney.
xats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xat
honour killings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of honour killing
mazologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mazologists
Etymology: From mazology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: There is an animal (though I cannot agree in calling it a species of the Walrus, as some mazologists have done,) called the manati or sea-ape[…]
ref: 1823 January to June, “Mermaids.—An Essay.”, in Robert Walsh, Jr., editor, The Museum of Foreign Literature and Science, volume 2, page 138:
text: […]the two most eminent mazologists of antiquity are Aristotle and Pliny;[…]
ref: 1832, “Mazology”, in David Brewster, editor, Edinburgh Encyclopedia, volume 12, page 469:
text: Moreover, to fashion these Dry Goods aright
A MONSTER STEAM PAN
has been erected, that all imaginable devices may be made to meet the requirements of youth and age in Victoria. Machinery of the most complex and bewildering character stand in array to reproduce in boundless profusion and beauty of form all that the Entomologist, Ichylogist, or Mazologist, may wish to see.
ref: 1873 December 23, “Newstead Biscuit & Confectionary Establishment”, in Avoca Mail and Pyrenees District Advertiser, page 2:
glosses: One versed in mazology; a mammalogist.
mazologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mazologist
chimney corner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chimney corners
form: chimney-corner
Senses: examples: text: It is meere injuſtice to ſee an old, crazed, ſinnowe-ſhronken, and nigh-dead father ſitting alone in a chimnie-corner, to enjoy ſo many goods as would ſuffice for the preferment and entertainment of many children, and in the meane while, for want of meanes, to ſuffer them to looſe their beſt daies and yeares, without thruſting them into publike ſervice and knowledge of men;[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, “Of the affection of fathers to their children”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 224:
text: “I see a vacant scat,” replied the Ghost, “in the poor chimney corner, and a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved.[…]”
ref: 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Three. The Second of the Three Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 96:
text: […] it was Angel Clare's custom to sit in the yawning chimney-corner during the meal, his cup-and-saucer and plate being placed on a hinged flap at his elbow.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter XVIII, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the third (The Rally), page 237:
glosses: The side of an open fireplace or hearth in a home, traditionally thought of as a place for the old or unwell; an inglenook.
chimney corners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chimney corner
Gascoine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gascoines
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Gascon.
altisonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more altisonous
form: most altisonous
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin altisonus.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of altisonant.
athermancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See athermanous.
Senses: examples: text: In fact the very experiments devised to show conductivity proved in a very striking manner the existence of athermancy, or opacity to radiant heat, in the case of a considerable number of gases.
ref: 1862, John Tyndall, "Further Researches on the Absorption and Radiation of Heat by Gaseous Matter", Philosophical Transactions, in Contributions to Molecular Physics in the Domain of Radiant Heat (1893), page 106
glosses: Inability to transmit radiant heat; impermeability to heat; the quality of being a good insulator.
manid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmænɪd/
Forms: form: manids
Etymology: From Manis + -id or from Manidae.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: pangolin
manids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manid
hurds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See hards.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hards.
sycoceryl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σῦκον (sûkon, “a fig”) + κηρός (kērós, “wax”) + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A radical, of the aromatic series, regarded as an essential ingredient of certain compounds found in the waxy resin of an Australian species of fig.
pionies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piony
piony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pionies
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of peony.
anthropomorphitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anthropomorphitic
form: most anthropomorphitic
Senses: examples: text: Anthropomorphitic phrases are found throughout the whole Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments.
ref: 1845, John Kitto, A Cyclopædia of Biblical Literature, volume 1, page 162:
glosses: Archaic spelling of anthropomorphic.
discriminateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From discriminate + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being discriminated; distinctness.
cognoscence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒɡnəsəns/
Etymology: From Latin cognoscentia. See cognizance.
Senses: examples: text: Beſides, there being that communication betwixt the Earth and the Aire, that at leaſt the fame of things will arrive to their cognoſcence that have left this life; […]
ref: 1659, Henry More, chapter XI, in The Immortality of the Soul, so Farre Forth as It is Demonstrable from the Knowledge of Nature and the Light of Reason, London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for William Morden […], →OCLC, book III, paragraph 4, page 438:
glosses: Cognizance (awareness).
unthriftiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of unthrifty: most unthrifty
hard by
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: He attendeth here hard by,
 To know your answer, whether you'll admit him.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: So the Comptroller and I thence to a tavern hard by, and there did agree upon drawing up some letters to be sent to all the pursers and Clerks of the Cheques to make up their accounts.
ref: 1660 March 5 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “February 24th, 1659–1660”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume I, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893, →OCLC, page 339:
text: After we had dispatched our compliments to each other, and I had awkwardly returned in country scrapes his a la mode bows and cringes, he needs must prevail with me to join him at a tavern hard by and dine with some gentlemen of his acquaintance.
ref: 1698, Ned Ward, The London Spy:
text: So I took a great dry gourd and, cutting open the head, scooped out the inside and cleaned it; after which I gathered grapes from a vine which grew hard by and squeezed them into the gourd, till it was full of the juice. Then I stopped up the mouth and set in the sun, where I left it for some days, until it became strong wine; and every day I used to drink of it, to comfort and sustain me under my fatigues with that from froward and obstinate fiend; and as often as I drank myself drunk, I forgot my troubles and took new heart.
ref: 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:
text: The pond was another favourite place to visit. Moorhens strutted from the neighbouring bushes, and a bevy of Muscovy ducks, a study in black, white and red, waddled from the farmyard hard by to enjoy a refreshing splash.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 217:
glosses: nearby; in close proximity.
hard by
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: He was laid to rest hard by the same church where he was once baptised.
text: In a bar hard by P. P. Layouts, Richard Hnatt sat sipping a Tequila Sour.
ref: 1964, Philip K. Dick, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch:
glosses: Close to; near; in proximity to; next to.
chess-apple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chess-apples
Senses: glosses: The wild service tree of Europe (Sorbus torminalis).
spendthrifty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spendthrifty
form: most spendthrifty
Senses: glosses: spendthrift; prodigal
convallamarin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From translingual Convallaria + Latin amarus (“bitter”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A poisonous glucoside extracted from the lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis)
balloonfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balloonfishes
form: balloonfish
Etymology: From balloon + fish.
Senses: glosses: The pufferfish; blowfish
Synonyms: sense: genus Diodon
word: diodont
sense: genus Diodon
word: porcupinefish
balloonfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balloonfish
pineaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pineasters
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of pinaster.
pineasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pineaster
haemachrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From haema- + -chrome.
Senses: glosses: hematin
significatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more significatory
form: most significatory
Etymology: Latin significatorius.
Senses: glosses: significant; meaningful; having signification
revie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɹiˈvaɪ/
Forms: form: revies
form: revying
form: revied
form: revied
Etymology: From re- + vie.
Senses: glosses: To vie with, or rival, in return.
examples: text: here's a trick vied and revied!
ref: 1598, Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Euery Man in His Humour. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: To exceed an adversary's wager in a card game.
glosses: To make a retort; to bandy words.
revied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of revie
revies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of revie
revying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of revie
nodated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nodated
form: most nodated
Etymology: From Latin nodatus, past participle of nodare (“to make knotty”), from nodus (“knot”). See node.
Senses: examples: text: The more abundant in the material right valves were always more nodated than the left ones thus only left valves were taken into consideration .
ref: 1930, Fragmenta faunistica - Volume 37, page 407:
glosses: knotted
examples: text: Form A to b or B to b, along the circular arc (see fig. 4), the paths of a series of points will give a gradation of symmetrical double nodated figures between the arc of a circle and the cuspidated tirangular figure. This is the first or finite series of symmetrical double nodated lines.
ref: 1830, The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette, page 232:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Crossing itself.
Derived terms: nodated hyperbola
fumage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfjuːmɪd͡ʒ/
Etymology: From Old French fumage, fumaige, from Latin fumus (“smoke”).
Senses: examples: text: As early as the conquest mention is made in domesday book of fumage or fuage, vulgarly called smoke farthings; which were paid by custom to the king for every chimney in the house
ref: 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
text: A FUMAGE, or tax of smoke farthings, or hearth tax, a kind of tax usually to be found among the fiscal traditions of communities in remote times, ranges among those of the Anglo-Saxon period. Such a tax is mentioned subsequently in Domesday Book.
ref: 1888, Stephen Dowell, A History of Taxation and Taxes in England from the Earliest Times to the Year 1885, Volume 1, Longmans, Green and Co, page 10:
glosses: Hearth tax.
examples: 2013, Whitney Sherman, Playing with Sketches, The Quarto Group (Rockport Publishers), page 32,
Fumage is not a frequently used drawing technique, but when used it can produce a subtle and mysterious effect. One notable twentieth-century fumage artist was banker Hugh Parker Guiler, spouse of diarist Anaïs Nin.
topics: art
arts
glosses: A surrealist art technique, devised by Wolfgang Paalen, in which impressions are made by the smoke of a candle or kerosene lamp on a piece of paper or canvas.
Related terms: sfumato
steganopod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steganopods
Etymology: From Ancient Greek στεγανός (steganós, “cover, roof”) + -pod.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the Steganopodes, a former suborder of birds having four toes webbed together.
Derived terms: steganopodous
Related terms: steganography
steganopods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steganopod
subterrestrial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + terrestrial.
Senses: glosses: Under the earth; subterranean.
subterrestrial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subterrestrials
Etymology: From sub- + terrestrial.
Senses: glosses: spmeone who lives under the earth.
antimason
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antimasons
Etymology: From anti- + mason.
Senses: glosses: One who opposes Freemasonry.
antimasons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antimason
peristeropodous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more peristeropodous
form: most peristeropodous
Etymology: From Ancient Greek περιστερά (peristerá, “pigeon”) + -podous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: Having feet like those of a pigeon; said of those gallinaceous birds that rest on all four toes, such as curassows and megapodes.
Related terms: pigeonfoot
pigeon-toed
fouthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: fouthier
form: more fouthy
form: fouthiest
form: most fouthy
form: southy
Etymology: From fouth (“abundance, fullness, plenty”) + -y.
Senses: glosses: Ample; plentiful; free in giving; generous; hospitable.
glosses: Having the appearance of fulness; full-looking.
Derived terms: fouthy-like
miltwaste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From milt + waste.
Senses: synonyms: rustyback fern
rustyback
glosses: A small European fern (Asplenium ceterach) formerly used in medicine.
realizingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more realizingly
form: most realizingly
Etymology: From realizing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to make real, or to impress on the mind as a reality.
cestraciont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cestracionts
Etymology: Ancient Greek κέστρα (késtra, “hammer; a kind of fish”) + κίων (kíōn, “pillar; uvula; nasal septum”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any shark historically placed in the genus Cestracion, now in Heterodontus (bullheads, and the horn shark and Port Jackson shark), Sphyrna (certain hammerheads), and Eusphyrna (winghead shark).
phocenic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φώκαινα (phṓkaina, “porpoise”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: valeric acid
Derived terms: phocenate
full-looking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more full-looking
form: most full-looking
Etymology: From full + looking.
Senses: examples: text: To create a full-looking wreath, slide the knots close together.
ref: 2008, Bethany Lowe, Bethany Lowe's Folk Art Halloween:
glosses: Looking or appearing full.
mammology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mammalogy (“study of mammals”).
mammology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of mastology (“study of breasts”).
synonyms: word: mastology
extra: study of breasts
disdiapason
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disdiapasons
Etymology: From dis- + diapason.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: An interval of two octaves, or a fifteenth.
Synonyms: didiapason
bisdiapason
disdiapasons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disdiapason
perigraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perigraphs
Etymology: From peri- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for measuring a person's ability to flex the neck and limbs.
glosses: A careless or inaccurate delineation of anything.
perigraphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perigraph
hydrolat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrolats
Senses: glosses: An aromatic hydrosol, especially one made by steam distillation of a plant extract
hydrolats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrolat
afterset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aftersets
Etymology: From after- + set.
Senses: examples: text: Mnemonically and semantically, an afterset consists of all those elements which can correctly be written after a given element, a foreset of those which can correctly be written before it.
ref: 2001, Christodoulos A. Floudas, Panos M. Pardalos, Encyclopedia of optimization:
glosses: That which is positioned after or behind.
examples: text: They were led to a suite in the back of the building where they could relax and mingle before the afterset. A group of industry people were already waiting inside the room.
ref: 1999, Robyn Williams, A twist of fate:
text: But then they had to prove me wrong 'Cause later on that night after we did the show We went back to the afterset and wouldn't ya know Yeah, Bloods and Crips start scrappin' and shootin' [...]
ref: 2002, Murray Forman, The 'hood comes first: race, space, and place in rap and hip-hop:
glosses: A set or stage which is located behind another; a film industry lounge.
afterset
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From after- + set.
Senses: examples: text: Their use avoids the necessity of drilling into the floor duct at each point where a floor outlet is desired, in order to place an afterset insert.
ref: 1997, Benjamin Stein, McGuinness, William J., Building technology: mechanical and electrical systems
glosses: Pertaining to an object or material state (such as concrete, paint, moulding, etc) after it has set.
peacher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peachers
Etymology: From peach + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Named Appellatores, (accusers or pechers of others yt were giltles).
ref: 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC:
glosses: One who peaches or informs on another; an informer.
peachers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peacher
gecarcinian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gecarcinians
Etymology: From Gecarcinus + -ian.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A land crab of the genus Gecarcinus or allied genera, as in family Gecarcinidae.
gecarcinians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gecarcinian
amerciament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amerciaments
Etymology: Medieval Latin amerciamentum, from amerciari + -amentum, learned Latinization of Anglo-Norman amercier + -ment, from Old French à merci.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of amercement.
amerciaments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amerciament
disinflame
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disinflames
form: disinflaming
form: disinflamed
form: disinflamed
Etymology: From dis- + inflame.
Senses: examples: text: O Lycians , why are your hot spirits so quickly disinflamed?
ref: [1611?], Homer, “Book XII”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:
text: The impossibility of obtaining more will disinflame you , and we shall be, then, a beautiful and honest exception of folks liking without loving each other , and soon you shall feel only the sweetness of a friendship so pure, therefore so durable.
ref: 1898, Mme. Hermine Oudinot Lecomte du Nouÿ, Love in friendship: (a nameless sentiment), page 70:
text: Consequently, depersonalizing and disinflaming the situation are prudent tactics: maintain a calm demeanor, look confident, and remain assertive.
ref: 1999, Rosemary O'Leary, Managing for the Environment, page 125:
glosses: To divest of flame or ardour.
examples: text: In many instances simple manipulation, a steroid injection to disinflame the affected area, or some other maneuver is suficient for most soft-tissue injuries.
ref: 1991, Thomas A. Dorman, Thomas H. Ravin, Diagnosis and Injection Techniques in Orthopedic Medicine, page 37:
text: Treatment then may be needed to disinflame the scar, or to get rid of the chaotically formed scar, by deep cross-fiber massage or manipulative rupture ( Ombregt et al ibid) .
ref: 2005, Alon Marcus, Foundations for Integrative Musculoskeletal Medicine, page 553:
text: Through Relations, it is possible to be aware of the uses Mayan-plants had to heal the bit of poisonous spiders, to restrict the blood of any would and heal it in a very short time, to refresh the liver, to purge and worm, to lower the faver, to calm hemorrhoids, to disinflame, to counteract evil eye, to cure headache, to heal sores, to open swelling, to grow long hair, to grow hair where there is none, to help in labor, and to employ as an antidote.
ref: 2022, Alba González Jácome, Traditional Mexican Agriculture:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To reduce inflammation (in).
disinflamed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disinflame
disinflames
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disinflame
disinflaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disinflame
atstand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: atstands
form: atstanding
form: atstood
form: atstood
Etymology: From Middle English atstonden, etstonden, ætstanden, from Old English ætstandan (“to stand still, stand at, stand near, stand in, stand by, stop, rest, stay, remain, stand up, check, resist, cease, blight (crops)”), equivalent to at- + stand. Conflated in some senses with Middle English anstanden (“to resist”). See astand.
Senses: glosses: To stand still; remain; stay.
glosses: To come to a standstill; stop.
glosses: To make a hostile stand; resist; withstand.
glosses: To stand to; withstand; resist; stand close to; press.
atsake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: atsakes
form: atsaking
form: atsook
form: atsaken
Etymology: From Middle English atsaken, ætsaken, from Old English ætsacan (“to deny, disown, abjure, renounce”), equivalent to at- + sake.
Senses: glosses: To deny.
glosses: To deny; abjure; renounce.
atscape
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: atscapes
form: atscaping
form: atscaped
form: atscaped
Etymology: From at- + scape (“to escape”), perhaps modelled after Middle English atscheaken ("to escape"; see atshake). More at ascape, escape.
Senses: glosses: To escape.
Colbert bump
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A spike in a politician's popularity following an appearance with, or promotion by, comedian Stephen Colbert.
barbastel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barbastels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of barbastelle (“type of bat”).
barbastels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barbastel
sarcophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarcophiles
Etymology: From sarco- + -phile.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A carnivorous marsupial, especially of genus Sarcophilus
Related terms: sarcophiline
thylacine
sarcophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarcophile
pucherite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Pucher + -ite, named after a mine in Saxony.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: vanadate of bismuth, occurring in minute reddish-brown crystals
atshake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: atshakes
form: atshaking
form: atshook
form: atshaken
Etymology: From Middle English atscheaken, atsceken, equivalent to at- + shake. Compare ashake.
Senses: glosses: To flee away; escape.
flickermouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flickermice
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of flittermouse.
sericteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sericterium
sericterium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sericteria
Etymology: Late Latin sericterium, from Ancient Greek σηρικόν (sērikón, “silk”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: A silk gland, as in the silkworms.
Synonyms: serictery
atshoot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: atshoots
form: atshooting
form: atshot
form: atshot
Etymology: From Middle English atschoten, ætscheoten, from Old English ætscēotan (“to escape, disappear”), equivalent to at- + shoot. Compare Dutch ontschieten (“to slip from, forget”), German entschiessen.
Senses: glosses: To shoot away; shoot away from.
apostemes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aposteme
apostume
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apostumes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of aposteme.
apostumes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apostume
physopod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: physopods
Etymology: From physo- + -pod.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the Thysanoptera (syn. Physopoda); a thrips.
physopods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of physopod
endamnified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of endamnify
endamnify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: endamnifies
form: endamnifying
form: endamnified
form: endamnified
Senses: examples: text: those who hired the fishing of that lake adjoyning, were endamnified much by the violent breaking in of the leas
ref: 1615, George Sandys, “(please specify the page)”, in The Relation of a Iourney Begun An: Dom: 1610. […], London: […] [Richard Field] for W. Barrett, →OCLC:
glosses: To hurt; to damn.
Related terms: indemnify
mestizaje
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Spanish mestizaje.
Senses: glosses: The postrevolutionary construction of a modern Mexican national identity.
clear one's lines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clears one's lines
form: clearing one's lines
form: cleared one's lines
form: cleared one's lines
Senses: examples: text: The Canaries went ahead when the home defence failed to clear their lines and Pilkington was on hand to slide in his eighth goal of the campaign.
ref: 2012 April 9, Mandeep Sanghera, “Tottenham 1 - 2 Norwich”, in BBC Sport:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To clear the ball away from a dangerous position.
amphigories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amphigory