cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
showerful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: showerfuls
form: showersful
Etymology: From shower + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Enlil hates me and I can no longer dwell among you, can no longer set my footsteps on the soil that is Enlils; but if I go down into the Apsu, dwelling with my lord Ea, then will Enlil send you showerfuls, raining down abundance on you.
ref: 1970, D. W.Thomas, Documents from Old Testament times, page 21:
text: After the first showerful of earth was flung in over the victims, the infant Patsy stirred his feeble hand slightly.
ref: 1980, Sean Henry, Tales from the West of Ireland, page 35:
text: white snow falls from the sky o o w o o in small drops in big drops in whole showersful
ref: 1991, Grace Nichols, Can I buy a slice of sky?::
text: Our show tonight is powerful, We'll wow you with an hourful Of showers from a showerful of stars
ref: 2000, Merrill Joan Gerber, The Kingdom of Brooklyn, page 81:
text: While Jim McAllister may continue lying to himself about his usefulness through another couple of broken marriages and career failures, you come out of Election suspecting that Tracy's delusions will, at some point not too far away, hit her with an awful powerful showerful of truth, and she will stagger under its weight.
ref: 2011, Garry Mulholland, Stranded at the Drive-In: The 100 Best Teen Movies:
glosses: A quantity that falls in a shower.
subarytenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + arytenoid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated under the arytenoid cartilage.
vinette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vinettes
Etymology: Compare vignette.
Senses: examples: text: Passing good and proper indeed for vinet and storie worke in borders.
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book II.]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
glosses: A sprig or branch.
vinettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vinette
whiterump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whiterumps
form: white-rump
Etymology: From white + rump.
Senses: glosses: A bird, the black-tailed godwit.
whiterumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whiterump
whoremasterly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more whoremasterly
form: most whoremasterly
Etymology: From whoremaster + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: whoremasterly villain
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv]:
text: You whoremasterly slave, you!
ref: 1614 November 10 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), Beniamin Iohnson [i.e., Ben Jonson], Bartholmew Fayre: A Comedie, […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot, […], published 1631, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: Having the character of a whoremaster (pimp); lecherous; libidinous.
bogwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bogwoods
form: bog-wood
form: bog wood
Etymology: From bog + wood.
Senses: glosses: The dark, shiny wood of trees, especially oaks, dug up from peat bogs, sometimes used for making ornaments.
Hyponyms: bog oak
bogwoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bogwood
implemental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛntəl
Forms: form: more implemental
form: most implemental
Etymology: From implement + -al.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to, or characterized by, implements or their use; mechanical.
primordialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primordialisms
Etymology: From primordial + -ism.
Senses: examples: 1874-1896, Herbert Spencer, Principles of Sociology
Yet another indication of primordialism may be named.
glosses: Devotion to, or persistence in, conditions of the primordial state.
glosses: The belief that each individual has a single inborn ethnic identity independent of historical processes.
primordialisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of primordialism
discloak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: discloaks
form: discloaking
form: discloaked
form: discloaked
Etymology: From dis- + cloak.
Senses: examples: text: Now go in, discloak yourself, and come forth
ref: 1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC:
glosses: To remove a cloak from.
glosses: To reveal; to uncover
Related terms: decloak
uncloak
discloaked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of discloak
Bantingism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Banting + -ism, after William Banting.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of banting (“weight-loss diet”).
synonyms: word: banting
extra: weight-loss diet
expressage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪdʒ
Forms: form: expressages
Etymology: From express + -age.
Senses: glosses: The fee for express delivery.
expressages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of expressage
winninish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wananish.
intellectively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more intellectively
form: most intellectively
Etymology: From intellective + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: intellectively cognized
text: Some moderne Poets with themselves be hardly inward so,
Not intellectively to write is learnedly, they trowe; […]
ref: 1586, William Warner, Albion's England:
glosses: In an intellective manner.
tolmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tolmens
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of dolmen.
tolmens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tolmen
tetrarchate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetrarchates
Etymology: Compare French tétrarchat.
Senses: glosses: A tetrarchy.
tetrarchates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetrarchate
visne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: visnes
Etymology: From Old French visné, veisiné, visnet (“neighborhood”), from Vulgar Latin *vīcīnātus, from Latin vīcīnus (“neighboring, a neighbor”). See vicinity.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: neighborhood; vicinity; venue
lithomarge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithomarges
form: lithomarga
Etymology: From New Latin lithomarga, from Ancient Greek λιθος (lithos, “stone”) + Latin marga (“marl”). Equivalent to litho- + marge.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of kaolinite.
synonyms: word: kaolinite
lithomarges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lithomarge
flawn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flawns
Etymology: From Middle English flaun, flaon, flawn, from Old French flaon, from Late Latin fladonem, accusative of flado, from Frankish *flaþō. Doublet of flan, flathe, and flathon.
Senses: glosses: A flan (custard-based dessert)
examples: text: Fill oven with flawns, Jenny, pass not for sleep,
To-morrow, thy father his wake-day will keep
ref: 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:
glosses: A pancake or hotcake.
flawns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flawn
impower
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: impowers
form: impowering
form: impowered
form: impowered
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of empower.
impowered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more impowered
form: most impowered
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of empowered.
Derived terms: unimpowered
impowered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of impower
impowering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of impower
impowers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of impower
metakaolin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metakaolins
Etymology: From meta- + kaolin.
Senses: glosses: A dehydroxylated form of the clay mineral kaolinite.
Related terms: metakaolinite
metakaolins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metakaolin
gymnocytode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gymnocytodes
Etymology: From gymno- + cytode.
Senses: examples: text: The gymnocytode invests itself with a membrane, and is thus converted into a leptocytode
ref: 1872, The Monthly Microscopic Journal:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A cytode without either a cell wall or a nucleus.
gymnocytodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gymnocytode
chloriodic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chlor- + iodic.
Senses: examples: text: chloriodic acid
text: chloriodic matter
text: chloriodic industry
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing, or pertaining to, chlorine and iodine.
convolvulin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: translingual Convolvulus + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A glucoside occurring in jalap (the root of Ipomoea purga, a convolvulaceous plant), used as a purgative.
halcyonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhæl.siˈəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌhæl.siˈoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more halcyonian
form: most halcyonian
Senses: glosses: halcyon; calm
ozonoscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: ozonoscopic paper
text: ozonoscopic observation
glosses: Of or pertaining to the measurement of the amount of ozone; using an ozonoscope.
reiteratedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more reiteratedly
form: most reiteratedly
Etymology: From reiterated + -ly.
Senses: glosses: repeatedly
loiteringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From loitering + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: We advanced loiteringly along the street.
glosses: In a loitering manner.
noropianic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nor- + opianic acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid of the aromatic series obtained from opianic acid.
saltmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saltmakers
Etymology: From salt + maker.
Senses: glosses: A manufacturer of salt.
saltmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saltmaker
toothake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toothakes
Etymology: From tooth + ake.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of toothache.
headake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headakes
Etymology: From head + ake.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of headache.
heartake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heartakes
Etymology: From heart + ake.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of heartache.
backake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backakes
Etymology: From back + ake.
Senses: examples: text: At 3 o'clock I went to Lady Anne, and (considering her distemper) found her very well, without any headake, backake, or fever.
ref: 1847, Camden Miscellany - Volume 39, page 8:
text: Was referd to me, because of her obstinate constipation along with a continual backake that made her lie down several times daily.
ref: 1934, George Starr White, The Emancipation of Women: Or Regulating the Duration of the Menses:
text: Must get som supplys & som backake ointmint.
ref: 2010, Joel Greenberg, Of Prairie, Woods, and Water: Two Centuries of Chicago Nature Writing, →ISBN:
glosses: Rare spelling of backache.
bellyake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bellyakes
Etymology: From belly + ake.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of bellyache.
schismaticall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more schismaticall
form: most schismaticall
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of schismatical.
vapourously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more vapourously
form: most vapourously
Etymology: From vapourous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of vaporously.
tumourously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tumourously
form: most tumourously
Etymology: From tumourous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of tumorously.
alphabetick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alphabetick
form: most alphabetick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of alphabetic.
odourously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more odourously
form: most odourously
Etymology: From odourous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of odorously.
humourousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From humourous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of humorousness.
boileries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boilery
boilery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boileries
Etymology: Compare French bouillerie.
Senses: examples: text: Holonyms: saltworks; sugarhouse
text: By the grant of a boilery of salt it is said that the soil passes, for it is the whole profit of the soil, and the water being fixed in a certain place within the bounds and compass of the well is considered a part of the soil.
ref: 1886, Arthur George Sedgwick, Frederick Scott Wait, A Treatise on the Trial of Title to Land, page 67:
text: In an old case of an informationm for erecting and continuing a soap boilery in Wood Street, in London, to the annoyance of the neighborhood, the trial was before Jeffreys, C.J., at Guildhall—a judge whose name is more unsavory to posterity than any soap boilery.
ref: 1889, Seymour Dwight Thompson, A Treatise on the Law of Trials in Actions Civil and Criminal, page 1396:
text: Hibiscus, agaves and clematis have been planted round about in small artistic arrangements, the flamboyant flowers like blood that never dries, and inside the boilery there are two iron cauldrons still cemented in their original places and merely converted into small water basins with water lilies, goldfish and submerged electric lighting.
ref: 2017, Thorkild Hansen, Islands of Slaves, page 257:
text: Lampblack factories, for example, further processed bones from the boilery into a substance used in writing and printing inks (also in shoe blacking), products critical to a nation newly awash in newspapers, novels, and penny press features. Curled hair was another material supplied by boileries (as well as by piggeries and slughter-houses.)
ref: 2024, Brian C. Black, Michael J. Chiarappa, Nature's Entrepot, page 83:
synonyms: boiling-house
glosses: A buisness (and place of business) that engages primarily in boiling, such as in the boiling of sugarcane juice to make sugar, the boiling of brine to make salt, the boiling of soap or tallow, the boiling of bones to make glue, etc.
examples: text: The time has gone by when a boilery for urine was regarded as indispensable for a physician's scientific progress, and I dare say we are all grateful for this deliverance.
ref: 1875, Theodore Juergensen, “Croupous Pneumonia, Catarrhal Pneumonia, Hypostatic Processes in the Lungs, and Embolic Pneumonia”, in Cyclopædia of the Practice of Medicine - Volume 5, page 98:
text: The Factory is placed in the 'tween deck, i.e., aft the blubber boilery, and forward of it the press boilery and Hartmann apparatus.
ref: 1931, Transactions - North East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, volume 47, page 142:
text: All the appointments, from the carthouse to the boilery, stood in need of repair.
ref: 2024, Gustave Flaubert, Bouvard and Pécuchet:
glosses: A room or area where there is equipment for boiling that is part of a larger establishment, such as equipment for rendering blubber on board a whaling vessel, or vats for boiling laundry as part of a large farmhouse.
Related terms: boiler
boilerhouse
masqued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more masqued
form: most masqued
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of masked.
masqued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of masque
masquing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of masque
masquing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: masquings
Senses: glosses: A masking; a masked entertainment.
principall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more principall
form: most principall
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of principal.
principall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: principalls
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of principal.
majestie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: majesties
form: maᵗⁱᵉ
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of majesty.
herball
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of herbal.
herball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: herballs
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of herbal.
xanthid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xanthids
Etymology: From Ancient Greek.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any crab in the Xanthidae.
glosses: A compound of xanthogen.
generative medicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This understanding is key to the generative medicine of the future. Haseltine (2000) sees four phases in developing generative medicine.
ref: 2002, Gurbachan S. Miglani, Advanced genetics:
text: This topic has been prominent in some of the discussions of stem cell therapies and generative medicine. It is also part of the debate on transplantation medicine.
ref: 2008, Anders Persson, Stellan Welin, Contested Technologies, page 195:
text: 2009, Wang et al, Advances and prospect of nanotechnology in stem cells
[…] stem cells are developing toward application of generative medicine […]
glosses: An approach to medicine that employs computer-aided analysis of the relationships between an individual's genes, cells, organ systems, other organisms, and their environments to provide greater appreciation of the complex behaviors seen in both health and disease and more personalized approaches to the treatment of illness and enhancement of well-being.
Related terms: personalized medicine
precision medicine
xanorphica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A kind of musical instrument, resembling a harmonichord and a tetrachordon.
xanthite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From xanth- + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A variety of vesuvianite found in limestone near Amity, New York.
gorgoneia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gorgoneion
gorgoneion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gorgoneia
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γοργόνειον (gorgóneion), neuter of γοργόνειος (gorgóneios, “pertaining to a Gorgon”).
Senses: examples: text: The gorgoneion or "bodiless head of fright" antedates by many centuries the Gorgon with a woman's body.
ref: 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
text: Pausanias twice mentions a gilt-bronze aigis with the head of Medousa, or gorgoneion, at its center, placed high on the south wall of the Acropolis above the Theater of Dionysos [Figs. 4, 9].
ref: 1999, Jeffrey M. Hurwit, The Athenian Acropolis, Cambridge University Press, page 273:
text: Greek drinking cups with low bowls, kylices, were used in sixth century BCE Athens with representations of the gorgoneion on the inside of the bowls and on their outsides, depictions of pairs of huge eyes—to safeguard the drinkers from the Evil Eye (see above, Illus. 6, p. 137).
ref: 2016, John H. Elliott, Beware the Evil Eye, Volume 2: Greece and Rome, Cascade Books, page 246:
text: Even where, as on a kratēr of the Tarporley Painter, the reflection is centred and placed where we expect the gorgoneion, it appears upside-down and is thereby markedly different from the gorgoneion.
ref: 2017, Jonas Grethlein, Aesthetic Experiences and Classical Antiquity, Cambridge University Press, page 230:
glosses: A (representation of a) gorgon's head, especially that of Medusa.
qualifier: Ancient Greek theatre
glosses: A theatrical mask depicting the face of a gorgon.
demonographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demonographers
Etymology: From demon + -o- + -grapher.
Senses: examples: text: Wierus (Johann Wier or Weier, 1515-'88, physician to the duke of Cleves, opponent of belief in sorcery), demonographer, his infernal court, V. 794, 2 c.
ref: 1884, The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, volume 1:
text: Bodin, the medieval demonographer, enumerates various methods of producing anaphrodisiac effects by enchantments.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 89:
text: 'Wicrus' is the Latinized form of the name of Johann Weier or Wier, a sixteenth-century physician and demonographer.
ref: 1961, Maurice Bouisson, Magic: its history and principal rites, page 180:
text: Many of the demonographers Naudé cites, especially Weyer and Bodin, dispute the causes while affirming the Malleus maleficarum's opinion that women are more prone to cooperating with demons than are men.
ref: 2003, Lee Palmer Wandel, History Has Many Voices, page 19:
glosses: Synonym of demonologist.
synonyms: word: demonologist
demonographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demonographer
unprovident
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unprovident
form: most unprovident
Etymology: From un- + provident.
Senses: examples: text: For shame deny that thou bear'st love to any,
Who for thyself art so unprovident
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 10”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
glosses: lacking caution; lacking foresight; improvident
glosses: lacking thrift.
smithcraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English smythcraft, from Old English smiþcræft, equivalent to smith + craft.
Senses: examples: text: Inventors of Pastorage, Smith-craft, and Musick
ref: 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):
text: Like Minerva, Brigit was a goddess of poetry and wisdom, and she had two sisters also called Brigit, who presided over leechcraft and smithcraft respectively.
ref: 1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 240:
text: The villagers were counting on his smithcraft skills to produce the very best weaponry possible.
ref: 2008, J.T. Sibley, The Hammer of the Smith:
glosses: The art or occupation of a smith, especially a metalsmith.
xanthochroous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Xanthochroi + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Yellow‐skinned; of or pertaining to Xanthochroi.
interaxillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌɪntəɹækˈsɪləɹi/
Etymology: From inter- + axillary.
Senses: examples: text: interaxillary stipules
text: interaxillary region
text: interaxillary fold
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Situated within or between the axils of leaves.
individualizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: individualizers
Etymology: From individualize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who individualizes.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A construction that conveys the idea of an individual thing.
individualizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of individualizer
specksioneer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: specksioneers
form: specktioneer
Etymology: From speck.
Senses: glosses: A chief harpooner, who also directs in cutting up the speck, or blubber, of the whale.
specksioneers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of specksioneer
disregarder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disregarders
Etymology: From disregard + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who disregards.
disregarders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disregarder
vogle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vogles
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A vug.
vogles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vogle
xonaltite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydrous silicate of calcium, occurring in massive form of a white or bluish‐gray colour.
Synonyms: xonotlite
xiphosternum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of xiphisternum.
xiphosure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xiphosures
Senses: glosses: One of the Xiphosura, such as a horseshoe crab.
xiphosurous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: xiphosuran.
Synonyms: xiphosuran
endebtedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From endebted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of indebtedness.
indebtednesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indebtedness
typhous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Compare French typheux.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to typhus; of the nature of typhus.
freckledness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From freckled + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being freckled.
impoisoner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impoisoners
Etymology: From Middle English empoisonere, equivalent to impoison + -er.
Senses: examples: text: From my exceſſe of moyſture, vvith ſuch coſt, / And can you yeeld no other retribution, / But to deuoure your maker, pandar, ſponge, / Impoyſner, all grovvne barren?
ref: c. 1607–1621 (date written), [Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher; Philip Massinger], The Tragedy of Thierry King of France, and His Brother Theodoret. […], London: […] [Nicholas Okes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1621, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, signature D2, recto:
glosses: A poisoner.
impoisoners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impoisoner
vitriolizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vitriolize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being converted into a vitriol.
appealant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: appealants
Senses: examples: text: The Appealant in all duty greets your Highnes,
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedie of King Richard the Second. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Simmes for Androw Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
glosses: Obsolete form of appellant.
appealants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of appealant
insectariums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insectarium
insectaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insectarium
electricize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: electricizes
form: electricizing
form: electricized
form: electricized
Etymology: From electric + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To electrify.
electricized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of electricize
electricizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of electricize
compellable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From compel + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The spouse of an accused party is not generally compellable to give evidence against him.
glosses: Capable of being compelled or constrained.
Derived terms: compellably
uncompellable
proterandrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: protandrous
epitaphist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epitaphists
Etymology: From epitaph + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A writer of epitaphs.
Synonyms: epitapher
epitaphists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epitaphist
electricness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electric + -ness.
Senses: glosses: quality or character of electricity.
Whiggamore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwɪɡəmɔː(ɹ)/
/ˈʍɪɡəmɔː(ɹ)/
Forms: form: Whiggamores
Etymology: See Whig.
Senses: examples: text: the Engagers, and the Protesters, and the Whiggamores Raid, and the Assembly of Divines at Westminster
ref: 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
glosses: A Whig.
Whiggamores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Whiggamore
nouriture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: thy foster child , that from thy hand
Did commun breath and nouriture receave
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of nurture.
reland
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ænd
Forms: form: relands
form: relanding
form: relanded
form: relanded
Etymology: From re- + land.
Senses: glosses: To land again.
glosses: To return to shore after having embarked; to reshore
relanded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reland
retardational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more retardational
form: most retardational
Etymology: From retardation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to retardations.
relanding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reland
relands
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reland
devastational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more devastational
form: most devastational
Etymology: From devastation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to devastations.
unknowableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unknowable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality or state of not being knowable.
unaccustomedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unaccustomed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of not being accustomed.
unallowableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unallowable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of not being allowable.
unadaptedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unadapted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of not being adapted.
unadjustedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unadjusted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of not being adjusted.
unalterableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unalterable + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: inalterableness
inalterability
unalterability
glosses: The quality or state of not being alterable.
unaggressiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unaggressive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of not being aggressive.
unadulteratedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unadulterated + -ness.
Senses: glosses: State or quality of not being adulterated.
table scrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: table scraps
Senses: glosses: The remaining meagre portion of a meal.
glosses: Meagre remnants of anything.
unassailableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unassailable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: State or quality of not being assailable.
Synonyms: imperviousness
unassuredness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unassured + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality or state of not being assured.
unattentiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unattentive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of not being attentive.
unbelievableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unbelievable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of not being believable.
unawakenedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unawakened + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of not being awakened.
unashamedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌʌnəˈʃeɪmɪdnəs/
Etymology: From unashamed + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Again, the faith of this man was the faith of the valiantness for the truth, and unashamedness either of the Jews’ religion, or of Christ.
ref: 1884, Daniel Moore, “The Centurion”, in The Sunday at Home, volume 31, page 199:
text: The rare artists among women, like Sappho and Mrs. Browning and Christina Rossetti and Laurence Hope, in their several different ways, have gotten themselves expressed only through a sublime and glorious unashamedness.
ref: 1909, Clayton Hamilton, “The Drama”, in The Forum, volume XLI, page 138:
text: The wardrobe foolishness comes off fine thanks to Downey's deadpan unashamedness, while the action stuff, perhaps arresting the first couple of times you see it, already seems hackneyed, mannered and overworked, an affectation of diminishing returns.
ref: 2011 December 8, Todd McCarty, “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows: Film Review”, in The Hollywood Reporter:
glosses: The state or quality of not being ashamed.
unassimilableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unassimilable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality or state of not being assimilable.
unblamableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unblameableness
Etymology: From unblamable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of not being blamable.
unblameableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unblameable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unblamableness.
believeableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From believeable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of believableness.
unbreakableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unbreakable + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: unbreakability
glosses: The quality or state of not being breakable.
uncapableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uncapable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of not being capable.
uncatchableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uncatchable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality or state of not being catchable.
multipurposeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From multipurpose + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being multipurpose.
Duran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Durans
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Durán. This surname is predominantly found in Mexico.
Senses: glosses: A commune in Gers department, Occitania, France.
glosses: A census-designated place in Torrance County, New Mexico, United States.
glosses: A surname from Spanish.
unchallengeableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unchallengeable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: State or quality of not being challengeable.
inswathe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inswathes
form: inswathing
form: inswathed
form: inswathed
Etymology: From in- + swathe.
Senses: examples: text: Sooner Earth / Might go round Heaven, and the strait girth of Time / Inswathe the fulness of Eternity, / Than language grasp the infinite of Love.
ref: 1827–1879 (date written), Alfred Tennyson, “Part I”, in The Lover’s Tale, London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], published 1879, →OCLC, pages 34–35:
glosses: Archaic spelling of enswathe.
inswathed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inswathe
inswathes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inswathe
inswathing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inswathe
guiltylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more guiltylike
form: most guiltylike
form: guilty-like
Etymology: From guilty + -like.
Senses: examples: text: No, sure, I cannot think it, / That he would steal away so guiltylike, / Seeing you coming.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: Guiltylike I wail my case, shame of sin doth sting my face, spare me, god, who beg for grace.
ref: 1851, Paul de Lagarde, Hymns of the Old Catholic Church of England, page 95:
text: So I stole away, guiltylike, an' went down an' stood beside the sea.
ref: 1914, Bram Stoker, Greater Love:
text: I could tell from the way Katie looked up, sort of guiltylike when I came in, that she and her folks had been talking about Katie's sister, Elsie, who lived in Paris
ref: 1957, Marrijane Hayes, Joseph Hayes, Bon Voyage!, page 42:
text: She'd fall into fits of brooding and then jump, guiltylike, when she was roused.
ref: 2012, Kate Ross, Cut to the Quick:
text: That was when Digger kinda hemmed and hawed and scratched his boot soles on the rough ground, and looked at me all guiltylike because he'd forgotten something, and then displayed the dozen cellular phones he'd stashed in his assault pack.
ref: 2012, Richard Marcinko, John Weisman, Echo Platoon:
text: Mike glanced away, guiltylike. "I sold her. Lily left, and I just closed all the doors."
ref: 2013, Kathleen Eagle, One Less Lonely Cowboy, page 41:
text: "I'm fine," he said, and nodded like a marionette, but his eyse were shifting back and forth guiltylike.
ref: 2013, Chris Lynch, Shadow Boxer, page 89:
glosses: guiltily
socager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: socagers
Etymology: From socage + -er.
Senses: topics: law
synonyms: socman
glosses: A tenant by socage.
socagers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of socager
vicontiel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /vaɪ.kɑn.ti.əl/
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman vicontiel, from Middle French visconte (“viscount”) + -iel. Equivalent to viscount + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: Vicontiel writs were those that were triable in the sheriff, or county, court.
text: It is in the election of the party injured by a trespass, to sue out a writ of trespass that is returnable, or one that is not. The latter writ is called a vicontiel writ; because the matter therein complained of is to be determined before the sheriff ...
ref: 1798, Henry Gwillim, A New Abridgment of the Law in Seven Volumes: 6: 5th edition, page 554:
topics: law
synonyms: viscomital
glosses: Of or pertaining to the viscount or sheriff of a county.
Related terms: baronial
comital
ducal
kingly
margravial
noble
princely
regal
royal
viscomital
monogrammous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: monogrammic
overmarch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overmarches
form: overmarching
form: overmarched
form: overmarched
Etymology: From over- + march.
Senses: examples: text: They had been overmarched and underfed and they had been ruinously beaten by the Rebels. Someone would have to work on them before they would amount to much as fighting troops.
ref: 1953, Bruce Catton, The army of the Potomac:
glosses: To cause to march too far, or too often; to exhaust by marching.
overmarched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overmarch
overmarches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overmarch
overmarching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overmarch
betrayment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: betrayments
Etymology: From betray + -ment.
Senses: glosses: betrayal
betrayments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of betrayment
nautilite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nautilites
Etymology: From nautilus + -ite.
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A fossil nautilus.
Derived terms: nautilitic
Related terms: ammonite
nautilites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nautilite
veinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vein + -al.
Senses: examples: text: He supplemented the already-satisfying mixture with his secret touch […], which was to employ a sprinkling of Cobalt Blue, this simulating the depleted veinal blood that circulated just below the human epidermis.
ref: 2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, published 2016, page 56:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to or contained in veins, especially the veins of a leaf.
draconin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare French draconine. See draco.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A red resin forming the essential basis of dragon's blood.
Synonyms: dracin
dracina
dracine
glutinousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From glutinous + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: glutinosity
glosses: The quality of being glutinous.
budgerow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbədʒəˌroʊ/
/ˈbədʒəroː/
/ˈbʌdʒərəʊ/
Forms: form: budgerows
form: bajra
form: bugerow
form: budgeroe
form: budgero
Etymology: From Hindi बजरा (bajrā).
Senses: examples: text: In a short time after a budgerow lay beside the vessel, and notice was given that it came to convey about fifteen passengers on shore.
ref: 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XV, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 218:
text: A double-masted houseboat of capacious dimensions, the budgerow’s hull was painted blue and grey, to match the Raskhali estate's livery […]
ref: 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 39:
glosses: A kind of large river barge.
wikipedia: Rabindranath Tagore
budgerows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of budgerow
garreteer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡæɹəˈtɪə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: garreteers
Etymology: From garret + -eer.
Senses: glosses: One who lives in a garret.
examples: text: a stupid and ignorant Grub Street garreteer
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
text: He had a stable of writers at his disposal, his garreteers, given entry to the prison and always at the ready to put a prisoner's story to paper.
ref: 2014, Aaron Skirboll, The Thief-Taker Hangings, page 165:
glosses: A poor author; a literary hack.
garreteers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garreteer
noris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nori
cosmolatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kɒzˈmɒlətɹi/
Etymology: From cosmo- + -latry.
Senses: examples: text: […]Polytheism , cosmolatry (or world-idolatry ), and creature-worship[…]
ref: 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Worship paid to the world.
glosses: Worship of the cosmos.
oölitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oölitic
form: most oölitic
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of oolitic.
guilefulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English gilefulnesse, gylefulnes, equivalent to guileful + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: guile
glosses: The quality of being guileful; cunning or deceit.
glyptotheca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glyptothecas
form: glyptothecae
Etymology: From French glyptothèque, from Ancient Greek γλυπτός (gluptós, “carved, engraved”) + Ancient Greek θήκη (thḗkē, “box or chest”).
Senses: synonyms: glyptotheque
glosses: A room or building devoted to displaying works of sculpture.
glyptothecas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glyptotheca
unperishably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unperishably
form: most unperishably
Etymology: From unperishable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unperishable manner.
Synonyms: imperishably
geloscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γελάω (geláō, “to laugh”) + -scopy.
Senses: examples: text: Long ago, followers of geloscopy believed the word you used to laugh revealed part of your personality! People who said “Ha!” when they laughed were considered to be honest but undependable[…]
ref: 2010, Bart King, Bart's King Sized Book of Fun, page 140:
glosses: Divination by means of laughter.
arrogaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more arrogaunt
form: most arrogaunt
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of arrogant.
infanthood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infanthoods
Etymology: From infant + -hood.
Senses: glosses: Infancy.
Related terms: babyhood
nine-eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nine-eyes
Senses: glosses: The lamprey.
democratist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: democratists
Etymology: From democrat(ic) + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: You will smile here at the consistency of those democratists, who, when they are not on their guard, treat the humbler part of the community with the greatest contempt, whilst, at the same time, they pretend to make them the depositories of all power.
ref: 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC, page 83:
text: For the democratist, “true” democracy is always just around the corner, following the widespread observance of a new political program.
ref: 2022, Emily B. Finley, The Ideology of Democratism, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, pages 24–25:
glosses: A supporter of democracy, a democrat; specifically, an advocate of republican forms of government (originally as a supporter of the French Revolution).
democratist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From democrat(ic) + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or supporting, democratism.
democratists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of democratist
monochlamydeous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + Ancient Greek χλαμύδος (khlamúdos, “mantle, cloak”) + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a single floral envelope, that is, a calyx without a corolla, or, possibly, in rare cases, a corolla without a calyx.
uttermore
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Through folk etymology from analogy with uttermost, as though from utter + more.
Senses: examples: text: The two Pyramides in the middest whereof one was lately pulled downe by some that hoped, though in vaine, to finde treasure, did almost touch one another: the uttermore stand not farre off, yet almost in equall distance from these on both sides
ref: 1637, William Camden, Britain […] :
glosses: comparative form of utter: more utter
hexacid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hex- + acid.
Senses: examples: text: Mannitol is a hexacid alcohol.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having six atoms or radicals capable of being replaced by acids; hexatomic; hexavalent.
carraway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carraways
Senses: glosses: Dated form of caraway.
carraways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carraway