cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
periproct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: periprocts
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The region surrounding the anus, particularly in echinoderms.
Related terms: periproctal
procto-
periprocts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of periproct
alliterator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alliterators
Etymology: From alliterate + -or.
Senses: glosses: Someone who alliterates.
alliterators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alliterator
compellably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From compellable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: with maternal sanction compellably empanelled at quarter sessions
ref: 1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC:
glosses: By compulsion; in a compellable way.
disasterly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more disasterly
form: most disasterly
Etymology: From disaster + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Thy noble breast disasterly possesse
ref: 1597, Michael Drayton, Englands Heroicall Epistles, published 1613:
glosses: disastrously
reembarkation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reembarkations
form: re-embarkation
form: reimbarkation
Etymology: From re- + embarkation.
Senses: glosses: Another embarkation; the act of reembarking
Related terms: reembark
sacrilegist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sacrilegists
Etymology: From sacrilege + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone guilty of sacrilege; a sacrilegious person.
sacrilegists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sacrilegist
exarillate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ex- + arillate.
Senses: examples: text: exarillate seeds
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having no aril.
rouet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rouets
Etymology: Clipping of the Borrowing from French rouet volant
Senses: examples: text: The rouet appears to yield a superior flow to that of the rotary pumps for heights less than sixteen feet, but is inconvenient in not being as easily moved about as the latter, and in not being so well adapted, consequently, to exigencies in submerging vineyards that are broken up, or indeed where it is desired to utilize the water used in submersion for Summer irrigation in land at some distance from the vineyard.
ref: 1882, California. Board of State Viticultural Commissioners, Reports of the Chief Viticultural Officer - Volume 1, page 62:
text: Another early modification of the rouet consisted in placing the runner in a spiral case as shown in Plate III ( g ).
ref: 1918, Jay Manuel Whitham, Water Rights Determination: From an Engineering Standpoint, page 125:
text: The early American inward flow wheels were, however, but a modified form of the central discharge wheel which, in turn, was evolved from the rouet.
ref: 1922, Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, page 1303:
glosses: A flutter wheel.
Related terms: à rouet
rouets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rouet
ulluco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ullucos
form: ulluku
Senses: glosses: Ullucus tuberosus, a vegetable of South America with edible roots and leaves.
Synonyms: melluco
ullucos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ulluco
sewster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sewsters
form: shooster
Etymology: From Middle English sewstare, sowstare, sewestre, sowestre, equivalent to sew + -ster. Compare seamster, spinster.
Senses: examples: text: At every twisted thrid my rock let fly Unto the sewster
ref: 1641, Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd:
text: This Letter mentions that portraits of Cromwell, Lockhart, and Mr. Sewster, were then in the possession of Mr. Gosling, of Wistow, near Ramsey, in Huntingdonshire, whose Grandfather married a Sewster.
ref: 1816, The Gentleman's magazine, volume 120, London, England, page 231:
text: […] and not of men only but of women and the same not only learned but labouring men, sewsters, servants, and handmaids.
ref: 2004, Peter Lake, Moderate Puritans And The Elizabethan Church:
text: Bound with strong cord! A sewster's thread, i'faith, had been enough [...]
ref: 2010, Gary Taylor, John Lavagnino, MacDonald P. Jackson, Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works - Page 316:
glosses: A seamstress; a sewer (someone who sews).
sewsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sewster
euxanthic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From euxanthin + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: euxanthic salts
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling euxanthin.
Derived terms: euxanthate
Related terms: euxanthic acid
obstetricy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: obstetrics.
sciatical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: sciatic
eburnification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eburnifications
Etymology: From Latin eburnus (“of ivory”), from ebur (“ivory”), + -ification.
Senses: glosses: The conversion of certain substances, such as pulp or bone, into ivory-like substance.
eburnifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eburnification
eggeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eggery
eggery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eggeries
Etymology: From egg + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: A buffle headed sub-chanter having been found guilty of absconsion from his butlership scuddled hastily with colubrine steps into the seclusion of his battish eggery.
ref: 1892 May 26, The W.A. Record, Perth, page 4, column 4:
glosses: A place where eggs are deposited, produced, sold or kept.
glosses: A nest of eggs.
hyperorthodoxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + orthodoxy.
Senses: glosses: Excessive or extreme orthodoxy.
boroughmonger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boroughmongers
Etymology: From borough + monger.
Senses: examples: text: Whig and radical newspapers pilloried them as allies of boroughmongers, maintainers of graft and corruption and bribery, enemies of liberty and the civil rights of Englishmen.
ref: 1966, Owen Chadwick, The Victorian Church, volume 1, page 26:
glosses: In the unreformed House of Commons, one who bought or sold the parliamentary seats of boroughs.
Related terms: monger
boroughmongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boroughmonger
develin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: develins
head_nr: 1
Senses: head_nr: 1
glosses: The common swift.
develins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of develin
blazonment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blazonments
Etymology: From blazon + -ment.
Senses: glosses: emblazonment (act of blazoning).
blazonments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blazonment
incremate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: incremates
form: incremating
form: incremated
form: incremated
Etymology: From in- + cremate.
Senses: glosses: To cremate.
incremated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of incremate
incremates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of incremate
incremating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of incremate
microgeology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + geology.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The branch of geology that deals with microscopic structures.
cyperaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From translingual Cyperaceae + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the Cyperaceae, or sedges.
cuckoobud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuckoobuds
Etymology: From cuckoo + bud.
Senses: examples: text: When Dasies pied, and Violets blew,
And Cuckow-buds of yellow hew:
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
glosses: A buttercup.
cuckoobuds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuckoobud
alleyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈælid/
Etymology: From alley + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: long-alleyed orchard
glosses: Having alleys, or a particulate type or number of alleys.
examples: text: The arcades of an alleyed walk
ref: 1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “(please specify the introduction or canto number, or chapter name)”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, →OCLC:
glosses: Forming an alley.
discommendable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more discommendable
form: most discommendable
Etymology: From dis- + commendable.
Senses: glosses: Deserving disapprobation or blame.
Derived terms: discommendably
infirmness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From infirm + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: For both which purposes I thought it requisite to do these two things ; the one , to set down some experiments , which by the help of the reflections and insinuations that attend them , may assist you to discover the infirmness and insufficiency both of the common Peripatetic doctrine, and of the now more applauded theory of the chymists about colour
ref: 1664, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours. […], London: […] Henry Herringman […], →OCLC:
glosses: The quality of being infirm; feebleness or illness.
mannitate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mannitates
Etymology: From mannitic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: examples: text: mannitate of lime
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt of mannitic acid.
mannitates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mannitate
creasy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹiːsi/
ipa: /ˈkɹisi/
Forms: form: creasier
form: creasiest
Etymology: From crease + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Mrs. Glegg had on her fuzziest front, and garments which appeared to have had a recent resurrection from rather a creasy form of burial;
ref: 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, Volume 2, Book 3, Chapter 3, p. 26:
text: And o’er her second father stoopt a girl,
[...] and from her lifted hand
Dangled a length of ribbon and a ring
To tempt the babe, who rear’d his creasy arms,
Caught at and ever miss’d it, and they laugh’d:
ref: 1864, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Enoch Arden”, in Enoch Arden, Etc., London: Moxon, page 41:
text: He searched there a day and half a night, pulling all the soiled, creasy old papers out of the drawers and pigeon-holes before he would answer his wife's inquiries as to what he had lost.
ref: 1891, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, “The Twelfth Guest”, in A New England Nun and Other Stories, New York: Harper, pages 66–67:
text: [...] the store has created an ­exclusive fabric that looks like 100% linen but has (invisible) polyester in it. It’s ­washable, less creasy and easier to iron.
ref: 2011 May 8, Simon Chilvers, “The fashion briefing”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Full of creases.
examples: text: Creasy greens are amazingly versatile when it comes to brightening up winter fare. You can try them in any recipe that calls for watercress or cooked spinach.
ref: 1984 March 1, Fran Marengo et al., “Creasy Greens: Try Growing And Cooking This Edible Wild Plant”, in Mother Earth News:
glosses: Denoting any of several related species of edible, commonly wild, greens, especially upland cress or winter cress.
ourang-outang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ourang-outangs
Etymology: From Malay orang utan.
Senses: examples: text: It was a minute anatomical and generally descriptive account of the large fulvous Ourang-Outang of the East Indian Islands.
ref: 1841 March, Edgar A[llan] Poe, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, in George R[ex] Graham, Rufus W[ilmot] Griswold, editors, Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine. […], volume XVIII, number 4, Philadelphia, Pa.: George R. Graham, published April 1841, →OCLC, page 176, column 1:
glosses: Dated form of orangutan.
ourang-outangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ourang-outang
treatably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more treatably
form: most treatably
Etymology: From treatable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a treatable manner.
forisfamiliate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forisfamiliates
form: forisfamiliating
form: forisfamiliated
form: forisfamiliated
Etymology: From Late Latin forisfamiliatus, past participle of forisfamiliare (“to forisfamiliate”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: To renounce a legal title to a further share of paternal inheritance.
topics: law
glosses: Of a father: to put (a son or daughter) in possession of land which the son or daughter accepts as their whole portion of the father's property.
Derived terms: forisfamiliation
forisfamiliated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forisfamiliate
forisfamiliates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forisfamiliate
forisfamiliating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forisfamiliate
lumbricoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lumbricoid
form: most lumbricoid
Etymology: Lumbricus + -oid
Senses: glosses: Like an earthworm, or belonging to the genus Lumbricus or family Lumbricidae.
lumbricoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lumbricoids
Etymology: Lumbricus + -oid
Senses: glosses: Any such earthworm.
Arabism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Arabisms
Etymology: From Arab + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The translator, Joseph-Charles Mardrus, knew Arabic and he used some Arabic texts as the basis of his rewriting of the collection of ancient Eastern tales which he titled, in a daring Arabism in French, Les Mille Nuits et Une Nuit […]
ref: 2011, David Bellos, Is That a Fish in Your Ear?, Penguin, published 2012, page 111:
text: Arabisms, properly speaking, occur only as it respects form, in a few words; and this, it is probable, is only the result of negligent transcription. The Arabic language never exercised any predominating influence over the Hebrew.
ref: 1821, Moses Stuart, Hebrew Grammar with a Copious Syntax and a Praxis:
hypernyms: Semitism
glosses: An idiom characteristic of the Arabic language.
Arabisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Arabism
colloped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more colloped
form: most colloped
Etymology: From collop + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Then dressed in solemn black, the respected Grand-ma of the Bridegroom, who was in such a fever to see the Bride, came stepping mincingly along the floor, glancing from side to side with an amiable look that ruffled the yellowish flesh of her colloped cheeks .
ref: 1845, George Lippard, The Quaker City: Or, The Monks of Monk Hall:
text: Alive? he might be dead for aught I know, / With that red gaunt and colloped neck a-strain, / And shut eyes underneath the rusty mane;
ref: 1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section XIV:
text: "Lippy," the gunslinger said, and jerked a thumb back over his shoulder. "Yonder's pluggit, colloped neck and all, only female instead of male."
ref: 2004, Stephen King, The Dark Tower, page 694:
glosses: Having ridges or bunches of flesh, like collops.
examples: text: Cut some breast of cooked turkey, capon or fowl into need collops, add an equal amount of cooked and colloped sweetbread and some sliced truffles and mushrooms, and blend with German sauce.
ref: 1903, Adolphe Meyer, "Dainty Dishes": A Collection of Choice Receipts, page 62:
text: In the double cavity left by the fillets spread a few tablespoonfuls of béchamel with parprika; return the colloped fillets to their respective places in the joint, reconstructing them in such wise as to make them appear untouched; and between the collops pour 1/2 tablespoonful béchamel and lay 2 slices of truffle.
ref: 2013, G. A. Escoffier, A Guide to Modern Cookery - Part II., page 1206:
glosses: Having been cut into collops (thin slices).
colloped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From collop + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of collop
pseudepigraphous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌsuːdɪˈpɪɡɹəfəs/
/ˌsjuːdɪˈpɪɡɹəfəs/
Etymology: From pseudo- + epigraph + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Now as concerning Herodotus, who supposing Homer and Hesiod to have been the ancientest of all the Greek poets, seemed therefore to conclude the Orphic poems to have been pseudepigraphous
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: Inscribed with a false name.
clausular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin clausula. See clause.
Senses: examples: text: the Accents which govern entire Members of a Period , are not marked here : except only the Monotone; the very Essence of which consists in its being clausular, and not confined to a single word
ref: 1792, Capel Loft, “Preface”, in Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books:
glosses: Consisting of, or having, clauses.
dialogite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dialogites
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: rhodochrosite.
dialogites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dialogite
misdread
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /mɪsˈdɹɛd/
Forms: form: misdreads
form: misdreading
form: misdreaded
form: misdreaded
Etymology: From mis- + dread.
Senses: examples: text: Needs me then hope, or doth me need misdread?
ref: 1597-8, Bishop Hall, Sat., Defiance to Envie, 25
text: To auoyd a mischiefe which he misdreaded.
ref: 1606, G. Woodcocke, Hist. Iustine, xxxi, 104:
text: and the Romanes likewise misdreaded that the Iewes should inuade their campe.
ref: 1632, Flavius Josephus, The Famous and Memorable Works of Iosephus, etc, page 711:
text: "Of that I misdreaded," said he, "for full well wist I that either he would rescue her or else he would die in the field; and, to say the truth, he had not been a man of worship had he not rescued the Queen, [...]"
ref: 1926, Ernest Hamilton, Launcelot: A Romance of the Court of King Arthur, page 278:
glosses: To dread.
repulser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repulsers
Etymology: From repulse + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Billie is a repulser of the opposite sex.
glosses: One who repulses or drives back.
repulsers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repulser
gormandism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gormand + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gourmandism.
oxanilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oxalic and aniline.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to oxanilic acid or its derivatives
ovarious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊˈvɛəɹi.əs/
ipa: /oʊˈvɛɹi.əs/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.əs
Etymology: From Latin ōvum + -arious.
Senses: examples: text: Here the plain harmless Native […] to the Rocks / Dire-clinging, gathers his ovarious Food […].
ref: a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Autumn”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
glosses: Pertaining to or made up of eggs.
overabound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overabounds
form: overabounding
form: overabounded
form: overabounded
Etymology: From Middle English overabounden, equivalent to over- + abound.
Senses: examples: March 7, 1709, Alexander Pope, letter to H. Cromwell
never overabounding in transitory coin
glosses: To be too abundant or plentiful.
overabounded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overabound
overabounding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overabound
overabounds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overabound
dejeration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌdɛd͡ʒəˈɹeɪʃən/
Forms: form: dejerations
Etymology: Latin deieratio.
Senses: examples: text: Doubtless, with many vows and tears and dejerations, he labours to clear his intentions to her person
ref: 1612–1626, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volume (please specify |volume=II, V, or VI), London, →OCLC:
glosses: The act of swearing solemnly.
dejerations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dejeration
oxanilic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The mono-amide of oxalic acid and aniline - C₆H₅-NH-(CO)-CO₂H
Derived terms: oxanilate
constraintive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /kənˈstɹeɪntɪv/
Forms: form: more constraintive
form: most constraintive
Etymology: From constraint + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: constraintive vow
ref: 1602, Richard Carew, Survey of Cornwall:
glosses: constraining; compulsory
unrecuring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ʌnɹɪˈkjʊəɹɪŋ/
Etymology: From un- + recuring.
Senses: examples: text: some unrecuring wound
ref: c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
glosses: incurable; impossible to heal
oxanorbornenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxanorbornene
gillhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gillhouses
Etymology: From gill + house.
Senses: examples: text: Thee shall each alehouse, thee each gillhouse mourn.
ref: 1728, [Alexander Pope], “Book the Third”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin; London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC:
glosses: A shop where gill (the drink) is sold.
gillhouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gillhouse
garreted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From garret + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The dense cloud blacken’d as they soar’d.
Firm-bas'd and garreted around.
ref: 1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, London: […] S[imon] S[tafford] for Iohn Iaggard, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Protected by turrets.
glosses: Lodged in a garret.
displantation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: displantations
Etymology: From dis- + plantation.
Senses: examples: text: This dreadful precedent extremely displeased the Boii; who being neighbours to Ariminum, feared the like displantation
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):
glosses: The act of displanting or uprooting; removal or displacement.
unrecurring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + recurring.
Senses: examples: assuming the origin of life to be an unrecurring phenomenon
glosses: That does not recur.
reptilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reptilic
form: most reptilic
Etymology: From reptile + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Like a reptile; reptilian
Laplace-Beltrami operator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Laplace-Beltrami operators
Senses: glosses: A generalized version of the Laplace operator that can be used with Riemannian and pseudo-Riemannian manifolds.
foreship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foreships
Etymology: From fore- + ship.
Senses: examples: text: He adds that, if the first light appears on the foreship and ascends upward, it is a sign of good luck; if either light begins at the topmast and descends toward the sea, it is a sign of a tempest.
ref: 1881, Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer, The Will-O'-The-Wisp and its Folk-Lore:
text: The foreship was now left standing in open air while the aft half was covered by half a grave mound. The grave chamber could be seen as a gaping hole in the side of the half-mound.
ref: 2016, Anders Winroth, The Age of the Vikings:
synonyms: forecastle
glosses: The fore part of a ship.
Related terms: forebody
forepart
foreside
foreships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foreship
puncturation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puncturations
Etymology: From puncture + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of puncturing.
glosses: A puncture mark.
puncturations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puncturation
tiffish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tiffish
form: most tiffish
Etymology: From tiff + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Inclined to tiffs; peevish; petulant; quarrelsome.
allogamous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From allo- + -gamous.
Senses: examples: text: an allogamous fertilisation
text: an allogamous population
text: an allogamous species
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: allogamic
glosses: Characterized by allogamy.
mensurability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mensurabilities
Etymology: Compare French mensurabilité.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being mensurable.
foralite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foralites
Etymology: From Latin forare (“to bore”) + -lite.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A tube-like marking found in sandstone and other strata.
foralites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foralite
irrationalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From irrational + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being irrational.
bedtick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedticks
Etymology: From bed + tick.
Senses: examples: March 25, 1894, Alexander Berkman, "letter to Fedy", republished in 1912 in Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist
Sleepless, I toss on the withered mattress. The ravages of time and the weight of many inmates have demoralized it out of all semblance of a bedtick. But the Block Captain persistently ignores my request for new straw, directing me to "shake it up a bit."
synonyms: tick mattress
bed tick
bed-tick
tick
glosses: A sheet used for enclosing the materials of a mattress, such as straw.
Related terms: bedticking
bedticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bedtick
distemperately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more distemperately
form: most distemperately
Etymology: From distemperate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: unduly
ribaldrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ribaldrous
form: most ribaldrous
Senses: glosses: Of a ribald quality; lewd or lascivious
subbeadle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subbeadles
Etymology: From sub- + beadle.
Senses: glosses: An inferior or under-beadle.
crystalloids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crystalloid
oosperm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oosperms
Etymology: From oo- + sperm.
Senses: examples: 1880-1881, Francis Maitland Balfour, A Treatise on Comparative Embryology
It is clear that the ovum after fertilization is an entirely different body to the ovum prior to that act , and unless the use of the same term for the two conditions of the ovum had become very familiar , a special term , such as oosperm , for the ovum after the fusion with the spermatozoom, would be very convenient.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The ovum, after fusion with the spermatozoon in impregnation.
oosperms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oosperm
physiognomonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of physiognomic.
chandoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "The chandoo-shops shut up at six, so you'll have to see opium-smoking before dark some day. No, you won't, though."
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, From Sea to Sea, Doubleday, published 1913, page 229:
glosses: Alternative spelling of chandu.
wikipedia: Edward Balfour
ephoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ephor + -al.
Senses: examples: text: ephoral duties
text: ephoral authority
glosses: Pertaining to an ephor.
disrange
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disranges
form: disranging
form: disranged
form: disranged
Etymology: From dis- + range. Compare Old French desrengier, French déranger. See derange, disrank.
Senses: examples: text: how cautious we should be not to disturb that delicate connexion and thread of circumstances , which are seldom disranged , even by the smallest alteration
ref: 1769, Robert Wood, An Essay on the Original Genius and Writings of Homer:
glosses: To disarrange.
disranged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disrange
disranges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disrange
disranging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disrange
trilithic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trilith + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: trilithic monuments
text: trilithic phosphate
glosses: Pertaining to a trilithon.
utriculi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of utriculus
utriculus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jʊˈtɹɪk.jəl.əs/
rhymes: -ɪkjʊləs
Forms: form: utriculi
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of utricle.
epistolography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: glosses: The art or practice of writing epistles. especially in the Byzantine era.
Derived terms: epistolographic
sinneress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sinneresses
Etymology: From Middle English synneresse; equivalent to sinner + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female sinner.
sinneresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sinneress
lamaistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lama + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to lamaism
moodir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moodirs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mudir.
moodirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moodir
curser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cursers
Etymology: From curse + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who curses.
cursers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curser
culminal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: culminal lobe
text: culminal ridge
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Pertaining to, or found on a culmen.
urgrund
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ûr gro͞ont
Forms: form: Urgrund
Etymology: From German Urgrund (“the very basis”, literally “original ground”), equivalent to ur- + ground.
Senses: examples: text: — the divine agony at opposition between the urgrund and physical nature, and the process —
ref: 2011, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick, page 278:
glosses: basis, foundation, primary principle, cause, or factor; a primal cause or ultimate cosmic principle
Related terms: Urbild
Volsce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: vŏlsh
ipa: /vɒlʃ/
Forms: form: Volsces
Etymology: From Volsc-, the stem of the Latin Volscī.
Senses: glosses: One of the Volsci; a Volscian.
go-by
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: go-bys
Senses: glosses: The deliberate ignoring or disregard of someone or something.
glosses: Escape by artifice; evasion.
glosses: In coursing, the act of passing by or ahead in motion.
Derived terms: give the go-by
go-bys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of go-by
sphenogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sphenograms
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σφήν (sphḗn, “wedge”) + -gram.
Senses: glosses: A cuneiform character/symbol.
Related terms: sphenographic
sphenography
sphenograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sphenogram
earpick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earpicks
form: ear pick
Etymology: From ear + pick.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for removing earwax from the ear.
earpicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earpick
Camunians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Camunian
off one's head
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: synonyms: off one's chump
glosses: Insane, crazy.
examples: text: The kettles they boiled with rage, 'tis said/While ev'ry nail went off its head[…]
ref: 1881, “The Magnet and the Churn”, William S. Gilbert (lyrics), Sir Arthur Sullivan (music):
text: When I had finished I went and saw poor Leo, who was quite off his head, and did not even know me.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: Temporarily mentally unstable; very distressed.
examples: text: Occasionally they seem to go off their heads. Something like epilepsy, you know. It's called Robot's cramp. They'll suddenly sling down everything they're holding, stand still, gnash their teeth—and then they have to go into the stamping-mill. It's evidently some breakdown in the mechanism.
ref: c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act 1:
text: The music is turned up over the conversations, which span global politics, the latest Beyoncé track and anything else randomly entering the minds of us intelligent, but off our heads, savvy young adults.
ref: 2017, James Wharton, Something for the Weekend, Biteback Publishing, →ISBN:
synonyms: off one's face
glosses: Under the influence of drugs.
standage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: standages
Etymology: From stand + -age.
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A reservoir of water accumulated at the bottom of a mine.
examples: text: As these [diesel] trains have to be shedded under cover at night, four additional outdoor standage roads are being provided for stabling of electric rolling stock after inspection in the shed.
ref: 1956 October, “Recent Changes on the Tyneside Electrified Lines”, in Railway Magazine, page 662:
text: The distribution depot at Liversedge is equipped with parallel sidings for wagon standage.
ref: 1964 January, “News and Comment: New block oil developments”, in Modern Railways, page 11:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Space to stand or store railway vehicles, such as a siding.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A demurrage charge for wagons not unloaded by the consignee within a reasonable time.
examples: text: […] enhancements at Engine Shed Junction (to give 750-metre clear standage between there and Whitehall East Junction) […]
ref: 2021 February 10, Philip Haigh, “West Yorkshire plans huge improvements to rail network”, in RAIL, number 924, page 55:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Room for a train to stand if necessary, e.g. between junctions.
standages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of standage
remastication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remastications
Etymology: From re- + mastication.
Senses: glosses: The act of masticating or chewing again or repeatedly.
remastications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of remastication
disquietous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disquietous
form: most disquietous
Etymology: From disquiet + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Concerning therefore this wayward Subject againſt Prelaty, the touching whereof is ſo diſtaſtful and diſquietous to a number of men, […]
ref: 1642, John Milton, The Reason of Church-Government Urg’d against Prelaty; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 221:
glosses: Causing uneasiness.
out of one's skull
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of out of one's mind.
lithotritist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithotritists
Senses: glosses: A lithotriptist.
lithotritists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lithotritist
indin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From indigo + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A dark red crystalline substance, isomeric with and resembling indigo blue, and obtained from isatide and dioxindol.
electrogilt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From electro- + gilt.
Senses: glosses: Gilded by means of voltaic electricity.
interfoliaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + foliaceous.
Senses: examples: text: interfoliaceous buds
text: interfoliaceous flowers
text: interfoliaceous peduncles
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: At the same node with opposite or whorled leaves, but occupying a position between their places of attachment.
frigerator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frigerators
Senses: examples: text: The entire Plant 5 of the Cadillac Motor Car Co. will be utilized in the manufacture of frigerators. The new company will be styled The Frigidaire Co. The frigerator is a large insulated box in which food is kept at a low temperature […]
ref: 1918, Motor World for Jobbers, Dealers and Garagemen:
glosses: A refrigerator.
Related terms: 'frigerator
frequentage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From frequent + -age.
Senses: examples: text: The favouring moon arose, / To guide them on their flight through upland paths / Remote from frequentage, and dales retired, / Forest and mountain glen.
ref: 1814, Robert Southey, “Canto X”, in Roderick, the Last of the Goths, London: […] [F]or Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […], by James Ballantyne and Co. […], →OCLC, page 117:
glosses: The habit or act of frequenting.
arithmometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arithmometers
Etymology: From arithmo- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: A calculating machine.
arithmometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arithmometer
castrensial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin castrensis, from castra (“camp”).
Senses: examples: text: […] making about 60 Miles in Circuit, which is the Measure of three Days Journey, according unto Military Marches, or Castrensial Mansions.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Belonging to a (military) camp.
sexenary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Proceeding by sixes or in a base of six; sextuple.
glosses: Having six components or elements.
Related terms: denary
senary
nitrochloroform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nitro- + chloroform.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of chlorpicrin.
synonyms: word: chlorpicrin
buzzardet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buzzardets
Etymology: From buzzard + -et.
Senses: glosses: A hawk resembling the buzzard, but with longer legs, possibly Buteo platypterus.
glosses: A bird of prey mentioned in New England historical accounts, probably the osprey, Pandion haliaetus.
buzzardets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buzzardet
herbaged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From herbage + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Delicious is your shelter to the soul,
As to the hunted hart the sallying spring,
Or stream full-flowing, that his swelling sides
Laves, as he floats along the herbaged brink
ref: a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
glosses: Covered with grass.
ingloriousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inglorious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being inglorious.
semitangent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semitangents
Etymology: From semi- + tangent.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The tangent of half an arc.
semitangents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semitangent
aheap
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈhiːp/
rhymes: -iːp
Etymology: From a- + heap.
Senses: examples: text: […] When some fresh bruit
Startled me all aheap! — and soon I saw
The horridest shape that ever raised my awe.
ref: 1827, Thomas Hood, The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies:
glosses: In a heap; huddled together.
coagencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coagency
coagency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coagencies
Etymology: From co- + agency.
Senses: examples: text: If indeed by the force of Matthew's example, by persuasion or by additional and more mysterious influences, or by an inward co-agency, compatible with the existence of a personal will, James should be led to repent; if through admiration and love of this great goodness gradually assimilating his mind to the mind of his benefactor, he should in his own person become a grateful and dutiful child — then doubtless the mother would be wholly satisfied!
ref: 1825, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character on the Several Grounds of Prudence, Morality, and Religion: […], London: […] Thomas Davison, […] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Agency in common; joint agency.
Carbonarism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɑːbəˈnɑːɹɪzəm/
ipa: /ˌkɑɹbəˈnɑɹɪzəm/
Etymology: From Carbonari + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The principles, practices, or organization of the Carbonari.
exanimation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin exanimatio.
Senses: examples: text: The second [blast of the trumpet] they denominate the blast of exanimation; when all creatures both in heaven and earth shall die, or be annihilated, except those which God shall please to exempt from the common fate.
ref: 1761, A Complete History of the Arabs:
glosses: Deprivation of life or spirits.
alestake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alestakes
form: ale-stake
form: ale stake
Etymology: From ale + stake.
Senses: glosses: A stake or pole serving as a sign at an alehouse or inn, often with a garland or "bush" attached.
Synonyms: alepole
ale post
alestakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alestake
polygraphically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From polygraphic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Thirteen healthy infants with a median age of 8 weeks (range 7–18 weeks) were recorded polygraphically during a morning nap and an afternoon nap in a sleep laboratory.
ref: 2009, WHO Regional Office for Europe, Night Noise Guidelines for Europe, page 156:
glosses: By polygraphic means.
heras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hera
Porscha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Probably from the luxury car brand Porsche.
Senses: examples: text: But when her second child, Porscha, was still in diapers, Apryll's husband, a delivery driver, began to change.
ref: 2003, Working Mother, volume 26, number 5, page 48:
text: The Woman's Guide to Money will ask you to not only take responsibility for your life as Porscha did in chapter three of her autobiography, but it will also ask you to entertain the possibility of a chapter four and five in your life.
ref: 2008, Kelley Keehn, The Woman's Guide to Money, page 12:
text: Then Porscha sees Ramone standing in line behind two of the Newnan High girls at the snack bar. He was talking and laughing with them.
ref: 2010, Tamala Callaway, Super Natural: New Beginnings, page 81:
glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage, of latter 20th century African-American usage.
adiactinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Etymology: From a- + diactinic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Not capable of transmitting actinic rays of light.
placentiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more placentiform
form: most placentiform
Etymology: From placenta + -form.
Senses: examples: text: placentiform mass
text: placentiform roots
glosses: Having the shape of a placenta, or thickened disk somewhat thinner about the middle.
spodomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σποδός (spodós) + -mancy.
Senses: synonyms: tephramancy
tephromancy
glosses: Divination by means of ashes.
breviature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breviatures
Etymology: See abbreviature.
Senses: examples: text: The Names of Offices and Magiſtracies, which are never found but in Breviature
ref: 1715, Louis Jobert, The Knowledge of Medals:
glosses: An abbreviation.
breviatures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breviature
pretenseless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pretenseless
form: most pretenseless
Etymology: From pretense + -less.
Senses: glosses: Not having or making pretenses.
pretenceless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pretenceless
form: most pretenceless
Etymology: From pretence + -less.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pretenseless.
obstetrication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From obstetric + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: There he must lie, in an uncouth posture, for his appointed month; till ,the native bonds being loosed and the doors forced open, he shall be, by a helpful obstetrication, drawn forth into the larger prison of the World
ref: 1658, Joseph Hall, The Devout Soul, Or, Rules of Heavenly Devotion Also the Free Prisoner, Or, the Comfort of Restraint:
glosses: obstetrics or midwifery
Related terms: obstetric
hippotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hippo- + -tomy.
Senses: glosses: The anatomy of horses, or the study thereof.
Derived terms: hippotomist
embryotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of embryotomy
embryotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embryotomies
Etymology: From embryo + -tomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: fetotomy
glosses: The act of cutting up a deceased foetus, so that it can be removed from the womb.
Derived terms: embryotomic
embryotomist
competitory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more competitory
form: most competitory
Senses: examples: text: competitory examination
text: competitory spirit
text: competitory trade
synonyms: competing
competitive
glosses: Acting in competition or rivalry.
bowless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈbəʊləs/
Etymology: From bow + -less.
Senses: examples: text: his bowless cello player, playing inaudible music and surrounded by objects relating to taste and smell and books that invite the viewer to enter other times and places
ref: 2003, John Lawrence Ward, Edwin Dickinson: a critical history of his paintings, page 98:
glosses: Without a bow.