cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
placitory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From placit + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: 1652, Clayton's Reports at Yorke
Bring the habit of law-learning into act, the doctrine into use, which is mostly seen in the art placitory
text: For Words are pure placitory Things, and depend upon the mutual Agreement of the Speaker and the Hearer […]
ref: 1723, William Nicholls, A conference with a theist:
glosses: Of or relating to legal pleas.
refusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈfjuːʒən/
/ɹɪˈfjuːʒən/
Forms: form: refusions
Etymology: From re- + fusion.
Senses: glosses: New or repeated melting, as of metals.
glosses: The act of fusing again, or bacl
examples: text: this doctrine of the refusion of the soul
ref: 1738–1741, William Warburton, The Divine Legation of Moses […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II.1, or II.2), London: […] Fletcher Gyles, […], →OCLC:
glosses: restoration
immensurate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more immensurate
form: most immensurate
Etymology: From im- + mensurate.
Senses: examples: text: I could not but view myself as the fatal cause of immensurate evil, and a gloomy despondency crept over my soul
ref: 1805, Rosa Matilda, The Confessions of the Nun of St. Omer. A Tale, Volume 3:
glosses: Beyond measure; unlimited.
corsepresent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corsepresents
Etymology: From corse + present.
Senses: examples: text: It was anciently usual to bring the mortuary to church along with the corpse when it came to be buried ; and thence it is sometimes called a corsepresent: a term which bespeaks it to have been once a voluntary donation
ref: 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
topics: law
glosses: An offering made to the church at the interment of a dead body.
corsepresents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corsepresent
Mazdean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Mazdean
form: most Mazdean
form: Mazdaean
form: Mazdæan
form: Mazdian
Etymology: Mazda + -ean
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Mazda, the Zoroastrian deity.
glosses: Zoroastrian
Mazdean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mazdeans
form: Mazdaean
form: Mazdæan
form: Mazdian
Etymology: Mazda + -ean
Senses: glosses: Zoroastrian
Synonyms: Mazdaic
Mazdaist
Mazdaite
Derived terms: Mazdeanism
brachytypous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more brachytypous
form: most brachytypous
Etymology: brachy- + Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos, “sort, type”)
Senses: examples: text: brachytypous lead/brachytypous manganese
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of a short form.
wellformed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of well-formed.
mangoldwurzel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mangoldwurzels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mangelwurzel.
mangoldwurzels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mangoldwurzel
signalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: signalists
Etymology: From signal + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who makes signals, or communicates information by signalling.
signalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of signalist
first world problem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first world problems
form: First World problem
form: first-world problem
Etymology: From First World + problem. First use appears c. 1979. See cite below.
Senses: examples: text: The South African housing problem is not a First World problem, it says.
ref: 1979, To the Point News in Depth, volume 8, numbers 18-35, page 21:
text: Someone would love to have my first world problems / Kill the moon and turn out the sun / Lock your door and load your gun / Free at last now the time has come to choose
ref: 1995, “Omissions of the Omen”, in Matthew Good Band (music), Last of the Ghetto Astronauts:
text: Phone's OS is outta date (first world problem) / Colors won't calibrate (first world problem) / They never stock the snack you want (first world problem) / Caught herpes from a celebutante (first world problem) / Got wallhacked in PVP (first world problem) / Oh no, HD-DVD (first world problem)
ref: 2010 April 6, “First World Problem”, in MC Frontalot (music), Zero Day:
text: First world problems are not legitimate problems, but the minuscule annoyances that occur on a day-to-day basis in well-off, developed countries. Low cell phone battery? #firstworldproblems. Your hot water takes a while to get hot? #firstworldproblems.
ref: 2012 February 13, “The ‘Top 100 First World Problems’ According to Scooter Magruder (Video)”, in Huffington Post, retrieved 28 Feb 2012:
text: "My brand new phone got scratched on the first day that I got it," said Monica Menkis. That's a First World problem.
ref: 2012 February 17, Jeremy Campbell, “‘It’s a First-World problem’”, in Fox 13 News, archived from the original on 25 Feb 2013:
synonyms: Cadillac problem
FWP
glosses: A complaint or frustration regarded as trivial that is experienced only by inhabitants in wealthy or developed nations.
Related terms: word: candy store problem
word: champagne problem
english: other people's problem
translation: other people's problem
word: OPP
cowslipped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cowslipped
form: most cowslipped
Etymology: From cowslip + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Before King Oberon's bright diadem, / Sceptre, and mantle, clasp'd with dewy gem, / Frighted away the Dryads and the Fauns / From rushes green, and brakes, and cowslip'd lawns, [...]
ref: 1819, John Keats, “Lamia”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, part I, page 3:
glosses: Adorned with cowslips.
colleterial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From colleterium + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The right ovary with its duct has been removed, and only a small portion of the colleterial glands is shown
ref: 1892, Arthur Milnes Marshall, A Junior Course of Pracical Zoology:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Relating to the colleterial gland of insects.
diiambi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diiambus
diiambus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diiambi
form: dijambus
Etymology: From di- + iambus.
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
synonyms: diiamb
glosses: A double iambus; a metrical foot consisting of two iambs.
feudatories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feudatory
sincalide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A cholecystokinetic drug used in diagnosing disorders of the gall bladder and pancreas.
lavendery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lavendery
form: most lavendery
Etymology: From lavender + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling lavender.
lavenderish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lavenderish
form: most lavenderish
Etymology: From lavender + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling lavender.
fugacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfjuːɡəsi/
Senses: examples: text: Fugacy from God
ref: 1642, Richard Montagu, The Acts and Monuments of the Church Before Christ Incarnate:
text: Notwithstanding any disposition made or to be made , by virtue or colour of any attainder , outlawry , fugacy , or other forfeiture
ref: c. 1649, John Milton, Observations upon the Articles of Peace with the Irish Rebels […] :
glosses: banishment
isotropism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From isotropy + -ism.
Senses: glosses: isotropy
Derived terms: anisotropism
diallel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek.
Senses: examples: text: Nine varieties were chosen for a diallel crossing
ref: 1970, David William Burrows, Snap-back and Lodging Studies of a Nine Barley Variety Diallel Cross, page 15:
text: The main difference with design II is that the same individuals are used as parents for the diallel mating design (individuals are used both as male and female).
ref: 1988, Arnel R. Hallauer, Marcelo J. Carena, J.B. Miranda Filho, Quantitative Genetics in Maize Breeding, second edition, →ISBN, page 119:
text: A series of diallel analyses (cf. Mather and Jinks, 1982) were performed to test for heterogeneity among lines of a given type.
ref: 1990, David E. Harrison, Genetic Effects on Aging, page 73:
text: The diallel mating design is particularly well suited to characterizing genetic effects of inbred lines and their hybrid combinations .
ref: 2005, Maydica, page 148:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Involving crosses between several or all possible combinations.
examples: text: […] like conditions and common ends as the ideal and goal of human effort are attained along parallel and not diallel lines in all the diversities of human application and invention.
ref: 1900, Official Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the National Editorial Association, page 99:
text: Fundamental to this new theory is the discovery of diallel, gravitational-field lines. These connect the two bodies — providing a path for the gravitational information to flow. To see the evidence of these diallel lines in nature requires a paradigm shift away from the traditional view of gravitational interaction.
ref: 2000, David W. Allan, Jeff Lorbeck, New Gravitational Theory with Experimental Validation, page 2:
text: […] connecting diallel lines which provide not only particle flow between the bodies, but also the flow of photon and gravitational information as well […]
ref: 2020, Jean de Climont, The Worldwide List of Alternative Theories and Critics, page 63:
glosses: Of lines: Meeting and intersecting; not parallel.
Related terms: diallage
diallel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diallels
Etymology: From Ancient Greek.
Senses: examples: text: Pollinations in 1956 and 1957 produced seed for eight replications of all 78 combinations of a complete half diallel, excluding selfs.
ref: 1978, E. B. Snyder, Gene Namkoong, Inheritance in a Diallel Crossing Experiment with Longleaf Pine, page 2:
text: However, complex gene action involving nonallelic interaction was found in the original 6×6 diallel.
ref: 1991, Rice Genetics II, page 287:
text: In a diallel, a set of genotypes are crossed in all possible combinations.
ref: 2012, H.K. Jain, M.C. Kharkwal, Plant Breeding: Mendelian to Molecular Approaches, page 526:
glosses: A set of all possible pairs of items from a specified set of items, especially when used for a study of diallel crosses.
examples: text: Fifth is the diallel (ó διάλληλος τρóπος)—petitio principii—the fallacy of circle, or the method of showing that a proof which is employed to establish the truth of a proposition, can itself only be proved by the proposition in question: as for example, "if anyone should infer the authenticity of a certain history, from its recording such and such facts, the reality of which rests on the evidence of that history."
ref: 1871, Thomas Woodhouse Levin, Six Lectures Introductory to the Philosophical Writings of Cicero, page 110:
text: In particular, Huet is said to apply the five tropoi of Agrippa (viz. relativity, diaphonia or disagreement, hypothesis or begging the question, infinite regress, and diallel or circular argument) to the cogito, the criterion of clarity and distinctness, and the proofs of the existence of God.
ref: 2008, Thomas M. Lennon, The Plain Truth: Descartes, Huet, and Skepticism, page 50:
text: This reminds us of what Sextus calls a diallel. A diallel is a situation where we need a in order to “prove” b and b in order to “prove” a (PH, I, 169), so that we can’t prove anything.
ref: 2017, Jannis Kozatsas, Georges Faraklas, Stella Synegianni, Hegel and Scepticism: On Klaus Vieweg's Interpretation, page 47:
glosses: A form of logical fallacy in which a proposition that is required to prove another proposition can only be proved by means of assuming the truth of the proposition one is trying to prove; circular reasoning.
Derived terms: diallelous
gapesing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Related to gape?
Senses: glosses: The act of gazing about; sightseeing.
depauperize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: depauperizes
form: depauperizing
form: depauperized
form: depauperized
Etymology: From de- + pauperize.
Senses: glosses: To free from paupers.
examples: text: Now it seemed, not only was labor insufficient to depauperize the population, the labor process itself was now seen to be threatening social disorder and mass demoralization […]
ref: 2009, Donncha Marron, Consumer Credit in the United States, page 24:
glosses: To rescue from poverty.
glosses: To impoverish, to make poor (to make depauperate).
Synonyms: english: rescue from poverty; sense only
translation: rescue from poverty; sense only
word: dispauperize
depauperized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of depauperize
depauperizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of depauperize
depauperizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of depauperize
whipparee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whipparees
Senses: glosses: Any of various stingrays of the coastal United States, including the cownose ray.
Related terms: whipray
whipparees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whipparee
cownose ray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cownose rays
Senses: glosses: Rhinoptera bonasus, an eagle ray found throughout a large part of the western Atlantic and Caribbean.
diathermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more diathermal
form: most diathermal
Etymology: From dia- + thermal.
Senses: glosses: Freely permeable by radiant heat.
Synonyms: diathermic
diathermous
diathermanous
dietetist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dietetists
Etymology: From dietetics + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Dietet′ists[…]. Physicians, who apply only the rules of dietetics to their treatment of disease.
ref: 1833, Robley Dunglison, “Dietet′ists”, in A New Dictionary of Medical Science and Literature, […], volumes I (A–L), Boston, Mass.: […] [E. W. Metcalf and Company] for Charles Bowen, →OCLC, page 305, column 1:
glosses: A physician who applies the rules of dietetics to the cure of diseases.
dietetists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dietetist
noncarburized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + carburized.
Senses: glosses: Not carburized.
carburizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From carburize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being carburized.
swordwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sword + work.
Senses: glosses: Combat using a sword; swordplay.
orbicularity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From orbicular + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being orbicular.
orbicularly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more orbicularly
form: most orbicularly
Etymology: From orbicular + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an orbicular fashion.
eucalyptoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eucalyptoid
form: most eucalyptoid
Etymology: From eucalypt + -oid or eucalyptus + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Resembling eucalyptus trees.
eucalyptoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eucalyptoids
Etymology: From eucalypt + -oid or eucalyptus + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A tree species that resembles a eucalypt.
eucalyptols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eucalyptol
diathermous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more diathermous
form: most diathermous
Etymology: From dia- + thermo- + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Freely permeable by radiant heat.
Synonyms: diathermal
diathermic
alumish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alumish
form: most alumish
Etymology: From alum + -ish.
Senses: examples: a volatile, balsamic, alumish salt
glosses: Somewhat like alum.
saciety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of satiety.
wormul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wormuls
Senses: glosses: warble fly
wormuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wormul
tubulidentate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tubule + -i- + dentate.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having teeth traversed by canals; said of certain edentates
tubulidentate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tubulidentates
Etymology: From tubule + -i- + dentate.
Senses: glosses: A member of the order Tubulidentata, an aardvark.
chloralamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chloralamides
Etymology: From chloral + amide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound of chloral and formic amide, formerly used to induce sleep.
chloralamides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chloralamide
slidewire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slidewires
Etymology: From slide + wire.
Senses: glosses: A wire that measures resistance in a Wheatstone bridge.
slidewires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slidewire
quadrifurcate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kwŏd'rĭfûrʹkāt
enpr: kwŏd'rĭfûrʹkət
ipa: /ˌkwɒdɹɪˈfɜːkeɪt/
ipa: /ˌkwɒdɹɪˈfɜːkət/
Etymology: First attested in 1849; formed as quadri- (“four”) + furcate (adjective); compare the post-Classical Latin quadrifurcātus (“four-pronged”).
Senses: glosses: Branching fourfold; having four branches.
Synonyms: sense: having four branches
word: quadrifurcated
quadrifurcate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kwŏd'rĭfûrʹkāt
enpr: kwŏd'rĭfûrʹkət
ipa: /ˌkwɒdɹɪˈfɜːkeɪt/
ipa: /ˌkwɒdɹɪˈfɜːkət/
Forms: form: quadrifurcates
form: quadrifurcating
form: quadrifurcated
form: quadrifurcated
Etymology: First attested in 1886; formed as quadri- + furcate (verb).
Senses: examples: text: Once within the limits of the post-trochlear space, the tendon of this muscle behaves in a manner common to most birds — that is, it quadrifurcates, and each branch takes a course close up to the joints on their plantar aspects, […]
ref: 1886, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, page 484:
glosses: Furcate (fork or divide) into four branches or channels.
overmultitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overmultitudes
Etymology: From over- + multitude.
Senses: examples: text: it is informed to this House that not only a great companie are now to come into this burge, but that an overmultitude of such strangers will suddenly pester the said burgh;
ref: 1643, MSS. of the Borough of King's Lynn:
text: […] and having considered with the best foresight we can how, in this great inequality of numbers, Her Majesty's forces might best be employed, to answer the service in all parts, whereby these barbarous proud rebels might be brought to chastisement, we see not that, in such an odds and overmultitude of the traitors above her Majesty's forces, I, the Deputy, shall be able to do that against them which both I would and ought
ref: 1903, Hans Claude Hamilton, Ernest George Atkinson, Calendar of the State Papers Relating to Ireland, page 217:
text: For when Agesilaus counselled him to trye it by battell as soone as he could, and not to prolonge this warre against ignoraunt men that had no skill to fight, but yet for their overmultitude, might intrenche him rounde about, and prevent him in divers thinges: then he beganne to feare and suspect him more, and thereuppon retyred into a great citie well walled about, and of great strength.
ref: 1928, Plutarch, Roland Orvil Baughman, The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes -Volume 5, page 53:
glosses: An large excess in numbers.
propadienes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of propadiene
brunts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brunt
acyclicality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From acyclical + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being acyclical.
luminations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lumination
concubinacies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concubinacy
concubinacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concubinacies
Senses: examples: text: He had the Welsh bishoprics also visited; wherein much gross ignorance, and many remainders of superstition, and particularly concubinacy, prevailed among the Clergy
ref: 1711, John Strype, Life and Acts of Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury:
glosses: The practice of concubinage.
copperworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copperworms
Etymology: From copper + worm: the teredo used to damage the bottoms of vessels if they were not protected by copper.
Senses: glosses: A teredo.
glosses: The ringworm.
copperworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copperworm
intercentra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intercentrum
intercentrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intercentra
Etymology: From inter- + centrum.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The median of the three elements composing the centra of the vertebrae in some fossil batrachians.
copperbottomed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more copperbottomed
form: most copperbottomed
Senses: examples: text: Why should 100 per cent, cast-iron, copperbottomed, utterly water-tight proof be demanded before we can get rid of an unnecessary toxic hazard introduced in a cavalier and irresponsible manner[…]
ref: 1971 September 9, New Scientist, volume 51, number 768, page 596:
text: Unfortunately, there are as yet no copperbottomed etymologies[…]
ref: 1995, Peter Schrijver, Studies in British Celtic historical phonology, page 402:
glosses: Alternative form of copper-bottomed.
headtube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headtubes
Etymology: From head + tube.
Senses: glosses: The front tube of the frame of a bicycle.
headtubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of headtube
shy bladders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shy bladder
Scotticize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Scotticizes
form: Scotticizing
form: Scotticized
form: Scotticized
Etymology: From Latin Scotticus + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make Scottish.
Scotticized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Scotticize
Scotticizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Scotticize
Scotticizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Scotticize
subpostmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subpostmasters
Etymology: From sub- + postmaster.
Senses: glosses: A subordinate postmaster.
subpostmasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subpostmaster
sporidia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sporidium
sporidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sporidia
Etymology: From New Latin sporidium, from Ancient Greek σπορά (sporá, “seed”) + -idium.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A secondary spore borne on a promycelium, or a filament produced from a spore, in certain kinds of minute fungi.
glosses: An ascospore.
glosses: Any spore.
Related terms: sporidiferous
incolumity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin incolumitas, from incolumis (“uninjured, safe”), perhaps from in (“intensifier”) + (doubtful) columis (“safe”).
Senses: examples: text: such an action as that, which concern'd the incolumity and peace of all the Westerne world
ref: 1640, I. H. [i.e., James Howell], ΔΕΝΔΡΟΛΟΓΊΑ [DENDROLOGIA]. Dodona’s Grove, or, The Vocall Forrest, London: […] T[homas] B[adger] for H. Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC:
glosses: safety; security
apozem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæpəzɛm/
Forms: form: apozems
Etymology: From Latin apozema, from Ancient Greek ἀπόζεμα (apózema, “to extract by boiling”), from the root ζέω (zéō, “to boil, seethe”), q. v.
Senses: examples: text: a draught of her purging Apozem in the Morning
ref: 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], →OCLC:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A decoction or infusion.
apozems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apozem
circumjacence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: the condition of being circumjacent, or of being surrounded on all sides.
footpace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: footpaces
form: foot pace
form: foot-pace
Etymology: From foot + pace.
Senses: examples: text: We went at a foot-pace, but on the way back we trotted, and there was something to my mind singularly horrible in the way the driver of the hearse whipped up his horses.
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XXXVII, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC, page 185:
glosses: A walking pace or step.
examples: text: The king has laid his crown on the ground beside him , and the covered box which represents his present stands on the footpace.
ref: 1876, Edward Lewes Cutts, Traditions of Christian Art:
glosses: A dais, or elevated platform; the highest step of the altar; a landing in a staircase.
Related terms: walking pace
footpaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of footpace
surgy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more surgy
form: most surgy
Etymology: From surge + -y.
Senses: examples: text: o'er the surgy main
ref: 1725–1726, Homer, “Book 4”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:
glosses: Rising in surges or billows; full of surges; resembling surges in motion or appearance; swelling.
coexecutrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coexecutrix
coexecutrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coexecutrixes
form: coexecutrices
Etymology: From Middle English coexecutrice, from Old French; equivalent to co- + executrix.
Senses: glosses: A joint executrix.
coexecutrixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coexecutrix
sublimification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sublimifications
Etymology: From Latin sublimis (“sublime”) + -ification.
Senses: glosses: The act of making sublime
examples: text: Standing at the apex of all creation is man, the very epitome, sublimification, and essence of creative energy
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Mary Olmstead Stanton, The Encyclopaedia of Face and Form Reading:
glosses: The state of being sublime, or being made sublime.
sublimifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sublimification
effrontit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more effrontit
form: most effrontit
Etymology: French effronté.
Senses: examples: text: From men besotted he doth honour steale, And yet with his effrontit shamelesse face, Seemes to command the diuell that gaue him place.
ref: 1612, Jeremy Taylor, The Scvller Rowing From Tiber To Thames:
glosses: Marked by impudence.
concessory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more concessory
form: most concessory
Senses: examples: text: concessory certificate
glosses: Conceding; permissive; granting permission.
migniard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈmɪnjɑː(ɹ)d/
Forms: form: more migniard
form: most migniard
Etymology: From French mignard, akin to mignon. See minion.
Senses: examples: text: Those soft migniard handlings
ref: 1616, Ben Jonson, The Devil Is an Ass:
text: 1907, Honoré de Balzac, J. Lewis (translator) "The Succubus", excerpted from Droll Stories
"I swear by my eternal salvation and by the holy Evangelists here present under my hand, to hold the woman suspected of being a demon to be an angel, a perfect woman, and even more so in mind than in body, living in all honesty, full of the migniard charms and delights of love, in no way wicked, but most generous, assisting greatly the poor and suffering."
glosses: soft; dainty
phantomatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phantomatic
form: most phantomatic
Senses: examples: text: The love of Adam and Eve in Paradise is of the highest merit — not phantomatic, and yet removed from every thing degrading.
ref: 1818, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Course of Lectures:
text: “We saw insufficient leadership from the wealthier countries, the European Union and France in particular, Canada, Switzerland, Japan, the UK, but also China. The executive secretary of the UN convention on biodiversity was also quite phantomatic,” said Oscar Soria, director of thinktank the Common Initiative.
ref: 2024 November 3, Patrick Greenfield, Phoebe Weston, quoting Oscar Soria, “Cop16 ends in disarry and indecision despite biodiversity breakthroughs”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Phantasmal.
Derived terms: phantomatically
tinet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪnɪt/
other: /ˈtɪnɪt/
Etymology: From tine (“to shut in, enclose”).
Senses: glosses: Brushwood and thorns for making and repairing hedges.
trinketries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trinketry
trinketry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɪŋkɪtɹi/
Forms: form: trinketries
Etymology: From trinket + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: Nor trinketry on front or neck or breast.
ref: 1810, Robert Southey, The Curse of Kehama:
glosses: Ornaments of dress; trinkets, collectively.
dogship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dogships
Etymology: From dog + ship.
Senses: examples: text: It is now planned to have complete drawing release for the pilot production AMCS units before the first missile is fired from any aircraft. (Initial firings will be from an A3 dogship).
ref: 1970, United States. Congress. Senate. Government Operations, TFX Contract Investigation:
text: The Sperry Gyroscope Company's DC-3 “dogship” proved the concept in test flights at the Sperry plant in Long Island, New York.
ref: 2005, Malcolm J. Abzug, E. Eugene Larrabee, Airplane Stability and Control, page 103:
text: After this, the Mikoyan OKB undertook a redesign of the fuel system; the changes were to be verified on the third production MiG-31, '201 Blue' (f/n 0102-01), a long-serving 'dogship'.
ref: 2011, Yefim Gordon, Dmitriy Komissarov, Flight Craft 8: Mikoyan MiG-31: Defender of the Homeland, page 16:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An experimental model of an aircraft.
dogships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dogship
superethical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superethical
form: most superethical
Etymology: From super- + ethical.
Senses: examples: a. 1751, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, an essay
Moral theology, which contains a superethical doctrine, as grave divines have ridiculously called it, rendered the system of ethics in the writings of the ancient fathers […] more confused […]
glosses: More than ethical; above ethics.
navew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈneɪvjuː/
Forms: form: navews
form: naphew
Etymology: From Middle French naveau, navel, from Old French naveau, navel, from Medieval Latin nāpellus, a diminutive of Latin nāpus (“turnip, rapeseed, etc”).
Senses: glosses: A kind of small turnip, a variety of Brassica napus.
Related terms: napiform
napelline
navews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of navew
glucogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glucogens
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of glycogen.
glucogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glucogen
papistries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of papistry
subderisorious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Fromsub- + Latin derisorius. See derisory.
Senses: examples: text: For this ſubderiſorious mirth is ſo far from giving any offence to us vvho underſtand one another, that it is rather a pleaſant Condiment of our Converſation, […]
ref: 1668, Franciscus Euistor the Palæopolite [pseudonym; Henry More], “The First Dialogue”, in Divine Dialogues, Containing Sundry Disquisitions & Instructions Concerning the Attributes of God and His Providence in the World. […], London: […] James Flesher, →OCLC, paragraph XXXVII, pages 160–161:
glosses: Ridiculing in moderation.
hummuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hummus
computer vision syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A temporary condition resulting from focusing the eyes on a computer display for extended periods of time. Symptoms include headaches, blurry vision, and difficulty in refocusing.
spermosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spermospheres
Etymology: From spermo- + sphere.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: A mass or ball of cells formed by the repeated division of a spermospore, each spermoblast of which is converted into a spermatozoid.
glosses: The zone in the soil surrounding a germinating seed.
Synonyms: spermatogemma
spermospheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spermosphere
photoelectrotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photoelectrotypes
Etymology: From photo- + electrotype.
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: An electrotype plate formed in a mould made by photographing on prepared gelatine, etc.
photoelectrotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photoelectrotype
domiculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin domus house + English culture.
Senses: examples: text: We propose the name Domiculture, to include the subjects of Housekeeping and Cookery
ref: 1842, Roswell Park, Pantology: Or, A Systematic Survey of Human Knowledge:
glosses: The art of housekeeping, cookery, etc.; the domestic arts.
pterostigma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pterostigmata
Etymology: Ancient Greek πτερόν (pterón) + στίγμα (stígma), meaning "wing mark".
Senses: examples: text: The pterostigma is particularly noticeable in dragonflies.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A cell in the outer wing of insects which is often thickened or coloured and so stands out from other cells
Related terms: pterostigmal
pterostigmatic
pterostigmata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pterostigma
inculk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inculks
form: inculking
form: inculked
form: inculked
Etymology: Compare French inculquer. See inculcate.
Senses: examples: text: this shall be necessary , as the case shall require , well to be inculked and put in his head
ref: a. 1716 (date written), [Gilbert] Burnet, edited by [Gilbert Burnet Jr.], Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Thomas Ward […], published 1724, →OCLC:
glosses: To inculcate.
inculked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inculk
inculking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inculk
inculks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inculk
colocynthin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From colocynth + -in. Compare French colocynthine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The active medicinal principle of colocynth; a bitter yellow crystalline substance, regarded as a glucoside.
colessee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colessees
Etymology: From co- + lessee.
Senses: glosses: A joint lessee; a partner in a lease.
colessees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colessee
sow the wind and reap the whirlwind
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.
turkeyitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From turkey + -itis.
Senses: glosses: The uncomfortable feeling resulting from eating too much turkey, for example at Thanksgiving or Christmas.
albertite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: albertites
Etymology: From Albert + -ite, after Albert County in New Brunswick where it is found.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A variety of asphalt having a black color.
wikipedia: Albert County
prosing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From prose + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: the prosing speeches of the honest divine
ref: 1816, [Walter Scott], The Antiquary. […], 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: Writing prose; speaking or writing in a tedious or prosy manner.
prosing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prosings
Etymology: From prose + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: He had great pretensions to wisdom […] but he was grievously given to metaphysics, and the prince found his prosings even more ponderous than those of the sage Eben Bonabben.
ref: 1852, Washington Irving, Tales from the Alhambra:
text: I did not like to propose an adjournment thither too hastily, but patiently endured the prosings of my cicerone in the interior of the church.
ref: 1870, Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine:
glosses: Tedious talk or writing.
prosing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From prose + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prose
dirtman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dirtmen
Etymology: From dirt + -man.
Senses: examples: text: It is quite clear from the testimony of the foreman that the books directed to be turned over by the order below were in fact given to a dirtman who was paid for taking the "stuff" away.
ref: 1934, In re Gordon & Gelberg, 69 F.2d 81, 83 (2d Cir. N.Y. 1934)
text: The gate was open a little while for the dirtman, and I haven't seen anybody else about.
ref: 1862, William Makespeace Thayer, The home monthly: devoted to home education, literature, and religion, page 133:
text: All complaints of neglect of the scavengers or dirtmen, may be made at the Health Office, City Hall.
ref: 1851, George Adams, The Boston Directory, page 12:
glosses: A garbage man.
glosses: A figure of a man made from dirt.
dirtmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dirtman
screenscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screenscapes
Etymology: From screen + -scape.
Senses: examples: text: The words have a spatial component in that they enter the screen spinning, and settle in a particular part of the screenscape, but their essential forward thrust remains sequential.
ref: 2007, Margaret Mackey, Mapping recreational literacies: contemporary adults at play, page 119:
glosses: The view offered by a screen display; its arrangement of visual elements.
screenscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of screenscape
attestedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more attestedly
form: most attestedly
Etymology: From attested + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Why, to be sure! a kiss is now attestedly a quite innocuous performance, with nothing very fearful about it one way or the other.
ref: 1919, James Branch Cabell, Jurgen:
glosses: In a way that has been attested; confirmedly.
infang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: infangs
form: infanging
form: infanged
form: infanged
Etymology: From in- + fang. Compare Old English onfōn (past participle onfangen; "to take, receive, perceive, comprehend, accept, take to one’s self, sponsor, harbor, favor unrighteously, take hold of, undertake, undergo, begin, conceive").
Senses: glosses: To draw or take in.
glosses: To cheat; gull; take in.
glosses: To seize; get into one's clutches.
Derived terms: infangthief
infang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infangs
Etymology: Shortened from infangthief.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of infangthief.
botryolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βότρυς (bótrus, “cluster of grapes”) + -lite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A variety of datolite, usually having a botryoidal structure.
succumbeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: succumb + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of succumb
succumbest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: succumb + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of succumb
peripneumonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin peripneumonicus, Ancient Greek: compare French péripneumonique. peripneumonia + -ic
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: pneumonic (of or pertaining to pneumonia (an inflammation of the lungs))
deturpation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deturpations
Senses: examples: text: the remaining part have passed through […]the corrections and deturpations and mistakes of transcribers
ref: 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in All Her General Measures; […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] James Flesher, for Richard Royston […], →OCLC:
glosses: A making foul.
Related terms: deturpate
turpid
deturpations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deturpation
unlustrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unlustrous
form: most unlustrous
Etymology: From un- + lustrous.
Senses: examples: text: [S]hould I […] join gripes with hands / Made hard with hourly falſhood (falſhood as / With labour) then lye peeping in an eye, / Base and unluſtrous as the ſmoaky light / That's fed with stinking tallow; it were fit, / That all the plagues of hell ſhould at one time / Encounter ſuch revolt.
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “Cymbeline. A Tragedy.”, in The Plays of William Shakespeare. Volume the Ninth, Containing, Troilus and Cressida. Cymbeline. King Lear, volume IX, London: Printed for C[harles] Bathurst [et al.], published 1773, →OCLC, [Act I, scene vi], pages 183–184:
glosses: Not lustrous; without lustre.
Synonyms: illustrous
lustreless
lusterless
illustrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more illustrous
form: most illustrous
Etymology: From il- + lustrous.
Senses: glosses: Without lustre.
immixed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more immixed
form: most immixed
Etymology: From im- + mixed.
Senses: examples: September 3, 1659, Evelyn, letter to Robert Boyle
How pure and immixed the design is.
glosses: Not mixed; pure.
oppilative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oppilative
form: most oppilative
Etymology: Compare French opilatif. See oppilate.
Senses: examples: text: And if some have found it oppilative, it hath come by the too too much use of it ; as when one drinkes over much wine , instead of comforting and warming himselfe , he breeds and nourisheth cold diseases
ref: 1648, Thomas Gage, The English-American His Travail by Sea and Land:
glosses: Obstructive.
Derived terms: deoppilative
oppilative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oppilatives
Etymology: Compare French opilatif. See oppilate.
Senses: glosses: A medicine that obstructs, or closes the pores.
suasible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more suasible
form: most suasible
Etymology: From Latin suadere, suasum (“to persuade”).
Senses: glosses: Capable of being persuaded; easily persuaded.
staphylomatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to, or affected with, staphyloma.
electrotonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: electrotonic
scroyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scroyles
Etymology: Compare Old French escrouselle (“a kind of vermin”), escrouelles pl (“scrofula”), French écrouelles, from (assumed) Latin scrofulae. See scrofula, and compare cruels.
Senses: examples: text: By heaven, these scroyles of Angiers flout you, kings, / And stand securely on their battlements, / As in a theatre, whence they gape and point / At your industrious scenes and acts of death.
ref: 1596, Shakespeare, King John:
glosses: A mean person; a wretch.
scroyles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scroyle
pavesade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pavesades
Etymology: From French pavesade. See pavis.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A canvas screen, formerly sometimes extended along the side of a vessel in battle, to conceal from the enemy the operations on board.
pavesades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pavesade
balaniferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more balaniferous
form: most balaniferous
Etymology: From Latin balanus (“acorn”) + -ferous.
Senses: examples: text: A few miles north of Coquimbo, I met with the ferruginous, balaniferous mass (E) with many silicified bones; I was informed that these silicified bones occur also at Tonguay, south of Coquimbo […]
ref: 1846, Charles Darwin, Geological Observations on South America:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Bearing or producing acorns.
inchase
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inchases
form: inchasing
form: inchased
form: inchased
Etymology: From in- + chase.
Senses: examples: text: Her breath like a rose,
It’s sweets does disclose,
Whenever you ravish a kiss;
Like iv’ry inchas’d,
Her teeth are well plac’d,
An exquisite beauty she is.
ref: a. 1722, Matthew Prior, “Nelly’s Picture. A Song”, in H. Bunker Wright, Monroe K. Spears, editors, The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, Second edition, volume I, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1971, page 688:
glosses: Archaic form of enchase.
inchased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inchase
inchases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inchase
inchasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inchase
26+6=1
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: -ʌn
Senses: glosses: The 26 counties of the Republic of Ireland and the 6 counties of Northern Ireland together make a single United Ireland.
Related terms: 32-county
sporiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more sporiferous
form: most sporiferous
Etymology: From spore + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: examples: text: sporiferous filaments
text: sporiferous tissue
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Bearing or producing spores.
miotics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miotic
craunch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: craunches
form: craunching
form: craunched
form: craunched
Etymology: See crunch.
Senses: examples: text: She would craunch the wing of a lark, bones and all, between her teeth, although it were nine times as large as that of a full-grown turkey; and put a bit of bread into her mouth as big as two twelve-penny loaves.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag):
glosses: To crush with the teeth; to chew with violence and noise; to crunch.
Derived terms: craunchingly