cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
essoin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪˈsɔɪn/
Forms: form: essoins
form: essoining
form: essoined
form: essoined
form: essoign
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English essoyne, from Old French essoignier, from Medieval Latin exoniō, essoniō (“excuse oneself; accept an excuse”), from ex- + sonium + -ō, sonium being from Proto-West Germanic *sunnju (“care, need”).
Senses: examples: text: I'll not essoin thee.
ref: 1633, Francis Quarles, Divine Poems:
topics: law
glosses: To excuse for failure to appear in court.
Derived terms: essoiner
essoineur
essoin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪˈsɔɪn/
Forms: form: essoign
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English essoyne, from Old French essoignier, from Medieval Latin exoniō, essoniō (“excuse oneself; accept an excuse”), from ex- + sonium + -ō, sonium being from Proto-West Germanic *sunnju (“care, need”).
Senses: examples: text: [W]ith Rejoinders and Replies, / Long Bills, and Anſvvers, ſtuft vvith Lies, / Demurr, Imparlance, and Eſſoign, / The Parties ne'er could Iſſue join: / For Sixteen Years the Cauſe vvas ſpun, / And then ſtood vvhere it firſt begun.
ref: 1726, [Jonathan Swift], Cadenus and Vanessa. A Poem, London: […] J. Roberts […], →OCLC, page 9:
topics: law
glosses: An excuse for not appearing in court at the return of process; the allegation of an excuse to the court.
examples: text: From euery worke he chalenged essoyne.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 20:
glosses: Excuse; exemption.
essoined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of essoin
essoining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of essoin
essoins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of essoin
pycnodont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pycnodonts
Etymology: From taxonomic name †Pycnodontiformes.
Senses: glosses: Any extinct bony fish of the order †Pycnodontiformes.
pycnodont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pycnodonts
Etymology: From pycno- + -odont, describing the round and flattened teeth.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the extinct oyster genus †Pycnodonte.
pycnodonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pycnodont
bongrace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bongraces
Etymology: French [Term?]
Senses: glosses: A projecting bonnet or shade to protect the complexion.
examples: text: Her dark elf-locks shot out like the snakes of the gorgon, between an old-fashioned bonnet called a Bongrace, heightening the singular effect of her strong and weather-beaten features, which they partly shadowed, while her eye had a wild roll that indicated something like real or affected insanity.
ref: 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: A wide-brimmed hat.
bongraces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bongrace
preassurance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preassurances
Etymology: From pre- + assurance.
Senses: examples: text: Throughout animated Nature, of each characteristic Organ and Faculty there exists a preassurance, an instinctive and practical anticipation; and no preassurance common to a whole species does in any instance prove delusive.
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: previous assurance
preassurances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preassurance
atropism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From atropine + -ism.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: atropine poisoning
pangless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pangless
form: most pangless
Etymology: From pang + -less.
Senses: examples: text: And didst thou not, since Death for thee / Prepared a light and pangless dart, / Once long for him thou ne'er shalt see, / Who held, and holds thee in his heart?
ref: 1811, Lord Byron, To Thyrza:
glosses: Without a pang; painless.
Derived terms: panglessly
epipharynges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epipharynx
epipharynx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æɹɪŋks
Forms: form: epipharynxes
form: epipharynges
Etymology: From epi- + pharynx.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The nasopharynx.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A structure that overlaps the mouth in certain insects.
innative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈneɪtɪv/
rhymes: -eɪtɪv
Etymology: From innate + -ive, after native.
Senses: examples: text: His son shall make to his innative port
ref: 1614–1615, Homer, “The Fifth Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:
glosses: native
glosses: innate
hydrocarbostyril
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hydro- + carbostyril.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A nitrogenous hydrocarbon, C₉H₉NO, obtained from certain derivatives of cinnamic acid and closely related to quinoline and carbostyril.
macroassembler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macroassemblers
Etymology: From macro- + assembler.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An assembler that supports user-defined macros.
Related terms: macroassembly
macroassemblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macroassembler
inquisitionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inquisitionary
form: most inquisitionary
Etymology: Compare French inquisitionnaire.
Senses: glosses: inquisitional
sexdigitist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sexdigitists
Etymology: From sex- + digit + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who has six fingers on a hand, or six toes on a foot.
sexdigitists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sexdigitist
silverless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English silverles, equivalent to silver + -less.
Senses: examples: text: a silverless mirror
glosses: Without silver or silvering.
Englishry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪŋ(ɡ)lɪʃɹi/
ipa: /ˈɪŋ(ɡ)lɪʃɹi/
Etymology: From English + -ry, in legal senses after Anglo-Norman englescherie, englecherie. Compare Late Latin Anglescheria, Englescheria (“the state of being English”).
Senses: examples: text: a general massacre of the Englishry
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
coordinate_terms: Irishry
glosses: Those people living in Ireland or in Wales who are of English descent (chiefly with definite article).
Englishry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪŋ(ɡ)lɪʃɹi/
ipa: /ˈɪŋ(ɡ)lɪʃɹi/
Forms: form: Englishries
Etymology: From English + -ry, in legal senses after Anglo-Norman englescherie, englecherie. Compare Late Latin Anglescheria, Englescheria (“the state of being English”).
Senses: examples: text: Blue-eyed women he believed there were in Kashmir, but here was the mythical Englishry of fair hair as well.
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 50:
text: It is these people who, taking with them so much furniture and Englishry of all kinds have set up everywhere communities with names like ‘Little England’, ‘Newest England’, ‘England Again’ which are more English than England ever was.
ref: 1969, Doris Lessing, The Four-Gated City, Flamingo 1993 edition, page 635:
text: Yes, [Philip] Larkin was an icon of Englishry, and a fine specimen of its complexes and neuroses: not only arrogant and xenophobic hut also inward-looking, frightened, and depressive.
ref: 1993 September 1, Geoffrey Wheatcroft, “An Icon of Englishry”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Englishness.
topics: law
glosses: The state or privilege of being an Englishman.
glosses: In medieval Britain, the part of a lordship or other domain inhabited by English people and governed according to English law.
Derived terms: presentment of Englishry
sthenically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sthenically
form: most sthenically
Etymology: From sthenic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a sthenic manner.
argentry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɑː(ɹ)d͡ʒəntɹi/
Etymology: From French argenterie, from argent (“silver”), from Latin argentum.
Senses: examples: text: bowls of frosted argentry
ref: 1655, James Howell, “The Vote”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Silver material, or silverness in color.
pig-jawed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pig-jawed
form: most pig-jawed
Etymology: From pig + jawed.
Senses: synonyms: hog-jawed
glosses: Having the upper jaw projecting beyond the lower, with the upper incisors in advance of the lower.
raw_tags: of dogs
wharfing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wharfings
Etymology: From wharf + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Wharfs collectively.
glosses: The material for constructing a wharf.
examples: text: With respect to the wharfing between the Pier and the second lock, called the Sea Lock, what is the expense of wharfing alone, the plank to wharf it, and the piles to support the planks?
ref: 1826, Reports from Committees:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A technique of facing seawalls and embankments with planks driven as piles and secured by ties.
wharfing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From wharf + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wharf
odmyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὀδμή (odmḗ, “stench”) + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A volatile liquid with an unpleasant garlic odour, obtained by boiling sulfur with linseed oil.
cardinalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cardinalize
cardinalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cardinalize
deed poll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deeds poll
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A deed relating only to one party, distinguished from an indenture by having the edge of the paper cut evenly, or "polled", rather than being indented.
examples: text: I changed my name by deed poll.
topics: law
glosses: A deed that effects a change of an individual's name.
deeds poll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deed poll
depuratory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more depuratory
form: most depuratory
Etymology: Compare French dépuratoire.
Senses: glosses: Tending to depurate or cleanse; depurative.
peptotoxine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peptotoxines
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of peptotoxin.
peptotoxines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peptotoxine
enzymeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From enzyme + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without enzymes.
calcisponge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calcisponges
Etymology: From calci- + sponge.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of a group of marine sponges containing calcareous spicules.
calcisponges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calcisponge
rousant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
synonyms: surgerant
glosses: Rising; represented in profile with its wings raised and typically also addorsed.
raw_tags: of a bird
tetanomotor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetanomotors
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: An instrument for tetanizing a muscle by irritating its nerve with successive mechanical or electrical shocks.
tetanomotors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetanomotor
rope dancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rope dancers
form: rope-dancer
form: ropedancer
Etymology: From rope + dancer.
Senses: examples: text: He was originally a rope-dancer; she had first seen him at Venice, where he was greatly admired for his shape, strength, and agility.
ref: 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 357:
glosses: A tightrope walker; an acrobat.
Related terms: rope dance
ropedancing
ropedancers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ropedancer
rumicin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Rumex + -in
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A yellow crystalline substance found in the root of yellow dock (curled dock; Rumex crispus)
Synonyms: chrysophanic acid
fossilism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fossil + -ism.
Senses: examples: April 1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, letter to Mr. Cottle
I would be a tolerable Mathematician, I would thoroughly know Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Optics, and Astronomy, Botany, Metallurgy, Fossilism, Chemistry, Geology, Anatomy, Medicine […]
glosses: The science or state of fossils.
glosses: The state of being extremely antiquated in views and opinions.
examples: text: Suffice it to say that the recourse to nuclear energy magnifies the problems of fossilism.
ref: 1998, David Bell, Roger Keil, Political Ecology: Global and Local, page 41:
glosses: A policy of reliance on fossil fuels.
tripestone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tripe + stone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A variety of anhydrite composed of contorted plates, bearing a certain ressemblance to tripe.
ignipotent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin ignipotens, from ignis (“fire”) + potens (“powerful”).
Senses: examples: text: The Pow'r ignipotent her word obeys
ref: 1715–1720, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, “Book XXI”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:
glosses: fiery, or having control over fire.
Related terms: ignipotence
pyrokinetic
mezzotinter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mezzotinters
Etymology: From mezzotint + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who engraves in mezzotint.
mezzotinters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mezzotinter
ascendible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin ascendibilis.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ascendable (“Capable of being ascended; climbable”).
synonyms: word: ascendable
extra: Capable of being ascended; climbable
Derived terms: unascendible
orthodromy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare French orthodromie.
Senses: synonyms: orthodromics
glosses: Navigation based on calculating the shortest distance between two locations on a globe or sphere.
Related terms: orthodromic
overlooker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overlookers
Etymology: From overlook + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who overlooks; a work supervisor.
overlookers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overlooker
unbarricadoed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + barricadoed.
Senses: examples: May 26 1795 Edmund Burke, letter to William Elliot, Esq.
unbarricadoed streets
glosses: Not obstructed by barricades.
water witches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water witch
hornblower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hornblowers
Etymology: From horn + blower, or from Old English hornblāwere.
Senses: synonyms: horner
glosses: Someone or something that blows a horn.
Derived terms: Hornblower
Related terms: cornage
hornblowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hornblower
steepiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From steepy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he craggineſſe and ſteepineſſe of places up and down is a great advantage to the dwellers, and makes them inacceſſible, for they ſerve as Fortreſſes erected by Nature her ſelfe, to protect them from all incurſions: […]
ref: 1642, James Howell, “Section X”, in Instructions for Forreine Travell. […], London: […] T. B. for Humprey Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC; republished as Edward Arber, editor, Instructions for Forreine Travell. […] (English Reprints; 16), London: [Alex. Murray & Son, 15 June 1869], →OCLC, page 55:
glosses: Synonym of steepness.
synonyms: word: steepness
verdoy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: French verdoyer (“to become green”). See verdant.
Senses: examples: text: Gules a Bordure Argent charged with Verdoy of Trefoils slipped proper, that is Vert.
ref: 1693, Richard Blome, The Art of Heraldry, in two parts ... the second edition, page 21:
text: SCOTT of Hedderwick, a younger son of Scott of Logie, argent, a fesse crenellé, between three lions' heads erased, gules; within a bordure of the last, verdoy of six flower-de-luces of the first.
ref: 1804, Alexander Nisbet, A system of heraldry, speculative and practical, page 172:
text: Quarterly; 1st and 4th, the arms of France and England, quarterly; 2d, arms of Scotland; and 3d, those of Ireland; the whole within a border compone, argent and gules, the first charged with verdoy of roses of the second[…]
ref: 1827, Encyclopaedias, Encyclopaedia Edinensis: or, Dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature, page 163:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Charged with leaves, fruits, flowers, etc.; said of a border.
cobstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cobstones
Senses: glosses: A cobblestone.
cobstones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cobstone
homageable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more homageable
form: most homageable
Etymology: Compare Old French hommageable.
Senses: examples: text: This aggravates a grudge the French King hath to the Duke , for siding with the Imperialists , and for things reflecting upon the Dutchy of Bar ; for which he is homageable to the Crown of France
ref: 1655, James Howell, “To the Lord Viscount Wentworth”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Subject to homage.
relessee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relessees
Senses: glosses: rare spelling of releasee
relessees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relessee
atwirl
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtwɜː(ɹ)l/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)l
Etymology: From a- + twirl.
Senses: examples: text: She set his heart atwirl.
glosses: twirling
atwist
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtwɪst/
rhymes: -ɪst
Etymology: From a- + twist.
Senses: examples: text: That ys child atwiste ys poverte, that hadde al is god
ref: c. 1280, Robert of Gloucester, Chronicle:
glosses: Twisted; distorted; awry
handystroke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handystrokes
Senses: examples: text: Presently as our Captain perceived their shot to come slacking, as the latter drops of a great shower of rain, with his whistle he gave us his usual signal, to answer them with our shot and arrows, and so march onwards upon the enemy, with intent to come to handy-strokes, and to have joined with them; whom when we found retired as to a place of some better strength, he increased his pace to prevent them if he might.
ref: 1910, Philip Nichols, Sir Francis Drake Revived, Sir Francis Drake Revived:
glosses: A blow with the hand.
Related terms: handygripes
handystrokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handystroke
twirlingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more twirlingly
form: most twirlingly
Etymology: From twirling + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: We signalled to the nearest dancer, who came twirlingly over to us.
glosses: With a twirling motion.
incarnification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See incarnation, and -fy.
Senses: glosses: incarnation.
miscounsel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: miscounsels
form: miscounseling
form: miscounselling
form: miscounseled
form: miscounseled
form: miscounselled
form: miscounselled
Etymology: From Middle English miscounceilen, miscounselen, equivalent to mis- + counsel. Possibly formed on the model of Old French mesconceillier.
Senses: glosses: To counsel or advise wrongly.
reforestization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + forestization.
Senses: glosses: reforestation.
rancescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more rancescent
form: most rancescent
Etymology: From Latin rancescens, present participle of rancescere.
Senses: glosses: Becoming rancid or sour.
Related terms: rancescence
discommission
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: discommissions
form: discommissioning
form: discommissioned
form: discommissioned
Etymology: From dis- + commission.
Senses: examples: 1659, John Milton, letter to a friend concerning the ruptures of the Commonwealth
discommissioning nine great officers in the army
a. 1645, William Laud, autobiography
I shall take that for proof enough, and proceed to discommission your printer, and suppress his press
glosses: To deprive of a commission or trust.
Related terms: decommission
discommissioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of discommission
discommissioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of discommission
discommissions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of discommission
Islamicize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Islamicizes
form: Islamicizing
form: Islamicized
form: Islamicized
form: Islamicise
Etymology: From Islamic + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make Islamic; to convert to Islam.
Synonyms: Islamise
Islamize
Derived terms: de-Islamicization
de-Islamicize
Islamicization
re-Islamicization
re-Islamicize
Related terms: Islam
Islamic
Islamical
Islamically
Islamism
Islamist
Islamicized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Islamicize
Islamicizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Islamicize
Islamicizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Islamicize
miscounselled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of miscounsel
miscounselling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miscounsellings
Etymology: From Middle English myscounsellynge, equivalent to miscounsel + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Wrong, bad, or incorrect counselling
miscounselling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From miscounsel + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of miscounsel
miscounsels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of miscounsel
miscounseling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miscounselings
Etymology: From Middle English myscounsellynge, equivalent to miscounsel + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Wrong, bad, or incorrect counselling
miscounseling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From miscounsel + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of miscounsel
miscounseled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of miscounsel
inequable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inequable
form: most inequable
Etymology: From in- + equable.
Senses: examples: text: even in inequable Motions , or such as are continually accelerated or retarded , according to some stated Law , if we take the Spaces and Times very small , they will make a near approach to the nature of equable Motions
ref: 1736, Isaac Newton, The Method of Fluxions and Infinite Series:
glosses: Not equable; unequable.
Derived terms: inequably
classific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kləˈsɪf.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɪfɪk
Senses: glosses: classificatory
Derived terms: classifically
atheological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more atheological
form: most atheological
Etymology: From a- + theological.
Senses: glosses: Opposed to theology.
examples: text: Fosterer of many Atheologicall Fancies
ref: 1642, Richard Montagu, Acts and Monuments of the Church:
text: After all, nontrivial atheological reasons, ranging from various problems of evil to naturalist theories according to which theistic belief is illusory or merely projective, are a pervasive, if not obtrusive, component of the rational portion of our intellectual heritage.
ref: 1985 October, Philip L. Quinn, “In Search of the Foundations of Theism”, in Faith and Philosophy, volume 2, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN, page 481:
text: If I held a certain epistemological theory about "basic beliefs", I might conclude from this experience that my intuition that there is no God co-existing with this horror was a "basic belief" and thus that I am epistemically entitled to be an atheist without needing to justify this intuition. But I do not hold such an epistemological theory and believe that intuitive atheological beliefs, such as the one I experienced (and the corresponding intuitive theological beliefs, such as that God is providentially watching over this gruesome event) require justification if they are to be epistemically warranted.
ref: 1991, Quentin Smith, “An Atheological Argument from Evil Natural Laws”, in International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion, volume 29, number 3, page 159:
text: Atheological arguments are arguments for the conclusion that God does not exist.
ref: 1998, Theodore M. Drange, Nonbelief & Evil: Two Arguments for the Nonexistence of God, Prometheus Books, →ISBN, →OL, page 21:
glosses: atheistic
Derived terms: atheologically
poppied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈpɒpid/
Forms: form: more poppied
form: most poppied
Etymology: From poppy + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: poppied corn
ref: 1818, John Keats, “Book I”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] T[homas] Miller, […] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 1:
glosses: Full of, decorated with, or otherwise containing poppies.
examples: text: The poppied sails doze on the yard.
ref: 1869, James Russell Lowell, Pictures from Appledore:
text: Young Love lies drowsing
Away to poppied death;
Cool shadows deepen
Across the sleeping face:
So fails the summer
With warm, delicious breath;
And what hath autumn
To give us in its place?
ref: 1923, Christina Rossetti, Come Hither: A Collection of Rhymes and Poems for the Young of All Ages:
glosses: Affected by, or as if by, opium; drowsy; listless; inactive.
paramountly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From paramount + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Saint Teresa, paradoxical as such a judgment may sound, was a typical shrew, in this sense of the term. […] Her voluble egotism; her sense, not of radical bad being, as the really contrite have it, but of her 'faults' and 'imperfections' in the plural; her stereotyped humility and return upon herself, as covered with 'confusion' at each new manifestation of God's singular partiality for a person so unworthy, are typical of shrewdom: a paramountly feeling nature would be objectively lost in gratitude, and silent.
ref: 2018, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature:
glosses: In a paramount manner.
ochrey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ochrey
form: most ochrey
Etymology: From ochre + -y.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ochery.
awearied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + wearied.
Senses: glosses: weary; made tired
horehounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horehound
eatage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eatages
Etymology: From a corruption (as if < eat + -age) of edige, eddish. More at eddish.
Senses: glosses: Edible growth of grass for horses and cattle, especially that of aftermath.
glosses: The right to let one's animals eat in a certain place; pasturage.
glosses: food
Derived terms: after-eatage
eatages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eatage
fastidiosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fastidiosity
fastidiosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fastidiosities
Senses: examples: text: he receives much greater advantage by being diverted than instructed; his epidemical diseases being fastidiosity, amorphy, and oscitation
ref: 1704, [Jonathan Swift], A Tale of a Tub. […], London: […] John Nutt, […], →OCLC:
glosses: fastidiousness (the quality of being fastidious).
hoarhound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoarhounds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of horehound.
hoarhounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoarhound
cystolithic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cysto- + lithic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to stone in the bladder.
heartlings
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: My will! ’od’s heartlings, that’s a pretty jest indeed!
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:
glosses: An exclamation used in addressing a familiar acquaintance.
germiparity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: reproduction by means of germs
unsoot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unsoots
form: unsooting
form: unsooted
form: unsooted
Senses: glosses: To remove soot from.
anthodia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anthodium
anthodium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthodia
Etymology: From New Latin [Term?], from Ancient Greek [Term?].
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: calathidium.
Related terms: hypanthodium
bellibone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bellibones
Etymology: From Middle French belle et bonne (“beautiful and good”).
Senses: examples: text: Pan may be pꝛoud, that euer he begot / ſuch a Bellibone, […]
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Aprill. Ægloga Quarta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 13, recto:
text: There he saw a bellibone sticking her head out of an eyethurl and crying.
ref: 1979 September 24, Lauren Calobrisi, “[Fun, Games & Stuff: Kidsday] Story Time: The Kotee and the Bellibone”, in Newsday, Suffolk edition, volume 40, number 22, Long Island, N.Y.: Newsday Inc., part II, page 14:
text: In the quiet cockshut after a heavy darg, a boonfellow likes to croodle with her fanger (or he with his bellibone) as they watch the sunset through the eyethurl.
ref: 2012 November, Leon Robert McNarry, “The Erendrake”, in Poems, Tales & Whimsy, Victoria, B.C.: FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 28:
glosses: A beautiful and nice woman.
Related terms: bonnibel
bellibones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bellibone
catastaltic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κατασταλτικός (katastaltikós, “holding in check”), from καταστέλλω (katastéllō, “repress”), from στέλλω (stéllō).
Senses: examples: text: catastaltic movements/actions
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Holding back outflow of fluids by contraction of tissues.
lithy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪði/
Forms: form: more lithy
form: most lithy
form: lethy
Etymology: From Middle English lethi, from Old English liþiġ (“free, unrestrained, flexible”), from Proto-Germanic *liþugaz; equivalent to lith (“limb, joint”) + -y. Cognate with Dutch ledig, German ledig, Swedish ledig, Icelandic liðugur.
Senses: synonyms: bendsome
bendable
qualifier: archaic or puristic
glosses: Easy to bend; pliable.
Derived terms: lithy tree
equisetiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more equisetiform
form: most equisetiform
Etymology: From equisetum + -form.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the form of the equisetum.
obdure
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more obdure
form: most obdure
Senses: examples: text: The Ages in their grovvth vvax worſe & vvorſe. / The firſt vvas pretious, full of golden reſt. / Siluer ſucceeded; good, but not ſo pure: / Then loue and harmleſſe luſts might currant paſſe: / The third that follovves vve finde more obdure, / And that vve title by the Age of Braſſe.
ref: 1613, Thomas Heywood, “[Prologue]”, in The Brazen Age, […], London: […] Nicholas Okes, […], →OCLC, , signature B, recto:
glosses: Synonym of obdurate.
synonyms: word: obdurate
obdure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: obdures
form: obduring
form: obdured
form: obdured
Senses: examples: text: This saw his hapless foes, but stood obdur'd.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: […] this spiritual edge shall either turn again, or, through our weak wieldance, not enter the stubborn and thick hide of obdured hearts […]
ref: 1626, Joseph Hall, Saint Paul's Combat. Part II:
glosses: To harden.
obdured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /əbˈdjʊəd/
/əbˈdjʊəɹɪd/
Derived terms: obduredness
obdured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əbˈdjʊəd/
/əbˈdjʊəɹɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of obdure
obduring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of obdure
equisetums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of equisetum
roestone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roestones
Etymology: From roe + stone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: oolite, or a variation of it
roestones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roestone
deutoplasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deutoplasms
Etymology: From deuto- + -plasm.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The food matter located in the cytoplasm of an ovum or a cell, as distinguished from the active or true protoplasm; yolk substance.
Derived terms: deutoplasmic
deutoplastic
trafficable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trafficable
form: most trafficable
form: traffickable
Etymology: From traffic + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Money itself is not only the price of all commodities in all civil nations, but it is also, in some cases, a trafficable commodity: the price whereof rises and falls, in several countries, upon occasion; and yieldeth either profit or loss
ref: 1649, Joseph Hall, Resolutions and Decisions of Divers Practicall cases of Conscience:
glosses: Able to be trafficked or traded; marketable.
glosses: Having good trafficability: of a vehicle, able to traverse terrain; of terrain, able to support vehicle movement.
perfectionment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perfectionments
Etymology: Compare French perfectionnement.
Senses: glosses: The act of bringing to, or achieving, perfection.
examples: c. 1860-1861, Isaac Taylor, Logic in Theology
the perfectionment of abstract theology
glosses: The state of having attained perfection.
perfectionments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perfectionment
digressional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more digressional
form: most digressional
Etymology: From digression + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Milton has judiciously avoided Fletcher's digressional ornaments
ref: 1785, Thomas Warton, Poems Upon Several Occasions: English, Italian, and Latin by John Milton:
glosses: Pertaining to, or having the character of, a digression; departing from the main purpose or subject.
rodsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rodsmen
Etymology: From rod + -s- + man.
Senses: examples: text: Rodsmen were whacking their way through willow brakes.
ref: 1883, G. W. Cable, Old Creole Days:
synonyms: rodman
glosses: Someone who carries and holds a levelling staff, or rod, in a surveying party.
examples: text: […] a heavy basket of twenty-seven was landed by one rodsman.
ref: 1886, Fishing, Fish Culture & the Aquarium, page 250:
glosses: A fisherman.
rodsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rodsman
dependingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dependingly
form: most dependingly
Etymology: From depending + -ly.
Senses: examples: 1676, Matthew Hale, Contemplations moral and divine, by a person of great learning and judgment, ed. by E. Stephens [1699].
Give therefore, I pray thee, Bread for this day, and when to morrow comes, I will beg Bread of thee for to morrow; and if thou givest me this day supplies beyond the expence of this day, I will use it thankfully, and nevertheless dependingly for I will renew my Petition for my daily Bread, still.
glosses: As having dependence.
redemptionaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redemptionary
redemptionary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redemptionaries
Etymology: From redemption + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: […]be admitted in the said society, but as redemptionaries, which will be very chargeable
ref: 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC:
glosses: One who is, or may be, redeemed; one who is set at liberty, or released from a bond, by paying compensation or fulfilling stipulated conditions.
foreshower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foreshowers
form: foreshewer
Etymology: From foreshow + -er.
Senses: examples: text: “Ay, ay, a dream, quotha! dreams are but the foreshowers of the future, my mistress.”
ref: 1842 February, Frances Elizabeth Davis, “Memories of Gibraltar, No. IX: The Merchant’s Daughter”, in The Metropolitan Magazine, volume 33, number 130, page 283:
glosses: One who, or that which, foreshows; a prophet or omen.
foreshowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foreshower
newing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of new
sheathy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈʃiːθi/
Forms: form: more sheathy
form: most sheathy
Etymology: From sheath + -y.
Senses: examples: text: with a needle put aside the short and sheathy cases on their back
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Forming or resembling a sheath or case.
physoclist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: physoclists
Etymology: From physo- + Ancient Greek κλειστός (kleistós, “closed, shut”).
Senses: qualifier: marine biology
glosses: A fish whose swim bladder is not open to its esophagus. .
Derived terms: physoclistous
physoclists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of physoclist
saily
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more saily
form: most saily
Etymology: From sail + -y.
Senses: examples: text: From Penmens craggy height to try her saily wings
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 10 p. 157:
glosses: Resembling a sail, or sailing.
tauriform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tauriform
form: most tauriform
Etymology: From Latin taurifōrmis, from taurus (“a bull”) + -form. Compare French tauriforme.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of a bull.
tubivalve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tubivalves
Etymology: From tube and valve.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A shell or tube formed by an annelid, such as a serpula.
tubivalves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tubivalve
inhabitress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inhabitresses
Etymology: From inhabitor + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female inhabitant.
inhabitresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inhabitress
attirement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attirements
Etymology: From attire + -ment.
Senses: glosses: attire; adornment
attirements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attirement
pandarous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pandarous
form: most pandarous
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of panderous.
countertrippant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: counter-trippant
Etymology: From counter- + trippant.
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
synonyms: countertripping
glosses: Trippant in opposite directions.
expiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle French expiable.
Senses: examples: an expiable offence
glosses: Capable of being expiated or atoned for.
Derived terms: inexpiable
unexpiable
kiths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kith
sympathisingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sympathisingly
form: most sympathisingly
Etymology: From sympathising + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Had the reproaches been more biting, or the taunts more keen, Buckingham might have been amused by them; but, such as they were, they proved exceedingly tiresome; and weariness took the form of pity for Francesca. "He will certainly talk the poor girl to death," thought he; and he looked sympathisingly on her pale and melancholy countenance.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXXIX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 323:
glosses: Alternative form of sympathizingly.
sympathizingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sympathizingly
form: most sympathizingly
form: sympathisingly
Etymology: From sympathizing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With sympathy.
intertexture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intertextures
Etymology: From inter- + texture.
Senses: glosses: The act of interweaving, or the state of being interwoven.
examples: text: knit in nice intertexture
ref: 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, To a Friend:
text: skirted thick with intertexture firm / Of thorny boughs
ref: 1782–1785, William Cowper, “(please specify the page)”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC:
text: Now the co-presence of something regular, something to which the mind has been accustomed when in an unexcited or a less excited state, cannot but have great efficacy in tempering and restraining the passion by an intertexture of ordinary feeling
ref: 1800, William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads, Preface:
text: At length, after walking a long way in the woods, we arrived at another thicket, through the intertexture of which was glimmering a pale rosy light.
ref: 1858, George MacDonald, Phantastes:
glosses: That which is interwoven.
flavous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfleɪvəs/
rhymes: -eɪvəs
Forms: form: more flavous
form: most flavous
Etymology: Latin flavus.
Senses: examples: text: Already there are many flavous colors in the landscape, much maturity of small seeds.
ref: 1884, Henry David Thoreau, Summer in Massachusetts:
glosses: yellow
triphyllous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + phyllous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: trifoliate
glosses: Having three leaves or leaflike structures
triquadrantal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + quadrantal.
Senses: examples: text: A triquadrantal triangle is one whose three sides are quadrants, and whose three angles are consequently right angles.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
coordinate_terms: biquadrantal
glosses: Having three quadrants.
antibrachial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of antebrachial.
intercarotid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + carotid.
Senses: examples: text: intercarotid ganglion
text: intercarotid nerve
text: intercarotid gland
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated between the carotids (carotid arteries).
siphuncular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin sīphunculus + -ar.
Senses: examples: text: siphuncular membrane
text: siphuncular tube
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to the siphuncle.
Derived terms: endosiphuncular
intrasiphuncular
crena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crenae
Etymology: From Latin crēna.
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: A furrow or notch.
crenae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crena
mistrustless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mistrust + -less.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he Geeſe ſeeing this counterfet Gooſe [the ounce), approach nigh to viſit him, vvho with a ſuddaine jerke apprehends his miſtruſtleſſe prey.
ref: 1634, William Wood, “Of the Beasts that Live on the Land”, in New Englands Prospect. A True, Lively, and Experimentall Description of that Part of America, Commonly Called New England; […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Bellamie, […], →OCLC, 1st part, page 23:
text: The ſwain miſtruſtleſs of his ſmutted face, / While ſecret laughter tittered round the place […]
ref: 1770, [Oliver] Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, a Poem, London: […] W[illiam] Griffin, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Without mistrust or suspicion; trusting, unsuspecting.
crap oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: craps oneself
form: crapping oneself
form: crapped oneself
form: crapped oneself
Senses: glosses: to soil oneself.
glosses: to feel extremely frightened or apprehensive.
polycerate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polycerate
form: most polycerate
Etymology: From poly- + Ancient Greek κέρας (kéras).
Senses: examples: text: Jacob sheep are polycerate, commonly having four horns.
glosses: having multiple pairs of horns.
raw_tags: of sheep