cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
obtruncation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin obtruncatio.
Senses: examples: text: obtruncation of any member
ref: 1644, Edw[ard] Coke, The Fourth Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England. […], London: […] M[iles] Flesher, for W[illiam] Lee, and D[aniel] Pakeman, →OCLC:
glosses: The act of lopping or cutting off.
Related terms: obtruncate
grammaticize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: grammaticizes
form: grammaticizing
form: grammaticized
form: grammaticized
Etymology: From grammatic + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: the very first attempt to embody, to arrange, or to grammaticize, this language
ref: a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC:
glosses: Synonym of grammaticalize (“to make grammatical”).
synonyms: word: grammaticalize
extra: to make grammatical
examples: text: ... organization (hence its heavy reliance on passives), but does not seem to grammaticize any person-based constraint. In languages with canonical inverse constructions (say Algonquian languages), the non-local person-based constraint is the primary determinant of argument encoding, and ordinary notion of topicality (which is local) plays little role.
ref: 2008, Robert D. Van Valin, Jr., Investigations of the SyntaxSemanticsPragmatics Interface, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 56:
text: Languages differ in the extent to which they grammaticize forms within this constrained inventory of conceptual domains and individual concepts, and this inventory, Talmy argues, amounts to the fundamental conceptual structuring system […]
ref: 2008, Peter Robinson, Nick C. Ellis, Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of grammaticalize (“to to cause (something) to be required by the rules of grammar”).
synonyms: word: grammaticalize
extra: (“to to cause (something) to be required by the rules of grammar”)
examples: text: Or to put it another way, the present tense use did not grammaticize. I suggest that the reason for this is that the habitual was more frequently used in the past than the present, since in the present there would be fewer cases […]
ref: 1994, William Pagliuca, Perspectives on Grammaticalization, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 247:
text: Clause initial position is a frequent place for anaphoric elements and markers of textual coherence to grammaticize. The grammaticalization of a QP from a disjunction with anaphoric function fits well into this picture.
ref: 1996, Chicago Linguistic Society. Meeting, Proceedings from the Main Session of the Chicago Linguistic Society's ... Meeting, →ISBN:
text: Thus it appears that one avenue by which cunnan begins to grammaticize as an auxiliary is determined by the fact that it was already frequent and had already undergone some weakening of its semantic content.
ref: 2006, Joan Bybee, Frequency of Use and the Organization of Language, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 342:
glosses: Synonym of grammaticalize (“to cause to undergo grammaticization/grammaticalization”).
synonyms: word: grammaticalize
extra: to cause to undergo grammaticization/grammaticalization
Derived terms: grammaticizable
ungrammaticized
grammaticized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of grammaticize
grammaticizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of grammaticize
grammaticizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of grammaticize
sidemeat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sidemeats
Etymology: From side + meat.
Senses: glosses: A cut of pork with a sweet taste, typically taken from above the flank of the pig.
bigass
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bigass
form: most bigass
Etymology: * big + ass
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of big-ass.
big ass
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more big ass
form: most big ass
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of big-ass.
Wilken
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Wilkin, from a Middle English pet form of William.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Wilkens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Wilkin, from a Middle English pet form of William + patronymic suffix -s.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Wilkerson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Wilkin + -son.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A census-designated place in Inyo County, California, United States.
Willison
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Willisons
Etymology: From a diminutive form of Will + -son.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Willet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Willett
form: Willette
Etymology: Variant of Willett.
From a medieval diminutive form of the given name Will.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
athermic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌeɪˈθɜɹmɪk/
Forms: form: more athermic
form: most athermic
Etymology: From a- + thermic.
Senses: glosses: resistant to heat passing through; heat-resistant, heatproof
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: without an increase in temperature
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: involving no enthalpy exchange
raw_tags: of a chemical reaction
Willett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Willet
form: Willette
Etymology: From Will + -et.
From a medieval diminutive form of the given name Will, from William.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Synonyms: word: Gillet
word: Gillett
word: Gillette
Willott
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a medieval diminutive form of the given name Will.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Willetts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Willets
Etymology: From a medieval diminutive form of the given name Will + patronymic suffix -s.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Wilmot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wilmots
form: Wilmarth
form: Wilmeth
form: Wilmoth
form: Wilmott
Etymology: From a medieval diminutive form of the given name William.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A rural community of Kentish council area, northern Tasmania, Australia.
glosses: A number of places in Canada:
A civil parish in Carleton County, New Brunswick.
glosses: A number of places in Canada:
A community in Annapolis County, Nova Scotia.
glosses: A number of places in Canada:
A township in Waterloo regional municipality, south-western Ontario.
glosses: A number of places in Canada:
A neighbourhood of Summerside, Prince Edward Island.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Ashley County, Arkansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Washington Township, Noble County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Cowley County, Kansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Kingston Township, Tuscola County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Merrimack County, New Hampshire.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Jackson County, North Carolina.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Stark County, Ohio.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Roberts County, South Dakota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in King George County, Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Salem Lakes, Kenosha County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
Three townships in the United States, listed under Wilmot Township.
Wilmott
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a medieval diminutive form of the given name William.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Willmot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a medieval diminutive form of the given name William.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A suburb of Sydney in the City of Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia.
Willmott
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Willmotts
Etymology: From a diminutive form of the personal name William.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
Willmett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a medieval diminutive form of the given name William.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Willimott
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a medieval diminutive form of the given name William.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Williment
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a medieval diminutive form of the given name William.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Willment
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a medieval diminutive form of the given name William.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Gilham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a medieval variant of the given name William.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Gillam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a medieval variant of the given name William.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A town in northern Manitoba, Canada.
glosses: A township in Jasper County, Indiana, United States.
Gillham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a medieval variant of the given name William.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A town in Sevier County, Arkansas, United States.
Derived terms: Gillham code
Gillham interface
Gilliam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a medieval variant of the given name William.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Derived terms: Gilliam County
Gilliamesque
Gillum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a medieval variant of the given name William.
Senses: examples: text: The police report said that officers, who told CNN they are not currently pursuing criminal charges, arrived to the scene just after midnight and found Gillum and a second person, Aldo Mejias, in the hotel room.
ref: 2020 March 13, Oliver Darcy, “Andrew Gillum apologizes after being found ‘inebriated’ in hotel room where police say man was treated for ‘possible drug overdose’”, in CNN Business:
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Gillett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gillet
form: Gillette
Etymology: From Gill + -et.
From a medieval diminutive of the given name Gill.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A placename
A city in Arkansas, United States.
glosses: A placename
A city in Wisconsin, United States.
glosses: A placename
An unincorporated community in Karnes County, Texas, United States.
Related terms: sense: surname, from forms of William
word: Willet
sense: surname, from forms of William
word: Willett
sense: surname, from forms of William
word: Willette
word: Gilet
word: Gilett
word: Gilette
word: Gillet
word: Gillette
Gillatt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a medieval diminutive of the given name Gill.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Gillet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gillets
form: Gillett
form: Gillette
Etymology: Variant of Gillett.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Related terms: Gilet
Gilett
Gilette
Gillett
Gillette
Gilliatt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a medieval diminutive of the given name Gill.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Gillott
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a medieval diminutive of the given name Gill.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Related terms: Gillot
Wilcock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Will + -cock (“a medieval diminutive suffix”)
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Related terms: Willcock
Wilcox
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Wilcock + -s (“the patronymic suffix”).
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A place name:
A village in the Rural Municipality of Bratt's Lake No. 129, Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: A place name:
In the United States:
An unincorporated community in Gilchrist County, Florida.
glosses: A place name:
In the United States:
A township in Newaygo County, Michigan.
glosses: A place name:
In the United States:
An unincorporated community in Nodaway County, Missouri.
glosses: A place name:
In the United States:
A village in Kearney County, Nebraska.
glosses: A place name:
In the United States:
A census-designated place in Jones Township, Elk County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A place name:
In the United States:
A ghost town in Somervell County, Texas.
glosses: A place name:
In the United States:
An extinct town in Whitman County, Washington.
glosses: A place name:
In the United States:
An unincorporated community in Grover, Marinette County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A place name:
In the United States:
An unincorporated community in Albany County, Wyoming.
Derived terms: Wilcox County
Wilk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wilks
form: Wilke
form: Wilkie
form: Wilkey
form: Wilks
form: Wilkes
Etymology: * (Polish surname): From Polish Wilk, from Polish wilk (“wolf”),
* (English surname): A back-formation from Wilkin, from a medieval diminutive of the given name Will.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
An English surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A surname.
A surname from Polish.
Synonyms: word: Wilkin
word: Wilkins
word: Wilkinson
word: Will
word: William
word: Williams
word: Williamson
word: Wills
Wilke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wilkes
form: Wilk
form: Wilkie
form: Wilkey
form: Wilks
form: Wilkes
Etymology: Variant of Wilk, a back-formation from Wilkin.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Synonyms: Wilkin
Wilkins
Wilkinson
Will
William
Williams
Williamson
Wills
Wilkes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /wɪlkiːs/
Forms: form: Wilkes
form: Wilkeses
form: Wilk
form: Wilke
form: Wilkie
form: Wilkey
form: Wilks
Etymology: From Wilk, a back-formation from Wilkin + the patronymic suffix -s.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A neighbourhood of Portland, Oregon, United States.
Synonyms: Wilkin
Wilkins
Wilkinson
Will
William
Williams
Williamson
Wills
Derived terms: County of Wilkes
Wilkes-Barre
Wilkesboro
Wilkes County
Wilkes Land
Wilkes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /wɪlkiːs/
Etymology: From Wilke + -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of Wilke
Wilks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wilks
form: Wilkses
form: Wilk
form: Wilke
form: Wilkie
form: Wilkey
form: Wilkes
Etymology: From Wilk, a back-formation from Wilkin + the patronymic suffix -s.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Synonyms: Wilkin
Wilkins
Wilkinson
Will
William
Williams
Williamson
Wills
Wilks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Wilk + -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of Wilk
Wilkie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wilkies
form: Wilk
form: Wilke
form: Wilkey
form: Wilks
form: Wilkes
Etymology: From a Scottish diminutive of Wilk, a back-formation from Wilkin.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages, in modern use often transferred back from the surname.
glosses: A town in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Synonyms: word: Wilkin
word: Wilkins
word: Wilkinson
word: Will
word: William
word: Williams
word: Williamson
word: Wills
sense: given name
word: Bill
sense: given name
word: Billie
sense: given name
word: Billy
sense: given name
word: Will
sense: given name
word: William
sense: given name
word: Willie
sense: given name
word: Wills
sense: given name
word: Willy
Fitzwilliam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Fitz- + William.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A village in Hemsworth parish, Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE4115).
glosses: A town in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, United States.
qualifier: Cambridge University
glosses: Ellipsis of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.
Derived terms: Fitzwilliamite
Willems
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: * (English): From a medieval variant of William + the patronymic suffix -s.
* (Dutch): From Dutch Willems
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
A surname from English, variant of Williams
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
A surname from Dutch, equivalent to English Williams
Coordinate terms: Bilson
Willes
William
Williamson
Wilson
Willes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Willeses
Etymology: Variant of Wills.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Willets
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Willetses
Etymology: Variant of Willetts.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Jackson County, North Carolina, United States.
excretin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From excrete + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A non-nitrogenous crystalline body present in small quantities in human feces.
bong hits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bong hit
bucket bongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bucket bong
Arminius
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Arminius, probably from Proto-Germanic *ermunaz, but has been associated, at least since the 16th century, with the name Herman, German Hermann.
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A chieftain of the Cherusci (an ancient Germanic tribe) who defeated the Romans in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.
glosses: Jacobus Arminius, Dutch theologian and founder of Arminianism.
e-petition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-petitions
Etymology: From e- + petition.
Senses: glosses: A petition that is published on the Internet to be signed by online supporters.
e-petitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-petition
persicot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French persicot. See peach.
Senses: glosses: A cocktail made of the kernels of apricots, nectarines, etc., with refined spirit.
subcolumnar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + columnar.
Senses: examples: text: subcolumnar strata
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Imperfectly or columnar.
muringer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muringers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of murenger.
muringers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muringer
scauper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scaupers
Etymology: Compare scalper.
Senses: examples: text: If you can, engrave some scroll work on the silver cap with a sharp scauper
ref: 1889, P. Tracy, “Note on Mounting Shark Teeth”, in Science-Gossip:
glosses: A tool with a semicircular edge, used by engravers to clear away the spaces between the lines of an engraving.
scaupers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scauper
elderish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more elderish
form: most elderish
Etymology: From elder + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat old; elderly.
renterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: renterers
Etymology: From renter + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who renters.
renterers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of renterer
floriform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more floriform
form: most floriform
Etymology: From Latin flos, floris (“flower”) + -form. Compare French floriforme.
Senses: glosses: Shaped like a flower.
physiolatries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of physiolatry
physiolatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌfɪziˈɒlətɹi/
Forms: form: physiolatries
Etymology: From physio- + -latry.
Senses: examples: text: physiolatry of the evolution hypothesis
ref: 1875, John Muehleisen Arnold, Genesis and Science:
glosses: The worship of nature.
Related terms: physiolatrous
inlandish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: In some senses, from inland + -ish ("resembling or pertaining to an inland region"); in other senses, apparently from Middle English inlendisc (“native, indigenous”), from Old English inlendisċ; seemingly always to serve as an antonym to outlandish (“foreign, extravagant”).
Senses: examples: text: Thou art all for inlandish meat, and outlandish sawces […]
ref: 1657, Thomas Reeve, God's Plea:
text: So also let every one who is cognizant or perpetrator, where an outlandish man injures an inlandish one, clear himself of that privity, according to the value of the property; […]
ref: 1840, Benjamin Thorpe, Ancient Laws and Institutes of England:
text: That the company will take all the colonists as well free, as those that are in service, under their protection, and the same against all outlandish and inlandish wars and powers, with the forces they have there, as much as in their power layeth to defend.
ref: 1848, Isaac S. Mulford, Civil and Political History of New Jersey, page 56:
text: In Fife or Forfar? Or some one or other of your outlandish, or inlandish, Lowland or Highland Counties?
ref: 1849 November, John Wilson, “Dies Boreales”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 66, number 409:
text: […] and sometimes pushing too far, the transformation from an outlandish colonial history into an inlandish national one.
ref: 1965, Soedjatmoko, An Introduction to Indonesian Historiography, page 20:
text: The text is quite “outlandish” in its format, and if we only allow for “inlandish” styles of writing, the Laozi will always remain alien to us.
ref: 2006, Hans-Georg Moeller, The Philosophy of the Daodejing:
glosses: Relating to or produced in the land itself, domestic, home, native.
examples: text: A rap is literally inlandish (the product of barbarians born within the gates), a scatological scat-singing, the agonistic display of an uncomplicatedly emoting mammal.
ref: 2001, Adrian Trehorse, The Last Angry White Man, page 179:
text: TALESPINNER, MILKO was in awe because he could tell some really outlandish, or maybe inlandish, tales himself. But, he had never heard such tales.
ref: 2001, Bradley M. Fralick, Through My Head: Essays by a Brain Injury Survivor:
text: The Hamburg Chamber of Commerce regarded Berlin as inlandish and bureaucratic, given to underestimating the overpowering place of London as a gold, exchange and capital market, and unaware of the need for German trade to grow […]
ref: 2015, Charles P. Kindleberger, A Financial History of Western Europe, page 125:
glosses: Characteristic of one who is native or native-born; inexperienced, naïve, simplistic, unrefined.
examples: text: Seaside greens need not become more and more “inlandish” in character.
ref: 1931, The Journal of the Sports Turf Research Institute:
text: There are some flattish, but not inlandish, holes on the way home from the turn, but I think the finish is rather weak when considered on a par with Deal, for instance.
ref: 1948, John Board, The Right Way to Become a Golfer, page 114:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the interior of a country; of an inland nature or character.
Related terms: inlander
meteorographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meteorography + -ic.
Senses: synonyms: meteorographical
glosses: Of or pertaining to meteorography.
dissyllabification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: dissyllabifications
Etymology: From dis- + syllabification.
Senses: glosses: A division into two syllables.
dissyllabifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dissyllabification
emigrational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From emigration + -al.
Senses: examples: text: emigrational behaviour
text: emigrational loss
text: emigrational tendency
glosses: Relating to emigration.
invocatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more invocatory
form: most invocatory
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin invocō (“I invoke”) + -ory. Compare French invocatoire.
Senses: glosses: Containing or characterized by invocation; invoking.
savingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more savingly
form: most savingly
Etymology: From saving + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to save; with frugality or parsimony.
examples: text: But this Itch in spite of Morals will be catching, and the beginning natural pleasure will often urge the smartful end, especially in the precipitant Youth, who scarcely sufficiently dread the Fire till they have been savingly burnt.
ref: 1679, Thomas Trapham, A Discurse of the State of Health in the Island of Jamaica, page 112:
text: savingly born of water and the Spirit
ref: 1738, Daniel Waterland, The Christian sacrifice explained:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: So as to be finally saved from eternal death.
ruridecanal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin rūs, rūris (“the country”) + decānus (“the chief of ten”). See dean.
Senses: examples: text: a ruridecanal district
text: the ruridecanal intellect
glosses: Of or pertaining to a rural dean.
hagged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæɡɪd/
rhymes: -æɡɪd
Forms: form: more hagged
form: most hagged
Etymology: From hag + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The ghostly prudes with hagged face
Already had condemned the sinner.
ref: c. 1750, Thomas Gray, A Long Story (poem):
text: Woe-begone mother, half anger, half agony,
As over thy shoulder thou lookest to hush the babe,
Bleakly the blinding snow beats in thy hagged face.
ref: 1799, Robert Southey, Poems (poem), The Soldier's Wife:
text: The face of yourself you see in the mirror with its expression of unbearable anguish so hagged and awful with sorrow you cant even cry for a thing so ugly, so lost, no connection whatever with early perfection and therefore nothing to connect with tears or anything
ref: 1962, Jack Kerouac, Big Sur, Chapter 2:
synonyms: haglike
glosses: Like a hag; ugly.
hagged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæɡɪd/
rhymes: -æɡɪd
ipa: /hæɡd/
rhymes: -æɡd
ipa: /ˈhæɡɪd/
rhymes: -æɡɪd
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hag
optimity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin optimitas, from optimus (“the best”).
Senses: examples: text: having shewed what Optimity, or Transcendent goodness is[…]
ref: 1672, Richard Burthogge, Τἀγαθον:
glosses: The state of being best.
Related terms: optimal
refashionment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refashionments
Etymology: From refashion + -ment.
Senses: examples: 1855, Leigh Hunt, Preface to Stories in Verse
The refashionment of the poem was always an unwilling and I now believe was a mistaken concession to what I supposed to be the ascertained facts of the story and the better conveyance of the moral.
glosses: The act of refashioning, or the state of being refashioned.
refashionments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of refashionment
enambush
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enambushes
form: enambushing
form: enambushed
form: enambushed
Etymology: From en- + ambush.
Senses: examples: text: For which they went, within a vale close to a flood, whose stream
Us'd to give all their cattle drink, they there enambush'd them
ref: [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:
glosses: To ambush.
enambushed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enambush
enambushes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enambush
enambushing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enambush
ignigenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin ignigenus, from ignis (“fire”) + genere, ginere (“to beget, produce”).
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: igneous
misletoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misletoes
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of mistletoe.
misletoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misletoe
rapturist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rapturists
Etymology: From rapture + -ist.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: One who believes in the rapture.
examples: J. Spencer
Such swarms of prophets and rapturists have flown out of those hives in some ages.
glosses: A religious enthusiast or zealot.
rapturists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rapturist
cacodoxical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cacodoxical
form: most cacodoxical
Senses: glosses: heretical
spermatogenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spermato- + -genous.
Senses: examples: text: spermatogenous cell
text: spermatogenous filament
text: spermatogenous thread
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Producing sperm.
Related terms: spermatogenesis
spermatogenetic
interalveolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːələ(ɹ)
-əʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From inter- + alveolar.
Senses: examples: text: interalveolar pores
text: interalveolar distance
text: interalveolar walls
text: interalveolar septa in the lungs
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Between alveoli.
palinodial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From palinode + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: […] their Prince issued a Palinodial proclamation, suspending the orders on certain conditions, but claiming to renew them at pleasure, as a matter of right.
ref: 1813, Thomas Jefferson, letter to Madame de Staël Holstein (28 May 1813)
glosses: Of or pertaining to a palinode, or retraction.
arrestive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more arrestive
form: most arrestive
Etymology: From arrest + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: Some [emotions] are Instigative, and others Arrestive.
ref: 1850, James McCosh, The Method of the Divine Government, New York: Robert Caster, published 1851, Book 3, Chapter 3, p. 422:
text: This reactive recoiling from something clearly in our nature is itself unnatural. It is as arrestive of emotional progress as the opposite practice of uncontrolled indulgence, which is a symptom, not a cause, of emotional immaturity.
ref: 1973, Hugh Downs, chapter 11, in Potential: The Way to Emotional Maturity, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, page 188:
text: […] most periodontal therapy aims to prevent the initiation, progression, or recurrence of periodontal diseases. This can be termed arrestive periodontal therapy.
ref: 2006, Mea A. Weinberg et al., chapter 21, in Comprehensive Periodontics for the Dental Hygienist, 2nd edition, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, page 315:
glosses: Tending to arrest.
Tending to stop or slow a process.
examples: text: As fast they pressed with laboring breath,
Clinched teeth and knitted frown,
The sharp, arrestive cry rang out,—
“The color-bearer’s down!”
ref: 1870, Margaret Junkin Preston, “The Color-Bearer”, in Old Song and New, Philadelphia: Lippincott, p. ,144:
text: I noted a curious streak of yellow in the silvered eyebrows, as if youth clung on, so to speak, by a single hair, and underneath these arrestive eyebrows green pupils alternately glowed and smouldered.
ref: 1899, Israel Zangwill, “Bethulah”, in They That Walk in Darkness: Ghetto Tragedies, Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, pages 198–199:
text: First, the reader notices in an O. Henry story the quiet but arrestive beginning.
ref: 1916, C. Alphonso Smith, chapter 1, in O. Henry Biography, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, page 3:
glosses: Tending to arrest.
Tending to capture people’s attention.
synonyms: arresting
captivating
conspicuous
remarkable
striking
Derived terms: arrestively
arrestiveness
dermopathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dermo- + -pathic.
Senses: glosses: dermatopathic
birdlimes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of birdlime
compellations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compellation
'mongst
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: No more do souls of men. For stories sayen
Well known 'mongst countrey folk, our spirits fly, […]
ref: 1647, Henry More, “[Philosophical Poems.] Antipsychopannychia or The Third Book of the Song of the Soul: Containing a Confutation of the Sleep of the Soul after Death. The Præexistency of the Soul, […].”, in Alexander B[alloch] Grosart, editor, The Complete Poems of Dr. Henry More (1614–1687) […] (Chertsey Worthies’ Library), [Edinburgh: […] Edinburgh University Press; Thomas and Archibald Constable, […]] for private circulation, published 1878, →OCLC, stanza 78, page 126, column 1:
glosses: Aphetic form of amongst.
post up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: posts up
form: posting up
form: posted up
form: posted up
Senses: examples: text: If the bailiff does not find the witness at his home, he will post up a court warrant there instead.
glosses: To affix a notice, announcement etc, to a post, board, wall or the like.
glosses: To enter any information, data etc (into a register, account, record etc).
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To establish a position in the frontcourt on one side or the other of the free-throw lane, especially used against smaller defenders.
examples: text: I'll post up by the window to look out for him.
glosses: To occupy a position.
Related terms: keep someone posted up
tartufes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tartufe
triptyques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triptyque
excentre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: excentres
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of excenter.
excentres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of excentre
zygolith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zygoliths
Etymology: From zygo- + -lith.
Senses: glosses: A form of coccolithophore having an elliptical ring with arches
wize
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪz
Forms: form: more wize
form: most wize
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of wise.
wizely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more wizely
form: most wizely
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of wisely.
PERT charts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PERT chart
antepetalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ante- + petalous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Used of inner parts of flowers, most often stamens, that are in equal number to and aligned with the petals.
antesepalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ante- + sepalous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Used of inner parts of flowers, most often stamens, that are in equal number to and aligned with the sepals.
pneumonoconiosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pneumonoconioses
Etymology: From German Pneumonokoniosis (1867), from Pneumono- (“lung”) + Ancient Greek κόνις (kónis, “dust”) + German -osis (“disease”). In the earliest attestation (1878), after French pneumonokoniose (1878 or earlier). By surface analysis, pneumono- (“lung”) + coniosis (“disease caused by the inhalation of dust”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pneumoconiosis.
Derived terms: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
epigynous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having an inferior ovary that is completely buried within the receptacle.
Related terms: hypogynous
perigynous
staminodium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staminodia
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of staminode.
merosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The number of component parts in a whorl, most commonly of flowers.
agalmatolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agalmatolites
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄγαλμα (ágalma, “statue”, stem amalgat-) + -o- + -lite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: figure stone
pagodite
glosses: A soft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish color, which was used in China for carvings in pagodas. It is probably a variety of pinite.
agalmatolites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agalmatolite
diplostemonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having twice as many stamens as petals in two whorls, the inner aligned with the petals.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having twice as many stamens as petals.
Related terms: diplostemony
obdiplostemonous
haplostemonous
antivaccinist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antivaccinists
Etymology: From antivaccine + -ist.
Senses: glosses: antivaccinationist
antivaccinists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antivaccinist
didascalar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of didascalic.
heterophemist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterophemists
Etymology: From heterophemy + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone prone to heterophemy.
Related terms: malapropist
heterophemists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heterophemist
leany
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈliːni/
Forms: form: more leany
form: most leany
Etymology: From lean + -y.
Senses: examples: text: fat kernes, and leany knaves
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Iulye. Ægloga Septima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:
glosses: lean
glosses: leaning; inclined
miscognize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: miscognizes
form: miscognizing
form: miscognized
form: miscognized
Etymology: From mis- + cognize.
Senses: examples: text: The good never intervert, nor miscognize the favour and benefit which they have received.
ref: 1603, Plutarch, translated by Philemon Holland, The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC:
glosses: To fail to apprehend; to misunderstand.
miscognized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of miscognize
miscognizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of miscognize
miscognizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of miscognize
obolize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: obolizes
form: obolizing
form: obolized
form: obolized
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of obelize.
obolized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of obolize
obolizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of obolize
obolizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of obolize
relessor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relessors
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of releasor.
relessors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relessor
renascency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Job would not only curse the day of his Nativity, but also of his Renascency, if he were to act over his Disasters, and the miseries of the Dunghil.
ref: 1716, Sir Thomas Browne, Christian Morals:
glosses: Archaic form of renascence.
reposance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From repose + -ance.
Senses: examples: text: See what sweet Reposance heaven can beget.
ref: 1646, John Hall, “Anteros”, in Poems:
glosses: reliance
idioted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɪdiətɪd/
Forms: form: more idioted
form: most idioted
Etymology: From idiot + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: And being much befool'd and idioted
By the rough amity of the other
ref: 1864, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the poem)”, in Enoch Arden, &c., London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: Rendered idiotic; befooled; made to look silly.
landloper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: landlopers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of landlouper.
landlopers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of landloper
lymphography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lymphographies
Etymology: From lymph + -ography.
Senses: glosses: A medical imaging technique using a radiocontrast agent to visualize structures of the lymphatic system.
glosses: A description of the lymphatic vessels, their origin and uses.
Derived terms: microlymphography
Related terms: lymphographic
lymphographical
lymphographically
repercussive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more repercussive
form: most repercussive
Senses: examples: text: Ye repercussive rocks! repeat the sound.
ref: 1728, William Pattison, Verses on the Fifth of November:
glosses: Tending or able to repercuss; having the power of sending back; causing to reverberate.
examples: text: Rages loud the repercussive roar.
ref: a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
glosses: Driven back; rebounding; reverberated.
examples: text: Blood is stanched[…] by astringent and repercussive medicines.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: Repellent; driving back.
repercussive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repercussives
Senses: examples: text: rheums and defluxions, which if you apply a strong repercussive to the place affected , and do not take away the cause of the disease , will shift and fall straightways to another joint or place
ref: a. 1627 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “Considerations Touching a Warre with Spaine. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany Works of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount S. Alban. […], London: […] I. Hauiland for Humphrey Robinson, […], published 1629, →OCLC:
glosses: A repellent.
repercussives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repercussive
silkweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silkweeds
Etymology: From silk + weed.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant of the genus Asclepias whose seed vessels contain a long, silky down; milkweed.
Derived terms: swamp silkweed
vailer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈveɪlə(ɹ)/
homophone: veiler
Forms: form: vailers
Etymology: From vail + -er.
Senses: examples: text: if he finds not good ſtore of vailers , vailers, hee comes home ſtiffe and ſeer
ref: 1614, Thomas Overbury, Characters:
glosses: one who vails
vailers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vailer
flustration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "I was in a fine flustration myself when I heard it ; and then to get so affronted as I did on account![…]"
ref: 1824, Regina Maria Roche, The Tradition of the Castle: Or, Scenes in the Emerald Isle:
glosses: The act of flustrating; confusion; flurry or flustering.
frolicly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more frolicly
form: most frolicly
Etymology: From frolic + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Comming to ſee you, I was ſet upon, / I and my men, as we were ſinging frolickly, / Not dreaming of an ambuſh of baſe rogues, / Set on ith' forreſt, [...]
ref: c. 1623–1624 – 1630s, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Lovers Progres”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii, page 74, column 2:
text: After some dys frolicly spent at Bath, he returned to his former temper
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641, Oxford: The Theater:
text: But, from a banquet that the Gods have blest
In men whose spirits are frolicly inclin'd,
Perform those rights that propagate thy kind.
ref: 1858, Richard Hooper (translator), Homer (original), Batrachomyomachia:
glosses: In a frolicsome manner; gaily or joyfully.
incoalescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + coalescence.
Senses: glosses: The state of not coalescing; absence of coalescence.
obhaplostemonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ob- + haplostemonous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a single series of stamens equal in number to petals, but opposite with them.
Related terms: diplostemonous
obdiplostemonous
haplostemonous
bashless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bashless
form: most bashless
Etymology: From bash + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Come on Maister schoole-maister, be not so bashlesse, we say, that the fairest are ever the gentlest
ref: a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:
english: The New Arcadia
translation: The New Arcadia
glosses: shameless
Derived terms: bashlessness
Related terms: abash
bashful
spindletail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spindletails
Etymology: From spindle + tail.
Senses: glosses: The pintail duck.
spindletails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spindletail
trachinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trachinoid
form: most trachinoid
Etymology: Trachinus + -oid
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or like fish of genus Trachinus (the weevers).
trachinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trachinoids
Etymology: Trachinus + -oid
Senses: glosses: Any weever of the genus Trachinus
Brownist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brownists
Etymology: From Brown + -ist.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: One who advocates the Brunonian system of medicine.
Brownist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brownists
Etymology: From Browne + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An English Dissenter and follower of Robert Browne (Brownist) (1540–1633).
Brownists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brownist
misrelate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misrelates
form: misrelating
form: misrelated
form: misrelated
Etymology: From mis- + relate.
Senses: glosses: To relate inaccurately.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To form a spurious connection between two words or concepts.
Related terms: misrelation
misrelated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misrelate
misrelates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misrelate