cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
recaption
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recaptions
form: recaptioning
form: recaptioned
form: recaptioned
Etymology: From re- + caption.
Senses: examples: text: The newspaper was forced to recaption the photograph to avoid a libel suit.
glosses: To assign a new caption to.
recognizant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to recognizance
Related terms: recognizance
rediscount
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rediscounts
form: rediscounting
form: rediscounted
form: rediscounted
Etymology: From re- + discount.
Senses: glosses: To discount again.
rediscount
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rediscounts
Etymology: From re- + discount.
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent discount.
regalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regalisms
Etymology: From regal + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The doctrine of the ecclesiastical supremacy of a sovereign.
regardable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more regardable
form: most regardable
Etymology: From regard + -able.
Senses: glosses: Worthy of regard; noteworthy.
glosses: Able to be regarded or viewed (as something).
reglaze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reglazes
form: reglazing
form: reglazed
form: reglazed
Etymology: From re- + glaze.
Senses: examples: text: The ticket hall has also been reglazed, while a new public footbridge is due to be erected as part of a wider scheme planned for the area.
ref: 2023 January 25, “Network News: Crawley's £6m refresh complete”, in RAIL, number 975, page 19:
glosses: To glaze again.
regorge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈɡɔː(ɹ)d͡ʒ/
Forms: form: regorges
form: regorging
form: regorged
form: regorged
Etymology: From French regorger. Compare regurgitate.
Senses: examples: text: it was scoffingly said that he had eaten the kings goose and did then regorge the feathers
ref: a. 1628 (date written), John Hayward, The Life, and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press, and J. Lichfield at Oxford?] for Iohn Partridge, […], published 1630, →OCLC:
glosses: To disgorge or vomit.
examples: text: Tides at highest mark regorge the flood.
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, “Sigismonda and Guiscardo, from Boccace”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To swallow again; to swallow back.
rememorate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rememorates
form: rememorating
form: rememorated
form: rememorated
Etymology: From Latin rememoror.
Senses: glosses: To remember or recall
repudiatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more repudiatory
form: most repudiatory
Etymology: From repudiate + -ory.
Senses: synonyms: repudiative
glosses: Having the nature of repudiation; serving to repudiate.
repurify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: repurifies
form: repurifying
form: repurified
form: repurified
Etymology: From re- + purify.
Senses: glosses: To purify again
restrainable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more restrainable
form: most restrainable
Etymology: From restrain + -able.
Senses: glosses: That may be restrained
resumptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more resumptive
form: most resumptive
Senses: glosses: That is in the nature of resumption.
resumptive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resumptives
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A resumptive pronoun.
glosses: A restorative medicine.
retrobulbar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From retro- + bulbar.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Behind the medulla oblongata
returf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: returfs
form: returfing
form: returfed
form: returfed
form: re-turf
Etymology: From re- + turf.
Senses: glosses: To lay turf again
rewardless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rewardless
form: most rewardless
Etymology: From reward + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking reward
Kenyan Sign Language
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A particular sign language, used in Kenya.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Kenyan Sign Language terms
Tarentine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈtæɹəntaɪn/
Forms: form: more Tarentine
form: most Tarentine
Etymology: From Latin Tarentīnus, from Tarentum.
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to Tarentum
Tarentine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtæɹəntaɪn/
Forms: form: Tarentines
Etymology: From Latin Tarentīnus, from Tarentum.
Senses: glosses: inhabitant of Tarentum
Tarentines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tarentine
barbacan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barbacans
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of barbican.
glutination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡluːtɪˈneɪʃən/
Forms: form: glutinations
Etymology: From Latin glūtinō.
Senses: glosses: A gluing together; a joining together with, or as though with, glue.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Something that is used to close up a wound or join together the parts of a broken bone, torn vein, etc; the process of applying such a glutination to a wound.
Derived terms: conglutination
deglutination
rhizomorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhizomorphs
Etymology: From rhizo- + -morph.
Senses: examples: text: Cords and rhizomorphs are a good reminder that mycelial networks are transport networks.
ref: 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 63:
synonyms: mycelial cord
glosses: A rootlike structure, consisting of a dense mass of hyphae, in many fungi
Related terms: rhizomorphal
rhizomorphic
rhizomorphous
ribless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rib + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking ribs
rightable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rightable
form: most rightable
Etymology: From right + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be righted
rightish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɹaɪtɪʃ/
Forms: form: more rightish
form: most rightish
form: Right-ish
Etymology: From right + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat correct.
glosses: In a direction roughly to the right.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Towards the political right wing.
rightless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rightless
form: most rightless
Etymology: From right + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking rights or privileges.
Synonyms: rightsless
rubricate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rubricate
form: most rubricate
Etymology: From Latin rubricatus, past participle of rubricare (“to colour red”). See rubric.
Senses: glosses: Marked with red.
rubricate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rubricates
form: rubricating
form: rubricated
form: rubricated
Etymology: From Latin rubricatus, past participle of rubricare (“to colour red”). See rubric.
Senses: glosses: To write in the form of a rubric.
glosses: To create rubrication; to illuminate a manuscript with red letters.
rubrication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rubrications
Etymology: From rubric + -ation.
Senses: glosses: A form of calligraphy, in medieval manuscripts, in which added text was coloured in red.
Related terms: rubricate
saleroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salerooms
form: sale room
form: sale-room
Etymology: sale + room
Senses: glosses: A room in which items for sale are displayed; a showroom
examples: text: Many Victorian toys have now reached the salerooms and fetch far higher sums than their original prices.
ref: 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 84:
glosses: A room in which items are auctioned
satphone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: satphones
Etymology: Blend of satellite + phone.
Senses: examples: text: They’re there mostly if I have to make a decision so they can hand me a satphone and I can make a decision.”
ref: 2009 June 26, James Dao, “Politicians Disappear More Often Than You Think”, in New York Times:
glosses: Abbreviation of satellite phone
satellite phone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: satellite phones
Senses: glosses: A mobile phone that connects to an orbiting satellite instead of a cellular network
Synonyms: satellite telephone
satphone
scabious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scabious
form: most scabious
Etymology: From Medieval Latin scabiōsus (“scabious”), from Latin scabiēs (see scabies); partly reinterpretable as scab + -ious.
Senses: glosses: Having scabs.
glosses: Of or pertaining to scabies.
Related terms: scabrous
scabious
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scabiouses
Etymology: ]
From Medieval Latin scabiōsa, substantivized from scabiōsus (“scabious”), see Etymology 1; the name comes from their medical use in the Middle Ages to cure scabies and leprosy.
Senses: examples: text: The grassy track, so gay with scabious and bedstraw, was snow-white at the bottom of its ruts.
ref: 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, XII [Uniform ed., p. 128]:
glosses: Any of various herbaceous plants of the genus Scabiosa.
glosses: Any of several plants of the genus Knautia.
Synonyms: scabiosa
Derived terms: word: blue scabious
taxonomic: Succisa pratensis
word: devil's bit scabious
taxonomic: Knautia arvensis
word: field scabious
taxonomic: Jasione montana
word: sheep's bit scabious
alt: Erigeron spp.; Sixalix atropurpurea, syn. Scabiosa atropurpurea
word: sweet scabious
scatophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scatophagous
form: most scatophagous
Etymology: From New Latin scatophagus, from Ancient Greek σκατοφάγος (skatophágos), from σκατο- (skato-, “shit”) and φάγος (phágos, “eating”), from φᾰγεῖν (phăgeîn, “to eat”) + -ος (-os, “-ous”, forming adjectives). Equivalent to scato- + -phagous.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of coprophagous: typified by consuming shit or other excrement.
synonyms: word: coprophagous
extra: typified by consuming shit or other excrement
Related terms: scatophage
scatophagian
scorebox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scoreboxes
Etymology: From score + box.
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An enclosed structure in which the scorers sit; often behind the scoreboard
examples: text: Video games are notorious for having relatively unchanging areas on the screen (ie the scorebox), which can quickly be burned into the screen.
ref: 1994, Coyt D Watters, “Projection TVs and SEGA”, in rec.games.video.sega (Usenet):
text: Recall that our arcade game is to have a scorebox that knows how to increase itself, and observe that this implies there is a score.
ref: 2001, Matt Neuburg, REALbasic: the definitive guide, page 64:
topics: video-games
glosses: A box overlaid on the screen to display the player's score.
trouble the scorers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: troubles the scorers
form: troubling the scorers
form: troubled the scorers
form: troubled the scorers
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
qualifier: almost always in the negative
glosses: To score a run.
Related terms: without troubling the scorers
unsurprisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsurprisable
form: most unsurprisable
Etymology: From un- + surprisable.
Senses: glosses: Not surprisable.
surprisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more surprisable
form: most surprisable
Etymology: From surprise + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being surprised.
scraperboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scraper + board.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: scratchboard
scratchboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scratch + board.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: A technique in which drawings are created using sharp knives and tools for etching into a thin layer of white china clay that is coated with black India ink.
Synonyms: scraperboard
seborrhoea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of seborrhea.
give the lie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives the lie
form: giving the lie
form: gave the lie
form: given the lie
Etymology: From give + the + lie, where lie is used in an obsolete sense to mean a claim that someone is lying.
Senses: examples: text: Say to the Court, it glowes,
and shines like rotten wood;
Say to the Church, it shewes
whats good, and doth no good:
If Church and Court reply,
then giue them both the lye.
ref: c. 1592, Walter Raleigh, “The Lie”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), published 1608:
text: They gave the Queen the Lye divers times, and uſed her with moſt deſpiteful Speeches.
ref: 1593, Richard Bancroft, Daungerous positions and proceedings, published and practised within this iland of Brytaine:
text: It is reputed so great a shame to be accounted a lyer, that any other injury is cancelled by giving the lie; and he that receiveth it, standeth so charged in his honor and reputation, that he cannot disburden himselfe of that imputation, but by striking of him that hath so giuen it, or by challenging him the combat.
ref: 1606, Lodowick Bryskett, A Discourse of Civill Life: containing the Ethike Part of Morall Philosophie. Fit for the instructing of a Gentleman in the Course of a Vertuous Life.:
text: Ariel: Thou liest.
Stephano: Do I so? Take thou that! [Beats Trinculo] As you like this, give me the lie another time!
Trinculo: I did not give the lie! Out o' your wits and hearing too?[…]
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: The great Violation of the Point of Honour from Man to Man, is giving the Lie. One may tell another he Whores, Drinks, Blasphemes, and it may pass unresented; but to say he Lies, tho’ but in Jest, is an Affront that nothing but Blood can expiate.
ref: 1711, Joseph Addison, The Spectator, No. 99:
text: Whatever injury was the initial cause of the quarrel, conflict might move into its physically violent phase only through the particular act of resentment constituted by giving the lie.
ref: 1994, Steven Shapin, A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England:
text: Giving the lie became the fundamental way of questioning a man’s status as a gentleman.
ref: 2009, Jerome Neu, Sticks and Stones: The Philosophy of Insults:
glosses: To respond to an insult, accusation, or falsehood by saying the offender is lying, particularly in the context of provoking a challenge to a duel.
glosses: Used in give the lie to.
seedcorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From seed + corn.
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: Seed corn.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Financial assets set aside for the generation of future profits.
scratchpaper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of scratch paper.
scratch paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scratch papers
form: scratchpaper
Senses: glosses: Paper used for preliminary work on a (for example mathematics) problem, considered ephemeral.
scratch papers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scratch paper
septcentenary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: septcentenaries
Senses: glosses: A 700-year anniversary.
seedcakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seedcake
silicoflagellate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silicoflagellates
Etymology: From silico- + flagellate.
Senses: glosses: Any of many unicellular heterokont marine algae, of the order Dictyochales, that have a silica skeleton
silicoflagellates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silicoflagellate
septcentenaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of septcentenary
smokebush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smokebushes
form: smoke bush
Etymology: From smoke + bush.
Senses: glosses: Any of several Australian shrubs and trees, of the genus Conospermum, that have flowers in dense spikes.
scattalds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scattald
uncomfy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncomfy
form: most uncomfy
Etymology: From un- + comfy.
Senses: glosses: Uncomfortable.
smokeeasy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smokeeasies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of smokeasy.
technostress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From techno- + stress, coined by Craig Brod in 1984, see quotations.
Senses: examples: text: Technostress can affect anyone living in the twentieth century: men and women, young and old, workers, lovers, and students. Our fascination with the rational and calculated world of computer-generated interactions may be forcing us to adapt in ways detrimental to our health and personalities: eye strain and headaches from working too many hours in front of a VDT terminal;[…]
ref: 1984, Craig Brod, Technostress: the human cost of the computer revolution, Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, page 1:
text: The use of social media platforms has been found to produce symptoms suggestive of technostress (Salo et al. 2019), while their direct exploitation and experience of technostress in working life have increased (Brooks et al. 2017).
ref: 2022, Vesa Salminen, Human Factors, Business Management and Society, AHFE International, →ISBN, page 185:
glosses: Stress caused by an inability to cope with modern technology.
Related terms: technofear
technostressor
septembrizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of septembrize
septembrized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of septembrize
unsewn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From un- + sewn.
Senses: glosses: past participle of unsew
unsewn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + sewn.
Senses: examples: text: And so time went on, and the little Rabbit was very happy—so happy that he never noticed how his beautiful velveteen fur was getting shabbier and shabbier, and his tail coming unsewn, and all the pink rubbed off his nose where the Boy had kissed him.
ref: 1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: Not sewn.
unsown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + sown.
Senses: glosses: Not sown.
coxless pairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coxless pair
Septembrizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Septembrize
snappingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From snapping + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Accompanied by a snapping action or sound
Septembrise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Septembrises
form: Septembrising
form: Septembrised
form: Septembrised
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of septembrise.
Septembrises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Septembrise
termitary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: termitaries
Etymology: From termite + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: Termites are also an important component of the dwarf mongoose diet, but this effect of termitaries on mongoose distribution is likely to be secondary.
ref: 1995, Anthony Ronald Entrican Sinclair, Peter Arcese, Serengeti II: dynamics, management, and conservation of an ecosystem:
glosses: An anthill built and occupied by termites.
Septembrising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Septembrise
termitaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of termitary
Septembrised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Septembrise
septembrise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: septembrises
form: septembrising
form: septembrised
form: septembrised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of septembrize.
septembrises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of septembrise
septembrising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of septembrise
septembrised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of septembrise
weldmesh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From weld + mesh.
Senses: glosses: A kind of barrier fencing manufactured in square or rectangular mesh from steel wire, welded at each intersection.
solider
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of solid: more solid
solider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of soldier.
solidest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Now Pierre began to see mysteries interpierced with mysteries, and mysteries eluding mysteries; and began to seem to see the mere imaginariness of the so supposed solidest principle of human association.
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
glosses: superlative form of solid: most solid
woodchat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woodchats
Senses: glosses: Lanius senator, a medium-sized migratory passerine bird of the shrike family.
Derived terms: woodchat shrike
woodchats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woodchat
solunar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of solar + lunar.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or influenced by both the sun and the moon.
Derived terms: solunar table
solunar theory
unimpressionable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unimpressionable
form: most unimpressionable
Etymology: From un- + impressionable.
Senses: synonyms: word: reserved
word: steadfast
word: unbending
word: aloof
word: cool
word: distant
word: frosty
word: hankty
word: hard-to-get
word: offish
word: quiet
word: remote
word: reserved
word: standoffish
word: strange
word: thorny
word: touch-me-not-ish
word: unapproachable
word: unbending
word: undemonstrative
word: unimpressionable
word: uninvolved
glosses: Not impressionable.
sorosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soroses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σωρός (sōrós, “heap”).
Senses: examples: text: The fruit of pineapple is a sorosis developing from numerous sessile flowers that are connote with their subtending bracts and with one another.
ref: 2017, Maria Gloria Lobo, Robert E. Paull, Handbook of Pineapple Technology:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any multiple fruit, usually fleshy, that is derived from the multiple ovaries in an infructescence. Such a structure typically includes remnants of floral tissues such as the perianth. Examples include the mulberry and pineapple.
sorosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soroses
Etymology: According to Webster Suppl. 1879, an arbitrary use of the botanical term, adopted as the name of the first club of the kind, founded in 1868. It follows that it shares the same etymology, referring to aggregation, rather than the etymology of sorority, which referred to sisterhood.
Senses: examples: text: Yet these women were not a clique, nor a sect, nor a Sorosis, but all our wives, and sisters, and daughters, and lovers. They were just the common lot […]
ref: 1869, Putnam's Magazine, volume 3, page 640:
text: They gathered up all the privacies of the city and poured them into his ear, and his family became a sorosis, or female debating society of seven hundred, discussing, day after day, all the difficulties between husbands and wives[…]
ref: 1890, John Van Valkenburg, Jewels of Pythian Knighthood:
glosses: A women's club; a society to further the educational and social activities of women.
visitable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From visit + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Because of the dangers of crumbling masonry, the castle turrets are no longer visitable by the public.
glosses: Capable of being visited.
glosses: Enjoyable to visit; attractive to visitors.
glosses: Accessible to disabled people.
reglazes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reglaze
reglazing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reglaze
reglazed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reglaze
unharmful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unharmful
form: most unharmful
Etymology: From un- + harmful.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: benign
synonyms: nonharmful
harmless
glosses: Not harmful.
southernwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: southernwoods
Etymology: From Old English sūþernewudu, equivalent to southern + wood.
Senses: examples: text: To use a strong decoction of the vegetable bitters as a substitute for alcohol—such, for example as wormwood, chamomile, horehound, southernwood and tanzy.
ref: 1833, New England Farmer (volume 11, page 43)
text: According to the Roman Pliny the Elder, author of Historia Naturalis, southernwood was conducive to sexual excitement when the plant was placed under the bed.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 227:
glosses: An aromatic shrub, Artemisia abrotanum, related to wormwood.
Synonyms: sense: Artemisia abrotanum
word: appleringie
sense: Artemisia abrotanum
word: appleringy
sense: Artemisia abrotanum
word: boy's love
sense: Artemisia abrotanum
word: lad's love
sense: Artemisia abrotanum
word: southern wormwood
prothoraxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prothorax
prothoraces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prothorax
salerooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saleroom
unsophistication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + sophistication.
Senses: examples: text: My knees buckled absurdly, and I pretended to be leaning into the sink to cover that moment of unsophistication. Although how sophisticated can you look while leaning over a pile of dirty dishes?
ref: 2000, Kamila Shamsie, Salt and Saffron, Bloomsbury, page 59:
glosses: Absence of sophistication; the quality of being unsophisticated.
smokebushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smokebush
speargrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speargrasses
form: spear grass
Etymology: From spear + grass.
Senses: glosses: Any of several not closely related grasses in some way reminiscent of a spear.
Species of Aristida (three-awn wiregrass)
glosses: Any of several not closely related grasses in some way reminiscent of a spear.
Heteropogon contortus (tanglehead)
glosses: Any of several not closely related grasses in some way reminiscent of a spear.
Imperata cylindrica (cogon grass)
glosses: Any of several not closely related grasses in some way reminiscent of a spear.
Species of Poa (bluegrass etc)
glosses: Any of several not closely related grasses in some way reminiscent of a spear.
Species of Stipa (feathergrass), typically Stipa calamagrostis
glosses: Species of Aciphylla (Spaniard grass)
Hyponyms: black speargrass
Derived terms: fiveawn speargrass
uninterest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uninterests
Etymology: From un- + interest.
Senses: examples: text: 'Yeah,' said my delightful inquisitor, with an attempt at casual indifference or uninterest that to the tutored eye only revealed all the more starkly her rising excitement […]
ref: 1997, John Lanchester, The Debt to Pleasure:
text: Not many general topics appealed to Sophie, and the question of Wales or being Welsh stood high in her uninterests.
ref: 1986, Kingsley Amis, The Old Devils, page 49:
glosses: Lack of interest; indifference.
Related terms: disinterest
speargrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speargrass
spearheader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spearheaders
Etymology: From spearhead + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who spearheads a movement, campaign, etc.
spearheaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spearheader
southernwoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of southernwood
speargun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spearguns
Etymology: From spear + gun.
Senses: examples: text: The five Euro Series spearguns, whose stocks range in length from 102 to 145 centimeters (about 40 to 57 inches), went on sale in January 2006, priced from $380 to $474.
ref: 2007 July 29, Brendan I. Koerner, “A Trimmer Gun to Spear Smaller Fry”, in New York Times:
glosses: A tube-shaped gun that fires a barbed spear, almost always for underwater use.
scoreboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scorebox
preselectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preselector
potentillas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potentilla
operatorships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of operatorship
omphaloceles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of omphalocele
propionibacteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of propionibacterium
prosectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prosector
proteinoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proteinoid
rediscounting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rediscount
rediscounted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rediscount
splenitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: splenites
Etymology: From spleno- + -itis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: inflammation of the spleen
rediscounts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rediscount
rediscounts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rediscount
head roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: head rolls
Senses: glosses: A juggling maneuver where the object (usually a club) is rolled over the top of the head into the other hand.
Related terms: back cross
chin roll
head rolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of head roll
recaptioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recaption
recaptions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recaption
recaptioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recaption
rememorated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rememorate
rememorates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rememorate
rememorating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rememorate
spraydeck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spraydecks
Etymology: From spray + deck.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: sprayskirt
glosses: A cover, for a kayak or canoe, that prevents water entering during rough weather.
prediscount
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + discount.
Senses: examples: text: Few consumers were willing to pay the prediscount price.
glosses: Before a discount is applied.
spraydecks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spraydeck
advocateships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of advocateship
declarants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of declarant
leucorrhoeas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leucorrhoea
sprayskirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sprayskirts
Etymology: From spray + skirt.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of spraydeck.
synonyms: word: spraydeck
myxedemas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myxedema
regorging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of regorge
regorges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of regorge
regorged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of regorge
returfs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of returf
returfing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of returf
returfed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of returf
sprayskirts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sprayskirt
squamocolumnar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From squamo- + columnar.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a junction between stratified squamous epithelium and columnar epithelium
medical histories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of medical history
steatorrhoea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From steato- + -rrhoea.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of excessive amounts of fat in the feces.
stemmatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stəˈmætɪks/
ipa: /stɛmˈætɪks/
rhymes: -ætɪks
Etymology: From stemma, from Ancient Greek στέμματα (stémmata, “family trees, genealogy”).
Senses: examples: text: In other words, they must carry out an operation similar to the collations required by Lachmannian stemmatics, after which they must make a critical (i.e., subjective) choice. And, when constituting the text, they do not just slavishly copy their source, obvious errors included; their editions always contain an element of interpretation.
ref: 2004, Conor Fahy, “Old and New in Italian Textual Criticism”, in Raimonda Modiano, Leroy Searle, Peter L. Shillingsburg, editors, Voice, Text, Hypertext: Emerging Practices in Textual Studies, page 404:
glosses: The study of multiple surviving versions of the same text with the aim of reconstructing a lost original.
Synonyms: stemmatology
Related terms: stemma
sternsheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stern sheets
Etymology: From stern + sheets.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The stern area of an open boat; the planking that forms the floor or seating in that area
stilbestrol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɪlˈbɛˌstɹɔl/
Forms: form: stilbestrols
form: stilboestrol
Etymology: Clipping of diethylstilbestrol.
Senses: examples: text: Treatment of abortion has been improved a great deal in the past fifteen years, particularly with the recent knowledge that stilbestrol is a progestin stimulant and also a “vascular” hormone, increasing the caliber of the vessels of the uterus and improving the circulation.
ref: 1951 July, Richard D. Reekie, “Critical Analysis of Recent Advances in Gynecology”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 7, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 508:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of diethylstilbestrol.
synonyms: word: diethylstilbestrol
Iora
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Eora.
Iyora
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Eora.
flesh-coloured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flesh-coloured
form: most flesh-coloured
Senses: glosses: British English standard form of flesh-colored.
close helmets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of close helmet
Leora
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Possibly a variant of the modern Israeli name transliterated as Liora, from Hebrew, ליאורה "my light", or an American contraction of Leonora.
Senses: examples: text: "No, they're— What do they call you?"
"Me? Oh, it's an idiotic name—Leora Tozer."
ref: 1925, Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith, chapter 6, section 3:
glosses: A female given name from Hebrew.
Koizumi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: [kʰɔi̯ˈzumi]
Forms: form: Koizumis
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 小泉 (Koizumi).
Senses: examples: text: China's real issue with Japan, disguised by historical complaints, lies in the fact that Japan under Koizumi has become a stauncher ally of the United States.
ref: 2005 September 21, Kin-Ming Liu, “In East Asia, there is more than one way to rise”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A surname from Japanese.
Kobashigawa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 小橋川.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
soldiers of fortune
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soldier of fortune
Watanabe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Watanabes
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 渡辺 (Watanabe) or 渡部 (Watanabe).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
pinpricking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pinprick
pinpricked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pinprick
adrip
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈdɹɪp/
Etymology: From a- + drip.
Senses: examples: text: There was a gurgling and spurting sound as of dammed water adrip.
ref: 1896, Fiona Macleod, The Washer of the Ford, Edinburgh: Patrick Geddes, page 273:
text: […] the air [was] sweet with the sap adrip from the orchards lately pruned […]
ref: 1913, Mary Austin, The Lovely Lady, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, Part 1, p. 23:
text: Out in the trading post he could hear them playing seven-up, could smell the brandy adrip from empty horns at the players’ elbows.
ref: 1985, Conrad Richter, “As It Was in the Beginning”, in The Rawhide Knot and Other Stories, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, page 153:
glosses: Dripping.
raw_tags: of a liquid
examples: text: The dust in the road was laid; trees were adrip with moisture; birds sat silent in their coverts; the morning light was wan and ghastly […]
ref: 1893, Ambrose Bierce, “The Death of Halpin Frayser”, in Can Such Things Be?, New York: Cassell, page 17:
text: And she with Goban’s wine adrip,
No more remembering what had been,
Stared at the gods with laughing lip.
ref: 1913, William Butler Yeats, “The Grey Rock”, in Responsibilities and Other Poems, London: Macmillan, page 9:
text: He was naked to the waist, his hairy breast and arms to the armpits clotted and adrip with blood, and in his hands two bloody daggers.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, chapter 250, in The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC:
text: Melting snow gurgled in drainspouts and gutters, all Copenhagen was adrip.
ref: 1948, Edgar Maass, The Queen’s Physician, New York: Scribner, Book 3, Chapter 8:
synonyms: dripping
glosses: Covered (with a liquid) to the point that it drips; having a liquid dripping off it.
raw_tags: of a surface
examples: text: […] he [Andrew Marvell] was witty with the wittiest; was caustic, humorous; his pages adrip with classicisms;
ref: 1890, Donald G. Mitchell, chapter 5, in English Lands, Letters and Kings: From Elizabeth to Anne, New York: Scribner, pages 190–191:
text: the humanitarian, all adrip with brotherhood and profoundly convinced of the loveliness of his own soul
ref: 1919, Irving Babbitt, chapter 10, in Rousseau and Romanticism, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 368:
text: All the big hotels here are adrip with neon, with flashing signs, nameboards that light up one letter at a time, zipping dotted arrows […]
ref: 1985, Peter Popham, chapter 5, in Tokyo: The City at the End of the World, Tokyo: Kodansha International, page 132:
synonyms: dripping
glosses: Covered or filled (with something) as if to the point of dripping.
synonyms: drunk
glosses: Intoxicated with alcohol.
jellyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jellyish
form: most jellyish
Etymology: From jelly + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: In both man and the frog the thyroid gland consists of small capsules of a jellyish material and is very richly supplied with blood vessels (Fig. 61).
ref: 1940, Lancelot Hogben, Principles of Animal Biology:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of jelly; jellylike.
passive matrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passive matrixes
form: passive matrices
Senses: glosses: A form of liquid crystal display in which the pixels must maintain their state without active driving circuitry until they are next refreshed, contrasted with active matrix.
active matrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: active matrixes
form: active matrices
Senses: glosses: A form of liquid crystal display with a grid of transistors and capacitors that can hold a charge for a limited period of time, contrasted with passive matrix.
passive matrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of passive matrix
active matrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of active matrix
pelvic floors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pelvic floor
phantasmagorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: more phantasmagorial
form: most phantasmagorial
Etymology: From phantasmagoria + -al.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of phantasmagoric.
synonyms: word: phantasmagoric
stillroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stillrooms
form: still room
Etymology: From still + room.
Senses: glosses: A room containing a still (for distillation).
glosses: A pantry adjoining a kitchen where drinks etc were stored or prepared.
stocklist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stocklists
form: stock list
Etymology: From stock + list.
Senses: glosses: An inventory of items that are currently stocked.
stomatogastric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stomato- + gastric.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the mouth and the stomach
strainable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more strainable
form: most strainable
Etymology: From strain + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be strained or filtered
substantialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: substantialisms
Etymology: From substantial + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The doctrine that substantial reality is the basis of all phenomena
Related terms: substantialist
substantialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: substantializes
form: substantializing
form: substantialized
form: substantialized
Etymology: From substantial + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To give something substance (actual existence)
Related terms: substantialization
succubous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌk.jʊ.bəs/
ipa: /ˈsʌk.jə.bəs/
homophone: succubus
Senses: examples: text: If the apical cell is slightly antically displaced, a succubous orientation of the leaf rudiments results […]
ref: 1966 October, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume I, New York, N.Y.; London: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 482:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing an arrangement of leaves such that proximal (posterior) parts of older leaves overlap the distal (anterior) parts of younger ones.
Derived terms: succubously
Related terms: succubus
succursal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /səˈkɜː(ɹ)səl/
Etymology: Compare French succursale. See succour.
Senses: glosses: subsidiary (to a religious establishment)
examples: text: Not a city was without its cathedral, surrounded by its succursal churches, its monasteries, and convents.
ref: 1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity:
glosses: Serving to aid or help; serving as a chapel of ease; tributary.
succursal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /səˈkɜː(ɹ)səl/
Forms: form: succursals
Etymology: Compare French succursale. See succour.
Senses: glosses: A subsidiary parish.
suckerfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suckerfishes
form: suckerfish
Etymology: From sucker + fish.
Senses: glosses: A remora or other fish of family Echeneidae, especially Echeneis naucrates.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Remora australis
word: Indian suckerfish
taxonomic: Remora remora
word: short suckerfish
taxonomic: Echeneis naucrates
word: slender suckerfish
taxonomic: Remora remora
word: stout suckerfish
taxonomic: Echeneis naucrates
word: striped suckerfish
taxonomic: Remora albescens
word: white suckerfish
Shibasaki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ʃibəˈsɑki/
Etymology: From Japanese しばさき (柴埼, 柴崎).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
stocklists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stocklist
stillrooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stillroom
substantialisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of substantialism
substantialized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of substantialize
substantializes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of substantialize
substantializing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of substantialize
sucket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suckets
Etymology: Compare French sucette.
Senses: glosses: A candied fruit sweetmeat
Synonyms: succade
suckhole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suckholes
Etymology: From suck + hole.
Senses: glosses: A whirlpool.
glosses: A sycophant, gratuitous pleaser.
suckhole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: suckholes
form: suckholing
form: suckholed
form: suckholed
Etymology: From suck + hole.
Senses: glosses: To act in a sycophantic manner; suck up.
sunbow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsʌnbəʊ/
Forms: form: sunbows
Etymology: From sun + bow. Compare rainbow.
Senses: glosses: A bow or arc of prismatic colors like a rainbow, caused by refraction through a spray of water from a cataract, waterfall, fountain, etc., rather than through droplets of rain.
oyster beds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oyster bed
substantialization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: substantializations
Etymology: From substantialize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act, process, or result of substantializing.
substantializations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of substantialization
sunscald
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sun + scald.
Senses: synonyms: sunburn
glosses: Localized damage to the tissues of trees or their fruits caused by bright sunlight.
sunscald
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sunscalds
form: sunscalding
form: sunscalded
form: sunscalded
Etymology: From sun + scald.
Senses: synonyms: sunburn
glosses: To suffer such damage.
superfly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superflies
Etymology: From the character in the blaxploitation film Super Fly (1972).
Senses: examples: text: Oh, see them passing / See how they're dancing to the superfly
ref: 1973, “Future Shock”, in Back to the World, performed by Curtis Mayfield:
glosses: An ostentatious, self-confident person, especially a black drug dealer.