cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
aponeurotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌap.ə.njʊˈɹɒt.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌæp.ə.n(j)ʊˈɹɑt.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɒtɪk
Etymology: From aponeurosis + -ic, or borrowed from New Latin aponeurōticus.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to an aponeurosis.
Derived terms: musculoaponeurotic
preaponeurotic
arborous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: arbourous
Senses: examples: text: an arborous landscape; arborous vegetation
text: […] from under shadie arborous roof,
Soon as they forth were come to open sight
Of day-spring,
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 137-139:
text: 1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Dedication to the Reverend George Coleridge” in Poems, Bristol: J. Cottle, 2nd edition, pp. x-xi,
[…] the Tree […] whose old boughs,
That hang above us in an arborous roof,
Stirr’d by the faint gale of departing May
Send their loose blossoms slanting o’er our heads!
text: […] they had no sense of their condition; they were happy in a flowery, an arborous Sicilian garden: the volcano was below, and the giant earthquake only asleep.
ref: 1825, John Galt, chapter 4, in The Omen, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, Epoch 4, page 144:
text: The thought of his other son […] married […] for four years and living in the arborous suburb, Vasant Vihar, in Delhi, disturbed him only remotely,
ref: 2000, Amit Chaudhuri, A New World, London: Picador, pages 67–68:
glosses: Formed by trees; filled or covered with trees.
Related terms: arboreal
arboreous
epinglette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epinglettes
Etymology: Borrowed from French épinglette.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An iron needle for piercing the cartridge of a cannon before priming.
epinglettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epinglette
meritable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈmɛɹɪtəbl̩/
Forms: form: more meritable
form: most meritable
Etymology: From merit + -able.
Senses: examples: text: I euer, euer, and the people generally are very acceptiue and apt to applaud any meritable worke, but there are two ſorts of perſons that moſt commonly are infectious to a whole auditory.
ref: 1609, Ben Jonson, The Case is Altered, London: D. Midwinter et al., published 1756, scæne 8:
text: He ended up in a meritable fourth position after an 8-year absence.
ref: 2010 June 14, James Waindi, “Phineas Kimathi roars back to Safari Rally”, in The Standard:
text: “I made a list of 20 different topics, sort of genres of email, and I sent those to 10 different “meritable” people–some of whom I know and some who I had to do some work to get to–and they had to scavenge through their Sent folders and find one example of each of these kind of emails. Then each week, there’s kind of a themed compendium of all 10 of them,” July explains.
ref: 2013 July 9, Dan Solomon, “Miranda July Explains How To Make Art Out Of Everyday Emails”, in Fast Company:
glosses: Deserving of reward.
Synonyms: meritorious
Derived terms: unmeritable
hautboyist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhəʊbɔɪ.ɪst/
Forms: form: hautboyists
form: hautboist
Etymology: From hautboy + -ist.
Senses: synonyms: oboist
glosses: Someone who plays the hautboy.
hautboyists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hautboyist
implunge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: implunges
form: implunging
form: implunged
form: implunged
Etymology: From im- + plunge.
Senses: examples: text: […]implunging our ſelues into the gulfe of our ſinne
ref: c. 1614, Daniel Dyke, Two Treatises:
text: [H]e […] by his overcarefulneſſe and cauſeleſſe ſuſpicion, deprived himſelf of this benefit, and implunged himſelf in much juſt hatred for his unjuſt dealing and treachery.
ref: 1639, Thomas Fuller, “The Pilgrimes Arrivall at Constantinople, Entertainment, and Departure”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], →OCLC, book I, pages 22–23:
glosses: To plunge (something into something else).
implunged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of implunge
implunges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of implunge
implunging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of implunge
bedchair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedchairs
Etymology: From bed + chair.
Senses: glosses: A chair with adjustable back to enable an invalid to sit up in bed.
bedchairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bedchair
bpp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of bits per pixel.
femalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: femalists
Etymology: From female + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Beauty can turn the rugged face of War / And make him smile upon delightful Peace, / Courting her smoothly like a femalist.
ref: 1613, John Marston, William Barksted, The Insatiate Countess, IV.2:
glosses: Someone who courts or pursues the female sex; a womanizer.
femalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of femalist
turbulencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turbulency
turbulency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turbulencies
Senses: examples: text: Hear the loud alarum bells — / Brazen bells! / What a tale of terror now their turbulency tells!
ref: 1849, Edgar Allan Poe, The Bells:
glosses: Archaic form of turbulence.
tribunary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tribune + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: tribunary powers or authority
text: tribunary commission
glosses: Of or pertaining to tribunes (especially the Roman tribune).
cyanophyll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyano- + -phyll.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A blue pigment thought to have been one of the component parts of chlorophyll.
hemihedra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemihedron
hemihedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemihedrons
form: hemihedra
Etymology: From hemi- + -hedron.
Senses: examples: text: The tetrahedron is a hemihedron.
topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A solid hemihedrally derived.
invirility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + virility.
Senses: examples: text: This condition of invirility is also caused by immoderate indulgence , the pathological disorder produced being in all respects the same as that following seminal incontinence
ref: 1879, Oliver Phelps Brown, The Complete Herbalist: Or, The People Their Own Physicians:
glosses: Absence of virility or manhood; effeminacy.
oxshoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxshoes
Etymology: From ox + shoe.
Senses: glosses: A shoe for oxen, consisting of a flat piece of iron that is nailed to the hoof.
Related terms: horseshoe
oxshoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxshoe
tauntress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tauntresses
Etymology: From taunter + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A woman who taunts; a female taunter.
tauntresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tauntress
aloetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aloetics
Senses: glosses: A medicine containing mostly aloes.
aloetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aloetic
form: most aloetic
Senses: glosses: Consisting chiefly of aloes; of the nature of aloes.
Derived terms: aloetic acid
aloetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aloetic
salpingitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From salpingitis + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to salpingitis.
salpingitides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salpingitis
salpingectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salpingectomy
unthank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English unthank, from Old English unþanc (“displeasure, anger, ill-will”), from Proto-Germanic *unþankaz, equivalent to un- + thank. Cognate with West Frisian ontank, Dutch ondank, German Undank, Danish utak.
Senses: examples: text: It is always by this unthank that things are given to the observer that we pretend to have access to the truth of the word.
ref: 2000, Francis G. Snyder, The Europeanisation of Law:
glosses: Lack or absence of thanks or thankfulness; thanklessness; unthankfulness; ill-will.
unthank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unthanks
form: unthanking
form: unthanked
form: unthanked
Etymology: From un- + thank.
Senses: glosses: To recant; unsay, as what has been said by way of acknowledgement.
glosses: To undo or retract one's thankfulness; negate, cancel, or revoke one's thanks.
townpeople
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of townspeople.
tristfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tristfully
form: most tristfully
Etymology: From tristful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a tristful manner; sadly.
woorali
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: curare
miswrought
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more miswrought
form: most miswrought
Etymology: From mis- + wrought.
Senses: examples: c. 1613–1621, Francis Bacon, The judicial charge upon the commission of Oyer and Terminer held for the verge of the Court
the people buy in effect chaffe for corn , for that which is miswrought will miswear
glosses: Badly wrought (in the literal or figurative sense).
equivocacies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of equivocacy
equivocacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: equivocacies
Senses: glosses: equivocalness; equivocality
indesinently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more indesinently
form: most indesinently
Etymology: From indesinent + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The hotter Animals , which require abundance of Spirits for their various Motions and Exercises, are provided with Lungs, which indesinently draw in and expell the Air alternately without Intermission
ref: 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:
glosses: In an indesinent manner; perpetually.
mind-bogglingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more mind-bogglingly
form: most mind-bogglingly
Senses: examples: text: To assist in this mind-bogglingly complex endeavour, Switzerland has developed sophisticated software tools that allow infrastructure managers (IMs), operators and local/national authorities to co-ordinate civil engineering projects with planned service enhancements, demand forecasts, pathing requirements, nationwide timetables, and asset utilisation up to 15 years ahead.
ref: 2022 December 14, Ben Jones, “Switzerland: a template for Northern Powerhouse Rail?”, in RAIL, number 972, page 29:
glosses: Alternative spelling of mindbogglingly.
interaxal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: diagonals symmetrically intermediate between the horizontal axes, terminate in the interaxal basal angles
ref: 1838, The American Journal of Science:
topics: architecture
glosses: Situated in an interaxis.
roral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɔːɹəl/
rhymes: -ɔːɹəl
Forms: form: more roral
form: most roral
Etymology: From Latin rōs, rōris (“dew”).
Senses: examples: text: With roral wash redeem her face, / And prove herself of Titan's race, / And, mounting in loose robes the skies, / Shed light and fragrance as she flies.
ref: 1737, Matthew Green, The Spleen: An Epistle Inscribed to His Particular Friend:
glosses: Relating to dew; dewy.
shirtlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shirtless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: An organizational crisis erupted, which resulted in reverting to a ban on all shirtlessness. Outraged, six gay men flouted the policy, arguing that shirtlessness was a question of liberation[…]
ref: 2002, Tom Warner, Never going back: a history of queer activism in Canada, page 312:
glosses: Absence of shirts.
antistrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From antistrophe + -ic.
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: Of or pertaining to an antistrophe.
paramorphous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of paramorphic.
synonyms: word: paramorphic
renovelance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: renovelances
Senses: examples: text: I happened to be a spectator at the renovelance last year; when, to the old ceremony of riding millers, many considerable improvements were made upon a more extensive and significant plan […]
ref: 1787, The Gentleman's Magazine (volume 57, part 1, page 463)
glosses: renewal
renovelances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of renovelance
toluate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toluates
Etymology: From toluic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt of any of the toluic acids.
toluates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toluate
siderographist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: siderographists
Etymology: From siderography + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone skilled in siderography.
Synonyms: siderographer
siderographists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of siderographist
intaglii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intaglio
indubitableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From indubitable + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: indubitability
glosses: The quality of being indubitable.
corkiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From corky + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Once you know how, spotting corked wine is easy – but the fact is that you shouldn't have to. It takes time to learn to distinguish different characters in a wine – and corkiness is one of them
ref: 2007, Giles Kime, The laid back wine guide:
glosses: The quality of being corky.
enchaser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enchasers
Etymology: From enchase + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who enchases.
enchasers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enchaser
redressless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more redressless
form: most redressless
Etymology: From redress + -less.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be redressed; irremediable.
Related terms: irredressable
treasurership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: treasurerships
Etymology: From treasurer + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The role or office of treasurer.
treasurerships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of treasurership
crunodal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From crunode + -al.
Senses: examples: text: crunodal curve
text: crunodal cubic
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Possessing, or characterized by, a crunode.
reflexibilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reflexibility
reflexibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reflexibilities
Senses: examples: text: But it is essential to remark that these 2 effects take place in very different, and even opposite circumstances: and this indicates an important exception to Newton's assertion, on the unequal reflexibility of divers homogeneal rays.
ref: 1809, The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London:
glosses: The quality or capability of being reflexible.
Daly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈdeɪli/
Forms: form: Dalys
form: Dailey
form: Daley
Etymology: (surname): Anglicisation of the Irish surname Ó Dálaigh, from dálach (“frequenting meetings”). Compare dáil.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
glosses: A language family in Australia
glosses: A placename
A river in Australia: see Daly River.
glosses: A placename
A locality in Litchfield Municipality, Northern Territory, Australia.
glosses: A placename
A rural municipality of Manitoba, Canada.
Derived terms: word: Daly City
word: Daly River
english: regional council
translation: regional council
word: Victoria Daly
amphibologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From amphibological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an amphibological manner.
styliferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more styliferous
form: most styliferous
Etymology: From style + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: examples: text: styliferous cavity
text: styliferous pods
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Bearing one or more styles.
pelorism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πέλωρ (pélōr, “monster”) + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: In my last paper I dwelt chiefly on the remarkable phenomenon of pelorism and what can be learned from it as to the pace of organic change.
ref: 1903, Monthly review: Volume 10:
text: The extent of pelorism can be environmentally influenced. Should we be awarding peloric orchids without evidence of reproducible flowering?
ref: 1995, American Orchid Society bulletin: Volume 64, Issue 4:
glosses: An abnormality in plants where the flower appears to revert to an earlier form.
Related terms: peloric
repristination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repristinations
Etymology: From re- + pristine + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: That trick is, the artificer melts up wax / With honey, so to speak; he mingles gold / With gold's alloy, and, duly tempering both, / Effects a manageable mass, then works: / But his work ended, once the thing a ring, / Oh, there's repristination!
ref: 1868–1869, Robert Browning, “(please specify the page)”, in The Ring and the Book. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Smith, Elder and Co., →OCLC:
glosses: Restoration to an original or pure state.
repristinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repristination
sumptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sumption
unresponsible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unresponsible
form: most unresponsible
Etymology: From un- + responsible.
Senses: examples: text: unresponsible memory can make us no satisfaction
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: irresponsible
Related terms: unresponsibleness
qaghanate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qaghanates
Etymology: From qaghan + -ate.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of khaganate.
qaganate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qaganates
Etymology: From qagan + -ate.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of khaganate.
qagan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qagans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of khagan.
qaghan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qaghans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of khagan.
qaganates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of qaganate
qaghanates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of qaghanate
qaghans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of qaghan
qagans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of qagan
poignards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poignard
crinitory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: So fatally well had the depilatory done its work, that when in the morning he anxiously removed the cap, away came every vestige of its crinitory covering, and the patient was left in the deplorable state in which I found him.
ref: 1835, Theodore Edward Hook, Gilbert Gurney:
glosses: Of or relating to hair.
gnomonically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From gnomonical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: According to the principles of, or using, the gnomonic projection.
preterpluperfect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preterpluperfects
Etymology: From preter- + pluperfect.
Senses: examples: text: A carpet is the soul of an apartment. [...] As regards texture the Saxony is alone admissible. Brussels is the preterpluperfect tense of fashion, and Turkey is taste in its dying agencies.
ref: 1840, E.A.Poe, The Philosophy of Furniture:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The pluperfect.
preterpluperfects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preterpluperfect
preternaturalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From preternatural + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being preternatural.
Synonyms: preternaturality
timberwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timberworks
Etymology: From timber + work.
Senses: examples: text: timberwork of a canal
glosses: Work made of timbers.
timberworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of timberwork
preternaturality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From preternatural + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being preternatural.
Synonyms: preternaturalness
uniplicate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + plicate.
Senses: glosses: having a single fold.
raw_tags: of fossils
brompicrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From German Brompikrin, from words for "bromine" and "picric (acid)".
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A pungent colourless explosive liquid, CNO₂Br₃.
feuterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feuterers
form: fewterer
form: vewter
Etymology: Either from German Fütterer (“feeder”) (see füttern), or corrupted from Old French vautrier, vaultrier, from vaultre, viautre (“a kind of hound”), from Latin vertragus, vertraga (“a greyhound”). The last is of Celtic/Gaulish origin, from Proto-Celtic *uɸor- (“over”) + *tregess (“foot”).
Senses: examples: text: You yeoman phevvterer, conduct mee to / The Lady of the manſion, or my poniard / Shall diſemboge thy ſoule.
ref: c. 1621–1623 (date written), Philip Massinger, The Maid of Honour. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot, […], published 1632, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii, signatures D2, verso – D3, recto:
glosses: A keeper of dogs, especially of greyhounds.
feuterers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feuterer
cascarillin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cascarilla + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A white, crystallizable, bitter substance extracted from oil of cascarilla.
overwell
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more overwell
form: most overwell
Etymology: From over- + well.
Senses: examples: text: I remember my father saying that a wise man should always mistrust a girl who kisses overwell.
ref: 1899, Samuel Rutherford Crockett ·, The Black Douglas, page 127:
text: In my own case, as I was saying, I not only pay the fare of my clerk and his family from Colorado, but I have had an assistant with him constantly since I have been here, and a great deal of the time I have had a third assistant, and yet I have not felt myself overwell served, though I have the most efficient clerk in Congress; nor do I believe there is a Member of this House that believes he is overwell served by services he has from one clerk.
ref: 1911, United States. Congress, Congressional Record, page 418:
text: Boadicea seemed to be hesitating for a moment, whilst Sir Baldwin remained coldly neutral, determined not to interfere again in women's affairs; his interference not having succeeded overwell hitherto.
ref: 1912, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, Meadowsweet, page 304:
glosses: Overly well.
overwell
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overwell
form: most overwell
Etymology: From over- + well.
Senses: examples: text: I don't think him overwell. He is more worried than I like to see him by his small enemies – the fleas of Farringford- Woodford.
ref: 1988, Henry Graham Dakyns, Audrey Tennyson, Lady Audrey Georgina Florence Boyle Tennyson, Letters to a Tutor, page 24:
text: Shankaran is not overwell. Mira seems to have become ill on the high altitude and is due in Birla House tomorrow.
ref: 2000, Mahatma Gandhi, The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi - Volume 76, page 35:
text: The GOP also devoted considerable attention to 'invalid' girls and chronic cases, those who were 'never overwell', tired, subject to low spirits, aches and pains, and who had little inclination for exercise.
ref: 2013, H. Marland, Health and Girlhood in Britain, 1874-1920, page 174:
glosses: Overly healthy and robust.
overwelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overwell
overwelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overwell
overwells
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overwell
trimembral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin trimembris (“triple-membered”). See tri- and member.
Senses: glosses: Having, or consisting of, three members.
metaleptical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more metaleptical
form: most metaleptical
Senses: examples: text: metaleptical joke
text: metaleptical language
text: metaleptical narration
text: metaleptical structure
text: metaleptical transgression
glosses: metaleptic
Related terms: metaleptically
oryctognosy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin oryctognōsia.
Senses: glosses: Knowledge about things dug up, especially what is now considered mineralogy.
Related terms: oryctognostic
oryctognostical
oryctognostically
oryctology
reapparel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reapparels
form: reappareling
form: reapparelling
form: reappareled
form: reappareled
form: reapparelled
form: reapparelled
Etymology: From re- + apparel.
Senses: glosses: To clothe again.
slangous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slangous
form: most slangous
Etymology: From slang + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Excepting a small tract or two on cocking - all the irons were the slangs, and the slang-wearers' language was of course slangous
ref: 1825, John Bee, Sportsman's Slang, Preface:
glosses: slangy
somniculous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more somniculous
form: most somniculous
Etymology: Latin somniculosus.
Senses: synonyms: word: sleepbound
word: somnolent
word: adrowse
word: bedroomy
word: dozy
word: dopey
word: dragging one's tail
word: drowsy
word: eyelids at half-mast
word: nodding off
word: oscitant
word: out of steam
word: sleepbound
word: sleepish
word: sleepy
word: slombry
word: snoozy
word: slumberful
word: slumberous
word: slumbersome
word: slumbery
word: somniculous
word: somnolent
word: somnolescent
word: tired
glosses: drowsy; sleepy.
roughwork
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: roughworks
form: roughworking
form: roughworked
form: roughworked
Etymology: From rough + work.
Senses: examples: text: we will not suppose that the Grooves are of an equal depth with the Rough-working of the Gouge
ref: 1677–1683, Joseph Moxon, “(please specify the page)”, in Mechanick Exercises, or The Doctrine of Handy-Works, […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Joseph Moxon, published 1678–1683, →OCLC:
glosses: To work over coarsely, without regard to nicety or smoothness.
roughworked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of roughwork
roughworking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of roughwork
dreggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛɡi
Forms: form: dreggier
form: dreggiest
Etymology: From dreg + -y.
Senses: examples: text: In the third place, I truly esteem those that are pretty much perfumed and well scented, though I do not care that this perfection should be enclosed in a pulp that is extremely hard and full of dreggy matter, as the amadotte, the citron, and the great winter musk pears.
ref: 1837 June, “The American Quarterly Review: March and June 1837”, in Horticulture, volume XXI, page 376:
text: Now, I have been in cleaning about two years and I know one thing, cleaning and catering are the dreggiest jobs to be in.
ref: 2005, Ola West, A Clean Week, page 21:
text: It was now dark and Heath found himself walking into the dreggiest part of town.
ref: 2008, Rob Love, A Ballad of Love and War, iUniverse, page 185:
synonyms: dreggish
;
footy#Etymology_2
glosses: Containing dregs or lees; muddy; foul.
Derived terms: dregginess
hydrobromide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /haɪdɹə(ʊ)ˈbɹəʊmaɪd/
Forms: form: hydrobromides
Etymology: From hydro- + bromide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound of hydrobromic acid with an organic base (distinguished from a bromide, in which only the bromine unites with the base).
Derived terms: dihydrobromide
hydrobromides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrobromide
mesaconate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesaconates
Etymology: From mesaconic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt of mesaconic acid.
mesaconates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesaconate
delayments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delayment
Isidorian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Isidorian
form: most Isidorian
Etymology: From Isidore + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Relating to Pseudo-Isidore.
Derived terms: Pseudo-Isidorian
multungulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + ungulate.
Senses: glosses: Having many hoofs.
multungulate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multungulates
Etymology: From multi- + ungulate.
Senses: glosses: Any mammal with many hoofs.
implacableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From implacable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being implacable.
Synonyms: implacability
hen-hearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hen-hearted
form: most hen-hearted
form: henhearted
form: hen hearted
Senses: examples: text: They kepe them in theyr holdes, Lyke henherted cokoldes.
ref: 1522, John Skelton, Why Not to Court:
synonyms: chicken-hearted
glosses: Cowardly; timid.
Derived terms: hen-heartedness
hucksterage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From huckster + -age.
Senses: examples: text: ignoble hucksterage of piddling tithes
ref: 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavses that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC; republished in (Please provide a date or year):
glosses: The business of a huckster; small dealing; peddling.
APDTA
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: LeI's keep praying for mercy and peace . . . APDTA
ref: 2007, Alice Johnson-Muhammad, And the Mind Speaks: Poems-Monologues-Opinions and Lots of Truth!, →ISBN:
text: I am Khadija, your mother, and I will light your way home. APDTA.
ref: 2012, Rene' O'Shea, Blame Rane, page 260:
text: APDTA! It is a special honor to announce that I have received an offer from The University of Notre Dame
ref: 2018 January 25, Salim Turner-Muhammad, “Offer Report: 2019 CB Salim Turner-Muhammad”, in Notre Dame Insider:
glosses: Initialism of all praises due to Allah.
vernaculous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vernaculous
form: most vernaculous
Etymology: Latin vernaculus. See vernacular.
Senses: examples: text: their vernaculous and mother tongues
ref: c. 1683 (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “(please specify the page)”, in [Thomas Tenison], editor, Certain Miscellany Tracts, London: […] Charles Mearn, […], published 1683, →OCLC:
glosses: vernacular (of everyday language)
examples: text: subject to the petulancy of every vernaculous orator
ref: 1605 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, Ben: Ionson His Volpone or The Foxe, [London]: […] [George Eld] for Thomas Thorppe, published 1607, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page):
glosses: scoffing; scurrilous (containing coarse language)
standing rib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: standing ribs
Senses: glosses: A cut of beef from the primal rib, one of the eight primal cuts of beef.
unfile
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unfiles
form: unfiling
form: unfiled
form: unfiled
Etymology: From un- + file.
Senses: glosses: To remove from a file or record.
examples: text: unfile a complaint
glosses: to cancel (a formal request)
unfiles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unfile
unfiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unfile
primages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of primage
gadic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See gadic acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Only used in gadic acid
granatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: granatins
Etymology: From Latin granatum (“the pomegranate”), + -in.
Senses: glosses: mannitol
glosses: Either of two ellagitannins, granatin A or granatin B, derived from pomegranates
granatins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of granatin
subvertebral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)tɪbɹəl
-iːbɹəl
Etymology: From sub- + vertebral.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated beneath, or on the ventral side of, the vertebral column.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated beneath, or inside of, the endoskeleton; hypaxial; hyposkeletal.
subbronchial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + bronchial.
Senses: examples: text: subbronchial air sacs of birds
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the bronchi.
displosion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: displosions
Senses: examples: text: The vast displosion dissipates the clouds.
ref: 1745, [Edward Young], “Night the Ninth and Last. The Consolation. Containing, among Other Things, I. A Moral Survey of the Nocturnal Heavens. II. A Night-Address to the Deity. To which are Annex’d, Some Thoughts, Occasioned by the Present Juncture, …”, in The Complaint, London: […] , →OCLC:
glosses: explosion
Related terms: displode
displosions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of displosion
mistion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mistions
Etymology: From Latin mistio, mixtio. See mix, and compare mixtion.
Senses: glosses: mixture
mistions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mistion
exertive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exertive
form: most exertive
Etymology: From exert + -ive.
Senses: glosses: That exerts, or exerts oneself; using exertion.
idolastre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: idolastres
Etymology: From Middle English idolatre.
Senses: examples: text: What difference is bitwixe an ydolastre and an avaricious man, but that an ydolastre, per aventure, ne hath but o mawmet or two, and the avaricious man hath manye?
ref: 1387, Chaucer, The Parson's Tale:
glosses: An idolater.
idolastres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of idolastre
gropeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: grope + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of grope
gropest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: grope + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of grope
Italianated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Italianate
Italianating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Italianate
arnicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From arnica + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkaloid obtained from the arnica plant.
Related terms: arnicin
Dresdenware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Dresden + -ware.
Senses: topics: ceramics
chemistry
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A kind of decorated porcelain made near Dresden in Germany.
discompliance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dis- + compliance.
Senses: examples: text: A compliance will discommend me to Mr. Coventry, and a discompliance to my Lord Chancellor.
ref: 1664 August 2 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “July 23rd, 1664”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume V, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1895, →OCLC:
glosses: Failure or refusal to comply.
crissal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From crissum + -al.
Senses: examples: text: crissal feathers
glosses: Relating to the crissum.
Derived terms: crissal thrasher
burghal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From burgh + -al.
Senses: examples: text: In Scotland, parishes are either burghal, i.e. those comprised wholly within a burgh royal; landward, those forming a rural district; or mixed, i.e. a burgh with a rural district attached.
ref: 1867, John Guthrie Smith, A Digest of the Law of Scotland Relating to the Poor, the Public Health, and Other Matters Managed by Parochial Boards, 2nd edition, Edinburgh: T&T Clark, Introduction, p. 2:
text: There is a pleasant smell of cooking about, and a hum of compact and contented life. Add the excitement of an election, and you have that busy burghal hive which is the basis of all human society—a snug little commune intent on its own affairs, a world which for the moment owes allegiance to no other.
ref: 1930 July, John Buchan, “Portaway—Red Davie”, in Castle Gay, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, →OCLC, page 202:
text: It is true that Frome is not called a borough, nor are burgesses recorded for it, but the payment of the ‘third penny’ suggests burghal status […]
ref: 1986, H. C. Darby, chapter 10, in Domesday England, Cambridge University Press, page 290:
glosses: Relating to a burgh or borough.
wikipedia: burgh
Derived terms: extraburghal
glueyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glueynesses
Etymology: From gluey + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being gluey; stickiness; viscidity.
incommunicated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + communicated.
Senses: examples: text: [T]erreſtrial, celeſtiall, and ſuperceleſtiall, not onely all theſe Omnipercipiencies but any one of them is a certain Excellency in God, and, for ought we know, incommunicated to any Creature.
ref: 1669, Henry More, “[An Antidote against Idolatry: […].] What is Idolatry According to the Determination of Clear and Free Reason.”, in An Exposition of the Seven Epistles to the Seven Churches; […], London: […] James Flesher, →OCLC, paragraph 5, page 20:
glosses: Not communicated or imparted.
mawkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mawkins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of malkin.
mawkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mawkins
Etymology: From Scots maukin (“hare, simpleton”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of maukin.
glosses: simpleton
mawkins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mawkin
wreaken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of wreak
mechanicochemical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mechanico- + chemical.
Senses: examples: text: Electricity and magnetism are mechanochemical sciences.
glosses: Relating to, or dependent upon, both mechanics and chemistry.
dialogically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dialogically
form: most dialogically
Etymology: From dialogical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: are you for managing it analogically , or dialogically?
ref: 1766, [Oliver Goldsmith], The Vicar of Wakefield: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Salisbury, Wiltshire: […] B. Collins, for F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Using dialogue, or in the manner or nature of a dialogue.
calcareousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From calcareous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being calcareous.
breachy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more breachy
form: most breachy
Etymology: From breach + -y.
Senses: examples: text: breachy cattle
text: breachy livestock
text: breachy stock
glosses: Liable to break fences or to break out of pasture
Mopologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mopologists
Etymology: Blend of Mormon + apologist
Senses: glosses: An apologist for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons).
merses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of merse
toilet bowls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toilet bowl
Start button
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Start buttons
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A labeled button in some versions of the Windows operating system that opens the Start menu.
Related terms: word: Start menu
english: free desktops
translation: free desktops
word: menu button
Start buttons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Start button
hard-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hard-handed
form: most hard-handed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hardhanded.
hard handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hard handed
form: most hard handed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hardhanded.
Apgar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Dutch or North-German surname transferred from the given name
Derived terms: Apgar score
APGAR
philharmonic orchestras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of philharmonic orchestra
string orchestras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of string orchestra
string quartets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of string quartet
chamber ensembles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chamber ensemble
Portuguese Congo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former colony of Portugal in Africa, now forming the Cabinda province of Angola.
sexual anorexia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: hyposexuality
antonyms: hypersexuality
glosses: A physiological state involving the loss of sexual appetite either entirely or episodically based out of an anxiety or other physiological disorder; or by extension, a dry spell.
Derived terms: sexual anorexic
sexually anorexic
Related terms: asexuality
sexual anorexic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sexual anorexics
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
psychology
sciences
sexology
sexuality
glosses: A person with sexual anorexia, a physiological loss of sex drive.
sexual anorexics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sexual anorexic
Maidens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal village in South Ayrshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS2108).
Maidens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Maiden
Crones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Crone
Hollywooding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hollywood + -ing, referring to the products of its film industry.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Obnoxiously self-aggrandizing or theatrical behavior.
qualifier: EMS slang
glosses: The act of a responder performing his duties in a flashy, lazy, or non-standard way.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Intentional stalling to give the impression that one is making a difficult decision.
Related terms: freelancing
Visible Speech
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An early phonetic alphabet, devised by Alexander Melville Bell in 1867, with the characters intended to suggest the articulations of the speech organs when uttering them.
anima mundi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: animae mundi
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin anima mundi.
Senses: examples: text: The anima mundi, to whose disposal of his own personal destiny the Stoic consents, is there to be respected and submitted to, but the Christian God is there to be loved; and the difference of emotional atmosphere is like that between an arctic climate and the tropics, though the outcome in the way of accepting actual conditions uncomplainingly may seem in abstract terms to be much the same.
ref: 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: Synonym of world soul.
synonyms: word: world soul
leukorrhœa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: One of the most constant symptoms is an intense itching and burning at the anus, due to the wandering of the female, especially shortly after the patient retires; the anus appears red, irritated, sometimes bloody; reaching the perineum the worms may pass to the vagina if the skin is moist, and may here cause hyperæmia, increased secretion of mucus, and sometimes hyperæsthesia and leukorrhœa; sexual excitement may result.
ref: 1907, Charles Wardell Stiles, chapter XXVI, in Modern Medicine, page 601:
glosses: Obsolete form of leukorrhea.