cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Gayelle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
food drive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: food drives
Senses: glosses: A charity event dedicated to collecting food for the needy, especially to assist their ability to hold a feast on a holiday such as Christmas or Thanksgiving.
food drives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of food drive
theatre blues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blue clothing is worn in an operating theatre.
Senses: glosses: Scrubs (clothing).
sustainable tourist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sustainable tourists
Senses: glosses: A person who travels to make a low impact on the local culture of another country. Also helping to generate employment for local people.
angustation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angustations
Senses: examples: text: The cauſe of vvhich may be referred […] to the obſtruction of the Vein ſomevvhere in its paſſage by ſome anguſtation upon it by part of the Tumour; […]
ref: 1676, Richard Wiseman, “The First Book. A Treatise of Tumours. Chapter XIV. Of a Varix.”, in Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], →OCLC, page 65:
glosses: The act of making narrow; a contracting or straitening.
cow's lungwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: torchwort
hag-taper
Adam's flannel
common mullein
great mullein
Jacob's staff
Aaron's rod
Jupiter's staff
glosses: mullein (Verbascum thapsus)
disman
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /dɪsˈmæn/
Forms: form: dismans
form: dismanning
form: dismanned
form: dismanned
Etymology: From dis- + man.
Senses: examples: text: to disman a country, a ship, etc.
text: Though indeed, if we consider this dissolution, man by death is abſolutely divided and disman'd.
ref: 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
synonyms: unman
glosses: To deprive of men.
synonyms: unman
glosses: To castrate or emasculate; to remove the manhood of.
synonyms: dehumanize
glosses: To deprive of human character.
dismanned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disman
dismanning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disman
dismans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disman
gryde
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: grydes
form: gryding
form: gryded
form: gryded
Senses: examples: text: The wicked engine through false influence
Past through his eies, and secretly did glyde
Into his heart , which it did sorely gryde
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of gride.
gryded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gryde
grydes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gryde
gryding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gryde
guest rope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guest ropes
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The line by which a boat makes fast to the swinging boom.
guest ropes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guest rope
lohock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lohocks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of lohoch.
lohocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lohock
misbear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misbears
form: misbearing
form: misbore
form: misborne
Etymology: From Middle English misberen, equivalent to mis- + bear.
Senses: examples: text: And if any of their wives misbear them against her husband, he may cast her out of his house and depart from her and take another, but he shall depart with her of his goods.
ref: 1968, Sir John Mandeville, Michael C. Seymour, Mandeville's Travels:
text: He thought rue she should, and forethink, That she her had unto him misbore.
ref: 1614, William Browne (poet), The Shepheard's Pipe:
text: And drawing nigh him said, Ah misborne Elfe,
In evill houre thy foes thee hither sent,
Anothers wrongs to wreake upon thy selfe:
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To carry improperly; (reflexive) to carry (one's self) wrongly; misbehave.
misbearing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English misbering, misberinge, equivalent to misbear + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Your letters of July and October 1689 are come well to hand, and I am very glad to hear of your welfare, as also that there is a way discovered of sending letters with much more security of not misbearing, than heretofore, for truly it cannot but be a desirable thing for friends to converse one with another, the which, when it cannot be personal, as ours cannot.
ref: 1851, William Shaw Russell, Pilgrim Memorials, and Guide for Visitors to Plymouth Village:
glosses: bearing amiss, especially as pertaining to one's conduct; misconduct
misbearing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From misbear + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misbear
misbears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misbear
misbore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of misbear
misborne
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of misbear
unapparel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unapparels
form: unappareling
form: unapparelling
form: unappareled
form: unappareled
form: unapparelled
form: unapparelled
Etymology: From un- + apparel.
Senses: examples: text: That I can study thee, / And, by these meditations refin'd, / Can unapparel and enlarge my mind.
ref: a. 1631, John Donne, Obsequies to the Lord Harrington, Brother to the Lady Lucy, Countesse of Bedford:
glosses: To divest of clothing; to strip.
unapparelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unapparel
unapparels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unapparel
astrotheology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From astro- + theology.
Senses: examples: text: Astrotheology, or a demonstration of the Being and Actributes of God
ref: 1715, William Derham, Astro-theology: Or, a Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from a Survey of the Heavens:
glosses: Theology founded on observation or knowledge of the celestial bodies.
Derived terms: astrotheological
astrotheologist
epithalamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: epithalamic fantasy
text: epithalamic literature
glosses: Belonging to, or designed for, an epithalamium.
examples: text: epithalamic domain
text: epithalamic vein
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the epithalamus.
diffinitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more diffinitive
form: most diffinitive
Etymology: For definitive.
Senses: examples: text: The Apostle implies in Christs comming, that Christ is now absent from us, that is, in respect of his body, hee is not present in earth, neither circumscriptive, nor diffinitive, nor repletive: for then he could not come to us, if hee were with us already.
ref: 1630, Thomas Taylor, The progresse of saints, page 308:
text: That a Bishop being accused shall choose his own Iudges; and that no diffinitive sentence shall be denounced against a Bishop; untill the time that his cause were heard of the Patriarch of Rome[…]
ref: 1641, Henry Walker, The prelates pride, page 5:
text: 3. That if any shall finde themselves aggrieved by any final and diffinitive judgement, that shall be given upon the whole matter[…]they may have liberty to appeal to the Lord Protector in the High Court of Chancery[…]
ref: 1656, Humble proposals to the Parliament now assembled […] , London: Printed by E.C. for R. Royston, page 9:
glosses: Alternative form of definitive (“final, conclusive, decisive”).
theoremic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛmɪk
Etymology: From theorem + -ic.
Senses: glosses: theorematic
arrect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əˈɹɛkt/
Forms: form: arrects
form: arrecting
form: arrected
form: arrected
Etymology: See aret.
Senses: examples: text: Madame regent of the scyence sevyn
To whos astate all noblenes most leven,
My supplycacyon to you I arrect,
Whereof I beseche you to tender the effecte.
ref: 1523, John Skelton, A ryght delectable tratyse upon a goodly Garlande or Chapelet of Laurell; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 313, lines 53–56:
glosses: To direct.
examples: 1532-1533, Thomas More, Confutation
Therfore he arrecteth no blame of theyr dedes unto them.
glosses: To impute.
arrect
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /əˈɹɛkt/
Forms: form: more arrect
form: most arrect
Etymology: See aret.
Senses: glosses: Lifted up; raised; erect.
examples: text: God speaks not the idle and unconcerned hearer, but to the vigilant and arrect.
ref: a. 1719, George Smalridge, On Hearing the Word of God:
text: At every solemn pause the croud recoil
Gazing each other speechless, and congeal'd
With shivering sighs: till eager for th' event,
Around the beldame all arrect they hang,
Each trembling heart with grateful terrors quell'd.
ref: 1774, Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of Imagination:
glosses: Attentive, like a person listening.
arrected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of arrect
arrecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of arrect
arrects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of arrect
sanableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sanable + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: sanability
glosses: The quality of being sanable.
Skeltonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Skeltonian
form: most Skeltonian
Etymology: From Skelton + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Relating to John Skelton (c.1460–1529), English poet.
Related terms: Skeltonic
Skeltonical
Skeltonics
phytolithology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phyto- + lithology.
Senses: glosses: The science that deals with fossil plants; paleobotany; paleophytology.
phototonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to phototonus.
excecation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: excecations
form: excæcation
Senses: examples: text: Their own wicked hearts will still work and improve their own induration, excecation, and irritation to further sinning.
ref: a. 1654, Bishop John Richardson, Choice Observations and Explanations upon the Old Testament:
glosses: The act of making blind.
Related terms: excecate
glomerule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glomerules
Etymology: Diminutive of Latin glomus ball.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A head or dense cluster of flowers, formed by condensation of a cyme, as in the flowering dogwood.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A glomerulus.
Derived terms: glomerulation
glomerulomegaly
glomerules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glomerule
asclepiadaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Asclepias + -aceous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to the milkweeds.
platonize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: platonizes
form: platonizing
form: platonized
form: platonized
Senses: examples: text: Either Plato philonized, or Philo platonized
ref: 1791, William Enfield, Johann Jakob Brucker, The History of Philosophy:
glosses: To explain by, or accommodate to, the Platonic philosophy.
examples: text: He platonizes , after the manner of Origen , in some parts of his writings ; yet he is cited by Athanasius as a witness of the Son's consubstantiality with the Father
ref: 1794, Joseph Milner, The History of the Church of Christ:
glosses: To adopt the opinion of Plato or his followers.
Derived terms: platonizer
platonized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of platonize
platonizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of platonize
platonizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of platonize
vection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vections
Etymology: From Latin vectio, from vehere, vectum (“to carry”).
Senses: glosses: Transport (act of transporting).
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The transference of the germs of disease from those who are sick to those who are well; infection.
topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
synonyms: illusion of self-motion
self-motion illusion
glosses: The illusion of self-motion.
checkless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more checkless
form: most checkless
Etymology: From check + -less.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be checked or restrained.
glosses: Without checks (financial instruments); chequeless.
Derived terms: checklessness
anatomism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anatomy + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The stretched and vivid anatomism of their great figure painters.
ref: 1878 May 8 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “WEDNESDAY, April 27, 1878”, in The Spectator, number (please specify the issue number); republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume (please either specify the issue number or |volume=I to VI), New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: The application of the principles of anatomy, as in art.
glosses: The doctrine that the anatomical structure explains all the phenomena of the organism or of animal life.
anatomism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From an- + atom + -ism
Senses: examples: text: In terms of the distinction I drew earlier between the possession of generic semantic propertis and the possession of specific semantic properties, I want to say that weak anatomism involves the possession of generic semantic properties; strong anatomism involves the possession of specific semantic properties.
ref: 1997, Pierre Jacob, What Minds Can Do, page 199:
text: Weak anatomism, however, seems to Fodor and Lepore to be a position they need not bother with.
ref: 2003, Jane Heal, Mind, Reason and Imagination, page 119:
text: In the country of its origin (Germany) and in the country of its adoption (America), Gestalt psychology was a reaction against two "-isms": atomism and anatomism.
ref: 2018, Michael T. Turvey, Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective, page 192:
glosses: The quality of not being atomic, but rather, being composed ofmultiple separable parts.
respectlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From respectless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: desiring Camilla to bear with his respectlessness therein
ref: 1612–1620, [Miguel de Cervantes], translated by Thomas Shelton, The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] William Stansby, for Ed[ward] Blount and W. Barret, →OCLC:
glosses: Quality of being respectless.
Christophanies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Christophany
Christophany
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Christophanies
Etymology: From Christ + -o- + -phany.
Senses: glosses: A supernatural appearance of Christ, as for example to his disciples after the crucifixion.
agasp
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + gasp.
Senses: examples: text: This dynamic of life and death is extended by the fact that Caravaggio often painted the same agasp expression in many of his living faces.
ref: 2010, Davide Panagia, The Political Life of Sensation, →ISBN, page 104:
glosses: In a state of gasping.
timist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtaɪmɪst/
Forms: form: timists
form: timeist
Etymology: From time + -ist.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A performer who keeps good time.
examples: text: A Timist is a noune Adiective of the present tense. He hath no more of a conscience then Feare[…]
ref: 1614, Thomas Overbury, Characters:
glosses: A timeserver.
timists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of timist
coystrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coystrels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of coistril.
gyroidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔɪdəl
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: glosses: Spiral in arrangement or action.
topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having the planes arranged spirally, so that they all incline to the right (or left) of a vertical line; said of certain hemihedral forms.
glosses: Turning the plane of polarization circularly or spirally to the right or left.
Derived terms: gyroidally
gyroidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔɪdəl
Etymology: From gyroid + -al.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to a gyroid
puerilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puerility
abasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abasi
Yugoslavism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Yugoslav + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Straightforward Serbian nationalism, in this pressure-cooker, mutated into Yugoslavism.
ref: 2013, Simon Winder, Danubia, Picador, published 2014, page 381:
glosses: Nationalism or patriotism centred upon the Yugoslav ("South Slav") peoples within the Yugoslav-populated territories of Southeastern Europe.
skorodite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scorodite.
eluxation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: dislocation; luxation
favel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Old French favele, from Latin fabella (“short fable”), diminutive of fabula. See fable.
Senses: glosses: flattery; cajolery; deceit
favel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more favel
form: most favel
Etymology: From Old French fauvel, favel, diminutive of Old French fauve; of German origin. See fallow (adjective).
Senses: examples: text: There came rydynge a messager vpon a horse fauell.
ref: c. 1489, William Caxton, Four Sons of Aymon:
glosses: yellow or dun in colour
favel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: favels
Etymology: From Old French fauvel, favel, diminutive of Old French fauve; of German origin. See fallow (adjective).
Senses: glosses: A horse of a favel or dun colour.
lepidosiren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lepidosirens
Etymology: From lepido- + Ancient Greek Σειρήν (Seirḗn, “Siren”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A lungfish.
lepidosirens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lepidosiren
miraculize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: miraculizes
form: miraculizing
form: miraculized
form: miraculized
Senses: examples: text: whilst you are searching heaven and earth for prodigies, and studying how to miraculize every thing, you bring confusion on the world
ref: 1711, [Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury], Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times:
glosses: To cause to seem to be a miracle; to make look miraculous
miraculized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of miraculize
miraculizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of miraculize
miraculizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of miraculize
porkling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porklings
Etymology: From pork + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: And serue thee in winter, more ouer than that,
to shut vp thy porklings thou mindest to fat
ref: 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:
glosses: A young pig; a porket.
porklings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porkling
adraw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əˈdɹɔː/
Forms: form: adraws
form: adrawing
form: adrew
form: adrawn
Etymology: From Middle English adrawen, adraȝen, from Old English ādragan (“to draw, draw out (a sword)”), equivalent to a- + draw.
Senses: glosses: To draw out; to draw (a sword).
glosses: To withdraw oneself.
apery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aperies
Etymology: From ape + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: If you have a hippopotamus major in your brain, you are no ape, though you had four hands, no feet, and were more apish than the apes of all aperies.
ref: 1862 August – 1863 March, Charles Kingsley, chapter IV, in The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby, London; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., published 1863, →OCLC, page 156:
glosses: A place where apes are kept.
glosses: The practice of aping (copying)
examples: text: Every object, whether the growth of nature or the work of man, was neat and artificial. It pleased me far better, than if the houses and gardens, and pleasure fields, had been in a nobler taste: for this nobler taste would have been mere apery.
ref: 1817, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Satyrane’s Letters. Letter III.”, in Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, volume II, London: Rest Fenner, […], →OCLC, page 236:
glosses: apish behavior.
Related terms: monkey business
inconcoction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + concoction.
Senses: examples: text: the middle action , which produceth such imperfect bodies , is fitly called (by some of the ancients) inquination, or inconcoction, which is a kind of putrefaction
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “IX. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: The state of being undigested, unripe, or immature.
lamellirostral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Ducks and geese are lamellirostral.
text: For example, the shape of the horn can be like a comb or the moon, and the shape of the head can be acutilingual or lamellirostral.
ref: 2021, Jianwei Zhang, Stefan Wermter, Fuchun Sun, Cross-Modal Learning: Adaptivity, Prediction and Interaction, page 2101:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a lamellate bill.
beauship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From beau + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: 1696, John Dryden, Epilogue to The Husband His Own Cuckold
You laugh not, gallants, as by proof appears,
At what his beauship says, but what he wears
text: Do you recollect how I danced his beauship into the ditch? Ah! we were mad fellows then
ref: 1836, Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, Paul Clifford in The works of Edward Lytton Bulwer, esq. in two volumes, Volume 1
glosses: The state of being a beau; the personality of a beau.
serries
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of serry
serry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: serries
form: serrying
form: serried
form: serried
Etymology: Borrowed from French serré, past participle of serrer, from Middle French serrer, from Old French serrer, from Vulgar Latin *serrare (“close, shut”), from Late Latin serare (“fasten, bolt”), from Latin sera (“a bar, bolt”), akin to Latin serere (“to join or bind together”). Compare French serrer (“to tighten”) and Spanish cerrar (“to shut, close”).
Senses: examples: text: High shoulders, low shoulders, broad shoulders, narrow ones,
Round, square, and angular, serry and shove
ref: 1904, William Ernest Henley, “Clinical”, in Poems:
text: thrive the serried flocks and herds.
ref: 1921, Alice Meynell, “Summer in England, 1914”, in Poems:
glosses: To crowd, press together, or close (rank)
serrying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of serry
subdean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subdeans
Etymology: From sub- + dean.
Senses: examples: text: Whenever the dean and chapter confirm any act, that such confirmation may be valid, the dean must join in person, and not in the person of a deputy or sub-dean only.
ref: 1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani: Or, A Commentary, by Way of Supplement to the Canons and Constitutions of the Church of England. […], London: […] D. Leach, and sold by John Walthoe […], →OCLC:
glosses: An under dean; the deputy or substitute of a dean.
Derived terms: subdecanal
subdeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subdean
adree
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: adrees
form: adreeing
form: adreed
form: adreed
Etymology: From Middle English adreȝen, adreoȝen, from Old English ādrēogan (“to act, do, perform, practice, bear, suffer, endure, pass time, live”), equivalent to a- + dree.
Senses: glosses: To carry on; practice; pass (life, time, etc.).
glosses: To bear; endure; suffer; thole.
diesinker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diesinkers
Etymology: From die + sinker.
Senses: glosses: An engraver of dies for stamping coins, medals, etc.
Related terms: diesinking
diesinkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diesinker
mastigopod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mastigopods
Senses: examples: text: After swimming about for a while, these mastigopods draw in their flagella, and become creeping myxopods.
ref: 1888, Thomas Henry Huxley, A Manual of the Anatomy of Invertebrated Animals, page 77:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A member of the Mastigopoda (protozoans which possess cilia or flagella).
Hyponyms: sense: certain protozoans
english: class
translation: class
word: Ciliata
sense: certain protozoans
english: class
translation: class
word: Flagellata
mastigopods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mastigopod
panorpid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panorpids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any in the family Panorpidae of scorpionflies.
panorpids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panorpid
orsellic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orseillic acid
Etymology: From French orseille (“archil”). See archil.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid found in certain lichens, such as orchil.
Derived terms: orsellate
Etnean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛtˈniːən/
ipa: /ɛtˈni.ən/
ipa: /ˈɛtni.ən/
rhymes: -iːən
Forms: form: more Etnean
form: most Etnean
form: Aetnean
form: Ætnean
Etymology: From Latin Aetnaeus, from Ancient Greek Αἰτναῖος (Aitnaîos), from Αἴτνη (Aítnē) + -αῖος (-aîos), equivalent to Etna + -ean.
Senses: examples: text: Etnean lava
text: Etnean rock
glosses: Pertaining to Etna, a volcano in Sicily.
Etnean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛtˈniːən/
ipa: /ɛtˈni.ən/
ipa: /ˈɛtni.ən/
rhymes: -iːən
Forms: form: Etneans
form: Aetnean
form: Ætnean
Etymology: From Latin Aetnaeus, from Ancient Greek Αἰτναῖος (Aitnaîos), from Αἴτνη (Aítnē) + -αῖος (-aîos), equivalent to Etna + -ean.
Senses: examples: text: But there are few Etneans who have not a superstitious regard for the terrible and beautiful mountain—as well they may.
ref: 1903 April, The Land of Theocritus, “The Land of Theocritus”, in Harper's Monthly Magazine, volume 106, number 635, page 802:
text: It supports a hundred towns and villages and craters so numerous and so constantly changing that no two Etneans will agree on their number.
ref: 1977, Blackwood's Magazine - Volume 321, page 118:
glosses: The people who live in the area around Mount Etna.
harvestings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harvesting
deplant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deplants
form: deplanting
form: deplanted
form: deplanted
Etymology: From de- + plant: compare French déplanter, Latin deplantare to take off a twig.
Senses: glosses: To uproot (plants)
examples: text: deplanted nerves
text: deplanted tissue
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: to transplant.
Related terms: deplantation
deplanted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deplant
deplanting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deplant
deplants
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deplant
renvoy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: renvoys
Etymology: French renvoi (noun), renvoyer (verb).
Senses: glosses: A sending back.
renvoy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: renvoys
form: renvoying
form: renvoyed
form: renvoyed
Etymology: French renvoi (noun), renvoyer (verb).
Senses: examples: text: Not dismissing or renvoying her.
ref: 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:
glosses: To send back or away.
overshine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overshines
form: overshining
form: overshone
form: overshone
Etymology: From over- + shine.
Senses: examples: text: join our lights together,
And overshine the earth
ref: c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
glosses: To shine over or upon; to illumine.
examples: text: Tamora, queen of Goths,
That, like the stately Phæbe 'mongst her nymphs,
Dost overshine the gallant'st dames of Rome
ref: c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
glosses: To excel in shining; to outshine.
overshines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overshine
overshining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overshine
overshone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overshine
columnarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From columnar + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being columnar.
globosely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more globosely
form: most globosely
Etymology: From globose + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a globose manner.
acidaminuria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: aminoaciduria
acidocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acidocytes
Etymology: From acid + -o- + -cyte.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: eosinophilic leukocyte
acidocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acidocyte
nocument
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin nocumentum, from nocere (“to hurt”).
Senses: glosses: harm, injury, or detriment
pluriliteral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pluriliteral
form: most pluriliteral
Etymology: From pluri- + literal.
Senses: examples: text: pluriliteral Hebrew words
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Consisting of more than three letters.
pluriliteral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pluriliterals
Etymology: From pluri- + literal.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word of more than three letters.
pluriliterals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pluriliteral
intermination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interminations
Etymology: Latin interminatio.
Senses: examples: text: The terrors of the law were the intermination of curses upon all those that ever broke any of the least commandments
ref: 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:
glosses: A menace or threat.
Related terms: interminate
rubiacin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin rubia (“madder”), from rubeus (“red”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A substance found in madder root, and probably identical with ruberythrinic acid.
Related terms: english: possibly the same thing
translation: possibly the same thing
word: rubiretin
oviducal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: oviducal fluid
text: oviducal distribution
text: oviducal glands
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: oviductal
glosses: Of or pertaining to oviducts.
propodite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: propodites
Etymology: From pro- + podite.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The sixth joint of a typical leg of a crustacean, usually the penultimate joint.
examples: text: The arrangement of the propodite muscles in the carpopodite is very similar to that of the carpopodite muscles within the meropodite.
ref: 1959, “White Shrimp from the Gulf of Mexico”, in Fishery Bulletin of the Fish and Wildlife Service, volume 59, page 103:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the muscles responsible for moving the propodite.
propodites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of propodite
whurried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of whurry
whurries
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of whurry
whurry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʌɹi/
ipa: /ˈʍʌɹi/
rhymes: -ʌɹi
homophone: worry
Forms: form: whurries
form: whurrying
form: whurried
form: whurried
Etymology: See hurry.
Senses: examples: text: Whurrying the chariot with them to the shore.
ref: 1632, John Vicars, The XII Aeneids of Virgil:
glosses: To scurry or hurry.
whurrying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of whurry
indoin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ? + -in
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A substance resembling indigo blue, obtained artificially from certain isatogen compounds.
aminoacidurias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aminoaciduria
nonaminoacylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + aminoacylated.
Senses: glosses: Not aminoacylated.
lipotropins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lipotropin
lipotropically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lipotropically
form: most lipotropically
Etymology: From lipotropic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a lipotropic manner.
cellarist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cellarists
Etymology: From cellar + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A cellarer.
cellarists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cellarist
mugget
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muggets
Senses: glosses: The small entrails of a calf or hog.
emboîtement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French emboîtement.
Senses: examples: text: [R]ivals professed to see an equivalent in the semen, giving rise to the ‘preformation’ or emboîtement theories which contended that the new individual was completely developed as a tiny homunculus from the moment of conception.
ref: 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 217:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The outdated hypothesis that all living things proceed from pre-existing germs, and that these encase the germs of all future living things, enclosed one within another.
impairedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From impaired + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being impaired.
nonimpaired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + impaired.
Senses: glosses: Not impaired.
xylanohydrolases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xylanohydrolase
xeroradiograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xeroradiographs
Etymology: From xero- + radiograph.
Senses: glosses: An image produced by means of xeroradiography.
xeroradiographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xeroradiograph
sweeting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweetings
Etymology: From sweet + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: a childe will chose a sweeting, because it is presentlie faire and pleasant, and refuse a Runnet, because it is than grene, hard, and lowre[…]
ref: a. 1569 (date written), Roger Ascham, edited by Margaret Ascham, The Scholemaster: Or Plaine and Perfite Way of Teaching Children, to Vnderstand, Write, and Speake, the Latin Tong, […], London: […] John Daye, […], published 1570, →OCLC:
text: Thy wit is a very Bitter-ſweeting, / It is a moſt ſharpe ſawce.
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv], page 62:
coordinate_terms: souring
glosses: A sweet apple.
examples: text: Trip no further, pretty sweeting.
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
glosses: A darling; term of endearment.
sweeting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From sweet + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sweet
sweetings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sweeting
folkmote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: folkmotes
Senses: examples: text: […] to which folk-mote they all with one consent agreed to travel.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 6:
glosses: Alternative form of folkmoot.
folkmotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of folkmote
fracid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fracid
form: most fracid
Etymology: Latin fracidus (“mellow, soft”).
Senses: examples: text: the fracid ferment of putrifying Bodies
ref: 1655, Samuel Hartlib, The Reformed Common-wealth of Bees:
glosses: Rotten from being too ripe; overripe.
wisket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wiskets
Senses: examples: text: a workman is constantly employed, with a perforated ladle, to take out the marine salt, which now begins to form, and fall to the bottom of the boiler; this, being thrown into a wisket, drains into the boiler
ref: a. 1794, Thomas Green Fesseden, A Treatise on Saltpetre:
glosses: A whisket, or basket.
wiskets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wisket
whiskeriness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From whiskery + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being whiskery.
erythrophleine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Erythrophleum + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A white crystalline alkaloid extracted from sassy bark (Erythrophleum suaveolens).
fuscation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin fuscare, fuscatum (“to make dark”), from fuscus (“dark”).
Senses: examples: text: It is true other species have some fuscation but with them it is slight, not noticeable casually, and has usually been omitted in descriptions.
ref: 1911, A. A. Girault, “Hymenoptera”, in Transactions of the American Entomological Society, volume 37, page 51:
text: The same as victoria but the scape is also dark red, including also the long pedicel and the first two funicle joints (and a part of the third); the abdoment is reddish only along the median line of the venter; the fore wings bear the same general pattern ( as regards fuscation ) but they are more irregularly fumated, the two fumated areas less distinctly separated, especially caudad.
ref: 1915, Ronald Hamlyn-Harris, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Volume 4, page 333:
text: Air-tube index 6.5 to 7.0, without any fuscation near the center;
ref: 1954, Richard H. Foote., The Larvae and Pupae of the Mosquitoes Belonging to the Culex Subgenera Melanoconion and Moschlostyrax, page 60::
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A darkening; obscurity; obfuscation.
menispermine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: menispermin
form: menispermina
Etymology: Compare French ménispermine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkaloid distinct from picrotoxin and obtained from the cocculus indicus (the fruit of Anamirta cocculus, formerly Menispermum cocculus) as a white, crystalline, tasteless powder.
Derived terms: paramenispermine
gawn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gawns
Etymology: Corrupted from gallon.
Senses: glosses: A small tub or lading vessel.
gawn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Corrupted from going.
Senses: examples: text: I'm no used to your grandees, and I'm no gawn to begin to learn fashionable mainners noo — so dinna ask me — I'm no gawn to mak a fule o' mysel' at this time o' day.
ref: 1841, Susan Edmonstone Ferrier, The Inheritance, page 8:
text: Agnes came in dressed in nightgown and curlers. “Are we still gawn to the church bingo the night? I told Bessie I'd be gawn.”
ref: 2007, Jacqueline Wales, When the Crow Sings, page 110:
text: “Ah'm gawn to tear yore skin off with this here whip,” came the guttural voice from behind him. “Then ah'm gawn to rub salt in the cuts an' leave you hyar on the floor.”
ref: 2014, Charles R. Allen, 99 Cent Adventure Time Stories: The House of Weird Sleep, page 3:
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of certain regional pronunciations of going.
gawns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gawn
carburetant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carburetants
Senses: glosses: Any volatile liquid used in charging illuminating gases.
carburetants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carburetant
lucule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lucules
Etymology: Diminutive from Latin lux, lucis (“light”).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: facula (bright spot on the sun)
lucules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lucule
mesoxalic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mes- + oxalic + acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A dicarboxylic acid, C₃H₂O₆ that is an intermediate in the oxidation of malonic acid to oxalic acid.
Derived terms: mesoxalate
subterranies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subterrany
subterrany
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subterrany
form: most subterrany
Etymology: From Latin subterrāneus. Compare subterrane and subterraneous.
Senses: examples: text: Experiment solitary touching subterrany fires
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “IV. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: subterranean
subterrany
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subterranies
Etymology: From Latin subterrāneus. Compare subterrane and subterraneous.
Senses: synonyms: subterranity
glosses: A subterranean place.
asterophyllite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asterophyllites
Etymology: Ancient Greek [Term?], meaning "star leaf".
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A fossil plant from the coal formations of Europe and America, now regarded as the branchlets and foliage of calamites.
asterophyllites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asterophyllite
fatidical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /fəˈtɪdɪkəl/
Forms: form: more fatidical
form: most fatidical
Etymology: From Latin fātidicus, from fātum (“fate”) + dīcō (“to say, tell”).
Senses: examples: text: the fatidical oak
text: some Trees , that they are fatidical, these come to foretell, at leastwise to wish you, as the season invites me, a good New-year
ref: 1655, James Howell, “To Doctor Harvey”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Having power to foretell future events; prophetic; fatiloquent.
Related terms: fatidically
recontinue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recontinues
form: recontinuing
form: recontinued
form: recontinued
Etymology: From re- + continue.
Senses: glosses: To continue again, especially after a pause.
recontinued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recontinue
recontinues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recontinue
recontinuing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recontinue
cubicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin cubicularis, from cubiculum (“a sleeping room”), from cubare (“to lie down”).
Senses: examples: text: the inseparable Cubicular Companion the King took comfort in the height of his troubles
ref: 1655, James Howell, “To the Earl of Lindsey”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Belonging to a chamber or bedroom.
outswell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outswells
form: outswelling
form: outswelled
form: outswelled
form: outswollen
Etymology: From out- + swell.
Senses: glosses: To exceed in swelling.
examples: text: Blovv, villain, till thy ſphered bias-cheek / Outſvvell the colic of puff'd Aquilon
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:
text: I ſtand aboue thee, and as from a rocke / VVhoſe eminence outſvvelles the raging flood, / See thy hopes ſhip vvrackt: […]
ref: 1610, Iohn [i.e., John] Mason, The Turke. A Worthie Tragedie. […], London: […] E[dward] A[llde] for Iohn Busbie […], →OCLC, Act II, scene i, signature D2, verso:
glosses: To swell beyond; to overflow.
outswelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outswell
outswelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outswell
outswelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outswellings
Senses: glosses: That which swells outward; a protrusion.
outswells
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outswell
recontinuation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recontinuations
Etymology: From re- + continuation.
Senses: glosses: Continuation anew; the act of recontinuing.