cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
aphanipterous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Aphaniptera + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: According to the brief text surrounding the drawing, the emerald was an aphanipterous parasite of Caledonian wintergreen, a plant peculiar to Scotland, and was sometimes endowed with an intermittent phosphorescence at night which gave rise to a sort of green halo above it, parallel to the general plane of its body.
ref: 1914, Raymond Roussel, translated by Rupert Copeland Cuningham, Locus Solus:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to fleas of Aphaniptera, a former classification of insects.
atrabiliar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more atrabiliar
form: most atrabiliar
Senses: examples: text: ‘Paris marching on us?’ responds Mounier, with an atrabiliar accent: ‘Well, so much the better! We shall the sooner be a Republic.’
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter V, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book VII (The Insurrection of Women), page 257:
glosses: melancholy; atrabilious
diagometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diagometers
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: examples: text: the use of an instrument called a diagometer, constructed so as to show the electrical conductibility of the oil to be examined
ref: 1857, Pompeius Alexander Bolley, Manual of technical analysis:
glosses: A kind of electroscope in which the dry pile is employed to measure the amount of electricity transmitted by different bodies, or to determine their conductive power.
diagometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diagometer
disbranch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disbranches
form: disbranching
form: disbranched
form: disbranched
Etymology: From dis- + branch.
Senses: examples: text: There is no tree admits of transplantation so well as the Elm, for a tree of twenty years growth will admit of a remove. Mr. Evelyn says, he has removed them twice as big as a man's waist ; but then they were totally disbranched, the top being left only intire […]
ref: 1761, John Mordant, The Complete Steward:
text: You have to disbud and disbranch your plants to get one bloom that is anywhere close to perfection.
ref: August 20 2021, Sara Bruestle, “See bodacious blooms at dahlia show this weekend in Everett”, in The Herald:
glosses: To remove a branch or branches.
examples: text: She that herself will sliver and disbranch
From her material sap, perforce must wither,
And come to deadly use.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: To tear away; to break off.
disbranched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disbranch
disbranches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disbranch
disbranching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disbranch
dishclout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dishclouts
Etymology: From dish + clout.
Senses: examples: text: O, he's a lovely gentleman! / Romeo's a dishclout to him: an eagle, madam, / Hath not so green, so quick, so fair an eye / As Paris hath.
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 III, scene v]:
text: Upon the present occasion, he bustled in and out of the kitchen, till Mrs. Dods lost patience, and threatened to pin the dish-clout to his tail; a menace which he pardoned, in consideration, that in all the countries which he had visited, which are sufficiently civilized to boast of cooks, these artists, toiling in their fiery element, have a privilege to be testy and impatient.
ref: 1823 December 23 (indicated as 1824), [Walter Scott], chapter XVII, in St Ronan’s Well. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, pages 262-3:
text: Then he had bent and kissed her parted lips, gently at first, then passionately, drawing her, dishclout and suds and all, into his strong brown arms.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XIII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 213:
glosses: A dishcloth.
dishclouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dishclout
driftless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more driftless
form: most driftless
Etymology: From drift + -less.
Senses: examples: text: But the society into which I was now introduced swarmed with the gipsies of literature, men who lived careless, driftless lives, without thought of to-morrow.
ref: 1898, Charles Gavan Duffy, s:My Life in Two Hemispheres, Chapter 2:
glosses: Having no goal or direction; aimless; purposeless
glosses: Without a drift (mass of matter thrown together, especially by wind or water).
examples: text: driftless control system
text: driftless Wiener process
glosses: Random; having no fixed direction.
Derived terms: Driftless Area
driftlessly
driftlessness
duopolist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duopolists
Etymology: From duopoly + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A member of a duopoly.
duopolistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more duopolistically
form: most duopolistically
Etymology: From duopolistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a duopolistic manner.
duopolists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duopolist
endostoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endostosis
endostosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endostoses
Etymology: From New Latin endostosis. By surface analysis, endo- + ostosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: A process of bone formation in which ossification takes place within the substance of the cartilage.
Hypernyms: ostosis
Coordinate terms: ectostosis
Related terms: hyperostosis
osteosis
periostosis
expugnable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more expugnable
form: most expugnable
Etymology: Latin expugnabilis.
Senses: glosses: That which may be overcome, conquered or taken by storm.
examples: text: Harriet, flattered, wondered if, among the young, expugnable officers who took her out, Edwina could ever find one she would wish to marry.
ref: 1977, Olivia Manning, The Danger Tree (The Levant Trilogy; 1), London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson:
glosses: That which may be possessed or overcome.
Derived terms: unexpugnable
Related terms: expugn
feod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feods
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of feud (“estate granted to a vassal by a feudal lord in exchange for service”).
feods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feod
frontlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more frontlessly
form: most frontlessly
Etymology: From frontless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: shamelessly; impudently
fueler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuelers
form: fueller
Etymology: From fuel + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Men of France, changeable chameleons,
Spitals of diseases, shops of fashions,
Love's fuelers, and the rightest company
Of players which upon the world's stage be
ref: a. 1631 (date written), J[ohn] Donne, “(please specify the title)”, in Poems, […] with Elegies on the Authors Death, London: […] M[iles] F[lesher] for Iohn Marriot, […], published 1633, →OCLC:
glosses: One who, or that which, supplies fuel.
fuelers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fueler
glebeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From glebe + -less.
Senses: examples: text: glebeless church
glosses: Having no glebe.
gossaniferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more gossaniferous
form: most gossaniferous
Etymology: From gossan + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: examples: text: gossaniferous metaquartzite
text: gossaniferous quartz
glosses: Containing or producing gossan.
heterogeneal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of heterogeneous.
inconvincibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inconvincibly
form: most inconvincibly
Etymology: From inconvincible + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an inconvincible manner.
intermesenteric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + mesenteric.
Senses: examples: the intermesenteric, or aortic, plexus
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Within the mesentery.
malacopterygious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From translingual Malacopterygii + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Belonging to the Malacopterygii, an obsolete order of fish.
mazily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more mazily
form: most mazily
Etymology: From mazy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: mazily connected rooms
glosses: In a mazy manner.
methionate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methionates
Etymology: From methionic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt of methionic acid.
methionates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of methionate
moulten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: a moulten raven
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
glosses: Having moulted.
pennipotent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pennipotent
form: most pennipotent
Etymology: From Latin pennipotens, from penna (“wing”) + potens (“strong”).
Senses: examples: text: Dismount your tow'ring Thoughts, aspiring Minds;
Vnplume their wings in flight pennipotent;
ref: 1609, John Davies of Hereford, The Holy Roode:
glosses: Strong of wing; strong on the wing.
radiciform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more radiciform
form: most radiciform
Etymology: From Latin radix (stem radic-) + -iform.
Senses: examples: text: radiciform appendices
text: radiciform processes
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the nature or appearance of a root (radix).
reclaimant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reclaimants
Etymology: Compare French réclamant, present participle.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: One who reclaims (in the various senses).
reclaimants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reclaimant
roughdrawn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From rough + drawn.
Senses: glosses: past participle of roughdraw
roughdrawn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more roughdrawn
form: most roughdrawn
Etymology: From rough + drawn.
Senses: glosses: Drawn or delineated rapidly and by way of a first sketch.
stoopingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more stoopingly
form: most stoopingly
Etymology: From stooping + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With a stooping posture.
subastringent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + astringent.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat astringent.
thallate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thallates
Etymology: From thallic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt of a hypothetical thallic acid.
thallates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thallate
tripedal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin tripedalis, from tri- + pes, pedis (“a foot”).
Senses: glosses: Having three feet.
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: Having three metrical feet.
trothplight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trothplights
Etymology: From troth + plight.
Senses: examples: text: My Wife's a Holy-Horse, deserues a Name
As ranke as any Flax-Wench, that puts to
Before her troth-plight: say't, and iustify't.
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
glosses: betrothal.
trothplight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: trothplights
form: trothplighting
form: trothplighted
form: trothplighted
form: trothplight
form: trothplight
Etymology: From troth + plight.
Senses: examples: text: It is certaine Corporall, that he is marryed to
Nell Quickly, and certainly she did you wrong, for you
were troth-plight to her
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, 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 betroth.
trothplights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trothplight
Tullian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -uːliən
Forms: form: more Tullian
form: most Tullian
Etymology: From Latin Tullianus, from Tullius (“the name of a Roman gens”).
Senses: examples: text: Tullian gallery
text: Tullian phrase
text: Some people think it's also Tullian to put the salutation not on the front but on the back of the letter , because this practice in Cicero's day served to tell the bearer which letter was for which person
ref: 1986, Desiderius Erasmus, A. H. T. Levi, Literary and Educational Writings, volume 6:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or in the style of, Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC–43 BC; sometimes anglicized as Tully), Roman philosopher and statesman.
unface
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unfaces
form: unfacing
form: unfaced
form: unfaced
Etymology: From un- + face.
Senses: glosses: To remove the face or cover from; to unmask or expose.
glosses: To turn away so something is not facing another.
unfaces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unface
unfacing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unface
urchon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urchons
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of urchin.
urchons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urchon
inconvincible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inconvincible
form: most inconvincible
form: unconvincible
Etymology: From in- + convincible.
Senses: glosses: Incapable of being convinced.
Derived terms: inconvincibly
areek
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɹiːk/
rhymes: -iːk
Etymology: From a- + reek.
Senses: examples: text: The place was areek.
text: A messenger comes all a-reek
Mordanto at Madrid to seek;
He left the town above a week.
ref: c. 1706, To the Earl of Peterborow, Jonathan Swift:
text: In the morning, Thomas Mugridge being duly bribed, the galley is pleasantly areek with the odor of their [the flying-fish] frying;
ref: 1904, Jack London, chapter 7, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, page 72:
text: Smoking shacks yellow with coal-oil light and areek with the sweetmold smell of splo whiskey.
ref: 1965, Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper, New York: Vintage, published 1993, Part 1, p. 29:
glosses: In a reeking condition; having a strong odour.
inexpediently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inexpediently
form: most inexpediently
Etymology: From inexpedient + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a way that is not expedient.
respiteless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more respiteless
form: most respiteless
Etymology: From respite + -less.
Senses: examples: text: their ceaseless coursing and respiteless spinning
ref: 2002, Victoria Joyce, Voices:
glosses: Without respite.
sanctitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sanctitudes
Etymology: From Latin sanctitudo.
Senses: examples: text: [...] in thir looks Divine / The image of thir glorious Maker ſhon, / Truth, Wiſdome, Sanctitude ſevere and pure, / Severe, but in true filial freedom plac't
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 291–294:
glosses: holiness; sacredness; sanctity
glosses: affected holiness; sanctimoniousness
sanctitudes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sanctitude
sublineation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sublineations
Etymology: From sub- + lineation.
Senses: glosses: A line drawn underneath text; an underline.
glosses: The act of underlining.
examples: text: At that time, before sublineation had become significant for the local group, banishment would have amounted to dismissing a troublesome individual and his wife and children, rather than an entire sublineage consisting of several families ...
ref: 1961, Louis C. Faron, Mapuche Social Structure, page 97:
text: The larger the lineage, as a general rule, the more segmented it becomes. Sublineation, on the other hand, depends exclusively on the size and "antiquity" of the lineage.
ref: 1968, Hugo G. Nutini, San Bernardino Contlá, page 148:
text: In reviewing the Mapuche case, I will examine how regionally standardized ceremonial places and elaborate symbols and objects of social status have developed and spread across the social and physical landscape by means of the exchange of women and the sublineation of kinship units linked through participation in public ritual and competition over access to, and regulation of, prime agricultural land and other key resources.
ref: 1992, Frederick W. Lange, Wealth and Hierarchy in the Intermediate Area, →ISBN:
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A system of forming kinship groups that subdivide a major lineage into subgroups of more closely related individuals.
examples: text: There have been a great many theories as to why the zinc is deposited on and alloyed with the metal treated, but I think that the theory of sublineation is possibly the one most correct.
ref: 1915, Monthly Review - Volumes 2-4, page 33:
text: These uplands are still growing, and comparatively young, but their nature points to past sublineation of thick accumulations of sediment, from abundant sources, and therefore active volcanicity
ref: 1992, Anshu K. Sinha, Himalayan orogen and global tectonics, page 290:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: lineation due to the accumulation of matter in cavities beneath the surface.
examples: text: Philosophy interested him, and I found my own education improving with Socrates' as he led me deeper and deeper into mazes of idealism, epistemology and sublineation.
ref: 1954, Judith Merril, Selections from Beyond Human Ken, page 182:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A branch of philosophy concerned with understanding of language.
sublineations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sublineation
asphaltic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more asphaltic
form: most asphaltic
Etymology: From asphalt + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: asphaltic concrete; asphaltic sediment
text: The aggregated Soyle
Death with his Mace petrific, cold and dry,
As with a Trident smote, and fix’t as firm
As Delos floating once; the rest his look
Bound with Gorgonian rigor not to move,
And with Asphaltic slime,
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, 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 293-298:
text: Hears the hoarse bittern, where Gomorrah stood;
ref: 1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, Canto 4, lines 275-276, in The Botanic Garden, London: J. Johnson, p. 166, On mouldering piles amid asphaltic mud [the pilgrim]
text: […] the congealed frost lay ten inches thick in a hard, asphaltic pavement,
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 2, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 8:
synonyms: bituminous
glosses: Resembling, containing, or relating to asphalt or bitumen.
examples: text: As Sodomes Apples, neere th’Asphalticke lake,
Of specious shew, yet touch’t, to ashes turning,
So are sinnes poysons sweete, yet bane to take;
ref: 1619, Stephen Jerome, Origens Repentance, London: Roger Jackson, Section 2, p. 29:
text: […] who gather from the fragrant shrub
The aromatic balsam, and extract
Its milky juice along the lovely side
Of winding Jordan, till immers’d it sleep
Beneath the pitchy surface, which obscures
Th’ Asphaltic lake.
ref: 1737, Richard Glover, Leonidas, London: R. Dodsley, Book 3, lines 349-354, p. 93:
glosses: Of or relating to the Dead Sea (salt lake between Jordan and Israel).
Derived terms: semiasphaltic
dottrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dottrels
Senses: examples: text: Down below in the privy kitchen they are roasting dottrels for dinner.
ref: 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 461:
glosses: Archaic form of dotterel.
dottrels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dottrel
orichalceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more orichalceous
form: most orichalceous
Etymology: From New Latin orichalceus, from orichalcum.
Senses: examples: text: Thoracic dorsum black, with orichalceous-pollinose stripes
ref: 1901, Biologia Centrali-Americana:
text: Orichalceous (Orichalceus). A splendour intermediate between that of gold and brass. Ex. upper wings of Noctua Chrysitis.
ref: 1826, William Kirby, William Spence, An Introduction to Entomology: Or Elements of the Natural History of Insects: with Plates, volume 4, page 283:
glosses: Pertaining to, or resembling, orichalch; having a colour or lustre like that of brass.
masticatories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of masticatory
hydrofluosilicate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrofluosilicates
Etymology: From hydrofluosilic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt of hydrofluosilic acid.
Synonyms: silicofluoride
hydrofluosilicates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrofluosilicate
overmerit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + merit.
Senses: examples: 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:
text: an overmerit ; for convenient merit , unto which reward may easily reach
glosses: Excessive merit.
squirarchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squirarchy
squirarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squirarchies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of squirearchy.
subrigid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + rigid.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat rigid or stiff.
dogeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From doge + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Above the dogeless city's vanish'd sway
ref: 1818, Lord Byron, “Canto IV”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Fourth, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number):
glosses: Without a doge.
tallageable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tallage + -able.
Senses: glosses: On which a tallage must be paid.
rhizopodous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rhizopod + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: rhizopodial
glosses: Of or pertaining to the rhizopods.
hyparterial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyp- + arterial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated below an artery; applied especially to the branches of the bronchi given off below the point where the pulmonary artery crosses the bronchus.
forstall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forstalls
form: forstalling
form: forstalled
form: forstalled
Senses: examples: text: they weened fowle reproch
Was to them doen , their entraunce to forstall
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of forestall.
forstalled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forstall
forstalling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forstall
forstalls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forstall
enframe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enframes
form: enframing
form: enframed
form: enframed
Etymology: From en- + frame.
Senses: synonyms: frame
frame in
glosses: To enclose in, or as if in, a frame.
Derived terms: enframement
enframed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enframe
enframes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enframe
enframing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enframe
demitones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demitone
interceptive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛptɪv
Forms: form: interceptives
Etymology: From intercept + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: Interceptives are neither contraceptives nor abortifacients since they are unable to inhibit fertilization or to interfere with an established implantation in primates ( Morris & Van Wagenen, 1973).
ref: 1980, Elsayed Saad Eldin Hafez, Human Reproduction: Conception and Contraception, page 747:
text: Notelovitz and Bard also used 30mg of conjugated estrogen daily for five days in 359 women who requested an interceptive.
ref: 1988, William M. Green, Rape, page 136:
text: Norman Farnsworth, Audrey S. Bingel, and others, in a two-part 1975 review of more than a thousand botanical and pharmacological references, list 225 plant species as " folkloric " contraceptives and/or interceptives.
ref: 1995, Autumn Stanley, Mothers and Daughters of Invention: Notes for a Revised History of Technology, page 267:
glosses: A drug or device that prevents pregnancy by interfering with the implantation of an embryo in the uterus.
poison pills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poison pill
binoxalate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: binoxalates
Etymology: From bin- + oxalate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: hydrogenoxalate
binoxalates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of binoxalate
mithridatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mithridatic
attestative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /əˈtɛstətɪv/
Etymology: From Latin attestāt- (past participial stem of attestor) + -ive. By surface analysis, attest + -ative.
Senses: examples: text: attestative satisfaction
text: attestative verb
synonyms: attestive
glosses: Of the nature of attestation; serving to attest.
Related terms: attestable
attested
attestment
reassemblage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reassemblages
Etymology: From re- + assemblage.
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent assemblage.
reassemblages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reassemblage
hatteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪəɹiə
Forms: form: hatterias
Etymology: From obsolete translingual Hatteria, which was a genus proposed in 1842 and later rejected.
Senses: examples: text: The skull of the hatteria is more like that of a crocodile than like that of any other reptile; but on the other hand its legs are like those of the lizard […]
ref: 1891, Julia McNair Wright, Nature Readers: Sea-side and Way-side, number 4, page 163:
text: A Red-breasted Water lizard, appropriately christened “Robin,” seemed more especially to excite its ire in the vain pursuit of which the hatteria would rush out from its lair with angry gruntings whenever that lizard chanced to trespass too closely […]
ref: 1902, Animal Life and the World of Nature:
text: This association favours the hatterias which feed on the numerous insects attracted by the birds' excrement.
ref: 1975, Pierre Paul Grassé, Larousse Encyclopedia of the Animal World, page 407:
glosses: The tuatara.
hatterias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hatteria
philhellenism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: philhellenisms
form: Philhellenism
Etymology: < Ancient Greek φίλος (phílos, “friend, lover”) and ἑλληνισμός (hellēnismós, “hellenism”)
Senses: glosses: A 19th-century intellectual movement which supported the independence of Greece from the Ottoman Empire.
glosses: Love of Greece or Greek culture.
Related terms: Hellenophile
Hellenophilia
Hellenophobe
Hellenophobic
philhellene
philhellenic
Philhellenist
gnathostegite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gnathostegites
Etymology: From gnatho- + Ancient Greek στέγος (stégos, “roof”) + -ite.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of a pair of broad plates, developed from the outer maxillipeds of crabs, and forming a cover for the other organs in the mouth.
foziness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fozy + -ness.
Senses: examples: December 1821, Blackwood's Magazine
[The Whigs'] foziness can no longer be concealed.
glosses: The state of being fozy; lack of spirit; dullness.
phlogistical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phlogistic.
rhetorize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rhetorizes
form: rhetorizing
form: rhetorized
form: rhetorized
Senses: examples: text: As no less was that before his book against the Brownists , to write a letter to a Prosopopeia , a certain rhetorized woman whoin he calls mother , and complains of some that laid whoredom to her charge
ref: 1642 April, John Milton, An Apology for Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC:
glosses: To represent by a figure of rhetoric, or by personification.
glosses: To use rhetorical devices; to rhetoricate.
rhetorized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rhetorize
rhetorizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rhetorize
rhetorizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rhetorize
egressor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: egressors
Etymology: From Latin [Term?].
Senses: glosses: Someone who goes out; someone who egresses or leaves.
Related terms: egress
egressors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of egressor
antignostic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antignostic
form: most antignostic
Etymology: From anti- + gnostic.
Senses: examples: text: An antignostic spirit pervades the Gospel
ref: 1851, The New Englander, volume 9, page 39:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: Opposing Gnosticism.
geognosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See geognosy.
Senses: examples: 1871-72, George Eliot, Middlemarch
No, he has no bent towards exploration, or the enlargement of our geognosis: that would be a special purpose which I could recognize with some approbation, though without felicitating him on a career which so often ends in premature and violent death. But so far is he from having any desire for a more accurate knowledge of the earth's surface, that he said he should prefer not to know the sources of the Nile, and that there should be some unknown regions preserved as hunting grounds for the poetic imagination.
glosses: Knowledge of the Earth.
Astraea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /æˈstɹiːə/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἀστραῖα (Astraîa, literally “star maiden”)
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The Greek goddess of stars and justice; similar to Dike, equivalent to the Roman goddess Justitia.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The asteroid 5 Astraea.
Synonyms: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: ⚓︎
topics: astrology
mysticism
philosophy
human-sciences
sciences
alt: %
word: ⯙
Parthenope
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /pɑːrˈθɛnəpi/
Etymology: From Latin Parthenopē, from Ancient Greek Παρθενόπη (Parthenópē, from παρθένος (parthénos, “virgin, virginal”) + ὄψ (óps, “voice”)).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: One of the sirens, daughter of the god Achelous and the Muse Terpsichore.
examples: text: Neapolis, Naples, was situated on the W. slope of Mt. Vesuvius and on the banks of the small stream Sebethus. It was founded by the Greeks of Cumae, and was named Neapolis, "New City," in contradistinction to Palaepolis, "Old City," which had been previously established, probably on the hill of Pausilypus. The name of Parthenope appears to have originally belonged to Palaepolis, but was subsequently transferred to Neapolis.
ref: 1867, William Latham Bevan, The Student's Manual of Ancient Geography..., page 567:
glosses: Former name of Naples: a port city in southwestern Italy.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
synonyms: 11 Parthenope
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🝺
glosses: 11 Parthenope, a main belt asteroid.
Derived terms: Parthenopean
Egeria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈdʒɪəɹɪə/
rhymes: -ɪɹiə
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Egeria.
Senses: examples: text: On the heroine of his play he dwelt with the passionate fondness of a lover: there the real mingled with the ideal: could he write of love, and not think of Ethel Churchill? She was the Egeria of his heart, who taught him all the truth of tenderness.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “A London Life”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 165:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A nymph or minor goddess from Roman mythology.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 13 Egeria, a main belt asteroid.
Synonyms: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: 13 Egeria
Egeria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈdʒɪəɹɪə/
rhymes: -ɪɹiə
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Egeria.
Senses: examples: text: And she was being disrespectful and patronising to Lady Macmaster, Egeria to innumerable Scottish Men of Letters!
ref: 1926, Ford Madox Ford, A Man Could Stand Up— (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 509:
text: Talleyrand informed Madame de Staël of the expected visit, and she, who had already pictured herself as the Egeria of the young genius upon whom the eyes of France were fastened, was waiting in the anteroom on the following morning.
ref: 1932, Duff Cooper, Talleyrand, Folio Society, published 2010, page 74:
text: Ada, separated from her husband, was regarded as the Egeria of a mainly homosexual coterie that included Robbie Ross, Reggie Turner, Max Beerbohm and Lord Alfred Douglas.
ref: 2009, Selina Hastings, The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham, John Murray, published 2010, page 134:
glosses: A patroness.
Chantilly cream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chantilly creams
form: chantilly cream
Senses: synonyms: Chantilly
crème Chantilly
glosses: Whipped cream sweetened and flavoured with vanilla.
Chantilly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Chantilly, from Medieval Latin Chantileium, ultimately from Gallo-Roman personal name in Latin Cantilius.
Senses: head_nr: 2
glosses: A city in Oise department, Hauts-de-France, France, formerly in Picardy.
head_nr: 2
glosses: An unincorporated community in Lincoln County, Missouri, United States.
head_nr: 2
glosses: A neighbourhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, United States.
head_nr: 2
glosses: A census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States.
Derived terms: Chantilly cream
Chantilly lace
Chantilly porcelain
Chantilly-Tiffany
Chantilly/Tiffany
Related terms: crème Chantilly
Chantilly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chantillies
head_nr: 2
Etymology: From French Chantilly, from Medieval Latin Chantileium, ultimately from Gallo-Roman personal name in Latin Cantilius.
Senses: head_nr: 2
synonyms: Chantilly-Tiffany
Chantilly/Tiffany
Foreign Longhair
glosses: A medium-sized, longhair domestic cat breed, originating in Canada and the United States.
head_nr: 2
glosses: Ellipsis of Chantilly cream.
pepernoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pepernoten
form: pepernoots
Etymology: From Dutch pepernoot.
Senses: glosses: a kind of dough-based confectionery eaten during Sinterklaas celebrations. Typically softer and larger than a kruidnoot
Eunomia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /juˈnoʊmiə/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Εὐνομία (Eunomía, “Order of Law, Good Order”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: One of the Horae.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 15 Eunomia, a main belt asteroid.
Synonyms: sense: Horae
english: the Grower
translation: the Grower
word: Auxo
sense: Horae
alt: the Fruit-bringer
word: Carpo
sense: Horae
english: the Plant-raiser
translation: the Plant-raiser
word: Thallo
sense: Horae
english: Justice
translation: Justice
word: Dike
sense: Horae
english: Peace
translation: Peace
word: Eirene
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: 15 Eunomia
kruidnoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kruidnoten
form: kruidnoots
Etymology: From Dutch kruidnoot.
Senses: glosses: a small hemispherical spiced cookie with speculaas spices, eaten during Sinterklaas celebrations. Typically harder and smaller than a pepernoot.
cyberhacking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + hacking.
Senses: examples: text: White-collar crimes include cyberhacking and political espionage.
ref: 1995, David James Clarke, Novell's CNE study guide for NetWare 4.1:
text: There are many well known examples of cyberhacking.
ref: 2004, L. Jean Camp, Stephen Lewis, Economics of information security, page 95:
text: In many cases gangs use bribery, cyberhacking, and other methods to infiltrate police departments for information or intelligence.
ref: 2009, Jennifer E. Sims, Burton L. Gerber, Vaults, mirrors, and masks: rediscovering U.S. counterintelligence:
glosses: computer hacking; the act of breaking into computer systems
Related terms: cyberhacker
extrasensorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From extrasensory + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an extrasensory manner; beyond the usual physical senses.
speculaas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speculaas
Senses: glosses: Speculoos, a spiced biscuit traditionally eaten around Saint Nicholas Day and Christmas; in particular, the variety from the Netherlands, when contrasted with Belgian speculoos.
Fortuna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The Roman goddess of luck, fortune and fate, equivalent to the Greek goddess Tyche.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 19 Fortuna, a main belt asteroid.
glosses: A city in Humboldt County, California, United States.
glosses: A ghost town in Arizona.
glosses: A city and village in North Dakota.
glosses: A settlement in Saint Thomas, United States Virgin Islands.
Synonyms: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: 19 Fortuna
Related terms: Lady Luck
webster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛbstə/
Forms: form: websters
Etymology: From Middle English webbestere, webster, from Old English webbestre, feminine form of webba (“weaver”). Compare web, weave, and -ster.
Senses: examples: text: A Derbyshire webster who proposed to cure a lunatic with a paper charm in the reign of Charles I demanded £3 down, and £3 more when the patient was cured.
ref: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 242:
glosses: A weaver (originally, specifically female).
websters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of webster
torpitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɔː(ɹ)pɪtjuːd/
ipa: /ˈtɔɹpɪtud/
Forms: form: torpitudes
Senses: examples: text: in a kind of torpitude, or sleeping state
ref: 1713, W[illiam] Derham, Physico-Theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation. […], London: […] W[illiam] Innys, […], →OCLC:
glosses: torpor; the state of being torpid
fortunateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fortunatenesses
Etymology: From fortunate + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being fortunate; fortune; luck.
disarticulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disarticulate
disarticulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disarticulate
hyperboliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperboliform
form: most hyperboliform
Etymology: From hyperbola + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of a hyperbola; hyperbolic
Mammonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mammonites
Etymology: From Mammon + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: And last, but not least, the perfect naturalist should have in him the very essence of true chivalry, namely, self-devotion; the desire to advance, not himself and his own fame or wealth, but knowledge and mankind. He should have this great virtue; and in spite of many shortcomings, (for what man is there who liveth and sinneth not?) naturalists as a class have it, to a degree which makes them stand out most honourably in the midst of a self-seeking and mammonite generation, inclined to value everything by its money price, its private utility.
ref: 1855, Charles Kingsley, Glaucus; or, The Wonders of the Shore, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, pages 41–42:
synonyms: Mammonist
glosses: Someone devoted to the acquisition of wealth; an avaricious person.
Derived terms: Mammonitish
Mammonites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mammonite
obdiplostemony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The condition of being obdiplostemonous.
bibliophilist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bibliophilists
Etymology: From biblio- + -philist.
Senses: glosses: A lover of books; a bibliophile.
bibliophilists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bibliophilist
sea hedgehog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea hedgehogs
Senses: examples: text: Cuttle-fish, spiced oysters, sea hedge-hogs, and lobsters were among the ingredients of love-potions that reputed thaumaturgist Apuleius [...] was accused of have prepared in order to win the love of a widow.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 72:
glosses: A sea urchin.
glosses: A blowfish or globefish.
sea hedgehogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea hedgehog
Bellona
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈləʊ.nə/
ipa: /bəˈloʊ.nə/
rhymes: -əʊnə
Etymology: From Latin Bellōna, related to bellum.
Senses: examples: text: But time will teach the Russ, ev'n conquering War
Has handmaid arts: aye, aye, the Russ will woo
All sciences that speed Bellona's car,
All murder's tactic arts, and win them too […]
ref: 1831, Thomas Campbell, The Power of Russia:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Roman goddess of war, wife or sister of Mars. Equivalent to the Greek goddess Enyo.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 28 Bellona, a main belt asteroid.
Synonyms: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: 28 Bellona
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: ㉘
Bellona
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈləʊ.nə/
ipa: /bəˈloʊ.nə/
rhymes: -əʊnə
Forms: form: Bellonas
Etymology: From Latin Bellōna, related to bellum.
Senses: glosses: A woman of great spirit and vigour.
Amphitrite
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæm.fɪˈtɹaɪ.ti/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἀμφιτρίτη (Amphitrítē).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A nymph, the wife of Poseidon.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 29 Amphitrite, a main belt asteroid.
Synonyms: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: 29 Amphitrite
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: ㉙
coguardian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coguardians
Etymology: From co- + guardian.
Senses: glosses: A joint guardian.
Derived terms: coguardianship
coguardians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coguardian
irreproachableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From irreproachable + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: irreproachability
glosses: The quality or state of being irreproachable; integrity; innocence.
molluscoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: molluscoid
mactras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mactra
farmership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: farmerships
Etymology: From farmer + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: Clever as you are, Tom Faggus, you are nothing but a fool to mix your felony with your farmership.
ref: 1869, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Skill in farming.
farmerships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of farmership
Leukothea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ljuːˈkɒθi.ə/
/luːˈkɒθi.ə/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Λευκοθέα; "white goddess".
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A nymph or minor sea goddess of Greek mythology.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 35 Leukothea, a main belt asteroid.
Synonyms: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: 35 Leukothea
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: ㉟
Fides
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Roman goddess of trust and loyalty. Her Greek equivalent was Pistis.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 37 Fides, a main belt asteroid.
Synonyms: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: 37 Fides
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: ㊲
Related terms: Harpocrates
Greek god of silence
secret and confidentiality
mediævally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more mediævally
form: most mediævally
Etymology: From mediæval + -ly.
Senses: qualifier: archaic or archaizing
glosses: Alternative form of medievally.
deckscrub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deckscrubs
Etymology: From deck + scrub, from its use scrubbing ships' decks.
Senses: glosses: A floor brush with very hard short bristles, used for scouring.
currency adjustment factor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: currency adjustment factors
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel-industry
glosses: (Formerly, no longer in use) An IATA defined amount used to adjust Fare Construction Units in international airfare calculations.