cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
amberfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amberfishes
form: amberfish
Etymology: From amber + fish.
Senses: glosses: An amberjack.
amberfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amberfish
epitheloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more epitheloid
form: most epitheloid
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of epithelioid.
linament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linaments
Etymology: From Latin linamentum, from linum (“flax”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Lint (fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth, used for dressing wounds), especially when made into a tent for insertion into wounds or ulcers.
linaments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of linament
linhays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of linhay
arschin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arschins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of arshin.
arschins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arschin
dactyliology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdæktɪlɪˈɒlədʒi/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δακτύλιος (daktúlios, “finger ring”) + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The branch of archaeology dealing with gem engraving.
glosses: The branch of archaeology dealing with finger rings.
molossus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molossuses
form: molossi
form: molosse
Etymology: From Latin molossus, from Ancient Greek μολοσσός (molossós), properly "belonging to the Molossians", a people in the eastern part of Epirus.
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A metrical foot of three long syllables.
molossus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molosse
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of molasses.
molossuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of molossus
gynecea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyneceum
gyneceum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gynecea
Etymology: For origin, see gynaeceum § Etymology. By surface analysis, gynec- + -eum.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gynaeceum.
spoffish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spoffish
form: most spoffish
Etymology: Probably from British English dialect spoffle (“to be spoffish”).
Senses: examples: , Horatio Sparkins
Mr. Malderton, […] a little spoffish man, with green spectacles, entered the room.
glosses: earnest and active in matters of no importance; bustling
intimatest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of intimate: most intimate
Pahlevi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pahlavi.
side-wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: a side-wheel steamer
a side-wheel gunboat
glosses: Having a paddle wheel on each side; said of steam vessels.
dodecaphonically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From dodecaphonic + -ally.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: In a dodecaphonic manner.
wall-sided
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wall-sided
form: most wall-sided
Senses: examples: text: She was a good, substantial ship, not quite so long as the Alert, and wall-sided and kettle-bottomed, after the latest fashion of south-shore cotton and sugar wagons; strong, too, and tight, and a good average sailor, but with no pretensions to beauty, and nothing in the style of a “crack ship.”
ref: 1840, R[ichard] H[enry] D[ana], Jr., Two Years before the Mast. […] (Harper’s Family Library; no. CVI), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […], →OCLC:
text: We greet the clippers wing-and-wing that race the Southern wool;
We warn the crawling cargo-tanks of Bremen, Leith, and Hull;
To each and all our equal lamp at peril of the sea—
The white wall-sided warships or the whalers of Dundee!
ref: 1909, Rudyard Kipling, “The Coastwise Lights”, in A Song of the English:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Having sides nearly perpendicular, rather than flaring or tumbling home.
examples: text: On the other side rose this mighty wall-sided peak, too steep for snow, black as night, with sharp ridges and pointed summit.
ref: 1871, Edward Whymper, Scrambles amongst the Alps:
glosses: Having perpendicular sides.
isochimene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isochimenes
Senses: glosses: An isocheim.
isochimenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isochimene
SCA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of Software Communications Architecture.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of Strong Customer Authentication.
SCA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SCAs
Senses: topics: business
marketing
glosses: Initialism of sustainable competitive advantage.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of superior cerebellar artery.
croupal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more croupal
form: most croupal
Etymology: From croup + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, suggestive of, or caused by croup.
Synonyms: croupy
desmodont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desmodonts
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δεσμός (desmós, “band, connection”) + ὀδών (odṓn, “tooth”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of a group of South American blood-sucking bats of the genera Desmodus and Diphylla.
desmodont
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δεσμός (desmós, “band, connection”) + ὀδών (odṓn, “tooth”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: asthenodont
glosses: Of hinge teeth: having a large ligamentous resilifer (or chondrophore) which replaces the cardinal teeth.
desmodonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desmodont
clouterly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clouterly
form: most clouterly
Etymology: From clouter + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I say that he seems to me to be so set, so prim, so affected, so mincing, yet so clouterly in his person, that I dare engage for thy opinion if thou dost justice to him, and to thyself, that thou never beheldest such another, except in a pier-glass.
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CCCXLVI”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
text: Let us observe Spenser, with all his rusty obsolete words, with all his rough-hewn, clouterly verses.
ref: 1856, E. Phillips, The Works of William Shakspere, Dramatic and Poetical:
glosses: Clumsy; awkward.
panification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panifications
Etymology: From Latin panis (“bread”) + -ficare (“to make”, in comparative). Compare French panification.
Senses: examples: text: The theory of panification is not difficult of comprehension. “The flour,” says Dr. Ure, “owes this valuable quality to the gluten, which it contains in greater abundance than any of the other cerealia (kinds of corn). […]
ref: 1860, Andrew Ure, Ure's Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines:
text: Two successive panifications of the same flour do not give identical results.
ref: 1942, International Review of Agriculture, volume 33, number 2:
glosses: breadmaking
panifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panification
panipuris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panipuri
panicogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From panic + -o- + -genic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: engendering a state of panic
semiform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semiforms
Etymology: From Latin sēmifōrmis, equivalent to semi- + form.
Senses: examples: text: For seventeen years he had kept death at bay, and, at the time I speak of, medical diagnosis revealed that but one lung supported his remnant of life; thet that semiform of life seemed equal to the prime of many a hale man .
ref: 1880, Horace Bushnell, Mary A. Bushnell Cheney, Life and Letters of Horace Bushnell, page 531:
text: Prior to that it was in a semiform state for 2 years, semiform state being that various groups have gotten together to say there should be a committee, so that would be approximately 5 years' life to the committee.
ref: 1969, United States. Congress. House, Hearings - Volume 7, page 649:
text: The semiform is covered with a thermoplastic bar preheated in a special chamber up to superelastic state .
ref: 1990, Dhanjoo N. Ghista, Clinical Cardiac Assessment, Interventions, and Assist Technology, page 152:
glosses: A partial or imperfect form.
examples: text: This semiform π (312) is again to be observed on crystal No. 13, though it is there represented by only a single face.
ref: 1882, L. Fletcher, “Crystallographic Notes”, in London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science (Supplement), volume 13, page 479:
text: As crystals of tourmaline do not rotate the plane of polarisation, it is probable that in the case of the present crystal the hemimorphic development is of a semiform, similar to those which have been observed on dioptase and apatite, and that the form should be designated crystallographically as υκπ {320}.
ref: 1886, R. H. Solly, “On the Tetartohedral Development of a Crystal of Tourmaline”, in The Mineralogical Magazine and Journal of the Mineralogical Society, volume 6, page 81:
text: The eight normals of the tetragonal scalenohedron may carry the eight faces of a semiform in other ways than asymmetrically as regards the systematic planes.
ref: 1895, Nevil Story-Maskelyne, Crystallography: A Treatise on the Morphology of Crystals, page 255:
topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A crystal structure that is more elaborate than the simplest (primitive) form but which does not include all the faces and symmetry elements characteristic of the full crystal system.
semiforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semiform
eq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eqq
form: eqs
form: eq.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of equation.
Synonyms: eqn.
eq'n
eqn
equation
tregetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: For I did hem a tregetry,
But thereof yeve I a little tale
ref: c. 1360s (date written), Geffray Chaucer [i.e., Geoffrey Chaucer], “The Romaunt of the Rose”, in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London: […] Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], published 1542, →OCLC:
text: He was still staring at the coin. I indulged in a bit of tregetry, rolling it from knuckle to knuckle […]
ref: 1999, Alan Gordon, Thirteenth Night, page 66:
glosses: trickery; a trick
spathose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spathose
form: most spathose
Etymology: See spathe.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having or resembling a spathe.
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: spathic
Synonyms: spathaceous
spathal
eqq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Formed similarly to pp
Senses: glosses: plural of eq Abbreviation of equations
turrilite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turrilites
Etymology: From Latin turris (“tower”) + -lite or directly from translingual †Turrilites.
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Any fossil ammonite of the genus †Turrilites, the shell forming an open spiral with the later whorls separate.
turrilites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turrilite
arthrography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: arthrographies
Etymology: From arthro- + -graphy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An arthrogram
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The scientific description of joints
Derived terms: vibroarthrography
Related terms: arthrographic
Easterling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Easterlings
Etymology: Possibly modeled on Dutch oosterling. Compare sterling.
Senses: glosses: A native of the East; an Easterner.
examples: text: And that most greeued [grieved] them, the Easterlings being at libertie, brought to the realme such wares as they were woont, so serued their customers throughout the realme.
ref: 1587, Raphael Holinshed, “Henrie the Seuenth”, in Holinshed's Chronicles of England in Six Volumes. Vol. III. England, London: J. Johnson, page 508:
glosses: A Baltic trader.
Easterling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Possibly modeled on Dutch oosterling. Compare sterling.
Senses: glosses: An English surname
Easterlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Easterling
portace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: portaces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of portass.
portaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of portace
pantisocratist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pantisocratists
Senses: examples: text: Such persons we have seen rushing from one wild extreme to another, out-Paining Paine, out-Castlereaghing Castlereagh, Pantisocratists, Ultra-Tories, heretics, persecutors
ref: 1836, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Sir James Mackintosh”, in Edinburgh Review:
glosses: One who favours or supports the theory of a pantisocracy.
pantisocratists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pantisocratist
obstupefied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of obstupefy
obstupefy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: obstupefies
form: obstupefying
form: obstupefied
form: obstupefied
Etymology: Compare Latin obstupefacere. See ob- and stupefy.
Senses: glosses: To stupefy.
obstupefying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of obstupefy
chylifaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: chyle + Latin facere (“to make”)
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: chylification (The formation of chyle).
Susanoo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Susa-no-O
form: Susano'o
form: Susano-o
form: Susanowo
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 須佐之男(すさのお) (Susanoo).
Senses: topics: Shinto
human-sciences
lifestyle
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
religion
sciences
synonyms: Susanoo-no-Mikoto
glosses: The main Japanese storm god (along with Raijin and Fūjin), son of Izanami and Izanagi and brother of Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi, Ōyamatsumi and Kagutsuchi.
Coordinate terms: Amaterasu
Ame-no-Uzume
Izanagi
Izanami
Kagutsuchi
Ōyamatsumi
Tsukuyomi
sliding filament model
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sliding filament models
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A theory relating to a series of actions by the actin and myosin filaments that enable the muscle to undergo contraction.
Troyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Troyish
form: most Troyish
Etymology: From Middle English Troiish, troisse, from Old English Trōiesċ, Trōisċ (“Trojan”), equivalent to Troy + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Of, like, or pertaining to Troy; Trojan.
platly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more platly
form: most platly
Etymology: From plat + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of flatly.
e-gate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-gates
Etymology: From e- + gate.
Senses: examples: text: […] currently trialling e-gates at Manchester Airport […]
ref: 2009, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee, The future of aviation: first report of session 2009-10, volume 2, page 303:
text: For arrivals, there are 52 arrival passport counters and 12 e-gates […]
ref: 2011, Norman J. Ashford, Saleh Mumayiz, Paul H. Wright, Airport Engineering, page 695:
text: The outage was the latest in a long line of failures of the e-gate system.
ref: 2024 May 8, Jack Simpson, Rajeev Syal, “What went wrong with the electronic passport gates at UK airports?”, in The Guardian:
text: British tourists will have to endure passport-stamping queues in the EU until at least October and possibly well into 2026 despite a high profile e-gates agreement unveiled at Monday’s EU-UK summit in London, it has emerged.
ref: 2025 May 20, Lisa O'Carroll, Jessica Elgot, Sam Jones, Kiran Stacey, “Britons will not be able to use e-gates in EU until October at earliest”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: An electronic immigration gate at an airport, using biometrics etc.
Related terms: e-passport
e-gates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-gate
e-society
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-societies
Etymology: From e- + society.
Senses: glosses: A society that makes effective use of computer networks.
e-wallet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-wallets
form: ewallet
form: e-Wallet
Etymology: From e- (“electronic”) + wallet.
Senses: examples: text: The concept of virtual cash, and its associated counterpart, the e-Wallet or Digital Wallet became popular vocabulary in the 1990s when a number of initiatives were launched. The digital wallet, either stored on a physical medium such as a smart card of some kind […] or sitting on a server somewhere in cyberspace, began taking form.
ref: 2002, Michael Chesher, Rukesh Kaura, Peter Linton, chapter 3, in Electronic Business & Commerce, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 53:
topics: business
finance
synonyms: digital wallet
online wallet
glosses: An electronic data store for a customer's e-money, credit card details, etc.
Related terms: cryptocurrency wallet
crypto wallet
e-money
e-payment
e-inclusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From e- + inclusion.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
information-technology
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The promotion of computer use by all members of society, so as to avoid a reduction in opportunities for those who do not have or cannot understand the technology.
Related terms: computer literacy
digital divide
reparel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare reapparel.
Senses: examples: text: I'll tell you, gentlemen, let them but lend him a suit of reparel and necessaries and, by Gad, if any of them all blow wind in the tail on him, I'll be hanged.
ref: 1607 (first performance), Francis Beaumont, “The Knight of the Burning Pestle”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: A change of clothing; a spare
Archaeolithic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From archaeo- + -lithic.
Senses: examples: text: Archaeolithic industry
text: Archaeolithic Period
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of, from, or relating to the earliest Stone Age; applied to a prehistoric period preceding the Paleolithic.
ganch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ganches
form: ganching
form: ganched
form: ganched
Etymology: Compare French ganche, also Spanish and Portuguese gancho hook, Italian gancio.
Senses: examples: text: He rose up in his place and rent his dress.
" Let them be ganched upon the hooks, " he cried,
" Throughout to-day, but not till they have died.
Then gather all the slaves, and flay these three
Alive, before them, that the slaves may see
What comes to dogs who try to get away.
So, ganch the three."
ref: 1923, John Masefield, Selected Poems (poem), Enslaved:
glosses: To drop from a high place on sharp stakes or hooks as a punishment.
ganched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ganch
ganches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ganch
ganching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ganch
taeniola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taeniolae
Etymology: Latin taeniola, diminutive of taenia (“ribbon”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the radial partitions which separate the internal cavities of certain medusae.
palampore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palampores
form: palampoor
form: palempore
Etymology: From Hindi पलंग पोश (palaṅg poś, “coverlet”), from पलंग (palaṅg, “bed”) + early modern Persian پوش (“cover”).
Senses: examples: text: He fancied, however, that he perceived, amongst the brambles and briars, some gigantic flowers but was mistaken: for these were only the dangling palampores and variegated tatters of his gay retinue.
ref: 1816, William Beckford, Vathek, Oxford, published 2013, page 41:
glosses: A rich cotton cloth, originally made in India, used for bedspreads and shawls.
palampores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palampore
edentated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: edentated animals
glosses: Lacking teeth; edentate.
echinid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: echinids
Senses: examples: text: He concludes that Echinocystis is an echinid and not a cystid; and that Palæodiscus is an echinid and not an asterid.
ref: 1897, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, page 239:
glosses: Archaic form of echinoid.
echinids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of echinid
elaterium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪəɹiəm
Senses: glosses: Synonym of elaterin.
synonyms: word: elaterin
myrmidonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌmɜː(ɹ)mɪˈdəʊniən/
Forms: form: more myrmidonian
form: most myrmidonian
Etymology: From myrmidon + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Like furious rush'd the Myrmidonian crew
ref: 1715–1720, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, “Book 16”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:
glosses: Consisting of, or like, myrmidons.
materiarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: materiarians
Etymology: Latin materiarius.
Senses: glosses: A materialist; one who believes only in physical matter, or the material world.
materiarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of materiarian
triding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tridings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of trithing.
tridings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triding
hiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /haɪˈeɪʃən/
Forms: form: hiations
Etymology: See hiatus.
Senses: examples: text: the continual hiation or holding open its mouth, which men observing, conceive the intention thereof to receive the aliment of air
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The act of gaping; a gap.
hiations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hiation
claybed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: claybeds
Etymology: From clay + bed.
Senses: examples: text: The brickmakers lived near the claybed.
glosses: A bed of clay.
claybeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of claybed
gutterings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guttering
deplication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin deplicare (“to unfold”), from de- + plicare (“to fold”).
Senses: examples: text: [T]here needeth onely an unfolding and deplication of the inſide of this order, to ſhevv, it is not ſo aſperous and thorny as our Nature apprehendeth it by the firſt glances that light upon it.
ref: 1648, Walter Montagu, “The Fifteenth Treatise. The Duties of a Christian towards Enemies. §. II. The Averseness to this Duty Ariseth from Our Corrupted Nature, Promoted by Divers Subtile Temptations of Our Great Enemy.”, in Miscellanea Spiritualia: Or, Devout Essaies, London: […] W[illiam] Lee, D[aniel] Pakeman, and G[abriel] Bedell, […], →OCLC, page 274:
glosses: An unfolding, unplaiting, or untwisting.
unsocialist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsocialist
form: most unsocialist
Etymology: From un- + socialist.
Senses: glosses: Not socialist; contrary to the tenets of socialism.
unsocialistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsocialistic
form: most unsocialistic
Etymology: From un- + socialistic.
Senses: glosses: Not socialistic; contrary to the tenets of socialism.
capcase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capcases
Etymology: From cap + case?
Senses: glosses: A small case or bandbox.
examples: text: a cap-case for your linen and your plate
ref: 1626 February 13 (licensing date), Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Noble Gentleman”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act V, scene ii:
glosses: A chest or trunk.
capcases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capcase
semiderelict
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + derelict.
Senses: examples: text: Gitanas continued to reside in the semiderelict villa.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
glosses: Somewhat or partially derelict.
bel-accoyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle French bel (“beautiful”) + acoil (“welcome”).
Senses: examples: text: But Glaucè, seeing all that chuanced there, / Well weeting how their errour to assoyle, / Full glad of so good end, to them drew nere, / And her salewd with seemely bel-accoyle […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A kind or favourable reception; friendly welcome.
impalsied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of impalsy
impalsies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of impalsy
impalsy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: impalsies
form: impalsying
form: impalsied
form: impalsied
Etymology: From im- + palsy.
Senses: glosses: To strike with palsy; to paralyze; to deaden.
impalsying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of impalsy
sepawn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sepawns
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of suppawn.
sepawns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sepawn
supawn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of suppawn.
Wallisians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wallisian
Futunan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Futunans
Etymology: From Futuna + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Futuna.
Futunans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Futunan
invection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: invections
Etymology: From Latin invectio. See inveigh.
Senses: examples: text: I could show you the sharp invections, and grounded reasons of many moe
ref: 1596, John Payne Collier, Miscellaneous Tracts:
glosses: An inveighing against; invective.
invections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of invection
boomslange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boomslanges
Senses: glosses: Dated form of boomslang.
boomslanges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boomslange
sucrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsuːkɹeɪt/
rhymes: -uːkɹeɪt
Forms: form: sucrates
Etymology: From sucrose + -ate (“derivative”).
Senses: examples: text: calcium sucrate
text: iron sucrate
text: sodium sucrate
text: sucrate of lime
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound of sucrose (or some related carbohydrate) with a base.
sucrates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sucrate
serpentinizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of serpentinize
subsultive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subsultive
form: most subsultive
Senses: examples: text: This sort of subsultive motion is ever accounted the most dangerous.
ref: c. 1746-1747, George Berkeley, To the Publisher (unnamed piece, exact date and addressee unknown)
text: The leech (Hirudo medicinalis), toads, frogs, with their barometrical croak! croak! abound in the swamps. These subsultive reptiles do not differ from the species in Europe […]
ref: 1838, Joel Samuel Polack, New Zealand:
glosses: Moving in bounds or leaps; subsultory.
circulatorious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌsɜː(ɹ)kjʊləˈtɔːɹiəs/
Senses: examples: text: circulatorious jugglers
ref: a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). That Jesus is the true Messias”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:
glosses: Travelling from house to house or from town to town; itinerant.
Related terms: circulatory
septifragal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From septum + Latin frangere, fractum (“to break”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Breaking from the partitions; said of a method of dehiscence in which the valves of a pod break away from the partitions, while these remain attached to the common axis.
pungies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pungy
pungy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpʌŋi/
/ˈpʌŋɡi/
Forms: form: pungies
Etymology: Unknown
Senses: glosses: a type of schooner developed in and peculiar to the Chesapeake Bay region.
exustion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin exustio, from exurere, exustum (“to burn up”), from ex (“out”) + urere (“to burn”).
Senses: examples: text: The exustion, here directed to be performed in an open fire, is with an intent to dislodge the remaining oil from the hartshorn […]
ref: 1748, William Lewis, The Pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians at Edinburgh:
glosses: The act or operation of burning up.
sclerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sclerous
form: most sclerous
Etymology: From sclero- + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: sclerous cells
text: sclerous tissue
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: hard; hardened; sclerotic
whitwall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whitwalls
Senses: glosses: A bird, the European green woodpecker.
depurant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more depurant
form: most depurant
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: depurative
depurant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: depurants
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A depurative.
depurants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of depurant
mawmetries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mawmetry
mawmetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mawmetries
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of mammetry.
noctivagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin noctivagus, from nox, noctis + vagus (“wandering”).
Senses: synonyms: nightwandering
noctivagant
glosses: Wandering or active at night
tenerity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ten(d)er + -ity, from Latin teneritas. See tender.
Senses: examples: text: The flexure of the uterus and the tenerity of the posterior wall readily accounted for the early mistake as to the intra - uterine character
ref: 1880, “The Medical Advance”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: tenderness
pernor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pernors
form: pernour
Etymology: See pern (verb).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A receiver of the profits, as of an estate.
pernors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pernor
maumet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maumets
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of mammet.
spicewood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spicewoods
Etymology: From spice + wood.
Senses: glosses: An American shrub, the spicebush (Lindera benzoin), whose bark has a citrusy taste and odor.
spicewoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spicewood
meta-communication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meta-communications
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of metacommunication.
deaced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviated form of deceased.
stillatitious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin stillaticius, from stillare (“to drop”), stilla (“a drop”).
Senses: glosses: Falling in drops; drippy.
marram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæɹəm/
Forms: form: marrams
Etymology: From Old Norse maralmr, a compound of marr (“sea”) and halmr (“straw, reed”).
Senses: examples: text: Rather would we compare these marram-tufted, wind-sculptured sand-wastes with the Red Sea litoral and the Egyptian Soudan, where Osman Digna led British troops memorable dances in the ‘nineties—alike both in their physical aspect and in their climate, red-hot by day, yet apt to be deadly chilly after sundown.
ref: 1910, Walter John Buck, Abel Chapman, Unexplored Spain:
text: He circled rapidly, stopped, swerved, and, at the canter, took up another scent. Suddenly, in a tussock of marram, his nose and he stopped dead.
ref: 1919, F. St. Mars, The Way of the Wild:
synonyms: beachgrass
marram grass
matgrass
sea reed
glosses: Ammophila arenaria, a coarse grass found on sandy beaches.
marram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæɹəm/
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of murram.
marrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marram
beachgrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbit͡ʃˌɡɹæs/
Forms: form: beachgrasses
Etymology: From beach + grass.
Senses: glosses: Any grass of the genus Ammophila.
glosses: Ammophila arenaria, a coarse grass native to sandy beaches of Europe (north to Iceland) and northwest Africa.
glosses: Ammophila breviligulata, a coarse grass native to sandy beaches of eastern North America, including the shores of the Great Lakes.
Synonyms: marram
European marram grass
European beachgrass
American marram grass
American beachgrass
beachgrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beachgrass
iguanoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iguana + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Relating to the Iguanidae.
iguanoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iguanoids
Etymology: From iguana + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: The remarkable feature of this Iguanoid is its semi-marine life.
ref: 1901, Sidney Frederic Harmer, Sir Arthur Everett Shipley, The Cambridge Natural History - Volume 8, page 533:
text: The iguanoids, which comprise about three hundred species, arranged in fifty genera, may be regarded as especially characteristic of South and Central America, although they extend into the warmer parts of the northern half of that continent, ranging in the west as far as British Columbia, and in the east to Arkansas and the Souther United States, while they are also represented in many of the American islands.
ref: 1910, Richard Lydekker, Library of Natural History - Volume 5, page 2488:
text: While many of the teiids and varanids are active foragers, many of the iguanoids are clearly sit-and-wait predators.
ref: 1978, Neil Greenberg, Paul D. MacLean, Behavior and Neurology of Lizards, page 59:
text: Via interactions between the external environment and their nervous and hormonal systems, many iguanoids have the novel ability to change their body color.
ref: 2004, David L. Pearson, Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands, page 83:
glosses: A lizard from the taxonomic family Iguanidae.
examples: text: Because rumor has it, that they are three times as ugly, meaner, greedier and war mongering than the Earthlings, could ever be. Yes, if you can believe it, they are even worse than the Iguanoids.
ref: 2013, R. J. Denardo, The Captain's Propensity: The Andromeda Incident II, page 179:
text: Iguanoids stand three foot five to five five and use their long tail for balance.
ref: 2021, Craig Campobasso, The Extraterrestrial Species Almanac, page 231:
text: The Chameleons, another species connected to the Iguanoids, are characterized as a colorful race of reptilians that serve as watchers or guards for the Draco Reptilians, informing them of the political events taking place around the galaxy.
ref: 2023, Malik Bade, The Matrix & The Forbidden Knowledge - Extraterrestrial Edition, page 161:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A type of reptilian (reptilian alien)
enhearse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enhearses
form: enhearsing
form: enhearsed
form: enhearsed
form: inhearse
Etymology: From en- + hearse.
Senses: examples: text: Doubtless he would have made a noble knight;
See, where he lies inhearsed in the arms
Of the most bloody nurser of his harms!
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First 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 IV, scene vii]:
text: Enhearse thy sable soule in lasting feares;
Enroule thy selfe amongst all mourners chiefe:
ref: 1617, Richard Brathwait, A Solemne Joviall Disputation, London:
text: Who, even that might, would dwell for ever pent
In this fair frame that doth the spirit inhearse,
ref: 1885, Jean Ingelow, “Speranza”, in Poems of the Old Days and the New, Boston: Roberts Brothers, page 77:
text: Dutifully we queue
By twosomes for each surrey cloaked in black
To pull up and enhearse us.
ref: 2002, X. J. Kennedy, “Mustafa Ferrari”, in The Lords of Misrule, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, page 23:
glosses: To place into, or as if into, a hearse or coffin.
hodmandod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hodmandods
form: hodmadod
form: hodmedod
form: hodneydod
Etymology: Compare dodman.
Senses: examples: text: But more the pity of the Gods / Extended toward these Hodmandods[.]
ref: 1653, The Loves of Hero and Leander: A Mock Poem, London, page 12:
text: The Creatures that caſt their Skin are, the Snake, the Viper, the Grashopper, the Lizard, the Silk-worm, &c. Thoſe that caſt their Shell are, the Lobſter, the Crab, the Cra-fish, the Hodmandod or Dodman, the Tortoise, &c. The old Skins are found, but the old Shells never: So as it is like they ſcale off, and crumble away by degrees.
ref: 1670, Francis Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [Francis Bacon], “Century VIII”, in Sylva Sylvarum, or, A Natural History, in Ten Centuries. Whereunto is Newly Added, the History Natural and Experimental of [Life] and Death, or of the Prolongation of Life. Published after the Authors Death. By William Rawley, Doctor in Divinity, One of His Majesties Chaplains. Whereunto is Added Articles of Inquiry, Touching Metals and Minerals. And the New Atlantis. As also the Life of the Right Honorable Francis Bacon, Never Added to this Book before. [...] With an Alphabetical Table of the Principal Things Contained in the Ten Centuries, 9th and last edition, London: Printed by J[ohn] R[edmayne] for William Lee, and are to be sold by George Sawbridg [et al.], →OCLC, page 154:
glosses: A snail.
glosses: A hedgehog.
Synonyms: word: dodman
hodmandods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hodmandod
stephanion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stephanions
Etymology: From Ancient Greek στέφανος (stéphanos, “a crown”) + -ion (“craniometric feature”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The point on the side of the skull where the upper temporal line, or upper edge of the temporal fossa, crosses the coronal suture.
stephanions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stephanion
tampicolic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid derived from tampicine.
corporealism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corporealisms
Etymology: From corporeal + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: That the Democritic philosophy, which is made up of these two principles, Corporealism and Atomism complicated together, is essentially Atheistical
ref: 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Materialism.
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The use of physical attributes as a criterion or value (royal blood, race, multiracialism, inability, physical abilities).
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The belief that God has a physical body, as opposed to being immaterial.
Synonyms: antimentalism
non-mentalism
nonmentalism
corporealisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corporealism
euchymy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈjuːkəmi/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek εὐχυμία (eukhumía), from χυμός (khumós, “juice”). Attested in English from 17th century.
Senses: examples: text: Euchymic, (Greek) a being ſupplied with good Juyce.
ref: [1696, Edward Phillips, The New World of English Words, page 155:
text: Euchymy, (Gr.) is a good Temper of the Blood, other Juices or Fluids in an Animal Body.
ref: [1707, Glossographia Anglicana nova, page 191:
text: To-day, filled with the glorious energy of a temporary euchymy and spiritual ecstasy, we cry, Eureka!
ref: 1906 April 28, K. MacL., “Poetry”, in New York Times, page 278:
text: […] the design of drugs becomes a study of euchymy rather than chemotherapy. One is aiming not only at restoring the normal, typical, or average among bodily characteristics, but of maintaining or emphasizing those characteristics in a desired fashion.
ref: 1957, Henry McIlwain, Chemotherapy and the Central Nervous System, page 289:
text: “Be he, missy, your house-bound?” . . . Euchred into euchymy; seeming, however, euchroite.
ref: 1968, Nicholas Delbanco, Grasse, 3/23/66, page 67:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A good state of the blood and other fluids of the body.
phorminges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phorminx
phorminx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phorminxes
form: phorminges
Etymology: Ancient Greek φόρμιγξ (phórminx)
Senses: examples: text: We beat the phorminx till we hurt our thumbs,
As if still ignorant of counterpoint.
ref: 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “First Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC:
glosses: A kind of lyre used by the Ancient Greeks.
phorminxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phorminx
breastrail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breastrails
Etymology: From breast + rail.
Senses: glosses: The upper rail of a parapet of ordinary height, such as of a balcony, the railing of a boat, etc.
breastrails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breastrail
pileiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pileiform
form: most pileiform
Etymology: From pileus + -form.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of a pileus or cap; pileate.
disapparel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disapparels
form: disappareling
form: disapparelling
form: disappareled
form: disappareled
form: disapparelled
form: disapparelled
Etymology: From dis- + apparel.
Senses: examples: text: Drinke disapparels the soule.
ref: 1649, Richard Younge, The Odious, Despicable, and Dreadfull Condition of a Drunkard […] :
glosses: To disrobe; to strip of clothing.
disapparelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disapparel
disapparelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disapparel
disapparels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disapparel
à la russe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: a la russe
Etymology: Borrowed from French à la russe (“in the Russian manner”).
Senses: glosses: Having courses already cut and handed out to individual guests.
raw_tags: of a dinner service
Related terms: à la française
in the biblical sense
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: in the Biblical sense
Etymology: Back-formation from know someone in the biblical sense.
Senses: examples: text: I was married to you the moment I took you as my wife. That first night I pushed you backward on your bed and took you in the Biblical sense, from that moment on, we were man and wife.
ref: 1993, Harold Miles, Bad ol' boy, page 122:
text: Unidentified Man 2: How you doing? I've got a question for Pamela. How many rock stars have you met in your whole life? Ms-DES-BARRES: Oh, my gosh. Man 2: Any idea? Any idea or... Ms-LEE: He didn't ask how many you slept with. Ms-DES-BARRES: That's good. RIVERA: You mean met in the biblical sense? Man 2: I mean met and been with. Ms-DES-BARRES: I didn't sleep with that many of them.
ref: 1993 February 26, “NOTORIOUS WOMEN RECOVER FROM THEIR LOVE AFFAIRS”, in Ind_Geraldo (Rivera):
text: The young witches made their relationship official — in the Biblical sense — and Welch’s howling entreaty, “I’d do anything to make you stay,” expressed their yearning and desperation.
ref: 2012 March 23, Lanford Beard, “TV Jukebox: 'The Secret Circle,' 'The Voice,' 'Switched at Birth,' and more music-on-TV moments”, in Entertainment Weekly, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2012:
text: Well, I'm no longer seeing him in the biblical sense, but I do run him from time to time.
ref: 2012, Etienne, Trial, page 28:
glosses: Carnally; sexually.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see biblical, sense.
Synonyms: biblically
Related terms: as the actress said to the bishop
Ugandan
pyo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: /ˈpaɪ.ə-/
/ˈpaɪ.oʊ-/
/paɪˈɒ-/
/ˌpaɪ.ə-/
/ˌpaɪ.oʊ-/
Forms: form: py-
Etymology: From New Latin, from Ancient Greek πύον (púon, “pus”), from Proto-Indo-European *puH-; compare Sanskrit पूयति (pūyati, “stinks, rots”), Ancient Greek πύθω (púthō, “to rot”), Gothic 𐍆𐌿𐌻𐍃 (fuls, “foul”), Old English ful (“foul”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: pus
Derived terms: pyocyanin
pyorubin
pyoverdine
Related terms: empyema
supragenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supragenic
form: most supragenic
Etymology: From supra- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: Outside the limits of genes.
pogie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəʊɡi/
Forms: form: pogies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pogy (“type of fish”).