cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
dewret
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dewrets
form: dewretting
form: dewretted
form: dewretted
Etymology: From dew + ret.
Senses: glosses: To subject to the process of dewretting.
dewrets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dewret
dewretted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dewret
bringdowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bringdown
seminiferous tubule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seminiferous tubules
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of many threadlike structures, located in the testes, that are the specialized areas of sperm production.
hateration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: First used in the 2001 single "Family Affair" by Mary J. Blige: "Don't need no hateration, holleration / In this dancery."
Senses: examples: text: I feel a wave of hateration washing over me. I can't believe that Mimi's getting a car before I get one.
ref: 2008, Jacquelin Thomas, Divine Match-Up, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 43:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Hatred, hostility, animus.
enterwrought
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of interworked.
interworked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: From November 1, 1926, the District Railway ceased to provide any rolling stock for the Inner Circle service except three trains on Sundays and the whole service was worked by the Metropolitan. At the same time, to balance the interworked mileage, the Putney Bridge-Edgware Road service was introduced and operated entirely by District Railway trains.
ref: 1951 January, “The Inner Circle and its Rolling Stock”, in Railway Magazine, page 58:
glosses: simple past and past participle of interwork
sea devil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea devils
Senses: glosses: Any very large ray, especially any species of the genus Mobula (syns. Manta, Cephaloptera).
glosses: Any large cephalopod.
glosses: An angler fish of species Lophius piscatorius
glosses: Fishes of family Ceratiidae.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Melanocetidae spp.
word: black seadevil
sea devils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea devil
witfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: witfishes
form: witfish
Etymology: From Dutch witvis.
Senses: glosses: The ladyfish.
glosses: Alternative form of whitefish.
witfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of witfish
courb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: courbs
form: courbing
form: courbed
form: courbed
Etymology: From Middle English courben, from Middle French courber, from Latin curvō. Doublet of curb.
Senses: examples: text: Thanne I courbed on my knees · and cryed hir of grace.
ref: c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section I:
text: Sallys may also be propagated like Vines, by courbing, and bowing them in Arches.
ref: 1664, John Evelyn, Sylva:
glosses: To bend; to bow.
courbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of courb
courbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of courb
courbs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of courb
bauchle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bauchles
form: bauchling
form: bauchled
form: bauchled
Etymology: From Scots, probably related to Old French bafouer (“to hoodwink”).
Senses: examples: text: Our enemies were disputing not far off upon the deck, and that so loudly that I could hear a word or two above the washing of the seas. “It was Shuan bauchled it,” I heard one say.
ref: 1886, Robert Louis Stephenson, Kidnapped:
text: Maybe that shot that ye think ye bauchled was the most providential shot ye ever fired...
ref: 1925, John Buchan, John Macnab:
glosses: To misuse, to bungle.
examples: text: An echo of "bauchling" lingered on, it seemed to me, in Cumbrian rural police courts until a few years ago. Nowhere else, as a court reporter, have I heard so much abusive interruption and blasphemous invocation from the public benches during the hearing of cases. Cumbrian magistrates dealt with it most tolerantly.
ref: 1972, George MacDonald Fraser, The Steel Bonnets, page 152:
glosses: To insult, to upbraid, to make a fool of someone.
bauchle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bauchles
Etymology: From Scots, probably related to Old French bafouer (“to hoodwink”).
Senses: examples: 1842, Laird of Logan, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, issue 481, page 104.
We a' ken that there's tongues in heads, but I ne'er heard o' ony in hats or bauchles afore.
glosses: An old shoe.
examples: text: He adds, probably his letter would be propaled and made a bauchle of, and assures them he was never loved at Court as a minister.
ref: 1843, Robert Woodrow, The life of Mister Robert Bruce, Minister at Edinburgh, page 92:
glosses: A fool.
glosses: A bungled or muddled situation; a mess.
bauchles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bauchle
bauchled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bauchle
bauchled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: A beetle-browed chamber, long, narrow, stifling with the heat of a great fire, its flagged floor at intervals would slap with bare or bauchled feet dancing to a short reel.
ref: 1898, Neil Munroe, John Splendid:
text: […] as he cowered in the half-lit hall the woman came in bauchled feet up the stair, and looking him full in the face laid her hand, roughened red through much scrubbing, on his shoulder.
ref: 1928, St. Andrew Society, The Scots, volume 10, DC Thompson, page 407
glosses: Wearing cheap or old shoes.
bauchling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bauchle
beworry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /bɪˈwʌɹi/
Forms: form: beworries
form: beworrying
form: beworried
form: beworried
Etymology: From be- + worry.
Senses: glosses: To worry about.
examples: text: Is there a death ? — it is no easy matter for an editor to select from the bundle of elegies he receives. Is there a shipwreck or any great national event ? — and the poor beworried nine are called upon to inspire a thousand pens, [...]
ref: 1845, Chambers's Journal:
text: Here the much beworried mamma will get a short respite from the ever-recurring bothers of household cares; [...]
ref: 1887, James Henry Collens, Guide to Trinidad:
text: [...] and yet it is intended to establish a Convention, an extra-constitutional machine, to set all the machinery of a general election in motion again for the purpose of altering this much-beworried Constitution, [...]
ref: 1920, Parliamentary debates:
text: "Franklin's grotesque mortal envelope had disappeared from the poop to seek its needful repose, if only the beworried soul would let it rest awhile. Mr. Powell, half sorry for the thick little man, wondered whether it would let him.
ref: 1921, Chance
glosses: To fill with worry; cause to be worried; beset with cares; trouble; vex; harass.
Derived terms: beworried
regeneratable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From regenerate + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being regenerated.
ejaculatory duct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ejaculatory ducts
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Either of a pair of ducts through which semen passes, each of which is formed by the merging of the vas deferens and the duct of the seminal vesicle.
jacking up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jack up
jacks up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jack up
casers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caser
hathos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of hate + pathos. According to journalist Alex Heard, this word was coined in 1985 when he was searching for a word to describe the "cringe-y feeling you get when celebs go AWOL" and attended a Super Bowl party where he and another guest, then-Bob Dole press aide Scott Richardson, exchanged ideas until they came up with "hathos." The word's first apparent use in print was in an essay by Heard, published in The Washington Post on May 17, 1987.
Senses: examples: text: The patron saint of hathos connoisseurs, H.L. Mencken, was a brave soul, but even a fellow as sturdy and unstinting as he might have been struck dumb in the presence of the extravagantly hathotic Kathie Lee Gifford.
ref: 1996 January 7, Rod Dreher, “Hate it, Love it”, in Sun-Sentinel:
glosses: Enjoyment derived from hatred of a person or thing.
Related terms: love to hate
turnwrest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turnwrests
Etymology: From turn + wrest?
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A cumbersome kind of plough formerly used in England, especially in Kent.
turnwrests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turnwrest
shepherdism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shepherd + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: True, the Hindu writers describe their Apollo, in the full enjoyment of a pastoral scene, worthy the birthplace of the Georgics; but the stern realities of Indian shepherdism form a woeful bathos to all this .
ref: 1839, Marianne Young, Cutch: Or, Random Sketches of Western India, page 92:
text: After a few introductory remarks on the most probable state of mankind in an early stage of savageism, shepherdism, pastoral life, agriculture, rude dwellings, towns and cities, Mr. Barker stated that the object of Buckle is to unfold the causes of man's advancement in art, science, and literature – i.e., physical, intellectual, and moral well-being.
ref: 1860 October 14, George Jacob Holyoake, “Secularist and Progressionist Societies”, in The Reasoner Gazette, volume 25, number 42, page 167:
text: But with all her admiration and comprehension of the beauties of nature and of a country life, André Léo is free from any attempt at "Arcadian-shepherdism."
ref: 1867 August 24, “André Léo”, in The Spectator, volume 40, page 953:
text: and in summer tide, noles and their ladies loved to rove the woods and fields, and play at gentle shepherdism.
ref: 1888, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Collections of Tapestry and Embroidery in the South Kensington Museum, page 105:
glosses: Pastoral life or occupation
examples: text: In the wide sheep pastures on the S. E. corner of Scotland, and those of England immediately bordering with it, where all the branches of the business of shepherdism are well understood, and diligently pursued, the active and intelligent occupants of sheep farms have, for some time, been in the custom of drawing small drains through all the moist parts of their pastures, to lead away the superfluous water which arises from springs, or descends from the hills in rains;
ref: 1798, John Naismith, General View of the Agriculture of the County of Clydesdale, page 118:
text: Gilnockie is only some eleven miles south-east from Caplefoot, where raiding has been displaced by shepherdism, and where the pipe and viol have superseded the Jeddart axe.
ref: 1900, David Lowe, A Scots Wanderjahre, page 204:
text: All his Ground, far and near, was thick covered with his fleecy Wealth: You would have thought by their bleatings that you were in Arcadia, and Shepherdism coming in fashion again
ref: 1992, Hubert McDermott ·, Vertue Rewarded, Or, The Irish Princess, page 10:
glosses: The keeping and tending of sheep.
external fertilization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: external fertilizations
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Fertilization involving the fusion of the male and female gametes outside the bodies of the reproducing individuals.
stalely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈsteɪl.li/
Forms: form: more stalely
form: most stalely
Etymology: From stale + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a stale manner.
examples: text: Tut, all your promis'd mountains, And seas, I am so stalely acquainted with
ref: 1611, Ben[jamin] Jonson, Catiline His Conspiracy, London: […] [William Stansby?] for Walter Burre, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: Of old; long since.
Synonyms: sense: of old
word: of yore
word: way back
word: long ago
clotweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See clote and weed.
Senses: glosses: cocklebur
internal fertilization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: internal fertilizations
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Fertilization achieved via copulation, primarily in mammals.
candytuft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: candytufts
Etymology: From Italian Candia (“the name used by the Venetian occupiers of the city of Iraklion”) + tuft.
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Iberis of flowering plants.
Synonyms: word: mithridate
word: mithridate mustard
word: candy mithridate
Derived terms: wild candytuft
candytufts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of candytuft
iberis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iberises
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant of the genus Iberis; a candytuft.
iberises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iberis
preeternity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌpɹiːɪˈtɜː(ɹ)nɪti/
Forms: form: preeternities
Etymology: From pre- + eternity.
Senses: examples: text: the Worlds Pre-eternity
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: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: An infinite previous duration, an eternity in the past
Related terms: pre-eternal
palpiger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palpigers
Etymology: See palpigerous.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: The portion of the labium that bears the palpi in insects.
palpigers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palpiger
porteress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porteresses
Senses: examples: text: The door opened; a bright gleam of sunshine shot into the room, but darkened instantly as the porteress admitted the visitor.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter X, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 205:
glosses: Alternative form of portress.
porteresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porteress
embiotocoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more embiotocoid
form: most embiotocoid
Etymology: Embiotoca + -oid
Senses: topics: biology
ichthyology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Belonging to the fish family Embiotocidae.
embiotocoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embiotocoids
Etymology: Embiotoca + -oid
Senses: topics: biology
ichthyology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of family Embiotocidae of surfperches, abundant on the coast of California, remarkable for being viviparous.
embiotocoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of embiotocoid
coolung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coolungs
form: coolen
form: colum
form: cullum
form: kolong
form: kullum
Etymology: From Hindi कुलंग (kulaṅg).
Senses: glosses: The common crane (Grus grus).
coolungs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coolung
notaea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəʊˈtiːə/
ipa: /noʊˈtiːə/
rhymes: -iːə
Senses: glosses: plural of notaeum
notaeum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəʊˈtiːəm/
ipa: /noʊˈtiːəm/
rhymes: -iːəm
Forms: form: notaea
form: notæum
form: noteum
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin, from Ancient Greek νῶτον (nôton), νῶτος (nôtos, “back”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: The back (upper surface) of a bird.
Coordinate terms: gastraeum
Related terms: notum
scymetar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scymetars
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of scimitar.
scymetars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scymetar
intergraven
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + graven.
Senses: examples: text: And the work itſelf of the baſes, was entergraven: and there were gravings between the joinings.
ref: 1750, The Holy Bible […] Newly reviſed, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures. (Douay–Rheims Bible, Challoner Revision), 3 Kings 7:28, page 144:
text: again there are suggestions of the white man's work ingeniously intergraven with his own conceptions of art not so rude or savage
ref: 1903 December, William M. Beauchamp, “Metallic Ornaments of the New York Indians”, in New York State Museum Bulletin, number 305, page 90:
glosses: engraved or carved between
notodontian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: notodontians
Etymology: Coined from Ancient Greek νῶτον (nôton, “the back”) + ὀδούς (odoús, “a tooth”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A notodontid
notodontians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of notodontian
stiptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stiptic
form: most stiptic
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of styptic.
stiptic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stiptics
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of styptic.
stiptics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stiptic
Monsel's salt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Invented by Leon Monsel (1816–1878), French military pharmacist.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A basic sulphate of iron with medical uses.
Related terms: Monsel's solution
imminution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imminutions
Etymology: From Latin imminutio, from imminuere, imminutum (“to lessen”), from im- (“in”) + minuere.
Senses: examples: text: No ſhade of change, no imminution, / No nor increaſe
ref: 1647, Henry More, “Psychozoia, or The First Part of the Song of the Soul, Containing a Christiano-Platonicall Display of Life. Cant[o] I.”, in Philosophicall Poems, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel, printer to the University, →OCLC, page 3:
text: and did not a Providence continually overſee and ſecure them from all alteration or imminution
ref: 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC, page 52:
text: Is it charged with Folly and Ignorance, to talk of a gradual declenſion or Imminution of a Form of Government, of e.g. Monarchy.
ref: 1746, Arthur Ashley Sykes, A defence of the Examination of Mr. Warburton's Account of the theocracy of the Jews being, an answer to his remarks, so far as they concern Dr. Sykes, London: Printed for J. and P. Knapton, page 28:
glosses: reduction; lessening; decrease.
imminutions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imminution
lessenings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lessening
lessenest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: lessen + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of lessen
lectureth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: lecture + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lecture
lesseneth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: lessen + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lessen
cherubical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cherubical
form: most cherubical
Etymology: From cherub + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of cherubic.
Malpighian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Malpighian
form: most Malpighian
Etymology: From Malpighi + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or discovered by Marcello Malpighi, an Italian anatomist of the 17th century.
Derived terms: Malpighian body
Malpighian cell
Malpighian corpuscle
Malpighian layer
Malpighian tubule
Malpighian tuft
sappodilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sappodillas
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of sapodilla.
sappodillas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sappodilla
sunblink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sunblinks
Etymology: From sun + blink.
Senses: examples: text: the midges that the sunblink brings out
ref: 1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC:
synonyms: sunlight
sunny spell
glosses: A glimpse or flash of the sun.
sunblinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sunblink
tewtaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tewtaws
Etymology: See tew (verb).
Senses: glosses: A tool for beating flax.
tewtaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tewtaw
releasing hormone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: releasing hormones
Senses: topics: endocrinology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A hormone that is involved primarily in stimulating the release of another hormone.
Synonyms: liberin
Related terms: inhibiting hormone
statin
single tickets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of single ticket
endocrine disruptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endocrine disruptors
Senses: examples: text: These endocrine disruptors are everywhere: plastics, shampoos, cosmetics, cushions, pesticides, canned foods and A.T.M. receipts. They often aren’t on labels and can be difficult to avoid.
ref: 2021 February 20, Nicholas Kristof, “What Are Sperm Telling Us?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: endocrinology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A chemical substance that hinders the normal functioning of the endocrine system in animals and human beings.
surmisal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surmisals
Senses: examples: text: So leſt it ſhould be ſtill imputed to me, as I have found it hath been, that ſome ſelf-pleaſing humor of vain-glory hath incited me to conteſt with Men of high eſtimation, now while green years are upon my head, from this needleſs ſurmiſal I ſhall hope to diſſwade the intelligent and equal Auditor, if I can but ſay ſuccesfully that which in this Exigent behoovs me, although I would be heard only, if it might be, by the elegant and learned Reader, to whom principally for a while I ſhall beg leave I may addreſs my ſelf.
ref: 1642, John Milton, The Reason of Church-Government Urg’d against Prelaty; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 221:
glosses: surmise
surmisals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surmisal
sleepish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsliːpɪʃ/
rhymes: -iːpɪʃ
Forms: form: more sleepish
form: most sleepish
Etymology: From sleep + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: One, my lord, that doth so palpably, so apparently make her adulteries a trophy, whiles the poting-stick to her unsatiate goatish abomination jeers at, and flouts your sleepish, and more than sleepish, security.
ref: 1633, Iohn Ford [i.e., John Ford], Loues Sacrifice. A Tragedie […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Hugh Beeston, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page):
text: She answered the telephone with a sleepish sounding voice, since she wasn't fully awake yet.
ref: 2010, Brenda Croan, Hidden in a Pillow:
synonyms: word: sleepbound
word: somnolent
word: adrowse
word: bedroomy
word: dozy
word: dopey
word: dragging one's tail
word: drowsy
word: eyelids at half-mast
word: nodding off
word: oscitant
word: out of steam
word: sleepbound
word: sleepish
word: sleepy
word: slombry
word: snoozy
word: slumberful
word: slumberous
word: slumbersome
word: slumbery
word: somniculous
word: somnolent
word: somnolescent
word: tired
glosses: sleepy; drowsy
requietories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of requietory
requietory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: requietories
Etymology: From Latin requietorium, from requiescere, requietum (“to rest”). See re- and quiesce.
Senses: examples: text: digged vp out of their Requietories
ref: 1631, John Weever, Ancient Fvnerall Monvments Within The Vnited Monarchie Of Great Britain:
glosses: A sepulchre.
smock frock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smock frocks
Senses: examples: text: What reason has he, therefore, to suppose that the return of the smock-frock will even increase the gobbling of potatoes and the drinking of cat-lap?
ref: 1823, William Cobbett, Cobbett's Weekly Register, volume 46, page 777:
text: He was often introduced into meetings through back doors, with a smock frock on his back, and a whip in his hand.
ref: 1849, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James II, volume II, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
glosses: A coarse frock, or shirt, worn over other clothing, as by farm labourers.
smock frocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smock frock
sarcel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarcels
Etymology: From Old French cercel, French cerceau, Latin circellus, diminutive of circulus. See circle.
Senses: glosses: One of the outer pinions or feathers of the wing of a bird, especially a hawk.
Related terms: sarcelly
sarcelled
sarcels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarcel
cirrhiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cirrhiferous
form: most cirrhiferous
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cirriferous.
tysonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tysonites
Etymology: From Tyson + -ite, after S. T. Tyson.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: fluocerite
tysonites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tysonite
polaristic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polaristic
form: most polaristic
Senses: examples: text: polaristic antagonism
glosses: Relating to, or exhibiting, poles; having a polar arrangement or disposition.
glosses: polarized
clotbur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clotburs
form: clotebur
Etymology: From clote + burr. Compare clitbur.
Senses: examples: text: a weed with large leaves and burs somewhat like those of the burdock or clotbur
ref: 1879, Richard Chandler Alexander Prior, On the popular names of British plants:
glosses: The burdock.
synonyms: sea burdock
glosses: The cocklebur.
clotburs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clotbur
scamilli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scamillus
scamillus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scamilli
Etymology: From Latin [Term?] (“a little bench”), from scamnum (“bench, stool”).
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A sort of second plinth or block, below the bases of Ionic and Corinthian columns, generally without mouldings and of smaller size horizontally than the pedestal.
sycophantcy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of sycophancy.
protandric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From protandry + -ic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: protandrous
Related terms: protandrism
threave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: threaves
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of thrave.
threaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of threave
mesaticephalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: mesaticephalic
colestaff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colestaves
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of colstaff.
colestaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colestaff
neuroendocrine signaling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: endocrinology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A type of cell signaling involving the release of a hormone from a nerve cell that has an effect on another cell.
doddart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doddarts
Senses: glosses: A sport or game much like hockey, played in an open field.
glosses: The bent stick used in playing this game.
shieldtail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shieldtails
Etymology: From shield + tail.
Senses: glosses: Any species of small burrowing snakes of the family Uropeltidae, native to Sri Lanka and Southern Asia.
Synonyms: pipe snake
shieldtails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shieldtail
paviage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paviages
Senses: examples: text: [a] document, which grants a toll for murage and for paviage
ref: 1828, A Full Report of the Important Toll Cause, of the Mayor, &c.:
topics: law
glosses: A contribution or a tax for paving streets or highways.
paviages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paviage
entomostracan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Entomostraca + -an
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Relating to the Entomostraca.
entomostracan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entomostracans
Etymology: Entomostraca + -an
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the Entomostraca.
entomostracans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entomostracan
Forlivian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Forlì
Forlivian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Forlivians
Senses: glosses: Native or inhabitant of Forlì
haycation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haycations
Etymology: Blend of hay + vacation.
Senses: examples: text: In a world where small farmers need to diversify to keep their fields afloat and city dwellers are more desperate than ever to learn where their food comes from, a "haycation" for about the price of a nice hotel room in Manhattan didn’t seem like such a far-fetched idea.
ref: 2009 August 25, Kim Severson, “$300 a Night? Yes, but Haying’s Free”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A vacation stay on a farm, in which guests often help out with daily farm tasks.
Related terms: agritourism
haycations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haycation
lignone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lignones
Senses: glosses: lignin
Derived terms: coerulignone
indolignone
lignocelluloses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lignocellulose
lignones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lignone
suppletories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suppletory
suppletory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suppletories
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin suppletorius.
Senses: examples: text: Invent suppletories to excuse an evil man.
ref: 1651–1653, Jer[emy] Taylor, ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC:
glosses: A source of supply.
glosses: A supplement.
suppletory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more suppletory
form: most suppletory
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin suppletorius.
Senses: examples: a suppletory oath
topics: law
glosses: Making up for deficiencies; supplementary.
stultiloquence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /stʌlˈtɪləʊkwɛns/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin stultiloquentia, from stultus (“foolish”) + loquentia (“a talking”).
Senses: glosses: Silly talk; babble.
seposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin sepositio.
Senses: examples: text: To this we must contend with prayer , with actual dereliction and seposition of all our other affairs
ref: 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:
glosses: The act of setting aside or giving up.
sectist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sectists
Etymology: From sect + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A member of a sect.
sectists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sectist
sauropsid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sauropsids
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard, reptile”) + ὤψ (ṓps, “face”) literally "lizard face".
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A member of the Sauropsida, a comprehensive group of vertebrates comprising the reptiles (including birds).
sauropsids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sauropsid
unexhibitionistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unexhibitionistic
form: most unexhibitionistic
Etymology: From un- + exhibitionistic.
Senses: glosses: Not exhibitionistic.
exhibitable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From exhibit + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being exhibited.
Derived terms: unexhibitable
exhibitionisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exhibitionism
chrysarobin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chrysarobins
Etymology: chrys- (“gold”) + araroba (“Goa powder”) + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A bitter yellow substance forming the essential constituent of Goa powder. It yields chrysophanic acid, and has been used to treat skin conditions.
depeach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: depeaches
form: depeaching
form: depeached
form: depeached
Etymology: From French dépêcher (“to dispatch”). See dispatch.
Senses: examples: text: as soon as the party […] before our justices shal be depeached
ref: 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To discharge or dispatch
depeached
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of depeach
chondritis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chondro- + -itis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: inflammation of the cartilage
Derived terms: arthrochondritis
costochondritis
osteochondritis
polychondritis
tenioid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tenioid
form: most tenioid
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of taenioid.
gelsemic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gelseminic acid.
mustaiba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mostahiba
Senses: examples: text: Mustaiba, from the Brazils and Rio Janeiro, is imported in logs 7 by 10 in., and also in planks; it is generally of an inferior rosewood character but harder, and is sometimes equally good;
ref: 1843, John Forbes Royle, Descriptive Catalogue of the Woods Commonly Employed in this Country for the Mechanical and Ornamental Arts:
text: King-wood, Maracaybo wood, and Mustaiba wood, all imported from Brazil, and Nicaragua wood from Central America, are of unknown botanical origin.
ref: 1871, Robert Main Admiralty, A manual of scientific enquiry, page 391:
text: Amongst some of the rarer and more beautifully marked woods, used in small quantities, are the following: Mustaiba, Peruvian, Rosetta, Palmyra, Pheasant Wood, Snakewood, Partridge Wood, Purple Wood, Yacca Wood, Princes Wood.
ref: 1899, Frederick Litchfield, Illustrated History of Furniture, page 262:
text: There are some remarkable instances of specialization - Mustaiba, for instance, was imported for the manufacture of the handles of flaziers' knives at Sheffield, Padauk for piano-cases, and Jarrah for London pavements.
ref: 1976 July, Barbara Strang, “The Influence of International Trade on the English Language”, in Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, page 433:
glosses: A close-grained, heavy wood from Brazil, used in turning, for making the handles of tools, etc.
substant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more substant
form: most substant
Etymology: From Latin substans, substantis, present participle of substō (“to be firm”).
Senses: examples: text: [The glacier's] substant ice curls freely, molds, and breaks itself like water, — breaks in waves, plastic like honey, crested lightly with a frozen spray; it winds tenderly about the rocky shore, and the granite, disintegrated into crumbs, flows on with it.
ref: 1884, The Century:
glosses: substantial; firm
deplanate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more deplanate
form: most deplanate
Etymology: First attested in 1884; borrowed from Late Latin dēplanātus, perfect passive participle of dēplanō (“to make level”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Flattened; made level or even.
Related terms: explain
plain
plane
cappadine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A floss or waste obtained from the cocoon after the silk has been reeled off, used for shag.
stearone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stearones
Etymology: From stearic + -one.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The ketone of stearic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance, (C₁₇H₃₅)₂.CO, by the distillation of calcium stearate.
stearones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stearone
Eneid
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Aeneid.
spheniscan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spheniscans
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any banded penguin of genus Spheniscus
spheniscans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spheniscan
lustring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lustrings
Etymology: From French lustrine, Italian lustrino, from lustrare (“to polish”), Latin lustrare. See luster and compare lutestring.
Senses: examples: text: [S]he would give her a brown lustring gown, which with some alterations to make it more suitable to her degree would a great while serve her for a Sunday wear […].
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CCXCIII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
glosses: A glossy silk fabric; lutestring.
lustrings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lustring
nardoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nardoos
Etymology: From Dieri ngardu.
Senses: examples: text: Nardoo (Marsilea drummondii) was a crucial plant because of its ability to grow on the beds of shallow lakes in otherwise inhospitable regions.
ref: 2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 34:
glosses: Marsilea drummondii, a four-leaved aquatic fern native to Australia the sporocarps of which are processed for food.
nardoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nardoo
ngardu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nardoo.
marsileaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Marsileaceae + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the family Marsileaceae of pepperworts and water clovers.
marsilea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marsileas
Etymology: New Latin, after Count Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli ( Marsilius ) + 1730 Italian Naturalists
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Marsilea of aquatic ferns; water clover.
marsileas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marsilea
counselorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counselorships
form: counsellorship
Etymology: From counselor + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The function and rank or office of a counselor.
counselorships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counselorship
wontish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wontish
form: most wontish
Etymology: From wont (“custom, habit”) + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: He garbs himself in raiments and costumes that make him appear to the naked eyes to be somebody else. The press, in its wontish way, goes wild.
ref: 1999, Gilbert Sorrentino, Crystal Vision:
glosses: Of or suggestive of a wont; customary; usual; habitual.
Synonyms: wonted
androspore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: androspores
Etymology: From andro- + spore.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A spore with male functions, in some algae.
androspores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of androspore
leniment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leniments
Etymology: From Latin lenimentum. Compare Old French leniment. See lenient.
Senses: glosses: Something that soothes; a sedative or comforter.
leniments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leniment
palempore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palempores
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of palampore.
palempores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palempore
haematothermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From haemato- + thermal.
Senses: glosses: warm-blooded
wantish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wantish
form: most wantish
Etymology: From want + -ish.
Senses: examples: wantish flesh
glosses: Of or suggesting lack or want; meagre; lean; lacking.
examples: text: She's wantish and never satisfied.
glosses: Suggesting or pertaining to wants or desires; desirous.
exection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: But how far soever the Exection of a Testicle may contribute to the Agility of the Body, this Custom owes not its Original to any such Matter […]
ref: 1731, Peter Kolbe, translated by Guido Medley, The Present State of the Cape of Good Hope:
glosses: Obsolete form of exsection.
unty
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: untyes
form: untying
form: untyed
form: untyed
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of untie.
untyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unty
untyes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unty
wantful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wantful
form: most wantful
Etymology: From want + -ful. Compare wishful, wistful, etc.
Senses: examples: text: Nor rank, nor wealth, I ask, but let me be Above contempt, and wantful poverty.
ref: 1807, Robert Southey, Specimens of the later English poets:
glosses: Full of want or lack; lacking; poor.
examples: text: Greaves's soul had up to that moment been "wantful, lustful,” and "working actively in lower regions,” but now it became “receptive of Spirit from the higher elements.
ref: 2010, Richard Francis, Fruitlands: The Alcott Family and Their Search for Utopia:
glosses: Full of want or desire; desirous.
participialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: participializes
form: participializing
form: participialized
form: participialized
Etymology: From participial + -ize.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To form into, or put in the form of, a participle.
participialized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of participialize
participializes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of participialize
participializing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of participialize
yebo
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Zulu yebo.
Senses: examples: text: But Sipho was more sympathetic. “Don't worry. We'll take you to Father. He'll know what to do.”
“Father?” asked Jabu, surprised.
“Yebo,” said Sipho brightly.
“Come with us. Father may even have some coins for another tickey box. One that works,” Vusi said with mirth.
ref: 2018, Kate S. Richards, Trainsurfer:
glosses: yes
wyf
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of where('re) you from (where are you from?).
wunst
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: "Mrs Harris," I says to her, "none on us knows what we can do till we tries; and wunst, when me and Gamp kept 'ouse, I thought so too.
ref: 1842–44, Charles Dickens, Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit:
text: Wouldn't they let him and Sam off this wunst?
ref: 1866, George Alfred Townsend, Campaigns of a Non-Combatant,:
text: "If it was just for wunst," she had begun, when Tishy tweaked her sleeve viciously and interpolated a rapid whisper, "It wont be; there'll be no ind to it if you begin humourin' them," so the sentence was badly dislocated.
ref: 1895, Barlow Jane, Strangers at Lisconnel:
text: By way of an incident: a pair of these primitives were overheard chatting about the resorters, one day, and in the course of their talk this remark was dropped: "I was a-drivin' a passel of 'em round about yisterday evenin', quiet ones, you know, still and solemn, and all to wunst they busted out to make your hair lift and I judged hell was to pay.
ref: 1906, Mark Twain, Chapters from My Autobiography:
text: "Skim, you 'member in thet las' book we read, 'The Angel Maniac's Revenge,' there was a sayin' that fate knocks wunst on ev'ry man's door.
ref: 1908, Edith Van Dyne, Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville:
text: "Well, ma'am," remarked the Cap'n, dryly, as he seated himself in another chair, "I've waded across a cove wunst or twice at low water."
ref: 1911, Holman Day, The Skipper and the Skipped:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of once, pronunciation spelling of once.
Synonyms: once
wreake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wreakes
form: wreaking
form: wreaked
form: wreaked
Senses: examples: text: "And, in avengement of their bold attempt, Both sun and starres and all the heavenly powres Conspire in one to wreake their rash contempt, And downe on them to fall from highest towres: 580 The skie, in pieces seeming to be rent, Throwes lightning forth, and haile, and harmful showres, That death on everie side to them appeares, In thousand formes, to worke more ghastly feares.
ref: 1591, Edmund Spenser, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of wreak.
wrathe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: For shee holdeth dixi et solvavi animam meam to bee a goode rule, and thatt it is nott a goode thinge to goe away with wrathe pente up in ye boosum.
ref: 1775, Various, Continental Monthly, Vol. I, No. V, May, 1862:
text: The thyrd kynde is: wherin is lauded or blamed no- ther person nor dede / but some other thing as vertue / vice / iustice / iniurie / charite / en- uie / pacience / wrathe / and suche lyke.
ref: 1524, Leonard Cox, The Art or Crafte of Rhetoryke:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of wrath.
wratch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wratches
Senses: examples: text: I canna be bathered wi' the chatterin', fykie, kyowowin' little wratch.
ref: 1919, J. B. Salmond, My Man Sandy:
text: Noo soul to sheaere The trials the poor wratch must bear.
ref: 1903, William Barnes, Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect:
text: He said he wes up for a walk an' juist dropped in, the wratch.'
ref: 1896, Ian Maclaren, Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers:
text: "Little Andrew, the wratch, has been makin' a totum wi' his faither's ae razor; an' the pair man's trying to shave himsel yonder, an' girnan like a sheep's head on the tangs."
ref: 1868, Alexander Hislop, The Proverbs of Scotland:
text: Why, he's a praste, a Popish praste, that can't marry if he would, poor wratch."
ref: 1855, Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho!:
glosses: Archaic form of wretch.
wrappe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of wrap.