cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
outrunner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outrunners
Senses: examples: text: some out-runner of the river, where the streams run not strongly
ref: 1620, William Lauson, "Comments on The Secrets of Angling", 2nd edition, in Edward Arber (editor), An English Garner, 1877
text: It is flanked on its east side by metamorphic Cretaceous limestone, which also forms the northern outrunner of this spur.
ref: 1891, Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Texas - Volume 2, page 681:
glosses: An offshoot; a branch.
examples: text: Mail, guns and luggage aboard, and ourselves perched in the only seat of honor and comfort, that with the driver, we tore away through a long avenue lined with native shops, an outrunner hanging on for dear life to the more obstrepersous horse for the first quarter of a mile.
ref: 1889, James Ricalton, “Buffalo-Hunting in Ceylon”, in Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, volume 28, page 712:
text: It is supported by an outrunner trotting abreast, and retained by two as slender ropes, while a strap attaching his apology for a bridle to that of his neighbour hinders him from running at an angle of more than 45° to the line of progression.
ref: 1897 January, J. Y. Simpson, “The Great Siberian Iron Road”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 161, page 12:
text: The outrunner of the Khedevial carriage comes along and the man on the box is silent, perhaps two outrunners speed ahead of the prancing horses clearing the way for the royal cortege.
ref: 1909, The Expositor and Current Anecdotes, Volume 11, page 255:
glosses: A person or animal who accompanies a vehicle or procession but who is not seated in the vehicle or part of the procession.
glosses: An electric motor having the rotor outside the stator.
examples: text: Such as in a game of backgammon one can be outrun, and other times one can be the outrunner, so are the brave-hearted riders, who roam the hunting ground sometimes apprehended, and other times become apprehenders themselves.
ref: 2016, Tudor Salagean, Transylvania in the Second Half of the Thirteenth Century: The Rise of the Congregational System, page 71:
glosses: One who outruns.
outrunners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outrunner
vigilies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vigily
vigily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vigilies
Etymology: From Middle English vigilye, vigilie, from Latin vigilia.
Senses: examples: text: Obserue the fastes commandit on certane daies and tymes, as in Lent, in the four tymes of the yeer (comunlie callit Imber daies) and in the euinnes or vigilies of certane solemne daies, on friday and saturday abstein from eating of[…]
ref: 1901, Thomas Graves Law, Catholic Tractates of the Sixteenth Century, 1573-1600, page 210:
text: [...]; other times the heat is not very intense either without or within; continual vigilies, or a perpetual restlesness, with anguishing Jactitations, or throwing ones self from one part of the Bed to the other[…]
ref: 1673, Gideon Harvey, A Discourse of the Plague, page 133:
text: [...] distortion of the Eyes, from a confused and irregular expansion of the Optick Nerve, attended with ar extraordinary fierceness in the whole Visage, continual Vigilies, and a constant Trepidation, […]
ref: 1694, Royal Society (Great Britain), Philosophical Transactions, Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious, in Many Considerable Parts of the World, page 24:
glosses: A vigil.
entreater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entreaters
Etymology: From entreat + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who entreats or beseeches.
entreaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entreater
omostegite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From omo- (“shoulder”) + Ancient Greek στέγος (stégos, “roof”) + -ite.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The part of the carapace of a crustacean situated behind the cervical groove.
infelt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈfɛlt/
Forms: form: more infelt
form: most infelt
Etymology: From in- + felt.
Senses: examples: text: The baron stood afar off, or knelt in submissive, acknowledged, infelt inferiority.
ref: 1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity:
glosses: Felt inwardly or emotionally; heartfelt.
knawel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knawels
Etymology: From German Knauel, Kneuel (“ball of thread, coil”) (see Knäuel). Doublet of clew.
Senses: glosses: A low, spreading weed of the genus Scleranthus, especially
Scleranthus annuus, common in sandy soil.
glosses: A low, spreading weed of the genus Scleranthus, especially
Scleranthus biflorus
Derived terms: taxonomic: Scleranthus annuus
word: annual knawel
taxonomic: Scleranthus biflorus
word: two-flowered knawel
taxonomic: Scleranthus diander
word: tufted knawel
taxonomic: Scleranthus perennis
word: perennial knawel
taxonomic: Scleranthus singuliflorus
word: one-flowered knawel
knawels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knawel
multilineal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multilineal
form: most multilineal
Etymology: From multi- + lineal.
Senses: examples: text: multilineal evolution
text: multilineal kinship
text: multilineal sequence
text: This Map is multilineal in the extreme, and is the first in which the Eastern Islands are included
ref: 1773, George Steevens, The Plays of Shakespeare with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators:
glosses: Having many lines, for example lines of descent
Derived terms: multilineality
multilineally
otheoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: otheoscopes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὠθέω (ōthéō, “push”) + -scope.
Senses: examples: text: In a generous gesture that soon turned sour, Crookes allowed Gimingham to make otheoscopes in his spare time and make a profit on them by selling them […]
ref: 2008, William Hodson Brock, William Crookes (1832-1919) and the Commercialization of Science:
glosses: An instrument for exhibiting the repulsive action produced by light or heat in a vacuum; a modification of the radiometer.
otheoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of otheoscope
wolframic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From wolfram + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to wolfram (tungsten).
Synonyms: tungstic
constrainer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: constrainers
Etymology: From constrain + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who constrains.
constrainers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of constrainer
nimbless
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nimblesses
Senses: examples: text: Seemed those little Angels did uphold / The cloth of state, and on their purpled wings / Did beare the pendants, through their nimblesse bold […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: He could his weapon shift from side to syde, / From hand to hand, and with such nimblesse sly
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: There is another sort of savage beast in those parts called by some of our people Jan over Zee (Jack beyond sea) wich surpasses all others in nimblesses and tears all to pieces it meets with.
ref: 1977, Os brasileiros, page 43:
glosses: Nimbleness.
researchful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more researchful
form: most researchful
Etymology: From research + -ful.
Senses: examples: c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Troilus and Cressida
Pity that the researchful notary has not either told us in what century, and of what history, he was a writer, or been simply content to depose, that Lollius, if a writer of that name existed at all, was a somewhat somewhere.
glosses: Making researches; inquisitive.
subrotund
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subrotund
form: most subrotund
Etymology: From sub- + rotund.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Somewhat rotund.
surrogateship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surrogateships
Etymology: From surrogate + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The position or office of a surrogate.
glosses: surrogacy
surrogateships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surrogateship
Marstonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑːˈstəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /mɑɹˈstoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Marstonian
form: most Marstonian
Etymology: From Marston + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to John Marston (1576?–1634), English poet and playwright.
adjustage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adjustages
Etymology: Alteration of ajutage under the influence of adjust + -age, attested since the 1700s.
Senses: glosses: Adjustment.
adjustages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adjustage
bescorn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bescorns
form: bescorning
form: bescorned
form: bescorned
Etymology: From be- + scorn.
Senses: examples: text: Then was he bescorned.
ref: 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
glosses: To treat with scorn.
bescorned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bescorn
bescorning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bescorn
bescorns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bescorn
diaheliotropism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A tendency of leaves or other plant organs to have their dorsal surface facing towards the rays of light.
diversifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more diversifiable
form: most diversifiable
Etymology: From diversify + -able.
Senses: examples: text: I have observed human blood beasts , in such cases and circumstances , whereto be a thing so diversifiable[…] that I dare not undertake, that every repeater[…]
ref: 1684, Robert Boyle, Memoirs for the Natural History of the Human Blood:
glosses: Capable of being diversified or varied.
Derived terms: diversifiable risk
nondiversifiable
non-diversifiable risk
undiversifiable
electrolyzable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From electrolyze + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being electrolyzed, or decomposed by electricity.
onement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwʌnmənt/
Etymology: From one + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: That sets such discord 'twixt agreeing parts, / Which never can be set at onement more.
ref: 1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC:
glosses: The state of being at one or reconciled.
Derived terms: atonement
rhizostome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhizostomes
Etymology: From translingual Rhizostoma.
Senses: glosses: Any member of the Rhizostomata, certain discomedusan jellyfish.
rhizostomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhizostome
statued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more statued
form: most statued
Etymology: From statue + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Here in seclusion, as a widow may, / The lovely lady whiled the hours away, / Pacing in sable robes the statued hall, / Herself the stateliest statue among all, […]
ref: 1863 November 23, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Student’s Tale. The Falcon of Ser Federigo.”, in Tales of a Wayside Inn, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 35:
text: [T]he façade of the cathedral did not stand ignominious in faded stucco, but had upon it the magnificent promise of the half-completed marble inlaying and statued niches, which Giotto had devised a hundred and fifty years before; […]
ref: 1862 July – 1863 August, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “The Barber’s Shop”, in Romola. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1863, →OCLC, book I, page 53:
glosses: Adorned with statues.
unaccomplishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + accomplishment.
Senses: examples: text: And with all generous persons maried thus it is ; that where the mind and person pleases aptly , there some unaccomplishment of the bodies delight may be better born with , then when the mind hangs of in an inclosing disproportion
ref: 1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC:
synonyms: nonaccomplishment
glosses: Lack of accomplishment; the state of being unaccomplished.
carpological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From carpology + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: carpological analysis
text: carpological remains
glosses: Of or pertaining to carpology.
Derived terms: carpologically
misdevotion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misdevotions
Etymology: From mis- + devotion.
Senses: glosses: Mistaken, ineffective, or fake devotion.
misdevotions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misdevotion
speedshift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speedshifts
Etymology: From speed + shift.
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: A renegotiation of the data rate over a telecommunications link.
speedshifts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speedshift
wreaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹikɚ/
Forms: form: wreakers
Etymology: From wreak + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] matched by the diversity of roles the lion plays, switching from ally to enemy, from a symbol of strength and goodness to wreaker of havoc and evil.
ref: 2013, Helene E. Roberts, Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography:
glosses: One who wreaks.
wreakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wreaker
friation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See friable.
Senses: synonyms: breakup
glosses: The act of breaking up or pulverizing.
whereout
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Etymology: From where- + out.
Senses: examples: text: There was one upon a time, who being of this mind, that there was nothing ſo honeſt as to crave and receive, begged of Archelaus the king of Macedonie (as he ſate at ſupper) the cup of golde whereout he drunke himſelfe; […]
ref: 1603, Plutarch, “Of Vnseemely and Navghty Bashfvlnesse”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, page 167:
glosses: Out of which.
Related terms: —
henceafter
henceforth
henceforward
henceforwards
hencefrom
hereabout
hereabouts
hereabove
hereafter
hereafters
hereagainst
hereamong
hereanent
hereat
hereaway
herebefore
hereby
herefor
herefore
hereforth
hereforward
hereforwards
herefrom
herehence
hereinabove
hereinafter
hereinbefore
hereinbelow
hereinelsewhere
hereinsoever
hereinto
hereinunder
heremid
hereof
hereon
hereout
hereover
herethrough
herethroughout
hereto
heretofore
hereunto
hereupon
herewith
herewithal
herewithin
herewithout
hitherto
hitherunto
hitherward
hitherwards
howbeit
however
howso
howsoever
howsomedever
howsomever
thataway
thatwise
thenceafter
thenceforth
thenceforward
thenceforwards
thencefrom
thenceout
thereabout
thereabouts
thereabove
thereacross
thereafter
thereafters
thereagain
thereagainst
therealong
thereamong
thereamongst
thereanent
therearound
thereat
thereaway
therebefore
therebeside
therebetween
therebeyond
thereby
therever
therefor
therefore
thereforth
therefrom
therehence
thereinabove
thereinafter
thereinbefore
thereinbelow
thereinto
thereinunder
theremid
thereof
thereon
thereout
thereover
theresoever
therethrough
therethroughout
thereto
theretofore
thereunto
thereup
thereupon
therewith
therewithal
therewithin
therewithout
thisaway
thiswise
thitherinsoever
thitherto
thitherward
thitherwards
whatever
whatso
whatsoever
whatsomedever
whatsomever
whatwise
whenabout
whenabouts
whenas
whenever
whenso
whensoever
whensomever
whenceafter
whencever
whenceforth
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wherefor
wherefore
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wheresoever
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wherewithal
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whitherinsoever
whitherso
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whitherward
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whyever
whyfor
whyso
whysoever
1. Scottish2. from Middle English mid3. old dialectal form
coefficacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From co- + efficacy.
Senses: examples: text: History springs from the Son's coefficacy with the Father and the Spirit.
glosses: Joint efficacy; an instance of things working together.
medicinable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈdɪs(ɪ)nəb(ə)l/
Forms: form: more medicinable
form: most medicinable
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman medicinable, Middle French medicinable, or their source, Late Latin medicinabilis, from Latin medicīna.
Senses: examples: text: hee by his lawes, inhibiteth[…]the perswasion, that any evill may come unto man from the Gods, except for his greater good, and for a medicinable [translating medecinal] effect, whensoever he falleth into it.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: I pray you in your Letters, / When you ſhall theſe vnluckie deeds relate, / Speake of me, as I am. […] / Of one, whoſe ſubdu'd Eyes, / Albeit un-vsed to the melting moode, / Drops teares as faſt as the Arabian Trees / Their Medicinable gumme.
ref: 1603, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, act V, scene ii, page 338:
text: […] this Water is every way as Medicinable as the other; serving well in all Decoctions and Syrups, though it be not altogether so pleasing to the smell.
ref: 1677, Hannah Woolley, The Compleat Servant-Maid, London: T. Passinger, page 42:
glosses: Medicinal; having healing properties.
Derived terms: unmedicinable
invulnerableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From invulnerable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being invulnerable.
Synonyms: invulnerability
eggler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: egglers
Etymology: Presumably from *eggle (“to sell eggs”) + -er. Compare eggling.
Senses: glosses: Someone who trades in eggs, or gathers eggs.
egglers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eggler
undumpish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undumpishes
form: undumpishing
form: undumpished
form: undumpished
Etymology: From un- + dumpish.
Senses: examples: text: When the Queen was out of humour, he could undumpish her
ref: a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC:
text: True, they in the end give the droll his immortality, but they can be a terrible affliction in the meantime to those who would live by undumpishing.
ref: 1942–3, Ivor John Carnegie Brown, A Word in Your Ear; And, Just Another Word, published 1963, page 63:
text: Who, Dr. Weisblatt asked, could undumpish the Chairman of the Coal Board (apparently one of the most oppressive of the public bodies of the day), or tell him his faults effectively, if not a Coal Board Fool?
ref: 1954, Punch, volume 227, page 140:
text: Will Somers could “undumpish” Henry VIII, and Armin gives an account that he says in living memory of some still at Greenwhich, of how he succeeded in making a solemn Henry first smile and then laugh enough to forget his bad mood, all with a riddle[.]
ref: 2001, Beatrice K. Otto, Fools Are Everywhere, →ISBN, page 90:
glosses: To relieve from the dumps; to cause to cheer up.
undumpished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undumpish
undumpishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undumpish
veratrums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of veratrum
convalescently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more convalescently
form: most convalescently
Etymology: From convalescent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a convalescent way; with increasing strength or vigour.
spumid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spumid
form: most spumid
Etymology: Latin spumidis.
Senses: glosses: spumous; frothy
trifarious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹaɪˈfɛəɹi.əs/
ipa: /tɹaɪˈfɛɹi.əs/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.əs
Etymology: From Latin trifarius (“of three sorts or ways, threefold”). Compare bifarious.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Facing three ways; arranged in three vertical ranks, like the leaves of veratrum.
foothalt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From foot + halt.
Senses: glosses: footrot (disease affecting the feet of animals e.g. sheep).
killigrew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: killigrews
Senses: glosses: A bird, the red-billed chough.
killigrews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of killigrew
wall bars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A type of exercise equipment consisting of a ladder-like series of horizontal bars, used for gymnastics exercises as well as rehabilitation.
Synonyms: gymnastic ladder
gymnastics ladder
stall bars
Swedish ladder
corbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corb
heartener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hearteners
Etymology: From hearten + -er.
Senses: examples: text: But as a coward's heartener in war, / The stirring drum, keeps lesser noise from far […]
ref: 1613, William Browne, Britannia's Pastorals:
glosses: One who, or that which, heartens or animates.
hearteners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heartener
pneumonitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: pneumonitic change
text: pneumonitic patient
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or suffering from, pneumonitis.
secludedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more secludedly
form: most secludedly
Etymology: From secluded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: a secludedly peaceful park bench
glosses: In a secluded manner.
secludedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From secluded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The secludedness of the location usually grants the isolation character some universities desire, therefore there is no pressing need for walls or other segregation physical elements.
ref: 2016, Walter Leal Filho, Constantina Skanavis, Olga Kuznetsova, Judy Rogers, Arminda do Paço, Paula Castro, Handbook of Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development in Higher Education, →ISBN, page 265:
text: Towards the east and south-east relatively high hills separate Birsay from Evie and Harray, and even today there is a feeling of secludedness and tranquillity in The Hillside and Abune the Hill districts.
ref: 2000, Liv Kjørsvik Schei, Gunnie Moberg, The Islands of Orkney, →ISBN, page 219:
glosses: The quality or state of being secluded.
viced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more viced
form: most viced
Etymology: From vice + -ed?
Senses: examples: text: Jove Will o'er some high-viced city hang his poison In the sick air
ref: c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
glosses: vicious; corrupt
examples: text: There was a board on a tree, bearing a merchant's name above the legend Jefferson 4 mi, drawing up and then past, yet with no semblance of motion, and he moved his feet slightly and braced his inside elbow for the coming jerk and gathered himself feet foremost out of the moving surrey, snapping his arm and shoulder forward against the expected jerk but too late, so that even as his body swung out and free of the wheel his head clipped down into the V of the stanchion which supported the top and teh weight and momentum of his whole body came down on his viced neck.
ref: 1940, William Faulkner, The Hamlet:
text: Ewan works a solid half-hour and the viced scroll looks barely scratched.
ref: 2010, Craig Silvey, Rhubarb, page 21:
text: And as the viper tightened its grip to rip past muscle, it twisted its massive jaw back and forth, grinding neck bones while slowly crushing the face and skull, drowning the suppressed screams in blood and bone that poured from his his viced neck, before lifting Peto'stiff body into the air where it quickly coiled its muscular scales and corkscrewed to mince what remained, finally releasing the twisted and bloodied tattoed skin of its dead victim to fall as a sack of oozing meat...with feet.
ref: 2023, W.K.Clyde, Pangerath :WAR, page 656:
glosses: Held clamped by a vice or something with a similar squeezing action.
examples: text: After a while Farino fell and Lacy with him; but the viced fingers never relaxed.
ref: 1933, Theodore A. Tinsley, Scarlet Ace: Candidate for Death:
text: She nodded every so often, glanced at Henry, tightened her viced hand around Ernest's, and then listened some more.
ref: 2016, P. C Dettmann, Ernest Zevon:
text: Gray appeared momentarily relieved and relaxed now, his viced hands on the steering wheel loosening a little.
ref: 2021, Chris Leicester, 180⁰ Chord:
glosses: Maintaining a vice-like grip.
viced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From vice + -ed?
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vice
chimango
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chimangos
form: chimangoes
Etymology: From Spanish chimango, from an Aymara word (said to mean "beetle-eater").
Senses: glosses: Milvago chimango, a South American bird of prey related to the falcon.
chimangoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chimango
fibrination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fibrinations
Etymology: From fibrin + -ation.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: an excess of fibrin in the blood.
Derived terms: defibrination
fibrinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fibrination
fruticulose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fruticulose
form: most fruticulose
Etymology: Diminutive from Latin fruticosus (“bushy”): compare French fruticuleux.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Like, or pertaining to, a small shrub
Derived terms: suffruticulose
Related terms: fruticose
ungird
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: ungirds
form: ungirding
form: ungirded
form: ungirded
Etymology: From un- + gird; or possibly continuing Middle English ungirden, ungurden, from Old English ungyrdan (“to ungird”). Cognate with German entgürten (“to ungird”).
Senses: glosses: To loosen or remove the girdle or band of.
glosses: To unbind or unload.
ungirded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ungird
ungirded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not girded.
ungirding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ungird
ungirds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ungird
redingot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redingots
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of redingote.
redingots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redingot
cicutoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cicutoxins
Etymology: From translingual Cicuta (“water hemlock genus”) + toxin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A poisonous polyyne and alcohol found in various plants, including the water hemlock.
cicutoxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cicutoxin
oenanthotoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From translingual Oenanthe and toxin.
Senses: glosses: A toxin found in hemlock water dropwort, Oenanthe crocata, and other plants of the genus Oenanthe.
mystagogues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mystagogue
loamed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of loam
loaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of loam
hyperdeterminants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperdeterminant
defeasances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of defeasance
bathings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bathing
thickety
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thickety
form: most thickety
Etymology: From thicket + -y.
Senses: examples: a thickety hill
glosses: Covered in thickets.
thickheadedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thickheaded + -ness.
Senses: glosses: stupidity
nonparticipative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + participative.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: nonparticipating, nonparticipatory
glosses: Not participative.
Related terms: nonparticipant
nonparticipation
nonisolated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + isolated.
Senses: glosses: Not isolated.
nondomiciliary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + domiciliary.
Senses: glosses: Not domiciliary.
fish tanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fish tank
intrication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intrications
Etymology: Borrowed from French intrication.
Senses: glosses: Entanglement or intricacy
Related terms: intricate
intrications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intrication
toilinette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toilinettes
Etymology: French toilinet. See toil (“a net”).
Senses: glosses: A cloth formerly used for waistcoats, having a weft of woollen yarn and a warp of cotton and silk.
toilinettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toilinette
aglu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aglus
form: agluit
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of agloo.
kinesodic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From kinesi- + -ode + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: kinesodic reaction
text: kinesodic response
text: kinesodic system
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Conveying motion; applied especially to the spinal cord, because it is capable of conveying both voluntary and reflex motor impulses while not being responsive to them.
Related terms: neuromotor
sensorimotor
venerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more venerous
form: most venerous
Senses: examples: text: venerous passions
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of venereous.
overprovident
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overprovident
form: most overprovident
Etymology: From over- + provident.
Senses: glosses: Excessively provident.
urosacral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uro- + sacral.
Senses: examples: text: the urosacral vertebrae of birds
topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to both caudal and sacral parts of the vertebral column.
wireworker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wireworkers
Etymology: From wire + worker.
Senses: glosses: One who manufactures articles from wire.
wireworkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wireworker
annoyous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more annoyous
form: most annoyous
Etymology: From Middle English anoyous, from Old French enuius, anoios. Compare noyous.
Senses: glosses: troublesome; annoying
chuffiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chuffy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being chuffy.
disordination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: But this is wrought by emission , or suppression , or suffocation , of the native spirits ; and also by the disordination and discomposure of the tangible parts , and other passages of nature , and not by a conflict of heats
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “IX. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: disorder, derangement or confusion.
halfpike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halfpikes
Etymology: From half + pike.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of half-pike.
halfpikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halfpike
orbiculation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I have obſerv'd upon a Wall - plum (with my most exquisite Glaſſes, which cost me ſeveral thouſands of pounds) at first beginning to turn blue , it comes firſt to Fluidity, then to Orbiculation, then Fixation, so to Angulization, then Chriſtallization[…]
ref: 1676, Thomas Shadwell, The Virtuoso:
glosses: The state or quality of being orbiculate.
oxalite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxalites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A yellow mineral, one of the oxalates of iron.
oxalites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxalite
preexamine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preexamines
form: preexamining
form: preexamined
form: preexamined
form: pre-examine
Etymology: From pre- + examine.
Senses: glosses: To examine beforehand.
preexamined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of preexamine
preexamines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of preexamine
preexamining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of preexamine
unpaganize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unpaganizes
form: unpaganizing
form: unpaganized
form: unpaganized
Etymology: From un- + paganize.
Senses: examples: text: the unpaganizing of the world
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:
glosses: To cause to cease to be pagan; to divest of pagan character.
unpaganized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unpaganize
unpaganizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unpaganize
unpaganizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unpaganize
concionatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: unbeguile the vulgar of the odde opinion the Loyolists had formerly infused into them , by their concionatory Invectives, That the Druinians, since they left Petroplis, were transform'd into strange horrid shapes
ref: 1640, I. H. [i.e., James Howell], ΔΕΝΔΡΟΛΟΓΊΑ [DENDROLOGIA]. Dodona’s Grove, or, The Vocall Forrest, London: […] T[homas] B[adger] for H. Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC:
glosses: Of or pertaining to preaching or public addresses.
dreamingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dreamingly
form: most dreamingly
Etymology: From dreaming + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: And as other dreams come from the multitude of business, so from such like busyings of the mind, we shall pray but dreamingly and distemperedly.
ref: 1856, Thomas Cobbet, Gospel Incense Or a Practical Treatise on Prayer, page 296:
glosses: In a dreamy manner; dreamily.
liftable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more liftable
form: most liftable
Etymology: From lift + -able.
Senses: examples: text: liftable props
glosses: Capable of being lifted.
Derived terms: unliftable
prosimetrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From prose + metrical.
Senses: examples: text: As with any prosimetrical text, the Libellus Æthelwoldi raises interesting questions about the inter-relationships of verse and prose
ref: 2012, Catherine A. M. Clarke, Writing Power in Anglo-Saxon England::
glosses: Consisting both of prose and verse.
unliftable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + liftable.
Senses: examples: text: Could an omnipotent god lift an unliftable object?
glosses: Impossible to lift.
instructible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more instructible
form: most instructible
form: instructable
Etymology: From instruct + -ible.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being instructed; teachable.
Derived terms: uninstructible
viduage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See vidual.
Senses: glosses: widowhood
glosses: widows generally
knarled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more knarled
form: most knarled
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gnarled.
Lancashire boiler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lancashire boilers
Senses: examples: text: The beam is used to drive two pumps, one supplying water from the reservoir to the condenser, and the other the feed pump supplying the Lancashire boiler, and the condenser itself.
ref: 1951 July, W. R. Watson, “An Edge Hill Beam Engine”, in Railway Magazine, page 490:
glosses: A steam boiler with two flues that contain the furnaces and extend through the boiler from one end to the other.
Related terms: Cornish boiler
Lancashire boilers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lancashire boiler
materious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more materious
form: most materious
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of material.
treatiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: treatisers
Etymology: From treatise + -er.
Senses: glosses: A writer of treatises.
treatisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of treatiser
uncoach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uncoaches
form: uncoaching
form: uncoached
form: uncoached
Etymology: From un- + coach.
Senses: examples: text: These, here arriv'd, the mules uncoach'd, and drave
Up to the gulfy river's shore, that gave
Sweet grass to them.
ref: 1614–1615, Homer, “The Sixth Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:
glosses: To detach from a coach (vehicle).
examples: text: Following my run with him, I was less concerned about his physical skills and strength as I was unwiring or uncoaching what had been imprinted into his mind.
ref: 2014, Charles Martin, A Life Intercepted:
glosses: To unteach
uncoaches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uncoach
uncoaching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uncoach
wiveless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I’ve canvassed enough to know that it is usually the wiveless men who shout the most about the wife.
ref: 1920, Oreola Williams Haskell, Banner Bearers: Tales of the Suffrage Campaigns, page 124:
text: And the widows of murdered men—not sharing that exile—accepted the wiveless men of Ades as their deliverers.
ref: 1947, Murray Leinster, The Boomerang Circuit; republished as “The Boomerang Circuit”, in Black Cat Weekly, number 58, 2022, page 657:
text: Affluent but wiveless miners of the California gold fields advertised in eastern newspapers for wives, and many women booked passage on ships sailing round the Horn to become brides of these men.
ref: 1975 August 29, Gene Siler, “On ‘Mail-Order’ Brides”, in The Corbin Times-Tribune, page 4:
glosses: Dated form of wifeless.
mendication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mɛndɪˈkeɪʃən/
Senses: examples: text: For, Suidas is silent herein, Cedrenus and Zonaras, two grave and punctual authors, delivering only the confiscation of his goods, omit the history of his mendication.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The act or practice of begging; beggary.
Related terms: mendicant
mendicate
reimpression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reimpressions
Etymology: From re- + impression.
Senses: glosses: A second or repeated impression
glosses: a reprint.
reimpressions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reimpression
remurmur
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: remurmurs
form: remurmuring
form: remurmured
form: remurmured
Etymology: From re- + murmur.
Senses: examples: text: The trembling Trees, in ev'ry Plain and Wood, / Her Fate remurmur to the ſilver Flood; […]
ref: 1709 May, Alexander Pope, “Pastorals. The Fourth Pastoral, or Daphne. […]”, in Poetical Miscellanies: The Sixth Part. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 749:
text: Here he ſpies a pleaſant rivulet, which, through its flow'ry banks, glides along over the brighteſt ſand, and remurmurs over the whiteſt pebbles that bedimple its ſmooth ſurface, while that other, through its liquid cryſtal, feaſts the eye with a proſpect of gold and orient pearl.
ref: 1749, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, “The Notable Dispute between the Canon and Don Quixote; with Other Matters”, in [Peter Anthony] Motteux, transl., edited by [John] Ozell, The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha. […], 8th edition, volume II, London: […] W[illiam] Innys, […], →OCLC, part I, book IV, page 234:
glosses: To murmur back or again.
remurmured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of remurmur
remurmuring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of remurmur
remurmurs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of remurmur
misadventured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: misadventur'd
Senses: examples: text: From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: unfortunate
phyllocyanin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phyllocyanine
Etymology: From phyllo- + cyanin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A blue pigment obtained by degradation of chlorophyll.
Related terms: phylloxanthin
phyllocyanine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phyllocyanin.
rebanish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rebanishes
form: rebanishing
form: rebanished
form: rebanished
Etymology: From re- + banish.
Senses: glosses: To banish again.
rebanished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rebanish
rebanishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rebanish
rebanishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rebanish
euphonical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more euphonical
form: most euphonical
Etymology: From euphonic + -al (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘of or pertaining to’);
Senses: glosses: Euphonious; pleasing to the ear.
creaser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creasers
Etymology: From crease + -er.
Senses: glosses: A tool, person, or device for making creases.
creasers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creaser
outslid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outslide
outslide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /aʊtˈslaɪd/
Forms: form: outslides
form: outsliding
form: outslid
form: outslid
Etymology: From out- + slide.
Senses: examples: text: At last our grating keels outslide,
Our good boats forward swing
ref: 1869, John Greenleaf Whittier, “At Port Royal”, in National Lyrics:
glosses: To slide outward, onward, or forward; to advance by sliding.
glosses: To slide better than
outsliding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outslide
garfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garfish
immoderacies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immoderacy
immoderacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immoderacies
Senses: examples: text: Even in our sensual days, the strength of delight is in its seldomness or rarity, and sting in its satiety: mediocrity is its life, and immoderacy its confusion
ref: c. 1670s (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “(please specify the section)”, in John Jeffery, editor, Christian Morals, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] [A]t the University-Press, for Cornelius Crownfield printer to the University; and are to be sold by Mr. Knapton […]; and Mr. [John] Morphew […], published 1716, →OCLC:
glosses: The quality of being immoderate.
jears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jeers
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Collectively, tackles, for hoisting or lowering the yards of a ship.
layship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lay + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: the priest esteems their layships unhallowed and unclean
ref: 1642 (indicated as 1641), John Milton, The Reason of Church-governement Urg’d against Prelaty […], London: […] E[dward] G[riffin] for Iohn Rothwell, […], →OCLC:
glosses: laymanship (the condition of being a layman.)
lignitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lignitic
form: most lignitic
Etymology: From lignite + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: lignitic clay
text: lignitic coal
text: lignitic sediment
glosses: Containing or resembling lignite.
limpitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: limpidity