cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
stationariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stationary + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The normal condition of every species on this planet is not progress but stationariness.
ref: 1920, William Ralph Inge, Outspoken Essays:
text: In olfaction, these features might be chemical species, chirality, concentration, location, stationariness, or rate of encounter.
ref: 1999 October 22, Gilles Laurent, “A Systems Perspective on Early Olfactory Coding”, in Science, volume 286, number 5440, →DOI, pages 723–728:
glosses: the state or quality of being stationary
splashers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of splasher
soakingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more soakingly
form: most soakingly
Etymology: From soaking + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The temperature at noon had risen to 33 deg., and everything was more soakingly wet than ever, if that was possible.
ref: 1910, Charles Turley, The Voyages of Captain Scott:
text: There are people who even in this enlightened age vegetate upon the face of the earth and know not these things, and a very great many more who do not know that they ought to select a soakingly wet day to appreciate the Falls of Niagara at their highest value.
ref: 1902, Harry Furniss, The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2):
glosses: To the point of soaking; imparting extreme wetness.
slantindicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slantindicular
form: most slantindicular
Senses: examples: text: Why not a 'slantindicular line,' as Mr Slick expresses it?"
ref: 1842 December, Blackwood's Magazine, volume 52, page 732:
text: "The elevators inside this rock can move in just about any direction except slantindicular.
ref: 2004, Michael D. Cooper, The Runaway Asteroid:
glosses: Alternative form of slantendicular.
slaken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: I was glad when we were very politely invited to get out of the train and walk a plank over a puddle that for a moment submerged the track; glad when we were advised to foot it over a trestle-bridge that sagged in the swift current of a swollen stream; and gladder still when our locomotive began to puff and blow and slaken its pace as we climbed up into the mouth of a ravine fragrant with the warm scents of summer--albeit we could boast but a solitary brace of cars, and these small ones, and not overcrowded at that.
ref: 1914, Charles Warren Stoddard, Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska:
text: And so she swept in, with her arm round Lucia's waist; while Elsley stood looking after her, well enough satisfied with her reception of him, and only hoping that the stream of words would slaken after a while. "
ref: 1901, Charles Kingsley, Two Years Ago, Volume I:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of slacken.
skimmingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more skimmingly
form: most skimmingly
Etymology: From skimming + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Whether sleeping, quarrelling, or playing, whether curious, frightened, or angry, its interest is continuously humorous, but the Adelie penguin in the water is another thing; as it darts to and fro a fathom or two below the surface, as it leaps porpoise-like into the air or swims skimmingly over the rippling surface of a pool, it excites nothing but admiration.
ref: 1913, Captain R. F. Scott, Scott's Last Expedition Volume I:
text: Yesterday, beside preaching a sermon more than half new, and attending a funeral (out of the society), I read skimmingly more than half Nichol's "Architecture of the Heavens."
ref: 1852, Orville Dewey, letter to his daughter Mary:
glosses: in a skimming manner
discomfortable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more discomfortable
form: most discomfortable
Etymology: Compare Old French desconfortable, equivalent to discomfort + -able or dis- + comfortable.
Senses: examples: text: an assassin who misses his aim and flounders into penitence much as that discomfortable drama misses its point and stumbles into vacuity
ref: 1886, Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Age of Shakespeare, John Webster:
glosses: Causing discomfort or uneasiness
glosses: uncomfortable
Derived terms: discomfortableness
discomfortably
unguled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin ungula (“a claw”), + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Supporters, dexter, a unicorn ar. armed, maned, and unguled or; sinister, a lion, gu. Motto, In te Domine speravi, In thee , 0 Lord , have I put my trust.
ref: 1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry, page 9:
text: Supporters - Two pegasi, ermine, winged, bridled, crined, and unguled, or, each charged on the shoulder with a fleur de lis, azure. Motto - Virtute, non verbis.
ref: 1846, William Skey, The Heraldic Calendar: A List of the Nobility and Gentry Whose Arms are Registered, and Pedigrees Recorded in the Herald's Office in Ireland, page 46:
text: Argent, three roebucks passant regardant gules, attired and unguled sable. Crest - On a wreath of the colours, a demi-roebuck gules, attired and unguled sable.
ref: 1915, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, The Book of Public Arms: A Complete Encyclopædia of All Royal, Territorial, Municipal, Corporate, Official, and Impersonal Arms, London : T.C. & E.C. Jack, page 430:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Having hoofs of a tincture different from the body.
singlestick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: singlesticks
Etymology: From single + stick.
Senses: examples: text: [F]ew country people there are who do not love to see two sturdy fellows thwack and belabour each other with quarter-staff, single-stick, or fists.
ref: 1881, Walter Besant, James Rice, “How Kitty First Saw the Doctor”, in The Chaplain of the Fleet […], volume I, London: Chatto and Windus, […], →OCLC, part I (Within the Rules), page 82:
text: Scottish broadsword training methods included practice with the singlestick. The singlestick is a wooden rod (usually ash) with a basket hilt. Length was usually 3 feet (just under a meter).
ref: 2010, Thomas A. Green, Joseph R. Svinth, Martial Arts of the World:
glosses: A one-handed wooden stick used for fencing in place of a sword.
glosses: A martial art, sport or exercise using a cudgel or backsword.
sirname
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sirnames
Etymology: Possibly influenced by erroneous analysis as sire-name (per Brewer's 1877 Errors of Speech and of Spelling).
Senses: examples: text: Fair Helen's sirname, therefore, depends upon the period at which she lived, which it is now impossible to ascertain.
ref: 1806, Walter Scott, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Vol. II (of 3):
text: These names were not always used; commonly two, and sometimes only the sirname.
ref: 1833, Charles K. Dillaway, Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology:
text: They were in two trunks (made exactly fit for them) that had the first letters of my christian and sirname decyphered upon them with nails; and on the first page of every book was my ordinary motto and name written at length in my own hand.
ref: 1902, William Younger Fletcher, English Book Collectors:
glosses: Archaic spelling of surname.
sirname
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sirnames
form: sirnaming
form: sirnamed
form: sirnamed
Etymology: Possibly influenced by erroneous analysis as sire-name (per Brewer's 1877 Errors of Speech and of Spelling).
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of surname.
feriation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /fɛɹiˈeɪʃən/
/fɪəɹiˈeɪʃən/
Etymology: From Latin ferior (“to keep holiday”), from feriae (“holidays”).
Senses: examples: text: And therefore as though there were any feriation in nature or justitiums imaginable in professions, whose subject is natural, and under no intermissive, but constant way of mutation, this season is commonly termed the physician's vacation, and stands so received by most men.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
text: Thus ſleep may properly be defined, a certain feriation of the external ſenſes
ref: Robert Anderson, The Works of the British Poets […] , (Please provide the book title or journal name), Crrech's Lucretius:
glosses: A holiday or break from work or effort.
sirnames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sirname
throatwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: throatworts
Etymology: From throat + wort.
Senses: glosses: A plant, Trachelium caeruleum (syn. Campanula trachelium), with a throat-shaped corolla, once considered a remedy for sore throats.
glosses: Dense blazingstar
Derived terms: taxonomic: Trachelium caeruleum
word: blue throatwort
throatworts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of throatwort
apieces
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From a- + pieces.
Senses: examples: text: being torn apieces
ref: 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
glosses: Into pieces; asunder.
witheredness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From withered + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being withered.
scatteringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more scatteringly
form: most scatteringly
Etymology: From scattering + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She pushed cautiously down to the edge of the rocks where the bushes grew scatteringly, pretending to herself that she wanted a bit of wild geranium that flourished in a crevice far below the top.
ref: 1908, Alice MacGowan, Judith of the Cumberlands:
text: 'My father went straight to the hiding-place in full sight of everybody, and got out the fish-hooks and brought them and flung them scatteringly over my head, so that they fell in glittering confusion on the platform at my lover's knee.
ref: 1899, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories:
text: The other men trooped along scatteringly, dodging under the low boughs of the stunted trees.
ref: 1895, Charles Egbert Craddock (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree), The Riddle Of The Rocks:
glosses: in a scattering manner, suggesting scattering.
furrowy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more furrowy
form: most furrowy
Etymology: From furrow + -y.
Senses: examples: text: A double hill ran up his furrowy forks / Beyond the thick-leaved platans of the vale.
ref: 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page number, or |part=Prologue, I to VII, or conclusion)”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Having furrows.
helminthologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helminthologists
Etymology: Compare French helminthologiste.
Senses: glosses: A zoologist in the field of helminthology.
helminthologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of helminthologist
powdry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more powdry
form: most powdry
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of powdery.
empoisoner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: empoisoners
Etymology: From empoison + -er.
Senses: examples: text: For when Seianus perceiued that Drufus, empoisoners escaped vnpunished
ref: 1606, Philemon Holland (translator), Caius Suetonius Tranquillus, The Historie of Twelve Cæsars:
glosses: A poisoner.
empoisoners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of empoisoner
Jovinianist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jovinianists
Etymology: From Jovinian + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An adherent to the doctrines of Jovinian, a monk of the fourth century, who denied the virginity of Mary and opposed the asceticism of his time.
Jovinianists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jovinianist
underviewer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underviewers
Etymology: From under- + viewer.
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: An underlooker; the manager responsible for a colliery in the absence of the viewer.
underviewers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underviewer
reunitedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From reunited + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I very soon found that though a large number of vills either severally or re-unitedly contained five hides or a multiple, yet many did not fall under this rule.
ref: 1899, Proceedings of the Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, volume 45, page 54:
text: To reciprocate I’ll just make a date with you right now for next year’s Reunion. Let’s get back early and stay late. […] Yours reunitedly, […]
ref: 1928, The University of Chicago Magazine, volume 21, page 548:
text: Fortissa, however, is encouraged by Gregorius, Leo, Viteilius, and Magdugalius, reunitedly, to warn Anita by describing the strong chastisements of Honuphrius […]
ref: 1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part III, page 573:
glosses: Having been reunited.
notableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From notable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: notability; the quality of being notable.
upstir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upstirs
Etymology: From up- + stir.
Senses: examples: text: But yee […] ought to be like sheep to your King, who ought to be like a Shepheard unto you, even in the time when your profit was sought, and better redresse was intended then your upstirres and unquietnesse could obtaine […]
ref: 1549, John Cheke, The Hurt of Sedition:
text: The world is now in an upstir because this association is about to hold its great convention in New York City
ref: 1983, Marcus Garvey, Robert Hill, The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Univ. of Calif. Press, →ISBN, page 390:
text: Needless to say, this has caused quite an upstir with people […]
ref: 2006 December 20, Michael Arrington, quoting Fredrik, “I Wish Google Could Buy AllofMP3”, in TechCrunch, retrieved 03 Jun 2012:
glosses: Commotion; disturbance, tumult.
upstir
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upstirs
form: upstirring
form: upstirred
form: upstirred
Etymology: From up- + stir.
Senses: examples: text: And conscience to upstir him […]
ref: 1876, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth, Ishmael In the Depths, digitized edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2005:
text: […] upstirring of the modern democrat against the aristocrat […]
ref: 1994, The Arizona Quarterly: Vol 50, Univ. of Arizona, page 100:
glosses: To disturb, cause a commotion, stir up.
drearisome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: note: without the mirror–nearer merger
ipa: /ˈdɹɪəɹisəm/
note: mirror–nearer merger
ipa: /ˈdɹɪɹisəm/
rhymes: -ɪəɹisəm
Forms: form: more drearisome
form: most drearisome
Etymology: From dreary + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Ere the wet, wintry morn , with its drearisome light
ref: 1834, William Neville Usher, Cottage Life and Rural Scenery:
synonyms: word: bleak
word: sombre
word: cheerless
word: comfortless
word: bleak
word: dark
word: depressing
word: desolate
word: dire
word: disconsolate
word: dismal
word: doleful
word: dolesome
word: drear
word: drearisome
word: dreary
word: dreich
word: forlorn
word: gayless
word: gray
word: gloomsome
word: gloomy
word: grim
word: joyless
word: lack-laughter
word: lugubrious
word: melancholy
word: mirthless
word: miserable
word: no joke
word: saturnine
word: solemn
word: somber
word: sombre
word: spiritless
word: sullen
word: sunless
word: uncheerful
word: uncheery
word: unhappy
word: unmerry
word: wintry
word: woeful
glosses: Characterised or marked by dreariness.
norice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: norices
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of nurse.
norices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of norice
unhelmet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unhelmets
form: unhelmeting
form: unhelmeted
form: unhelmeted
Etymology: From un- + helmet.
Senses: examples: text: In spite of all that Durward could say of the slightness of his hurt, he was compelled to dismount, and to seat himself on a bank, and unhelmet himself
ref: 1823, [Walter Scott], Quentin Durward. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
glosses: To remove the helmet from.
examples: text: Due to security protocols—ones I had devised—I had to unhelmet at the front gate and a guard with a slavering dog met me in the circular drive.
ref: 2005, Faith Hunter, Dark Heir:
glosses: To take off a helmet
unhelmeting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unhelmet
unhelmets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unhelmet
uniliteral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + literal.
Senses: examples: text: uniliteral phonograms
text: uniliteral phonemes
text: uniliteral nouns
synonyms: monoliteral
glosses: Consisting of a single letter; single-letter.
unexperience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + experience.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of inexperience.
unexperience
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unexperiences
form: unexperiencing
form: unexperienced
form: unexperienced
Etymology: From un- + experience.
Senses: glosses: To undo the act of experiencing something; to erase the memory of having experienced something.
unreverence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + reverence.
Senses: glosses: Lack of reverence; irreverence.
descanter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: descanters
Etymology: From descant + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who descants.
descanters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of descanter
megalophonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more megalophonous
form: most megalophonous
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: examples: text: Let the megalophonous grasshopper sound a blast and summon hither the perfunctory and circumforaneous TumbleBug, to the end that excavations may be made and learning gather new treasures.
ref: 1879, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], Sketches, Some Fables for Good Old Boys and Girls — Part Third:
glosses: Having a loud voice.
purse-proud
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more purse-proud
form: most purse-proud
form: purseproud
Etymology: From purse + proud.
Senses: glosses: Haughty in the possession of riches.
registrarship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: registrarships
Etymology: From registrar + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The office or position of a registrar.
registrarships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of registrarship
wivehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: That girdle gave the vertue of chast love
And wivehood true to all that did it beare
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of wifehood.
bookmonger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bookmongers
Etymology: From book + monger.
Senses: glosses: A bookseller.
Related terms: monger
bookmongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bookmonger
improving lease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: improving leases
Senses: qualifier: Scots law
glosses: An extended lease to induce the tenant to make improvements to the premises.
improving leases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of improving lease
urosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urosomes
Etymology: From uro- + -some.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The abdomen or postabdomen of an arthropod
Related terms: urosomal
urosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urosome
affectationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: affectationists
Etymology: From affectation + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Adamantiferous, etymologically correct, would never answer; but all except pedants or affectationists would be satisfied with diamond-producing.
ref: 1873, Fitzedward Hall, Modern English:
text: Colour is a grand subject for our modern affectationists. The proof of a gift for colour would, according to them, appear to be that you do not see in any object the colour which people have seen in it since the beginning of the world […]
ref: 1874, The British Quarterly Review, volumes 59-60, page 274:
text: First of all, Artmann is to be understood as an affectationist, whereby this qualification need not imply a negative innuendo. He is not an epigone but an author who masters, with great capability, the literary tradition of many European nations […]
ref: 1977, Austria Today, volume 3, page 49:
glosses: One who exhibits affectation.
affectationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of affectationist
endecagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endecagons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hendecagon.
embrew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: embrews
form: embrewing
form: embrewed
form: embrewed
Senses: examples: text: Great ſhame it is, thing ſo diuine in vievv, / made for to be the vvorlds moſt ornament: / to make the bayte her gazers to embrevv, / good ſhames to be to ill an inſtrument.
ref: 1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet LIII”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, signature [D4], recto:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of imbrue.
embrewed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of embrew
embrewed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of imbrued.
embrewing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of embrew
embrews
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of embrew
hendecagons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hendecagon
amphigoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more amphigoric
form: most amphigoric
Etymology: From amphigory + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Nonsensical; absurd
glosses: pertaining to an amphigory.
duck mole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duck moles
form: duckmole
Etymology: From duck + mole.
Senses: glosses: A platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus).
duck moles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duck mole
flusteration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flusterations
Etymology: From fluster + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Bleſs me! ſaid ſhe, how ſoon theſe fine young Ladies will be put into fluſterations!
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter LXXVIII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume II, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC, page 178:
glosses: The state of being flustered; agitation.
flusterations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flusteration
wish-wash
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wish-wash
form: most wish-wash
Senses: examples: text: Of course we fear to address ourselves to those gentlemen whose reading is limited to the daily newspaper and novels of the wish-wash order.
ref: 1883 May, John Wells Thatcher, “Fair Criticism”, in On the road, volume 1, number 1, page 4:
text: To suit a degraded English taste, foreigners like the late Mr. Lŏhr, had to write down to the level of the wish-wash drawing-room ballad.
ref: 1895, Sabine Baring-Gould, A Garland of Country Song, page x:
text: After-effects are in this case in absolute opposition to first impressions —indeed nothing could better betoken a variation of the wish-wash order than that it should be instantly appreciated.
ref: 1912, Edwin Evans, Historical, Descriptive and Analytical Account of the Entire Works of Johannes Brahms, page 36:
text: With an example of the wish-wash composer, and his wish-wash lady love, before my eyes, I could only congratulate the Philistines.
ref: 1949, English Review Magazine - Volumes 2-3, page 312:
text: By the time it gets to that point they are already disccouraged because they have been discouraged from the fact that they are looked upon as the wish-wash, that they are not going to make it in the entertainment industry and right there that is a discouraging factor.
ref: 1987, Newstar - Issues 1-10, page 81:
glosses: Vapid; lackluster; mediocre
examples: text: While you are sitting by the side of the placid Thames, under shades of your own planting, planning the operations of a next winter's campaign, we are in the wish-wash way at Margate, amidst deep caverns, high cliffs, and expanded waters, enjoying the less calm, but more sublime objects of Nature.
ref: 1832, David Garrick, James Boaden, The Private Correspondence of David Garrick, page 349:
text: Be nothing, do nothing, say nothing, and the world will let you slip into eternity damned by your own wish-wash, willy-nilly life.
ref: 1915, “The Glory of Achievement”, in The Retail Druggist, volume 22, page 25:
text: he had a wish-wash way of regarding matters.
ref: 1925, John E. Calfee, Doing the Impossible, page 78:
glosses: Unfocussed, meandering or impulsive
wish-wash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wish-washes
form: wish-washing
form: wish-washed
form: wish-washed
Senses: examples: text: And that night, with the stars jumping and the air lating cold (for we were up in the 40's), and the John wish-washing through the seas at three leagues the hour, MacMuir told me the story of Mungo Maxwell.
ref: 1908, Great Thoughts from Master Minds, page 186:
text: A little scalloped cove where weedy creatures Trail in and out, wish-washing on the tide .
ref: 1910, Florence Converse, A Masque of Sibyls, page 31:
text: The sea doesn't care about you and me, It goes on all the time Wish-wish-washing away out there (In a way that tells you it doesn't care) With a sort of wistful weary rhyme, The sad old song of the sea.
ref: 1910 June, E.C.W., “By the Carribbean Sea”, in Pan American Magazine: The New-world Review, volume 10, number 2, page 78:
text: Where the waves wish-wash, and the foghorn blows, And the blowfish nibble at your toes - oes - oes, The blowfish nibble at your toes.
ref: 1945, Harold Wallace Ross, William Shawn, Tina Brown, The New Yorker - Volume 21, Issues 21-37, page 20:
text: This you will understand when I tell you that in consequence of these same defects I have had water an inch or two deep in my cabin, wish-washing about ever since we left Madeira.
ref: 2023, Thomas Henry Huxley, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley, page 62:
glosses: To slosh around.
examples: text: Hain't been a fair election in 15 years to my knowing, and I am confident about what I am talking about, but I am getting sick and tired of this wish-washing about eating tickets; have known them to do this after election.
ref: 1921, United States. Congress. House, Contested-election Case of James I. Campbell V. Robert L. Doughton, page 644:
text: With his eyes glued on the fall elections, President Truman is wish-washing this country into certain war with Russia .
ref: 1950, United States. Congress, Congressional Record, page A-248:
text: What would your brother do if he found out you were drawing up blood pacts and then wish-washing your way through them?
ref: 2021, Bryan CP Steele, Shadowrun: Tourist Trapped:
text: For someone who went on a whole rant about sentimental wish-washing and the pitfall of emotions, he sure did a whole lot of wish-washing and pitfalling himself back in his days, didn't he?
ref: 2022, Nozomu Mochitsuki, Tearmoon Empire: Volume 7:
glosses: To behave in a wishy-washy manner, to vacillate
Related terms: wishy-washy
wish-washes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wish-wash
forkedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From forked + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being forked.
forkiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From forky + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being forky.
tungstenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtʌŋˈstɛnɪk/
rhymes: -ɛnɪk
Forms: form: more tungstenic
form: most tungstenic
Etymology: From tungsten + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: tungstenic material
text: tungstenic ores
glosses: Containing or pertaining to tungsten.
Derived terms: tungstenic acid
crapulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crapula
graminifolious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more graminifolious
form: most graminifolious
Etymology: From Latin gramen, graminis (“grass”) + folium (“leaf”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Bearing leaves that resemble blades of grass.
starproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From star + -proof.
Senses: examples: text: O'er the smooth enamelled green, / Where no print of step hath been, / Follow mc, as I sing / And touch the warbled string, / Under the shady roof / Of branching elm star-proof.
ref: 1634, John Milton, Arcades, Song II, lines 84 to 89:
text: The thick, unbroken cloud that covered all the sky was lifted toward the west above a deep of pure, pale yellow, while the glow of it streaming faintly over the creeping river, and the sodden meadows folded as in a mystic haze, the massed darkness of the church, and the "star-proof" blackness of the yews beside it.
ref: 1891, Lanoe Falconer, Mademoiselle Ixe, page 58:
text: the same nights unfold, now moonless and starshot, now bathed in light so that from Sorrento to Ischia, from Capri to Posilipo the water is one pulsating shield of silver; 'that magic clair de lune of Vertalin's, shimmerings of pallid light upon the marble gods and goddesses in the sleeping silence of the starproof trees,' drenched with the scent of lemon bloom;
ref: 1910, William Hills Hutchins, Jeanne D'Arc at Vaucouleurs: A Romantic Drama for the Stage, page 156:
text: He said, 'Come on, babe,' and led her to the starproof shadow of a flowering daphne.
ref: 1988, Julian May, The Adversary:
text: two hundred-some farm boys and city slickers scared spineless in the snakes' swamp—knew it was drowning to be feared, in the slippery dark, burdened with fifty-pound packs rifles helmets cartridgebelts canteens bayonets and night-blind eyes, under a starproof vegetable roof of shingling fronds and fans.
ref: 2004, E. M. Schorb, Time and Fevers: New and Selected Poems, page 59:
text: About the north-western point of that island there was a garden shadowed with oaks ten generations old and starproof cedars and delicate-limbed close-tufted strawberry-trees.
ref: 2022, Eric Rücker Eddison, Mistress of Mistresses:
glosses: Impervious to the light of the stars.
unregeneracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unregeneracy
unregeneracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unregeneracies
Etymology: From unregenerate + -cy.
Senses: examples: text: And since the being Orthodox in Doctrine, and found in their new conceited Faith , was in those times a great matter , and one mark of Saint-ſhip ; as errour on the other hand was of unregeneracy , and Reprobation
ref: 1676, Joseph Glanvill, “Anti-fanatical Religion and Free Philosophy”, in Essays:
glosses: The quality or state of being unregenerate.
vagrantness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vagrant + -ness.
Senses: glosses: State of being vagrant; vagrancy.
voiceful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more voiceful
form: most voiceful
Etymology: From voice + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: the swelling of the voiceful sea
ref: 1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Fancy in Nubibus:
text: Our ancient harp, whose voiceful string
⁠The Saxon rent in twain,
ref: 1844, Edward Walsh, The Harp of the Nation:
glosses: Having a voice or vocal quality; vocal; sounding
examples: text: A perpetual hum is heard, not less voiceful to the appreciative than the chants and clanging cymbals of the Parthenon.
ref: c. 1850, Theodore Winthrop, Isthmiana, Parita:
glosses: Having a loud voice or many voices.
ringing engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ringing engines
Senses: glosses: A simple pile driver in which the monkey is lifted by the pulling of ropes.
ringing engines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ringing engine
desertlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more desertlessly
form: most desertlessly
Etymology: From desertless + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But now people will call you valiant, desertlessely I thinke, yet for their satisfaction, I will haue you fight with me.
ref: 1612 January 5 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), Francis Beaumont, Iohn Fletcher, A King and No King. […], London: […] [John Beale] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1619, →OCLC, Act III, page 44:
text: Whether or not your friend or acquaintance has fairly earned it, is a query which need not long perplex you. If you have been feeling uncertain that he wears it deservedly or desertlessly, all that you need do, to be relieved of your doubt, is to talk familiarly with him as you meet him now and then.
ref: 1884, W[illiam] H[enry] Luckenbach, The Folly of Profanity, Philadelphia: Lutheran Publication Society, page 105:
text: The follies of change appear strikingly exemplified in a character named Phantaste, one of the frivolous nymphs who have desertlessly wormed their way into the purlieus of the court.
ref: 1981, Jonas A. Barish, The Antitheatrical Prejudice, →ISBN, page 149:
glosses: Undeservedly.
extravagation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extravagations
Senses: examples: text: By reaso[n] of which their digressions and extravagations, the ancients assigned the Zodiaque 12. Degrees of Latitude.
ref: 1659, Edmund Chilmead, transl., A Learned Treatise of Globes, Both Cœlestiall and Terrestriall with Their Several Uses, London: Andrew Kemb, Part 1, Chapter 2, p. 15:
text: 1771, Tobias Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, Volume I, The British Novelists, Volume 30, London: V.C. and J. Rivington et al., p. 136,
[…] I don’t pretend to justify the extravagations of the multitude; who, I suppose, were as wild in their former censure, as in their present praise […]
text: Such tropes expose the extravagation whereby capitalism is decked out as the incontestable standard of human behavior and culture.
ref: 2010, Paul A. Griffith, Afro-Caribbean Poetry and Ritual, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, Preface, p. x:
glosses: A straying beyond limits; excess.
Related terms: extravagance
extravagancy
extravagant
extravagate
extravagations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extravagation
nightward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From night + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: Yet, that you may see I am something suspicious of myself, and do take note of a certain belatedness in me, I am the bolder to sen you some of my nightward thoughts sometime since.
ref: 1829 [1674], John Milton, Letter to a mentor:
text: Perhaps, as if clouds that had parted, sending a sunbeam across from the west upon the dark sorrow of the morning, had shut again, inexorably, leaving him still to tread the nightward path under the old, leaden sky.
ref: 1866, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, Faith Gartney's Girlhood, page 215:
text: What of the day could turn their nightward eyes?
ref: 1907, Henry Dumont, The Vision of a City: And Other Poems, page 24:
text: Though twilight balms the west, my fears see something brutal in that nightward star.
ref: 2007, Wayne Clifford, The Exile's Papers, page 94:
text: The nightward shift of daily times for dinner (i.e., the main, “midday” meal), supper, and sleep by social class is underscored by the view from Napoleon's Paris:
ref: 2011, Craig Koslofsky, Evening's Empire: A History of the Night in Early Modern Europe, page 233:
glosses: Toward night.
examples: text: nightward flow
text: nightward ion flow
text: Nightward ion flow was greatly reduced at solar minimum .
ref: 1995, Richard O. Fimmel, Pioneering Venus: A Planet Unveiled, page 2:
text: The near equality of the estimates for the nightward ion flux and nightside recombination rate would seem to indicate that electron precipitation does not play a major role in ion production.
ref: 1997, Stephen Wesley Bougher, Donald M. Hunten, Roger J. Phillips, Venus II--geology, Geophysics, Atmosphere, and Solar Wind Environment, page 179:
text: This made nightward transport a more likely source of the nightside ionosphere, at least at solar maximum.
ref: 2012, John L. Phillips, David J. McComas, “The Magnetosheath and Magnetotail of Venus”, in C.T. Russell, editor, Venus Aeronomy, page 111:
text: And I have seen the frozen, giant-builded battlements of Uogam on the glacial tundras of the nightward hemisphere of Venus.
ref: 2014, Clark Ashton Smith, S. T. Joshi, The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies, page 94:
text: If the lights were off inside the ship, and we were pointed nightward, you could see the stars, but there was always a barrier.
ref: 2018, Mary Robinette Kowal, The Fated Sky: A Lady Astronaut Novel:
text: The shadows had begun to overflow Their stagnant puddles on the nightward side, When presently the roar of battle died
ref: 2018, John G. Neihardt, A Cycle of the West, page 461:
text: “I thought we might take a look at the dens on the nightward edge of the cliffs,” Salva said, flipping playfully in the air like a gull, her wing fully healed from the blackfish's attack.
ref: 2022, Edward Willett, Shapers of Worlds:
glosses: Toward the nightside of a planet.
nightward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From night + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: I follow soon; My day of life wanes nightward fast from noon, And evening lowers.
ref: 1876, Ebenezer Elliott, Edwin Elliott, The Poetical Works of Ebenezer Elliott, page 120:
text: For life's primrose, faint and old, Nightward sweep her tides of gold, Grand with glories unrepressed, When the sun is in the west..
ref: 1887, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, “Life Colors”, in Daffodils, page 24:
text: So the gray car crept nightward in the dark and there was no life stirred as it went by.
ref: 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise:
text: […] even a few belated cars and trucks whose occupants had stayed in for the picture show too or to visit and take supper with kin or friends who had moved to town and now at last were dispersing nightward sleepward tomorrow-ward about the dark mile-compassing land but not now, not tonight;
ref: 1948, William Faulkner, Intruder in the Dust:
text: The crowd's good laughter, the loved eyes of men, I am drawn nightward;
ref: 2020, Rupert Brooke, The Poems of Rupert Brooke, page 11:
text: Andy was about to step in when a bat flew at him, blowing his hair as it flapped nightward into the canopy.
ref: 2021, S A Sidor, Cult of the Spider Queen: An Arkham Horror Novel, page 295:
glosses: Into the night.
examples: text: Fourth, Knudsen et al. (1982) have shown that the closure of the magnetosheth flow, as evidenced by the ionopause altitude nightward of the terminator, is appropriate for isentropic expansion into the wake of an obstacle.
ref: 2012, John L. Phillips, David J. McComas, “The Magnetosheath and Magnetotail of Venus”, in C.T. Russell, editor, Venus Aeronomy, page 44:
text: Out in front of them and as far as he could see nightward, the land slowly crawled away from the desert of the Winderost and rolled back into grassy foothills lined with juniper and pine forest.
ref: 2015, Jess E. Owen, A Shard of Sun:
text: Therefore, the plasma from the dayside can flow without restriction nightward under a pressure gradient force.
ref: 2022, R. P. Singhal, Elements of Space Physics, page 210:
glosses: On or toward the nightside of a planet.
nightward
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From night + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: No time was lost betweene them, for each minute was fild with store of wit, which passed betweene them, as grounds are with shadowes where people walke: and the longer they discoursed still grew as much more excellent, as they, to nightward seeme longer.
ref: 1621, Lady Mary Wroth, The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania, page 316:
text: Then when thy circuit swung to nightward, Night the abhorrèd, night was a new dawning, Celestial dawning Over the ultimate marges of the soul;
ref: 1897, Francis Thompson, “An Anthem of Earth”, in New Poems, page 84:
text: And the day sweeps round to the nightward; and heavy and hard the waves Roll in on the herd of the hurtling galleons ;
ref: 1906, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Arthur Beatty, “The Armada”, in Swinburne's Poems, page 215:
glosses: The direction of oncoming night.
anniverse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anniverses
Senses: examples: text: It seems as if they sent the New-Born Guest
To wait on the Procession of their Feast;
And on their Sacred Anniverse decree'd
To stamp their Image on the promis'd Seed
ref: 1688, John Dryden, Britannia Rediviva:
glosses: Obsolete form of anniversary.
Derived terms: anniversal
anniverses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anniverse
fernticle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fernticles
Senses: glosses: A freckle on the skin.
fernticles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fernticle
riverling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riverlings
Etymology: From river + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: the lively Spring Of his Divineness, some small Riverling[…]
ref: 1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, translated by Josuah Sylvester, Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC:
glosses: A rivulet.
riverlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of riverling
undueness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From undue + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being undue.
Jack-a-Lent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jack-a-Lents
Senses: glosses: A small stuffed puppet at which stones were thrown at during Lent.
Jack-a-Lents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jack-a-Lent
janted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jant
janting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jant
jants
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jant
hylopathist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hylopathists
Senses: glosses: Someone who believes in hylopathism.
hylopathists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hylopathist
kesar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪzə/
ipa: /ˈkeɪzəɹ/
Forms: form: kesars
Senses: examples: text: But moſt were ſtampt, and in their metal bare
The antique ſhapes of kings and keſars ſtraung & rare.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 5, page 273:
text: Now no more of winters biting,
Filth in trench from fall to spring,
Summers full of sweat and fighting
For the Kesar or the King.
ref: 1922 October, A[lfred] E[dward] Housman, “[Poem] VIII”, in Last Poems, London: Grant Richards Ltd., →OCLC, stanza 3, page 23, lines 5–6:
glosses: Obsolete form of Kaiser.
kesar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪzə/
ipa: /ˈkeɪzəɹ/
ipa: /ˈkeɪsə/
ipa: /ˈkeɪsəɹ/
ipa: /ˈkeɪzə/
ipa: /ˈkeɪzəɹ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani केसर / کیسر (kesar, “saffron”), from Sanskrit केसर (késara).
Senses: examples: text: kesar milk
text: The newly emerging Muslim middle class would offer ‘kesar’ tea after marriages or other formal feasts, replacing the traditional tea leaves with kesar strands. […]Over the years Pampur’s apiculture, claimed by many to create the best medicinal honey in the region, that is, kesar honey, has also prospered.
ref: 2001, Arun Kaul, “Kesar: The cultural geography of Kashmir”, in The Human Landscape, page 228:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
synonyms: zafrani
glosses: Saffron.
kesars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kesar
confessers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of confesser
decorement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decorements
Senses: glosses: ornament; decoration
decorements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decorement
malacostomous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more malacostomous
form: most malacostomous
Etymology: From malaco- + stoma + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: malacostomous fish
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having soft jaws without teeth.
fructed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈfrʌk.tɪd/
Etymology: Derived from Latin frūctus (“fruit”) + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: He beareth, Argent, on a Mount in a Base, a Pine Apple tree, fructed, Proper, by the name of Pine.
ref: 1660, John Guillim, Francis Nower, A Display of Heraldie, page 131:
text: HASKELL, on a mount, an apple-tree fructed, ppr. pl. 94, n. 33.
ref: 1851, John Peter Elven, The book of family crests, page 229:
text: A dexter Cubit arm, couped, vested sable, cuffed or, charged with a Cross paté of the last, holding in the hand an Oak branch fructed all proper
ref: 1870-1881, John Edwin Cussans, History of Hertfordshire:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
synonyms: in fruit
fruited
coordinate_terms: fruitagée
glosses: Bearing fruit or acorns.
raw_tags: of a tree or plant
kieve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kieves
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of keeve.
kieve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kieves
form: kieving
form: kieved
form: kieved
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of keeve.
kieves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kieve
kieves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kieve
needlestone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: needlestones
Etymology: From needle + stone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: natrolite
needlestones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of needlestone
febriferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more febriferous
form: most febriferous
Etymology: From Latin febris (“fever”) + -ferous.
Senses: examples: text: a febriferous locality
text: febriferous air
text: febriferous district
glosses: Causing fever.
lion-hearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lion-hearted
form: most lion-hearted
Senses: examples: text: It may be here remarked, that the knights of these two orders were accounted hostile to King Richard, having adopted the side of Philip of France in the long train of disputes which took place in Palestine betwixt that monarch and the lion-hearted King of England.
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of lionhearted.
Derived terms: lion-heartedly
lion-heartedness