cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
strainably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more strainably
form: most strainably
Senses: examples: text: I cannot therefore assail her
With pitiful plaint and scalding fyer,
That out of my breast doth strainably start
ref: a. 1547, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Rondeaux:
glosses: violently
scapement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scapements
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of escapement (part of a timepiece).
scapements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scapement
packwax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paxwax.
triphane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triphanes
Etymology: Ancient Greek, meaning "appearing threefold".
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a yellow spodumene
triphanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triphane
goeland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goelands
Etymology: From French goéland.
Senses: glosses: A white tern, of species Gygis alba.
goelands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goeland
photogeny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: photography
Related terms: photogen
runnion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: runnions
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ronyon.
runnions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of runnion
blomaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blomary
blomary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blomaries
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of bloomery.
sappan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sappans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sapan.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Biancaea sappan
word: sappanwood
ingena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈd͡ʒiːnə/
Forms: form: ingenas
Etymology: Perhaps from a language of Gabon.
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, Thomas Edward reports that the Ingenas carry 'their infant dead, closely pressed to them, until they drop away in putrefaction'.
ref: 1998, Silke Strickrodt, Those Wild Scenes: Africa in the Travel Writings of Sarah Lee (1791-1856), page 97:
glosses: A gorilla.
ingenas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ingena
cupuliferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Etymology: From cupule + -ferous: compare French cupulifère.
Senses: examples: text: The oak and the chestnut are cupuliferous.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Bearing, or furnished with, a cupule.
youee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: youees
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:youee.
glosses: Alternative form of uey.
Tamul
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Tamul
form: most Tamul
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Tamil.
Tamul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tamuls
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Tamil.
Tamul
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: […] they all, or nearly all, speak Malabars or Tamul […]
ref: 1850, Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal, page 618:
glosses: Archaic form of Tamil.
Tamuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tamul
diddlies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diddly
koppie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: koppies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kopje.
sugescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /suːˈd͡ʒɛsənt/
rhymes: -ɛsənt
Etymology: Latin sugere (“to suck”).
Senses: examples: text: None of the animals which are not designed for that nourishment , ever offer to suck , or to seek out any such food . What is the conclusion , but that the sugescent parts of animals are fitted for their use
ref: 1802, William Paley, Natural Theology:
text: It is probable that the utmost sugescent power of any of these causes, or all of them combined, in ordinary respiration is not sufficient to raise a column of blood of a single inch […]
ref: 1794, John Hunter, A Treatise on the Blood, Inflammation, and Gunshot Wounds:
text: This sugescent power is originated by the removal of atmospheric pressure […]
ref: 1826, Edinburgh Journal of Medical Science, volume 2, page 462:
glosses: Of or relating to sucking.
koppies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of koppie
putage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French putage.
Senses: glosses: Prostitution, copulation or lewdness by a woman.
Synonyms: putery
disfavorably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more disfavorably
form: most disfavorably
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of disfavourably.
depatriate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈpætɹɪ(j)eɪt/
Forms: form: depatriates
form: depatriating
form: depatriated
form: depatriated
Etymology: From de- + Latin patria (“fatherland”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix) or an altered borrowing from Medieval Latin dispatriō.
Senses: examples: text: A subject born in any state / May, if he please, depatriate.
ref: 1782, William Mason, The Dean and the Squire:
glosses: To withdraw, or cause to withdraw, from one's country; to banish or expatriate.
Related terms: expatriate
repatriate
depatriated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of depatriate
depatriates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of depatriate
depatriating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of depatriate
creamcake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creamcakes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cream cake.
creamcakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creamcake
brachystochrone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brachystochrones
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of brachistochrone.
brachystochrones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brachystochrone
axle hitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: axle hitches
Senses: glosses: a hitch knot used to securely attach a line or rope to a spar in a difficult to reach place, such as an axle.
axle hitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of axle hitch
ensearch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ensearches
form: ensearching
form: ensearched
form: ensearched
form: insearch
Etymology: From Middle English enserchen, from Old French encerchier. See search.
Senses: glosses: To search; to try to find something.
examples: text: by all the means you can to ensearch whether there is any meeting intended
ref: 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →OCLC:
text: Yet as naked as at the firſt bluſh it [the work] ſeemeth, if it ſhall ſtande wyth your Honour his pleaſure (whome I take to be an experte Lapidarie) at vacant houres to inſearche it, you ſhall finde therein ſtones of ſuch eſtimatiõ, as are woorthy to be coucht in riche and precious collets.
ref: 1577, Raphaell Holinshed; Richarde Stanyhurst [i.e., Richard Stanihurst], “The Historie of Irelande […]”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Hunne, →OCLC, folio 1, verso, column 1:
glosses: To search for; to seek.
ensearched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ensearch
ensearches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ensearch
ensearching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ensearch
put someone in their place
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts someone in their place
form: putting someone in their place
form: put someone in their place
form: put someone in their place
Senses: glosses: To remind someone of their position.
examples: text: His quips at the party aimed to put the CEO in his place.
text: The response, culminating in Rooney finishing off a slick exchange of incisive, pass-them-to-death football, quickly put Scotland back in their place.
ref: 2014 November 18, Daniel Taylor, “England and Wayne Rooney see off Scotland in their own back yard”, in The Guardian:
text: Musk has spent a lifetime defying the haters; now, it seems, he’s finally in position to put them in their place.
ref: December 13 2021, Molly Ball, Jeffrey Kluger, Alejandro de la Garza, “Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021”, in Time Magazine, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2021:
glosses: To bring somebody down; to humble or rebuke.
Related terms: cut down to size
pull down a peg
soften someone's cough
put on the spot
peptonuria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peptonurias
Etymology: From peptone + -uria.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The presence of peptone or a similar body in the urine. It was once thought to be a reason for fetal death.
Related terms: proteinuria
peptonurias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peptonuria
bedehouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedehouses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of beadhouse.
bedehouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bedehouse
shaffle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shaffles
form: shaffling
form: shaffled
form: shaffled
Etymology: See shuffle.
Senses: glosses: To hobble or limp; to shuffle.
shaffled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shaffle
shaffles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shaffle
shaffling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shaffle
full-butt
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of full butt.
stillhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stillhouses
Etymology: From still + house.
Senses: examples: text: He had fifteen to twenty years ago, and up to the time of his death, practically control of all the slop of all the stillhouses in the United States.
ref: 1909, Roger R. Shiel, Early to Bed and Early to Rise: Twenty Years in Hell with the Beef Trust:
glosses: A distillery.
stillhouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stillhouse
harberous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more harberous
form: most harberous
Senses: examples: text: Ye and a biſſhope muſt be fautleſſe / the huſband of one wyfe / ſober / of honeſt behaveoure / honeſtly aparalled / harberous / apt to teache /[…]
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, 1 Timothy iij:[2], folio cclxxvj, recto:
glosses: Obsolete form of harborous.
predisponencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of predisponency
predisponency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: predisponencies
Senses: glosses: The state of being predisposed; predisposition.
pavaises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pavais
proximal convoluted tubule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proximal convoluted tubules
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An intricate component of the nephron in a kidney that connects the Bowman's capsule to the loop of Henle.
cubation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The act of finding the volume or cubic content of a body; the result thus found.
Synonyms: cubage
cubature
pompelmous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pompelmouses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pampelmoes: a pomelo; a grapefruit.
pompelmouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pompelmous
glosses: plural of pompelmouse
penuchle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pinochle.
pinocle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pinochle.
loop of Henle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loops of Henle
Etymology: Named after its discoverer, the German anatomist Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: Henle loop
Henle's loop
glosses: A loop-like structure in the kidney's nephron that connects the proximal convoluted tubule to the distal convoluted tubule.
millepore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: millepores
Etymology: From French millépore, from Latin mille (“thousand”) + porus (“pore”).
Senses: synonyms: fire coral
glosses: Any coral of the genus Millepora, having the surface nearly smooth, and perforated with very minute unequal pores, or cells.
Derived terms: milleporite
millepores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of millepore
siphonophoran
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more siphonophoran
form: most siphonophoran
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Belonging to the Siphonophorae.
siphonophoran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: siphonophorans
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: siphonophore
glosses: Any of the Siphonophorae.
siphonophorans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of siphonophoran
pronotaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pronotary
pronotary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pronotaries
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of prothonotary.
eolipile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eolipiles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aeolipile.
eolipiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eolipile
aeolipiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈiː.əʊ.lɪ.pʌɪlz/
Senses: glosses: plural of aeolipile
purfile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purfiles
Etymology: See purfle.
Senses: glosses: A sort of ancient trimming of tinsel and thread for women's gowns; bobbinwork.
purfiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purfile
arctation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arctations
Etymology: From Latin arctus (“shut in, narrow”), past participle of arcere (“to shut in”). Compare French arctation.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Stenosis.
Related terms: coarctation
arctations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arctation
smeath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smeaths
Senses: glosses: A bird, the smew.
smeaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smeath
dibranchiate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + branchiate.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having two gills.
dibranchiate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dibranchiates
Etymology: From di- + branchiate.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the Dibranchiata, a former order of cephalopod having two gills
dibranchiates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dibranchiate
phrenism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phreno- + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A supposed "thought force" in vitalism.
Related terms: neurism
neurism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neur- + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A supposed "nerve force" in vitalism.
Related terms: phrenism
bathmism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bathmisms
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βαθμός (bathmós, “a step”) + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A supposed growth force in vitalism.
Related terms: neurism
phrenism
beer-can chicken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A cooked dish made by standing a prepared chicken upright on a partially filled can of beer and cooking it slowly in a barbecue or oven, so that the beer evaporates and permeates the meat.
Synonyms: beer-butt chicken
Related terms: chicken throne
beer-butt chicken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: beer-can chicken
peritubular capillary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peritubular capillaries
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of a network of small blood vessels that are located around the nephrons in the kidney.
summist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: summists
Etymology: From sum + -ist.
Senses: examples: a. 1576, Edward Dering, lecture
laws of the pope , giuen by Summists and Canonists
glosses: Someone who writes a summa; somene who sums up or writes a summary, especially of theological nature.
summists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of summist
distal convoluted tubule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: distal convoluted tubules
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The section of the nephron in the kidney that connects the loop of Henle to the collecting duct system.
renin-angiotensin system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: renin-angiotensin systems
Senses: topics: endocrinology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A collection of hormones involved in the regulation of the body's blood pressure and water content.
efferent arteriole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: efferent arterioles
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of the many minute blood vessels formed by the merging of the capillaries of the glomerulus that conduct blood away from it.
brushtails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brushtail
caroches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caroche
exaeresis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĕgzîrʹəsĭs
ipa: /ɛɡˈzɪərəsɪs/
Forms: form: exaereses
form: exæresis
form: exeresis
Etymology: From New Latin exaeresis, from Ancient Greek ἐξαίρεσῐς (exaíresĭs, “a taking out, an extraction”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: An operation involving the removal of a part or parts of the body; excision, ectomy.
Related terms: anaeresis
antidiaeresis
antiprohaeresis
aphaeresis
cathaeresis
diaeresis
epaphaeresis
hypexaeresis
hyphaeresis
hypodiaeresis
periaeresis
prohaeresis
prosthaphaeresis
synaeresis
prosodiacal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prosodiacal
form: most prosodiacal
Senses: glosses: Synonym of prosodic.
synonyms: word: prosodic
cockshies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cockshy
cockshies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cockshy
heliac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of heliacal.
heliac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heliacs
Etymology: Short for helical accelerator.
Senses: glosses: A stellarator in which the magnetic axis (and plasma) follows a helical path to form a toroidal helix rather than a simple ring shape.
diffarreation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin diffarreatio, from dif- + farreum (“a spelt cake”). See confarreation.
Senses: glosses: A form of divorce, among the Ancient Romans, in which a cake was used.
bewist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪst
Forms: form: biwist
form: bewiste
form: biwiste
Etymology: From Middle English biwist, biwest, from Old English bīwist (“sustenance, food, provision, necessities”), equivalent to be- + wist (“being”), or by- + wist (“being”). More at be-, was.
Senses: qualifier: Now chiefly UK dialectal
glosses: Food; provision; victual; a living.
qualifier: Now chiefly UK dialectal
glosses: State or condition of life.
qualifier: Now chiefly UK dialectal
glosses: Abiding; dwelling; sojourn; living.
qualifier: Now chiefly UK dialectal
glosses: Dwelling-place; abode; habitation.
spongelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spongelets
Etymology: From sponge + -let.
Senses: glosses: A spongiole.
glosses: A little sponge.
spongelets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spongelet
maioid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Maja + -oid
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or relating to the family Majidae of spider crabs.
splanchnography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From splanchno- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: splanchnology
autoincrement
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: autoincrements
form: autoincrementing
form: autoincremented
form: autoincremented
form: auto-increment
Etymology: From auto- + increment.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To increment automatically.
autoincrement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoincrements
form: auto-increment
Etymology: From auto- + increment.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An automatic increment.
Related terms: autodecrement
autoincrementing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of autoincrement
autoincrements
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of autoincrement
autoincremented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of autoincrement
gordita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɔɹˈditə/
Forms: form: gorditas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish gordita.
Senses: examples: text: Another element in this argument is how a "real" gordita is fixed. Is a gordita the tortilla itself, or is that just a shell, requiring toppings to make it a gordita? […] On the other hand, Taco Bell's gordita is a piece of wheat flatbread folded like a taco and stuffed, which bears little resemblance to the "real" thing, which would warrant its classification as appropriation, not a variation.
ref: 2004, Mark Busby, The Southwest, →ISBN, page 253:
text: The term gordita means “little fat tortilla” and all gorditas are made from masa, but what you are served when you order a gordita will vary depending on where you are in Mexico.
ref: 2012, Marilyn Tausend, La Cocina Mexicana: Many Cultures, One Cuisine, →ISBN, page 68:
text: They’re then ground into a homogeneous dough that holds whatever shape you choose to give it: thin circles for tortillas, thicker ones for gorditas and sopes, plump ovals for huaraches and triangles for black-bean stuffed tetelas.
ref: 2023 July 7, Rick A. Martínez, “For the Best Tortillas (and Gorditas and Tetelas), You Need Fresh Masa”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 07 Jul 2023:
glosses: A thick tortilla as made in Mexico, frequently stuffed and made of corn flour.
gorditas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gordita
Harvardian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)dɪən
Forms: form: more Harvardian
form: most Harvardian
Etymology: From Harvard + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA.
Harvardian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)dɪən
Forms: form: Harvardians
Etymology: From Harvard + -ian.
Senses: glosses: One who attends Harvard University.
Harvardians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Harvardian
cubanito
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cubanitos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish cubanito.
Senses: glosses: A bloody mary made with rum instead of vodka created in Cuba.
water souchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water souchy
water souchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water souchies
form: water souchet
Etymology: From Dutch waterzootje (for more, see zootje).
Senses: examples: text: Water Souchy.
Eels, whitings, soles, flounders, and mackerel are generally used. Stew it in clear fish stock, until done, eight minutes will be enough; add cayenne, catsup, an anchovy, and any other flavouring ingredient; let it boil up, skim, and serve hot altogether in a tureen.
ref: 1851, Anne Cobbett, The English Housekeeper, Chapter 13:
glosses: A dish consisting of small fish stewed and served in a small amount of water.
hoppo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒpəʊ/
ipa: /ˈhɑpoʊ/
Forms: form: hoppos
form: hoppoes
form: Hoppo
Etymology: Uncertain, although probably an irregular romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 戶部 /户部 (Hùbù), the imperial government's Board of Revenue which oversaw customs and other taxation during the Qing Dynasty. In reference to its agents, a clipping of earlier hoppo-man.
Senses: examples: text: On the way two Chinese buildings were pointed out to us as hoppo, of custom-houses, at both which all boats […] are obliged to stop and undergo a strict search or examination by a petty mandarin.
ref: c. 1808, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, page 108:
text: Hoppo. This is a tribunal, that has in charge the collecting of imperial dues on navigation and trade, and remitting the amount to the Grand-hoppo at Canton...
ref: 1836, Anders Ljungstedt, An Historical Sketch of the Portuguese Settlements in China..., page 86:
glosses: The imperial Chinese board of revenue, especially its branch in Guangzhou during the Qing Dynasty.
examples: text: The Hoppos, who look on Europe Ships as a great branch of their Profits, will give you all the fair Words imaginable.
ref: 1711, Charles Lockyer, An Account of the Trade in India..., page 101:
text: ...received a most polite invitation from the late Mr. William Parry, a supercargo, to meet the Hoppo (or principal custom-house officer)...
ref: 1814, James Wathen, Journal of a Voyage in 1811 and 1812 to Madras and China..., page xvi:
text: Hoppo. This is a tribunal, that has in charge the collecting of imperial dues on navigation and trade, and remitting the amount to the Grand-hoppo at Canton... at Macao, the Portuguese designate him by the epithet Grand-hoppo, in contradistinction to another... [T]he Hoppo of Macao... levies on foreigners, coming and going, an arbitrary tax on their persons and baggage. He is assisted by compradors, pilots and others...
ref: 1836, Anders Ljungstedt, An Historical Sketch of the Portuguese Settlements in China..., pages 86–90:
text: The ‘Hoppo’ (as he was incorrectly styled) filled an office especially created for the foreign trade at Canton... The Board of Revenue is in Chinese ‘Hoo-poo’, and the office was locally misapplied to the officer in question.
ref: 1882, William C. Hunter, The ‘Fan Kwae’ at Canton before Treaty Days..., page 36:
glosses: An imperial Chinese customs officer, especially (sometimes capitalized) the chief customs officer for the South China Sea based in Guangzhou during the Qing Dynasty.
hoppoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoppo
hoppos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoppo
erythrodysesthesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erythrodysesthesias
Etymology: From erythro- + dysesthesia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A form of erythema induced by chemotherapy.
ratan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ratans
Senses: examples: text: On Sunday mornings, when the prospect is rather small for a full house in the minor churches, a parcel of fellows are actually sent out with ratans into the highways and byways as whippers-in of the congregation.
ref: 1847 March 30, Herman Melville, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of rattan.
ratans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ratan
kalmias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kalmia
improvvisatrice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: improvvisatrici
Senses: examples: text: In the course of little more than ten years were published the Improvvisatrice, the Troubadour, the Golden Violet, and the Venetian Bracelet, which gave titles to as many volumes, filled up with shorter poems, though some of them, such as the Lost Pleiad, Erinna, the Ancestress (dramatic), and others were of sufficient importance to warrant separate publication.
ref: 1852, William Jerdan, Extract from The Autobiography of William Jerdan:
glosses: Alternative form of improvisatrice.
improvvisatrici
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of improvvisatrice
sulfurations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sulfuration
sulphuration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphurations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sulfuration.
sulphurations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sulphuration
carefool
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more carefool
form: most carefool
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of careful.
fool up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fools up
form: fooling up
form: fooled up
form: fooled up
Senses: glosses: To act foolishly.
bewondered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bewonder
boshbok
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Dutch bosch (“wood”) + bok (“buck”).
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of bushbuck.
buttweld
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: buttwelds
form: buttwelding
form: buttwelded
form: buttwelded
form: butt-weld
Etymology: From butt + weld.
Senses: glosses: To weld by gradually heating the two ends with a weld plate and then joining them under a specific pressure, used to connect parts which are nearly parallel and do not overlap.
buttweld
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buttwelds
Etymology: From butt + weld.
Senses: glosses: The junction formed by this kind of welding.
buttwelded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of buttweld
buttwelding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of buttweld
buttwelds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of buttweld
predicability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Their existence is nothing but predicability, or the capacity of being attributed to a fubject .
ref: 1785, Thomas Reid, Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man:
glosses: The quality or state of being predicable.
ice sheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ice sheet
signaturist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: signaturists
Etymology: From signature + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Signaturists have somewhat advanced it; who seldom omitting what ancients delivered, drawing into inference received distinctions of sex[…]
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A holder of the doctrine of signatures impressed upon objects, indicative of character or qualities.
Related terms: signaturism
signaturists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of signaturist
esophagotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of esophagotomy
esophagotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: esophagotomies
form: oesophagotomy
Etymology: From esophagus + -tomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The incision into the esophagus, for the purpose of removing an obstruction.
Related terms: esophagostomy
menostation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: menostasis
arraught
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: The past tense of an old verb areach or arreach. Compare reach, obsolete preterite raught.
Senses: examples: text: Then his ambitious sonnes unto them twayne
Arraught the rule, and from their father drew;
Stout Ferrex and sterne Porrex him in prison threw
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: obtained or gotten; seized
Arubam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Manipuri ꯑꯔꯨꯕꯝ (ʼarubam).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Related terms: Aruba
basseting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bassetings
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: The upward direction of a vein in a mine.
topics: business
mining
glosses: The emergence of a stratum at the surface.
basseting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of basset
bassetings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basseting
termonologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of termonology
termonology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: termonologies
Senses: glosses: Dated form of terminology.
dictionaried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dictionary
dictionarying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dictionary
gwiniad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gwiniads
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gwyniad.
gwiniads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gwiniad
setfoil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: setfoils
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of septfoil.
setfoils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of setfoil
septfoils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of septfoil
penis bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penis bones
Senses: examples: text: A handful of penis bones are known from younger fossils such as cave bears, but this bone is often lost after death.
ref: 2018 January 24, Elsa Panciroli, The Guardian:
glosses: Baculum.
prieve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prieves
form: prieving
form: prieved
form: prieved
Senses: glosses: To prove.
raw_tags: in Scotland
prieved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prieve
prieves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prieve
prieving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prieve
mezzo-relievo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mezzo-relievos
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of mezzo-rilievo.
mezzo-relievos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mezzo-relievo
sinapoleic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of Sinapis + oleic + acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid of the oleic acid series, said to occur in mustard oil.
Cyndi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: 20th-century variant spelling of Cindy.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Cynthia.
floriken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: florikens
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of florican.
florikens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of floriken
goldfinny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goldfinnies
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: glosses: One of two or more species of European labroid fishes, Symphodus melops and Ctenolabrus rupestris.
Synonyms: goldney
goldsinny
tachylite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tachylites
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tachylyte.
tachylites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tachylite
broadseal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: broadseals
form: broadsealing
form: broadsealed
form: broadsealed
Etymology: From broad + seal.
Senses: glosses: To stamp with a broad seal
examples: text: Thy presence broad-seals our delights for pure.
ref: 1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC:
text: Time has broadsealed his judgment.
ref: 1923, John Northern Hilliard, Overland Monthly and The Out West Magazine:
glosses: to make sure; to guarantee or warrant.
broadsealed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of broadseal
broadsealing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of broadseal
twittingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more twittingly
form: most twittingly
Etymology: From twitting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a reproachful manner; critically.
resing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From res + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of res
resing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: resings
form: resinging
form: resang
form: resung
Etymology: From re- + sing.
Senses: glosses: To sing again.
resed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of res
resectoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resectoscope
rezzed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rez
rezzing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rez
rezzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rez
rezzes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rez
collutories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collutory
collutory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collutories
Etymology: From Latin colluere, collutum (“to wash”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A mouthwash.
pommé
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒ.meɪ/
ipa: /ˈpɑ.meɪ/
Etymology: From French pommé. See pomey.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pommee.
beadhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beadhouses
form: bedehouse
Etymology: Old English bede prayer + English house.
Senses: glosses: An almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactors.
beadhouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beadhouse
suckanhock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suckanhocks
Etymology: A corruption (perhaps originally a misprint) of suckauhock.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of suckauhock.
suckanhocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suckanhock
paradoxure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paradoxures
Etymology: Ancient Greek παράδοξος (parádoxos, “incredible, paradoxical”) + οὐρά (ourá, “tail”). So called because its tail is unlike that of the other animals to which it was supposed to be related.
Senses: glosses: Any member of the species of genus Paradoxurus, Asiatic viverrine mammals allied to the civet.
paradoxures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paradoxure
isohyetose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: isohyetal
isohyetose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isohyetoses
Senses: glosses: An isohyet.
isohyetoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isohyetose
isohypsal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From isohypse + -al.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to, or making use of, isohypses.
progenerate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: progenerates
form: progenerating
form: progenerated
form: progenerated
Etymology: From Latin progeneratus, past participle of progenerare (“to beget”), from pro (“forth, forward”) + generare (“to generate”).
Senses: examples: text: Nothing more than that which we can handle , cast down , bury ; and surely not he who is yet to progenerate a more numerous and far better race , than during the few years it was permitted us to converse with him.
ref: 1824, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume I, London: […] Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To beget; to generate; to produce.
progenerated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of progenerate
progenerates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of progenerate
progenerating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of progenerate
starvedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more starvedly
form: most starvedly
Etymology: From starved + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: [S]ecurity and ignorance may ſcatter ſome refuſe morſels of ioy, ſavvced vvith much bitterneſſe: or may be like ſome boaſting houſkeeper, vvhich keepeth open dores for one day vvhich much cheer, and liues ſtaruedly all the yere after.
ref: 1605, Jos[eph] Hall, “Paragraph 24”, in Meditations and Vowes, Diuine and Morall. […], London: […] Humfrey Lownes, for Iohn Porter, →OCLC, 1st book, page 75:
glosses: In the condition of one starved or starving; parsimoniously.
tisic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tisic
form: most tisic
Etymology: From phthisic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phthisic (“consumptive; phthisical”).
tisic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tisics
Etymology: From phthisic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phthisic (“consumption; phthisis”).
tisics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tisic
gesticulatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gesticulatingly
form: most gesticulatingly
Etymology: From gesticulating + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With gesticulations.
gesturingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gesturingly
form: most gesturingly
Etymology: From gesturing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With gestures.
gesturalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gesturality
persulphocyanic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: persulfocyanic acid
Etymology: From per- (“of maximum proportion”) + sulphocyanic acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: perthiocyanic acid
glosses: A yellow crystalline substance, analogous to sulphocyanic acid, but containing more sulphur.
Derived terms: persulphocyanate
perthiocyanic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: persulphocyanic acid
toph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /toʊf/
Forms: form: tophs
Etymology: From Latin tophus, tofus (“tufa, or tuft”). Compare tufa, tofus, tophus.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A kind of sandstone.
tophs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toph
thaumaturgi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thaumaturgus
thaumaturgus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thaumaturguses
form: thaumaturgusses
form: thaumaturgi
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Medieval Latin thaumaturgus, from Ancient Greek θαυματουργός (thaumatourgós). Doublet of thaumaturge.
Senses: examples: text: If to-morrow a thaumaturgus present himself with credentials sufficiently important to be discussed, and announce himself as able, say, to raise the dead, what would be done? A commission, composed of physiologists, physicists, chemists, persons accustomed to historical criticism, would be named.
ref: 1927 [1863], The Life of Jesus, translation of Vie de Jésus by Ernest Renan:
synonyms: thaumaturgist
glosses: A miracle worker.
thaumaturguses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thaumaturgus
biniodide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biniodides
Etymology: From bin- + iodide.
Senses: glosses: A diiodide.
biniodides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biniodide
systemization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: systemizations
Etymology: From system + -ization.
Senses: glosses: systematization
systemizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of systemization
Carolene
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Carolenes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Caroline.
Blount
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /blʌnt/
rhymes: -ʌnt
Forms: form: Blounts
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: Ellipsis of Blount County.
glosses: A town in Kanawha County, West Virginia.
Derived terms: Blount County
Blountian
Blount's disease
Blountstown
Blountsville
Blountville
Kingston Blount
pylangia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pylangium
pylangium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pylangia
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πύλη (púlē, “gate, entrance”) + ἀγγεῖον (angeîon, “vessel”), cf. angio-.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The first and undivided part of the aortic trunk in the amphibian heart.
Related terms: pylangial
meteorize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: meteorizes
form: meteorizing
form: meteorized
form: meteorized
Etymology: From meteor + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To weather
examples: text: the Dews may meteorize , and emit their finer Spirits
ref: 1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To ascend in vapours; to take the form of a meteor.
Related terms: meteorization
meteorized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of meteorize
meteorizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of meteorize
meteorizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of meteorize
suckatash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: we make suckatash, by boiling it with beans, which is a delicious dish, that we owe to the Indians
ref: 1837, William Dunlap, A History of New York, for Schools:
glosses: Alternative form of succotash.
attention whoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of attention whore
book muslin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: book muslins
Senses: examples: text: She lies wrapped in a book muslin bedgown, a chambray gauze shift, and a french net nightcap.
ref: 1793, Jane Austen, “A beautiful description of the different effects of Sensibility on different Minds”, in Juvenilia:
glosses: A kind of fine muslin sold folded in a book-like manner and used for women's clothing.
glosses: A type of muslin used to reinforce the backbone construction of a book.
book muslins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of book muslin
attention whored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of attention whore
bronchocele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bronchoceles
Etymology: From broncho- + -cele.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Goitre.
bronchoceles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bronchocele
extine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extines
Etymology: From Latin ext- (in extimus (“most outward”)) + -ine. Compare intine.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: exine
extines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extine
emolliate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: emolliates
form: emolliating
form: emolliated
form: emolliated
Etymology: See emollient.
Senses: examples: text: Emolliated by four centuries of Roman domination, the Belgic colonies had forgotten their pristine valour.
ref: 1806, John Pinkerton, Modern Geography: A Description of the Empires, Kingdoms, States, and Colonies, […] :
glosses: To soften; to render effeminate.
emolliated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of emolliate