cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
atmology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From atmo- + -logy.
Senses: examples: text: it is useful for our purpose to consider separately those portions of Meteorology which have reference to the laws of aqueous vapor , and these we may include under the term Atmology
ref: 1837, William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences:
glosses: The branch of science dealing with the laws and phenomena of aqueous vapour.
Derived terms: atmological
atmologist
primogenial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See primigenial.
Senses: examples: text: primogenial light
ref: 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC:
glosses: First born, made, or generated of its type; original; elemental.
subcrescentic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + crescentic.
Senses: glosses: Imperfectly or partially crescentic; approaching a crescent in shape.
burnstickle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burnstickles
Senses: glosses: A stickleback.
burnstickles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burnstickle
Southcottian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Southcottians
Etymology: From Southcott + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A follower of Joanna Southcott (1750-1814), who claimed to be a prophetess.
Southcottians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Southcottian
benedight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more benedight
form: most benedight
Etymology: From Middle English benedyght, benedight, from Latin benedictus. More at benedict, benediction.
Senses: examples: text: When we had reached the Angel benedight
With joyful voice he said: "Here enter in
To stairway far less steep than are the others."
ref: 1867, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Divine Comedy, Purgatorio: Canto XV
text: Never through martyrdom of fire was led
To its repose; nor can in books be read
The legend of a life more benedight.
ref: 1879, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Cross of Snow:
text: How fondly I remember the delight
That always glorified him in the spring;
The joyous profusion and the benedight
Profusion of his faith in everything!
ref: 1910, Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Uncle Ananias”, in The Town Down the River:
glosses: Blessed; benedict.
subgranular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + granular.
Senses: examples: text: They present the same glassy brilliancy of fracture, the same gradation from compact, through subgranular and granular, to sandy structure, the same small crystals of decomposing felspar disseminated throughout, and occasionally the same traces of lines of stratification, which characterise the quartz rock of the Lower Lickey and Caer Caradoc.
ref: 1819, Transactions of the Geological Society, Volume the Fifth, Part the First, page 526:
glosses: Somewhat or finely granular.
Derived terms: subgranularly
Guernsey lilies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Guernsey lily
Guernsey lily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Guernsey lilies
Senses: glosses: A South African plant (Nerine sarniensis) with lily-like flowers, naturalized on the island of Guernsey.
madbrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: madbrains
form: madbraine
Etymology: From mad + brain.
Senses: glosses: A rash, hotheaded or crazy person.
Related terms: madbrained
madbrains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of madbrain
dollardee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dollardees
Senses: glosses: Lepomis pallidus, the blue sunfish or copper-nosed bream.
dollardees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dollardee
georgic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: georgics
form: georgick
Etymology: From Latin georgicum, georgicus.
Senses: examples: text: And ſurely if the purpoſe be in good earneſt not to vvrite at leaſure that vvhich mẽ [men] may read at leaſure, but really to inſtruct and ſuborne Action and actiue life, theſe Georgickes of the mind concerning the huſbãdry & tillage thereof, are no leſſe vvorthy thẽ the heroical deſcriptiõs of vertue, duty, & felicity vvherfore the maine & primitiue diuiſion of Morall knovvledge ſeemeth to be into the Exemplar or Platforme of Good, and the Regiment or Culture of the mind; […]
ref: 1605, Francis Bacon, “The Second Booke”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC, folios 71, recto – 71, verso:
glosses: A rural poem; a poetical composition on husbandry, containing rules for cultivating land, etc.
georgic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more georgic
form: most georgic
form: georgick
Etymology: From Latin georgicum, georgicus.
Senses: examples: text: georgic life
text: georgic landscape
text: georgic tradition
text: Headed west now from the blighted plain / It’s kind of gorgeous in a georgic way
ref: 2018, Vansire, “That I Miss You”:
synonyms: georgical
glosses: Relating to rural affairs.
georgics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of georgic
delitescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɛlɪˈtɛsəns/
rhymes: -ɛsəns
Forms: form: delitescences
Etymology: See delitescent.
Senses: examples: text: the delitescence of mental activities
ref: 1859–1860, William Hamilton, edited by H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:
synonyms: delitescency
glosses: concealment; seclusion; retirement
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The sudden disappearance of inflammation.
delitescences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delitescence
prompture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: promptures
Etymology: From prompt + -ure.
Senses: examples: text: I'll to my brother:
 Though he hath fallen by prompture of the blood,
 Yet hath he in him such a mind of honour.
 That had he twenty heads to tender down
 On twenty bloody blocks, he'd yield them up,
 Before his sister should her body stoop
 To such abhorr'd pollution.
ref: c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, act 2, scene 4:
text: Has not, since then, Love's prompture deep,
Has not Love's whisper evermore
Been ceaseless, as thy gentle roar?
ref: 1807, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Recollections of Love:
glosses: suggestion, incitement, or prompting
promptures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prompture
promptingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more promptingly
form: most promptingly
Etymology: From prompting + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "There's something we've been meaning to tell you," I began, and looked promptingly at the others.
glosses: So as to prompt; as if giving somebody a cue to do something.
McCarthy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈkɑː.θi/
ipa: /məˈkɑɹ.θi/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)θi
Forms: form: McCarthys
form: McCarthies
form: Mc Carthy
form: Mccarthy
form: MacCarthy
form: Mac Carthy
form: Maccarthy
form: M'Carthy
form: MaCarthy
form: Macarthy
form: Carthy
form: McCarty
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish Mac Carthaigh (literally “son of Carthach”).
Senses: examples: text: The McCarthys say they did not wish to publicize the incident, but the Catholic newspaper in Maine heard about it and wrote an article.
ref: 1998 October 11, Laurie Goodstein, “Miracle in Massachusetts Qualified Stein for Sainthood”, in The New York Times:
text: Life is finally loose, one could say, liberated from its social constrains and sincere in its necessities, its insistence and its arrogative demands, but McCarthy also reveals the implications of life's liberation and, by the same token, unmasks any misplaced romanticisations regarding its disavowal in the polis:
ref: 2019, Joe Trotta, Zlatan Filipovic, Houman Sadri, Broken Mirrors, page 1995:
glosses: A surname from Irish.
glosses: A census-designated place in Copper River Census Area, Alaska, United States.
Derived terms: Charlie McCarthy
McCarthian
McCarthyan
McCarthyesque
McCarthyism
McCarthyist
McCarthyistic
McCarthy's shrew
McCormick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /məˈkɔː(ɹ)mɪk/
Forms: form: MacCormick
form: McCormac
form: McCormack
form: McCormic
form: McOrmick
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic and Irish Mac Cormaic (“son of Cormac”), from Old Irish Cormac, Corbmac, which is itself from corb (“chariot”) + son. The double patronymic "arose when the meaning of Cormac began to be lost sight of". Many books of baby names also connect the name to an Irish word for "raven".
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Pope County, Illinois, United States.
glosses: A town, the county seat of McCormick County, South Carolina, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Lewis County, Washington, United States.
Derived terms: McCormick County
McCormack
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McCormacks
form: MacCormack
Etymology: Variant of McCormick.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: McCormack reaction
asinineness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From asinine + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being asinine.
clipbook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clipbooks
Etymology: From clip + book.
Senses: examples: text: […]clipbooks containing a number of illustrations at a cost of pennies each[…]
ref: 1974, Richard S. Hodgson, The Dartnell direct mail and mail order handbook:
text: Kerr's clipbooks then, such as Journey to the Center of the Theater, tend to be made up of more enduring, less ephemeral pieces. Wicker found that his pieces were so time bound that he was unable to collect them into a clipbook […]
ref: 1999, Robert L. Root, E.B. White: the emergence of an essayist, page 61:
glosses: A kind of scrapbook for keeping clippings.
clipbooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clipbook
woreda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woredas
form: wereda
Etymology: From Amharic ወረዳ (wäräda).
Senses: glosses: An administrative division of Ethiopia, managed by a local government.
woredas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woreda
pirameter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pirameters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of peirameter.
pirameters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pirameter
mateotechny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmeɪ.ti.əʊˌtɛk.ni/
Forms: form: mataeotechny
form: matæotechny
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ματαιοτεχνία (mataiotekhnía), from μάταιος (mátaios, “vain”) + τέχνη (tékhnē, “art, science”).
Senses: glosses: Any unprofitable scheme.
glass-rope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glass-ropes
Senses: synonyms: glass sponge
glosses: A vitreous sponge of the order Hexactinellida, with a long stem, consisting of a bundle of long glassy siliceous fibres twisted together.
glass-ropes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glass-rope
pollax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pollaxes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of poleaxe.
pollaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pollax
glosses: plural of pollaxe
isonomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isonomy
isonomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒnəmi
Forms: form: isonomies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἰσονομία (isonomía). Equivalent to iso- + -nomy.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of isonomia.
conarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊˈnɛəɹi.əm/
ipa: /koʊˈnɛɹi.əm/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm
Etymology: From Ancient Greek.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The pineal gland.
artolatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄρτος (ártos, “bread”) + -latry.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: Bread-worship (the worship of the bread at Eucharist).
Related terms: artolater
Adessenarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Adessenarians
Etymology: From Latin adesse (“to be present”); ad + esse (“to be”).
Senses: examples: text: ADESSENARIANS, a sect of Christians, who maintain that Jesus Christ is really present in the eucharist, though not by way of transubstantiation. The adessenarians differ among themselves, some of them holding that the body of Jesus Christ is in the bread;
ref: 1819, George Gregory, A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Including the Latest Improvement and Discovery and the Present States of Every Branch of Human Knowledge:
text: The Adessenarians were far from being agreed in reference to the mode in which the real presence existed; some[…]
ref: 1858, James Gardner, The Faiths of the World, page 29:
text: At the death of Zwingle, the church of Zurich was divided into […] the Arhabenarians, the Adessenarians, the Metaphorists, the Iscariotists, and the Nothingarians. The dispute, for a moment tranquilized, was revived again on the slightest historical accident.
ref: 1899, Audin (M., Jean Marie Vincent), History of the Life, Works, and Doctrines of John Calvin, page 403:
glosses: A believer in the real presence of Christ's body in the Eucharist, but not by transubstantiation, applied to followers of Luther.
Related terms: adessive
Adessenarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Adessenarian
emparlance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emparlances
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of imparlance.
emparlances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emparlance
pamperize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pamperizes
form: pamperizing
form: pamperized
form: pamperized
Etymology: From pamper + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To pamper.
pamperized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pamperize
burnettize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: burnettizes
form: burnettizing
form: burnettized
form: burnettized
Etymology: From Burnett + -ize, after Sir William Burnett, inventor of the process.
Senses: glosses: To subject (wood, fabrics, etc.) to a process of saturation in a solution of zinc chloride, to prevent decay.
burnettized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of burnettize
burnettizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of burnettize
burnettizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of burnettize
aesthetican
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aestheticans
Senses: examples: text: The restriction is also motivated by the fact that intentional psychologists, more than mystics, existentialists, aestheticans, and so forth, have exploited the explanatory tools (principles) of Frege most extensively and prominently.
ref: 2003, York H. Gunther, Essays on Nonconceptual Content:
text: The question of Reed's relation to other black aestheticans of the period such as Addison Gayle […]
ref: 1996, Stephen F. Soitos, The Blues Detective:
glosses: Alternative spelling of aesthetician (“An expert in aesthetics”).
aestheticans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aesthetican
malacofaunal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From malacofauna + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the malacofauna.
inosculation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪˌnɒskjʊˈleɪʃən/
Forms: form: inosculations
Senses: examples: text: inosculation of veins
text: The Spermatick Veins do more than equal the length of the Arteries of the Testes in Men; their various divisions and several inosculations, and their valves are admirably contrived to suspend the weight of the Blood[…]
ref: 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:
text: The wide difference of the fish on opposite sides of continuous mountain-ranges, which from an early period must have parted river-systems and completely prevented their inosculation, seems to lead to this same conclusion.
ref: 1859, Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species:
text: Messrs. James Veitch sent branches of Hornbeam (Betulus Carpinus), taken from a garden hedge, in which a very perfect junction had occurred between the two by a sort of natural inarching or inosculation as it is more properly called.
ref: 1908 March 26, “Societies”, in Journal of Horticulture and Home Farmer, page 294:
text: Imbibition, which occurs in the first 48 h after tissue transfer, refers to the passive diffusion of nutrients and metabolic wastes between the graft tissue and host site. Inosculation, which occurs 48 h to 1 week after tissue transfer, refers to the formation of new vascular connections and apillary in-growth of host vasculature.
ref: 2021, Michael D. Stifelman, Lee C. Zhao, Daniel D. Eun, Techniques of Robotic Urinary Tract Reconstruction, page 22:
glosses: The junction or connection of vessels, channels, or passages, so that their contents pass from one to the other; union by mouths or ducts; intercommunication.
inosculations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inosculation
coerulignone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin coeruleus (“cerulean”) + lignum (“wood”) + English quinone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A bluish-violet crystalline substance obtained in the purification of crude wood vinegar, regarded as a complex quinone derivative of diphenyl.
Synonyms: cedriret
cedriret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: coerulignone
sanguification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sanguifications
Etymology: From New Latin sanguificātiō. Equivalent to sanguify + -ication or sangui- + -fication. Compare French sanguification.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
synonyms: hematosis
hematopoiesis
hematogenesis
hemopoiesis
glosses: The formation of blood cells.
sanguifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sanguification
sympiesometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sympiesometers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sympiezometer.
sympiesometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sympiesometer
impetration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪmpɪˈtɹeɪʃən/
Forms: form: impetrations
Etymology: From Latin impetrātiō: compare French impétration.
Senses: examples: text: In way of impetration procuring the removal or allevation of our crosses.
ref: a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). An Exposition of the Lord's Prayer”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:
glosses: The act of impetrating, or obtaining by petition or entreaty.
topics: law
glosses: The obtaining of benefice from Rome by solicitation, which benefice belonged to the disposal of the king or other lay patron of the realm.
impetrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impetration
submedian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + median.
Senses: examples: the submedian teeth of mollusks
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Next to the median (on either side).
coincidingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more coincidingly
form: most coincidingly
Etymology: From coinciding + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to coincide.
breakest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: break + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of break
brushest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: brush + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of brush
girdest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: gird + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of gird
speedest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: speed + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of speed
movest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: move + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of move
avoidest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: avoid + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of avoid
discardest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: discard + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of discard
discardeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: discard + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of discard
avoideth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: avoid + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of avoid
brusheth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: brush + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of brush
fasteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: fast + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fast
girdeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: gird + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gird
predicatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more predicatory
form: most predicatory
Etymology: Compare Latin praedicatorius (“praising”).
Senses: examples: text: The just degrees of callings must be herein duly observed; whether in a public way, as pastors of congregations ; or in a private way , as masters of families : whether in the schools , in a mere grammatical way ; or in the church , in a predicatory
ref: 1649, Joseph Hall, Resolutions and Decisions of Divers Practicall cases of Conscience:
text: Hex's sermon clearly shows a lack of predicatory features, although, according to the colophon, the preacher himself wrote it.
ref: 2004, Georgiana Donavin, Cary J. Nederman, Richard J. Utz, Speculum Sermonis, page 299:
text: The revelation monologue Trimorphic Protennoia (NHC XIII 1) takes the form of a first-person self-predicatory aretalogy (“I am X,” “I am Y”) or recitation of the deeds and attributes of Protennoia-Barbelo, the First Thought of the Sethian supreme deity.
ref: 2018, Garry W. Trompf, Gunner B. Mikkelsen, Jay Johnston, The Gnostic World:
glosses: affirmative; making a clear assertion or statement of praise, especially one with religious or moral implications.
examples: text: In a 'predicatory' sense, whatever we say in our natural language about an object defines a property: an object has the property of being such that 'x'.·
ref: 2022, Christopher J. Austin, Anna Marmodoro, Andrea Roselli, Powers, Time and Free Will, page 52:
text: In Bird's (2016, 2018) phrasing, we understand dispositions as 'predicatory' properties, to which we are 'ontologically uncommitted' , imbuing them with 'no metaphysical baggage'.
ref: 2023, Toby Friend, Samuel Kimpton-Nye, Dispositions and Powers:
text: On my account, the distinction between merely true and metaphysically perpicuous disposition ascriptions underlies the often-drawn distinction between metaphysically innocent vs. loaded dispositional talk; commenting on Bird's (2016) similar distinction between predicatory and ontic properties/dispositions McKitrick (2018, p. 67) implicitly criticizes this distinction; for her, an abundantist perspective is preferable, as she considers the alternative to be seriously problematic when it comes to prediction and similarity.
ref: 2024, Lorenzo Azzano, Dispositional Reality, page 150:
glosses: Forming an ontologically neutral predicate; implying no new information or qualities.
inracinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inracinated
form: most inracinated
Etymology: From in- (“in”) + French racine (“root”). Compare French enraciner.
Senses: glosses: rooted; implanted; engrained.
Cormick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cormac
form: Cormack
form: Cormag
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic or from Irish Cormac, from Old Irish Cormac, Corbmac, from corb ("chariot") + mac ("son"). Many books also connect the name to an Irish word for "raven".
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish. from Irish or Gaelic.
glosses: A male given name from Irish.
Related terms: McCormick
cone-in-cone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Consisting of a series of parallel cones, each made up of many concentric cones closely packed together or with each other. Cone-in-cone structures sometimes appear in sedimentary rocks like calcite or more rarely gypsum, siderite or pyrite.
Hearn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɜːn/
Forms: form: Hearne
form: Herne
Etymology: * As an Irish surname, from Ó hEachthighearna (literally “descendant of Eachthighearna”) from each (“horse”) + tighearna (“lord, master”).
* As an Irish surname, also from Ó hUidhrín; see Herron.
* As an English surname, spelling variant of Heron.
* As an English surname, from Old English hyrne (“river bend, hill recess”).
* As an English surname, related to the root of horn.
* As an English surname, named after Herne in Bedfordshire, from Old English hær (“stone”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Areopagitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌɛəɹiəʊpəˈd͡ʒɪtɪk/
Forms: form: more Areopagitic
form: most Areopagitic
Etymology: Latin Areopagiticus, from Ancient Greek.
Senses: qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Areopagus (council of ancient Athens).
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Areopagitic Oration of Dionysius of Halicarnassus (named after but only loosely connected to the Areopagus).
examples: text: In the concept of pantheism Khidasheli implies the unity of God and the world and not their similarity; he thinks that such an interpretation of pantheism is given in Neoplatonic and Areopagitic writings.
ref: 2014, Mikheil Makharadze, “Philosophical Ideas of the Corpus Areopagiticum”, in Tamar Nutsubidze, Cornelia B. Horn, Basil Lourié, editors, Georgian Christian Thought and Its Cultural Context, BRILL, page 326:
text: In the West, the Areopagitic texts were translated by Hilduin (c. 785 — c. 855), Bishop of Paris, who received a manuscript at his monastery of Saint Denys, and Johannes Scotus Eriugena (815-877) who knew about them from his time in Irish monasteries and produced a widely known and used translation in middle and later medieval times.
ref: 2020, Constantinos Athanasopoulos, “5. The Cloud of Unknowing in Eckhart, Palamas, and Wittgenstein”, in Constantinos Athanasopoulos, editor, Orthodox Mysticism and Asceticism, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, page 88:
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
qualifier: early Christianity
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Corpus Areopagiticum of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite.
Areopagitic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɛəɹiəʊpəˈd͡ʒɪtɪk/
Forms: form: Areopagitics
Etymology: Latin Areopagiticus, from Ancient Greek.
Senses: examples: 1836 (1810), William Mitford, The History of Greece, Volume VIII, T. Cadell (London), W. Blackwood & Sons (Edinburgh), New Edition, page 60,
The Areopagitic carries within itself clear indication of its own date, after the conclusion of peace with the confederates, and before the measures which quickly followed […] .
1884 (1869), Thomas Carlyle, Carlyles' Works: Critical and miscellaneous essays, Volume IV, Dana Estes & Charles E. Lauriat, page 201,
And one Mr. Milton sat in his house, by Bride's Church, teaching grammar, writing Areopagitics; and had dined that day, not perhaps without criticism of the cookery.
qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: A document connected to the Areopagus, particularly an oration delivered before it.
puefellow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puefellows
Senses: examples: text: And makes her puefellow with others mone
ref: c. 1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedy of King Richard the Third. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Sims [and Peter Short] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:
text: Ere long we may be puefellows
ref: a. 1641, Philip Massinger, “(please specify the chapter, or title of the play)”, in W[illiam] Gifford, editor, The Plays of Philip Massinger, […], volume III, London: […] G[eorge] and W[illiam] Nicol; […] by W[illiam] Bulmer and Co. […], published 1805, →OCLC, Act III, scene iv, page 170:
glosses: Obsolete form of pewfellow.
puefellows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puefellow
hearkenest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: hearken + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of hearken
Macormack
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname. Alternative form of McCormick.
Macormick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname. Alternative form of McCormick.
leapfrogger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leapfroggers
Etymology: From leapfrog + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who leapfrogs.
leapfroggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leapfrogger
Cormag
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old Irish Cormac.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
musteline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more musteline
form: most musteline
form: mustelline
Etymology: From the Latin mūstēlīnus, from mūstēla (“weasel”), from mūs (“mouse”, “rat”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Like or relating to the family Mustelidae, or the weasels and martens.
musteline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mustelines
form: mustelline
Etymology: From the Latin mūstēlīnus, from mūstēla (“weasel”), from mūs (“mouse”, “rat”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the family Mustelidae.
glosses: More specifically, any member of the mustelid subfamily Mustelinae.
musteline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: mustelline
Etymology: From the Latin mūstēlīnus, from mūstēla (“weasel”), from mūs (“mouse”, “rat”).
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of mustelids.
southly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more southly
form: most southly
Etymology: From south + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of southerly.
synonyms: word: southerly
southly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more southly
form: most southly
Etymology: From south + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of southerly.
synonyms: word: southerly
steening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steenings
Etymology: * From steen or steaning.
Senses: glosses: The hard lining of a well.
steening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: * From steen or steaning.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of steen
steenings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steening
perpender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perpenders
Etymology: French
Senses: glosses: A perpend stone.
perpenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perpender
photomechanically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From photomechanical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: By photomechanical means.
cobwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cob + work?
Senses: examples: text: cobwork dock
text: cobwork breakwater
text: cobwork bridge
text: cobwork house
glosses: construction work made of logs, etc., laid horizontally, with the ends dovetailed together at the corners, and in marine work often surrounding a central space filled with stones
sannup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sannups
Etymology: From Penobscot senabe (“man”); compare Abenaki sanôba (“man”).
Senses: examples: text: 1736, Thomas Prince, Nathan Hale (editor), A Chronological History of New-England, in the Form of Annals, 1826, New Edition, Cummings, Hilliard, and Company, page 347,
Chickatabot (the chief Sachem of the Massachusetts) comes with his sannups and squaws (that is, married men and their wives) to Boston, presents the governor with a hogshead of Indian corn.
text: With this company, Miantonomo and his sachems dined, while the sannups were entertained hard by, in the inn recently built by Goodman Samuel Coles.
ref: 1898, Edith Robinson, A Little Puritan Rebel, L. C. Page & Company, page 117:
text: Or rather, he obliged Miguen to do so, for the limping sannup could not pursue the quarry.
ref: 1941, Marguerite Allis, Not Without Peril, G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 231:
glosses: A male Native American, especially a married one; a brave.
glosses: A mischievous male child.
Related terms: sachem
squaw
sannups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sannup
retiracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retiracy
retiracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retiracies
Senses: examples: text: The patriot commanders in the middle of January went into retiracy, having with much judgment commended the forces under them to their own discretion
ref: 1845, Samuel Maunder, John Inman, The Treasury of History:
text: what one of our great men used to call dignified retiracy
ref: 1852, C. A. Bristed, The upper ten thousand:
glosses: retirement
libament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: libaments
Etymology: Latin libamentum.
Senses: examples: text: Before his time they dranke it [wine] not at all, neither made they libaments thereof unto their gods.
ref: 1603, Plutarch, translated by Philemon Holland, The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC:
glosses: A libation.
libaments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of libament
praeterist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: praeterists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of preterist.
praeterists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of praeterist
unqualifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unqualify
unqualify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unqualifies
form: unqualifying
form: unqualified
form: unqualified
Etymology: From un- + qualify.
Senses: examples: text: the French, who rejoice in these changes, and by the fall of our credit, which unqualifies us for carrying on the war
ref: November 2, 1710, Jonathan Swift, The Examiner, Number 13
glosses: To disqualify.
examples: text: When a global MODULE'S wares are imported, the FROM phrase can be used to unqualify the names.
ref: 2012, Kaare Christian, A Guide to Modula-2, page 179:
glosses: To remove some qualification or specialization from.
Related terms: unqualification
unqualifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unqualify
sciagraphical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sciagraphical
form: most sciagraphical
Etymology: From sciagraphy + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to sciagraphy.
Related terms: sciagraphically
albumenize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: albumenizes
form: albumenizing
form: albumenized
form: albumenized
form: albuminize
form: albumenise
form: albuminise
Etymology: From albumen + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To convert into albumen.
examples: to albumenize paper
glosses: To coat or saturate with albumen.
Derived terms: albumenization
albumenizer
Related terms: albuminate
albuminoid
albuminose
albuminuric
albumose
toxalbumin
albumenized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of albumenize
albumenizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of albumenize
albumenizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of albumenize
diduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diductions
Etymology: From Latin diductio, from diducere, diductum (“to draw apart”), from di-, dis- + ducere (“to lead, draw”).
Senses: examples: text: diduction of the mouth
glosses: The act of drawing apart; separation.
diductions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diduction
brooklime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brooklimes
Etymology: From brook + lime?
Senses: glosses: Certain plants of genus Veronica, with usually blue flowers in axillary racemes:
European brooklime (Veronica beccabunga)
glosses: Certain plants of genus Veronica, with usually blue flowers in axillary racemes:
American brooklime (Veronica americana)
brooklimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brooklime
decurrence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkʌɹəns/
ipa: /dɪˈkʊɹəns/
Senses: examples: text: […]never to far off in the decurrence of time from the fountain
ref: 1653, John Gauden, Hieraspistes:
glosses: The act of running down; a lapse.
articularly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more articularly
form: most articularly
Etymology: From articular + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Semblablye the nourises and other woemen about him, if it be possible, to do the same: or at the least waye, that they speake no English but that whiche is cleane, polite, perfectly and articularly pronounced, omytting no letter or sillable, as folishe women oftentimes do of a wantonnesse, whereby divers noble menne and gentlemennes children ( as I do at this day know ) have attained corrupt and foule pronunciation.
ref: 1535, Sir Thomas Elyot, The Education of Young Children:
text: His tones, and gesture implied the most mysterious, and awful apprehension of the sense of what, he was about to ask, whilst, speaking articularly between his teeth, and under his breath, yet with solemn energy, he demanded, “ Do you know more?"
ref: 1835, George Stephens, The Manuscripts of Erdély. A Romance, page 146:
text: It is very rare, yea, even in our days, for any operator or master to hear the angels speak articularly: when they do speak, it is like the Irish, much in the throat.'
ref: 1917, Hibbert Journal: A Quarterly of Religion, page 607:
glosses: In an articular manner.
Pronouncing each syllable clearly and distinctly.
examples: text: […] a chassis mounted on springs, substantially horizontal cylinders, fixedly secured to the chassis and articularly connected to the crank-housing, […]
ref: 1905 April 18, Allen Loomis, “787,581 Automobile Engine”, in Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, page 1695:
text: In a hinged hood for vehicles, for autocars, boats, and their equivalents, a forward principle tilt hoop, a projecting tilt hoop articularly secured thereto, which when the hood is folded up has an upward nip, a serve tilt hoop each for the projecting tilt hoop and the main stilt hoop, and a traight or bent strut, bracing the projecting tilt hoop and connecting the servo tilt hoop with the forward hoop and main tilt hoop, substantially as set forth.
ref: 1913, Traugott Golde, “144793 Hood for Vehicles”, in The Canadian Patent Office Record, volume 40, page 4027:
text: Caution needs to be exercised in the use of articularly aligned orthoses.
ref: 2002, Haemophilia - Volume 8, page 407:
glosses: In an articular manner.
Pertaining to a joint.
Derived terms: extraarticularly
intraarticularly
paraarticularly
periarticularly
transarticularly
stepfatherly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stepfatherly
form: most stepfatherly
Etymology: From stepfather + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Like or befitting a stepfather.
stepmotherly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stepmotherly
form: most stepmotherly
Etymology: From stepmother + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Like or befitting a stepmother
sputation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /spjuːˈteɪʃən/
Etymology: From Latin sputare (“to spit”), intensitive from spuere (“to spit”). Compare French sputation.
Senses: examples: text: ſurprized with a ſanguin ſputation upon a ſudden cohibition of their Hæmorrboids
ref: 1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions:
glosses: The act of spitting; expectoration.
taxel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taxels
Etymology: From tactile element, modelled on pixel.
Senses: topics: business
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: A tactile element in robotics etc.
taxels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taxel
muckender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌk.ɪn.də/
ipa: /ˈmʌk.ɪn.dɚ/
Forms: form: muckenders
form: mockador
form: mockadour
form: muckenger
form: muckinder
form: muckinger
form: muckiter
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English mokadour, from Old Occitan mocador. For the development of excrescent /n/, compare harbinger, passenger.
Senses: glosses: A handkerchief.
muckenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muckender
sconcheon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sconcheons
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A squinch.
sconcheons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sconcheon
reinfund
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reinfunds
form: reinfunding
form: reinfunded
form: reinfunded
Etymology: From re- + Latin infundere (“to pour in”).
Senses: examples: text: The best part of his Diet, is the Reversion of his own Ordure, which expiring into Steams, whirls perpetually about, and at last reinfunds.
ref: 1704, [Jonathan Swift], “Section IX”, in A Tale of a Tub. […], London: […] John Nutt, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To flow in again.
subcolumn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subcolumns
Etymology: From sub- + column.
Senses: examples: text: Now divide D into subcolumns and assume that radiation flows through each subcolumn independently of all other subcolumns[…]
ref: 2007, Alex A. Kokhanovsky, Light Scattering Reviews: Remote sensing and inverse problems, page 10:
glosses: A column making up part of a larger column or supercolumn.
subcolumns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subcolumn
preds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pred
turdlickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turdlicker
phaeospore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phaeospores
Etymology: From phaeo- + spore.
Senses: glosses: A brownish zoospore, characteristic of an order (Phaeosporeae) of dark green or olive-colored algae.
Related terms: pheoplast
phaeosporic
phaeosporous
phaeospores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phaeospore
diorthotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek διορθωτικός (diorthōtikós, “corrective”), from ὀρθόω (orthóō, “set straight”).
Senses: glosses: Relating to the correcting or straightening out of something; corrective.
Related terms: diorthosis
somnambulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: somnambulators
Etymology: From somnambulate + -or.
Senses: glosses: A somnambulist, or sleepwalker.
somnambulators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of somnambulator
epicedial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more epicedial
form: most epicedial
Senses: glosses: elegiac; funereal
Related terms: epicedium
phytophagic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phytophagic
form: most phytophagic
Etymology: From phyto- + -phagic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phytophagous.
double-ripper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double-rippers
Senses: glosses: A kind of sledge made of two sleds fastened together with a board, one in front of the other.
double-rippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double-ripper
interruptionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From interruption + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without interruption.
interruptless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From interrupt + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without interruption.
gangrenate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gangrenates
form: gangrenating
form: gangrenated
form: gangrenated
Etymology: From gangrene + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare French gangrener.
Senses: examples: text: I have ſeen the guts of ſuch horſes[…] much diſposed to gangrenate
ref: 1751, Henry Bracken, Traveller's Pocket Farrier:
glosses: To become gangrenous.
gangrenated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gangrenate
gangrenates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gangrenate
gangrenating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gangrenate
semiangle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semiangles
Etymology: From semi- + angle.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: an angle of half a given size
examples: text: The results show that the optimum cone semiangle decreases slightly when the Mach number increases and, in the range of Mach numbers considered, is in the range of 22° to 25° for supersonic entrance flow.
ref: 1954, United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Report, page 25:
text: The author's theory is almost perfect for 5° semiangle, is good for M_∞ ≤ 2 with 10° semiangle, and is beginning to be a serious overestimate for 15° semiangle.
ref: 1954, M. J. Lighthill, Higher Approximations in Aerodynamic Theory, page 131:
text: Variations in cone semiangle had no significant effects on the longitudinal stability at the two test Mach numbers .
ref: 1963, Cuyler W. Brooks, Charles D. Trescot, Transonic Investigation of the Effects of Nose Bluntness, Fineness Ratio, Cone Angle, and Base Shape on the Static Aerodynamic Characteristics of Short Blunt Cones at Angles of Attack to 180°, page 10:
glosses: The angle formed between the axis of a cone and a line drawn from the apex of the cone to the edge of its base.
semiangles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semiangle
roadmending
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From road + mending.
Senses: glosses: The repairing of roads.
roadmender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roadmenders
Etymology: From road + mender.
Senses: glosses: One who repairs roads.
roadmenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roadmender
cardboard-box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardboard-boxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cardboard box.
stonebreaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stonebreakers
form: stone breaker
form: stone-breaker
Etymology: From stone + breaker.
Senses: examples: text: In 1908, Argentinian stonebreakers went on what was to become the longest strike in the country’s history.
ref: 2021, “The Stonebreakers”, in Mubi, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2023:
glosses: A labourer who breaks stone.
glosses: A machine for crushing or hammering stone.
stonebreakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stonebreaker
seck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secks
Senses: examples: text: […] barn-fans, an' flails, an' fleers, / An' canasses, an' secks; / An' cheeks o' doors, an' doors themsel's, / Wi' broken ban's an' snecks; […]
ref: 1884, David Grant, Lays and Legends of the North: And Other Poems and Songs, Humorous and Grave, Original and Translated, page 3:
text: The kittlings ligging on the secks […]
ref: 1884, Streatfeild, Lin. and Danes, 264, 357
text: ... a rough seck undher him, a bit o' flannel hardly coverin' him above, an' he looked like dyeath.
ref: 1894, John Trafford Clegg, David's Loom: A Story of Rochdale's Life in the Early Years of the Nineteenth Century, page 30:
text: This seck is elding to keep us fra starving!
ref: 1912 [????], Walter William Skeat, English dialects from the eighth century to the present day. Repr, page 117:
glosses: Alternative form of sack.