cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Laithwaite
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old Norse hlaða (“barn”) + þveit (“clearing”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old Norse.
disease enhancement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disease enhancements
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A side-effect of a therapeutic treatment, whereby the putative therapeutic agent, instead of alleviating the disease, enhances the pathology. Such as an antibody introduced or incited by the treatment binds to the disease agent, causing it to function better; such as antibodies binding to virus spike proteins and increasing its ability to infect cells.
Related terms: immune enhancement
antibody-dependent enhancement
convalescent serum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: convalescent serums
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A blood serum created from the blood plasma of a person who has recovered from an infectious illness, which contains antibodies to the infectious disease factor (such as viruses). For convalescent serum therapy, the disease antiserum created from the plasma can be injected into an ill victim of that disease as a treatment.
Hypernyms: word: antiserum
sense: treatment
word: therapeutic
sense: substance
word: blood serum
Derived terms: convalescent serum therapy
Related terms: serum
antiserum
antiserum therapy
convalescent plasma
convalescent plasma therapy
curative
cure
inoculant
inoculation
inoculum
vaccination
vaccine
Earith
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL3875).
staved off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stave off
craptop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: craptops
Etymology: Blend of crappy + laptop
Senses: glosses: A bad or poorly functioning laptop computer that is undesirable to use.
milktoast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more milktoast
form: most milktoast
Etymology: From milk + toast.
Senses: examples: text: Ricky [Nelson] was the perfect commodity: an artist who did not upset milktoast America. He was Elvis [Presley] without grease, without swinging hips.
ref: 2008, Gerard DeGroot, “Meet the New Boss”, in The 60s Unplugged: A Kaleidoscopic History of a Disorderly Decade, London: Macmillan, →ISBN; paperback edition, London: Pan Books, 2009, →ISBN, page 393:
glosses: Alternative spelling of milquetoast.
milktoast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milktoasts
Etymology: From milk + toast.
Senses: examples: text: That scientists favored international control of the atom made conservatives even more mistrustful. J[ohn] Parnell Thomas rued the surrender of control to such "a group of milktoasts."
ref: 1990, Richard M. Fried, “Two Eras, and Some Victims”, in Nightmare in Red: The McCarthy Era in Perspective, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN; paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1991, →ISBN:
text: Initially, our heroine hooks up with some milktoast of a guy with lots of money and little personality. Then he comes along—a man she can't push over, a man her wealth and social position can't influence.
ref: 2004, Elizabeth A. Ford, Deborah C. Mitchell, “The Ladder of Class”, in The Makeover in Movies: Before and After in Hollywood Films, 1941–2002, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 91:
glosses: Alternative spelling of milquetoast.
Derived terms: milktoasty
Milquetoast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Milquetoast
form: most Milquetoast
Senses: examples: text: If Bach had any guts, he wouldn't take that. He's too much of a Milquetoast guy.
ref: 1961, Edward C[hristie] Banfield, “The Mythology of Influence”, in Political Influence, Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press of Glencoe, →OCLC; republished New Brunswick, N.J.; London: Transaction Publishers, 2003 (2009 printing), →ISBN, page 302:
text: Like that well-meaning mom, parents employ Milquetoast speech whenever they whine, complain, plead, entreat, entice, bribe, and explain themselves persuasively.
ref: 2007, John Rosemond, “Command, Compel, Confirm”, in Mary McNeil, editor, Parenting by the Book: Biblical Wisdom for Raising Your Child, New York, N.Y.: Howard Books, →ISBN, part 3 (Discipline), page 239:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of milquetoast.
Milquetoast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Milquetoasts
Senses: examples: text: The Milquetoasts of this world seldom wake up in time to get tough effectively, Mr. [Harold Tucker] Webster fears. [...] Webster considers him a worthy citizen—of the kind that had better begin to show a little more spunk before it is too late.
ref: 1939 October 21, Alexandra Kropotkin, “To the Ladies”, in Fulton Oursler, editor, Liberty, volume 16, number 42, New York, N.Y.: Liberty Publishing, →OCLC, page 51, column 1:
text: The Milquetoasts of this world are the victims of the steamrollers. I used to be numbered among the Milquetoasts and was periodically used or flattened! I came to realize, however, that even though Christians are to be humble and cooperative, they also are accountable to God to use their time wisely, to do what He wants them to do, and to stand up for what is right and biblical.
ref: 1988, Muriel Larson, Me and My Pet Peeves, Nashville, Tenn.: Broadman Press, →ISBN, page 79:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of milquetoast.
oceanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: oceanizes
form: oceanizing
form: oceanized
form: oceanized
Etymology: From ocean + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Subsequently V.V. Tikhomirov considered the basification of continental crust, with its conversion into oceanic crust as a result of basic metasomatism, that is, the withdrawal of fluids from the mantle to replace and thus oceanize the granitic-metamorphic layer.
ref: 1977, Mikhail Vladimirovich Muratov, The Origin of Continents and Ocean Basins, Mir Publishers, page 157:
text: Shatskiy (1935) first suggested that large blocks of the continent foundered and have been oceanized where ocean now exists.
ref: 2013, Alan Nairn, The Arctic Ocean, Springer, →ISBN, page 160:
text: Beloussov borrowed the idea, first postulated by the Dutch geologist van Bemmelen, that continental crust could somehow be oceanized, and in the early 1960s he started to make marginal basins by playing with the word oceanization.
ref: 2014, Kenneth Jinghwa Hsü, Challenger at Sea: A Ship That Revolutionized Earth Science, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 146:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: To cover in ocean.
Derived terms: oceanization
oceanized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oceanize
templize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: templizes
form: templizing
form: templized
form: templized
form: templise
Etymology: From temple + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Vernacular structures were often “templized” by adding a portico of the correct classical proportions, which were described in detail in architectural copy books.
ref: 1985, Jane Webb Smith, Marianne Doezema, Georgia's Legacy: History Charted Through the Arts, page 185:
text: As such, the maintenance of ritual purity beyond the temple is evidence of the effort to templize other aspects of religious life. Moreover, what is templized or sacrificialized here are those aspects of daily life—particularly prayer and eating—that werer already conceptually related to temple worship.
ref: 2009, Jonathan Klawans, Purity, Sacrifice, and the Temple, page 201:
text: We thus return to where we began, to the Temple and its service; and to those pious Jews who, in the last centuries of the Temple's existence, sought to “templize” their lives by adopting a mode of life bound by rules of moral and ritual purity;religious meals described in sacrificial terms; and brought together into societies characterized by hierarchical order.
ref: 2015, Alcuin Reid, T&T Clark Companion to Liturgy, page 31:
text: The question then remains, why would the synagogue lampstand be explicitly “templized” as a memorah, while the Torah chest, and other synagogue appurtenances were not so explicitly templized?
ref: 2016, Steven Fine, This Holy Place, page 49:
glosses: To make more temple-like.
templizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of templize
templizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of templize
templized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of templize
templise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: templises
form: templising
form: templised
form: templised
Senses: examples: text: The rabbins conceive that during the abode thereof at Shiloh , the Tabernacle began to templise, getting walls ( though without a roof ) round about it, chiefly because about that time it is thrice termed a temple ( 1 Sam . i . 9 ; 2 Sam . xxii 7; Psalm xviii. 3);
ref: 1869, Thomas Fuller, A Pisgah Sight of Palestine and the Confines Thereof, page 500:
text: To fulfil its objectives this organization creates a feeling of insecurity and aggressiveness among the majority community by raising alarm (1) at the supposed growth rate of Muslim population (2) at the exaggerated large scale infiltration from Pakistan and Bangladesh (3) imaginary ill-treatment of women in the Muslim society (4) Stereotyped notion of the incidence of polygyny among the Muslims (5) Muslim anxiety for cultural self-preservation by retaining their personal laws (6) demanding the right to templise mosque on ground or mythological belief etc.
ref: 1993, M. K. A. Siddiqui, Hindu-Muslim relations, page 71:
glosses: Alternative form of templize.
templises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of templise
templising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of templise
templised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of templise
desolvator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desolvators
Senses: glosses: A device used for desolvation
garden snake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garden snakes
Senses: glosses: Eggcorn of garter snake.
deuteronymph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deuteronymphs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of deutonymph.
deuteronymphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deuteronymph
dinoxanthin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A xanthophyll present in dinoflagellates
dipalmitin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dipalmitins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A diglyceride of palmitic acid
dunefoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dunefoots
Etymology: From dune + foot.
Senses: glosses: The exposed base of a sand dune.
temporicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: temporicides
Etymology: From Latin temporis (“time”) + -icide.
Senses: examples: text: Fancy Isaac Newton, with the confused elements of a 'Principia' circulating in his brain, constrained to write installation odes or opera criticisms for the 'Morning Post;' or fancy, if you will, some impetuous rhinoceros set to draw water from the well at Carisbrook Castle, in the place of the celebrated donkey so long accustomed to it; and you will have some notion of Fichte's tragical labour of writing tragedies and short romantic stories, adaptable for purposes of temporicide.
ref: 1851, Chambers W. and R., ltd, Chambers's papers for the people, page 9:
text: In the "Illustrated London News" for February, 1855, and again in the "Art Journal" for March, 1857, there are drawings by Mr. Glaisher, of the Greenwich Observatory, of no less than thirty-two varieties discovered in his own neighborhood, and doubtless many more may be found, and in any part of the country, if diligently sought, providing a Christmas and New-year's pleasure for the intelligent such as will outweigh whole nights of the mere temporicide popularly esteemed the beau-idéal of winter pastime.
ref: 1866, Leo Hartley Grindon, Life: Its Nature, Varieties, and Phenomena, page 435:
text: D., who would catch the tide, G., with his notions wide, Each is temporicide — Time's reckless murderer:
ref: 1880, Edward James Mortimer Collins, Edmund Hodgson Yates, Thoughts in my garden:
text: To become truly sovereign, Macbeth recognizes from the very beginning that it is not enough to merely commit regicide, he must also perform a kind of temporicide: an act of time killing.
ref: 2019, Arthur Bradley, Unbearable Life: A Genealogy of Political Erasure:
glosses: The act of killing time.
temporicides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of temporicide
smoke wrench
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smoke wrenches
Senses: examples: text: First, get a smoke wrench—what mechanics call an acetylene torch.
ref: 1999 September, Allen D. Berrien, “The Boat Doctor”, in Boating, Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., →ISSN, page 64:
text: Even if you are reusing your old springs, it maybe easier to cut the bolt and then get the spring up on a work bench to drive the bolt out.(Or use the smoke wrench on it).
ref: 2003 July 13, Transtar60, “Need help on dropping my rear end...(PIC)”, in alt.autos.studebaker (Usenet), message-ID <3F11F1A2.80105@earthlink.net>:
text: Vise grips in particular are the last resort before a smoke wrench- nothing to lose at that point.
ref: 2008 September 9, aemeijers, “Adjustable wrench”, in alt.home.repair (Usenet), message-ID <1uDxk.209681$102.140783@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>:
glosses: A blowtorch, usually an acetylene torch.
smoke wrenches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smoke wrench
jejunoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jejunoscopies
Etymology: From jejuno- + -scopy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Examination of the jejunum using an endoscope.
market-led
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: To protect essential projects, the market-led investment initiative that was intended as a mechanism for private sector investment in the rail network should be revived.
ref: 2020 April 8, Industry Insider, “Industry feels the impact...”, in Rail, page 76:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Influenced or determined by the needs and wishes of consumers.
sasaeng
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sasaengs
form: sasaeng
form: saseng
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 사생팬 (sasaengpaen), from 사생(私生) (sasaeng, “private life”) + 팬 (paen, “fan”).
Senses: examples: text: BTS sasaeng have obtained their schedules, passports and other personal information and offered to sell it online.
ref: 2017, Kristina Manente, “Sasaengs Stalking Seoul”, in Seoul Magazine, page 62:
text: The interviewed sasaengs explained how they operated and what they are willing to do to get as close to their idols as possible.
ref: 2018, Reneta Iwicka, “Every Breath You Take: Sasaeng Fans”, in Jackie Raphael, Celia Lam, Millicent Weber, editors, Disassembling the Celebrity Figure: Credibility and the Incredible, page 139:
text: She knew the guys were chased by tabloids and sasaengs regularly, but there were certain situations where they no doubt upped their game in pursuit of a juicy scoop.
ref: 2019, Trish Milburn, Make My Heart Sing:
qualifier: South Korean idol fandom
glosses: An extremely obsessive K-pop fan whose fixation on an idol is unhealthy and intrusive.
Hypernyms: stan
snackier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of snacky: more snacky
crampt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crampt
form: most crampt
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of cramped.
telepad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telepads
Etymology: From tele- + pad.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A platform on which a person or object is placed in order to be teleported elsewhere.
telepads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telepad
penny fall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penny falls
Senses: synonyms: coin pusher
penny pusher
glosses: A mechanical arcade game in which players insert coins that fall onto a number of moving platforms that gradually push the coins toward a payout slot.
penny falls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penny fall
penny pusher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penny pushers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of penny fall (“mechanical arcade game”).
synonyms: word: penny fall
extra: mechanical arcade game
penny pushers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penny pusher
Trinidad scorpion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Trinidad scorpions
Senses: glosses: A very hot variety of chili pepper.
Trinidad scorpions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Trinidad scorpion
snowflakery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From snowflake (“someone hypersensitive to insult or offense”) + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: However, there was a great deal of snowflakery and “safe-space-ism” surrounding Regev's appearance, as though the choice were not there for the angry demonstrators simply to ignore him.
ref: 2017 May 4, Jenni Frazer, “Why does no one want to listen to anybody else?”, in Jewish News, page 19:
text: Snowflakery is a product of the permeation of identity politics among young people, who act awry when someone challenges their worldview because they see it as a direct attack on their identities.
ref: 2017, Connor Foarde, "Rebuttal: 'Disrespectful Term 'Snowflake' Should Not be a Part of Georgia Politics", in "Red & Black Rebuttals: In the Interest of Balance", The Arch Conservative, Fall 2017, page 16
text: So now it is graphic violence or "mature content" to make a political statement in favor of veterans' benefits? Oh, the snowflakery!
ref: 2019, Elizabeth Johnston, Not on My Watch: How to Win the Fight for Family, Faith and Freedom, unnumbered page:
glosses: The state or quality of being easily offended or insulted.
Tiaan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: shortened from Christian.
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
playbroker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playbrokers
Etymology: From play + broker.
Senses: examples: text: Playbrokers will defray the expenses of the two men until the end of the season, when they will he reimbursed ifrom whatever moneys are collected as royalties during the season.
ref: 1943, Billboard, volume 55, number 14:
glosses: An agent involved in procuring and selling theatrical plays.
playbrokers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of playbroker
unimpelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + impelled.
Senses: glosses: Not impelled.
unimpulsive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unimpulsive
form: most unimpulsive
Etymology: From un- + impulsive.
Senses: glosses: Not impulsive.
ostrichitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ostrich + -itis.
Senses: examples: text: War clouds were on the horizon, but the ostrichitis that had removed the moral compass of many European politicians simultaneously made the rich of Paris pretend that whatever nastiness was occurring elsewhere would never affect them.
ref: 2018, Robert Lyman, Under a Darkening Sky: The American Experience in Nazi Europe: 1939-1941, New York: Pegasus Books, page 41:
glosses: A policy of keeping one's head in the sand, denying the reality of a problem or threat.
ostrichizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ostrichize
ostrichizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ostrichize
ostrichized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ostrichize
Silverstone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Silverstones
Senses: glosses: A placename
A village, a civil parish and motor racing circuit in West Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, England, previously in South Northamptonshire district (OS grid ref SP6744). The racing circuit is partly in Buckinghamshire.
glosses: A placename
An unincorporated community in Watauga County, North Carolina, United States.
glosses: A surname.
BUAG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BUAGs
Senses: coordinate_terms: BUAF
glosses: Acronym of big ugly ASCII graphic.
BUAF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BUAFs
Senses: coordinate_terms: BUAG
glosses: Acronym of big ugly ASCII font.
BUAGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BUAG
BUAFs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BUAF
buangs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of buang
buanged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of buang
buanging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of buang
Knochenhauer spiral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Knochenhauer spirals
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Riess spiral.
synonyms: word: Riess spiral
Knochenhauer spirals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Knochenhauer spiral
Riess spiral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Riess spirals
Etymology: Named after German physicist Peter Theophil Riess.
Senses: synonyms: Knochenhauer spiral
glosses: Either of a pair of spirally wound conductors with metal balls at their ends. Placing one above the other forms an induction coil.
Riess spirals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Riess spiral
air mails
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of air mail
air mails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of air mail
air mailing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of air mail
air mailed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of air mail
theromorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theromorphs
Etymology: From thero- + -morph.
Senses: examples: text: This functional configuration is as different from that of monkeys as the monkeys' is from that of the theromorphs. Monkeys share with certain theromorphs the possibility of having a free hand when seated […]
ref: 1993, André Leroi-Gourhan, Gesture and Speech, page 61:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the Theromorpha.
theromorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of theromorph
thero-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of therio-.
tenderful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenderfuls
form: tendersful
Etymology: From tender + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: With a tenderful of splendid coal, 231 was going up like an engine possessed, exhaust ringing out clear in the frosty air and a great column of sparks shooting to the moonlit sky, while all down the curving line behind us you could see the little fires springing up.
ref: 1940, D.L. Smith, “More Glasgow & South Western Nights' Entertainments”, in The Railway Magazine, volume 86:
text: His complaint was more than justified, for seldom have I seen such a tenderful of dust and sweepings.
ref: 1951, Patrick Ransome-Wallis, On Railways at Home and Abroad, page 84:
text: In the course of describing several runs he mentioned one in which engine and train were brought to a dead stand at Seaton Junction in the down direction, with ten bogies (that might have been much worse !) a wet southwest wind and a tenderful of foreign coal comprised of 75 per cent slack and fine dust.
ref: 1956, Cuthbert Hamilton Ellis, The South Western Railway:
text: When an engine gets a tenderful of this stuff, there will be trouble in making steam freely enough to take the train along on time.
ref: 2015, Angus Sinclair, Locomotive Engine Running and Management, page 303:
glosses: A quantity that a tender (railroad car behind the engine) holds.
examples: text: A dreary year for the Squadron, this 1819, when officers and men fell sick by the shipload and were sent home by the tenderful, when Lemon Valley Hospital was supplemented by the one at High Peak, when Court-Martials were held at the rate of one a fortnight, burials thrice a week, and surveys on foul provisions every other day!
ref: 1912, George Leo de St. M. Watson, Sir Robert Thomas Wilson, A Polish Exile with Napoleon, page 276:
text: The sea tossed and jostled Rose and a tenderful of Willies.
ref: 1936, Stella Benson, Collected Short Stories, page 135:
text: A tenderful of frightened and annoyed passengers remained where they were for three hours, prevented from communicating their plight to passing small craft by an impenetrable GrecoAnglo language barrier.
ref: 2000, John Maxtone-Graham, Liners to the Sun, page 315:
glosses: The quantity that a tender (ship that functions as a mobile base) holds.
tenderful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tenderful
form: most tenderful
Etymology: From tender + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: You needn't have been so tenderful. I'm going to put on wedding-robes myself, you know.
ref: 1863 October, Harper's Magazine, volume 27, number 161, page 627:
text: Fair eyes, from out whose azure pitiful A pleading glory shines through crystal dew; Sweet quivering lips that breathe a blessing new, In silent woe of love most tenderful.
ref: 1879, The Princeton Poets, page 155:
text: It sweetened and strengthened myself to feel The tenderful touch of thy thrillant palm;
ref: 1892, Will Hubbard- Kernan, The Flaming Meteor: Poetical Works of Will Hubbard-Kernan, page 127:
text: Oh , I'm seein' him now as I looked on him last, wid his hair all curly and bright, And the wonderful, tenderful heart he had, and his eyes as he wint away,
ref: 1916, Robert William Service, Rhymes of a Red Cross Man, page 164:
glosses: tender; compassionate.
tenderfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenderful
tendersful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenderful
thermesthesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From therm- + -esthesia.
Senses: examples: text: Sensory tests and the physical properties of apparel can be used to evaluate thermesthesia, the elements that confer a comfortable feel to the wearing of apparel.
ref: 2000, Textile Technology Digest, volume 57, numbers 1-6, page 84:
glosses: The ability to feel heat
Related terms: thermesthesiometer
tinction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tinctions
Etymology: From Latin tinctiō (“a soaking, dipping”).
Senses: examples: text: […] not color as well as at others, even when fresh covering-glass specimens are made and exactly the same tinctions used.
ref: 1888, Frank Seaver Billings, Swine plague, page 108:
glosses: A stain; a preparation for staining.
tinctions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tinction
toko-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of toco-.
soundsystem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soundsystems
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sound system (chiefly the Jamaican sense)
tussicula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tussis + -cule.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A slight cough, less powerful than a tussis.
tuzzy-muzzy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tuzzy-muzzies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tussie-mussie (“nosegay conveying a message”).
tuzzy-muzzies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tuzzy-muzzy
florality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being floral.
scènes à faire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scène à faire
orthometrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From orthometric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an orthometric manner.
metacompactness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From metacompact + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being metacompact.
metacompact
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meta- + compact.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: Of a topological space: such that every open cover has a point finite open refinement. That is, given any open cover of the topological space, there is a refinement which is again an open cover with the property that every point is contained only in finitely many sets of the refining cover.
Derived terms: metacompactness
saliva ejector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saliva ejectors
Senses: examples: text: This invention relates primarily to saliva ejector constructions for use by dentists on patients, and more particularly to such saliva ejectors which are comfortable for the patient, and yet which present an end configuration to almost completely remove saliva and cooling water for the drill from the inside bottom of the patient's mouth.
ref: 2002 July 8, Herbert Schlussel, Saliva ejector, US Patent 6821118 (PDF version), page 1, column 1:
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: A device for removing saliva from a patient's mouth during dental operations via suction.
saliva ejectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saliva ejector
drops a dime
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of drop a dime
dropping a dime
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of drop a dime
dropped a dime
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of drop a dime
skuzzy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: skuzzier
form: skuzziest
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scuzzy.
skuzziest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of skuzzy: most skuzzy
skuzzier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of skuzzy: more skuzzy
regionfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regionful
pedogeographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to pedogeography.
pedogeographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to pedogeography.
pedogeography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pedo- (“soil”) + geography.
Senses: glosses: The study of geography as it relates to soils and their distribution.
pedogeochemically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pedogeochemical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of pedogeochemistry.
hydrogeochemically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hydrogeochemical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of hydrogeochemistry.
pedogeochemistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pedo- (“soil”) + geochemistry.
Senses: glosses: The geochemistry of soil and till.
Related terms: pedogeochemical
hydrogeochemist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrogeochemists
Senses: glosses: One who studies hydrogeochemistry.
hydrogeochemists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrogeochemist
all whithers
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of allwhither (“in all directions”).
arrowily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more arrowily
form: most arrowily
Etymology: From arrowy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Now how all too often is the sermon huddled up without any attempt to individualize or to send arrowily home to each hearer what has been spoken.
ref: 1897, Alexander Balloch Grosart, Representative Nonconformists, page 159:
text: But now, he would have love in his own way, haughtily, passionately, and darkly, with dark, arrowy desire, and a strange, arrowily-submissive woman.
ref: 1924, D. H. Lawrence, The Boy in the Bush:
glosses: In an arrowy manner; like an arrow.
antistrophical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to an antistrophe.
antistrophically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: With the use of antistrophe.
pathick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pathicks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of pathic.
pathicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pathick
sovranly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sovranly
form: most sovranly
Etymology: From sovran + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of sovereignly.
ledanum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of labdanum.
Silex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Silexes
Etymology: Brand name.
Senses: examples: text: The Navy uses several types of coffee makers – urns, silexes, and percolators. Each type requires special care in making good coffee.
ref: 1965, Stewardsman, United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel, page 31:
text: Remembering my daily habits, Papa-san brewed the coffee and before I had completed a local phone call, he was serving it piping hot from the Silex, still grinning as he thought of other days of coffee-making.
ref: 1968, The History of the Chaplain Corps, United States Navy, United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel, page 143:
glosses: A vacuum coffee maker.
Silexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Silex
aerogravimetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aero- + gravimetry.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of aerogravity.
synonyms: word: aerogravity
aerogravimetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to aerogravimetry.
stewardsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stewardsmen
Etymology: From steward + -s- + -man.
Senses: topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: A steward's mate, or mess attendant.
stewardsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stewardsman
proto-priest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proto-priests
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of protopriest.
eucology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eucologies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek εὐχή (eukhḗ, “prayer”) + -logy.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A book of prayers and benedictions.
glosses: The study of prayer.
eucologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eucology
eucological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to eucology.
hicket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hickets
Etymology: Imitative, similar to French hoquet (“hiccup”).
Senses: glosses: A hiccup.
midwifry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of midwifery.
hickets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hicket
peace-nik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peace-niks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of peacenik.
trifunctionalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From trifunctional + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The stratification of society into three areas: warfare, that which is sacred or sovereign, and agriculture and fertility.
noctidiurnal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: a noctidiurnal cycle
glosses: Consisting of night and day.
tripman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tripmen
Etymology: From trip + -man.
Senses: synonyms: tripper
glosses: A person hired to transport goods by boat in the North American fur trade.
tripmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tripman
Metroliner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Metroliners
Senses: topics: railways
transport
glosses: A kind of high-speed train that operated between Washington, D.C., and New York City from 1969 to 2006.
Metroliners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Metroliner
permapress
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: permapresses
form: permapressing
form: permapressed
form: permapressed
form: perma-press
Etymology: From perma- + press.
Senses: glosses: To bake (a garment) so as to give it a permanent crease and avoid wrinkles.
permapressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of permapress
permapresses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of permapress
permapressing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of permapress
bunarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛəɹiəm
Forms: form: bunaria
Senses: glosses: An obsolete unit of area, approximately 120 ares or 120,000 square metres.
bunaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bunarium
diallelus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: epistemology
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The argument that any proposition requires a justification, but the justification itself requires support, which leads to infinite regress.
aporematic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aporematic
form: most aporematic
Senses: glosses: Synonym of aporetic.
synonyms: word: aporetic
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to an aporeme.
Derived terms: aporematically
aporeme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aporemes
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A form of dialectical argument that affirms two opposing ideas and thus seems to prove a contradiction.
aporemes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aporeme
aporematically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more aporematically
form: most aporematically
Etymology: From aporematic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an aporematic manner.
terminize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: terminizes
form: terminizing
form: terminized
form: terminized
Etymology: From Latin terminus + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: This was terminized polarization of light.
ref: 1908, A Calendar of Invention and Discovery, page 23:
text: Hence , ushmā (or ushnatā) is an expressive equivalent for temperature. I do not know why the Central Hindi Directorate has terminized heat as ushmā, and temperature as tapa, thereby interchanging the cause and effect.
ref: 1965, Seminar on Technical and Scientific Translation, 15-17 April 1965:
text: To terminize this multi-ordinal system, we cannot apply any existing words. Limitations of present terminology were discussed at the beginning of this article. "Darwinism", or even "pan-Darwinism", for example, would connote fecundity, combat, genes, and other qualities.
ref: 1967, Systematics - Volume 5, page 24:
text: On account of its inherent ambiguity (and the resulting inconsistency of its application) and negative associations, it is a label which it is hardly possible or useful to terminize.
ref: 1999, Linguistica Pragensia - Issue 2, page 28:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To make a term for.
terminize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: terminizes
form: terminizing
form: terminized
form: terminized
form: terminise
Etymology: From terminal + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: A movement for a nationalization of Senior girls' honorary societies terminized in a convention held in Syracuse, New York, February 15 and 16, 1918, at which Ohio State was represented.
ref: 1922, The Makio, page 164:
text: Was it not criminal to terminize appearances of multiple savants into terminal categorization, cast visionists in abattoirs called friendship rests?
ref: 1976, Georgiana Peacher, Mary Stuart's Ravishment Descending Time, page 57:
text: The risk of "permanize or terminize" involves the belief that as soon as partners feel comfortable with each other, they should legitimatize the Relationshipping in some way. For most penguins this means marriage.
ref: 1983, Jacinth Ivie Baublitz, Relationshift, page 83:
text: This fleeting tete-a-tete with Katya creates "a curious small sense that exist is what he does"; it distinguishes between being and non-being, identity from its absence, terminizes disintegration, since with years "The objects of will have deteriorated, like his teeth; he has trouble in summmoning up enough substance to be, to stir, to feel, to say, […]
ref: 2004, English Studies, page 102:
glosses: To make terminal; to end or terminate.
terminizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of terminize
terminizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of terminize
terminized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of terminize
terminise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: terminises
form: terminising
form: terminised
form: terminised
Senses: examples: text: One may have it for some time after a state of war has been terminised.
ref: 1951, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard):
text: This then divides into two branches one of which continuing southward separates Mandi district from Kullu and terminises on the Beas while the other turns westward and takes the name ' Dhaula Dhar ', which separates Kangra from the District of Chamba and ultimately sinks on the southern bank of the Ravi near Dalhousi.
ref: 1965, R. K. Kaushal, Himachal Pradesh: A Survey of the History of the Land and Its People:
text: The average amounts immediately before pasteurisation in terminised and unterminised milk were respectively for ammonium 0.19 and 0.18 mM and for ffa 0.50 and 0.61 milliequivalents.
ref: 1982, XXI International Dairy Congress:
glosses: Alternative form of terminize.
terminises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of terminise
terminising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of terminise
terminised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of terminise
Protagoran
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Protagoran
form: most Protagoran
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Protagoras (Greek: Πρωταγόρας; c. 490 BC – c. 420 BC).
violet tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: violet trees
Senses: glosses: Securidaca longipedunculata, a tree mainly found in tropical and subtropical Africa.
violet trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of violet tree
violet-green swallow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: violet-green swallows
Senses: glosses: A small North American passerine bird, of species Tachycineta thalassina of the swallow family, having a green back and purple tail.
unperiphrastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unperiphrastic
form: most unperiphrastic
Etymology: From un- + periphrastic.
Senses: glosses: Not periphrastic.
unparaphrased
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + paraphrased.
Senses: glosses: Not paraphrased.
bombastiloquent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bombastiloquent
form: most bombastiloquent
Senses: glosses: Speaking pompously or ostentatiously; full of bombast in speech.
factical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: factic; factual
army worm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: army worms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of armyworm.
army worms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of army worm
heliastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From heliast + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to heliasts.
wordlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wordlets
Etymology: From word + -let.
Senses: glosses: A little word, or part of a word.
wordlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wordlet
theogamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to theogamy.
theogamy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From theo- + -gamy.
Senses: glosses: Marriage to a god.
Derived terms: theogamic
theogamous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to theogamy.
noninterfertile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + interfertile.
Senses: glosses: Not interfertile.
posthumous names
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of posthumous name
US-American
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: U.S. American
form: US American
form: USAmerican
Senses: glosses: rare spelling of U.S. American
Synonyms: United Statesian
United Statian
US-ian
Usonian
Usanian
Hypernyms: American
North American
Related terms: Central American
South American
US-American
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: US-Americans
form: U.S. American
form: US American
form: USAmerican
Senses: examples: text: [Species] bradyi [named] For Major L. G. Brady (fl. 1960), US-American who discovered the taxon
ref: 2004, Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton, Etymological dictionary of succulent plant names, page 30:
glosses: rare spelling of U.S. American
echolucencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of echolucency
ectosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ectospheres
Etymology: From ecto- + sphere.
Senses: glosses: The cortical zone of a centrosphere
electrocardioscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + cardioscopy.
Senses: glosses: cardioscopy by means of an electrocardioscope
electroultrafiltration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + ultrafiltration.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of electro-ultrafiltration.
entoconulids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entoconulid
entostylid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entostylids
Etymology: From ento- + stylid.
Senses: glosses: A ridge on the anterior slope of an entoconid
envirotyping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The identification and characterisation of envirotypes
epitranscriptomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From epi- + transcriptomics.
Senses: glosses: The transcriptomics of epitranscriptomes
Related terms: epitranscriptomic
ergopeptide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ergopeptides
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ergopeptine.
ergopeptides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ergopeptide
eriptychiid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eriptychiids
Senses: glosses: Any extinct vertebrate of the order †Eriptychiida
eriptychiids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eriptychiid
ethnorelative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ethno- + relative.
Senses: glosses: ethnologically relative
euchondrichthyans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of euchondrichthyan
eucortisolism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A normal level of cortisol in the urine
evapotranspiring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of evapotranspire
excarpment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of escarpment.
extrasarcomeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + sarcomeric.
Senses: glosses: On the exterior of a sarcomere
broguey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more broguey
form: most broguey
Etymology: From brogue + -y.
Senses: examples: text: O'Sullivan gave us a broguey welcome as we stepped into his bar.
glosses: Having or resembling a brogue (type of accent).
shit ticket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shit tickets
Senses: glosses: A sheet of toilet paper.
shit tickets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shit ticket