cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
newcast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: newcasts
form: newcasting
form: newcast
form: newcast
form: newcasted
form: newcasted
form: new-cast
Etymology: From new- + cast.
Senses: glosses: To recast; form or mould anew.
chocard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chocards
Etymology: From French chocard.
Senses: glosses: the chough (any of various birds)
chocards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chocard
newcasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of newcast
newcoin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: newcoins
form: newcoining
form: newcoined
form: newcoined
Etymology: From new- + coin.
Senses: examples: text: Aside from the charlatanism which induced pseudoscholars to attempt to give worth to their lucubrations by the use of codes, ciphers, recondite allusions and newcoined words, there has been through the ages a disinclination on the part of scholars to endure the drudgery which leads to the ability to write decent English, [...]
ref: 1950, The Biologist, page 4:
text: The use of newcoined abusing epithets , such as "non dynamic", against theories of other than quantum field ones, does not solve any energy level problem.
ref: 1986, The Blinsern Theoretic Research Team, Theoretic Papers, page 38:
glosses: Alternative form of new-coin.
Derived terms: newcoined
Oakeshottian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Oakeshottian
form: most Oakeshottian
form: Oakeshottean
Etymology: From Oakeshott + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Michael Joseph Oakeshott (1901–1990), English philosopher and political theorist.
Oakeshottian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Oakeshottians
form: Oakeshottean
Etymology: From Oakeshott + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of Michael Oakeshott's theories.
Oakeshottean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Oakeshottean
form: most Oakeshottean
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Oakeshottian.
new-furnish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: new-furnishes
form: new-furnishing
form: new-furnished
form: new-furnished
Etymology: From new- + furnish.
Senses: examples: text: I am an upholsterer, sir, and am come to new-furnish your house.
ref: 1733, Henry Fielding, The Miser:
text: I proposed to lay out in jewels, and I can't persuade her to let me entirely new-furnish my house.
ref: 1802, The Lady's Monthly Museum:
glosses: To furnish anew; refurnish.
stitch in the ditch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quiltmaking technique of stitching within the patchwork seams.
new-front
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: new-fronts
form: new-fronting
form: new-fronted
form: new-fronted
Etymology: From new- + front.
Senses: examples: text: […] and yet the house where he had lodgings was new-fronting, and not in condition to receive him: but he could go to his friend Belford's, in Soho; […]
ref: 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady:
text: […] repairing and new-fronting the Hospital of St. Mary Magdalen to improve one of the entrances […]
ref: 1835, Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire Into the Municipal Corporations in England and Wales:
glosses: To put a new front on, or receive a new front.
tailor's ham
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tailors' hams
Etymology: Due to its shape resembling a joint of meat.
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
synonyms: dressmaker's ham
glosses: A tightly stuffed pillow used as a curved mold when pressing curved areas of clothing.
dressmaker's ham
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dressmakers' hams
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
glosses: A tailor's ham.
antifray
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + fray.
Senses: glosses: Preventing fraying of material.
newforming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of newform
newmake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: newmakes
form: newmaking
form: newmade
form: newmade
form: new-make
Etymology: From new- + make.
Senses: glosses: To make again or anew; remake.
Derived terms: newmade
unlauded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unlauded
form: most unlauded
Etymology: From un- + lauded.
Senses: examples: unlauded talent
glosses: Not lauded; given no praise.
unlaudable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unlaudable
form: most unlaudable
Etymology: From un- + laudable.
Senses: glosses: Not laudable; deserving no praise.
newmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of newmake
Sarabaites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sarabaite
newmould
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: newmoulds
form: newmoulding
form: newmoulded
form: newmoulded
form: new-mould
form: newmold
form: new-mold
Etymology: From new- + mould.
Senses: glosses: To mould or form anew; remould.
Synonyms: newform
recoct
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recocts
form: recocting
form: recocted
form: recocted
Etymology: From Latin recoctus, past participle of recoquere (“to cook or boil over again”). See re- and cook.
Senses: glosses: To boil or cook again.
examples: text: Your olde Crambe of Religionis ergo, so often recocted.
ref: 1605, L. Hutton, Aunswer […] :
glosses: To make over; to revamp or reconstruct.
Derived terms: recoction
recocted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recoct
recocting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recoct
recocts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recoct
piperidge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piperidges
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pepperidge.
piperidges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piperidge
perchromic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From per- + chromic + acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A certain highly oxidized compound of chromium, with a deep blue colour, and produced by the action of hydrogen peroxide.
schizopelmous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From schizo- + Ancient Greek πέλμα (pélma, “sole of the foot”) + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having the two flexor tendons of the toes entirely separate, and the flexor hallicus going to the first toe only.
raw_tags: of birds
Coordinate terms: antiopelmous
sympelmous
heteropelmous
nomopelmous
tyrotoxine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tyrotoxicon.
newname
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: newnames
form: newnaming
form: newnamed
form: newnamed
form: new-name
form: new name
Etymology: From new- + name.
Senses: glosses: To give a new name to; name anew; rename.
new modelize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: new modelizes
form: new modelizing
form: new modelized
form: new modelized
form: new-modelize
Etymology: From new- + modelize or newmodel + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To newmodel.
cinematherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cinema + therapy.
Senses: examples: text: Cinematherapy combines a strategic mix of pop feminism (which presumes female independence and “girl power”) and stereotypes, then, as a primary method of appealing to female audiences.
ref: 2006, Barbara Klinger, Beyond the Multiplex: Cinema, New Technologies, and the Home:
text: Cinematherapy is an innovative way of working with couples and clients.
ref: 2010, Victoria Tischler, Mental Health, Psychiatry and the Arts: A Teaching Handbook, Radcliffe Publishing, →ISBN, page 31:
text: Cinematherapy should be thought of a^([sic]) technique for therapy, not a unique type of therapy.
ref: 2012, Skip Dine Young, Psychology at the Movies, Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 157:
text: While the quantity of controlled research studies on cinematherapy is limited, it is clear that psychologists value the use of movies in clinical practice (Lampropoulos, Kazantzis, & Deane, 2004).
ref: 2014, Ryan M. Niemiec, Danny Wedding, Positive Psychology at the Movies: Using Films to Build Virtues and Character Strengths, Hogrefe Publishing, →ISBN, page 23:
glosses: The viewing of thought-provoking or inspiring films as a form of therapy.
newset
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: newsets
form: newsetting
form: newset
form: newset
form: new-set
Etymology: From new- + set.
Senses: glosses: To set afresh or in a new manner or fashion; reset.
chlamyphore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chlamyphores
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χλαμύς (khlamús, “cloak”) + -φόρος (-phóros, “bearing”)
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A small South American armadillo (Chlamyphorus truncatus and Chlamyphorus retusus, now Calyptophractus retusus), covered with a leathery shell.
chlamyphores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chlamyphore
swinestone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swinestones
Etymology: From swine + stone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: stinkstone
swinestones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swinestone
unreave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unreaves
form: unreaving
form: unreaved
form: unreaved
Etymology: See unreeve.
Senses: examples: text: Penelope for her Vlisses sake,
Deuiz’d a Web her wooers to deceaue:
in which the worke that she all day did make
the same at night she did againe vnreaue,
ref: 1595, Edmund Spenser, “Amoretti”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion, London: William Ponsonby, Sonnet 23:
glosses: Alternative spelling of unreeve.
unreaves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unreave
unreaving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unreave
labroid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more labroid
form: most labroid
Etymology: From Labrus + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: The tautog and cunner are American labroid fishes.
topics: biology
ichthyology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Like or belonging to the suborder Labroidei of marine perciform fishes, often brilliantly coloured, and very abundant in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
labroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: labroids
Etymology: From Labrus + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
ichthyology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any fish of this kind.
bell animalcule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bell animalcules
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any microscopic eukaroyte of the genus Vorticella, common in freshwater bodies of water.
bell animalcules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bell animalcule
vorticellid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vorticellids
Senses: glosses: Any member of the family Vorticellidae.
vorticellids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vorticellid
newvamp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: newvamps
form: newvamping
form: newvamped
form: newvamped
form: new-vamp
Etymology: From new- + vamp.
Senses: glosses: To vamp up (something) afresh; to furbish up anew; to revamp.
tearjerkingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tearjerkingly
form: most tearjerkingly
Etymology: From tearjerking + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a tearjerking manner.
hocco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoccos
form: hoccoes
Senses: synonyms: black curassow
glosses: A bird, the crested curassow or royal pheasant, Crax alector.
hoccoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hocco
hoccos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hocco
phacochere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phacocheres
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin Phacochoerus.
Senses: glosses: The warthog.
phacocheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phacochere
chaptrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chaptrels
Etymology: See chapiter.
Senses: examples: text: The clustered columns of the interior are fluted Doric, with heavy chaptrels, and here also the balustrade forms a prominent feature.
ref: 1883, Hubert Howe Bancroft, History of Mexico:
topics: architecture
glosses: An impost.
chaptrels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chaptrel
streak it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: streaks it
form: streaking it
form: streaked it
form: streaked it
Senses: glosses: To run very fast.
pensel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pensels
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of pencel.
glosses: Obsolete form of pencil.
pensels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pensel
plebicolist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plebicolists
Etymology: From Latin plebs (“the common people”) + colere (“to cultivate”) + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who flatters, or curries favor with the general public; a demagogue.
plebicolists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plebicolist
sulphophosphorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sulpho- + phosphorous.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, or designating a hypothetical acid of phosphorus, known in its salts.
niceling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nicelings
Etymology: From nice + -ling.
Senses: glosses: An effeminate, tender, or delicate individual.
glosses: A nice thing.
streaks it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of streak it
streaking it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of streak it
streaked it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of streak it
thalassian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thalassians
Etymology: From Ancient Greek the sea.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any sea tortoise.
thalassians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thalassian
cobaea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cobaeas
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Cobaea.
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Cobaea of climbing plants, native to Mexico and South America.
cobaeas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cobaea
macropodian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macropodians
Etymology: From macropod + -ian.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A macropod.
macropodians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macropodian
powter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: powters
Senses: examples: text: There is a great deal of trouble, time, and expence, requisite for breeding and . rearing of young powters, for they require a vast deal of attendance, as every single bird, cocks as well as hens, must be parted during the winter season, and placed in a separate pen or coop, each of them must be supplied with meat and water, and care taken that the coop be lofty and spacious, that they may not get an ill habit of stooping, which is so great an imperfection, that it must be prevented by all possible means;
ref: 1790, Daniel Girton, New and Complete Pigeon Fancyer, page 53:
text: I shall confine my remarks to the flyers, and say nothing about the toy birds, which include powters, nuns, tumblers, jacobins, and many other species, which by their respective fanciers are held in as high estimation as the best carriers.
ref: 1843, The Book of Sports, British and Foreign:
text: Powters have deservedly a bad character as nurses, and it is usual to put the eggs of valuable birds under other Pigeons to hatch and rear;
ref: 2013, A Guide to Keeping and Caring for the Domesticated Pigeon, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of pouter (a kind of pigeon)
powter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: powters
form: powtering
form: powtered
form: powtered
Senses: examples: text: I dare say, Mr Wauverley, ye never kend that a' the eggs that were sae weel roasted at supper in the Ha'-house were aye turned by our Davie; — there's no the like o' him ony gate for powtering wi' his fingers amang the het peat-ashes, and roasting eggs.
ref: 1814, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since:
text: Having worked and powtered away for a minute or two, the operator suddenly dropped the outlandish instrument, and uplifting his two hands, like the minister when pronouncing the dismissal, he exclaimed, " My stars and garters, what a mighty development!
ref: 1852, The Anglo-American Magazine - Volume 1, page 486:
text: So we got nowhere in particular ; but learnt a good deal, having ' powtered up and down a bit and had a rattling day.'
ref: 1907, The Alpine Journal - Volume 23, page 585:
text: He had seen pigs like Christy powtering in the slops, all grunt and hair.
ref: 1955, D'Arcy Niland, The Shiralee, page 54:
glosses: To poke in an exploratory manner.
powters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of powter
powters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of powter
salagane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salaganes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of salangane.
salaganes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salagane
zoolithes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zoolithe
trachelipod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trachelipods
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the Trachelipoda, a former group of mollusks with a spiral shell, and the foot attached to the base of the neck.
trachelipods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trachelipod
euphorogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more euphorogenic
form: most euphorogenic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of euphorigenic.
snattock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsnætək/
Forms: form: snattocks
Etymology: See snathe.
Senses: examples: text: you shall find many crucibles, (which we confide were snattocks of that very Crosse)
ref: 1654, Edmund Gayton, Pleasant Notes upon Don Quixote:
glosses: A chip; a slice or fragment.
snattocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snattock
torulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more torulous
form: most torulous
Senses: glosses: torose
sideroxylon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sideroxylons
Etymology: From the genus name. Philosophical use comes from Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, who used the Greek word even in German.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Sideroxylon of tropical sapotaceous trees noted for their very hard wood; ironwood.
wikipedia: Nietzsche
Schopenhauer
sideroxylons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sideroxylon
creambush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cream + bush.
Senses: glosses: Holodiscus discolor, a North American shrub.
siderostats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of siderostat
lixivial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lixivial
form: most lixivial
form: lixival
Etymology: From Latin lixivius, lixīvus, from lixa (“ashes, lye ashes, lye”). Compare French lixiviel.
Senses: examples: text: […] we obtain'd, more than once, out of 16 ounces of salt-petre, 10 ounces of fix'd nitre, very lixivial in tast and operation, and of a pleasant greenish blue colour, deeper than salt of tartar will usually be brought to, by being, in a crucible, kept twenty times as long in a strong fire.
ref: 1679, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Notes about the Producibleness of Chymical Principles:
text: But such may rest satisfied that those dextrous and conscientious Artificers the Chymists, can furnish us with a Lixival Salt of any Plant we want, made from the Cineres Clavellati or Pot-Ashes.
ref: 1752, Henry Bracken, Farriery improv'd: or, A compleat treatise upon the art of farriery:
glosses: Of or derived from lye or wood ashes.
Related terms: lixivium
oppilation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɒpɪˈleɪʃən/
Forms: form: oppilations
Etymology: Latin oppilatio: compare French opilation.
Senses: glosses: The act of crowding or filling together
examples: text: these meagre, starved spirits, who have half stopt the organs of their minds with earthy oppilations, want not their favourers among your shrivell'd sallad-eating artizans
ref: 1605 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, Ben: Ionson His Volpone or The Foxe, [London]: […] [George Eld] for Thomas Thorppe, published 1607, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page):
text: For he that refuseth the commandment [to be temperate], […] brings to himself a world of diseases and a healthless constitution; smart and sickly nights; a loathing stomach and a staring eye; a giddy brain and a swelled belly; gouts and dropsies; catarrhs and oppilations.
ref: 1653, Jeremy Taylor, “Twenty-five Sermons Preached at Golden Grove; Being for the Winter Half-year, […]: Sermon X. The Flesh and the Spirit. Part I.”, in Reginald Heber, editor, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D.D. […], volume V, London: Ogle, Duncan, and Co. […]; and Richard Priestley, […], published 1822, →OCLC, page 140:
text: And as he is who falls, and knows not how,
By force of demons who to earth down drag him,
Or other oppilation that binds man,
When he arises and around him looks,
ref: 1867, Dante Alighieri, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Divine Comedy, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC:
glosses: a stopping by redundant matter, i.e. an obstruction, particularly in the lower intestines.
Derived terms: deoppilation
Related terms: oppilate
oppilations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oppilation
stenodermine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Stenoderma + -ine
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or relating to the species Stenoderma rufum (red fruit bat or red fig-eating bat) or to the subfamily Stenodermatinae, which includes several West Indian and South American nose-leaf bats.
boustrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βούστροφος (boústrophos, “ploughed by oxen”) + -ic.
Senses: glosses: boustrophedonic
calamander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæləˌmændə/
ipa: /ˈkæləˌmændɚ/
rhymes: salamander
Forms: form: calamanders
Etymology: From Sinhalese [script needed] (kaḷu-madīriya), perhaps from Coromandel ebony (see coromandel), changed by association with Sinhalese කළු (kaḷu, “black”); or perhaps a metathetic variant of coromandel via Dutch kalamanderhout.
Senses: glosses: A wood from India and Sri Lanka, of a hazel-brown color, with black stripes, very hard in texture. It is a kind of ebony obtained from species of Diospyros, especially Diospyros quaesita, used to make furniture.
Synonyms: coromandel wood
coromandel
thaught
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thaughts
Etymology: from thought
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of thought.
thaught
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: from thought
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of thought.
thaught
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thaughts
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Obsolete form of thwart.
thaughts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thaught
Cataian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cataians
Senses: examples: text: My lady's a Cataian, we are politicians, Malvolio's a Peg-a-Ramsey, and 'Three merry men be we.'
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: Obsolete form of Cathayan.
Cataians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cataian
sinologue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sinologues
Etymology: From sino- (“China”) + -logue, a calque of French sinologue.
Senses: glosses: A student or expert of Chinese studies.
sinologues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sinologue
centricities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centricity
centricity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛnˈtɹɪs.ɪ.ti/
ipa: /sɛnˈtɹɪs.ɪ.ti/
ipa: [sɛnˈtɹɪs.ɪ.ɾi]
Forms: form: centricities
Etymology: From centric + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being centric or central; centricalness.
Derived terms: telecentricity
Saturnist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Saturnists
Etymology: From Saturn + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Seating himselfe within a darkesome cave, / (Such places heavy Saturnists doe crave,) / Where yet the gladsome day was never seene […]
ref: 1613, William Browne, Britannia's Pastorals:
glosses: A person of a dull, grave, gloomy temperament.
Saturnists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Saturnist
pinfeathered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pinfeathered
form: most pinfeathered
form: pin-feathered
Etymology: From pin + feathered.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: Having some or all of the feathers imperfectly developed.
sulphocyanogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: persulphocyanogen
glosses: thiocyanogen
prefulgency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin praefulgens, present participle of praefulgere (“to shine forth”). See pre- and fulgent.
Senses: examples: text: the prefulgency of his excellent worth and merit
ref: a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). A Treatise on the Pope's Supremacy”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:
text: We are here occupied with an analytical exposition that tasked the mind of a Shakespeare throughout his whole life, which served as a support to his spirit, and which he dedicated to future and more enlightened ages, hoping that, Psych-like, it would some day burst its enthralment, and display itself in all its intellectual prefulgency.
ref: 1862, D. Barnstorff, A Key to Shakespeare's Sonnets, page 126:
text: Would that the coyful muse would cool my brow And my brain fill with blest prefulgency, So that I might describe my ecstasy.
ref: 1891, Charles Frederick Forshaw ·, A Legend of St. Bees, and Other Poems, page 213:
glosses: Superior brightness or effulgency.
lanthana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: lanthanum oxide (La₂O₃)
algous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin algosus, from alga (“seaweed”).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the algae, or seaweeds; algal.
sismometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sismometers
Senses: glosses: Dated form of seismometer.
sismometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sismometer
whahoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of wahoo (“winged elm (Ulmus alata)”).
peenge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: peenges
form: peenging
form: peenged
form: peenged
Senses: glosses: To complain childishly; to whinge.
peenged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of peenge
peenges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of peenge
peenging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of peenge
top-chain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: top-chains
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A chain for slinging the lower yards, in time of action, to prevent their falling, if the ropes by which they are hung are shot away.
top-chains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of top-chain
neodymia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: neodymium oxide
samaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: samarium oxide
plastography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From plasto- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: The art of forming figures in any malleable material.
glosses: The imitation or forgery of handwriting.
supposal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈpəʊzəl/
rhymes: -əʊzəl
Forms: form: supposals
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman supposaille, supposail, corresponding to suppose + -al.
Senses: glosses: The act of supposing; supposition.
examples: text: [W]e may, if we attentively consider and examine it, find that there are circumstances sufficient, upon the supposals of the excellent contrivance of their machine, to excite and force them to act after such or such a manner […].
ref: 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographica, section XLII:
text: Interest, with a Jew, never proceeds but upon supposal, at least, of a firm and sufficient bottom.
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
glosses: Something supposed; a supposition, a hypothesis.
supposals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supposal
salamstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A kind of blue sapphire brought from Ceylon.
sipage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of seepage.
spacelated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spacelated
form: most spacelated
Etymology: Compare French sphacéler. See sphacelus.
Senses: glosses: decayed; made gangrenous
dysprosia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: dysprosium oxide
slabbery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slabbery
form: most slabbery
Etymology: From slabber + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Later in the day Dunlop told Cal to muck out the byre and because it was something he could do he went at it with a will. As he scraped and shovelled the slabbery dung he remembered: 'For too long the Catholics of Ulster have been the hewers of wood and the drawers of water.'
ref: 1983, Bernard MacLaverty, novel, 'Cal', Chapter 3, at p.68 (in the 1998 Vintage paperback edition)
glosses: Like, or covered with, slobber; slippery; sloppy.
howitz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: howitzes
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A howitzer.
howitzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of howitz
primitial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: the oldest people practise primitial sacrifices
ref: 2017, Jacques Waardenburg, Classical Approaches to the Study of Religion:
glosses: Being of the first production; primitive; original.
decertation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decertations
Etymology: From Latin decertatio, from decertare, decertatum, from de- + certare (“to contend”).
Senses: examples: text: a decertation between the disease and nature
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
text: The nearer we approach an adversary (within just limits) in these rational decertations, the less he can have to say against us
ref: 1691, John Howe, letter to Dr. Wallis:
glosses: contest for mastery; contention; strife
decertations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decertation
Hokeday
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hockday.
sermonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sermonists
Etymology: From sermon + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A sermonizer; someone who preaches sermons.
sermonists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sermonist
goloshe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goloshes
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of galosh.
surrenderor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surrenderors
Etymology: From surrender + -or.
Senses: examples: text: A Copyholder of Inheritance surrendered to W. R. for Life, and afterwards to the right Heirs of the Surrenderor
ref: 1726, William Nelson, Lex Maneriorum:
topics: law
glosses: One who makes a surrender, as of an estate.
surrenderors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surrenderor
forkbeard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forkbeards
Etymology: From fork + beard.
Senses: synonyms: tadpole fish
glosses: A European fish (Raniceps raninus), having a large flat head.
glosses: The European forked hake or hake's-dame (Phycis blennoides).
glosses: Another species of hake, Phycis phycis
forkbeards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forkbeard
prestable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle or early Modern French prestable, compare Modern French prêtable. By surface analysis, prest + -able.
Senses: glosses: payable
cosmometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cosmo- + -metry.
Senses: examples: text: This negative result held revolutionary implications which led directly thru Lorentz and Einstein to the acceptance of new standards of reference of time and space from geometry and cosmometry.
ref: 1980, Bern Dibner, Heralds of Science, page 74:
text: Practical geometry, in spite of its name, was the preserve of scholars who were interested in "practical" problems, most frequently in altimetry, planimetry , and cosmometry — problems using Euclidean geometry to prove rigorously the truth of their propositions.
ref: 2004, Jānis Langins, Jed Z. Buchwald, Conserving the Enlightenment, page 24:
text: When we extend geometry to cosmometry, we cannot be sure that no other gap in the rules exists.
ref: 2012, Martin Bojowald, The Universe: A View from Classical and Quantum Gravity:
text: Thanks to his [Athanasius Kircher's] Polyhedric interests – philosophy, history, science among them –, the study of perspective and geometry in general was introduced in unusual fields such as cosmometry, astronomy, orography, scenic design, and many others.
ref: 2016, Giuseppe Amoruso, Handbook of Research on Visual Computing and Emerging Geometrical Design Tools, page 395:
glosses: The measurement of the world or universe.
examples: text: Dr. Emoto has taken an awakening humanity great leaps ahead in our understanding of how consciousness affects matter, and how directing thought and sounds into the water molecules can actually alter the conscious imprints that have been held within them as "collective memory," assisting them in reaching their perfected organization as richly elaborated hexagonal formations and their corresponding representations as beautiful hexagrams of the most divine cosmometry.
ref: 2011, Patricia Cori, Before We Leave You, page 25:
text: There is a Cosmometry behind life that choreographs all actions. The closer you come to full awakening, the more harmoniously your life flows with this cosmometry.
ref: 2013, Richard Rudd, The Gene Keys: Embracing Your Higher Purpose:
text: There is not one moment of any action rippling across the planetary grid that is not received and attended to by the cosmometry of the Light.
ref: 2014, DeAnne Hampton, The Shining Ones Ambassadors of a New Age of Light, page 322:
glosses: The exploration of the mystical forces or vibrations that unite everything in the universe.
claritude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: claritudes
Etymology: From Latin claritudo, from clarus (“clear”).
Senses: examples: text: O lylly-whyte floure shenyng with claritude
ref: 1513, Henry Bradshaw, Lyfe of Saynt Radegunde:
text: and it is no uncommon thing, for a Glorious Morning Sun, that continues his Brightneſs and Claritude the whole day, to ſet Cloudy in the Evening.
ref: 1710, John Gadbury, Nauticum Astrologicum: Or, The Astrological Seaman:
glosses: Clarity or splendour.
claritudes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of claritude
glycocoll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycocolls
Etymology: From glyco- + Ancient Greek κόλλα (kólla, “glue”).
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: glycine
Synonyms: glycin
glycocin
Related terms: glycocollic
phenylglycocoll
tolylglycocoll
xylylglycocoll
glycocolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glycocoll
glycochemist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycochemists
Etymology: From glyco- + chemist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies glycochemistry.
glycochemists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glycochemist
felt grain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The grain of timber which is transverse to the annular rings or plates; the direction of the medullary rays in oak and some other timbers.
tubfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tubfish
Senses: synonyms: tub gurnard
sapphirine gurnard
glosses: A fish of species Chelidonichthys lucerna.
becuna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Spanish [Term?].
Senses: glosses: Sphyraena sphyraena, a Mediterranean fish.
Related terms: barracuda
transexion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænˈsɛkʃən/
ipa: /tɹɑːnˈsɛkʃən/
homophone: transection
Forms: form: transexions
Etymology: From trans- + Latin sexus (“sex”) + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: But surely it much impeacheth this iterated transexion of hares, if that be true which Cardan and other physicians affirm, that transmutation of sex is only so in opinion; and that these transfeminated persons were really men at first […]
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
text: […] transexion or change from female to male, and hence "from imperfection to perfection"; the transmutation of species in closely allied animals and plants, as horses and asses, dogs and foxes, pheasants and cocks, barley and oats[…]
ref: 1950, Osiris: 1950-1936/50:
text: Albert Engleman, 'Un cas de transposition de sexes', Revue Métapsychique, no. 27 (January-February 1954): 126-128; Albert Engleman, 'A Case of Transexion upon Viewing a Painting', American Imago: A Psychoanalytic Journal for the Arts and Sciences 9, no. 3/4
ref: 2019 February 21, Jake Poller, Altered Consciousness in the Twentieth Century, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: Change of sex.
Synonyms: sex change
transexions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transexion
waikaviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waikavirus
unhirable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unhirable
form: most unhirable
form: unhireable
Etymology: From un- + hirable.
Senses: examples: text: After the candidate swore and picked his nose throughout the interview, we considered him unhirable.
glosses: That cannot be hired; unsuitable for hiring.
unhirable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unhirables
form: unhireable
Etymology: From un- + hirable.
Senses: glosses: One who cannot be hired; an unsuitable employee.
unhirables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unhirable
unhireable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unhireable
form: most unhireable
Etymology: From un- + hireable.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unhirable.
unhireable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unhireables
Etymology: From un- + hireable.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unhirable.
unhireables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unhireable
upconverter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upconverters
Senses: glosses: A device or software that upconverts.
Derived terms: block upconverter
upconverters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upconverter
upconvert
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upconverts
form: upconverting
form: upconverted
form: upconverted
Etymology: From up- + convert.
Senses: glosses: To convert (an audio or video signal, etc.) from a lower quality or resolution to a higher one.
Synonyms: upscale
upconverting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upconvert
upconverts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upconvert
unsituated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + situated.
Senses: glosses: Not situated; without a situation or position; lacking a place.
tab stop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tab stops
Senses: glosses: On a typewriter, any of the horizontal locations where the carriage movement is halted by mechanical gears.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A horizontal column in a text document to which the cursor jumps when the Tab key is pressed, used for alignment.
tauroctony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tauroctonies
Etymology: From Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ταυροκτόνος (tauroktónos), from ταῦρος (taûros, “bull”) + κτόνος (któnos, “killing”).
Senses: examples: text: In any event, if, as I am arguing, the tauroctony represents the astronomical situation which obtained during the epoch in which the spring equinox was in Taurus, the fact that the summer solstice was in Leo during that epoch provides a convincing explanation for the occasional presence of the figure of a lion in the tauroctony.
ref: 1991, David Ulansey, The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries, Oxford University Press, page 54:
text: The central icon, ever present in Mithras temples throughout the Roman Empire, is the tauroctony, or bull-slaying.
ref: 2005, Payam Nabarz, The Mysteries of Mithras, Inner Traditions, page 20:
text: Tauroctonies featuring Mithras' regular clothes but with a crown instead of a cap would belong to a further cluster. A tauroctony would then also be assigned to other clusters for its patterns of features relating to the torchbearers, to the animals, and so on.
ref: 2022, Kevin Stoba, “6: A network analysis of the Mithraic tauroctony”, in Anna Collar, editor, Networks and the Spread of Ideas in the Past, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), unnumbered page:
topics: art
arts
glosses: A depiction (typically in relief or sculpture) of Mithras killing a bull; associated with the practice of Mithraism (as a cult) in the Roman Empire.
tauroctonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tauroctony
paleornithology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From paleo- + ornithology.
Senses: glosses: The branch of paleontology that deals with fossil birds.
Synonyms: avian paleontology
Related terms: paleornithologic
paleornithological
paleornithologically
paleornithologist
Harrapan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Harrapan
form: most Harrapan
Etymology: From Harappa + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Harappa archaeological site in Punjab, northeast Pakistan, or the ancient civilization that once lived there.
Harrapan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Harrapans
Etymology: From Harappa + -an.
Senses: glosses: A member of the ancient civilisation that once occupied Harappa.
Harrapans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Harrapan
hydrographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hydrographic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of, or in terms of, hydrography.
hyperwhite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperwhite
form: most hyperwhite
Etymology: From hyper- + white.
Senses: examples: text: To compensate for being so hyperwhite and boring, Petula is sexually active.
ref: 2008, Ozmioz Mak, Victory Sex, page 14:
text: This [a depiction of people with brown skin] is the one such representation in Parker and Sendak's illustrated (and critically abridged) edition, which otherwise presents the characters as almost surreally hyperwhite.
ref: 2009, Robert S. Levine, Dislocating Race and Nation:
text: But as one recent cultural critic points out, in creating a hyperwhite “safe” space, “nerds” rejected black hip-hop music and dress.
ref: 2010, Daniel J. Walkowitz, City Folk, page 258:
glosses: Very much white or Caucasian; following the stereotypes of the white race to the exclusion of others.
gazundered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gazunder
gazundering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gazunder
hypervolaemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypervolaemic
form: most hypervolaemic
Etymology: From hyper- + volaemic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hypervolemic.
haemodilution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haemodilutions
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hemodilution.
Related terms: haemodilutional
thromboelastometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to thromboelastometry.
thromboelastometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thrombo- + elasto- + -metry.
Senses: glosses: A viscoelastic method for haemostasis testing in whole blood.
gastriloquism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gastriloquy + -ism.
Senses: glosses: ventriloquism
Russian olive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Russian olives
Senses: glosses: An oleaster, Elaeagnus angustifolia.
cytoblastema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytoblastemas
form: cytoblastemata
Etymology: From Ancient Greek [Term?] hollow vessel + growth.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: protoplasm
cytoblastemata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cytoblastema
cytoblastemas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cytoblastema
suddenties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suddenty
suddenty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suddenties
Etymology: From Middle English sodeynte, from Old French sodaineté (Modern French soudaineté).
Senses: examples: text: My father's tongue was loosed of a suddenty, and he said aloud , “ I refer mysell to God's pleasure , and not to yours . ”
ref: 1824 June, [Walter Scott], Redgauntlet, […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
glosses: suddenness; a sudden
stewish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stewish
form: most stewish
Etymology: From stew + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Like a stew or thick soup.
examples: text: What, he, that earst to gain the ryming goale,
The worne Recitall-post of Capitolle,
Rymed in rules of stewish ribaldry,
Teaching experimentall baudery?
ref: 1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC:
glosses: Suiting a stew (brothel), i.e. lewd or lascivious
tab stops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tab stop
papized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of papize