cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
occursion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈkɜː(ɹ)ʒən/
Forms: form: occursions
Etymology: From Latin occursio. See occur.
Senses: examples: text: in the Resolution of Bodies by the Fire some of the dissipated Parts may, by their various occursion occasion'd by the heat, be brought to stick together so closely
ref: 1661, Robert Boyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-physical Doubts & Paradoxes, […], London: […] J. Cadwell for J. Crooke, […], →OCLC:
qualifier: literal or figurative
glosses: A meeting or striking together; a clash or collision.
occursions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of occursion
repand
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ænd
Forms: form: more repand
form: most repand
Etymology: From Latin repandus (“bent backward, turned up”), from re- (“re-”) + pandus (“bent, crooked”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: sinuolate
glosses: Having a slightly undulating margin.
glosses: Bent or curved backward or upward.
plicature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈplɪkət͡ʃə(ɹ)/
/ˈplɪkətjʊə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: plicatures
Etymology: From Latin plicatura, from plicare (“to fold”).
Senses: examples: text: For no man can unfold / The many plicatures ſo cloſely preſt / At loweſt verge.
ref: 1640 (date written), H[enry] M[ore], “ΨΥΧΟΖΩΙΑ [Psychozōia], or A Christiano-platonicall Display of Life, […]”, in ΨΥΧΩΔΙΑ [Psychōdia] Platonica: Or A Platonicall Song of the Soul, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel, printer to the Universitie, published 1642, →OCLC, book 1, stanza 18, page 5:
qualifier: archaic outside sciences
glosses: A doubling; a fold; a plication.
plicatures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plicature
amelcorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From either German Amelkorn or Dutch amelcoren, amelkoren, respectively from German Ammel (from Middle High German amel, amer) and Dutch amel, variants of German Emmer and Dutch emer (“emmer”), + respectively German Korn and Dutch koren (“corn”).
Senses: glosses: Any of several types of awned wheat having a high starch content, especially emmer (Triticum turgidum subsp. dicoccum).
unwithdrawn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + withdrawn.
Senses: examples: text: an unwithdrawn guilty plea
text: an unwithdrawn offer
text: [S]he caught me as i was again trying to force the open the door. "I won't allow it; I won't have my premises spoiled. Go for the locksmith, there's one about a mile from here. But avast!" putting her hand in her side-pocket, "here's a key that'll fit, I guess; let's see." And with that, she turned it in the lock; but, alas! Queequeg's supplemental bolt remained unwithdrawn within.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Ramadan”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 93:
glosses: Not withdrawn.
phrenologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From phrenological + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: ... certain it was his head was phrenologically an excellent one.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 10:
text: His brow was of the sort phrenologically associated with more than average intellect […]
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 7, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
glosses: In terms of phrenology.
snortings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snorting
wonderments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wonderment
overswarm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overswarms
form: overswarming
form: overswarmed
form: overswarmed
Etymology: From over- + swarm.
Senses: examples: text: Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all India, and hang out their blazing banner from the sun[…]
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: To swarm over; to overrun.
overswarming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overswarm
overswarms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overswarm
overswarmed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overswarm
snifflings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sniffling
clingest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: cling + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of cling
clingeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: cling + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cling
clingfilms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clingfilm
clingfilmed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From clingfilm + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wrapped in clingfilm.
impoofo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impoofoo
Etymology: From Xhosa or Zulu impofu.
Senses: glosses: The eland.
unpanelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + panelled.
Senses: glosses: Not panelled; without panels.
impoofoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of impoofo.
alkargen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of alkarsin + oxygen
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: cacodylic acid
corle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corles
Senses: glosses: A district or province.
dodecapolis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dodecapolises
form: dodecapoli
form: dodekapolis
form: duodecapolis
Etymology: From dodeca- + -polis.
Senses: glosses: A group or confederation of twelve cities.
inlace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inlaces
form: inlacing
form: inlaced
form: inlaced
Etymology: From in- + lace. Compare Old English enlacen (“to entangle, involve”), Old French enlacier, French enlacer. See lace, and compare enlace.
Senses: examples: text: O let these armes inlace thee
ref: 1614, Phineas Fletcher, Sicelides:
glosses: To work in, as lace; to embellish with work resembling lace.
glosses: To enlace.
inlaced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inlace
inlaces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inlace
inlacing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inlace
lark's-heel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lark's-heels
Senses: glosses: Monks cress, garden nasturtium (Tropaeolum majus).
glosses: Larkspur (Delphinium spp.).
lark's-heels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lark's-heel
resilition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resilitions
Senses: glosses: resilience
resilitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resilition
tentiginous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈtɛntɪd͡ʒɪnəs/
Forms: form: more tentiginous
form: most tentiginous
Etymology: From Latin tentigo, tentiginis (“a tension, lecherousness”), from tendere, tentum (“to stretch”).
Senses: examples: text: I think, it is agreed among physicians, that nothing affects the head so much, as a tentiginous humour, repelled and elated to the upper region, found by daily practice to run frequently up into madness.
ref: c. 1710, Jonathan Swift, A Discourse concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit:
glosses: stiff; stretched; strained
examples: text: Were you tentiginous? Ha? And again. Would you be acting of the incubus? Did her silks' rustling move you?
ref: 1616, Ben Jonson, The Devil Is an Ass:
glosses: lustful
stretchedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stretched + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being stretched.
exauthorate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: exauthorates
form: exauthorating
form: exauthorated
form: exauthorated
form: exauctorate
Etymology: From Latin exauctoratus, past participle of exauctorare (“to dismiss”), from ex (“out”) + auctorare (“to bind to something, to hire”), from auctor. See author.
Senses: examples: text: Exauthorated for their unworthiness.
ref: 1651–1653, Jer[emy] Taylor, ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC:
synonyms: depose
discharge
exauthorize
glosses: To deprive of authority or power
Related terms: exauthoration
exauthorated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of exauthorate
Comtist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Comtists
Etymology: From (Auguste) Comte + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: I am not aware that there is any sect of Agnostics; and if there be, I am not its acknowledged prophet or pope. I desire to leave to the Comtists the entire monopoly of the manufacture of imitation ecclesiasticism.
ref: 1889, Thomas Henry Huxley, Agnosticism:
text: The implied critique of the Comtists is clear: they imagined themselves an advance on the creators of putative sciences de l'homme, where they were in fact a wrong-headed deviation from the work initiated by their supposed intellectual progenitors.
ref: 2017, Mark Bevir, Historicism and the Human Sciences in Victorian Britain, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 175:
synonyms: positivist
glosses: A follower of Comtism.
Comtists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Comtist
bottlehead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottleheads
Etymology: From bottle + head.
Senses: glosses: The bottlenose whale
examples: text: But why , for a blind bottle-head, did not ye ask the guineas?
ref: 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: A beetlehead; a fool
bottleheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bottlehead
avowtries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of avowtry
avowtry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: avowtries
form: advoutry
form: advowtry
Etymology: From Middle English avoutrie, from Old French avouterie, variant (perhaps influenced by vout, vut (“vow”)) of aouterie, aolterie, from Late Latin adulterium. Doublet of adultery, which replaced it in modern English.
Senses: glosses: adultery
Related terms: advoutrer
avouterer
avoutrer
advoutress
pheese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pheeses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of feeze.
pheese
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pheeses
form: pheesing
form: pheesed
form: pheesed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of feeze.
setiparous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From seta + Latin papere (“to produce”).
Senses: examples: text: setiparous glands
text: setiparous sacs
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Producing setae.
unbeaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + beaded.
Senses: glosses: Not supplied or decorated with beads.
beadless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bead + -less.
Senses: glosses: Not supplied or decorated with beads.
owelties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of owelty
owelty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: owelties
form: ovelty
form: ovealty
Etymology: Old French. Doublet of equality.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: equality
parcenaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parcenary
parcenary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parcenaries
Etymology: See parcener, partner.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: coparcenary; coheirship.
Stahlian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Stahlians
Etymology: From Stahl + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A believer in, or advocate of, Stahlism.
Stahlian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Stahlian
form: most Stahlian
Etymology: From Stahl + -ian.
Senses: examples: the Stahlian theory of phlogiston
glosses: Of or relating to Stahlism.
Stahlians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Stahlian
cuttystool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuttystools
Etymology: From cutty + stool.
Senses: examples: text: And they who passed would see Alison trupling in her garden, speaking to herself like the ill wife she was, or sitting on a cutty-stool by the doorside, with her eyes on other than mortal sights.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
glosses: A low stool.
synonyms: stool of repentance
glosses: A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister.
cuttystools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuttystool
pneumography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pneumo- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: scientific description of the lungs.
Derived terms: phonopneumography
pneumographic
poize
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poizes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of poise.
poizes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poize
tetterwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tetter + wort.
Senses: glosses: A plant used as a remedy for tetter, Chelidonium majus
glosses: Sanguinaria canadensis, the bloodroot.
Synonyms: sense: Chelidonium majus
word: swallowwort
sense: Chelidonium majus
word: greater celandine
convicious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more convicious
form: most convicious
Senses: examples: text: convicious words
ref: 1559, Queen Elizabeth I, Royal Injunctions:
glosses: reproachful; abusive; taunting.
thoroughwax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thorow wax
form: thorow-wax
Senses: glosses: A boneset or thoroughwort (Eupatorium spp.).
synonyms: thorow-wax
throw-wax
hare's ear
hound's ear
glosses: A thorowax, an umbelliferous plant of species Bupleurum rotundifolium) with perfoliate leaves.
glosses: Other Bupleurum species
bupleurum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bupleurums
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Bupleurum of apiaceous plants.
bupleurums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bupleurum
apiaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Apiaceae + -ous
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the family Apiaceae, including the carrots.
Synonyms: umbelliferous
overstare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overstares
form: overstaring
form: overstared
form: overstared
Etymology: From over- + stare.
Senses: examples: text: an overstaring frounced head
ref: a. 1569 (date written), Roger Ascham, edited by Margaret Ascham, The Scholemaster: Or Plaine and Perfite Way of Teaching Children, to Vnderstand, Write, and Speake, the Latin Tong, […], London: […] John Daye, […], published 1570, →OCLC:
glosses: To stare wildly.
examples: text: I would o'erstare the sternest eyes that look
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
glosses: To outstare.
overstared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overstare
overstares
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overstare
overstaring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overstare
undermeal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undermeals
Etymology: From Middle English undermele, undermel (“the early part of the afternoon, midday, noon; an afternoon meal or nap”), from Old English undernmǣl (“morning, morning time; morning meal”), equivalent to undern + meal. Compare the word for midday and the word undern.
Senses: examples: text: By the time—he hath din'd at a taverne, and slept his undermeals at a bawdy-house, his purse is [empty].
ref: 1599, Nash, Leuten Stuff:
glosses: Synonym of undern: originally terce and the morning, later (UK, dialectal, obsolete) noon and the early afternoon.
synonyms: word: undern
extra: originally terce and the morning, later (UK, dialectal, obsolete) noon and the early afternoon
examples: text: In a narrower limit than the forty years' undermeal of the seven sleepers.
ref: 1599, Nash, Leuten Stuff:
glosses: Synonym of siesta: an afternoon nap.
synonyms: word: siesta
extra: an afternoon nap
examples: text: Another great supper, or undermeal, was made ready for them, coming home from ditching and plowing.
ref: 1608, Withals
text: I think I am furnished for [=with] Cather'ne pears, [enough] for one undermeal.
ref: c. 1614-1631, Ben Johnson, Bartholomew Fayre: A Comedy:
text: Why should not thy soul have her due drinks, breakfasts, meals, undermeals, bevers, and aftermeals, as well as thy body?'
ref: 1630, Samuel Ward, “Sermon on the Life of Faith, quoted in 1883”, in Kingsthorpiana; Or, Researches in a Church Chest, page 97:
glosses: An afternoon meal or snack.
Synonyms: topics: time
word: noon
raw_tags: of day
word: terce
word: midday
sense: afternoon nap
word: shut-eye
sense: meal
word: meal
undermeals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undermeal
conspissation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin conspissatio, from inspissare (“to make thick”).
Senses: examples: text: Of universall life each thing's deriv'd Whater'e appeareth in corporeall fashion;
For body's but this spirit, fixt, grosse by conspissation
ref: 1647, Henry More, Infinitie of Worlds:
synonyms: inspissation
glosses: A thickening or making viscous; thickness
glosses: -
1694, R. Burthogge, Essay upon Reason:
The Cold of the Night[…]does much contribute to the Conspissation of the Spirits Vehicle.
glosses: -
1694, R. Burthogge, Essay upon Reason:
The Cold of the Night[…]does much contribute to the Conspissation of the Spirits Vehicle.
1694, R. Burthogge, Essay upon Reason
glosses: -
1694, R. Burthogge, Essay upon Reason:
The Cold of the Night[…]does much contribute to the Conspissation of the Spirits Vehicle.
The Cold of the Night[…]does much contribute to the Conspissation of the Spirits Vehicle.
downsitting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downsittings
Etymology: From down + sitting.
Senses: examples: text: Thou knowest my downsitting and my uprising.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 139:2:
glosses: The act of sitting down; repose, sitting or resting.
downsittings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of downsitting
psilanthropism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: [I]n speaking theologically and impersonally, i. e. of Psilanthropism and Theanthropism as schemes of Belief, without referrence to Individuals who profess either the one or the other, it will be absurd to use a different language as long as it is the dictate of common sense, that two opposites cannot properly be called by the same name.
ref: 1817, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “[Critique on Bertram.] Chapter XXIV. Conclusion.”, in Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, volume II, London: Rest Fenner, […], →OCLC, page 308:
glosses: psilanthropy
anemonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anemony
anemony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anemonies
Senses: examples: text: The Boy, with whom Love seem'd to die,
Bleeds in this pale Anemony
ref: 1632, George Sandys, Urania:
glosses: Archaic form of anemone.
swardy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more swardy
form: most swardy
Etymology: From sward + -y.
Senses: synonyms: swarded
glosses: Covered with sward or grass.
burgessy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burgessies
Etymology: From Middle English burgeisie, borgeysye, from Old French bourgesie, borgoisie (“citizenship”), from borgeis, burgeis (“a citizen”), from Medieval Latin burgensis, derivative of burgus (“a borough, town”), from Frankish *burg (“town”), from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“burg, castle, stronghold, town”). Doublet of bourgeoisie. More at borough, burg, bury, burgh, and burh.
Senses: glosses: Citizenship.
Related terms: burgess
chipping squirrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chipping squirrels
Senses: glosses: A chipmunk.
chipping squirrels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chipping squirrel
moner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moners
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the former kingdom Monera.
moners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moner
cresylic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From creosote.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: cresol
chirping chips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: As I got the pile in front of Oakley, I prayed he would just take the chips and shut up. But nope, in poker there is a thing called chirping chips. Whenever a player wins a big pot, especially by luck, they tend to try to justify it to everyone.
ref: 2006, Rick Gadziola, Drawing Dead:
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Chips that a player has won that make him or her more talkative at the table.
chirplets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chirplet
hobiler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hobilers
Senses: examples: text: 6 Archers out of Shropshire James Earle of Ormond for himself , 4s . per diem , 2 knights 28 . per diem , 17 esquires , 12d . per diem ; 20 hobilers armed , at 6d . . per diem , and 20 hobilers not armed , at 4d . per diem each
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, Military Antiquities:
glosses: Alternative form of hobbler (“light horseman”).
hobilers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hobiler
antrustion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antrustions
Etymology: From French, from Latin antrustio; compare Latin trustis.
Senses: glosses: A vassal or bodyguard of Merovingian kings.
Synonyms: leud
Derived terms: antrustionship
antrustions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antrustion
turnip shell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turnip shells
Senses: glosses: The shell of any several large, thick, spiral sea snails belonging to genus Rapa and pthers, roughly turnip-shaped.
glosses: The shell of any several large, thick, spiral sea snails belonging to genus Rapa and pthers, roughly turnip-shaped.
Rapana rapiformis (syn. Rapana bulbosa).
turnip shells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turnip shell
imbowel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: imbowels
form: imboweling
form: imbowelling
form: imboweled
form: imboweled
form: imbowelled
form: imbowelled
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of embowel.
tewhit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tewhits
Senses: examples: text: A fierce rasping noise broke harshly upon the clear atmosphere, mingled with sounds of voices in gossip and laughter; flocks of tewhits (lapwings), their white breasts glittering in the sunlight, swept overhead.
ref: 1874, Charles Gibbon, In Honour Bound, volume 2, page 67:
text: Or sit in restful gloaming-tide,
'Neath honeysuckle porch,
And watch the tewhits winging low
ref: 1899, Elizabeth S. MacQueen MacLeod, Carols of Canada (quoting ...?), page 141
glosses: Alternative form of tewit.
tewhits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tewhit
semitranslucent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + translucent.
Senses: glosses: Slightly translucent; allowing a small amount of light to pass through.
doughfaceism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From doughface + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The character of a doughface; pliability of character.
uniclinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + -clinal.
Senses: examples: text: uniclinal axis
text: uniclinal line
text: uniclinal shifting
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: monoclinal
Related terms: unicline
corpusculous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʌskjʊləs
Forms: form: more corpusculous
form: most corpusculous
Senses: examples: text: From moths perfectly free from corpuscles he obtained healthy worms , and selecting 10 , 20 , 30 , 50 , as the case might be , he introduced into the worms the corpusculous matter
ref: 1871, John Tyndall, Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Lectures, and Reviews:
glosses: corpuscular
symposiacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of symposiac
musquaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: musquaws
Etymology: From a Native American (probably Algonquian) word. Perhaps from Abenaki moskwas (“muskrat, musquash”). The use of a Native American word for one animal to designate a different animal was not uncommon; compare woodchuck (“groundhog”), from an Algonquian word for the fisher marten.
Senses: glosses: The American black bear.
musquaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of musquaw
dewretting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dew + retting.
Senses: glosses: The process of decomposing the gummy matter of flax and hemp and setting the fibrous part, by outdoor exposure, to dew, rain, and sunshine.
tutenag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toothenague
form: tootnague
form: tutanague
form: tutenague
Etymology: From French toutenague, from Portuguese tutenaga, tutanaga, from Tamil துத்தநாகம் (tuttanākam, “raw zinc”). Doublet of tutty.
Senses: glosses: crude zinc
glosses: paktong
tutenague
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tutenag.
hypozincemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypozincaemia
Etymology: From hypo- + zinc + -emia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The condition of having insufficient zinc in the bloodstream.
hypozincaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hypozincemia.
defilements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of defilement
cleanlier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of cleanly: more cleanly
cleanliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of cleanly: most cleanly
aragonites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aragonite
arragonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arragonites
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of aragonite.
arragonites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arragonite
transflux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transfluxes
Etymology: From trans- + flux.
Senses: synonyms: throughflow
glosses: A flowing through, across, or beyond
transfluxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transflux
selectest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: All Heaven,
And happy constellations, on that hour
Shed their selectest influence; the Earth
Gave sign of gratulation, and each hill; […]
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: superlative form of select: most select
whimsicalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whimsicality
incoherences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incoherence
preparatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preparative
lurchingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lurchingly
form: most lurchingly
Etymology: From lurching + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: With slouched hat, Ahab lurchingly paced the planks.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: With a lurching motion.
lurdans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lurdan
unsurrenderable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsurrenderable
form: most unsurrenderable
Etymology: From un- + surrenderable.
Senses: examples: text: There was an infinity of firmest fortitude, a determinate, unsurrenderable wilfulness, in the fixed and fearless, forward dedication of that glance.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: Not to be surrendered.
surrenderable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more surrenderable
form: most surrenderable
Etymology: From surrender + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being surrendered; due to be handed over.
indomitableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From indomitable + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Nor, will the tragic dramatist who would depict mortal indomitableness in its fullest sweep and direct swing, ever forget a hint, incidentally so important in his art, as the one now alluded to.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
synonyms: indomitability
glosses: The state or quality of being indomitable.
uninvitedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From uninvited + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: This was strangely heightened at times by the ragged Elijah's diabolical incoherences uninvitedly recurring to me, with a subtle energy I could not have before conceived of.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: Without an invitation.
unexhilarated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unexhilarated
form: most unexhilarated
Etymology: From un- + exhilarated.
Senses: examples: text: But presently, catching hold of the mizen shrouds, he swings himself to the deck, and in an even, unexhilarated voice, saying, "Dinner, Mr. Starbuck," disappears into the cabin.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: Not exhilarated.
meditativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meditative + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Beware of enlisting in your vigilant fisheries any lad with lean brow and hollow eye; given to unseasonable meditativeness; and who offers to ship with the Phaedon instead of Bowditch in his head.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: The quality of being meditative.
defyingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfaɪ(j)ɪŋ(ɡ)li/
Forms: form: more defyingly
form: most defyingly
Etymology: From defying + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […] while in the open air of the deck some officers will, upon provocation, bear themselves boldly and defyingly enough towards their commander […]
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: With defiance.
swayings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swaying
credulities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Nick was on the point of declaring again that he was a humbug, so vivid was his inner sense of what he thought of his factitious public utterances, which had the cursed property of creating dreadful responsibilities and importunate credulities for him.
ref: 1889–1890, Henry James, The Tragic Muse […], volume (please specify the page), Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], published 7 June 1890, →OCLC:
glosses: plural of credulity
gamesomeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gamesome + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: So when they were working that evening at the pumps, there was on this head no small gamesomeness slily going on among them, as they stood with their feet continually overflowed by the rippling clear water; [...]
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Town-Ho’s Story (As Told at the Golden Inn.)”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 274:
glosses: The quality of being gamesome.
gladhearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gladhearted
form: most gladhearted
Etymology: From glad + hearted.
Senses: examples: text: They came back to camp wonderfully refreshed, glad-hearted, and ravenous; and they soon had the camp-fire blazing up again.
ref: 1876, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer:
text: […] even the barest, ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old oak will at least send forth some few green sprouts, to welcome such glad-hearted visitants; so Ahab did, in the end, a little respond to the playful allurings of that girlish air.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
glosses: cheerful
unworshipping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + worshipping.
Senses: examples: text: The Pagan leopards — the unrecking and unworshipping things, that live; and seek, and give no reasons for the torrid life they feel!
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: Not taking part in worship.
reddenest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: redden + -est
Senses: examples: text: So, so; thou reddenest and palest; my heat has melted thee to anger-glow.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of redden
reddeneth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: redden + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of redden
CFG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CFGs
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of context-free grammar.
examples: text: Open the cfg and modify the first option.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A configuration file.
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: Initialism of control-flow graph.
CFG
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Initialism of City Football Group.
Nantucket
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /nænˈtʌkɪt/
rhymes: -ʌkɪt
Etymology: From Massachusett Natocke, Nantican, Nautican, roughly translating as "in the middle of waters".
Senses: synonyms: Little Grey Lady of the Sea
glosses: A resort island south of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, United States, formerly a major whaling port.
glosses: A census-designated place in the north-middle part of Nantucket in Nantucket County, Massachusetts, comprising about 12% of the land area of the island.
glosses: Ellipsis of Nantucket County, a combined town and county that includes the island of Nantucket, along with Tuckernuck and Muskeget.
Derived terms: Nantucket County
Nantucketer
Nantucket sleigh ride
crab plover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crab plovers
Senses: glosses: Any wading bird of species Dromas ardeola.
adnation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adnations
Senses: examples: text: adnation of petals and stamens
text: adnation of branches
text: adnation of stipule and leaf
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The fusion of different floral verticils or sets of organs.
Related terms: adnate
adnations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adnation
cytogenies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cytogeny
cytogeny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytogenies
Etymology: From cyto- + -geny.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: cytogenesis
verticils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verticil
deconsolidation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːkənˌsɒlɪˈdeɪʃən/
Forms: form: deconsolidations
Etymology: From de- + consolidation.
Senses: glosses: The separation of the components of a consolidated shipment (usually in a shared container) for delivery to their respective consignees
Related terms: deconsolidate
spanless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spanless
form: most spanless
Etymology: From span + -less.
Senses: examples: text: What spanless oceans of unselfish, loving service, what spanless seas of victories, gilded and garnished by unvoiced sufferings!
ref: 1896 January, Robert E. Speer, “The Foreign Missionary Work of the Salvation Army”, in The Missionary Review of the World, volume 9, page 29:
text: "As king," comes rining from every side of the shrouded summits, which catch the words and bear them from hollow, spanless depths to wild, yawning gorges among the black cliffs, down which green waters pour from the gloomy precincts of the cave where rest the remains of Onesinda.
ref: 2021, Frances Minto Elliot, The Court Life in Spain:
glosses: Incapable of being spanned; vast.
deconsolidations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deconsolidation
paneulogism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paneulogisms
Etymology: From pan- + eulogy + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: With all its excellencies, and they are many, her book has a trace of the cant of paneulogism.
ref: 1857, The National Review, volume 5, page 130:
text: Owing to, or, at least, in conjunction with, the retrospective tendencies of the age, Paneulogism is become one of the most prominent vices of criticism.
ref: 1860, Arthur Lloyd Windsor, Ethica; or, Characteristics of Men, Manners, and Books, page 285:
glosses: eulogy of everything; indiscriminate praise
paneulogisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paneulogism
disacquaintance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dis- + acquaintance.
Senses: examples: text: Conscience by a long neglect of , and dis-acquaintance with it self
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
glosses: Neglect or disuse of familiarity, or familiar acquaintance.
ochery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ochery
form: most ochery
form: ochrey
form: ochry
Etymology: From ocher + -y.
Senses: glosses: ocherous
ophidioid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ophidioid
form: most ophidioid
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Ophidiidae, a family of fishes.
ophidioid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ophidioids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: cusk-eel
glosses: Any of the Ophidiidae.
ophidioids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ophidioid
hybridous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hybridous
form: most hybridous
Senses: examples: text: hybridous animals
text: hybridous offspring
glosses: hybrid
raptorious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəs
Forms: form: more raptorious
form: most raptorious
Etymology: Latin raptorius.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: raptorial
coontie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coonties
Etymology: From Creek [Term?].
Senses: glosses: Zamia integrifolia (syn. Zamia floridana), cycadaceous plants of Florida and the West Indies, or the starch (sago) produced from these plants.
Synonyms: Florida arrowroot
bierbalk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bierbalks
Etymology: From bier + balk.
Senses: examples: text: their ancestors left of their land a broad and sufficient bierbalk to carry the corpse to the Christian sepulture
ref: 1571, John Jewel et al., “An Homily for Rogation week”, in The Second Tome of Homilees […] :
glosses: A church road (such as a path across fields) for funerals.
bierbalks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bierbalk
thermotaxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thermo- + -taxic.
Senses: examples: the thermotaxic nervous system
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to the regulation of temperature in the animal body
Derived terms: homeothermotaxic
anhima
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anhimas
Etymology: From a Tupian word of the form nha um, meaning "black bird" (compare nhandu, una).
Senses: glosses: horned screamer
anhimas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anhima
Tavastian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Tavastian
form: most Tavastian
Etymology: From Tavastia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Tavastia in Finland.
Tavastian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tavastians
Etymology: From Tavastia + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Tavastia in Finland.
Tavastians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tavastian
stearolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stearic and oleic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Designating an acid of the acetylene series, isologous with stearic acid and obtained from oleic acid.
side center
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: side centers
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A former position in women's basketball that played in the backcourt along with the guards.
remanufacturer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remanufacturers
Etymology: From remanufacture + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who remanufactures.
remanufacturers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of remanufacturer
multislot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + slot.
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to more than one slot.
undeclaration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undeclarations
Etymology: From un- + declaration.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: The act of undeclaring something previously declared.
undeclarations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undeclaration
demarginalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + marginalization.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of demarginalizing.
demarginalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: demarginalizes
form: demarginalizing
form: demarginalized
form: demarginalized
Etymology: From de- + marginalize.
Senses: glosses: To bring (something marginalized) back into the mainstream.
demarginalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of demarginalize
demarginalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of demarginalize
demarginalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of demarginalize
disacquaint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disacquaints
form: disacquainting
form: disacquainted
form: disacquainted
Etymology: From dis- + acquaint: compare Old French desacointier.
Senses: examples: text: Thy ſcourge of ſteele, / (Ay me!) I feele, / Upon me beating ever: / VVhile my ſick heart / VVith diſmall ſmart / Is diſacquainted never.
ref: 1648, Robert Herrick, “[His Noble Numbers: Or, His Pious Pieces, […].] To His Angrie God.”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC, page 18:
glosses: To render (someone or something) unacquainted; to make (someone or something) unfamiliar.
disacquainted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disacquaint
disacquainting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disacquaint
disacquaints
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disacquaint
broken-winded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more broken-winded
form: most broken-winded
Senses: examples: text: My horse would have trotted to Clifton within the hour, if left to himself, and I have almost broke my arm with pulling him in to that cursed broken-winded jade’s pace.
ref: 1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter XI, in Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC:
coordinate_terms: short-winded
glosses: Suffering from a shortness of breath or similar respiratory problem.
raw_tags: of horses
lemurid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lemurids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any lemur in the family Lemuridae.
lemurid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lemurid
form: most lemurid
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lemuroid.
lemurids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lemurid
paragenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + -genic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Originating in the character of the germ, or at the first commencement of an individual; said of peculiarities of structure, character, etc.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the sequence and conditions under which minerals or mineral assemblages form in relation to one another.