cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unhonest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈɒnɪst/
/ʌnˈɒnəst/
Forms: form: more unhonest
form: most unhonest
Etymology: From Middle English unhonest, unhoneste (“dishonourable”), equivalent to un- + honest.
Senses: examples: text: These irregularities may be caused by environment, management, and unhonest or erroneous actions of any kind.
ref: 2000, Giacomo Della Riccia, Rudolf Kruse, Hans-Joachim Lenz, Computational Intelligence in Data Mining:
text: […] and the confrontation between Islam and the West, which dates back to the Arab conquests of the seventh century and the crusades." How unrealistic and even unhonest is this analysis and predating of terrorism!
ref: 2007, ʻUbaidullāh Fahd Falāhī, Terrorism, resistance, and Islam, page 77:
text: “I assured myself it was neither unjust nor unhonest for me to do for myself,” and he wrote to James reporting on the Queen's condition, and assuring him that he would be the first with the news when she died.
ref: 2008, George MacDonald Fraser, The Steel Bonnets:
text: THIS IS AN UNHONEST VENDOR, MAYBE HE HAS SOME DUMPS TO RESELL, BUT BE CAREFUL THIS RIPPER, COS IT'S YOUR MONEY BEFORE YOU TRANSFER TO THIS RIPPER!
ref: 2010, Thomas J. Holt, Bernadette Hlubik Schell, Corporate Hacking and Technology-driven Crime:
glosses: Dishonest, deceptive, misleading.
examples: text: Theſame Alexander, be auiſed and coũſailed, that he ſhould winne and make frendes vnto him, all ſuche perſones both honeſt and vnhoneſt, good and badde, as beare any rule, ſtroke or autoritte, in the commen weale, and that the good men he ſhould vſe, and the euil perſones he ſhould abuſe, that is to ſaie, applie to ſome good vſe, that of theimſelfes they are not apte nor inclined vnto.
ref: 1564 February, Erasmus, “The Saiynges of Philippus Kyng of Macedonie”, in Nicolas Udall [i.e., Nicholas Udall], transl., Apophthegmes, that is to Saie, Prompte, Quicke, Wittie and Sentẽcious Saiynges, […], London: […] Ihon Kingston, →OCLC, book II, folio 122, recto, paragraph 16:
text: children[…]should , neither see that was uncumlie, nor heare that was unhonest
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:
text: ‘We envy’ (saith Isocrates) ‘wise, just, honest men […]’ though they be otherwise vicious, unhonest; we love them, favour them, and are ready to do them any good office for their beauty's sake, though they have no other good quality beside.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition III, section 2, member 2, subsection ii:
glosses: Dishonourable; unseemly, not respectable.
glosses: Immoral, morally reprehensible.
Related terms: unhonestly
monoclinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + -clinal.
Senses: examples: text: monoclinal fold
text: monoclinal ridge
text: monoclinal structure
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
synonyms: uniclinal
glosses: Having one oblique inclination; applied to strata that dip in only one direction from the axis of elevation.
Related terms: monocline
monoclinic
isobarometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + barometric.
Senses: examples: text: isobarometric curve
text: isobarometric lines, i.e. isobars
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Indicating equal barometric pressure.
bladdery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bladdery
form: most bladdery
Etymology: From bladder + -y.
Senses: glosses: Having bladders.
examples: an overripe, bladdery tomato
glosses: Resembling a bladder.
threatfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more threatfully
form: most threatfully
Etymology: From threatful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a threatful manner; threateningly
hypocraterimorphous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypocraterimorphous
form: most hypocraterimorphous
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὑποκρατήριον (hupokratḗrion, “stand for a mixing jar”) (from ὑπο- (hupo-) + κρατήρ (kratḗr) + -ιον (-ion)) + -morphous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: salverform
glosses: Shaped like a salver; having a slender tube that sharply expands into a bowl-shaped or spreading border, as in the blossom of the phlox and the lilac.
palaeoceanographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palaeoceanographers
Etymology: From palaeo- + oceanographer.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleoceanographer.
palaeoceanographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palaeoceanographer
rullichies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare Dutch rolletje (“a little roll”).
Senses: glosses: Chopped meat stuffed into a tripe lining, then sliced and fried.
patronless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more patronless
form: most patronless
Etymology: From patron + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking a patron or patrons; unsponsored; unpatronized; unpatroned.
Raphaelesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Raphaelesque
form: most Raphaelesque
form: Raffaelesque
Etymology: From Raphael + -esque.
Senses: glosses: In the style of the Italian painter Raphael.
mailclad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mail + clad.
Senses: examples: text: This renegade chief, or apostate, betrayed the Christian army into ground where the mailclad knights of Europe fainted for want of water, and were overwhelmed by the arrows of the lightmounted infidels
ref: 1828–1831, Walter Scott, Tales of a Grandfather; being Stories Taken from Scottish History. […] , volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] ; Dublin: John Cumming:
glosses: Protected by a coat of mail; clad in armour.
swinker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪŋkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: swinkers
Etymology: From Middle English swinkere, equivalent to swink + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Ye are twin swinkers in this nether field / One to prolong, the other to expand, / My landmark and my clock; but both must yield, / To the destroying angel's flaming wand, […]
ref: 1845, Thomas Ignatius M. Forster, Richard Gough, Epistolarium:
text: Tosspots and swinkers were they then; tosspots and swinkers are they still.
ref: 1891, Harper's magazine, volume 83, page 786:
text: […] whether they were quizzed by "those idle gallants who haunt taverns, gay and handsome," or hobnobbed with "travellers and tinkers, sweaters and swinkers," the alehouse was assuredly no place for nuns.
ref: 2010, Eileen Power, Medieval English Nunneries:
glosses: A toiler; a labourer.
Related terms: swinkard
swink
swinkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swinker
pulvinar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulvinars
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin pulvīnar (“a cushion”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A prominence on the posterior part of the thalamus of the human brain.
glosses: A pillow or cushion.
pulvinar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pulvinar
form: most pulvinar
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin pulvīnar (“a cushion”).
Senses: glosses: Padded; formed like a cushion.
unneighboured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unneighbored
Etymology: From un- + neighbour + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Without neighbours.
impostorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From impostor + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: [E]nclining rather to make this phantſm an expounder, or indeed a depraver of Saint Paul, then Saint Paul an examiner, and diſcoverer of this Impoſtorſhip; nor carring how ſlightly they put off the verdit of the holy Text unſalv'd, that ſays plainly there be but two Orders
ref: 1641 June or July, John Milton, Of Prelatical Episcopacy, and Whether It may be Deduc’d from the Apostolical Times by Virtue of Those Testimonies which are Alledg’d to that Purpose in Some Late Treatises; […]; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 247:
text: This adds another layer of anxiety to the feelings of impostorship and cultural suicide they already experience.
ref: 1999, Stephen Brookfield, Stephen Preskill, Discussion as a Way of Teaching:
glosses: The condition or practices of an impostor.
phytographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phyto- + -graphical. Compare French phytographique.
Senses: examples: text: phytographical method
text: phytographical society
synonyms: phytographic
glosses: Of or pertaining to phytography.
preexpectation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preexpectations
Etymology: From pre- + expectation.
Senses: glosses: previous expectation
preexpectations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preexpectation
unneighbored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unneighboured.
bracted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bracted
form: most bracted
Etymology: From bract + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: A Verticil or Whirl may be[…]Naked; that is without involucre, bracte or brittle. Bracted - or Involucred
ref: 1793, Thomas Martyn, The Language of Botany:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having bracts.
gastriloquy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A voice or utterance which appears to proceed from the stomach; ventriloquy.
Derived terms: gastriloquism
gastriloquist
tearlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tearless + -ness.
Senses: antonyms: tearfulness
glosses: Absence of tears; lack of weeping.
nebulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nebulated
form: most nebulated
Etymology: Ancient Greek [Term?]
Senses: glosses: Clouded with indistinct colour markings.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: nebuly
wiery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈwaɪəɹi/
Forms: form: more wiery
form: most wiery
Etymology: From wire. Compare fiery.
Senses: examples: text: Polymnia shall be drawn with her hair hanging loose about her shoulders, resembling wiery gold.
ref: 1622, Henry Peacham (Jr.), The Compleat Gentleman:
glosses: Obsolete form of wiry.
octoyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From octoic + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A hypothetical radical, C₈H₁₅O, regarded as the essential residue of octoic acid.
hydrostatician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrostaticians
Etymology: From hydrostatic + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Someone versed or skilled in hydrostatics.
hydrostaticians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrostatician
otoba fat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A colourless buttery substance obtained from the fruit of Otoba novogranatensis (formerly considered a species of nutmeg tree, Myristica otoba).
Synonyms: otoba wax
American nutmeg butter
Related terms: Otoba
otobain
antiboxing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiboxing
form: most antiboxing
Etymology: From anti- + boxing.
Senses: glosses: Opposing the sport of boxing.
gypsyism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gypsyisms
form: gipsyism
Etymology: From gypsy + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The state of being a gypsy.
glosses: The practices or habits ascribed to gypsies, such as deception, cheating, and flattery.
examples: text: The word is a gypsyism, one of many that we find in Spanish.
ref: 2016, César Domínguez, Anxo Abuín González, Ellen Sapega, A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula, page 35:
glosses: A word or phrase used by gypsies.
glosses: The support of gypsies or gypsy beliefs, culture etc.
Related terms: antigypsyism
kirmess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɜː(ɹ)məs/
Forms: form: kirmesses
form: kermesse
form: kermis
Etymology: From German Kirmes and Dutch kermis, both originally “church mass”, referring to a festival on the anniversary of the consecration of a church. See respective entries for more.
Senses: glosses: An outdoor festival and fair, usually in a German or Dutch-speaking country
glosses: An indoor entertainment and fair combined.
kirmesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kirmess
connature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: connatures
Senses: examples: text: Connature was defined as likeness in kind between either two changes in consciousness, or two states of consciousness.
ref: 1855, Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Psychology:
text: Nothing is to be said respecting the connature of relations in its various modes, beyond describing it; for the relation of connature is not decomposable into other relations.
ref: 1888, Walter Bowers Pillsbury, The Fundamentals of Psychology:
glosses: A common or shared nature or character.
Related terms: connatural
connatures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of connature
sulfitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: sulphitic
Etymology: From sulfite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to sulfite.
sulphitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sulfitic.
roadometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roadometers
Etymology: From road + -o- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An odometer.
roadometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roadometer
viameter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: viameters
Etymology: Latin via (“a way”) + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An early type of odometer.
viameters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of viameter
outbribe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outbribes
form: outbribing
form: outbribed
form: outbribed
Etymology: From out- + bribe.
Senses: glosses: To surpass in bribery, to bribe more than.
outbribed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outbribe
outbribes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outbribe
outbribing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outbribe
squishingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more squishingly
form: most squishingly
Etymology: From squishing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In the late afternoon when the ground is squishingly soft and soggy and the grass can be peeled loose from the earth, along comes Mother's aunt, puffing down the road.
ref: 1995, Katherine Hanson, An everyday story: Norwegian women's fiction:
glosses: With a squishing sound or texture.
antilogous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antilogous
form: most antilogous
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀντίλογος (antílogos).
Senses: glosses: Of the contrary name or character; opposite.
Derived terms: antilogous pole
Gemara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gemora
form: Gemoro
form: Gemorra
Etymology: From Aramaic גמרא.
Senses: glosses: Part of the Talmud, comprising rabbinical analysis of and commentary on the Mishnah.
Derived terms: Gemaric
Gemarist
laticiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Etymology: From Latin latex, laticis (“a liquid”) + -ferous.
Senses: examples: text: laticiferous duct
text: laticiferous tube
text: laticiferous vessels
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Containing latex; applied to the tissue or tubular vessels in which the latex of the plant is found.
Gemora
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Gemara.
Gemorra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Gemara.
glosses: Alternative form of Gomorrah.
disfurnishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From disfurnish + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: […]disfurniſhment of the enemie.
ref: 1612, Samuel Danyel [i.e., Daniel], “The Second Booke of the Historie of England: The Life of William. I.”, in The First Part of the Historie of England, London: […] Nicholas Okes, […], →OCLC, page 92:
glosses: The act of disfurnishing, or the state of being disfurnished.
indurance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indurances
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of endurance.
indurances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indurance
failance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪləns/
rhymes: -eɪləns
Forms: form: failances
Etymology: From Old French faillance, from faillir. Doublet of fallency.
Senses: examples: text: […] always made it necessary for him not to stir from his chair, or so much as read a letter, for two hours after every meal, failance wherein being certainly revenged by a sit of the gout […]
ref: 1810, John Fell, “Henry Hammond”, in Ecclesiastical Biography:
glosses: fault; failure; omission
failances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of failance
Woulfe bottle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Woulfe bottles
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of Woulfe's bottle.
Woulfe bottles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Woulfe bottle
palliatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more palliatory
form: most palliatory
Etymology: From palliate + -ory?
Senses: glosses: palliative, soothing
topics: law
glosses: extenuating
butyrone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From butyric + -one.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A liquid ketone obtained by heating calcium butyrate.
circumspectively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more circumspectively
form: most circumspectively
Etymology: From circumspective + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a circumspective manner; vigilantly
Synonyms: circumspectly
gadling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gadlings
Etymology: From Middle English gadeling (“companion in arms; man, fellow; a person of low birth; rascal, scoundrel; bastard; base, lowborn”), gadeling (“vagabond”), from Old English geaduling, gædeling (“kinsman, fellow, companion in arms, comrade”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaduling, from Proto-Germanic *gadulingaz, *gadilingaz (“relative, kinsman”), equivalent to gad + -ling. Related to Old English ġegada (“comrade, companion”).
Senses: examples: text: Gedlyngis, I am a fulle grete wat,
ref: 15th c., “Mactacio Abel [The Killing of Abel]”, in Wakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England, Alfred W. Pollard, editors, The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society Extra Series; LXXI), London: […] Oxford University Press, 1897, →OCLC, page 10, line 14:
glosses: A companion in arms, fellow, comrade.
examples: text: I'm delighted to see you. You're as brown, my gadling, as though you had returned from another journey to the East with Jean de Village.
ref: 1947, Thomas Bertram Costain, The Moneyman, digitized edition, Doubleday, published 2006, page 57:
glosses: A roving vagabond; one who roams
examples: text: “Pest on him!” said De Aquila. “I have more to do than to shiver in the Great Hall for every gadling the King sends. Left he no word?”
ref: 1906, Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008, page 96:
glosses: A man of humble condition; a fellow; a low fellow; lowborn; originally comrade or companion, in a good sense, but later used in reproach
glosses: A spike on a gauntlet; a gad.
gadlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gadling
insurancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insurancers
Etymology: From insurance + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The vain insurancers of life
ref: 1685, John Dryden, Threnodia Augustalis:
glosses: An insurer; an underwriter.
insurancers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insurancer
Milesian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌɪˈliːzɪən/
ipa: /mʌɪˈliːʒ(ə)n/
Forms: form: Milesians
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French Milesien, and its source Latin Mīlēsius, from Ancient Greek Μιλήσιος (Milḗsios).
Senses: glosses: a native or inhabitant of the ancient city of Miletus in Asia Minor.
glosses: a follower of the Milesian school of philosophy founded by Thales
Hyponyms: Anaximanderian
Anaximenean
Thalesian
Milesian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌɪˈliːzɪən/
ipa: /mʌɪˈliːʒ(ə)n/
Forms: form: more Milesian
form: most Milesian
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French Milesien, and its source Latin Mīlēsius, from Ancient Greek Μιλήσιος (Milḗsios).
Senses: examples: text: I commend the Milesian wench, who seeing Thales the Philosopher continually ammusing himselfe in the contemplation of heavens-wide-bounding vault, and ever holding his eyes aloft, laid something in his way to make him stumble[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: Pertaining to Miletus or its inhabitants.
Derived terms: Milesian tale
Milesian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌɪˈliːzɪən/
ipa: /mʌɪˈliːʒ(ə)n/
Forms: form: more Milesian
form: most Milesian
Etymology: From Latin Milesius, Latinised form of Míl Espáine, a legendary Spanish king whose sons were reputed to have conquered Ireland around 1300 BC.
Senses: examples: text: My father was the youngest son of a numerous family, all Irish, sprung from a very ancient and honourable stock, being of Milesian descent […] .
ref: 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 1
text: […] exultingly cried Lord Carhampton, stealing an underlook at Maurice O'Driscoll, whom ^([sic]) he knew was wont to boast of his Milesian lineage; […]
ref: 1884, M. L. O'Byrne, Ill-won Peerages, Or, An Unhallowed Union, page 427:
glosses: Pertaining to Milesius or his people; Irish.
Milesian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌɪˈliːzɪən/
ipa: /mʌɪˈliːʒ(ə)n/
Forms: form: Milesians
Etymology: From Latin Milesius, Latinised form of Míl Espáine, a legendary Spanish king whose sons were reputed to have conquered Ireland around 1300 BC.
Senses: glosses: A member of a people in Irish mythology, the descendants of Míl Espáine.
glosses: An Irishman; someone of Irish origin.
Milesians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Milesian
swinishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swinishnesses
Etymology: From swinish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being swinish.
hypsiloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypsiloid
form: most hypsiloid
Senses: examples: text: hypsiloid palate
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Resembling the Greek letter upsilon.
Synonyms: hyoid
oxidator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxidators
Etymology: From oxidate + -or.
Senses: glosses: An oxidizer.
glosses: A device for causing a current of air to impinge on the flame of the Argand lamp.
Synonyms: sense: device used with Argand lamp
word: oxygenator
oxidators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxidator
bargainee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bargainees
Etymology: Old French bargaigné.
Senses: examples: text: A lease , or rather bargain and sale , upon some pecuniary consideration , for one year , is made by the tenant of the freehold to the lessee or bargainee
ref: 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
topics: law
glosses: The party to a contract who receives, or agrees to receive, the property being sold.
bargainees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bargainee
maimedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From maimed + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Freedom from all defects and imperfections, diseases, and distempers, infirmities and deformities, maimedness and monstrous shapes.
ref: 2014, Thomas Bolton, The Four Last Things: Death, Judgement, Hell, and Heaven:
glosses: The state of being maimed.
acreable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From acre + -able.
Senses: examples: text: acreable produce
text: acreable rent
glosses: Based on an acre; per acre.
argilloferruginous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more argilloferruginous
form: most argilloferruginous
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄργιλλος (árgillos, “clay”) + ferruginous.
Senses: qualifier: soil science
glosses: Containing clay and iron.
kaloyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kaloyers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of caloyer.
kaloyers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kaloyer
enfeeblished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more enfeeblished
form: most enfeeblished
Etymology: From en- + feeblish + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Made feeble.
revertive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From revert + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: The tide revertive
ref: 1727, James Thomson, A Poem to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton:
glosses: Reverting, or tending to revert; returning.
Related terms: revertively
vers de société
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vers de societe.
waniand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wanyand
Etymology: From Middle English waniand, wanyand, wenyande, apparently a noun usage of waniand (“waning”, present participle), from Old English waniende (“waning”, present participle), from wanian (“to wane”), equivalent to wane + -and.
Senses: examples: text: For all thaire grete fare: It was in the waniand
That thai come thare
ref: 1352, Laurence Minot, Poems:
glosses: The wane of the Moon.
treature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: treatures
Etymology: From treat + -ure.
Senses: glosses: treatment
treatures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of treature
railingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more railingly
form: most railingly
Etymology: From railing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a railing manner, using violent or insulting language.
trirhomboidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + rhomboidal.
Senses: glosses: Having three rhombic faces or sides.
catsoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catso
catsos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catso
xi baryon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xi baryons
Etymology: Named after the Greek letter.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A subatomic hadron particle, denoted by Ξ, comprising three quarks: one up or down quark, and two heavier quarks.
Synonyms: cascade particle
bondslavery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bond + slavery.
Senses: glosses: The condition of a bondslave; indenture.
nonexplainable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + explainable.
Senses: glosses: Not explainable.
nonsynchronizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + synchronizable.
Senses: glosses: Not synchronizable.
unsynchronizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + synchronizable.
Senses: glosses: Not synchronizable.
gastrular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gastrula + -ar.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a gastrula.
foodophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foodophiles
Etymology: From food + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: For a group intent on nothing less than changing the course of culinary history, the foodophiles gathered in the ancient Sicilian mountain town of Erice are a rather odd crowd.
ref: 2002, Holly Hughes, Best Food Writing 2002, page 127:
glosses: A food lover.
inlighted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inlighted
form: most inlighted
Etymology: From Middle English inlighted, from Old English inlīhted, past participle of inlīhtan (“to illuminate, enlighten”), equivalent to inlight + -ed. More at inlight.
Senses: examples: text: And source of things, Shall, with inlighted rays, Pierce all their ways!
ref: 1894, Philip Gengembre Hubert, The Atlantic monthly:
text: [...] As the Son: but secondarily, as a Lamp inlighted, so the Light of Life is to shine forth in you.
ref: 1983, Edward Taylor, Thomas Marion Davis, Virginia L. Davis, Edward Taylor's Harmony of the Gospels:
glosses: Lit up or lighted; illuminated.
Synonyms: illuminated
lighty
lit up
inlighted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English inlighted, from Old English inlīhted, past participle of inlīhtan (“to illuminate, enlighten”), equivalent to inlight + -ed. More at inlight.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inlight
foodophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foodophile
foodprints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foodprint
octocellular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From octo- + cellular.
Senses: glosses: Having eight cells.
quadricellular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quadri- + cellular.
Senses: glosses: Having four cells.
tricellular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + cellular.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having three cells.
lipomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lipoma
recoverableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From recoverable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being recoverable.
demilancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demilancers
Etymology: From demilance + -er.
Senses: glosses: A soldier who carried a demilance.
demilancers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demilancer
euthanasy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of euthanasia.
guessingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From guessing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I have a letter guessingly set down
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vii]:
glosses: By way of conjecture; using guesswork.
theogonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From theogony + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: theogonic beliefs
glosses: Of or relating to theogony.
eathly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more eathly
form: most eathly
Etymology: From Middle English eaðelice, eaþelic, eðeliche, eþeliche, from Old English ēaþelīce, īþelīċe, īeþelīce; equivalent to eath + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Herewith the golden book gan open fair,
And eathly! I might read their names, that next
Went to the King […]
ref: 1829, originally 1593, George Peele, Alexander Dyce, The Works of George Peele: The Honour of the Garter:
glosses: In an eath or easy manner; easily; readily.
eathful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eathful
form: most eathful
Etymology: From eath + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Comfortable; at ease.
eathy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: eathier
form: more eathy
form: eathiest
form: most eathy
Etymology: From eath + -y.
Senses: glosses: Easy.
eathlins
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more eathlins
form: most eathlins
Etymology: From eath + -lins.
Senses: glosses: Easily; readily.
phobically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more phobically
form: most phobically
Etymology: From phobic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a phobic manner.
Derived terms: photophobically
pastorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pastorships
Etymology: From pastor + -ship.
Senses: glosses: Dignity or office of a pastor.
shepherdship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shepherd + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: Enki tries to calm Inanna, and he recites a litany of the spheres of influences she has been given: the staff of shepherdship, onslaughts and battles, the twisting of the thread.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 165:
glosses: The dignity or office of a shepherd.
onehead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: onhed
Etymology: From Middle English oneheede, onhed, anhede, from Old English *ānhǣdu (“oneness, unity”), equivalent to one + -head. Cognate with Dutch eenheid (“a unit, unity, oneness”), German Einheit (“a unit, unity, togetherness”), Swedish enhet (“a unit, oneness, unity”).
Senses: glosses: Oneness; unity.
glosses: Solitude.
Related terms: onehood
onehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English onhod, variation of onhed (“onehead”), equivalent to one + -hood. More at onehead.
Senses: glosses: Unity; agreement.
Related terms: onehead
onding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ondings
Etymology: From Middle English ondyng, equivalent to onde (“to breathe, breathe on”) + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Breathing; smelling.
onding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ondings
Etymology: From on- + ding (“to beat, strike”).
Senses: examples: text: ... they inform the rest, with inward sorrow, that it is still "a terrible onding." So the circle is once more formed. Some one now proposes a game o' cairts, and the pack is produced.
ref: 1891, Alexander Gordon, The Folks O' Carglen: Or, Life in the North, page 142:
glosses: A heavy, continuous fall of rain or snow; a downpour.
look out for Number One
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: looks out for Number One
form: looking out for Number One
form: looked out for Number One
form: looked out for Number One
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of look out for number one.
chacmol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chacmols
form: chacmoles
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chacmool.
chacmoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chacmol
livish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: līv'ĭsh
ipa: /ˈlaɪvɪʃ/
Forms: form: more livish
form: most livish
Etymology: From Middle English livish, lifish, lifisch, equivalent to life + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat live or alive; lively.
liss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English lis, lisse, lysse, from Old English liss, līs, līþs (“grace, favor, love, kindness, mercy, joy, peace, rest, remission, forgiveness, alleviation, salvation”), from Proto-Germanic *linþisjō (“rest”), from Proto-Indo-European *lent- (“bendsome, resilient”). Cognate with Danish lise (“solace, relief”), Swedish lisa (“solace, relief”). Related to Old English līþe (“lithe, soft, gentle, meek, mild, serene, benign, gracious, pleasant, sweet”). See lithe.
Senses: synonyms: word: relief
word: solace
word: alleviation
word: comfort
word: consolation
word: ease
word: liss
word: release
word: relief
word: respite
word: solace
glosses: Relief; ease; abatement; cessation; release.
synonyms: word: cheeriness
word: contentment
word: blitheness
word: blithesomeness
word: cheerfulness
word: cheeriness
word: contentness
word: contentedness
word: delight
word: delightedness
word: elatedness
word: elation
word: exuberance
word: exuberantness
word: felicity
word: gaiety
word: gayness
word: gayfulness
word: gladness
word: gladsomeness
word: glee
word: gleefulness
word: gleesomeness
word: happiness
word: high spirits
word: hilarity
word: jolliness
word: jollity
word: joviality
word: jovialness
word: joy
word: joyfulness
word: joyousness
word: liss
word: merriment
word: merriness
word: mirth
word: mirthfulness
word: pleasedness
glosses: Comfort; happiness.
glosses: A respite from pain.
liss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lisses
form: lissing
form: lissed
form: lissed
Etymology: From Middle English lissen, lyssen, from Old English lissan (“to subdue”), from Old English liss. Cognate with Swedish lisa (“to soften, weaken”). See above.
Senses: glosses: To ease; lighten; relieve; abate.
glosses: To cease; stop.
man with the ax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: man with the axe
Etymology: So called because, while the other three king cards are commonly depicted with swords, the king of diamonds is depicted with an ax.
Senses: examples: text: The game is seven card high/low with a buy on the last card. And just to make it more interesting, the man with the ax takes all.
ref: 1989 February 13, “The Measure of a Man” (2:41), in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 2, episode 9, spoken by Dr. Katherine Pulaski (Diana Muldaur):
topics: card-games
games
glosses: The king of diamonds in a deck of playing cards.
Synonyms: king of diamonds
Related terms: one-eyed jack
suicide king
wild card
leerness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lereness
Etymology: From Middle English lereness, from Old English lǣrnes (“emptiness”), equivalent to leer (“empty”) + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: It cometh from the very chilled maw, or from the too much heated maw, or from too mickle fulness, or of too mickle leerness, that is emptiness, or of evil wet or humour rending and scarifying the maw.
ref: 1865, Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England:
text: A feeling of nausea, giddiness, leerness or emptiness, are among the common symptoms of indigestion, and do not require any special description.
ref: 1882, Household Words: A Weekly Journal, volume 3, page 115:
text: The prime property assigned by Skoda to a percussion-sound, its fulness or its leerness (ideas adopted from Laennec) is, in fact, a compound perception, made up chiefly by the duration of the sound.
ref: 1893, Samuel Jones Gee, Auscultation and Percussion:
text: In the second drawing of the case of Mr. L., however, the small area of “cardiac leerness,” or absolute dulness, corresponds very well to the probable size of the “cardiac” or “relative” dulness in the sense in which I suggest its use.
ref: 1896, The Practitioner, volume 57, page 271:
text: The more air in a vibrating column the longer the duration of the sound. The "fullness" and the "leerness" of Skoda, terms which are still occasionally employed in German literature, although compound perceptions, depend mainly upon the duration of the vibrations.
ref: 1917, George William Norris, Henry Robert Murray Landis, Edward Bell Krumbhaar, Diseases of the Chest and the Principles of Physical Diagnosis:
text: […] a film negative, which, having been exposed to unshielded light, had, due to chemical action, turned to absolute opaqueness, to this quality of leerness, this layer of glaucomalike blindness.
ref: 2010, Laurence A. Rickels, I Think I Am, page 160:
glosses: The quality of being leer; lack; emptiness; dullness.
one-eyed jacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of one-eyed jack
metronymic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌmɛtɹəˈnɪmɪk/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μητρωνυμικός (mētrōnumikós).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of matronymic.
metronymic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌmɛtɹəˈnɪmɪk/
Forms: form: metronymics
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μητρωνυμικός (mētrōnumikós).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of matronymic.
sits on it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sit on it
sitting on it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sit on it
sat on it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sit on it
dumb fuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dumb fucks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dumbfuck.
dumb fucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dumb fuck
underwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From under + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: […] next stuff the skin of the leg of mutton, sew it underwise, wrap the whole in a cloth, and braize it […]
ref: 1822, Louis Eustache Ude, The French cook:
text: In forming double volute springs, plates of sheet steel are employed. These are heated and are then introduced underwise, one at a time, beneath the mandrel B upon the support I, until the central part of the plate is beneath the mandrel.
ref: 1858, United States Congress, Congressional edition:
glosses: On or to the bottom or underside of; beneath; underneath.
examples: text: Then as how to continue the quotations self-praise, and description of matters as hardly never occured^([sic]) or transpirated, follows underwise: […]
ref: 1866, “A New View of an Old Riot”, in Charles Dickens, editor, All the Year Round:
text: Unless underwise provided by this law, decisions shall be given by a majority of votes of the members present, other than the President.
ref: 1924, League of Nations, Official journal:
text: All other grants, gifts and devises, that have been, or may hereafter be, made to this state and not underwise appropriated by the terms of the grant, gift, or devise the interest arising from all the funds mentioned […]
ref: 1962, Columbia University. Legislative Drafting Research Fund, United States, Constitutions of the United States, national and State:
glosses: Below; hereafter.
underwise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From under + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: [...] but a certain amount of clearance is allowed in all the clips to enable the pipes to expand and contract freely according to their temperature, or to accommodate themselves to any underwise movement.
ref: 1905, Cornelius McLeod Percy, Frank Percy, George H. Winstanley, The mechanical equipment of collieries:
text: The same firm, in a suction dredger built specially for the Rangoon port improvements, fit very powerful water jets on the underwise of the suction nozzle to disturb the hard, sandy bottom.
ref: 1909, Cassier's Magazine:
glosses: Underside.
underwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underwise
form: most underwise
Etymology: From under- + wise.
Senses: examples: text: Let us, therefore, be neither overwise nor underwise, neither hasty nor tardy, but liberal, tolerant, and full of hope.
ref: 1847, The herald of truth:
text: Some underwise people, ministers even affect to despise the knowledge that comes through books, and pretend to draw all their inspirations from the incidents and associations of common life; […]
ref: 1877, Washington Gladden, The Christian way: whither it leads and how to go on:
text: These few illustrative examples will suggest that if the proofreader's assistant is or remains "underwise" or inattentive in the matter of adapted pauses in reading manuscript, and fails to clearly sound sibilants and coalescents, some one will "lose out" on proof nunciat ion.
ref: 1921, American printer and lithographer:
text: I know it's overclever and underwise in places.
ref: 2006, Tim Beaglehole, A life of J.C. Beaglehole: New Zealand scholar:
glosses: Lacking adequate or sufficient wisdom; insufficiently wise.
dumb fucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dumb fuckers
form: dumbfucker
Etymology: From dumb + fucker.
Senses: examples: text: The names his par- called him included "stupid little shit," id, when he resisted his father's ices, "dumbfucker."
ref: 1996, Family Service America, Families International (Milwaukee, Wis.), Families in society: the journal of contemporary human services: Volume 77
text: And right then the dumbfucker decides to wake up and look around.
ref: 2009, Kent Meyers, Twisted Tree, page 90:
text: “You bloody dumbfucker, I paid for you and now you don't want to go?”
ref: year missing, Thomas Clarion, Behind the Glittering Lights of Bordellos and Brothels: Thailand Vol 2, page 213
glosses: A hated, contemptible, or stupid person.
Synonyms: dumbass
moron
stupid fucker
dumbfuckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dumbfucker
high/low
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Alternative spelling of high-low.
Synonyms: split-pot game
high/low
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Model Michaela Bercu was photographed on the street, smiling and natural, her eyes half-closed, dressed in a Christian Lacroix top and her own jeans in a mix that would come to be known as “high/low”.
ref: [2023 September 23, Lauren Indvik, “God is in the details”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 3:
topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: Mixing high fashion and low fashion.
prairie dogged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prairie dog
winner-take-all
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: winner take all
form: winner-takes-all
form: winner takes all
form: winners take all
Senses: examples: text: You need luck in poker tournaments, because in the nature of this winner-take-all style of play, there will be several occasions when you cannot avoid putting all your money in the pot.
ref: 1993 December 7, David Spanier, “Poker: Winner takes all”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 20 May 2014:
text: Under winner-take-all elections, many minority candidates find it nearly impossible to win.
ref: 2000 January 3, Kathleen L. Barber, “Letters: Diversity on the Ballot”, in New York Times, retrieved 20 May 2014:
text: [S]he volunteers to take her sister's place at the annual "Hunger Games", a bloody winner-take-all competition in which 24 teens fight to the death.
ref: 2012 March 13, Silas Lesnick, “Interview: The Hunger Games’ Liam Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson”, in ComingSoon.net, retrieved 20 May 2014:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a contest, election, or other competition in which only the winner is rewarded and none of the losers receive anything.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Of a market in which a product or service that is only slightly better than its competitors receives a disproportionately large share of revenue.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of a neural network model: organized so that neurons in a layer compete with each other for activation.
Related terms: the winner takes it all
to the victor go the spoils
underyoke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underyokes
form: underyoking
form: underyoked
form: underyoked
Etymology: From Middle English underyoken, underȝoken, perhaps from Old English *underġeocian (“to subjugate; tame”), from Old English underġeoc (“accustomed to the yoke; tame”), equivalent to under- + yoke.
Senses: glosses: To bring under yoke; make subject.
Synonyms: subjugate
goes crazy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go crazy
went crazy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go crazy
gone crazy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of go crazy
kite surfing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kitesurfing.
reëstablishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reëstablishments
Senses: examples: text: The king, to show that he was not intoxicated with good fortune, nor aspired to a total victory over the parliament, published a manifesto, in which he renewed the protestation formerly taken, with great solemnity, at the head of his army, and expressed his firm intention of making peace upon the reëstablishment of the constitution.
ref: 1854, David Hume, chapter LVI, in The History of England, volume V, page 249:
text: In general terms he was told to refuse nothing which would dispel all ideas of the reëstablishment of Poland.
ref: 1925, Walter Geer, Napoleon and Marie-Louise: The Fall of the Empire, New York, N.Y.: Brentano’s, page 134:
glosses: Dated spelling of reestablishment.
rockclimbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rock climbing.
distaunces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of distaunce