cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
aricine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From (province in Chile) Arica + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: cinchovatin
glosses: An alkaloid found in white cinchona bark.
eductor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eductors
Etymology: Latin eductor (“tutor”).
Senses: examples: text: Stimulus must be called an eductor of vital ether.
ref: 1794–1796, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia; or, The Laws of Organic Life, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC:
text: The eductors in an entrance channel will have to be placed at the end of long pipes that extend from outside the entrance channel[…]
ref: 1994, Gregory L. Williams, James E. Clausner, Peter Jay Neilans, Improved Eductors for Sand Bypassing:
glosses: Someone or something that educts (elicits or extracts).
glosses: Ellipsis of gully eductor.
Derived terms: gully eductor
eductors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eductor
mamaluke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mamalukes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Mameluke.
mamalukes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mamaluke
notionate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more notionate
form: most notionate
Etymology: From notion + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: notional
meatoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meatoscopes
Etymology: From meato- + -scope.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A speculum for examining a natural passage, such as the urethra.
Related terms: meatoscopy
meatoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meatoscope
landlordry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From landlord + -ry.
Senses: glosses: The status or doings of a landlord.
glosses: The state or rank of being a landlord
disattire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disattires
form: disattiring
form: disattired
form: disattired
Etymology: From dis- + attire: compare Old French desatirier.
Senses: examples: text: There he was welcom'd of that honeſt ſyre,
And of his aged Beldame homely well;
Who him beſought himſelfe to diſattyre,
And reſt himſelfe, till ſupper time befell.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, page 470:
glosses: To undress.
disattired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disattire
disattires
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disattire
disattiring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disattire
cousinage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cousinages
Etymology: From Middle English cosynage, from Old French cosinage. Compare cosinage, cozenage. By surface analysis, cousin + -age.
Senses: examples: text: Born in Riga in 1909 into a vast cousinage that included the Lubavitcher rebbes, Isaiah Mendelevich Berlin was taken to Petrograd as a small boy, and then to London in 1921 when the Bolsheviks allowed his prosperous (and fortunate) parents to leave.
ref: 2004 June 27, Geoffrey Wheatcroft, “The Book of Isaiah”, in The New York Times:
glosses: relationship; kinship
blarg
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)ɡ
Forms: form: blargh
form: blerg
Senses: examples: text: Blarg! I'm sick of this.
glosses: Expressing frustration or disappointment.
suppage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sup + -age.
Senses: examples: text: they had bread, for suppage salt, and for sauce herbs
ref: 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: What may be supped; pottage.
dactyliomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dækˈtɪlɪəʊmænsi/
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dactylomancy.
gaugership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaugerships
Etymology: From gauger + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The rank or office of a gauger.
gaugerships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gaugership
odize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: odizes
form: odizing
form: odized
form: odized
Etymology: From od + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To charge with od (the hypothetical force).
odized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of odize
odizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of odize
odizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of odize
preterimperfect
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From preter- + imperfect.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: imperfect
preterimperfect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preterimperfects
Etymology: From preter- + imperfect.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The imperfect tense.
preterimperfects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preterimperfect
childship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: childships
Etymology: From child + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: Why should any man then doubt of his childship, doubt of his own everlasting condition, and say, that he is none of the child of God because he is tempted?
ref: 1646, William Bridge, On Temptation (sermon)
glosses: The state or relation of being a child with living parents; childhood as defined by relations rather than by age.
glosses: The set of children (offspring) that a family raises.
Coordinate terms: childhood
childships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of childship
affabrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /əˈfæ.bɹəs/
/ˈæ.fə.bɹəs/
Forms: form: more affabrous
form: most affabrous
Etymology: From Latin affaber (“workmanlike”), from ad + faber.
Senses: examples: text: Pour fourth in ecstasy , so clear each perfect trill
Affabrous pipes to mock , to scorn the Pan god's skill
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Emily Thornton Charles, Summer:
glosses: Executed in a workmanlike manner; ingeniously made.
Scripturian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Scripturians
Etymology: From Scripture + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A Scripturist.
Scripturians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Scripturian
mesognathous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meso- + -gnathous.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: having the jaws slightly projecting; between prognathous and orthognathous
millefiore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of millefiori.
antistrumous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + strumous.
Senses: examples: text: Scrofula[…]calls for preparations of iodine and other antistrumous remedies.
ref: 1861, Freeman J Bumstead, The Pathology and Treatment of Venereal Diseases:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Acting against scrofulous disorders.
lacteous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈlæktiəs/
Forms: form: more lacteous
form: most lacteous
Etymology: See lacteal.
Senses: examples: text: For though we leave out the Lacteous circle (which Aratus, Geminus, and Proclus, out of him hath numbered among the rest) yet are there more by four than Philo mentions ; that is, the Horizon, Meridian and both the Colures ; circles very considerable
ref: 1686, Thomas Brown, The Works of the Learned Sir Thomas Brown, Kt:
glosses: Milky; resembling milk.
examples: text: lacteous vessels
glosses: Lacteal; conveying chyle.
Synonyms: sense: resembling milk
word: lactean
word: lactescent
sense: conveying chyle
word: lactean
word: emulsive
word: milken
word: milky
word: lacteal
word: lacteous
word: lactiferous
Hypernyms: word: fluidic
word: semifluid
word: semiliquid
word: thick
Related terms: word: milk
bodiliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bodily + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: the notion of infiniteness and bodiliness, cannot agree and consist together
ref: 1682, Stephen Charnock, Several Discourses Upon the Existence and Attributes of God:
glosses: corporeality; the quality of being bodily
mediterraneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mediterraneous
form: most mediterraneous
Etymology: Adapted borrowing of Latin mediterrāneus + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: [S]urely the concretion is minerall, according as is delivered by Boetius; for either it is found in mountaines and mediterraneous parts, and ſo it is a fat and unctuous ſublimation in the earth concreted and fixed by ſalt and nitrous ſpirits wherewith it meeteth; […]
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, “Of Bodies Electricall”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 2nd book, page 82:
text: [W]e have taken a much leſs height of the Mountains than is requiſite, if we reſpect the Mediterraneous Mountains, or thoſe that are at a great diſtance from the Sea; […]
ref: 1684, Thomas Burnet, “A General Account of Noahs Flood; […]”, in The Theory of the Earth: […], London: […] R[oger] Norton, for Walter Kettilby, […], →OCLC, book I (Concerning the Deluge, and the Dissolution of the Earth), page 11:
glosses: inland
ascidiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ascidiform
form: most ascidiform
Etymology: From translingual Ascidiacea + -form.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Shaped like an ascidian (sea squirt).
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Shaped like a pitcher.
copsy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒpsi/
Forms: form: more copsy
form: most copsy
Etymology: From copse + -y.
Senses: examples: text: […]And trading bark with low contracted fail,
Linger among the reeds and copsy banks
ref: 1757, John Dyer, The Fleece:
glosses: Characterized by copses.
beetle brow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beetle brows
Senses: glosses: An overhanging eyebrow; brow ptosis.
Related terms: beetle-browed
beetle brows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beetle brow
preoption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preoptions
Etymology: From pre- + option.
Senses: synonyms: first pick
glosses: The right of first choice; the right or ability to choose something before others.
preoptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preoption
maundril
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maundrils
Etymology: Compare mandrel.
Senses: examples: text: The cutting maundrils taper directly from the centre to the points, the holing maundrils are somewhat stronger and bluffer.
ref: 1865, Hilary Bauerman, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Geological, Mining, and Metallurgical Models in the Museum of Practical Geology, page 27:
topics: business
mining
glosses: A pick with two prongs, used for prying.
examples: text: They must be fitted with lined or double hoops, drawn on maundrils to fit quite tight; the bottom pieces being bored at the joint, and a peg left at the end of the part above to fill it up, so that when put together, all the wood being there, the joint will be as firm as any part of the rod: besides, the wood cannot swell when wet, and can easily be taken to pieces.
ref: 1836, John Turton, The angler's manual; or, fly-fisher's oracle, page 1:
text: Hollow maundrils of metal are used instead of cores to form the internal surfaces of chambers of guns. The maundrils are to be formed accurately to the shape of the surfaces required for the castings, so that subsequent turning and boring may be dispensed with.
ref: 1859, Thomas Fairbairn, William Andrew Fairbairn, George Fairbairn, “Improvements in the mode or method of casting ordnance, &c.”, in Abridgments of the Specifications Relating to Fire-arms and Other Weapons, Ammunition, and Accoutrements, page 236:
glosses: Alternative form of mandrel.
qualifier: round object for shaping material
examples: text: The whole cylinder is then placed in the furnace, and brought to a proper welding heat; it is next passed through a series of grooved rollers, the grooves of which are furnished with a maundril, or an egg form, attached to, and supported on, the end of a fixed bar, firmly secured at the opposite end, to resist the end pressure or strain during the process of rolling. The maundrils are made of cast-iron, chilled, and are socketted on the end of the bar, and secured by a screw-nut, so that they may be easily removed, when required.
ref: 1853, McConnell, “On Hollow Railway Axles”, in The London journal of arts and sciences, page 365:
text: The increased facility for dividing and punching the pitch pins on the rollers for engraving by mill and other machines, and in setting out for hand and other engraving, is obtained by an improved method of securing the roller to the maundril. Instead of the usual box maundril made in segments or wedges and coned inside to fit the inside circle of the roller, the roller is fastened on the maundril by a bell chuck or chucks, formed so as to grip the whole outside coated circle of the roller, the chuck being coned inside to receive rollers of different sizes, one of the chucks either forming part of the maundril or not, as required.
ref: 1857 May 1, “Barber's Machinery for Mill and Other Engraving Rollers”, in The Engineer, volume 3, page 347:
glosses: Alternative form of mandrel.
qualifier: tool or component that guides; grips; or clamps; tool or component that guides; grips; or clamps
maundrils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maundril
ostleries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ostlery
ostlery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ostleries
Senses: glosses: hostelry (inn)
polron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəʊl.ɹən/
ipa: /ˈpoʊl.ɹən/
Forms: form: polrons
Senses: examples: text: […] & to rent their polrons from their shoulders. Whilest they were thus tearing each other, their horses ran from thē, and they fell to the ground […]
ref: 1612, Thomas North (translator, of Plutarch), The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, Etc, page 602
glosses: Obsolete form of pauldron.
polrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polron
serpentize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: serpentizes
form: serpentizing
form: serpentized
form: serpentized
Etymology: From serpent + -ize.
Senses: examples: September 1, 1760, Horace Walpole, letter to George Montagu, Esq.
The river runs before the door, and serpentizes more than you can conceive in the vale.
glosses: To turn or bend like a serpent, first in one direction and then in the opposite; to meander.
serpentized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of serpentize
serpentizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of serpentize
serpentizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of serpentize
signalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of signality
signality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: signalities
Etymology: From signal + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: they enquired and determined its signality
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: importance; remarkability.
trudgeman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of truchman.
fanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fank
fanks
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Written representation of th-fronting.
Senses: glosses: Thanks.
pseudosymmetries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudosymmetry
pseudosymmetrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + symmetrical.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting pseudosymmetry.
departitioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of departition
departitions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of departition
departitioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of departition
begrudgingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From begrudging + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being begrudging.
indocible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more indocible
form: most indocible
Etymology: From Latin indocibilis. See in- (“not”) + docible.
Senses: examples: text: Let him alone, till time and ill example have hardened him; till he be settled in a habit of evil, and contracted and clung together with sensual delights; now he becomes utterly indocible.
ref: 1630–1634, Joseph Hall, “[Occasional Meditations, […]] On the Sight of a Bladder.”, in Josiah Pratt, editor, The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D. […], volume VI (Devotional Works), London: […] C[harles] Whittingham, […]; for Williams and Smith, […], published 1808, →OCLC, page 200:
glosses: Incapable of being taught, or not easily instructed; dull in intellect; intractable.
Derived terms: indocibleness
spininess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spininesses
Etymology: From spiny + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being spiny.
consolidative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more consolidative
form: most consolidative
Etymology: Compare French consolidatif.
Senses: glosses: Tending or having power to consolidate.
dumple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dumples
form: dumpling
form: dumpled
form: dumpled
Etymology: See dumpling.
Senses: examples: January 17, 1827, Sir Walter Scott, Journal entry
He was a little man, dumpled up together.
glosses: To make dumpy; to fold, or bend, as one part over another.
dumpled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dumple
dumples
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dumple
preferrers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preferrer
preferers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preferer
roughdried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of roughdry
roughdries
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of roughdry
roughdry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: roughdries
form: roughdrying
form: roughdried
form: roughdried
Etymology: From rough + dry.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Seeders was thin and had light hair, and appeared to have been recently roughdried and starched.
ref: 1906, O. Henry, The Four Million:
text: From Miss Purchase— who nearly killed herself over his shirts, starching and ironing them, and nearly drove me crazy because she roughdried my clothes — down to the blacksmith's where Stephen took his riding horse to be shod, my husband was a general favorite .
ref: 1910, “A Successful Wife”, in Everybody's Magazine, volume 23, page 113:
text: This includes looading, unloading, and operating controls of machines to wash, dye, starch, roughdry, or condition items for pressing.
ref: 1993, Federal personnel manual system:, page 88:
glosses: In laundry work, to dry without smoothing or ironing.
examples: text: He had a cough which spoke sometimes of roughdried bricks in a builder's yard, and his calf muscles spoiled the particoloured set of his stockings.
ref: 1999, Dorothy Dunnett, Queens' Play:
glosses: To dry shaped bricks before they are fired in a kiln.
roughdry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more roughdry
form: most roughdry
Etymology: From rough + dry.
Senses: examples: text: At the time of the injury appellant was operating a flatwork ironer, wheras thereafter her duties were confined solely to the folding of roughdry laundry, a duty which did not involve the same amount of dexterity or physical exertion as the job she was performing at the time of the injury.
ref: 1956, Decisions of the Employees' Compensation Appeals Board, page 526:
text: This includes classifying and marking; shaking out wet laundry; feeding into the flatwork ironer; catching, folding, and stacking ironed flatwork; folding roughdry laundry; sorting by identification number; and wrapping bundles.
ref: 1993, Federal personnel manual system:, page 88:
text: My washerwoman, confound her for ironing off my shirt-buttons, says that she wears her clothes roughdry, because she can't afford to pay for both washing and ironing.
ref: 2022, Fanny Fern, Ruth Hall:
glosses: Having been dried but not ironed.
raw_tags: of laundry
examples: text: The dry lumber was pulled from the kiln and held in the roughdry shed for a day or two before unstacking.
ref: 1959, Research Notes - Volume 173, page 2:
text: The minimum roughdry thickness of the standard yard board shall be not less than twenty-eight thirty-seconds of an inch, except that 20 percent of a shipment may be not less than twenty-seven thirty-seconds of an inch.
ref: 1964, United States. Congress. House, Hearings - Volume 1, page 310:
text: The minimum roughdry thickness of finish, common boards, and dimensions of sizes of one or more inches nominal thickness shall be not less than 1/8 inch thicker than the corresponding minimum finished dry thickness, except that 20 percent of a shipment may be not less than 3/32 inch thicker than the corresponding minimum-finished dry thickness .
ref: 1974, Wayne K. Murphey, Richard N. Jorgensen, Wood as an Industrial Arts Material, page 44:
glosses: Having been been sawn, edged, trimmed, and dried, but not surfaced or dressed by planing.
raw_tags: of lumber
roughdrying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of roughdry
bridecake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bridecakes
form: bride-cake
Etymology: From bride + cake.
Senses: examples: text: This day my Julia thou must make
For Mistresse Bride, the wedding Cake:
Knead but the Dow, and it will be
To paste of Almonds turn’d by thee:
Or kisse it thou, but once, or twice,
And for the Bride-Cake ther’l be Spice.
ref: 1648, Robert Herrick, “The Bride-Cake”, in Hesperides:
text: But when the day should come for sending a piece of bridecake and cards with ‘Mrs. Herbert’ on them, all these wrongs would be avenged!
ref: 1860, Mary Theresa Vidal, chapter 15, in Bengala, Or, Some Time Ago, volume 1, London: John W. Parker & Son, pages 193–194:
text: Mr. Casaubon seemed even unconscious that trivialities existed, and never handed round that small-talk of heavy men which is as acceptable as stale bride-cake brought forth with an odor of cupboard.
ref: 1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 3, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book I:
text: The Glacier des Bois is no more. Of that of our days is left a little white tongue of ice showing in the blank bed. . . . But the saddest of all is Mont Blanc itself from here—it is, to what it was, as a mere whitewashed wall to a bridecake.
ref: 1874, John Ruskin, letter to Charles Eliot Norton, 12 October, 1874, in Letters of John Ruskin to Charles Eliot Norton, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1904, p. 107
text: He came as a Baker: but owned, when too late—
And it drove the poor Bellman half-mad—
He could only bake Bridecake—for which, I may state,
No materials were to be had.
ref: 1874–1876 (date written), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Fit the Fit the First.⁠ The Landing.”, in The Hunting of the Snark […], London: Macmillan and Co., published March 1876, →OCLC:
glosses: Synonym of wedding cake.
synonyms: word: wedding cake
bridecakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bridecake
cirriform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪɹɪfɔːm/
Forms: form: more cirriform
form: most cirriform
Etymology: From cirri- + -form.
Senses: topics: biology
climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Shaped like a cirrus or tendril.
cirruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cirrus
wheellike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wheellike
form: most wheellike
Etymology: From wheel + -like.
Senses: examples: wheellike motion
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a wheel.
fricandeaus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fricandeau
fricandeaux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fricandeau
fricando
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fricandos
form: fricandoes
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of fricandeau.
fricandos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fricando
fricandoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fricando
glosses: plural of fricandoe
fricandel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fricandels
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of fricandeau.
fricandels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fricandel
raia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raias
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of raya (“type of historical territory”).
eloignment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eloignments
form: eloinment
Etymology: French éloignement.
Senses: glosses: The act of removing something to be put far away; withdrawal.
eloignments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eloignment
scalpriform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scalpriform
form: most scalpriform
Etymology: From Latin scalprum (“chisel, knife”) + -form.
Senses: examples: text: the scalpriform incisors of rodents
glosses: Shaped like a chisel.
suppositor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suppositors
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An apparatus for the introduction of suppositories into the rectum, such as a syringe.
suppositors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suppositor
anthraxolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthraxolites
Senses: glosses: A carbonaceous substance resembling anthracite.
anthraxolites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anthraxolite
decence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: When the Decence and Convenience of a thing is considered, we should attribute much to the Wisdom of Authority
ref: 1683, William Clagett, An Answer to the Dissenters Objections Against the Common:
text: What with more decence were in silence kept, And but for this unjust Reproach had slept?
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Tenth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: decency
freck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
Forms: form: frecks
form: frecking
form: frecked
form: frecked
Etymology: Compare freak (transitive verb), freckle.
Senses: examples: text: the painted windows, frecking gloom with glow
ref: 1870, James Russell Lowell, The Cathedral:
glosses: To checker; to diversify.
freck
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
Forms: form: more freck
form: most freck
form: frack
Senses: examples: text: Ae stride or twa took the silly auld carle,
⁠An' a gude lang stride took he.
I trow thou art a freck auld carle,
⁠Wilt thou show the way to me?
ref: a. 1843, The Young Maxwell:
glosses: prompt; eager
frecked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of freck
frecking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of freck
frecks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of freck
cowardship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From coward + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: Sir Toby: and for his / cowardship, ask Fabian. Fabian: A coward, a most devout coward, religious in it!
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], line 379:
glosses: cowardice
protosulphuret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protosulphurets
Etymology: From proto- + sulphuret.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protosulfide.
protosulphurets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protosulphuret
attonce
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: So all attonce they on the Prince did thonder.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 35:
glosses: Alternative form of at once.
cawky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cawky
form: most cawky
Etymology: From cawk + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or relating to cauk.
ingesta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From New Latin ingerō. See ingest.
Senses: glosses: Material introduced into the body by the stomach or alimentary canal.
ardian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ardians
Etymology: A compounding of the Scottish Gaelic àrd (“chief”) + eun (“bird”).
Senses: examples: text: A list of new titles was manufactured as follows: Ensign, Lieutenant, Flight-Leader, Squadron-Leader, Reeve, Banneret, Fourth-Ardian, Third-Ardian, Second-Ardian, Ardian, Air Marshal. […] “Ardian” comes from the Gaelic “Ard” meaning “chief”, and “Ian” or “Eun”, a “bird”.
ref: 1936, The Periodical, XXI-XXII, page 67:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A proposed but unadopted air-officer rank of the Royal Air Force equivalent to air vice-marshal.
Derived terms: flight ardian
fourth-ardian
second-ardian
squadron ardian
third-ardian
wing ardian
truckman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: truckmen
Etymology: From truck + man.
Senses: glosses: One who does business in the way of barter or exchange.
synonyms: trucker
glosses: One who drives a truck, or whose business is the conveyance of goods on trucks.
truckmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of truckman
Ardian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ardians
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of ardian.
sheltery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sheltery
form: most sheltery
Etymology: From shelter + -y.
Senses: examples: text: They spend their winters under the warm and sheltery shores of Gibraltar and Barbary.
ref: 1866, Gilbert White, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: Giving shelter, acting as a shelter.
pillaret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pillarets
Etymology: From pillar + -et.
Senses: examples: text: a crossfloree […]supported with pillarets
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The History of the University of Cambridge, since the Conquest, [London]: [[…] Iohn Williams […]], →OCLC:
glosses: A little pillar.
pillarets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pillaret
meminna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meminnas
Senses: glosses: Any spotted chevrotain of genus Moschiola, especially the Indian spotted chevrotain (Moschiola indica)
meminnas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meminna
gypsography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From gypsum + -graphy.
Senses: examples: text: Maurice Dumont developed his own version of gypsography, executing a number of stylised figures in landscapes in blind embossing and lightly inked. He also produced etchings, drypoints, wood engravings, lithographs and zincographs.
ref: 2002, Victor Arwas, Art Nouveau: The French Aesthetic, Papadakis Publisher, →ISBN, page 202:
glosses: The art or process of engraving on gypsum.
Related terms: gypsograph
gypsographer
gypsographic
distemperate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more distemperate
form: most distemperate
Etymology: First attested in 1398, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English distemperat(e), borrowed from Medieval Latin distemperātus (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from dis- + temperātus, perfect passive participle of temperō (“to temperate oneself, show restraint”).
Senses: examples: Thou hast thy brain distemperate, and out of rule.
glosses: Immoderate, excessive.
qualifier: air or elements
glosses: Not temperate, of no good influence for one's confort or soundness; (figuratively) unwholesome, stormy.
raw_tags: of the weather
glosses: Not properly tempered; disordered through excess or deficiency of some constituent; (by extensions, of bodily or mental condition) disordered, out of order; diseased, out of health; ill-conditioned.
raw_tags: in the obsoleted theory of humours
Derived terms: distemperately
Related terms: distemper
temper
mucigenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /mjuːˈsɪd͡ʒɪnəs/
Forms: form: more mucigenous
form: most mucigenous
Etymology: From muci- + -genous.
Senses: examples: text: The mucigenous basis is manufactured at the expense of the ordinary protoplasm of the cell.
ref: 1876, Michael Foster, A Textbook of Physiology:
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Connected with the formation of mucin or mucus.
glosses: resembling mucin
Related terms: mucigen
succussive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more succussive
form: most succussive
Senses: examples: text: the succussive motion in earthquakes
text: succussive strokes
glosses: Characterized by a shaking motion, especially an up-and-down movement, and not merely tremulous oscillation.
deletories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deletory
deletory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəˈliːtəɹi/
homophone: deletery
Forms: form: deletories
Etymology: See delete.
Senses: examples: 1664-1667, Jeremy Taylor, Dissuasive from Popery
confession […] was mostly certainly intended as a deletory of sin
glosses: That which blots out.
ineye
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ineyes
form: ineyeing
form: ineying
form: ineyed
form: ineyed
Etymology: From Middle English *ineyen, eneien, eneyen, equivalent to in- + eye.
Senses: examples: text: One would be almost here tempted to believe, that Theophrastus means grafting, were it not for the climate of Attica, which may possibly have favourted the above practice of ineyeing.
ref: 1768, John Gibson, The Fruit-gardener:
glosses: To innoculate or bud; ingraft or propagate (as a tree or plant) by the insertion of a bud.
dowable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈdaʊəbəl/
Etymology: From Middle French dowable; equivalent to dow + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being endowed.
examples: text: all wives would have become dowable of such lands as were held to the use of their husbands
ref: 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
glosses: Entitled to dower.
townhall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: townhalls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of town hall.
townhalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of townhall
fricace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fricaces
Etymology: See fricassee.
Senses: examples: text: dispatch your soop, cotelets, ragous, fricaces, amlets, deserts
ref: a. 1687, George Villiers, The Country Gentleman:
glosses: Meat sliced and dressed with strong sauce.
glosses: An unguent.
glosses: The act of rubbing with an unguent.
fricaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fricace
subvaginal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aɪnəl
rhymes: -ædʒɪnəl
Etymology: From sub- + vaginal.
Senses: examples: text: the subvaginal, or subdural, spaces about the optic nerve
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated under or inside a sheath or vaginal membrane.
crownlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crownlets
Etymology: From crown + -let.
Senses: examples: text: The Chief, whose antique crownlet long
Still sparkled in the feudal song
ref: 1805, Walter Scott, “(please specify the page)”, in The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: […] [James Ballantyne] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], and A[rchibald] Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: A coronet (small crown)
crownlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crownlet
dulocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dulocracy
dulocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dulocracies
form: doulocracy
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δουλοκρατία (doulokratía), from δοῦλος (doûlos, “servant, slave, thrall”) + κρατέω (kratéō, “rule”).
Senses: examples: text: Or must the country passively submit to that dulocracy in politics which has become a stigma upon the nation, and a shame to the intelligence of the people?
ref: 1855, Jam. Gord Bennett, Memoirs of Jam. Gord. Bennett and his Times: By a Journalist:
text: In a dulocracy who are the slaves?
ref: 1970, Maurice Duggan, O'Leary's orchard and other stories, page 165:
text: Manderians are not democrats; they are dulocrats, and the Manderweb symbolises our dulocracy. So, are you surprised that the dulocracy rules our country […] A dulocracy is "a Government where servants and slaves have so much license and privilege that they domineer" (Black's Law Dictionary, 6th edn), […]
ref: 2006, Radha Rajan, Krishen Kak, NGOs, Activists & Foreign Funds: Anti-nation Industry, page 145:
glosses: A government where servants and slaves have so much license and privilege that they domineer; predominance of slaves.
Related terms: dulocrat
dulosis
insnarl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: insnarls
form: insnarling
form: insnarled
form: insnarled
Etymology: From in- + snarl.
Senses: examples: text: This without doubt hath wofully insnarled your peoples Consciences and is one great reason they are so full of fears and scruples
ref: 1669, Simon Patrick, A Continuation of the Friendly Debate:
glosses: To make into a snarl or knot; to entangle.
insnarled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of insnarl
insnarling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of insnarl
insnarls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of insnarl
fricatrice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɹɪkətɹɪs/
Forms: form: fricatrices
Etymology: Compare Latin frictrix, from fricare (“to rub”).
Senses: examples: text: And am asham'd you' should ha' no more forehead / Than thus to be the patron, or St. George,
To a lewd harlot, a base fricatrice, / A female devil, in a male outside
ref: 1605 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Volpone, or The Foxe. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, Act IV, scene ii, page 498:
text: One can imagine an ideal servent who serves out of pure love for his master, just as one can an ideal rustic who remains a ditcher from a love of nature, or an ideal fricatrice who spreads her legs a dozen times a night from a love of copulation. But one never encounters these fabulous creatures in reality.
ref: 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter 35, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN:
glosses: A lewd woman or prostitute.
glosses: A woman who masturbates.
Related terms: tribade
fricatrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fricatrice
apepsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The causes of an Anorexy , and Apepsy are the fame , that is , whatsoever hinders or diminishes the motions of the muscular coats of the stomach
ref: 1768, John Ball, The Modern Practice of Physic:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: defective digestion; indigestion
Derived terms: apeptic
stintedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stinted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being stinted.
falcade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /fælˈkeɪd/
Forms: form: falcades
Etymology: From French falcade, ultimately from Latin falx, falcis (“a sickle or scythe”).
Senses: examples: text: let him make two or three Falcades or Times , to firm his Haunches the better, and to turn with the better Grace.
ref: 1717, Jacques de Solleysel, The Compleat Horseman:
glosses: A horse's movement of throwing itself on its haunches two or three times, bending in very quick curvets.
falcades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of falcade
gabionnade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gabionnades
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gabionade.
gabionnades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gabionnade
Talmudist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Talmudists
Etymology: From Talmud + -ist. Compare French talmudiste.
Senses: glosses: Someone versed in the Talmud.
glosses: Someone who adheres to the teachings of the Talmud.
Talmudists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Talmudist
outwind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /aʊtˈwaɪnd/
Forms: form: outwinds
form: outwinding
form: outwound
form: outwound
Etymology: From out- + wind.
Senses: examples: text: they haue him enclosed so behind, / As by no meanes he can himselfe outwind
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Dear Psittacuse! when shalt thou once outwind / Thy self from this sad yoke?
ref: 1647, Henry More, “[Philosophical Poems.] Psychozoia, or The First Part of the Song of the Soul, Containing a Christiano-Platonicall Display of Life.”, in Alexander B[alloch] Grosart, editor, The Complete Poems of Dr. Henry More (1614–1687) […] (Chertsey Worthies’ Library), [Edinburgh: […] Edinburgh University Press; Thomas and Archibald Constable, […]] for private circulation, published 1878, →OCLC, canto II, stanza 71, page 25:
glosses: To extricate by winding; to unloose.
outwind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /aʊtˈwaɪnd/
Forms: form: outwinds
form: outwinding
form: outwinded
form: outwinded
Etymology: From out- + wind.
Senses: examples: text: The urchin had an elasticity of muscle, a capacity of stretch and endurance in his sinews, and a share of positive strength in his excessive breadth of shoulders, which made him little inferior in conflict to most ordinary men, and in speed he could have outwinded the best.
ref: 1840, William Gilmore Simms, Border Beagles: A Tale of Mississippi:
glosses: To surpass in wind or breath.
outwinding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outwind
outwinds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outwind
outwound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outwind
photics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The science of light.
gregarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɪˈɡɛə.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /ɡɹɪˈɡɛ.ɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: more gregarian
form: most gregarian
Senses: examples: text: the gregarian soldiers
ref: 1655, James Howell, “to the R. H. Earl of Dorset”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:
glosses: gregarious
Derived terms: gregarianism
syntagms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: [ˈsɪntæmz]
Senses: glosses: plural of syntagm
pipra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pipras
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the bird genus Pipra; a manakin.
pipras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pipra
declinatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈklɪnətɹi/
Etymology: From Latin declinatorius, from declinare: compare French déclinatoire.
Senses: examples: text: […] that the prisoner should first be arraigned, and might either then claim his benefit of clergy, by way of declinatory plea, or after conviction by way of arresting judgment.
ref: 1765, Sir William Blackstone, The Student's Blackstone: Commentaries on the Laws of England, in Four Books, published 1865:
text: Declinatory exceptions do not tend to defeat the demand, but only to decline the jurisdiction of the judge before whom it is brought.
ref: 1901, Henry Lastrapes Garland, editor, Code of Practice of Louisiana: With Annotations of Henry L. Garland:
text: That case, like the present one, involved a declinatory exception by the respondent State when it was sued for fees for legal services and for an accounting.
ref: 2014, John O. Haley, Fundamentals of Transnational Litigation: The United States, Canada, Japan, and The European Union:
topics: law
glosses: Containing or involving a declination or refusal, as of submission to a charge or sentence.
Related terms: declinatory plea
declinatory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈklɪnətɹi/
Forms: form: declinatories
Etymology: From Latin declinatorius, from declinare: compare French déclinatoire.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A declination or refusal.
glosses: Synonym of declinator (“instrument for measuring declination”).
synonyms: word: declinator
extra: instrument for measuring declination
solecistical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌsɒlɪˈsɪstɪkəl/
Forms: form: more solecistical
form: most solecistical
Senses: examples: text: He thought it made the language solecistical and absurd.
ref: 1725, Anthony Blackwall, The Sacred Classics Defended and Illustrated:
glosses: Pertaining to, or involving, a solecism; incorrect.
ecce homo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛ.keɪ ˈhoʊ.moʊ/
Forms: form: ecce homos
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin ecce homo (“behold the man!”). See John xix. 5 in the Bible.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: A picture representing Jesus Christ wearing a crown of thorns, before his crucifixion.
ecce homos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecce homo
supravisor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supravisors
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of supervisor.
supravisors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supravisor
speisses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speiss
excitomotor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of excitomotory.
ralliance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare Old French raliance. See rally (“to reunite”).
Senses: examples: text: “old Europe will have to lean on our shoulders, and to hobble along by our side, under the monkish trammels of priests & kings, as she can. what a Colossus shall we be when the Southern continent comes up to our mark! what a stand will it secure as a ralliance for the reason & freedom of the globe!”
ref: 1816, Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Adams, 1 August 1816:
glosses: The act of rallying.
craniognomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cranio- + -gnomy from physiognomy.
Senses: glosses: craniology (the science of the form and characteristics of the skull).
fibromatoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fibromatosis
nonfibrolamellar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + fibrolamellar.
Senses: glosses: Not fibrolamellar.