cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
old man's friend
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the old man's friend
Etymology: Coined by Sir William Osler because it kills the elderly without too much suffering.
Senses: examples: text: The "old man's friend," pneumonia, can, in many instances, be turned from the door, and a wide variety of serious diseases, such as pulmonary tuberculosis, salmonellosis, and cholera, can be treated effectively if the right drugs can be got to the right place at the right time.
ref: 1978, International Laboratory for Research on Animal Diseases, Inauguration Symposium on Current Trends in Immunology and Genetics and Their Implications for Parasitic Diseases:
text: In many instances, it is likely that the old man's friend, pneumonia, may be preventable if nutritional status could be normalized.
ref: 1998, Howard M. Fillit, Gloria Picariello, Practical Geriatric Assessment, →ISBN, page 63:
text: Dr Pearson visited him regularly, but on the fifth day, when Sam's condition had worsened, his breathing coming with difficulty and a faint bubbling sound, he shook his head and whispered to Jan, 'The old man's friend.'
ref: 2011, Michael Legat, The Shapiro Diamond, →ISBN:
text: For Marguerite, a drug called Keflex had taken all that was amiable out of the old man's friend. It was her second successful bout with the illness in three years.
ref: 2014, Lowell Cauffiel, Forever and Five Days: The Chilling True Story of Love, Betrayal, and Serial Murder in Grand Rapids, Michigan, →ISBN:
glosses: Bacterial pneumonia.
wikipedia: Sir William Osler
make someone's ears sad
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes someone's ears sad
form: making someone's ears sad
form: made someone's ears sad
form: made someone's ears sad
Senses: examples: text: Your awful "song" is making my ears sad.
glosses: To displease the ears of someone; to cause someone to hear music or sounds that are not to their liking.
makes someone's ears sad
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of make someone's ears sad
making someone's ears sad
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of make someone's ears sad
made someone's ears sad
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of make someone's ears sad
schantze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schantzes
form: schanze
Etymology: Compare German Schanze (“entrenchment, redoubt”).
Senses: examples: text: After proceeding some distance — about three miles this side of Norton's farm — the advance scouts were fired on from schantzes in a kopje adjoining the road.
ref: 1898, Reports on the Native Disturbances in Rhodesia, 1896-97, page 102:
text: At 7 a.m. they opened fire upon the long lines of schantzes which dotted every crestline and were the only visible sign of the enemy's presence.
ref: 1901, Foster Hugh Egerton Cunliffe, The History of the Boer War to the Occupation of Bloemfontein:
text: Round the dome the insurgents had built little stone schantzes, and each had a dull brown stain behind it; round about lay a few cartridge-cases and old rags.
ref: 1905, John L. C. Booth, Troubles in the Balkans, page 184:
text: In 1907 the defendant erected a schantze or stone weir inside his boundary so as to confine the water to the former course, and to prevent it coming on to his land at times of ordinary flood.
ref: 1908, South African Law Journal, volume 25, page 57:
text: With wonderful speed and dexterity, each marksman built himself a tiny schantze of stones on the edge of the plateau, and stretched himself behind it, fondling his rifle and twitching his bandolier into an easy position.
ref: 1913, John Finnemore, A Boy Scout in the Balkans:
glosses: A type of stone fortification.
schantzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schantze
tabering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of taber
tabered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of taber
bad show
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: By analogy with good show.
Senses: examples: text: You didn't get the chores done? Bad show!
glosses: Used to express disappointment.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bad, show.
nature trail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nature trails
Senses: glosses: A hiking trail that runs through the countryside, along which there are marked stations or stops next to points of natural, technological, or cultural interest.
nature trails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nature trail
Dianeticist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dianeticists
Etymology: From Dianetics + -ist.
Senses: topics: Scientology
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A practitioner of Dianetics.
topics: Scientology
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Someone who supports the ideas and practices of Dianetics.
Dianeticists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dianeticist
Carioca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cariocas
form: carioca
Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese carioca.
Senses: examples: text: Needless to say, a true Carioca never makes mistakes when dealing with money.
ref: 2008, Priscilla Goslin, How to Be a Carioca: The Alternative Guide for the Tourist in Rio, →ISBN, page 43:
text: I was impassioned about this because my Portuguese professor at Johns Hopkins was a Carioca, or native of Rio de Janeiro, and the first thing she told us in class was that she was going to make us all Cariocas.
ref: 2012, Katherine Losse, The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network, →ISBN:
text: Cariocas – as inhabitants of Rio are called – panicked, and the newspapers reported the deteriorating situation in the city.
ref: 2017, Laura Spinney, Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World, →ISBN:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil
Carioca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese Carioca.
Senses: glosses: A river in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil; in full, the Carioca River.
Cariocas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Carioca
babytalks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of babytalk
babytalking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of babytalk
babytalked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of babytalk
baby-talks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of baby-talk
baby-talking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of baby-talk
baby-talked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of baby-talk
farsickness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of German Fernweh; contrast homesickness.
Senses: examples: text: The Germans have a word for it—fernweh—literally, an ache for distant places. Maybe the dowdy recreational vehicle can be a vehicle of discovery, a cure for farsickness, a Huck Finn raft of escape for the middle-aged. But that doesn't have to be decided by us. Perhaps, just as the cigar is sometimes simply a cigar, the RV is sometimes just a cool way to get out of the house and see some new stuff—even at $4 a gallon.
ref: 2014, James B. Twitchell, Winnebago Nation: The RV in American Culture, Columbia University Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Wanderlust; yearning for far-off places.
Singularitarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɪŋ.ɡjʊˌlæɹɪˈtɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌsɪŋ.ɡjəˌlɛɹəˈtɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: Singularitarians
form: singularitarian
Etymology: From Singularity + -arian, popularized by Ray Kurzweil who credits the term to the extropian Mark Plus (1991).
Senses: examples: text: Rather, Kurzweil writes, he became a Singularitarian as a result of “practical” efforts to make “optimal tactical decisions in launching technology enterprises.” Startups showed him the way! Being a Singularitarian, Kurzweil claims, “is not a matter of faith but one of understanding.” This is a refrain Singularitarians share with Scientologists, for L. Ron Hubbard always marketed his doctrines as “technology”.
ref: 2018, Corey Pein, chapter VIII, in Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley, Metropolitan Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Someone who supports the technological singularity theory.
Derived terms: Singularitarianism
Singularitarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɪŋ.ɡjʊˌlæɹɪˈtɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌsɪŋ.ɡjəˌlɛɹəˈtɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: more Singularitarian
form: most Singularitarian
form: singularitarian
Etymology: From Singularity + -arian, popularized by Ray Kurzweil who credits the term to the extropian Mark Plus (1991).
Senses: examples: text: “The Coming Technological Singularity” has often been credited with launching a so-called Singularitarian movement.
ref: 2010, Jonathon Keats, Virtual Words: Language on the Edge of Science and Technology, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 142:
text: There was always something fundamentally misanthropic about the Singularitarian vision, with its drive for the elimination of the body and its echoes of Christian millenarianism.
ref: 2018, Corey Pein, chapter VIII, in Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley, Metropolitan Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Relating to the technological singularity theory.
Singularitarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Singularitarian
Singularitarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: singularitarianism
Etymology: From Singularitarian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Belief in the technological singularity theory.
Billster
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Billy + ster
Senses: glosses: Diminutive of Billy.
Billster
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Bill + -ster.
Senses: glosses: Diminutive of Bill.
Rickster
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Rick + -ster.
Senses: glosses: Diminutive of Rick.
Jackster
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Jack + -ster.
Senses: glosses: Diminutive of Jack.
Mindelo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city on the island of São Vicente, Cape Verde and the nation's second largest city
glosses: A town in Portugal north of Porto
Related terms: mindelense
Jamester
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From James + -ster.
Senses: glosses: Diminutive of James.
Jakester
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Jake + -ster.
Senses: glosses: Diminutive of Jake.
Santo Antão
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the ten islands of Cape Verde.
glosses: One of the islands of the Bissagos Archipelago
Related terms: antonense
Fogo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A community in Fogo Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
glosses: An island of the Sotavento Islands, Cape Verde.
glosses: A village in Berwickshire, Scottish Borders council area, Scotland.
Brava
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Barawa (“Somalian city”).
Brava
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the ten islands of Cape Verde
Related terms: bravense
Bolama
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the islands of the Bijagós Archipelago, Guinea-Bissau
glosses: Capital of the homonymous region, also the most populated place in the Bijagós Archipelago, Guinea-Bissau
Espargos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Portuguese espargos pl (“asparagus”), for the wild asparagus (Asparagus squarrosus) grown in the area.
Senses: glosses: A city on the island of Sal, Cape Verde.
Related terms: esparguense
Assomada
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in interior Santiago island, Cape Verde, the island's second largest city.
Related terms: assomadense
Mbour
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in western Senegal.
Ziguinchor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈzi.ɡɛn.ʃoɹ/
Senses: glosses: A region of Senegal.
glosses: A city in (and the capital of) the above region of Senegal; the largest populated place in the Casamance area of the country.
non-binariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonbinariness
Etymology: From non-binary + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: non-binarity
antonyms: binariness
glosses: The quality of being non-binary, of not being binary.
nonbinariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nonbinary + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of non-binariness.
air refresher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air refreshers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of air freshener.
synonyms: word: air freshener
air refreshers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of air refresher
brute for punishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brutes for punishment
Senses: examples: text: "That's not auto camping at all," Henry scoffed. "I mean the real thing—every night in a different place and lots of miles covered every day."
"Gosh!" exclaimed Gus. You are a brute for punishment!"
ref: 1926 June, Martin Bunn, "Before You Go Auto Camping," Popular Science Monthly, p. 66 (Google preview) (retrieved 2 March 2018)
text: A brute for punishment, a beauty for looks! Engineered to outserve and outperform all ordinary trucks.
ref: 1938, Fargo Commercial Trucks vintage advertisement (image at Pinterest), retrieved 02 Mar 2018:
text: "I know the English soldier is a brute for punishment, but I can't figure out why they don't take the bull by the horns and do something to make life more pleasant."
ref: 1964, Alexander McKee, Caen: Anvil of Victory, →ISBN, retrieved 02 Mar 2018:
text: If re-elected, Brainard will start his 31st year with the school board. “I guess I’m a brute for punishment,” he said laughing.
ref: 2012 April 27, Michael Tucker and Hannah Stiff, "Gallatin Valley School Board Election," Belgrade News (Bozeman, Montana) (retrieved 2 March 2018)
qualifier: set phrase
glosses: One who endures, or who can endure, a great deal of pain, hardship, or other adversity.
Synonyms: glutton for punishment
Related terms: tough guy
Tupanviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tupanvirus
intermediality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From intermedial + -ity.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: The quality of being intermedial, combining several media.
Prud'homme
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Prudhomme.
Gauda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Gaur (“ancient Bengali city”).
good enough
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I used to feel not good enough.
text: So you survived our fight on Thessia. You're not as weak as I thought. But never forget that your best wasn't good enough to stop me. Now an entire planet is dying because you lacked the strength to win. The legend of Shepard needs to be re-written. I hope I'm there for the last chapter. It ends with your death.
-KL
ref: 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Evacuating Thessia:
glosses: acceptable, adequate for the purpose (though imperfect)
examples: text: Would you be good enough to bring me a cup of tea, please?
glosses: so kind (as to)
raw_tags: in requests
with to
Synonyms: satisfactory
Derived terms: good enough for government work
good enough for jazz
good enough to eat
perfect is the enemy of good enough
Related terms: all well and good
fair enough
Tanas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tana
chauffeur driver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chauffeur drivers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of chauffeur.
synonyms: word: chauffeur
azafluorene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azafluorenes
Etymology: From aza- + fluorene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Ether of two isomeric aromatic heterocycles in which a -CH= group has been substituted by -N=
azamethonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aza- + meth(yl) + -onium (“quaternary ammonium compound”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: The cation ethyl-[2-[2-[ethyl(dimethyl)azaniumyl]ethyl-methylamino]ethyl]-dimethylazanium.
Derived terms: azamethonium bromide
azauridine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azauridines
Etymology: From aza- + uridine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any derivative of uridine in which a -CH= group has been substituted by -N=; 6-azauridine is a triazine nucleoside used as an antineoplastic antimetabolite
azin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of pyridine.
synonyms: word: pyridine
azocoll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of azocollagen.
synonyms: word: azocollagen
azoprotein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌeɪzoʊˈpɹoʊtiːn/
ipa: /ˌeɪzəʊˈproʊtiːn/
Forms: form: azoproteins
Etymology: From azo- + protein.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any protein, coupled with another material via a diazo linkage, that is used in immunochemical procedures
azosulfamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azosulfamides
Etymology: From azo- + sulfamide.
Senses: glosses: Any azo derivative of a sulfamide, but especially any salt of 6-acetamido-4-oxo-3-[(4-sulfamoylphenyl)hydrazinylidene]naphthalene-2,7-disulfonic acid use as a sulfa drug
everyday life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: everyday lives
EWDC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: A set up business in NZ as insurance company — Market conditions led to A's intended withdrawal from NZ — Ongoing genuine dispute with EWDC as to liability for premiums — Likely A not to continue to hold funds in NZ — If no injunction, real risk any judgment obtained by plaintiff would be unsatisfied.
ref: 1989, Martin Fine, Butterworths Current Law Digest, page 555:
text: The case has further interest in that it is a sequel to earlier litigation concerning the liability to Bay Milk of both FMI as insurer of Bay Milk and of the Earthquake and War Damage Commission (EWDC), following a major earthquake on 2 March 1987 which destroyed Bay Milk's dairy manufacturing complex at Edgecumbe.
ref: 1993, The New Zealand Law Reports - Volume 3, page 307:
text: The costs of damage and the insured values were derived from the claims on the EWDC.
ref: 2001, Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering:
glosses: Initialism of Earthquake and War Damage Commission.
examples: text: First announcement & call for participation EWDC-4 Fourth European Workshop on Dependable Computing Software Reliability Assessment April 8-10, 1992 - Prague, Czechoslovakia.
ref: 1991, Technique Et Science Informatiques: TSI. - Volume 10, page 397:
text: After the first series, started in 1989 and held on a yearly basis until 2000, EWDC was revived in 2009, running since then every two years, alternatively with the European Dependable Computing Conference (EDCC). In 2009 EWDC was held in Toulouse, and in 2011 in Pisa.
ref: 2013, Marco Vieira, Joao Carlos Cunha, Dependable Computing: 14th European Workshop, →ISBN:
glosses: Initialism of European Workshop on Dependable Computing.
chaperonship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dated form of chaperoneship.
paint stripper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paint strippers
Senses: glosses: A substance that softens and binds with paint, making it easier to remove from a surface.
Synonyms: paint remover
cèntims
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cèntim
earthfast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From earth + fast.
Senses: glosses: Constructed with vertical roof-bearing timbers (posts) in direct contact with the ground, whether set in excavated holes or otherwise.
earstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earstones
Etymology: From ear + stone.
Senses: glosses: otolith
earstones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earstone
eaus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eau
ebbless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ebb + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without an ebb.
ecstasying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ecstasy
ecstasied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ecstasy
egally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more egally
form: most egally
Etymology: From egal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But that she consider egally the sore complaynts of the nobillmen our faithfull subjects, and make them be recompensit for the wronges they have susteynit […]
ref: 1570, letter quoted in 1838, William Cecil Wright, Queen Elizabeth and her times (page 384)
glosses: In a fair and impartial manner.
eidolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eidolon + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to an eidolon.
eltchi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eltchis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of elchi.
elchee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elchees
Senses: examples: text: 1818, Review [quoting circa 1810–1816, James Morier, "A second journey through Persia to Constantinople"], The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, Volume 6, page 283,
Then the minister turned to another man on the other side of him, and said, loud enough and expressly for the ambassador to hear, "did you ever see any one so charming as the Elchee; so much better than all other Elchees?"
text: The Elchee rose, and went up to the throne, on which the king was seated; and his majesty, taking up a diamond-star, began to pin it on the Elchee's coat. It was evidently the first time the royal hands had been so employed.
ref: 1827, John Malcolm, Sketches of Persia, John Murray, published 1845, page 229:
text: 1839, "Abstract of intelligence received from Candahar on the 11th December, 1837", John Hobhouse, Indian Papers: Correspondence relating to Affghanistan, Issue 6, page 5,
They brought information that another Persian Elchee was coming, and delivered a letter to Moolla Nussoo. He told me that was not a Persian embassy, but an Elchee from the Russian Government, or from the Russian Ambassador of Tehran.
glosses: Archaic form of elchi.
eltchis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eltchi
elchees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elchee
elchi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elchis
Etymology: From Turkish elçi or via Hindi एलची (elcī).
Senses: glosses: A Turkish ambassador.
elchis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elchi
elocutory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to elocution.
elvanites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elvanite
emissile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: the emissile and retractile cornua of snails
glosses: Able to be emitted or protruded.
empart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: emparts
form: emparting
form: emparted
form: emparted
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of impart.
emparting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of empart
emparts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of empart
emparted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of empart
emulgence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emulgences
Senses: glosses: The act of emulging; a milking or draining.
emulgences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emulgence
endleaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endleaves
Etymology: From end + leaf.
Senses: glosses: A protective page before or after the textblock.
endleaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endleaf
dluwang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of daluwang.
daluwang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dluwang
Senses: glosses: mulberry bark, traditionally used in Java to make paper and clothing.
somatypology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From somato- + typology.
Senses: glosses: The typology of somatotypes.
endomorphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The property of having the endomorph body type.
entoptics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: entoptic visual phenomena
epeirogenically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From epeirogenic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of epeirogenesis.
epicenism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From epicene + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The property of being epicene.
epilogued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of epilogue
epiloguing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of epilogue
eposes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epos
eremurus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eremuruses
form: eremuri
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the plants of the genus Eremurus.
eremuri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eremurus
mesell
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Norman mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Old French mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Late Latin misellus (“leper”), from miser (“wretched, wretch”) + -ellus (“-elle”). Doublet of measles.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of mesel, in its various senses.
mesell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesells
Etymology: From Middle English mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Norman mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Old French mesel (“leprous, leper”), from Late Latin misellus (“leper”), from miser (“wretched, wretch”) + -ellus (“-elle”). Doublet of measles.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of mesel, in its various senses.
eremuruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eremurus
erosivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of erosivity
eruptible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From erupt + -ible.
Senses: examples: text: And if by chance this magma were to be erupted, only the low-viscosity, crystal-free core melt would be eruptible.
ref: 2009, Anthony B. Watts, Crust and Lithosphere Dynamics, page 288:
glosses: Able to be erupted.
esquiresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of esquiress
essoyne
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: essoynes
form: essoyning
form: essoyned
form: essoyned
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of essoin.
essoyned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of essoyne
essoynes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of essoyne
essoyning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of essoyne
eutrapely
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /juːˈtɹæpəlɪ/
Forms: form: eutrapelia
Etymology: From Ancient Greek εὐτραπελία (eutrapelía).
Senses: glosses: conversational wit, one of the moral virtues proposed by Aristotle
excerpter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: excerpters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of excerptor.
excerpters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of excerpter
excretal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In some cases each householder pays for the removal of excretal refuse, in others the contents of pits and reservoirs are sold.
ref: 1870, Report of the Annual Meeting, page 322:
glosses: Relating to excretion or to excrement.
excogitative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to excogitation.
extemporaneity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The degree or property of being extemporaneous.
odontist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: odontists
Etymology: From odonto- + -ist.
Senses: glosses: dentist
odontists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of odontist
silky soft
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of soft as silk.
synonyms: word: soft as silk
outpayment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outpayments
Etymology: From out- + payment.
Senses: glosses: An outgoing payment; expenditure.
inpayment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inpayments
Etymology: From in- + payment.
Senses: glosses: An incoming payment; income.
outpayments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outpayment
inpayments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inpayment
insubordinates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insubordinate
interdiffuses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of interdiffuse
interdiffusing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of interdiffuse
interveining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of intervein
interveins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of intervein
iodation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iodations
Senses: glosses: The process of iodating.
iodations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iodation
ionics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ion + -ics.
Senses: glosses: The study of ionic conductors.
Derived terms: nanoionics
ionogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ionogen
isoantibody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isoantibodies
Etymology: From iso- + antibody.
Senses: glosses: An antibody produced by an individual against isoantigens produced by members of the same species.
isoantibodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isoantibody
invital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + vital.
Senses: examples: text: The amoeba — a mere shapeless mass of moving sarcode — digests rapidly and constantly without a trace of organism! An organism when dead we assume to be chemically the same as the living organism, but we cannot prove it. An analysis of living protoplasm is impossible. That there is a force — an activity — in the vital form totally wanting in the invital, it is almost absurd to insist : what that something is we cannot tell — perhaps shall never know.
ref: 1873, William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison, The London Quarterly Review, volume 39, page 252:
glosses: Not alive; lifeless.
intersegments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intersegment
intercultures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interculture
insculpt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In the belfry, I read this verse insculpt or cast in the metal, about the circumference of the bell: […]
ref: 1767, John Weever, William Tooke, Antient Funeral Monuments, of Great-Britain, Ireland, and the Islands Adjacent:
text: And now is there a third derivative
From Mr. Colburn's composite, which late
The Arch-Pirate Galignani hath prefixed,
A spurious portrait to a faithless life,
And bearing lyingly the libelled name
Of Lawrence, impudently there insculpt.
ref: 1828, Robert Southey, Epistle to Allan Cunningham:
text: It is also generally marked above by flexuose anastomosing black, indented lines, whence it appears as if insculpt with rivulose sutures.
ref: 1894, James M. Crombie, A Monograph of Lichens Found in Britain, page 329:
glosses: sculpted; carved
infestants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infestant
inficete
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inficete
form: most inficete
Senses: examples: text: MR. EAVESDROP: Sir, you are very facetious at my expense.
THE REV. DR. FOLLIOTT: Sir, you have been very unfacetious, very inficete, at mine. You have dished me up, like a savoury omelette, to gratify the appetite of the reading rabble for gossip.
ref: 1831, Thomas Love Peacock, Crotchet Castle:
glosses: Lacking wit.
jesting-stock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jesting-stocks
Etymology: From jesting + stock.
Senses: glosses: laughing stock
jesting-stocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jesting-stock
lantern of the dead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lanterns of the dead
Senses: glosses: A tower with a small lighted chamber at the top, once common in French cemeteries.
lanterns of the dead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lantern of the dead
Judas-hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Judas-holes
Senses: examples: text: A moment, and an iron-grated Judas-hole in the door slid open, and a servant, an elderly man, sleek and respectable, looked out at him.
ref: 1922 [1901], Stanley J. Weyman, Count Hannibal: A Romance of the Court of France:
synonyms: Judas
Judas window
glosses: A small hole in a door through which a person can spy without being seen from the other side, used especially in prisons.
Judas-holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Judas-hole
TGN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TGNs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of trans-Golgi network.
lapilliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lapilliform
form: most lapilliform
Senses: glosses: Having the form of small stones.
Related terms: lapillus
twitteration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twitterations
Etymology: From twitter + -ation.
Senses: glosses: A flutter; a state of anxiety or excitement.
twitterations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twitteration
interspatial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + spatial.
Senses: glosses: Between spaces.
Derived terms: interspatially
interspatially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From interspatial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Between spaces.
heterophemism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterophemisms
Senses: glosses: heterophemy
heterophemisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heterophemism
asplenium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːniəm
Forms: form: aspleniums
Etymology: A genericization of translingual Asplenium (“the spleenworts”), from Linnaeus's New Latin adjustment of Latin asplenon (“spleenwort”), from Ancient Greek ἄσπληνον (ásplēnon, “spleenwort”), from ἀ- (a-, “un-”) + σπλήν (splḗn, “spleen”) + -ον (-on, “-um”), from its use to cure anthrax in livestock.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of spleenwort: any plant of the genus Asplenium.
synonyms: word: spleenwort
extra: any plant of the genus Asplenium
aspleniums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asplenium
hydroextraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hydro- + extraction.
Senses: glosses: The use of a hydroextractor to remove excess water from textiles.
glosses: The isolation of a virus by means of a semipermeable membrane surrounded by a hygroscopic material.
fenderboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fenderboards
Etymology: From fender + board.
Senses: glosses: A protective board for the side of a boat when it is docked against pilings, where normal fenders are not adequate.
glosses: A board protecting the steps of a carriage from the dust thrown up by the wheels.
fenderboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fenderboard
nodiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nodiform
form: most nodiform
Etymology: From node + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Shaped like a knot or knob.
noduliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more noduliform
form: most noduliform
Etymology: From nodule + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Shaped like a little knot or knob.
Little Red Hen syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the folk tale The Little Red Hen, in which the animals who would not help to plant the wheat, make the flour, etc. expect to receive some of the bread.
Senses: glosses: The situation where people who did not contribute to something expect a share of the reward or credit.
wikipedia: The Little Red Hen
orbiculated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more orbiculated
form: most orbiculated
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of orbiculate.
Derived terms: suborbiculated
pelfies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pelfie
disembarkings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disembarking
embarkings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of embarking
backprojection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backprojections
Etymology: From back + projection.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of back projection.
bacteriaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bacteriaemias
Etymology: From bacteri- + -aemia.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bacteraemia.
bacterid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bacterids
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A bacterial infection of the skin
bacteriochlorophyllide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bacteriochlorophyllides
Senses: glosses: A chlorophyllide derived from bacteriochlorophyll
transuteral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + uteral.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of transuterine.
synonyms: word: transuterine
uteral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uterus + -al.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of uterine.
synonyms: word: uterine
bacteriocinogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That synthesizes bacteriocinogens
bacteriocinogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bacteriocinogens
Etymology: From bacteriocin + -o- + -gen.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A bacterial plasmid that directs the synthesis of bacteriocins
bacteriocinogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bacteriocinogen
São Filipe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city on the island of Fogo, Cape Verde
antiars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiar
Rufisque
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Corrupted form of the Portuguese name rio fresco meaning freshwater
Senses: glosses: A city in western Senegal.
upsee
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Etymology: From Dutch op zijn.
Senses: examples: to drink upsee Dutch
glosses: After the fashion of; a la.
entailer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entailers
Etymology: From entail + -er.
Senses: glosses: That which entails, or has as a consequence.
examples: text: Now, I hold that the devolvee is an heir of entail, and that he is not a direct conveyee of the entailer.
ref: 1847, Scotland. Court of Session, Second Series. Cases Decided in the Court of Session..., page 1183:
topics: law
glosses: One who makes an entail.
entailers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entailer
Kaolack
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in central Senegal.
Matam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Senegal.
discerptible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more discerptible
form: most discerptible
Etymology: From Latin discerpt- (supine stem of discerpō (to discerp)) + -ible.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of discerpible.
Derived terms: discerptibleness
indiscerptible
Touba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in eastcentral Senegal
cube rule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An observation that, in a parliamentary election, the ration of seats won by each party is proportional to the cube of the percentage of the vote obtained by each party
drygoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Alder had in her hold four hundred casks of musket flints, a quantity of bar lead, iron, and drygoods, the entire cargo and vessels being valued at twenty-four thousand dollars.
ref: 2004, Edgar Stanton Maclay, T. G. Cutler, A History of American Privateers, page 226:
glosses: Alternative form of dry goods.
heir by custom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heirs by custom
Senses: topics: law
glosses: One whose right to inherit as heir is determined by customary modes of descent, such as gavelkind.
plurality rule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of first past the post.
synonyms: word: first past the post
heirs by custom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heir by custom
ubiquarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ubiquarian
addressless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more addressless
form: most addressless
Etymology: From address + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Other bottom-up notations have been investigated by A. J. Blikle in his work on addressless universal orders.
ref: 1974, William James Meyers, Linear representation of tree structure:
glosses: Without an address.
Derived terms: addresslessness
otherisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: otherisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of otherization.
otherisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of otherisation
Taygetos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Taygetus
form: Taugetus
form: Taÿgetus
form: Taigetos
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ταΰγετον (Taǘgeton).
Senses: glosses: A mountain range in the prefectures of Laconia, Messenia and Arcadia on the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece.
Somada
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Sanskrit सोमदा (somadā).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit.
Tarrafal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /tɑːɹəˈfɑːl/
Etymology: From Portuguese tarrafes (“dominant on the sandy shores”).
Senses: glosses: A city in northern Santiago, Cape Verde; the seat of the municipality of Tarrafal.
Related terms: tarrafalense
testing clause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: testing clauses
Senses: synonyms: attestation clause
qualifier: Scots law
glosses: The last clause in a Scottish deed, which narrates when and where the parties signed the deed, before what witnesses, by whose hand written, etc.
testing clauses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of testing clause
autofluoresced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of autofluoresce
Cidade Velha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Portuguese cidade and velha, meaning the old city, that is the oldest city in Cape Verde.
Senses: glosses: A city in southern Santiago island, Cape Verde.
Hakunila
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A district of Vantaa, Finland.
thumbpot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thumbpots
Etymology: From thumb + pot.
Senses: glosses: A very small pot used by florists for starting slips or seedlings.
thumbpots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thumbpot
amende honorable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amendes honorables
Etymology: From French [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A public confession and apology.
amendes honorables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amende honorable
self-esteems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of self-esteem
smoked beer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smoked beers
Senses: glosses: A kind of beer with a distinctive smoky flavour imparted by using malted barley dried over an open flame.
smoked beers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smoked beer
were gild
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: were gilds
Senses: examples: text: But these modern statutes in Ohio and the Southern States, making towns responsible in a definite sum to the kin of a murdered man, are the exact re-enactment of the early Anglo-Saxon law; except that the blood damages -- the were gild--- were in those days put upon the neighbors or the kin of the enemy.
ref: 1912, Frederic Jesup Stimson, Popular Law-making, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of wergeld.
Florence syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Stendhal syndrome.
synonyms: word: Stendhal syndrome
Stendhal syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after the 19th-century French author Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle), who described such an experience in his book Naples and Florence: A Journey from Milan to Reggio.
Senses: glosses: A psychosomatic disorder, with rapid heartbeat, dizziness, fainting, etc., when a person is exposed to an experience of great personal significance, particularly viewing artworks.
Synonyms: Florence syndrome
gyre-carlin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyre-carlins
form: gyre-carline
form: gyre-carling
Etymology: From Old Norse gýgr (“ogress”) + English carline (“old woman”).
Senses: glosses: A witch.
gyre-carlins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyre-carlin
beam and scales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beams and scales
Senses: glosses: A balance; a pair of scales for weighing.
beams and scales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beam and scales
polypragmatisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polypragmatism
parish registers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parish register
parish clerk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parish clerks
Senses: glosses: The clerk or recording officer of a parish.
glosses: The one who leads the responses in the service of the Church of England.
parish clerks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parish clerk