cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
epitrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epitrites
Etymology: Compare French épitrite, Latin epitritus, Ancient Greek ἐπίτριτος (epítritos).
Senses: topics: communications
human-sciences
journalism
linguistics
literature
media
phonology
poetry
prosody
publishing
sciences
writing
glosses: A metrical foot consisting of three long syllables and one short syllable.
epitrites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epitrite
trickment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trickments
Etymology: From trick + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: No tomb shall hold thee
But these two arms, no trickments but my tears:
Over thy hearse, my sorrows like sad arms
Shall hang for ever.
ref: 1616–1619 (first performance), John Fletcher, “The Mad Lover”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: decoration; ornament
Related terms: trick out
trickments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trickment
desmognathous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From desmo- + -gnathous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: belonging to a former taxonomic group of carinate birds (Desmognathae), having the maxillopalatine bones united
deadlihood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From deadly + -hood?
Senses: glosses: The state of being dead; death.
clinodiagonal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clinodiagonals
Etymology: From clino- + diagonal.
Senses: topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: That diagonal or lateral axis in a monoclinic crystal which makes an oblique angle with the vertical axis.
clinodiagonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From clino- + diagonal.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to, or in the direction of, such a diagonal.
clinodiagonals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clinodiagonal
immoderancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin immoderantia.
Senses: examples: text: He despaired of God's mercy in the same fact, where this presumed of it; he by a decollation of all hope annihilated his mercy, this by an immoderancy thereof destroyed his justice
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Lack of moderation; excess.
redeclare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: redeclares
form: redeclaring
form: redeclared
form: redeclared
Etymology: From re- + declare.
Senses: glosses: To declare again or anew.
redeclaration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redeclarations
Etymology: From re- + declaration.
Senses: glosses: The act of redeclaring.
redeclares
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of redeclare
redeclaring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of redeclare
redeclarations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redeclaration
redeclared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of redeclare
spermophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spermophores
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: rare spelling of spermatophore
spermophores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spermophore
enomotarch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛˈnɒmətɑː(ɹ)k/
ipa: /ɪˈnəʊməˌtɑː(ɹ)k/
Forms: form: enomotarchs
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐνωμοτάρχης (enōmotárkhēs).
Senses: examples: text: sixteen Enomotarchs : the number of soldiers he leaves unmentioned
ref: 1784-1810, William Mitford, The History of Greece:
qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: The commander of an enomoty.
enomotarchs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enomotarch
lungoor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lungoors
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of langur.
lungoors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lungoor
gyratories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyratory
roky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more roky
form: most roky
Etymology: From roke + -y.
Senses: examples: text: They walked around in the roky damp, in silence.
ref: 1993, Annie Proulx, The Shipping News, Scribner, published 1999, →ISBN, page 40:
glosses: Misty; foggy; cloudy.
examples: text: […] scaly, and frightfully roky bar.
ref: 1877, Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engineering Magazine, page 469:
text: then elongate and “open-out,” producing “roky” billets and blooms. When the cracks are from top to bottom, i.e. longitudinal, it is usually because cooling, after the ingot has been taken out of the mould, has been uneven.
ref: 1942, Eric N. Simons, Edwin Gregory, Steel Manufacture Simply Explained:
glosses: Exhibiting roke (a defect in steel ingots).
soal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soals
form: sole
Etymology: From Middle English sol, sule, from Old English sol (“mud, wet sand, wallowing-place, slough, a mire or miry place”), from Proto-Germanic *sulą (“mire, mud”), from Proto-Indo-European *sūl- (“thick liquid, muck”). Compare sully. More at soil.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sole.
soal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soals
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of sole (the fish).
soals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soal
amentiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more amentiform
form: most amentiform
Etymology: From Latin amentum + -form.
Senses: examples: text: The inflorescence in these associated genera is in (catkins, or) amentiform regimes.
ref: 1835, Gilbert Thomas Burnett, Outlines of Botany, page 396:
text: Data-Palms (Coryphaceae). Trees; leaves clustered, terminal' infolorescence not in amentiform racemes; stamens hypogynous or perigynous, 6-9-12;
ref: 1854, Arthur Adams, A Manual of Natural History for the Use of Travellers, page 513:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Shaped like a catkin.
examples: text: a. 100 oer cent in acute and subacute amentiform conditions; b. 81 per cent in acute and subacute stupor; C. 71 per cent in acute and subacute hebephrenia; d. 68 per cent in acute and subacute paranoid-hallucinatory conditions.
ref: 1956, Arthur M. Sackler, The Great Physiodynamic Therapies in Psychiatry, page 87:
text: This would be in line with our findings that, in the French-Canadian multiparas (sometimes after the ninth or twelfth delivery), the amentiform - delirious syndromes and depressive episodes were relatively more often observed .
ref: 1974, Confinia Psychiatrica - Volumes 17-19, page 119:
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: Resembling dementia or delirium, including disorganized thinking, incoherence, and memory disturbances.
dudder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌdə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ʌdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: dudders
Etymology: From duds + -er.
Senses: glosses: A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap and flashy goods pretended to be smuggled; a duffer.
dudder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌdə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ʌdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: dudders
form: duddering
form: duddered
form: duddered
Etymology: Related to dodder.
Senses: examples: text: […]Joel piled on great fires, and went off on some mysterious errand , having“ other chores to do than idling and duddering"
ref: 1862, Rebecca Harding Davis, Margret Howth: A Story of To-Day:
glosses: To confuse or confound with noise.
examples: text: I dudder and shake like an aspen leaf.
ref: 1621, John Ford, Thomas Dekker, William Rowley, The Witch of Edmonton:
glosses: To shiver or tremble; to dodder.
dudder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌdə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ʌdə(ɹ)
Etymology: Related to dodder.
Senses: glosses: Confusion.
dudders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dudder
trypanosomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trypanosome + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a trypanosome
preconsign
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preconsigns
form: preconsigning
form: preconsigned
form: preconsigned
Etymology: From pre- + consign.
Senses: glosses: To consign beforehand
preconsigned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of preconsign
podosperm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: podosperms
Etymology: From podo- + Ancient Greek σπέρμα (spérma, “seed”). Compare French podosperme.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: podospermium
glosses: The stalk of a seed or ovule.
podosperms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of podosperm
trypanosomicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trypanosomicides
Etymology: From trypanosome + -cide.
Senses: glosses: trypanocide
trypanosomid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trypanosomids
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A skin lesion resulting from trypanosomiasis
misrehearse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misrehearses
form: misrehearsing
form: misrehearsed
form: misrehearsed
Etymology: From mis- + rehearse.
Senses: examples: text: If the Approver misrehearse the appellee , either by his name, or the colour of his horse , he shall be hanged incontinent
ref: 1663, Nicholas Collyn, A Brief Summary of the Laws and Statutes of England […] :
glosses: To rehearse or quote incorrectly.
Related terms: misrehearsal
misrehearsed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misrehearse
misrehearses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misrehearse
misrehearsing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misrehearse
bananeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bananery
vectitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin vectitatus (“borne about”), from intensive form of vehere, vectum (“to carry”).
Senses: examples: text: “You say well (quoth Albertus) and we have several other kinds of Vectitation unknown to the Ancients; particularly flying Chariots, where the people may have the benefit of this exercise at the small expence of a farthing.”
ref: a. 1745 (date written), Alexander Pope, The Works of Alexander Pope Esq. […], volume VI, London: […] J[ohn] and P[aul] Knapton […], published 1751, →OCLC, page 122:
text: We had a pic-nic a few days ago, to which they gave me the means of vectitation; that is, a very nice English tilbury, with the younger son, just returned from South America, as a companion.
ref: 1826 July, Armine S. H. Mountain, “Letter”, in Mrs. Armine S. H. Mountain, editor, Memoirs and Letters of the Late Colonel Armine S. H. Mountain, C. B. […], 2nd edition, published 1858, page 60:
text: And among their chief operations are being bodily transported from place to place, and to practise carnal connexion with Incubus devils, which we shall treat of separately, beginning with their bodily vectitation.
ref: 1928 [1486], Heinrich Kramer, translated by Montague Summers, Malleus Maleficarum, page 104:
glosses: Transport.
Related terms: vection
apprecatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more apprecatory
form: most apprecatory
Senses: examples: text: apprecatory […]benedictions
ref: 1649, Joseph Hall, Resolutions and Decisions of Diverse Practical Cases of Conscience:
glosses: Praying or wishing well.
Related terms: apprecate
clodpate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clodpates
Etymology: From clod + pate.
Senses: glosses: A blockhead; an idiot or fool.
Related terms: clodpated
clodpates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clodpate
gynandromorphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gynandromorphisms
Etymology: From gynandromorph + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being a gynandromorph.
Synonyms: gynandromorphy
gynandromorphisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gynandromorphism
verumontana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verumontanum
verumontanum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verumontanums
form: verumontana
form: veru montanum
Etymology: From New Latin veru montānum (literally “mountainous javelin”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An elevation or crest in the wall of the urethra where the seminal ducts enter it.
misvouch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misvouches
form: misvouching
form: misvouched
form: misvouched
Etymology: From mis- + vouch.
Senses: glosses: To vouch falsely.
misvouched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misvouch
misvouching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misvouch
-kins
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: See -kin.
Senses: examples: text: “But what about Bobbykins your lovely doggie?” asked his mother plaintively.
ref: 2006, Alan Byron, Pilgrimage, page 127:
text: They can't drive a vehicle, cook a meal, or walk Fluffykins at the same time that they watch your video podcast, so you gain greater audience focus.
ref: 2008, Tee Morris, Chuck Tomasi, Evo Terra, Podcasting For Dummies, page 144:
glosses: Forms (often intentionally childish or twee) diminutives of nouns.
chasible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chasibles
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of chasuble.
chasibles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chasible
libriform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more libriform
form: most libriform
Etymology: From the stem of Latin liber + -iform.
Senses: examples: text: The unseptate fibres, the true libriform cells, are only sparingly pitted, except in a few species like Oleander, where they are pitted on both the radial and tangential walls
ref: 1885, George Lincoln Goodale, Physiological Botany:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Resembling or having the form of liber, or bast.
libriform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the stem of Latin liber + -iform.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Tissue composed of cells of this kind.
enrank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enranks
form: enranking
form: enranked
form: enranked
Etymology: From en- + rank.
Senses: examples: text: No leisure had he to enrank his men;
He wanted pikes to set before his archers;
Instead whereof sharp stakes pluck’d out of hedges
They pitched in the ground confusedly,
To keep the horsemen off from breaking in.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: The souldiers all sat downe enrank’t, each by his armes and horse,
That then lay downe, and cool’d their hoofes.
ref: [1611?], Homer, “Book III”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC, page 90:
text: 1624, William Camden, The Historie of the Life and Death of Mary Stuart Queene of Scotland, London: Richard Whitaker, Anno 1568, p. 46,
When I had againe forgiuen them, behold, they laid vpon me a new crime, which themselues had wrought, and signed with their owne hands; and shortly after were enranked in battell against me in the field […]
glosses: To place in ranks or in order.
examples: text: […] thy Lord or Maister enranks thee with the deceaved sort, and so forgets thee!
ref: 1609, Simon Grahame, The Anatomie of Humors, Edinburgh, page 19:
text: […] hee begat the sonne who is enranked in this genealogicall rolle.
ref: 1610, John Healey, transl., St. Augustine, Of the Citie of God, London, page 585:
text: 1630, William Vaughan, The Arraignment of Slander Perjury Blasphemy, and other Malicious Sinnes, London: Francis Constable, Lineament 16, p. 174,
Courteous countrey-men, vnderstanding spirits, whose hap it is to be enrankt into impanelles […]
glosses: To classify (someone in a particular group); to enroll, register.
enranked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enrank
enranking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enrank
enranks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enrank
glandulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: French
Senses: examples: text: […]their placentation , rooting , branching , intorsion , budding , leafing , stipulation , pubescence , glandulation , lactescence , florescence , & c .
ref: 1793, Thomas Martyn, The Language of Botany:
text: Glandulation respects the secretory vessels, which are either glandules, follicles, or utricles.
ref: 1806, James Lee, An Introduction to Botany:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The situation and structure of the secretory vessels in plants.
organific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɔː.ɡəˈnɪf.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌɔɹ.ɡəˈnɪf.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɪfɪk
Forms: form: more organific
form: most organific
Etymology: From organ + Latin -ficare (“to make”, in comparative). See -fy.
Senses: glosses: Making an organic or organized structure; producing an organism.
examples: text: But among those who admit the atoning death of Christ as the organific principle of their faith, there are differences […]
ref: 1850, Edwards Amasa Park, The Theology of the Intellect and that of the Feelings:
glosses: Acting through, or resulting from, organs.
mundic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mundics
Senses: examples: text: The ores and minerals to be treated according to my invention are those containing sulphur, particularly mundics, or iron pyrites, copper ores, lead ores, tin ores, zinc ores […]
ref: 1870, Oliver Byrne, Ernest Spon, Spons' Dictionary of Engineering, Civil, Mechanical, Military, and Naval:
topics: business
mining
glosses: iron pyrite or arsenopyrite
mundics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mundic
inherse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inherses
form: inhersing
form: inhersed
form: inhersed
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of enhearse.
inhersed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inherse
inherses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inherse
inhersing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inherse
curvicaudate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more curvicaudate
form: most curvicaudate
Etymology: Latin curvus (“bent”) + English caudate.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a curved or crooked tail.
provinciate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: provinciates
form: provinciating
form: provinciated
form: provinciated
Senses: examples: text: a Designe to Provinciate the whole Kingdom
ref: 1640, I. H. [i.e., James Howell], ΔΕΝΔΡΟΛΟΓΊΑ [DENDROLOGIA]. Dodona’s Grove, or, The Vocall Forrest, London: […] T[homas] B[adger] for H. Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC:
text: Accordingly, after having provinciated Egypt, the most productive corn country in the world, he set about repairing the reservoirs and canals which served to retain and distribute the waters of the Nile; and he did every thing possible to restore that rich country to its primitive state of fertility.
ref: 1809, An Address to the Landed Interest of Scotland, on the subject of distillation:
glosses: To convert into a province or provinces.
provinciated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of provinciate
provinciates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of provinciate
provinciating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of provinciate
greillade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: French [Term?]
Senses: topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: iron ore in coarse powder, prepared for reduction by the Catalan process
temporaneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more temporaneous
form: most temporaneous
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin temporāneus (“timely”), derived from Latin tempor- (“time”).
Senses: examples: text: Oxen have a permanent and temporaneous set of horns
ref: 1818, James Carver, A Treatise on the Age of the Horse:
text: Those things may cause a temporaneous disunion.
ref: 1681, Henry Hallywell, Melampronoea:
glosses: temporary
Related terms: contemporaneous
in antis
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin in antis.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Between antae; said of a portico in classical style, where columns are set between two antae, forming the angles of the building.
biostatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ætɪks
Etymology: From bio- + statics.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The science of the structure and function of organic bodies
biostasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + stasis.
Senses: glosses: The ability of an organism to tolerate environmental changes without actively adapting to them
Related terms: biostatic
traductive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more traductive
form: most traductive
Senses: examples: text: as it is a species of folly all parties are apt to give into , it may not be amiss to consider this matter of TRADUCTIVE CUSTOMS a little more particularly
ref: 1738–1741, William Warburton, The Divine Legation of Moses […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II.1, or II.2), London: […] Fletcher Gyles, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Capable of being deduced; derivable.
immundicities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immundicity
immundicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɪmənˈdɪsɪti/
Forms: form: immundicities
Etymology: Compare French immondicité, Portuguese imundície, Latin immunditia, English immundities.
Senses: examples: text: [T]his naturall immundicity vvas but a figure of that ſpirituall impurity of him and his Court; […]
ref: 1648, Walter Montagu, “The Ninth Treatise. Of the Condition of Courts, Princes, and Courtiers. §. II. The Vitiousnesse of Heathen Souls Censured, and the Consequence of the Example of Princes, Urged as a Charge upon the Virtue of Their Lives.”, in Miscellanea Spiritualia: Or, Devout Essaies, London: […] W[illiam] Lee, D[aniel] Pakeman, and G[abriel] Bedell, […], →OCLC, page 93:
glosses: Filth, uncleanliness; (countable) an instance of this.
debarb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈbɑːb/
Forms: form: debarbs
form: debarbing
form: debarbed
form: debarbed
Etymology: From de- + barb.
Senses: examples: text: how to debarb a fish hook
glosses: To remove a barb or barbs from.
debarbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of debarb
debarbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of debarb
debarbs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of debarb
misesteem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪsɪsˈtiːm/
rhymes: -iːm
Etymology: From mis- + esteem. Compare French mésestime.
Senses: examples: text: The daily sight of this my sovereign's sweet humility, and his detachment from earthly things, works in me a contagious misesteem for this brief life […]
ref: 1867, Georgina Fullerton, A Stormy Life:
text: Not but that his Lordship, what with his own wide reading of the ancients, his soldier's life, and therefore constant listening in the camp and at the mess to the just defamation of the sex by honest fellows by it cajoled, and as an effect of my own constant hortations in season and out, had arrived at such a misesteem and despizal of womankind as even I could scarce wish made stronger.
ref: 1887, Oswald John F. Crawfurd, Beyond the seas, page 55:
text: The years after the war mark the lowest depths of misesteem attached to the Napoleonic legend since Las Cases published the Memorial.
ref: 1898, John Edward Courtenay Bodley, The revolution and modern France:
glosses: Lack of esteem; disrespect.
misesteem
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪsɪsˈtiːm/
rhymes: -iːm
Forms: form: misesteems
form: misesteeming
form: misesteemed
form: misesteemed
Etymology: From mis- + esteem. Compare French mésestime.
Senses: examples: text: Whatever man he be that dares to deem True poet's skill to spring of earthly race, I must him tell, that he doth misesteem Their strange estate, and eke himself disgrace By his rude ignorance.
ref: 1640, Henry More, The Song of the Soul:
text: "My good friend Sexwolf," quoth the Norman, in very tolerable Saxon, “I pray you not so to misesteem us."
ref: 1892, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Harold:
text: And yet, what does it matter though the low-trailing lights of a decadent literature and a fainéant criticism belittle and misesteem?
ref: 1894, Alfred Thomas Story, James Holmes and John Varley, page 65:
glosses: To hold in the wrong esteem; to disrespect.
thionaphthene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thionaphthenes
form: thianaphthene
Etymology: From thiophene and naphthalene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A two-ringed aromatic heterocycle consisting of a benzene ring fused to one of thiophene; any derivative of this compound
thionaphthenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thionaphthene
hogger pump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hogger pumps
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: The uppermost pump in the pit of a mine.
hogger pumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hogger pump
indispersed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more indispersed
form: most indispersed
Etymology: From in- + dispersed.
Senses: examples: text: The massive sides, massive they seemed, of this ravine were built of clouds which ever hung there indispersed, and caught on every vaporous fold and skirt the glory of the sportive rays that streamed forth from the happy paradise beyond innumerable.
ref: 1917, Jerry Miles Humphrey, A Soul's First Day in Heaven, page 32:
text: As Lincoln approached, the Insurgents who were collected in bodies of from 100 to 150 & 200 fled, some of these are still indispersed & lurk on the frontiers of N. York, & Vermont.
ref: 1917, Frank Landon Humphreys, Life and Times of David Humphreys:
text: This God is the Most High God, entirely distinct from Nature, and remains indispersed in Nature by any tendency to pantheism.
ref: 1927, Charles Guignebert, Christianity, Past and Present, page 101:
glosses: Not dispersed.
examples: text: Sections of the purified Valonia cell wall were subjected to ultrasonic vibrations for 4 hourse after which the larger indispersed fragments were removed.
ref: 1971, Journal of Polymer Science: Polymer symposia. Part C, page 328:
text: […] banks, salt marshes, mud flats and silty deposits with many indispersed salt-water channels known as guts or goats.
ref: 1976, Raymond A. Cartwright, D. B. Cartwright, The Holy Island of Lindisfarne and the Farne Islands, page 26:
text: Large indispersed clumps of fibres, with diameters on the approximate order of 3 to 12 mm , were noted in each mix that was produced.
ref: 2005, Ravindra K. Dhir, Judith E. Halliday, Erika Csetenyi, Young Researchers' Forum, page 224:
glosses: Dispersed within
indispersed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From in- + dispersed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of indisperse
glutaconic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of glutaric + aconitic + acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The unsaturated aliphatic dicarboxylic acid pent-2-enedioic acid
Related terms: glutaconate
sanguinariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sanguinary + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being sanguinary.
uti possidetis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin [Term?] (literally “as you possess”).
Senses: topics: law
antonyms: status quo ante bellum
glosses: The principle of a treaty which leaves belligerents mutually in possession of what they have acquired by force during the war.
topics: law
glosses: A species of interdict granted to one who was in possession of an immovable thing, in order that he might be declared the legal possessor.
glutaconate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glutaconates
Etymology: From glutaconic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of glutaconic acid
wreckfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wreckfishes
form: wreckfish
Etymology: From wreck + fish, since it often comes in with wreckage.
Senses: glosses: Any of the perciform marine fish of the family Polyprionidae, often inhabiting caves and shipwrecks.
wreckfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wreckfish
blanquillo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blanquillos
Etymology: From Spanish blanquillo.
Senses: glosses: tilefish (Malacanthidae spp.)
Derived terms: taxonomic: Malacanthus latovittatus
word: banded blanquillo
taxonomic: Malacanthus latovittatus
word: blue blanquillo
english: (Malacanthus brevirostris
translation: (Malacanthus brevirostris
word: flagtail blanquillo
taxonomic: Malacanthus latovittatus
word: striped blanquillo
blanquillos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blanquillo
delations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delation
bushelman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bushelmen
Etymology: From bushel + -man.
Senses: examples: text: The day was before him—a long day in which to discover something—and this was how he must begin to discover. He scanned the long column, which mostly concerned bakers, bushelmen, cooks, compositors, drivers, and the like, finding two things only which arrested his eye.
ref: 1900, Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie, Chapter 35:
text: A merchant tailor has in the same shop with himself one or more "bushelmen," who repair garments, and one cutter who cuts all the garments. Besides these, there are usually several "journeymen" tailors in his employ, who come to the shops for garments and make them up in their own homes, unless a "back- shop" is provided a room near by where the tailors work together, although on separate garments.
ref: 1900 November 24, Nellie Mason Auten, “Sweating System in the Garment Trades in Chicago”, in The American Journal of Sociology:
glosses: A tailor's assistant for repairing garments.
Synonyms: busheler
Related terms: bushelwoman
bushelmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bushelman
stroboscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From strobo- + -scopy.
Senses: glosses: The examination of a vibrating object (e.g. the vocal cords) using a stroboscope
hartebeests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hartebeest
hartbeest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hartbeests
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hartebeest.
hartbeests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hartbeest
collodiotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collodiotypes
Etymology: From collodion + -type.
Senses: glosses: A picture obtained by the collodion process; a melanotype or ambrotype.
collodiotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collodiotype
shoaliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shoaly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being shoaly; small depth of water; shallowness.
niggardship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English nigardshipe, nygartship, negardship, nygardschip, nygardschippe, equivalent to niggard + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: much pinching and niggardship of meat and drink is to be discommended
ref: 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →OCLC:
glosses: Niggardliness; stinginess.
meazling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: meazling and soaking Rains
ref: 1712, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Effects of Air on Human Bodies:
glosses: Falling in small drops; mistling; mizzing.
appair
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: appairs
form: appairing
form: appaired
form: appaired
Etymology: From Middle English apeiren, from Old French empeirier (modern French empirer). See impair.
Senses: examples: text: The ancient lawes, uſages, cuſtomes, and franchiſes of the Realm, have been, and be greatly appaired, blemiſhed, and confounded […]
ref: 1643, William Prynne, The Soveraigne Power of Parliaments and Kingdomes:
glosses: To make worse; to injure or damage.
examples: text: I see the more that I them forbear
The worse they be from year to year;
ref: 1510, The Summoning of Everyman, Everyman's Library (1909)
roman: All that liveth appaireth fast
glosses: To become impaired; to grow worse.
appaired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of appair
appairing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of appair
appairs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of appair
mured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mure
misrepeat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misrepeats
form: misrepeating
form: misrepeated
form: misrepeated
Etymology: From mis- + repeat.
Senses: examples: 1825-1826, John Winthrop, The History of New England
The petition was of many sheets of paper, and contained many false accusations, (and among some truths misrepeated,) accusing us to intend rebellion, to have cast off our allegiance, and to be wholly separate from the church and laws of England […]
glosses: To repeat wrongly; to give a wrong version of.
misrepeated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misrepeat
misrepeating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misrepeat
misrepeats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misrepeat
pseudepigraphies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudepigraphy
pseudepigraphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudepigraphies
Etymology: From pseudo- + epigraphy.
Senses: examples: text: Pseudepigraphy was sometimes regarded as a literary lie, a forgery, which enabled the apocalyptic writers to acquire authority for their writings by using a borrowed identity.
ref: 1988, Ithamar Gruenwald, From Apocalypticism to Gnosticism: Studies in Apocalypticism, Merkavah Mysticism and Gnosticism, Peter Lang, page 24:
glosses: The composition of pseudepigrapha, false credit of authorship to give ideas greater legitimacy.
Related terms: pseudepigraph
pseudepigrapha
pseudepigrapher
pseudepigraphic
pseudepigraphon
pseudepigraphum
Anglic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈæŋɡlɪk/
Forms: form: more Anglic
form: most Anglic
Etymology: From Anglia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Anglian.
Anglic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈæŋɡlɪk/
Etymology: This sense was rare and restricted to discourse about Scots until the 2000s. Probably influenced by Anglican, or directly derived from Latin Anglicus (“English”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the family of languages descended from Old English, including English, Scots, and the extinct Yola and Fingallian languages.
dinetical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dinetical
form: most dinetical
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δινέω (dinéō, “to whirl round”).
Senses: examples: text: Besides the revolution it maketh with its orbs, it hath also a dinetical motion, and rolls upon its own poles.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
text: dinetical motion
ref: 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Revolving on an axis.
haĉek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Ask to be that diver falling haĉek into this wave.
ref: 2002, Andrew Zawacki, By Reason of Breakings, poem iv: “Diacritics”, page 28
text: BTW, Esperanto uses a “breve” on the “u”, i.e. ŭ, not a haĉek.
ref: 2003 February 24, "Lee Sau Dan" (username), Re: Non-umlaut umlauts (see the original message), in sci.lang, Usenet
text: My father always wrote Bětik with a little “v” called haĉek, above the “e”; Marušaks placed the haĉek above the “s”.
ref: 2006 December 8, Mary Betik Trojacek, Beyond Ellis Island, page 17:
glosses: Alternative spelling of háček.
strophanthin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strophanthins
Etymology: Strophanthus + -in
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several poisonous cardiac glycosides obtained from various African plants
Synonyms: ouabain
Related terms: strophanthol
strophanthoside
strophanthus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strophanthuses
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: But where the conical explosive bullets of the twentieth century were of no avail, the poisoned arrows of the natives, dipped in the juice of strophanthus and steeped afterwards in decayed carrion, could succeed.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: Any of several African plants of the genus Strophanthus, some of which yield arrow poisons.
bemouth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bemouths
form: bemouthing
form: bemouthed
form: bemouthed
Etymology: From be- + mouth.
Senses: glosses: To mouth the praises of (a person); talk grandiloquently; declaim.
examples: text: Entering the hotel they tossed off a glass of wine apiece, bemouthed a cigar, and directed the landlord to provide the best game supper in his power.
ref: 1841, Miss M. Corbett, The New Happy Week, page 161:
text: All made of Flanders cloth,
And now bemouthed of many a moth […]
ref: 1879, Theodore Tilton, The Complete Poetical Works of Theodore Tilton in One Volume:
glosses: To place in the mouth; to put one's mouth on; (by extension) to eat.
bemow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bemows
form: bemowing
form: bemowed
form: bemowed
Etymology: From be- + mow (“a grimace”).
Senses: glosses: To mock or mock at, especially with grimaces.
Debbie Downer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Debbie Downers
Etymology: Coined by Rachel Dratch and Paula Pell as the name of a recurring character on the American comedy show Saturday Night Live.
Senses: examples: text: I don't want to be a Debbie Downer, but…
text: Everyone has met a Debbie Downer. They are filled with complaints, see everything darkly, and feel like a victim of life. And that is the energy they bring to themselves.
ref: 2021, Thomas L. Norris, A Fresh Cup of Counseling, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN:
glosses: A naysayer; one whose negative remarks depress or dissuade others.
wikipedia: Debbie Downer
Paula Pell
Rachel Dratch
Saturday Night Live
Synonyms: negative Nancy
negative Nelly
Related terms: doubting Thomas
gloomy Gus
strophanthins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strophanthin
stroopwafels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stroopwafel
bemuffle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bemuffles
form: bemuffling
form: bemuffled
form: bemuffled
Etymology: From be- + muffle.
Senses: glosses: To muffle up.
Derived terms: bemuffled
strombi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strombus
bemeet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bemeets
form: bemeeting
form: bemet
form: bemet
Etymology: From be- + meet.
Senses: examples: text: Away, thou rag, thou quantity, thou remnant, or I shall so bemeet thee with thy yard as thou shall think on prating whilst thou liv'st!
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
glosses: To meet with.
snowful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnəʊfəl/
rhymes: -əʊfəl
Forms: form: more snowful
form: most snowful
Etymology: From snow + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: the snowful sky in this pale December
ref: 1953, Charles Causley, Survivor's Leave:
text: The sun […] glows in a still, if misty, heaven, snowful and leaden.
ref: 1949, Charles Wrey Gardiner, The Flowering Moment:
glosses: Full of snow; snowy.
nonexpressive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Etymology: From non- + expressive.
Senses: glosses: Not expressive.
Punic War
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Punic Wars
Senses: examples: text: So ended the first and longest of the three Punic Wars; or, if viewed from a more romantic standpoint, the first act of a three-act tragedy, the tragedy of the destruction not only of Carthage but also of old Rome - of Rome the city state.
ref: 1992, Brian Caven, The Punic Wars, Barnes & Noble, page 64:
text: The first Punic War has ended in 241 BC, but another Punic War would begin in 218 BC.
ref: 2002, Richard Michael Pasichnyk, In Defense of Nature: The History Nobody Told You About, iUniverse, page 133:
text: The third and last Punic War (151-146 B.C.E) led to the complete destruction of Carthage.
ref: 2004, Kevin McGeough, The Romans: new perspectives, ABC-CLIO, page 69:
glosses: Any of several wars between Ancient Rome and Carthage.
bemercy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bemercies
form: bemercying
form: bemercied
form: bemercied
Etymology: From be- + mercy.
Senses: glosses: To treat with mercy; show mercy to; milse.
Hulkamaniac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hulkamaniacs
Etymology: From Hulk + -a- + -maniac.
Senses: examples: text: I argued that the presentational skills he learned in wrestling — how to work a crowd, how to build a promo up to its crescendo, and how to connect with the Hulkamaniac generation — made him the ideal third-party candidate.
ref: 2005, Nicholas Sammond, Steel Chair to the Head:
text: This DVD also addresses the long-rumored belief that the defense's main argument was, “But only like twelve people even bought that show.” A must for every Hulkamaniac.
ref: 2007, R. D. Reynolds, Blade Braxton, The Wrestlecrap Book of Lists!, page 322:
glosses: A fan of the professional wrestler Hulk Hogan (Terry Gene Bollea).
Related terms: Hulkamania
Hulkamaniacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hulkamaniac
hulkingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hulkingly
form: most hulkingly
Etymology: From hulking + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The Sergeant stood hulkingly, breathing heavily, by the end of the bed.
ref: 1999, Lois McMaster Bujold, Cordelia's Honor:
glosses: In a hulking manner.
Sassoonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Sassoonian
form: most Sassoonian
Etymology: From Sassoon + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967), English poet, author, and soldier whose works described the horrors of World War I and satirized the patriotism of those who did not have to fight.
Spockish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Spockish
form: most Spockish
Etymology: From Spock + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Gary Oldman is pale with pale blue eyes and Spockish ears.
ref: 1997, Film review: Special: Issues 18-21:
text: In the early shows, Leonard Nimoy and the various writers and directors struggled to find the Spockish response to emotionally charged situations.
ref: 1998, Grace Lee Whitney, Jim Denney, Leonard Nimoy, The Longest Trek: My Tour of the Galaxy, page 89:
text: Rather like the Spockish character Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation, psychology is coming to appreciate the power and virtues of emotions in mental life, as well as their dangers.
ref: 2009, Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence, page 41:
text: It is not driven by the fiction of optimization in the manner of Dr.^([sic]) Spock in Star Trek―obsessively using high-tech logic tools. Such a Spockish approach often tends to mis-characterize the nature of the problem when the environment is complex, turbulent and evolving.
ref: 2010, Ruth Hubbard, Gilles Paquet, The Case for Decentralized Federalism, page 211:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of the Star Trek character Mr. Spock, especially in being excessively logical and emotionless.
examples: text: Circumcision of the goyim would not become the pediatric norm in America until the Spockish 1950's.
ref: 1994, John Barth, Once Upon a Time: A Floating Opera:
text: And the two of us, I already a bit refreshed perhaps by an hour's sleep, Harry longing for a touch of baby skin, would conspire to break the Spockish law and sneak him across the hall to spend some time with us in bed.
ref: 2001, Flavia Alaya, Under the Rose: A Confession, page 307:
glosses: Characteristic of Benjamin Spock (1903–1998), American pediatrician who introduced elements of psychoanalysis into childcare.
Synonyms: sense: Benjamin Spock
word: Spockian
sense: Mr Spock
word: Spockian
bemark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bemarks
form: bemarking
form: bemarked
form: bemarked
Etymology: From be- + mark. Cognate with Saterland Frisian bemäärke, German Low German bemarken, German bemerken.
Senses: glosses: To mark with the sign of the cross; mark oneself.
examples: text: [...] commuter frenzy as soon they'll be charging en masse from Market and Sansome buildings on foot and in buses and all well-dressed thru workingman Frisco of Walkup?? truck drivers and even the poor grime-bemarked Third Steet of lost bums [...]
ref: 1960, Jack Kerouac, Lonesome traveler:
glosses: To mark or cover with marks; mark up.
Hulkamania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hulk + -a- + -mania.
Senses: glosses: Enthusiasm for the professional wrestler Hulk Hogan (Terry Gene Bollea).
Related terms: Hulkamaniac
HACEK
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhæsɛk/
/ˈheɪsɛk/
Etymology: Acronym.
Senses: examples: text: HACEK organisms
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Haemophilus aphrophilus, Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans (the former name of Haemophilus actinomycetemcomitans), Cardiobacterium hominis, Eikenella corrodens, Kingella kingae — five gram-negative bacilli that are typically regarded as fastidious or difficult to culture and which can cause bacterial endocarditis.
pulsific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʌlˈsɪf.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɪfɪk
Forms: form: more pulsific
form: most pulsific
Etymology: From pulse + -ific.
Senses: glosses: Inciting the pulse; causing pulsation.
compt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more compt
form: most compt
Etymology: From Latin comptus, past participle of comere (“to care for, comb, arrange, adorn”).
Senses: examples: text: A compt, accomplished prince.
ref: 1623, John Vicars, Æneid:
glosses: neat; spruce
Derived terms: comptly