cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hemialbumose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemialbumoses
Etymology: From hemi- + albumose.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An albuminous substance formed in gastric digestion, and by the action of boiling dilute acids on albumin. It is readily convertible into hemipeptone.
Synonyms: hemialbumin
hemialbumoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemialbumose
assumpt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈsʌmpt/
Forms: form: assumpts
Etymology: From Latin assumptum, past participle neuter of assumō.
Senses: examples: text: The sum of all your assumpts […]is this.
ref: 1637, William Chillingworth, The Religion of Protestants a Safe Way to Salvation:
glosses: That which is assumed; an assumption.
assumpt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əˈsʌmpt/
Forms: form: assumpts
form: assumpting
form: assumpted
form: assumpted
Etymology: From Latin assumptum, past participle neuter of assumō.
Senses: examples: text: From thence assumpted Bishop of Lismore.
ref: 1571, Edmund Campion, Historie Of Ireland:
glosses: To take up; to elevate; to assume.
assumpts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assumpt
dulcified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dulcified
form: most dulcified
Etymology: From Latin dulcis (“sweet”) + -fy + -ed.
Senses: glosses: sweetened; mollified
Derived terms: dulcified spirit
dulcified spirits
dulcified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Latin dulcis (“sweet”) + -fy + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dulcify
Related terms: dulcification
ruttier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈrʌtɪə/
Forms: form: ruttiers
Etymology: From French routier, from route (“a road”). See route.
Senses: examples: text: These charts probably originated as graphic extensions of simple but accurate descriptions of ports, coasts, and customary routes contained in pilot books (ruttiers).
ref: 1988, Doulglas M Johnston, Theory and History of Ocean Boundary-Making, McGill-Queen’s University Press, pages 61-74:
glosses: A chart of a course, especially at sea.
ruttier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈrʌtɪə/
Forms: form: ruttiers
Etymology: From Dutch ruiter, from Middle Dutch ruter, from Old French routier.
Senses: examples: text: He and his troop of Angevine ruttiers had fought like tigers by William’s side, at Hastings[.]
ref: 1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 21, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 291:
glosses: A mounted warrior, or knight
ruttier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈrʌtɪə/
Senses: glosses: comparative form of rutty: more rutty
ruttiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ruttier
incedingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more incedingly
form: most incedingly
Etymology: From Latin incedere (“to walk majestically”) + English -ing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Even in the uttermost frenzy of energy is each mænad movement royally, imperially, incedingly upborne. Her hair, flying loose in revel or war, is still an angel's hair, and glorious under a halo.
ref: 1853 January, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Vashti”, in Villette. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC, page 191:
glosses: Majestically.
categorifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of categorification
spasmatical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spasmatical
form: most spasmatical
Senses: glosses: spasmodic
introsume
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: introsumes
form: introsuming
form: introsumed
form: introsumed
Etymology: From intro- + Latin sumere (“to take”).
Senses: examples: text: their vessels enlarge and introsume more copious nourishment
ref: 1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To draw in, swallow or absorb.
introsumed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of introsume
introsumes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of introsume
introsuming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of introsume
nematodynamics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nemato- + dynamics.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The study of the orientation dynamics of nematic (flowless) liquid crystals
reorthogonalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reorthogonalizations
Etymology: From re- + orthogonalization.
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent orthogonalization
embushment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embushments
Etymology: From Middle English embushement, from Old French embuschement.
Senses: glosses: An ambush.
embushments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of embushment
rowdydowdy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rowdydowdy
form: most rowdydowdy
Etymology: Reduplication of rowdy.
Senses: examples: text: Now she is a rowdydowdy mistress of ceremonies in the comic movie shorts shown on these pages.
ref: 1940 December 16, “Elsa Maxwell turns slapstick comedian to depict her past”, in LIFE, volume 9, number 25, page 53:
glosses: uproarious; boisterous
denudational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From denudation + -al.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to, or influenced by, denudation.
nematodynamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nemato- + dynamic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to nematodynamics.
syrt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syrts
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian сырт (syrt), from Kyrgyz сырт (sırt), from Proto-Turkic *sïrt (“highland; ridge; backbone”).
Senses: examples: text: Syrts may be separated from each other by higher ridges, and may serve as water divides between drainage basins for larger rivers.
glosses: A kind of elevated flatland in Russia and Central Asia.
syrt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /sərt/
Forms: form: syrts
Etymology: From Latin syrtis, q.v.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of syrtis, quicksand, bog.
syrts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syrt
syrtic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more syrtic
form: most syrtic
Etymology: From syrt + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The marshy ground gradually disappeared, and the rest of the Syrtic region, though arid and dreary in a high degree, presented from time to time little valleys or detached spots, the verdure of which afforded an agreeable relief.
ref: The Edinburgh Review (volume 14? 48? page 225)
glosses: Of or relating to a syrt; boggy; resembling quicksand.
Synonyms: sense: resembling quicksand
word: hoggy
word: quaggy
word: swampy
word: marshy
Columbians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Columbian
coronule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coronules
Etymology: From Latin coronula, diminutive of corona (“crown”). Equivalent to corona + -ule.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A coronet or little crown of a seed; the downy tuft on seeds.
Related terms: pappus
coronules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coronule
calyciform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more calyciform
form: most calyciform
Etymology: From Latin calyx, calycis (“calyx”) + -form.
Senses: examples: text: calyciform cell
text: calyciform nerve endings
text: calyciform papilla
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the form or appearance of a calyx.
casern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kəˈzɝn/
/kəˈsɝn/
Forms: form: caserns
form: caserne
form: cazern
form: cazerne
Etymology: From French caserne, attested since the late 1600s. Doublet of kasern.
Senses: glosses: A lodging for soldiers in a garrison town (formerly usually near the rampart); a barracks.
caserns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of casern
crownet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crownets
Etymology: From Middle English crovnette, crownet, from Middle French [Term?].
Senses: examples: text: Himself with garland freshe, and crownet greene of oliue bandes,
Aduancing stood in ship.
ref: 1558, Thomas Phaer, transl., The Seven First Bookes of the Eneidos of Virgil converted into English Meter, Book 5:
text: Sometime a louelie boye in Dians shape,
With haire that gilds the water as it glides,
Crownets of pearle about his naked armes,
And in his sportfull hands an Oliue tree,
To hide those parts which men delight to see,
Shall bathe him in a spring […]
ref: 1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
text: […] sixty and nine, that wore
Their crownets regal, from the Athenian bay
Put forth toward Phrygia;
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene prologue]:
text: Why, sir, I am affronted for want of a title: a parcel of upstarts, with their crownets upon their coaches, their chairs, their spoons, their handkerchiefs—nay, on the very knockers of their doors—creatures that were below me but t’other day, are now truly my superiors, and have the precedency, and are set above me at table.
ref: 1783, Charles Macklin, The True-Born Irishman, Dublin, act II, page 29:
text: So the queen sung,
Crumbling her crownet into clods of dung.
ref: 1949, Christopher Fry, The Lady’s Not for Burning, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, published 1968, act One, page 26:
glosses: A coronet, small crown.
crownets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crownet
spermatoa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spermatoon
spermatoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spermatoa
Etymology: From spermato- + Ancient Greek ᾦον (ōîon).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A spermoblast.
excorticate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈskɔː(ɹ)tɪkeɪt/
Forms: form: excorticates
form: excorticating
form: excorticated
form: excorticated
Etymology: From Latin ex (“out”), from cortex, corticis (“bark”).
Senses: examples: text: Moſs is to be rubb'd and ſcrap'd off with ſome fit inſtrument of Wood, which may not excorticate the Tree, or with a piece of Hair-cloth after a ſobbing Rain: [...]
ref: 1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC, page 69:
text: The sap-wood of the excorticated winter-felled timber, kept in piles in his Majesty's yards, has rotted
ref: 1821, John Knowles, An Inquiry Into the Means which Have Been Taken to Preserve the British Navy […] :
text: His mouth was dry and parched; his hands red and swollen, and looking about the nails as if he had been excorticating millions of new walnuts.
ref: 1842, Albert Smith, “Mr. Ledbury's Adventures at Home and Abroad (Chapter II)”, in Bentley's Miscellany:
synonyms: decorticate
delibrate
glosses: To strip of bark, shell or skin.
Derived terms: excortication
unexcorticated
excorticated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of excorticate
excorticates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of excorticate
excorticating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of excorticate
actinidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From actinide + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the actinides.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to actinidic acid or its derivatives.
actinidic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A triterpene phytoalexin isolated from the peel of kiwi fruit (Actinidia deliciosa)
perilymphangial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + lymphangial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Around, or at the side of, a lymphatic vessel.
dissentaneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dissentaneous
form: most dissentaneous
Etymology: From Latin dissentaneus. See dissent.
Senses: examples: text: their own prophets do on many occasions affirm and complain ; being dissentaneous and repugnant to the common humour and genius of mankind.
ref: a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). Of the Imperfection of the Jewish Religion”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:
text: He that shall peruse that worke, and shall take notice of sundry particularities and personall expressions therein, will easily discerne the intention was not publik […] and therefore if there bee any singularitie therein correspondent unto the private conceptions of any man, it doth not advantage them; or if dissentaneous thereunto, it no way overthrowes them.
ref: 1643, Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, "To The Reader":
glosses: disagreeing; contrary; differing
Derived terms: dissentaneousness
pterygopodia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pterygopodium
pterygopodium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pterygopodia
Etymology: From pterygo- + -podium.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: clasper
glosses: A modified part of the pelvic fin in male elasmobranchs, which serves as a copulatory organ
charmeress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charmeresses
Etymology: From Middle English charmeresses pl, from Old French; equivalent to charmer + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female charmer; an enchantress.
charmeresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of charmeress
amphidextrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more amphidextrous
form: most amphidextrous
Etymology: From amphi- + Latin dexter (“right”) + -ous. See ambidextrous.
Senses: examples: text: An amphidextrous man. Typhoid at eleven. Insufficiently treated chancre at twenty-eight.
ref: 1963, Harold Saxton Burr, Classics in neurology:
glosses: Alternative form of ambidextrous.
taplash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æʃ
Etymology: From tap + lash?
Senses: glosses: Small beer of bad quality.
examples: text: Fac'd with the tap-lash of strong Ale and Wine
ref: 1622, John Taylor, The Water-Cormorant:
glosses: The refuse or dregs of liquor.
lampic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French lampique, from lampe (“lamp”). See lamp.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A supposed acid formed by heating ether with a limited supply of air.
Derived terms: lampate
bihemispheric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + hemispheric.
Senses: glosses: Affecting both hemispheres of the brain
Derived terms: bihemispherically
symptomatologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: symptomatologists
Etymology: From symptomatology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies symptomatology.
symptomatologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of symptomatologist
suffraginous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /səˈfɹæd͡ʒɪnəs/
Etymology: From Latin suffraginosus (“diseased in the hock”), from suffrago (“the pastern, or hock”).
Senses: examples: text: The different flexure and order of the joints might also countenance the same, being not disposed in the Elephant, as they are in other quadrupedes, but carry a nearer conformity unto those of Man; that is, the bought of the fore-legs, not directly backward, but laterally and somewhat inward; but the hough or suffraginous flexure behind rather outward.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Of or relating to the hock of an animal.
galliardise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡælɪə(ɹ)ˌdaɪz/
Etymology: From French gaillardise. See galliard.
Senses: examples: text: the mirth and galliardise of company
ref: 1642, [Thomas Browne], “(please specify the page)”, in Religio Medici, London: […] Andrew Crooke, →OCLC:
text: Of so much galliardise and gentle gree
ref: 1884, Richard Francis Burton (translator), Luís de Camões (original), The Lyricks: Sonnets, Canzons, Odes and Sextines, Canzon XIX:
glosses: gaiety; merriment
glochidia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glochidium
glochidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glochidia
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γλωχίς (glōkhís, “barb of an arrow”) + -idium.
Senses: examples: text: Glochidia were once believed to be parasites on the gills of the parents.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The larva or young of the mussel.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A glochid, or cactus spine.
Derived terms: glochidial
Brunswick green
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brunswick greens
Etymology: Named after Brunswick (Braunschweig) in Germany.
Senses: hypernyms: pigment#Noun
coordinate_terms: word: Paris green#Noun
english: copper and arsenic
translation: copper and arsenic
word: Scheele's green#Noun
word: ;
english: chromium
translation: chromium
word: viridian#Noun
english: cobalt
translation: cobalt
word: ;
word: cobalt green#Noun
glosses: Any of various dark green pigments, usually from copper compounds.
examples: text: The livery, standard Brunswick Green with greyish-white cab window recess and a continuous light green band along the bottom edge of the bodywork, is the most satisfactory use of green to date, [...].
ref: 1962 March, Brian Haresnape, “Design in 1961—a Retrospect”, in Modern Railways, page 192:
synonyms: English green
hypernyms: green#Noun
coordinate_terms: see Appendix:Colors § Greens
glosses: The dark green colour of any of these pigments.
Brunswick greens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brunswick green
biomimicking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + mimicking.
Senses: glosses: That exhibits biomimetic properties.
semidouble
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + double.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the outermost stamens converted into petals, while the inner ones remain perfect.
raw_tags: of a flower
semidouble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semidoubles
Etymology: From semi- + double.
Senses: glosses: An ecclesiastical office or feast celebrated with less solemnity than the double feasts.
preapprehension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preapprehensions
Etymology: From pre- + apprehension.
Senses: examples: text: shapes conformable to preapprehensions
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: An apprehension or opinion formed before examination or knowledge.
preapprehensions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preapprehension
simmeringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more simmeringly
form: most simmeringly
Etymology: From simmering + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: This meant that the quieter, more compliant African Caribbean child was perceived as subnormal or simmeringly hostile when the more competitive, garrulous behaviour which typified British children was taken as the normative standard.
ref: 1999, Chris Chaloner, Michael Coffey, Forensic mental health nursing: current approaches, page 127:
glosses: So as to simmer.
grindest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: grind + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of grind
grindeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: grind + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of grind
septennially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From septennial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Once in every seven years.
sextennially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From sextennial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Once in every six years.
Paracel Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: pä-rä-sělʹ
Senses: examples: text: ABOUT the third day out we passed the dreaded Macclesfield Bank, which, with the adjacent Paracel Islands and reefs, forms a pretty trap for the careless or unskilful navigator.
ref: 1897, Carlton Dawe, Captain Castle: A Tale of the China Seas (Fiction), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., →OCLC, →OL, page 31:
text: The Republic of China has reiterated its sovereignty over the Nansha and Hsisha Islands (Spratly and Paracel Islands).
ref: 1976 June 6, “ROC reiterates ownership of southern islets”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVII, number 22, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:
text: Gales in the South China Sea, off Guangdong's east coast and near the Paracel Islands, were forecast to reach moderate magnitudes of 6-7 but the wind in some parts of the sea could be stronger, the forecasters said.
ref: 2022 June 29, Beijing newsroom, Hong Kong newsroom, Liz Lee, “Typhoon may be forming ahead of Hong Kong handover anniversary”, in Robert Birsel, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 29 Jun 2022, China:
glosses: A group of South China Sea islands administered under Sansha, Hainan, China, as Xisha (claimed by Taiwan (ROC) and Vietnam).
Synonyms: word: The Paracels
word: Paracel
sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Xisha
word: Hsisha
sense: from Vietnamese
word: Hoang Sa
endomyocardial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endo- + myocardial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the endocardium and the myocardium
Derived terms: transendomyocardial
sextennial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin
Senses: glosses: Lasting or continuing six years.
glosses: Occurring once in every six years.
sexennially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From sexennial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Once in every six years.
exocuticle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exocuticles
Etymology: From exo- + cuticle.
Senses: glosses: The layer between the epicuticle and the endocuticle of an insect
unrememberable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrememberable
form: most unrememberable
Etymology: From un- + rememberable.
Senses: examples: text: That was the work of a complex, remembering, matured self-conscious thought, not of vague, unrememberable sensations.
ref: 1886, Journal of the Society for Psychical Research: Volume 2:
glosses: That cannot be remembered.
exocuticular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From exo- + cuticular.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the exocuticle.
exocuticles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exocuticle
kinemics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The study of gestures as body language
septuary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin septem (“seven”).
Senses: examples: a septuary brotherhood
glosses: Being seven in number.
septuary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: septuaries
Etymology: Latin septem (“seven”).
Senses: glosses: Something composed of seven elements.
omosterna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of omosternum
omosternum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)nəm
Forms: form: omosterna
Etymology: From omo- + sternum.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The anterior element of the sternum which projects forward from between the clavicles in many frogs or toads and is usually tipped with cartilage.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: In many mammals, an interarticular cartilage, or bone, between the sternum and the clavicle.
magnetoreceptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnetoreceptors
Etymology: From magneto- + receptor.
Senses: glosses: The part of an organism responsible for magnetoreception.
micromorphologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micromorphology
consistorian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From consistory + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: You fall next on the Conſistorian Schiſmatics; for ſo you call Presbyterians,
ref: a. 1675, John Milton, Brief Notes upon a late Sermon Titl'd, The Fear of God and the King; […]; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume II, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 805:
glosses: Relating to a Presbyterian consistory.
consistorian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consistorians
Etymology: From consistory + -ian.
Senses: glosses: a Presbyterian
haematic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hematic.
haematic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haematics
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hematic.
spoilsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spoilsman
Bourbonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bourbonisms
Etymology: From Bourbon + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Bourbonism had dominated France for a century and a half, growing daily more arrogant, grasping, unfeeling, cruel, autocratic. Bourbonism is a constant quality in human nature. It is spawned of the possession of irresponsible power.
ref: 1909 July 16, The California Weekly, volume 1, page 530:
glosses: The principles of the supporters of the House of Bourbon; obstinate conservatism.
Related terms: Bourbonist
Bourbonisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bourbonism
seriph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seriphs
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of serif.
seriphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seriph
ceriph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ceriphs
Senses: examples: text: 1891-1892, P. L. A. Garint, "THE FACE AND STANDARD OF TYPE", IN The Inland Printer
This article advises, besides a standard of width, one of body and one of the depth of face—the last I take as meaning the distance from the top ceriph of say the lower case "m" to the bottom ceriph of the same letter.
glosses: Archaic form of serif.
ceriphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ceriph
bishop's length
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: An old portrait size, measuring 58 by 94 inches.
Related terms: english: smaller size, though not necessarily half
translation: smaller size, though not necessarily half
word: half bishop
staggerbush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staggerbushes
Etymology: From stagger + bush.
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Lyonia of ericaceous flowering plants.
staggerbushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of staggerbush
lyonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lyonias
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Lyonia of staggerbushes.
lyonias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lyonia
inflatability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inflate + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being inflatable.
opisthotic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opisthotics
Etymology: From opistho- (“posterior”) + otic (“ear”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: The inferior and posterior of the three elements forming the periotic bone.
Coordinate terms: epiotic
prootic
opisthotics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opisthotic
saccharimetrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From saccharimetry + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or measured by means of, saccharimetry.
prasoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prasoid
form: most prasoid
Etymology: From prase + -oid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Resembling prase.
subhyaloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + hyaloid.
Senses: examples: text: subhyaloid hemorrhage
text: subhyaloid retinal hemorrhage
text: subhyaloid space
text: subhyaloid blood
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated under the hyaloid membrane.
salt rheum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salt rheums
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of various cutaneous eruptions, especially eczema.
salt rheums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salt rheum
lineature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lineatures
Etymology: Compare linear, delineate.
Senses: examples: text: There accompanied him a certeine shadowy and dark lineature.
ref: 1603, Plutarch, translated by Philemon Holland, The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC:
glosses: Anything having an outline.
lineatures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lineature
fangot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fangots
Etymology: Compare Italian fagotto, fangotto (“a bundle”). Compare fagot.
Senses: glosses: A unit formerly used for a bundle of silk, especially silk from Aleppo, of varying or unclear weight.
fangots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fangot
chastisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chastisable
form: most chastisable
Etymology: From chastise + -able.
Senses: examples: text: it would be a personal crime, chastisable in the person who had committed it
ref: 1878, Calendar of State Papers:
glosses: Capable or deserving of chastisement; punishable.
opitulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin opitulatio, from opitulari (“to bring help”).
Senses: examples: text: for the railing of some auxiliary opitulation
ref: 1642, Lord Lithe, An Armie for Ireland:
glosses: The act of helping or aiding; assistance.
devotaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of devotary
devotary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: devotaries
Etymology: See devote, votary.
Senses: examples: text: a more famous and frequent pilgrimage of Devotaries
ref: 1646, John Gregory, Notes and Observations upon some Passages of Scripture:
glosses: A votary.
insinuatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more insinuatory
form: most insinuatory
Etymology: From insinuate + -ory.
Senses: glosses: Insinuative.
Catonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈtəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /kəˈtoʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌkeɪˈ-/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Catonian
form: most Catonian
Etymology: Latin Catonianus.
Senses: examples: text: Catonian senator
text: Catonian villa
glosses: Of, pertaining to, dating back to, or resembling Cato the Elder
examples: text: Catonian death
text: Catonian joke
glosses: severe and inflexible.
Catonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈtəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /kəˈtoʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌkeɪˈ-/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Catonians
Etymology: Latin Catonianus.
Senses: glosses: A soldier or supporter of Cato the Elder
irradicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈɹædɪkeɪt/
homophone: eradicate
Forms: form: irradicates
form: irradicating
form: irradicated
form: irradicated
Etymology: From in- + radicate.
Senses: qualifier: literal or figurative
glosses: to root deeply
irradicated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of irradicate
irradicates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of irradicate
irradicating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of irradicate
circumflection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circumflections
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of circumflexion.
circumflections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circumflection
pulmograde
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin pulmo (“a lung”) + -grade (“means of locomotion”).
Senses: examples: text: The medusae are pulmograde.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Swimming by means of jet propulsion.
cranioclasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cranioclasms
Etymology: See cranioclast.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The crushing of a child's head, as with the cranioclast or craniotomy forceps in cases of very difficult delivery.
cranioclasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cranioclasm
polytechnical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + technical.
Senses: glosses: polytechnic
polytechnical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polytechnicals
Etymology: From poly- + technical.
Senses: examples: text: By 1968 the majority of secondary polytechnicals and some of the eight-year schools had begun to do so, the figures being to some extent representative of the stage of development of the region concerned.
ref: 1973, Arthur Hearnden, Paths to university: preparation, assessment, selection, page 61:
glosses: polytechnic (educational institute)
schillerization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schillerizations
Etymology: From schiller + -ization.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The act or process of producing a schiller effect in a mineral mass.
schillerizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schillerization
edileship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: edileships
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aedileship.
aedileships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aedileship
edileships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of edileship
predessert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: predesserts
Etymology: From pre- + dessert.
Senses: glosses: A small dessert-like course served before the main dessert.
predesserts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of predessert
victory garden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: victory gardens
Senses: glosses: A kitchen garden planted in wartime to reduce the pressure on the public food supply.
prestrategic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + strategic.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: nuclear weapons
glosses: Before the onset of full strategic nuclear warfare.
Related terms: substrategic
costeaning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: costeanings
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A process for discovering metallic lodes by sinking small pits through the superficial deposits to the solid rock, and then driving from one pit to another across the direction of the vein, so as to cross all the veins between the two pits.
Related terms: costean
costeanings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of costeaning
benty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛnti
Forms: form: more benty
form: most benty
Etymology: From bent + -y.
Senses: examples: benty fields
glosses: Abounding in bents, or the stalks of coarse, stiff, withered grass.
examples: text: The gray benty colour of the always drenched pasture.
ref: 1841, Henry Cockburn, Journal:
glosses: Resembling bent.
picksies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picksy
picksy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picksies
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of pixie.
ecozonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ecozone + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to an ecozone, or ecozones in general.
Périgord pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Périgord pies
Etymology: Named after Périgord, a geographical region, and former province of France, famed for its truffles.
Senses: glosses: A gourmet meat pie made with game (such as duck or partridge) and truffles.
wikipedia: Périgord
Périgord pies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Périgord pie
rightways
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From right + ways.
Senses: examples: text: She leaned forward, tilted her head, as if to get a rightways look at the snapshot herself
ref: 2004, Andrew Klavan, Dynamite Road, page 96:
text: Just get out of my way and I'll be rightways up and out of this cursed tunnel.
ref: 2011, Stacy Carlson, Among the Wonderful:
text: She began to lose her sense of perspective, what was rightways up or down.
ref: 2012, Di Morrissey, Kimberley Sun:
glosses: In a correct or normal orientation.
rightways
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rightways
form: most rightways
Etymology: From right + ways.
Senses: examples: text: Such hands could turn the unborn child rightways in the birth canal
ref: 2004, Ronne Hartfield, Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family, page 111:
text: When I work on it rightways up, I am conscious of the figuration. When I work on it upside down, then I'm thinking of the space
ref: 2007, Robert Amos, Artists in Their Studios: Where Art Is Born, page 25:
text: I went out to the hallway to turn the mop bucket back rightways and consider the options.
ref: 2009, Tim Sandlin, Rowdy in Paris:
glosses: In a normal or correct orientation.
examples: text: Conapanny did not make at once east up the hill, but led a course slanting rightways over the shoulder, descending about four o'clock into the gully on the hinder side
ref: 1918, William Hay, The escape of the notorious Sir William Heans, page 398:
text: But the trees went uphill and down, turned leftways and rightways, without landmarks or anything to orient me with the tracks.
ref: 1987, R. Conrad, Act of Writing, page 17:
text: "They're trying to take out the tires," John said, wheeling rightways.
ref: 1997, Jack Womack, Elvissey, page 160:
glosses: Rightward.
examples: text: Now, that is a thing as I never was asked for before, and don't rightways know what it be; if it's sealing-wax, it's welcome you are
ref: 1878, Jean Middlemass, “Peter Stott's Dream”, in Belgravia, volume 34, page 25:
glosses: Rightly.
Related terms: rightwise
misinformative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more misinformative
form: most misinformative
Etymology: From mis- + informative.
Senses: examples: text: But if there is no reason for the view that all object-senses obtained in experience are misinformative about the world, then there is no ground for rejecting the realist concept of the world[…]
ref: 1975, Roman Ingarden, On the Motives Which Led Husserl to Transcendental Idealism, page 57:
glosses: Providing incorrect information; misleading.
begnaw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈnɔː/
ipa: /bɪˈnɔ/
ipa: /bɪˈnɑ/
rhymes: -ɔː
Forms: form: begnaws
form: begnawing
form: begnawed
form: begnawed
form: begnawn
Etymology: From Middle English *begnawen, from Old English begnagan (“to begnaw, gnaw all over”), equivalent to be- + gnaw.
Senses: examples: text: The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul.
ref: c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
text: […] that man might see, / What worm begnaws — that vital core concealing / All its vile, consumptive bane, […]
ref: 1832, Thomas Holley Chivers, The Path of Sorrow, Or, The Lament of Youth: A Poem, page 90:
text: Above him hangs, all torn, tattered, and rat-begnawed, "A View of the Gold Mines of Peru."
ref: 1860, William Hogarth: Painter, Engraver and Philosopher; Essays on the Man, the Work, and the Time, VII, A History of Hard Work, in The Cornhill Magazine, volume 2, issues 7-12, page 238
text: melancoly and begnawed palms
ref: 1979 February 3, “Anabel Millet Lee (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 27, page 13:
glosses: To gnaw; to eat away at.
begnawed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of begnaw
begnawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of begnaw
begnaws
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of begnaw
cerebrifugal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: cerebrum + Latin fugere (“to flee”)
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Applied to those nerve fibers which go from the brain to the spinal cord, and so transfer cerebral impulses (centrifugal impressions) outwards.
Coordinate terms: cerebripetal
farcilite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɑː(ɹ)sɪlaɪt/
Forms: form: farcilites
Etymology: From farcical + -lite, in the Latin sense of the word farce which means to stuff or to season, because the composite mineral is "stuffed" with quartz nodules. See puddingstone.
Senses: examples: text: an entire mountain of farcilite, containing flints , stuck in a quartzy basis , has been discovered there
ref: 1799, Richard Kirwan, Geological Essays:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Pudding stone.
farcilites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of farcilite
supraglottic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒtɪk
Etymology: From supra- + glottic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated above the glottis; related to the supraglottis
extuberancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extuberancy
extuberancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extuberancies
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of extuberance.
epanalepsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin epanalepsis, from Ancient Greek ἐπανάληψις (epanálēpsis), from ἐπαναλαμβάνω (epanalambánō), from ἐπί (epí) + ἀνά (aná) + λαμβάνω (lambánō).
Senses: examples: text: Epanalepsis words will recommend
The same at the beginning and the end.
ref: 1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Turns.] Epanalepsis.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 81:
text: The repetition of a word or phrase in the same sense[…]as in the epanalepsis, adds weight to the thought or idea, and increases its logical worth.
ref: 1857, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Philological Studies: With English Illustrations:
glosses: The repetition of the same word or clause after intervening matter.
Synonyms: epanadiplosis
Related terms: epanaleptic
landwaiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: landwaiters
Etymology: From land + waiter.
Senses: glosses: A customs officer who oversaw the landing of goods, etc., from vessels.
Synonyms: land waiter
landing waiter
landwaiters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of landwaiter
spongeous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spongeous
form: most spongeous
Senses: examples: text: [N]ature hath ſo placed the dug, that as it endeth one vvay in a ſpongeous kinde of fleſh full of ſmall pipes, and made of purpoſe to tranſmit the milke, and let it diſtill gently by many little pores and ſecret paſſages, ſo it yeeldeth a nipple in maner of a faucet, very fit and ready for the little babes mouth, about vvhich to nuzzle and nudgell vvith it[s] prety lips it taketh pleaſure, and loveth to be tugging and lugging of it; […]
ref: 1603, Plutarch, “Of the Naturall Love or Kindnes of Parents to Their Children”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, page 220:
glosses: Alternative form of spongious.
eartheater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eartheaters
form: earth-eater
Etymology: From earth + eater.
Senses: glosses: One who or that which eats earth.
glosses: The ibigau or great potoo (Nyctibius grandis).
eartheaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eartheater
aerosiderite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aerosiderites
Etymology: From aero- + siderite.
Senses: glosses: A siderite (mass of meteoric iron).
aerosiderites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aerosiderite
argumenta ad populum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ärgyo͞omĕnʹtə ăd pŏʹpyo͝oləm
ipa: /ɑːɡjuːˈmɛntə æd ˈpɒpjʊləm/
Etymology: Latin: argūmenta (“arguments”, “proofs”; nominative plural of argūmentum) + ad + populum (accusative singular of populus) ≈ “appeals to the people”
Senses: glosses: plural of argumentum ad populum
East Insular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more East Insular
form: most East Insular
form: East insular
form: East-insular
Senses: glosses: Relating to the East Indies; East Indian.
chloridate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chloridates
form: chloridating
form: chloridated
form: chloridated
Etymology: From chloride + -ate.
Senses: examples: text: the positive photographs can be formed by transfer on the chloridated papers of a highly sensitive kind.
ref: 1853, Robert Hunt, A Manual of Photography:
synonyms: word: chloridize
glosses: To treat or prepare with a chloride.
chloridated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chloridate
chloridates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chloridate
chloridating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chloridate
Meibomian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: meibomian
Etymology: From Meibom + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Heinrich Meibom (Meibomius; 1638–1700), German physician and scholar.
Derived terms: Meibomian cyst
Meibomian gland
meibomianitis
meiboscore
Meiboscore
multinodular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + nodular.
Senses: glosses: Having multiple nodules.
chopboat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chopboats
Etymology: From chop (“stamp, mark of quality, license”) + boat.
Senses: examples: text: In taking in cargo, the receiving officer should not be interrupted, for he has need of all his carefulness to see that the coolies in the chopboat do not slily pass up a chest with two tallies stuck in it, or slip a package off sideways from the board
ref: 1856, Samuel Wells Williams, A Chinese Commercial Guide:
glosses: A licensed lighter (watercraft) employed in the transportation of goods to and from larger vessels.
raw_tags: in China
chopboats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chopboat
phenolated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phenolated
form: most phenolated
Etymology: From phenol + -ated.
Senses: glosses: Treated with phenol
glosses: Reacted with a phenol or phenolate