cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
loss of consortium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: losses of consortium
Senses: topics: law
glosses: In the law of torts, the deprivation of the benefits of a family relationship, generally including sex, affection, and companionship, due to personal injuries caused by the tortfeasor to the person from whom the claimant received these benefits.
bebury
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beburies
form: beburying
form: beburied
form: beburied
Etymology: From Middle English beburien, biburien, biburiȝen, from Old English bebyrian, bebirigan, bebyrgan (“to raise a mound to, bury, inter”), equivalent to be- + bury.
Senses: glosses: To entomb; inter; bury.
bebump
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bebumps
form: bebumping
form: bebumped
form: bebumped
Etymology: From be- + bump.
Senses: glosses: To bump thoroughly; belabour.
bebroyde
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bebroydes
form: bebroyding
form: bebroyded
form: bebroyded
Etymology: From be- + embroyde. Compare embroider.
Senses: glosses: To embroider about.
beblubbered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beblubbered
form: most beblubbered
Etymology: From beblubber, equivalent to beblubber + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Disfigured by blubbering; befouled with tears.
glosses: Befouled with blood.
beblubbered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From beblubber, equivalent to beblubber + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of beblubber
bepower
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bepowers
form: bepowering
form: bepowered
form: bepowered
Etymology: From be- + power.
Senses: examples: text: This demand, the reddendum, pervasively bepowers all human cognition.
ref: 1996, Martin Heidegger, The Principle of Reason:
text: However, Heidegger (28) insists that what really "bepowers" this principle emerges in its precise formulation as the principium reddendae rationis; that is, something is only an object for a rational subject if we can offer ourselves reasons for it.
ref: 2000, Foundation for Education, Science, and Technology (South Africa). Bureau for Scientific Publications, Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, South African journal of philosophy
text: "Only through looking back on what Leibniz thought can we characterise the present age—an age one calls the atomic age—as an age pervasively bepowered by the power of the principium rationis sufficientis."
ref: 2008, Cristian Calude, Gregory J. Chaitin, Randomness and complexity: from Leibniz to Chaitin:
glosses: To give power to; imbue with power.
beblood
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bebloods
form: beblooding
form: beblooded
form: beblooded
Etymology: From be- + blood. Compare bebleed.
Senses: glosses: To smear or stain with blood.
koliva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒlɪvə/
/ˈkəʊlɪvə/
Forms: form: kolliva
form: kollyba
form: kollyva
form: kolyva
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κόλλυβα (kólluba, “small cakes”), from κόλλυβος (kóllubos, “small coin”).
Senses: glosses: A dish made of sweetened boiled wheat, optionally mixed with nuts and spices, and used in Eastern Orthodox rituals to commemorate the dead or at slava.
turboalternator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turboalternators
Etymology: From turbo- + alternator.
Senses: glosses: An alternator powered by a steam turbine.
bebless
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /bɪˈblɛs/
/bəˈblɛs/
/biˈblɛs/
Forms: form: beblesses
form: beblessing
form: beblessed
form: beblessed
form: beblest
Etymology: From be- + bless.
Senses: glosses: To bless amply or profusely.
beblast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beblasts
form: beblasting
form: beblasted
form: beblasted
Etymology: From be- + blast.
Senses: glosses: To blast completely; wither up.
bebeast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bebeasts
form: bebeasting
form: bebeasted
form: bebeasted
Etymology: From be- + beast.
Senses: glosses: To make a beast of.
bebay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -eɪ
Forms: form: bebays
form: bebaying
form: bebayed
form: bebayed
Etymology: From be- + bay (“to bend”), from Middle English beien, beȝen, from Old English bīeġan (“to bend, turn, turn back, incline, depress, abase, humiliate, subject, persuade, convert”), from Proto-Germanic *bi- + *baugijaną.
Senses: glosses: To bay around or about; embay; hem in; surround.
stoicly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more stoicly
form: most stoicly
Etymology: From stoic + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In your pleaſures, not to be wanton nor Stoickly to paſſe by them, without taking notice of them.
ref: 1612, William Martyn, Youths Instruction, London: […] Iohn Beale, page 69:
glosses: Misspelling of stoically.
bebathe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /bɪˈbeɪð/
Forms: form: bebathes
form: bebathing
form: bebathed
form: bebathed
Etymology: From Middle English *bebathen (attested as bebathed), from Old English bebaþian, bibaþian (“to bathe, wash”), equivalent to be- (“all over, completely”) + bathe.
Senses: examples: text: […] and everyone with a dagger in their hand, (which dagger they call a creese, and is as sharp as a razor) stab themselves to the heart, and with their hands all do bebathe themselves in their own blood, and falling grovelling on their faces so end their days.
ref: 1880, Richard Hakluyt, Edward John Payne, Voyages of the Elizabethan Seamen to America:
glosses: To bathe all over; bathe completely; suffuse.
bebar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bebars
form: bebarring
form: bebarred
form: bebarred
Etymology: From Middle English bibarren, equivalent to be- + bar.
Senses: glosses: To put a bar around; bar about; debar.
beaverkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beaverkins
Etymology: From beaver + -kin.
Senses: glosses: A small or young beaver.
glosses: A small hat made of beaver fur.
beautydom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From beauty + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The estate or rank of a beauty or of beautiful women.
beastlihood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Alteration of beastlihead, equivalent to beastly + -hood.
Senses: glosses: Beastlihead; beasthood.
beastdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From beast + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The condition of a beast; beasthood.
Jewdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Jew + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: Then followed Talmudism in such parts of Jewdom as had become European.
ref: 1873, The new era:
text: The peculiar Morality of Jewdom. That the Hebrew is not very particular with regard to his moral obligations towards other people, is fairly well known.
ref: 1927, Theodor Fritsch, The riddle of the Jew's success:
glosses: The realm, sphere, influence, or domain of Jews; the whole body of Jews collectively; Jewry.
examples: text: The self-emancipation of our age would be emancipation from bargaining and from money, that is from practical, real Jewdom.
ref: 2003, Jerry Z. Muller, The mind and the market: capitalism in modern European thought:
glosses: The state or condition of being a Jew; Jewishness.
beaverling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beaverlings
Etymology: From beaver + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: The wife stumbled into the water, and as soon as her loot was wet, she immediately resumed her old shape as a beaver, her son became a beaverling, and the brooklet, changing to a roaring river, bore them to the lake.
ref: 1885, The Westminster review:
glosses: A small, young, or juvenile beaver.
e-scrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From e- (digital) + or e- (electric) + scrap.
Senses: glosses: Discarded electronic equipment.
beasten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːstən
Forms: form: more beasten
form: most beasten
Etymology: From beast + -en.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or pertaining to beasts; bestial.
bearship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bearships
Etymology: From bear + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The character or personality of a bear.
bearling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bearlings
Etymology: From Middle English berling, equivalent to bear + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: While waiting at the inn up drove a Pau acquaintance in the person of the Marquis de Cherizet, out of whose pony-carriage was lifted a square box, which proved to contain a poor little bearling of about a month old, whose mother had been shot, and itself captured, […]
ref: 1871, “May-Day among the Mules”, in Charles Dickens, editor, All the Year Round:
glosses: A small, young, or juvenile bear.
Synonyms: bear cub
bearlet
bear-whelp
bearleap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bearleaps
form: bearlepe
form: bearlep
Etymology: From bear (“to carry”) + leap (“a basket”).
Senses: glosses: A basket used for carrying.
beamsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beamsome
form: most beamsome
Etymology: From beam + -some.
Senses: glosses: Shedding or emitting beams (of light, etc.); radiant.
Darwinianly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more Darwinianly
form: most Darwinianly
Etymology: From Darwinian + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a Darwinian manner.
Esperantism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĕspərănʹtĭzm
ipa: /ɛspəˈɹæntɪzm/
Forms: form: Esperantisms
Etymology: From Esperant(o) + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The international language idea would suffer a long eclipse; and when it emerged again, it would be in a form totally free from “Esperantisms” — most probably in the form of simplified Latin.
ref: 1922, Albert Léon Guérard, A Short History of the International Language Movement, T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd., page 160:
text: We are dealing here not with a poetic convention but with a fundamental characteristic of the language — a characteristic further illustrated in the ability to use grammatical morphemes as lexical units, thereby enriching the vocabulary with a whole series of lexemes derived from essentially grammatical devices: ano = membro, aĵo = objekto, aro = grupo, ejo = loko, eta = malgranda, ege = multe, ene = interne, and so on. These can be considered as authentic Esperantisms — as can constructions which in a sense move in the opposite direction: suni, furiozi, fervori, malĉasti, ebli, and others.
ref: 1993, Pierre Janton [aut.], Humphrey Tonkin [ed., tr.], Jane Edwards [tr.], and Karen Johnson-Weiner [tr.], Esperanto: Language, Literature, and Community (Albany: State University of New York Press; →ISBN, 0791412547), chapter 4: “Expression”, page 87
glosses: A feature or affectation of Esperanto.
glosses: The practice of using or participating in the ideals of Esperanto.
Related terms: Finvenkism
Raumism
Esperantisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Esperantism
no glove no love
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of no glove, no love.
turion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turions
form: turiones
Etymology: From Latin turiō (“shoot, sprout”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A bud, produced by some aquatic plants, that becomes detached and dormant until the following spring
tussor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tussors
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tussar.
TUT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TUTs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of time under tension.
tutty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʌti/
rhymes: -ʌti
Forms: form: tutties
Etymology: From French tutie; compare Spanish tutía, atutía, from Latin tutia, from Arabic تُوتِيَاء (tūtiyāʔ), from Classical Persian توتیا (tūtyā), from Sanskrit तुत्था (tutthā).
Senses: glosses: A powdered form of impure zinc oxide used for polishing.
Uffizi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʊˈfiːtsɪ/
rhymes: -iːtsi
Forms: form: the Uffizi
Etymology: From Italian Uffizi (literally “Offices”).
Senses: synonyms: word: Uffizi Gallery
english: officially
translation: officially
glosses: A major museum and art gallery in Florence, Italy.
Ulma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Ulma.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Suceava County, Romania.
unfret
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unfrets
form: unfretting
form: unfretted
form: unfretted
Etymology: From un- + fret.
Senses: examples: text: My mind misgives: to Joppa will I fly, And for a while to Tharsus shape my course, Until the Lord unfret his angry brows.
ref: 1590, Thomas Lodge and Robert Greene, A Looking Glass for London and England:
text: For how many floodings must it assuage, For how many shufflings must it unfret Those winking, muttering banks with its aching arch.
ref: 1956, Shenandoah - Volumes 8-9, page 65:
text: Much of the alleged roughness of Donne's prosody unfrets itself without betraying his refusal of mellifluous regularity – if readers fit word lengths and rests into lines as singers do.
ref: 1997, Diane Kelsey McColley, Poetry and Music in Seventeenth-Century England, page 99:
text: So unfret that brow, put your worries behind you, let's see some jolly light those eyes.
ref: 2000, Robert Devereaux, Santa Steps Out, page 33:
glosses: To smooth after being fretted.
examples: text: "She'll be all right," Madge assured him. "Now you go out a while, and unfret yourself. It's a boy you've got."
ref: 1936, Frederick Stallknecht Wight, The Chronicle of Aaron Kane, page 28:
text: Fall back and unfret yourself, Ol' Fuzzer!
ref: 2003, Milton Arthur Caniff, Steve Canyon, 1948, page 11:
text: My laugh is a light, gentle trill, perfectly tuned to unfret him immediately.
ref: 2008, Patricia A. Kuess, Slather:
text: Though helpless, I could not help standing as mute witness and let the situation unfret without trying to do something and I almost shouted in high pitch, "Why are you beating him? What has he done to you? We are students from University and going home. We are innocent."
ref: 2009, Bholanath Das, Reflection of Human Behaviour, page 56:
glosses: To sooth or calm; to make or become less fretful or stressed.
examples: text: Just as several notes can be played on a single bow, the guitarist can play several notes with a single pluck, using legato or ligado techniques in which the left hand continues to fret or unfret notes after the string has been plucked.
ref: 1985, John Schneider, The Contemporary Guitar, page 108:
text: To avoid confusion, a 0 appears if, as is usually the case, the string is to be unfretted;
ref: 2011, Ken Perlman, Celtic and New England Fiddle Tunes for Clawhammer Banjo, page 6:
text: You may wish to approach the fingering by moving only one finger at a time, and only then when you absolutely must move it to a new position, or unfret the string so it may be played open.
ref: 2011, Janita Baker, Fingerpicking Dulcimer, page 17:
glosses: To remove (a string) from the frets of a musical instrument.
unfrets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unfret
unfretting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfretting
form: most unfretting
Senses: examples: text: How many of you are leading an unfretting, unanxious, a hopeful, cheerful life?
ref: 1868, Henry Ward Beecher, Sermons - Volume 1, page 190:
text: Every hour of day brought some unfretting task or hale pastime.
ref: 1899, George Washington Cable, Strong Hearts:
text: Scar's line still stood quiet, unfretting.
ref: 2022, Alan Le May, The Searchers:
glosses: Calm; not fretful.
unfretting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unfret
metapophyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metapophysis
metapophysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metapophyses
Etymology: From meta- + apophysis.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A tubercle projecting from the anterior articular processes of some vertebrae; a mammillary process.
circumgyratory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From circum- + gyratory.
Senses: examples: text: The cider-making of New England is far more picturesque; the great heap of golden or rosy apples under the trees, and the cider-mill worked by a circumgiratory horse, and all agush with sweet juice.
ref: 1858 September 23 (date written), Nathaniel Hawthorne, “September 23rd, [1858]”, in Passages from the French and Italian Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne, volume II, London: Strahan & Co., […], published 1871, →OCLC, page 179:
glosses: Moving in a circle; turning round.
levari facias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin levārī faciās (“cause to be levied”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A writ of execution at common law.
carbamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbamines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An isocyanide of a hydrocarbon radical.
carbamines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carbamine
importuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin importuosus, from im- (“not”) + portuosus (“abounding in harbours”), from portus (“harbour”).
Senses: glosses: Without a port or harbour.
preadamitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of preadamic.
concordist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concordists
Etymology: From concord + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who compiles a concordance (typically, of the Bible)
concordist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From concord + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Relating to concordism
concordists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concordist
rheumic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rheumic
form: most rheumic
Etymology: From rheum + -ic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: rheumy; rheumatic (pertaining to, or characterized by, rheum).
cat's silver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of German Katzensilber
Senses: examples: text: Another variety of mica in spangles of a yellowish gold, or whitish silver colour, is known all over the world, by the ridiculous names of cat's gold, or cat's silver.
ref: 1827, Universal Geography: Or A Description of All Parts of the World, page 98:
glosses: mica
glossocoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glossocomon
glossocomon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glossocoma
Etymology: Apparently from Ancient Greek γλωσσόκομον (glōssókomon, “a case for flute mouthpieces”).
Senses: qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: A kind of winch used to hoist patients.
Pindarism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pindarisms
Etymology: From Pindar + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The imitation of the Ancient Greek poet Pindar.
Pindarisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pindarism
spectrological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: spectrological studies or experiments
text: spectrological analysis
text: spectrological equipment
glosses: Of or pertaining to spectrology.
Related terms: spectrologically
bishopdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bishopdoms
Etymology: From Middle English bischopdom, from Old English bisċopdōm, bisċeopdōm, bisċepdōm (“the province of a bishop; a bishopric”), from Proto-West Germanic *biskopadōm, equivalent to bishop + -dom. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bisdum (“bishopdom”), West Frisian bisdom (“bishopdom”), Dutch bisdom (“bishopdom”), German Bistum (“bishopdom”), Danish bispedømme (“bishopdom”), Swedish biskopsdöme (“bishopdom”), Icelandic biskupsdæmur, biskupsdæmi (“bishopdom”).
Senses: examples: text: See the frowardneſſe of this Man, he would perſwade us that the Succeſſion and divine Right of Biſhopdom hath bin unqueſtionable through all Ages;
ref: 1641, John Milton, Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 143:
glosses: The jurisdiction of a bishop; episcopate.
bishopdoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bishopdom
patronate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin patrōnātus. By surface analysis, patron + -ate (noun-forming suffix denoting a rank or office).
Senses: examples: text: Whose will shall be clothed with the dominancy of the matter; the will of the Home Secretary of the day, and a small body of the landlords, or the will of the recipients of the eucharist in the parish—the patronate or the congregational will?
ref: 1843 August, J. R., “Art[icle] XI.—The People and the Church of Scotland. A Reply to Sir James Graham and the Government. By J. White, A.M. Sherwood.”, in The Westminster Review, volume XL, number I, London: Samuel Clarke, […], page 196:
glosses: The right or duty of a patron; patronage.
patronate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From the noun or Latin patrōnātus. By surface analysis, patron + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: “L’ imperatore istesso sotto varii pretesti di spogli, di juspatronati, di concessioni apostoliche, di avocarie, di incamerationi e di pienezza di potestà trattiene le chiese gli amii vacanti, et in quel mentre se ne preride per se l’ entrate.”—[The emperor himself, under various pretexts of spolia, patronate rights, apostolical concessions, rights of advocation, of confiscation and of plenary power, keeps the churches in vacant years, and meanwhile takes their revenues to himself.]
ref: 1847, Leopold Ranke, anonymous translator, “Appendix. List of the Manuscripts That Have Been Consulted, Supplementary Extracts, and Critical Observations.”, in The Poets of Rome; Their Church and State in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. […], volume II, Glasgow; Edinburgh; London: Blackie and Son: […], section 96, page 442:
text: The patronate wedge, like that appropriated by Achan, has been disastrous to the people, for it has lost to them the great benefits of a religious Establishment, and very great these are; […]
ref: a. 1857, Hugh Miller, “Rambles of a Geologist; or, Ten Thousand Miles over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland”, in The Cruise of the Betsey; […]. With Rambles of a Geologist; […], Edinburgh: Thomas Constable and Co.; London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co., published 1858, chapter X, page 393:
text: And since the doings of the Curia are a lesson to the world, such a manner of appointment to the cure of souls on its part, teaches and encourages all who have patronate rights to make pastoral appointments of a like kind, as a return for services rendered to themselves, or to please men in power, and in this way to destroy the sheep of Christ.
ref: 1878, [Gotthard Victor] Lechler, translated by Peter Lorimer, “Robert Grossetête, Bishop of Lincoln”, in John Wiclif and His English Precursors […], volume I, London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], page 46:
glosses: Of or relating to a patron.
croker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹəʊkə(ɹ)/
Senses: examples: a croker bag; a croker sack
glosses: Burlap.
croker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹəʊkə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: crokers
Etymology: From a Medieval Latin *crocarius, derivative of Latin crocus, from Ancient Greek κρόκος (krókos).
Senses: examples: text: The crokers or saffron men doo vse an obseruation a litle before the comming vp of the floure
ref: 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:
glosses: A cultivator of crocus or saffron; a dealer in saffron.
crokers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of croker
ipocras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Ipocras seems to have been a great favourite with our ancestors, being served up at every entertainment, public or private.
ref: 1846, James Orchard Halliwell, “IPOCRAS”, in A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century. […], volume I (A–I), London: John Russell Smith, […], →OCLC, page 478, column 1:
glosses: Obsolete form of hippocras.
father longlegs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: father longlegs
Senses: examples: text: The Crane-Fly, called by Aldrovand Culex maximus, by Swammerdam Tipula terrestris, and by the common People Father-long-Legs, affords, in every Part of it, agreeable Subjects of Examination
ref: 1742, Henry Baker, The Microscope Made Easy: or […] :
text: The fly produced from the grub in question is known by the common names of Tom Taylor, Tommy Longlegs, or Father Longlegs
ref: 1806, The British Critic:
text: Such a glare […] was as sure to excite notice and attract passengers, as a flaming candle every moth and father-longlegs in its neighbourhood.
ref: 1928, Beckford, William, The Travel-Diaries of William Beckford of Fonthill:
glosses: A daddy longlegs.
deprostrate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more deprostrate
form: most deprostrate
Etymology: From de- + prostrate, with de- as an intensifier.
Senses: examples: text: How may weake mortall euer hope to file / His vnsmooth tongue, and his deprostrate stile?
ref: 1610, Giles Fletcher, Christs Victorie, and Triumph in Heauen, and Earth, over, and after death, stanza 43, page 13:
text: Hitherto you haue seene Manasses, not with Lots wife, trãsform’d into a pillar of Salt, but with the Poets Niobe, into a weeping and waimenting stone: now shall you see him with an humble and lowly heart, raising his ruined soule, deprest with sinne, deprostrate for sinne; lifting vp his bleared eyes, streaming with teares, swelling for sorrow […]
ref: 1620 September 10, George Langford, Manassehs Miracvlovs Metamorphosis […], published 1621, page 21:
text: The nations came to her deprostrate bed
ref: c. 1621, Thomas Robinson, edited by H. Oskar Sommer, The Life and Death of Mary Magdalene, published 1899, stanza 10, page 12:
glosses: Fully prostrate; humble; low.
ornithoidichnite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ornithoidichnites
Etymology: From ornithoid + ichnite.
Senses: examples: text: Regarding the names Ornithichnites , Ornithoidichnite , &c., as provisional merely , I now propose names for the animals that made the tracks
ref: 1855, Edward Hitchcock, Elementary Geology:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A fossil track resembling that of a bird.
ornithoidichnites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ornithoidichnite
participantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more participantly
form: most participantly
Etymology: From participant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Nurses function participantly with all members of a professional team as they aid the patient in making orienting differentiations.
ref: 1991, Hildegard E. Peplau, Interpersonal Relations In Nursing:
glosses: In a participant manner; as a participant.
circumvest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: circumvests
form: circumvesting
form: circumvested
form: circumvested
Etymology: From Latin circumvestire, from circum (“around”) + vestire (“to clothe”).
Senses: examples: text: Circumvested with much prejudice.
ref: 1642, Henry Wotton, A Short View of the Life and Death of George Villiers:
glosses: To cover round, as with a garment; to invest.
circumvested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of circumvest
circumvesting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of circumvest
circumvests
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of circumvest
armipotence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin armipotentia, from armipotents.
Senses: examples: text: brave Armipotence
ref: 1730, Andrew Brice, Freedom:
glosses: Power in arms; military might.
meteorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more meteorous
form: most meteorous
Etymology: From meteor + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: From the other hill
To their fix'd station, all in bright array,
The cherubim descended, on the ground
Gliding meteorous.
ref: 1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 1:
glosses: Of the nature or appearance of a meteor.
deerlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deerlets
Etymology: From deer + -let.
Senses: glosses: A chevrotain.
glosses: A small deer
deerlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deerlet
heterodoxal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heterodoxal
form: most heterodoxal
Senses: examples: text: the great Personage ( the Duke of Espernon ) though heterodoxal, and cross-grain'd to the old Philosophers
ref: 1655, James Howell, “To J. S. Esq.”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Not orthodox.
bleyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bleymes
Etymology: French bleime.
Senses: qualifier: equine
glosses: An inflammation in the foot of a horse, between the sole and the bone.
bleymes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bleyme
corrivate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: corrivates
form: corrivating
form: corrivated
form: corrivated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin corrīvātus, perfect passive participle of corrīvō (“to corrivate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from con- + rīvus + -ō.
Senses: examples: text: Veins are hollow and round, like pipes, arising from the liver, carrying blood and natural spirits; they feed all the parts. Of these there be two chief, vena porta and vena cava, from which the rest are corrivated.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition I, section 1, member 2, subsection iii:
glosses: To flow, or cause to flow, together, like water drawn from several streams.
corrivated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of corrivate
corrivates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of corrivate
corrivating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of corrivate
perigastric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + gastric.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Surrounding the stomach
Derived terms: extraperigastric
empugn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: empugns
form: empugning
form: empugned
form: empugned
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of impugn.
empugned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of empugn
empugning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of empugn
empugns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of empugn
dicalcic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈkæɫsɪk/
Etymology: From di- + calcic.
Senses: examples: text: dicalcic phosphate
text: dicalcic salt
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having two atoms or equivalents of calcium to the molecule.
Related terms: dicalcium
tituled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Margaret, daughter to Renier, tituled "king of Sicily and Jerusalem"
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The History of the University of Cambridge, since the Conquest, [London]: [[…] Iohn Williams […]], →OCLC:
glosses: titled, having a title.
ingroove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ingrooves
form: ingrooving
form: ingrooved
form: ingrooved
Etymology: From in- + groove.
Senses: examples: text: The fine sand, the cylindrical stones of the gravel-bed, perhaps also the compact andd tough ice itself, polish the angular crystals, grind the polished surfaces, and so powerful is the pressure, by which these scratches are ingrooved, that even the quartz-veins of the rocks are not excempt from them.
ref: 1842, The American Eclectic:
text: I think that the girder rail, the ordinaray pattern of girder rail, an ingrooved rail —I have forgotten the technical term, but it is a rail in that shape—( witness draws diagram on piece of paper.)
ref: 1896, New York (State). Legislature. Assembly, Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, page 776:
text: The ornaments were ingrooved all over the dued blue shirtlet and are constituted of straight and curved grooves, transversal incisions, plinted sloped punctures on the calote of the armour, that are sporadically flaked ( T. I , 1a : T. II . 1a ).
ref: 1992, Narodni muzej--Beograd, Zbornik radova - Volume 14, page 223:
glosses: To form a groove in.
examples: text: So let the change which comes be free
To ingroove itself with that, which flies
ref: 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Death of the Old Year”, in Poems. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
text: I have yet to observe the modes in which careful administration will strive to ingroove old with new, in law and order, and the civil acts and industries which make a nation's life honourable and lovely.
ref: 1876, Robert Alexander Shafto Adair, Forty Years Since; Or, Italy and Rome, page 161:
text: Now imagine—for greater perspicuity—the Microcosm as a nether wheel consisting of 360 interstices (degrees), the revolutions of which ingroove themselves with twin projections from the Great Mechanism, thus effecting contactual points of attraction that resolve themselves into channels through which specific influences from the Macrocosm descend or are drawn into the reservoirs of cognate effluences awaiting them in the minutum mundum, or lesser world.
ref: 1917, American Academy of Astrologians, Year Book, page 162:
text: While it cannot be denied that many tales have premeated from one nation to another, this will by no means account for the similarities of myths among two nations or more, in whose language and customs these myths are so deeply embedded and ingrooved that we should have to say the language too was borrowed.
ref: 1917, Alexander Macbain, Celtic Mythology and Religion, page 27:
text: The rake is built of a set of up to 24 individual subminiature probes ingrooved in the thickness of a printed circuit board.
ref: 2013, O. Métais, Marcel Lesieur, Turbulence and Coherent Structures, page 79:
glosses: To connect or fit together by fitting into a groove; to slot in.
ingrooved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ingroove
ingrooves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ingroove
ingrooving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ingroove
goloe-shoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goloe-shoes
Senses: glosses: A galosh.
goloe-shoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goloe-shoe
pleurodynia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pleurodynias
Etymology: From pleuro- + -odynia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Bornholm disease.
Derived terms: epidemic pleurodynia
pleurodynias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pleurodynia
Guria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Georgian გურია (guria).
Senses: glosses: A region of Georgia, in the western part of the country, bordered by the eastern end of the Black Sea with Ozurgeti as its regional capital.
givingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From giving + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: […] was measured in three dimensions: givingness, prosocial competence and social perspective.
ref: 2007, Stephen Garrard Post, Altruism and health: perspectives from empirical research, page 11:
glosses: The property of being giving; generousness.
leze majesty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of lese majesty.
cleansest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: cleanse + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of cleanse
cleansingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cleansingly
form: most cleansingly
Etymology: From cleansing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to cleanse.
colloquists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colloquist
topful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈtɒpfʊl/
Forms: form: more topful
form: most topful
Etymology: From top + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Topful of direst cruelty.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:
text: So topful of himself, that he let it spill on all the company.
ref: 1741, I[saac] Watts, The Improvement of the Mind: Or, A Supplement to the Art of Logick: […], London: […] James Brackstone, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Full to the top; full to the brim.
mislight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mislights
form: mislighting
form: mislighted
form: mislighted
form: mislit
form: mislit
Etymology: From mis- + light.
Senses: examples: text: No Will-o'-th'-Wisp mislight thee, Nor snake or slow-worm bite thee; But on, on thy way, Not making a stay, Since ghost there is none to affright thee.
ref: 1897, Joseph S. Moorat, A Country Garland of Ten Songs Gathered from the Hesperides of Robert Herrick, page 17:
text: Twitches of a smile mislight up her face.
ref: 1949, Jacob Gould Schurman, James Edwin Creighton, Frank Thilly, The Philosophical Review, page 143:
text: And I hold such in derision; They are spell-bound and mislighted by Reason.
ref: 1968, Masterworks of World Drama: Classical Greece, page 216:
glosses: To deceive or lead astray with a false light.
examples: text: Such glassware , with lights so arranged , usually allows about as much light to pass downward through the glass (transmitted) as is reflected or diffused upwards , and almost invariably interiors mislighted in this way are recognizable by bright spots of light directly above the fixture on the ceiling , with intermediate dark spaces giving a spotty and unattractive effect.
ref: 1913, Francisco Laurent Godinez, The Lighting Book, page 84:
text: If the laboratory makes a mistake and “mislights" a scene, they will stand the loss of making it over.
ref: 1927, American Photography - Volume 21, page 290:
text: In either type of printer, if a single shift is passed over accidentally, the whole of the rest of the reel will be mislighted.
ref: 1983, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Film, page 200:
glosses: To light improperly.
mislight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mislights
Etymology: From mis- + light.
Senses: examples: text: This error is obviated to a large degree when the perforated strip arrangement is used. If a machine is threaded properly and has made one correct print, it is impossible for a mislight to occur if the machine is set properly before the motor switch is snapped on,
ref: 1953, William H. Offenhauser, 16-mm Sound Motion Pictures, page 403:
text: Notches weaken the negative, and tabs sometimes come off, causing mislights.
ref: 1976, SMPTE Journal: Publication of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: An error in projection in which the projected image is a combination of two frames.
examples: text: This improved by 11,000 ft. the repeatable afterburner operation capability, without mislight or stall.
ref: 1977, Aviation Week & Space Technology - Volume 106, page 118:
text: The F-14A fleet aircraft with TF30-P-412A engines were experiencing numerous afterburner mislights on lighting attempts during sustained high "g" load maneuvers.
ref: 1978, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services, Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1979, page 4081:
text: Mislights, blowouts, or stalls should not occur since there is more than enough adequate margin to allow for normal transient operation.
ref: 1983, International Journal of Turbo & Jet-engines - Volume 1, page 236:
glosses: An instance when an afterburner does not light the injected fuel properly.
mislighted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mislight
mislighting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mislight
mislights
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mislight
mislights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mislight
polythelism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: polythelia (the condition of having more than two nipples)
indivinity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + divinity.
Senses: examples: text: How openly did he betray his indivinity unto Cræsus?
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Lack of divinity or divine power.
interlocation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inter- + location.
Senses: examples: 1671, George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, The Rehearsal
an interlocation of the Moon, betwixt the Earth and Sun
glosses: A placing or coming between; interposition.
interlocation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + location.
Senses: examples: an interlocation delivery
glosses: Between different locations.
metacone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metacones
Etymology: From meta- + cone.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A cusp in the corner of an upper molar tooth in mammals
Related terms: protocone
paracone
hypocone
metacones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metacone
paracone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paracones
Etymology: From para- + cone.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A cusp in the buccal corner of an upper molar tooth in mammals
glosses: A mechanism, involving a form of parachute, used to slow some spacecraft during re-entry
Related terms: paraconal
paraconic
metacone
protocone
hypocone
paracones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paracone
hypocone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypocones
Etymology: From hypo- + cone.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A cusp in the corner of an upper molar tooth in mammals
Derived terms: hypoconal
pseudohypocone
Related terms: metacone
paracone
protocone
hypocones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypocone
uranometria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uranometrias
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Obsolete form of uranometry (“star chart”).
note of hand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: notes of hand
Senses: examples: text: For the most part, however, the Gestapo did not loot; they gave a note of hand for everything they took, for they revelled in the intense legality of their actions.
ref: 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 768:
glosses: A written guarantee to pay or repay a given sum; a receipt; a promissory note.
notes of hand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of note of hand
railinged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From railing + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: On the apron near the terminal, on the railinged roof of the terminal with the sightseers and relatives, behind glass.
ref: 1990, Craig Thoman, Wildcat:
text: Three levels of booklined shelves encircle the room, protected behind railinged galleries connected by a steep staircase.
ref: 2001, Neil Baldwin, Edison: inventing the century:
text: Halfway to the front, two airmen were manning a small machine-gun position - two pedestal-mounted weapons set on a railinged platform - but as yet they weren't firing.
ref: 2010, Alastair Reynolds, Terminal World:
glosses: Having railings.
peccavis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peccavi
beadful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beadful
form: most beadful
Etymology: From Middle English bedeful, equivalent to bead (“prayer", later also "bead”) + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Prayerful.
examples: text: Choice lay between the red and green pillow with the beadwork dog, and the thinner patchwork one with written names scrawling over it; and the beadful dog won out.
ref: 1918, International Railway Journal, volume 26:
glosses: Full of or having beads; beaded
beadful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beadfuls
Etymology: From bead + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: This "beadful" of fluid caused eventual peeling of the paint.
ref: 1958, George Worthington, Factory - Volume 116:
glosses: The amount contained in a bead
bebark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bebarks
form: bebarking
form: bebarked
form: bebarked
Etymology: From Middle English beberken, biberken, equivalent to be- + bark.
Senses: examples: text: The remnant, he accounts Dust, base world's dross; even who divinest spirits; Aye, and every lofty work of theirs bebarks, Presumption, still, with his hot carrion breath.
ref: 1906, Charles Montagu Doughty, The dawn in Britain:
text: With Morris such lapses are a rare exception, with Doughty fatally common and disastrous, as when certain gentlemen, audibly cavilling at some project, are said to 'bebark' it. Imagine Achilles bebarking a plan of Agamemnon's!
ref: 1954, Peter Russell, Nine:
glosses: To bark at or about; to criticize.
unniche
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unniches
form: unniching
form: unniched
form: unniched
Etymology: From un- + niche.
Senses: glosses: To remove from a niche.
atheldom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: etheldom
Etymology: From athel + -dom. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Oadeldum (“nobility”), Dutch adeldom (“nobility”).
Senses: examples: text: In wishing for an enlightened squirearchy, what Barnes really wanted was the restoration of the patriarchal 'atheldom' or nobility of Saxon 'folk' England - that which had perished at the Battle of Hastings, [...]
ref: 1996, Andrew Phillips, The rebirth of England and English:
glosses: The state or condition of being athel or noble; nobility.
bethatch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bethatches
form: bethatching
form: bethatched
form: bethatched
form: bithecche
Etymology: From Middle English bithecchen, from Old English beþeċċan (“to cover; protect; cover over; conceal”), from Proto-West Germanic *biþakkjan, equivalent to be- + thatch. Cognate with Dutch bedekken (“to cover”), German bedecken (“to cover”). More at its doublet bedeck. Alteration in vowel after Middle English perhaps due to thatch.
Senses: examples: text: Part it behind, like terrier's back, Bethatch the front like wheaten stack, […]
ref: 1865, Richard Francis Burton (sir.), Stone talk:
glosses: To cover with thatch; to thatch.
examples: text: Both are coolly intense, well bethatched, bell-bottomed and bespectacled.
ref: 1969, Henry Robinson Luce, Gordon Parks, Life:
text: Baldies did not like their condition: "Witness their frantic efforts to keep among the ranks of the bethatched. […]"
ref: 1996, Kerry Segrave, Baldness: a social history:
glosses: To cover with hair.