cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tautophony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tautophonies
Etymology: From tauto- + -phony.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: repetition of the same sound in a word or phrase.
Derived terms: tautophonic
tautophonical
Related terms: alliteration
assonance
mercable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin mercabilis, from mercari (“to trade, traffic, buy”). See merchant.
Senses: examples: text: mercable commodity
text: mercable goods
synonyms: tradable
glosses: Capable of being bought or sold.
bickerment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bickerments
Etymology: From bicker + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: Artegall, arriving happily, / Did stay a while their greedy bickerment, / Till he had questioned the cause of their dissent.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Argument, bickering.
bickerments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bickerment
holy crickets
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: holy cricket
Senses: examples: text: But…holy crickets. He's naked.
ref: 2010, Katie MacAlister, In the Company of Vampires, Signet, published 2010, →ISBN, page 86:
glosses: An expression of surprise or astonishment.
Synonyms: wow
ganoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ganoid + -al.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Relating or belonging to the ganoids.
Lampadrome
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: A race run by young men carrying lighted torches.
wung-out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From wung (“winged”) + out.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: goosewinged.
trinoctial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: from Latin trinoctialis (“for three nights”), from tri- + nox, noctis (“night”).
Senses: glosses: Lasting for three nights.
transumpt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transumpts
Etymology: From Latin transumere, transumptum (“to take from one to another”), in Latin [Term?] (“to transcribe”). See transume.
Senses: examples: text: As for the excommunication which he hath so long sustained, they have heard him often say, that he hath not resisted against the same by contumacy, or stubbornness, but under evident appellation, and thereupon referreth himself unto the acts of his causes which were pleaded in the court of Rome, wherein all this is more largely contained; which your reverences may evidently perceive and see in this our present public transumpt, which we have offered unto you upon certain points aforesaid.
ref: 1563, John Foxe, “Answer of the Nobles of Bohemia”, in Stephen Reed Cattley, editor, The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe, volume 3, published 1837:
text: Edward Lee the Kings Almoner; who, sending the transumpt of the Breve to the King April 23, by a Letter 12 of June following, also certified our King of the sending of Gonçales Fernando[…]
ref: 1649, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, The Life and Reigne of King Henry the Eighth:
glosses: A copy or exemplification of a record.
transumpts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transumpt
hydrocyanide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrocyanides
Etymology: From hydro- + cyanide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound of hydrocyanic acid with a base, distinguished from cyanide, in which only the cyanogen so combines.
hydrocyanides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrocyanide
angulometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angulometers
Etymology: From Latin angulus (“angle”) + -meter.
Senses: glosses: Any of various instruments for measuring exterior angles.
Related terms: anglemeter
protractor
angulometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angulometer
anhistous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From an- + Ancient Greek ἱστός (histós, “web, tissue”) -ous.
Senses: examples: text: an anhistous coat of the stomach
text: an anhistous membrane
text: an anhistous tissue
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Without definite structure.
dipped headlights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dipped headlight
philalethist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: philalethists
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: examples: text: TO THE GENEROVS, INGENIOVS , AND IVDICIOVS PHILALETHIST
ref: 1621, Richard Brathwaite, Natures Embassie:
glosses: A lover of truth.
philalethists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of philalethist
birken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English birchen, birken, from Old English bircen, *biercen, beorcen (“made of birch, birchen”), from Proto-Germanic *birkīnaz (“made of birch”). Cognate with English birchen, Dutch berken (“birchen”), Low German berken (“birchen”), German birken (“birchen”).
Senses: examples: text: Beneath each birken shade, on mead or hill
ref: 1788, William Collins, An Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland, Considered as the Subject of Poetry:
glosses: Made of birch; birchen.
oneberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Paris quadrifolia, herb paris.
argillous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɑː(ɹ)d͡ʒɪləs/
Forms: form: more argillous
form: most argillous
Etymology: From Latin argillosus, from argilla. See argil.
Senses: examples: text: the colour of the sand and argillous earth at the bottom [of the sea]
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: clayey; argillaceous
huke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /h(j)uːk/
rhymes: -uːk
Forms: form: hukes
form: huque
form: heuk
form: heuke
form: hyke
Etymology: From Old French huque, from Latin huca. See Dutch huik (“sleeveless cape”).
Senses: examples: text: there came one that seemed to be a messenger , in a rich huke
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
text: Her only extravagances were fine accoutrements, gorgeous hukes, and mighty war-horses.
ref: 1930, “The real Joan of Arc: a manly maid - her appearance, her dress, her armour”, in The Illustrated London News:
text: Judging from the surviving documents it would appear that Charles VII did nothing at all about Joan of Arc [...] but [she] also swore that she herself was often visited by God, dressed in a white robe with a scarlet huke over it.
ref: 1980, A. Ernestine Jones, The Trial of Joan of Arc:
text: […] but after this date “white” armor, or highly polished metal armor, was rarely covered except by a tabard or huke[…]
ref: 2015 March 12, Phyllis G. Tortora, Sara B. Marcketti, Survey of Historic Costume, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 173:
glosses: An outer garment (robe or cloak) worn by men and women in Europe in the Middle Ages, either as civilian clothing or over armor.
hukes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of huke
snowface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snowfaces
Etymology: From snow + face.
Senses: examples: text: For the easiest descent, drop west from the summit into the Granite Chief Wilderness via a broad snowface, then climb back to the summit or any of several saddles, and descend Ward Creek back to parking.
ref: 1998, Louis W. Dawson, Wild Snow: A Historical Guide to North American Ski Mountaineering, page 36:
glosses: A snow-covered mountain feature.
Related terms: rockface
snowfaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snowface
oxanilide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxanilides
Etymology: oxalic + aniline + amide
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A white crystalline substance resembling oxanilamide, obtained by heating aniline oxalate, and regarded as a double anilide of oxalic acid; diphenyl oxamide.
adipoceriform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more adipoceriform
form: most adipoceriform
Etymology: From adipocere + -iform.
Senses: examples: text: an adipoceriform tumour
glosses: Having the form or appearance of adipocere.
moonstricken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more moonstricken
form: most moonstricken
Etymology: From moon + stricken.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of moonstruck (“of a person: Crazy or insane, supposedly due to the influence of the Moon; showing irrational behaviour, especially of a romantic or sentimental nature”).
synonyms: word: moonstruck
extra: of a person: Crazy or insane, supposedly due to the influence of the Moon; showing irrational behaviour, especially of a romantic or sentimental nature
sloam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sloams
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A layer of earth between coal seams.
sloams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sloam
paradigmatize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: paradigmatizes
form: paradigmatizing
form: paradigmatized
form: paradigmatized
Etymology: From Ancient Greek παραδειγματίζω (paradeigmatízō). By surface analysis, paradigmatic + -ize.
Senses: examples: c. 1644, Henry Hammond, a letter
those Boukes so paradigmatized by you
glosses: To set forth as a model or example.
paradigmatized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of paradigmatize
paradigmatizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of paradigmatize
paradigmatizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of paradigmatize
Gunter's lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gunter's line
tendrilless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tendril + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without tendrils.
swaggies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swaggie
dialyzation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dialyzations
form: dialysation
Etymology: From dialyze + -ation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: dialysis
dialyzations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dialyzation
hairbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hairbirds
Etymology: From hair + bird. It uses animal hair to line its nest.
Senses: glosses: A chipping sparrow (Spizella passerina).
hairbirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hairbird
hypobranchial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypo- + branchial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the segment between the basibranchial and the ceratobranchial in a branchial arch.
hypobranchial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypobranchials
Etymology: From hypo- + branchial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A bone or cartilage of this kind.
hypobranchials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypobranchial
disintricate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /dɪˈsɪntɹɪkeɪt/
Forms: form: disintricates
form: disintricating
form: disintricated
form: disintricated
Etymology: From dis- + intricate.
Senses: examples: text: to disintricate the question
ref: 1852, William Hamilton, Discussions on Philosophy and Literature, Education and University Reform:
glosses: To disentangle.
disintricated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disintricate
disintricates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disintricate
disintricating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disintricate
spoolable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spoolable
form: most spoolable
Etymology: From spool + -able.
Senses: examples: spoolable pipes
glosses: Capable of being spooled, or wound onto a reel.
crackerass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crackerasses
Etymology: From cracker + -ass. Likely from Georgia Cracker.
Senses: examples: text: New Orleans holds us on downs, and Malley goes in to punt and that little crackerass No. 28 slices through and blocks it.
ref: 1974, Jack Olsen, Alphabet Jackson: a novel, link:
text: If that crackerass wants to get in touch, tell him I can't be located.
ref: 1989, Windsor Chorlton, Rites of sacrifice, link:
text: 1989, Analog science fiction/science fact: Volume 109, Issues 10-13, link
Those crackerass bureaucrats in the Pentagon don't care how good it works, they just want to go on using them crappy old machines they built their own selves."
glosses: A contemptible white person.
crackerass
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crackerass
form: most crackerass
Etymology: From cracker + -ass. Likely from Georgia Cracker.
Senses: examples: text: Dressing up like some crackerass white man, some dead president and letting people shoot at you sounds like a hustle to me.
ref: 2002, Suzan-Lori Parks, Topdog/underdog, page 27:
text: Booth Dressing up like some crackerass white man, some dead president and letting people shoot at you sounds like a hustle to me.
ref: 2006, Will Kaufman, The Civil War in American culture, page 72:
text: It might have been ruled an accident, except for the fact that it had happened in a crackerass town in rural Georgia, and that Russell had thrown off his gloves at one point and used his bare fists to continue the process.
ref: 2012, Les Standiford, Bone Key, page 65:
glosses: Relating to the negative attributes of a white person.
workover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: workovers
Etymology: From work + over.
Senses: examples: text: Shell launched a massive "work over" campaign during my second year in Brunei. A work over is basically an existing production well that needs a service.
ref: 2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 44:
glosses: Any kind of oil well intervention involving invasive techniques, such as wireline or snubbing.
workovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of workover
crackerasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crackerass
Georgia Cracker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Georgia Crackers
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Georgia cracker
Georgia Crackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Georgia Cracker
preoccupancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preoccupancy
preoccupancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preoccupancies
Etymology: From pre- + occupancy. See preoccupate.
Senses: examples: text: the preoccupancy of the premises
text: the preoccupancy of wild land
glosses: The act of taking possession before another.
unforeseenness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unforeseen + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unforeseen.
couchancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkaʊt͡ʃənsi/
Senses: glosses: The state of lying down for repose, being couchant.
hackishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hackishly
form: most hackishly
Etymology: From hackish + -ly.
Senses: examples: a hackishly-written news article
glosses: In a hackish manner.
hackaround
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hackarounds
Etymology: Blend of hack + workaround
Senses: examples: text: Just hafta remember to switch out of the always-on program before turning the Palm off. Or is there a hackaround for this inconvenience?
ref: 2000, Harold Rabbie, “Always-on programs”, in comp.sys.palmtops.pilot (Usenet):
text: If and when the EWG closes those holes with better language extensions, the library hackarounds can be refined or abandoned.
ref: 2004, C/C++ users journal, volume 22:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A hacky workaround; an unattractive but expedient solution.
hackarounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hackaround
gun carriage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gun carriages
Senses: examples: text: But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.
ref: 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: A metal or wooden frame on which a piece of ordnance is mounted for firing or transportation.
rapee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rapees
Etymology: From rape + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: Crime rates are reported on the basis of reported crimes; however, it was estimated that about 80% of rapes go unreported because the rapee usually wishes to avoid the humiliation of having to describe the event in detail to the police […]
ref: 1983, Medical Correctional Association, Corrective and social psychiatry, volume 29:
text: Nightmares, depression, pathological shyness, inability to leave the house, terror of darkness, all have been known to develop in otherwise healthy women who have been raped. Malinowski was writing from the point of view of the rapee.
ref: 1986, Germaine Greer, The madwoman's underclothes: essays and occasional writings 1968-85:
text: The web of social and sexual interactions between military and civil populations is dense and intricate, and HIV travels rapidly through its connecting threads: to wives, girlfriends, sexual partners, and rapees, and from them to the soldiers.
ref: 1998, Jonathan Moore, Hard Choices: Moral Dilemmas in Humanitarian Intervention, page 274:
glosses: A victim of rape.
rapees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rapee
lairages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lairage
chrysazin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: 1,8-dihydroxyanthraquinone, a stimulant laxative formally derived from anthraquinone.
Synonyms: dantron
Derived terms: oxychrysazin
hydroxyanthraquinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroxyanthraquinones
Etymology: From hydroxy- + anthraquinone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several organic compounds that can be viewed as derivatives of an anthraquinone through replacement of one hydrogen atom by a hydroxyl group.
Synonyms: hydroxyanthracenedione
Derived terms: dihydroxyanthraquinone
heptahydroxyanthraquinone
hexahydroxyanthraquinone
octahydroxyanthraquinone
pentahydroxyanthraquinone
tetrahydroxyanthraquinone
trihydroxyanthraquinone
hydroxyanthraquinones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydroxyanthraquinone
hydroxyalkyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydroxyalkyl
hydroxybenzoquinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroxybenzoquinones
Etymology: From hydroxy- + benzoquinone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several organic compounds that can be viewed as derivatives of a benzoquinone through replacement of one hydrogen atom by a hydroxyl group.
hydroxybenzoquinones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydroxybenzoquinone
rhein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rheine
Etymology: From Rheum + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An anthraquinone found in rhubarb.
Synonyms: cassic acid
diacerein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A drug, used in the treatment of osteoarthritis, that works by inhibiting interleukin-1.
Synonyms: diacetylrhein
diacetylrhein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: diacerein
dihydroxyanthraquinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dihydroxyanthraquinones
Etymology: From dihydroxy + anthraquinone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several isomeric organic compounds with formula C₁₄H₈O₄, formally derived from an anthraquinone by replacing two hydrogen atoms by hydroxyl groups
Related terms: dihydroxyanthrone
dihydroxyanthraquinones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dihydroxyanthraquinone
dihydroxyacetones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dihydroxyacetone
metallochromy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See metallo- and chromo-.
Senses: glosses: The art or process of colouring metals by changing their oxidation state.
pewfellow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pewfellows
Etymology: From pew + fellow.
Senses: glosses: Someone who occupies the same pew as another.
examples: text: […] makes her pew-fellow with others' moan!
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 IV, scene iv]:
glosses: An intimate associate; a companion.
pewfellows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pewfellow
scofferies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scoffery
scoffery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scofferies
Etymology: From scoff + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: King Henrie the fift in his beginning thought it a meere scofferie to pursue anie fallow deere with hounds or greihounds
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: The act of scoffing; mockery.
Blochian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Blochian
form: most Blochian
Etymology: From Bloch + -ian.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to Ernst Bloch (1885–1977), German Marxist philosopher.
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: Of or relating to Robert Bloch (1917-1994), American writer, primarily of crime, horror, and science fiction.
personalitywise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From personality + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: The fact that this political approach is thought expedient in communist party tactics does not prove that party members personalitywise are intolerant of ambiguities in general.
ref: 1970, Christian Bay, The structure of freedom, page 210:
text: Yet we have not emphasized the clinical appraisal of verbal protocol in this chapter; nor have we emphasized the significance, personalitywise, of the factors yielded by the analysis.
ref: 2002, George Kelly, The Psychology of Personal Constructs, volume 1, page 215:
glosses: In terms of personality.
chanfrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chanfrins
Etymology: From French chanfrein. Compare chamfron.
Senses: glosses: The forepart of a horse's head.
examples: text: 1869, The Argosy
text: The Dukes of Burgundy and other wealthy noblemen […] had the housings and chanfrins of their horses set with gems.
glosses: a horse's mask
chanfrins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chanfrin
haberdine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haberdines
Etymology: From Dutch abberdaan, labberdaan, or a French [Term?] form. Compare Old French habordeau, from the name of a Basque district, and French Labourd, adjective Labourdin. The letter l was misunderstood as the French article l'.
Senses: examples: text: Yet can I set my Gallio's dieting,
A pestle of a lark, or plover's wing;
And warn him not to cast his wanton eyne
On grosser bacon, or salt haberdine
ref: 1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC:
glosses: cod salted and dried.
haberdines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haberdine
whiteheart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whitehearts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of white-heart.
whitehearts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whiteheart
blackheart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blackhearts
Etymology: From black + heart.
Senses: examples: text: There are cherries enough for all, as when we planted we took into consideration the needs of our feathered neighbors, so the birds do not miss the fruit when on our breakfast table appears a great wooden bowl —you have no idea what an artistic bit the chopping bowl becomes when utilized in this way—filled with clusters of blackheart and white-heart cherries and their leaves.
ref: 1914, E.B. Loring, For the comfort of the family, →ISBN, page 89:
text: “Here travelers sat beneath a great blackheart cherry tree growing among white rosebushes by the fence,” notes a 1937 American Guide Series book, “and watched the busy river traffic while they waited for supper.”
ref: 1996, Richard R. Shaw, The Lower Penobscot River Region, →ISBN, page 56:
glosses: A heart-shaped cherry with a very dark skin.
examples: text: Blackheart results from inadequate oxygen supply for respiration (asphyxiation) of internal tuber tissue.
ref: 1981, W. J. Hooker, Compendium of Potato Diseases, →ISBN, page 10:
text: Calcium sprays of 10 to 20 pounds of Ca(NO₃)₂ or 5 to 10 pounds of CaCl₂ per 100 gallons of water per acre applied once or twice per week have provided good control in several trials and are considered most beneficial when blackheart appears before harvest, when plants may outgrow it, and when it is necessary to hold mature celery in the field.
ref: 1986, Arden F. Sherf, Alan A. MacNab, Vegetable Diseases and Their Control, →ISBN, page 201:
text: Sanewski and Giles (1997) have developed a hybrid resistant to blackheart.
ref: 2002, P.K. Ray, Breeding Tropical and Subtropical Fruits, →ISBN, page 208:
glosses: Any of various plant diseases that cause darkening of the central tissue.
examples: text: Blackheart malleable cast iron has excellent castability and machinability.
ref: 2013, V. B. Bhandari, Introduction to Machine Design, →ISBN, page 49:
glosses: A type of malleable cast iron with minimum tensile strength of 350 N/mm².
examples: text: That blackheart would have thrust you out to wail and gained the time himself, without you there.
ref: 2007, Jo Walton, The King's Name, →ISBN:
text: As much as I tried to get the blackheart out of my mind, the more he seemed to enter it from unsuspecting directions.
ref: 2011, L M Meier, Maji: The Untold Adventure of the Men of the East, →ISBN, page 67:
text: Any experience that reveals the spirit from a blackheart
ref: 2012, Ms. Cinderella, Undiscovered, →ISBN:
glosses: A cruel and remorseless person.
Related terms: white-heart
blackhearts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blackheart
successionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: successionists
Etymology: From succession + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who insists on the importance of a regular succession of events, offices, etc.
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: One who insists on the importance of a regular succession of events, offices, etc.
One who insists that only apostolic succession is valid.
Related terms: successionism
successionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of successionist
Schutzian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Schutzian
form: most Schutzian
Etymology: From Schutz + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Alfred Schutz (1899-1959), phenomenological philosopher and sociologist.
successionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From succession + -ism.
Senses: glosses: successionist beliefs
wowee
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From wow.
Senses: glosses: wow; expressing astonishment, surprise or excitement
Herrickian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Herrickian
form: most Herrickian
Etymology: From Herrick + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Robert Herrick (1591-1674?), English poet.
paleass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleasses
Etymology: From pale + -ass.
Senses: examples: text: On the verge of anger—trust a paleass to misunderstand me!—Norman controlled himself.
ref: 1968, John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar:
text: ...while almost everybody in this joint was black, this guy, even on dialysis, had the brothers as scared of him as he had us few paleass motherfuckers scared of him...
ref: 2002, Nick Tosches, In the hand of Dante, link:
glosses: A contemptible white person.
paleasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paleass
Ollagüe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and volcano in the northern desert of Chile.
fagface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fagfaces
Etymology: From fag + face.
Senses: examples: text: "We are a sharing house of fully independent adults: three dykes, one bisexual, and you —" "Full-fledged fagface," I assured her.
ref: 1991, Darryl Pilcher, Certain voices: short stories about gay men, link:
glosses: A gay man with a stereotypically effeminate countenance.
Related terms: girly man
gayface
fagfaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fagface
Camaguey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Camagüey.
Mayaguez
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mayagüez.
Ollague
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ollagüe.
toe-tappers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toe-tapper
deerfly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪəflʌɪ/
Forms: form: deerflies
form: deer fly
Etymology: From deer + fly.
Senses: examples: text: When the sun comes out, it is totally delightful, except for the mosquitoes, and the blackflies, and the deerflies.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 161:
text: The basement was flooded and the couch was growing mildew, so we sat outdoors in the shadows of the trees in a screened tent with deerflies and mosquitoes buzzing outside.
ref: 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of all Maladies, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 149:
text: It was not a horsefly and it was not a deerfly; it was bigger than either.
ref: 2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 36:
glosses: Any of various species of fly which feed on deer, principally in genus Chrysops.
deerflies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deerfly
santas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of santa
counter-revolutionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more counter-revolutionary
form: most counter-revolutionary
Senses: examples: text: Chienyang County in Shensi Province on the loess highland has fairly rich water resources, but there was little irrigated land — averaging 0.4 mu per person — before the Cultural Revolution owing to interference and sabotage by Liu Shao-chi’s counter-revolutionary revisionist line.
ref: 1972, Chao Feng-nien, “Learning from Tachai Brings Big Changes”, in Tachai: Standard Bearer in China's Agriculture [大寨——中国农业战綫上的一面紅旗], 1st edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 28:
english: 大寨——中国农业战綫上的一面紅旗
translation: 大寨——中国农业战綫上的一面紅旗
glosses: Alternative form of counterrevolutionary.
counter-revolutionary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counter-revolutionaries
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of counterrevolutionary.
sit ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sit up
culmiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more culmiferous
form: most culmiferous
Etymology: From culm + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: examples: text: culmiferous sandstone
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing, or abounding in, culm or glance coal.
examples: text: culmiferous plant
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having jointed stems or culms.
hysteroepilepsies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hysteroepilepsy
hysteroepilepsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hysteroepilepsies
form: hystero-epilepsy
Etymology: From hystero- + epilepsy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Hysteria with attacks resembling epileptic seizures.
Related terms: hysteroepileptic
outhire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outhires
form: outhiring
form: outhired
form: outhired
Etymology: From out- + hire.
Senses: examples: text: When good was onely for it selfe desyred, / And all men sought their owne, and none no more; / When Iustice was not for most meed outhyred, / But simple Truth did rayne, and was of all admyred.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To hire out.
outhired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outhire
outhires
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outhire
outhiring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outhire
peptonoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peptonoids
Etymology: From peptone + -oid.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular substance related to peptone.
peptonoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peptonoid
cycadaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cycadaceous
form: most cycadaceous
Etymology: From translingual Cycadaceae + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: The sago palm is a cycadaceous plant.
text: After a few hundred yards of thick forest, containing many trees which were quite unknown to me, but which Summerlee, who was the botanist of the party, recognized as forms of conifera and of cycadaceous plants which have long passed away in the world below, we entered a region where the stream widened out and formed a considerable bog.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to, or resembling, the Cycadaceae, a family of plants like the palms but with exogenous wood.
rosewort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roseworts
Etymology: From rose + wort.
Senses: glosses: The roseroot, Rhodiola rosea.
glosses: Any plant nearly related to the rose.
roseworts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rosewort
cicatrization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cicatrizations
Etymology: Compare French cicatrisation.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The process of forming a cicatrix; the state of being cicatrized.
cicatrizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cicatrization
apathogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + pathogenic.
Senses: examples: text: Reston virus is thought to be apathogenic for humans.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Not pathogenic.
Derived terms: apathogenicity
pathogenically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pathogenic + -ally.
Senses: examples: inhibition of pathogenically-related morphologic transition in Candida albicans
glosses: In a pathogenic manner.
nonpathogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonpathogens
Etymology: From non- + pathogen.
Senses: glosses: An organism that is not a pathogen.
nonpathogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonpathogen
rutterkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rutterkins
Senses: examples: text: what will become of the Doctrine , […] if ye play the rutterkin
ref: 1579, J. T., transl., Sermons of M. Jean Calvin):
glosses: An old crafty fox or beguiler.
rutterkins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rutterkin
irian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The iris receives the irian nerves.
ref: 1853, Robley Dunglison, Medical Lexicon:
text: The study of this narrowing of the confines of the cavity by adhesions between the iris and the cornea, or ankylosis of the irian angle, is an interesting and important feature of ocular semiology.
ref: 1914, Charles Heady Beard, Ophthalmic semiology and diagnosis:
glosses: Of or relating to the iris.
Synonyms: iridic
infuscated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more infuscated
form: most infuscated
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a blackish tinge.
archonship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archonships
Etymology: From archon + -ship.
Senses: examples: 1784-1810, William Mitford, History of Greece
[…] which carries us back to the archonship of Chaerondas for the date of the battle […]
glosses: The rank or office of an archon.
archonships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archonship
subvitalized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subvitalized
form: most subvitalized
Etymology: From sub- + vitalized.
Senses: glosses: Lacking in vitality or energy.
suprahyoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪɔɪd
Etymology: From supra- + hyoid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Above the hyoid bone
Synonyms: hyomental
disprejudice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disprejudices
form: disprejudicing
form: disprejudiced
form: disprejudiced
Etymology: From dis- + prejudice.
Senses: examples: text: thoſe[…] will easilie be so far disprejudic'd in point of the doctrine, as to seek the acquainting their understandings with the grounds and reasons of this Religion
ref: 1654, Walter Montagu, Miscellanea Spiritualia:
glosses: To free from prejudice.
disprejudiced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disprejudice
disprejudices
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disprejudice
disprejudicing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disprejudice
unsin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈsɪn/
Forms: form: unsins
form: unsinning
form: unsinned
form: unsinned
Etymology: From un- + sin.
Senses: glosses: To undo or annul a past sin.
examples: text: when a ſin is paſt, grief may leſſen it , but not unſin it.
ref: 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
glosses: To deprive (a sin, etc.) of sinfulness; to make sinless.
unsinned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unsin
unsinning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unsin
unsinning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: the unsinning animals
glosses: Not committing sins.
unsins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unsin
palpigerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪdʒəɹəs
Etymology: From palpus + -gerous.
Senses: examples: text: in their eyes usually on a moveable footstalk ; their palpigerous mandibles ; and their four antennæ
ref: 1818, William Kirby, William Spence, An Introduction To Entomology: Or, Elements Of The Natural History Of Insects:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Bearing a palpus.
hyomandibular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪbjʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From hyo- + mandibular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the hyomandibula.
examples: the hyomandibular bone or cartilage, a segment of the hyoid arch which connects the lower jaw with the skull in fishes
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating both to the hyoid arch and the mandible or lower jaw.
hyomandibular
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪbjʊlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: hyomandibulars
Etymology: From hyo- + mandibular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The hyomandibular bone or cartilage.
crescenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crescent
crescented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crescent
imitableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From imitable + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: the imitableness of Christ's character
synonyms: imitability
glosses: The state or quality of being imitable, or worthy of imitation.
commissionship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commissionships
Etymology: From commission + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The role or office of commissioner.
Synonyms: commissionership
commissionships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of commissionship
rubicelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rubicelles
Etymology: Compare French rubacelle, rubicelle, from Latin rubeus (“red, reddish”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An orange-red spinel.
rubicelles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rubicelle
Cayuga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kəˈjuːɡə/
Forms: form: Cayugas
form: Cayuga
Etymology: Borrowing from Cayuga gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ (“they live in the big swamp”)
Senses: glosses: A member of an indigenous people of North America, part of the Iroquois Confederacy.
Derived terms: Cayuga County
Cayuga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /kəˈjuːɡə/
Etymology: Borrowing from Cayuga gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ (“they live in the big swamp”)
Senses: glosses: The Northern Iroquoian language of the Cayuga people.
glosses: An unincorporated community, the county seat of Haldimand County, Ontario; named for the Cayuga people.
glosses: A town in Indiana; named for the village in New York.
glosses: A village in New York; named for the Cayuga people.
glosses: A city in North Dakota.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Illinois.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Texas.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Wisconsin.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Cayuga terms
Cayugas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cayuga
touristscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: touristscapes
Etymology: From tourist + -scape.
Senses: examples: text: Markers of Hawaiian-ness customize the urban "touristscape" in large and small ways.
ref: 1999, Jane Desmond, “Let's Lu'au”, in Staging Tourism: Bodies on Display from Waikiki to Sea World (Business), University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 14:
text: …they shape a community's touristscape, scale and impacts ...
ref: 2004, Peter E. Murphy, Ann E. Murphy, “Tourism Leadership”, in Strategic Management for Tourism Communities (Business), Channel View Publications, →ISBN, page 146:
text: … that is the space between the everyday of the cityscape and the festive nature of the touristscape which is the tourist prosaic.
ref: 2011, Michelle M. Metro-Roland, “Landscape and Tourism”, in Tourists, Signs and the City: The Semiotics of Culture in an Urban Landscape (Business), Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, page 38:
glosses: Any and all things of interest to a tourist, including attractions, cultural sites, restaurants and hotels, souvenir shops, tourist districts.
Related terms: tourscape
touristscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of touristscape
furzeling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: furzelings
Etymology: From furze + -ling.
Senses: glosses: An English warbler, Sylvia undata, the furze wren or Dartford warbler.
tourmates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tourmate
psychosomatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more psychosomatically
form: most psychosomatically
Etymology: From psychosomatic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a psychosomatic manner or context.
START
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Acronym of simple triage and rapid treatment.
START
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Acronym of Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.
osculatrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of osculatrix
osculatrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osculatrices
Etymology: From New Latin osculātrīx (literally “female kisser”), from Latin osculor (“to kiss”) + -trīx.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A curve whose contact with a given curve at a given point is of a higher order (or involves the equality of a greater number of successive differential coefficients of the ordinates of the curves taken at that point) than that of any other curve of the same kind.
shredless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From shred + -less.
Senses: examples: text: There was a day when they were young and proud, / Banners on high, and battles pass'd below; / But they who fought are in a bloody shroud, / And those which waved are shredless dust ere now.
ref: 1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza XLVII:
glosses: Having no shreds; without a shred.
republicize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: republicizes
form: republicizing
form: republicized
form: republicized
Etymology: From republic + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To convert (a state) into a republic.
republicize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: republicizes
form: republicizing
form: republicized
form: republicized
Etymology: From re- + publicize.
Senses: glosses: To publicize again or anew.
republicizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of republicize
republicizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of republicize
republicized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of republicize
ODIHR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights.
BOBFOC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BOBFOCs
Etymology: Acronym of "body off Baywatch, face off Crimewatch".
Senses: examples: text: Female Threes can be less than a Two and more than a Four for a variety of reasons: many MILFs* and GILFs* are Threes, as are BOBFOCs* and their opposite, FFTBBBs*.
ref: 2009, Kate Copstick, Jamie Maclean, Sex and the Recession, page 31:
text: She had never been a stunner, but she had had height and good legs and a good walk, and those three can take you a long way. These days she was what the boys on the squad call a BOBFOC: body off Baywatch, face off Crimewatch.
ref: 2010, Tana French, Faithful Place:
text: 'So she was a BOBFOC?'
'A what?'
ref: 2011, Anita Notaro, Take A Look At Me Now, page 47:
glosses: Synonym of butterface (“a person with an attractive body but ugly face”).
synonyms: word: butterface
extra: a person with an attractive body but ugly face
wikipedia: Baywatch
Crimewatch
nuclear power stations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nuclear power station