cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
allusory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈluːzəɹi/
homophone: illusory stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: more allusory
form: most allusory
Senses: examples: text: But those Sects, who oppose the doctrine of a real redemption, have always striven to evade the notion of a real sacrifice; as that on which the doctrine of Redemption is founded; upon pretence, that the scripture expressions of Christ's sacrifice were only figurative and allusory.
ref: 1761, William Warburton, A rational account of the nature and end of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper:
glosses: allusive; making allusion
scaleboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scaleboards
Etymology: From scale + board.
Senses: examples: text: During the time it is working down , the head and winter will require an additional scaleboard now and then , which will be ascertained by observing whether the pull produces an adequate impression
ref: 1808, Caleb Stower, The Compositor's and Pressman's Guide to the Art of Printing:
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A thin slip of wood used to justify a page.
glosses: A thin veneer or leaf of wood used for covering the surface of articles of furniture etc.
Derived terms: scaleboard plane
scaleboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scaleboard
Syrianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Syrianisms
Etymology: From Syrian + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: the Apostles in Greek words , which favoured many times of a Hebraism or Syrianism
ref: 1692, Hugo Grotius, A defence of the Catholick faith:
glosses: A Syrian idiom or phrase; a Syriacism.
Syrianisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Syrianism
doquet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doquets
Etymology: See docket.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A warrant (certificate or proof of authenticity).
doquets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doquet
irestone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: irestones
Etymology: From iron + stone. Compare ironstone.
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: Any very hard rock.
irestones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of irestone
predilect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: predilects
form: predilecting
form: predilected
form: predilected
Senses: examples: text: Heav'n to its predilected children grants / The middle space 'twixt opulence and wants.
ref: 1767, Walter Harte, “Eulogius”, in The amaranth; or, Religious poems:
glosses: To elect or choose beforehand.
Related terms: predilection
predilected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of predilect
predilecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of predilect
predilects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of predilect
sulphocarbonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphocarbonates
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of sulfocarbonate.
sulphocarbonates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sulphocarbonate
sourkrout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sourkrouts
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of sauerkraut.
sourkrouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sourkrout
discretive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin discretivus. See discrete.
Senses: examples: text: A like discretive power is exercised in the sphere of each of the senses ; thus it is that the expe- rienced cook judges not only of the "far too much," but of the "much too little" of some one ingredient in the compound upon which the epicure, his master, shall bestow his commendation.
ref: 1858, Isaac Taylor, The World of Mind: An Elementary Book, page 157:
text: Nor can it necessarily move the will to cause the action, as evidenced by the will's ability to choose from among discretive judgments consented to.
ref: 2004, Keith David Wyma, Crucible of Reason, page 258:
text: The vital power underlies acts of motion, the discretive power underlies generation and growth, and the attractive power assimilates nutrients.
ref: 2017, David S. Sytsma, Richard Baxter and the Mechanical Philosophers:
glosses: Marking distinction or separation.
examples: text: «But» is a particle, none more familiar in our language: and he that says it is a discretive conjunction, and that it answers to sed Latin, or mais in French, thinks he has sufficiently explained it.
ref: 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC:
text: Δαì has generally a discretive or distinctive, often and adversative power.
ref: 1829, Hendrik Hoogeveen, Hoogeveen's Greek Particles, page 40:
text: The coherencey of a discretive proposition depends on the connecton of both parts and their relevancy to one another.
ref: 1837, S. E. Parker, Logic, Or, The Art of Reasoning Simplified, page 92:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Disjunctive with the additional characteristic that the conjoined clauses, while exhibiting a disjunct, are both asserted as true.
Derived terms: discretively
discretiveness
discretive proposition
discretive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discretives
Etymology: From Latin discretivus. See discrete.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A discretive proposition.
biformed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + formed.
Senses: examples: text: Nature is also excellently set forth with a biformed Body
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the chapter)”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
glosses: Having two forms.
tetanization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetanizations
form: tetanisation
Senses: examples: text: Muscle which has been tetanized produces less acid than muscle which has been at rest; in fact the tetanization of muscle seems to consume the acid-forming matter.
ref: 1866, Dr. Johannes Ranke, “Tetanus.—A Physiological Study”, in Dublin quarterly journal of medical science, volume 42, page 453:
text: The position of the internal capsule is determined with microelectrodes by its characteristic absence of somatodendritic action potentials and the tetanization produced by stimulating corticospinal tract fibers.
ref: 2007, Dr. Stewart A. Factor, Parkinson's Disease: Diagnosis & Clinical Management, 2nd edition:
text: Heterosynaptic, long-term plastic changes can be induced in hippocampal and neocortical neurons by intracellular tetanization—bursts of spikes evoked by short, depolarizing pulses applied through the recording electrode.
ref: 2015, Detlev Boison, Homeostatic Control of Brain Function, page 132:
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The production or condition of tetanus.
Related terms: tetanize
tetanizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetanization
ginsoaked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ginsoaked
form: most ginsoaked
Etymology: From gin + soaked.
Senses: glosses: soaked with gin
objectivate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: objectivates
form: objectivating
form: objectivated
form: objectivated
Etymology: From objective + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To objectify.
objectivated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of objectivate
objectivates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of objectivate
objectivating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of objectivate
devictimize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: devictimizes
form: devictimizing
form: devictimized
form: devictimized
Etymology: From de- + victimize.
Senses: glosses: To divest of the status of victim.
devictimized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of devictimize
devictimizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of devictimize
devictimizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of devictimize
spermophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spermophytes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σπέρμα (spérma, “seed”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of spermatophyte.
spermophytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spermophyte
tauricornous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tauri- + Latin cornu (“horn”) + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: And if (as Macrobius and very good authors concede) Bacchus, (who is also described with horns,) be the same deity with the sun; and if (as Vossius well contendeth) Moses and Bacchus were the same person; their descriptions must be relative, or the tauricornous picture of the one, perhaps the same with the other.
ref: 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.9:
text: It is a pity Tubbs was not an Egyptologist enamoured of the kings or even an enlightened collector, for he had an uncanny gift and could not walk two feet without kicking up an outsize alabaster thumb, a tauricornous amulet, a gold needle, an unnameable something-or-other black with tar […].
ref: 1993, Rikki Ducornet, The Jade Cabinet, Dalkey Archive Press, page 96:
glosses: Having horns like those of a bull.
ichthulin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ichthulins
Etymology: See ichthyo- and -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A substance from the yolk of salmon roe.
Derived terms: ichthulinic acid
ichthulins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ichthulin
chatteration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chatterations
Etymology: From chatter + -ation.
Senses: examples: February 4, 1865, Charles Dickens, All the Year Round
As for her spirits, she had none. No more chatterations, no more acting of great ladies; she was as dumb as any dumb-waiter.
glosses: chattering
chatterations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chatteration
preexistency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + existency.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of preexistence.
fulciment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfʌlsɪmənt/
Forms: form: fulciments
Etymology: From Latin fulcimentum, from fulciō (“to prop”).
Senses: examples: text: Rather suppose B C to be a Vectis, or Leaver , towards the Middle of which is the Place of the Fulciment, A B as the weight, C D the power that is to raiſe to.
ref: 1648, John Wilkins, Mathematical Magick:
text: Which consisting of two Vectes or armes, converted towards each other, the innitency and stresse being made upon the hypomochlion or fulciment in the decussation, the greater compression is made by the union of two impulsors.
ref: 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus:
glosses: A prop; a fulcrum.
fulciments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fulciment
mity
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: mitier
form: mitiest
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mitey (“infested with mites”).
spermidia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spermidium
spermidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spermidia
Etymology: From sperm + -idium.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: An achene.
acheniums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of achenium
achenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of achenium
tiercet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tiercets
Etymology: From French tercet. See tercet.
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A triplet; three lines, or three lines rhyming together.
tiercets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tiercet
margarodite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: margarodites
Etymology: Borrowed from German Margarodit (coined in 1843 by Dr. Carl Schaffhäutl), from Byzantine Greek μαργαρώδης (margarṓdēs, “pearl-like”), from Ancient Greek μάργαρον (márgaron, “pearl”); see μαργαρίτης (margarítēs).
Senses: examples: text: This optical peculiarity of the Breezy margarodite distinguishes it from the margarodite of the Leinster granite, in which the plane of the optical axes coincides with the long diagonal of the primary rhomb, joining its acute angles.
ref: 1862, The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, page 415:
text: Margarodite, as named by Schafhäutl, was the talc-like mica of Mt. Greiner in the Zillerthal (anal. 36); granular to scaly in structure, luster pearly, color grayish white.
ref: 1904, James Dwight Dana, The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana, 1837-1868:
text: The alumina of the topaz has gone to form muscovite of the variety known as margarodite with less margarite.
ref: 1921, Proceedings of the United States National Museum, United States National Museum:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydrous potash mica related to muscovite.
Related terms: margarite
margarodites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of margarodite
precontrive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: precontrives
form: precontriving
form: precontrived
form: precontrived
Etymology: From pre- + contrive.
Senses: glosses: To contrive or plan beforehand.
precontrived
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of precontrive
precontrives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of precontrive
precontriving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of precontrive
pantalooneries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pantaloonery
pantaloonery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pantalooneries
Etymology: From pantaloon + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: The clownery and pantaloonery of these pantomimes have clean passed out of my head
ref: 1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The character or performances of a pantaloon; buffoonery.
glosses: Materials used to make pantaloons.
priesteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of priestery
priestery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: priesteries
Etymology: From priest + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: What greater argument of disgrace and ignominy could have been thrown with cunning upon the whole clergy, than that the king, among all his priestery, and all those numberless volumes of their theological distillations not meeting with one man or book of that coat that could befriend him with a prayer in captivity, was forced to rob Sir Philip and his captive shepherdess of their heathen orisons to supply in any fashion his miserable indigence, not of bread, but of a single prayer to God?
ref: 1649 October, John Milton, Eikonoklastes. In Answer to a Book Intitled, Eikon Basilike, The PORTRAITURE of his SACRED MAJESTY in his Solitudes and Sufferings, Preface:
glosses: Priests collectively; the priesthood.
deplumation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌdiːpluːˈmeɪʃən/
Etymology: See deplume.
Senses: examples: text: […] through the violence of her moulting, or deplumation, she comes into this earthly body deprived of that blessed life which she before enjoyed.
ref: 1662, Edward Stillingfleet, Origines Sacrae:
glosses: The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers.
examples: text: Systemic symptoms include headache, anorexia and sometimes nausea, vomiting, tinnitus and deafness, and deplumation or bleaching of the hair may occur.
ref: 1979, Historia Ophthalmologica Internationalis - Volume 1, page 94:
text: I hope now the violence both of his tartian [=tertian] ague & feaver & the deplun [=deplumation], which has been so troublesome in his eyes as since his last writing to your worships to quite deprive him of his sight, is gone of
ref: 2006, The English in West Africa, 1691-1699: The Local Correspondence of the Royal African Company of England, 1681-1699, page 340:
text: Little did anyone expect that five decades after the company's launch, their research into deplumation would pan-out in a most unusual way — designer eyelashes.
ref: 2019, Michael Winn, The Book of Joe B: A Love Story:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Loss of the eyelashes due to disease of the eyelids.
examples: text: If any person wishes to see one of the most neat, elegant, and at the same time thorough cases of deplumation, any where to be found in literary history, in which an individual who strutted on to the stage as a peacock, was soon obliged to leave it as a dove, he has only to read Dr. Beck's articles in "The Literary World," in which the fabricated quotation of Mr. Webster, and Professor Felton's defence of it, are shown to be exceedingly bad as Latin, and much worse as logic.
ref: 1851, Horace Mann, Slavery: Letters and Speeches, page 318:
text: If the humiliation and baseness of such an acquiescence would not have revolted the self-love and pride of a man like Sir Philip Francis, at any rate he was not a fool, and the mere risk of detection and deplumation, which might have happened any day, would have prevented him from enduring his false feathers.
ref: 1861, A Compendious History of English Literature:
text: Occasionally a Chinese or two would be detected bringing this liquor to the joss-house for sale, and whenever the guilt of a culprit was established, the invariable punishment was a smart bambooing and loss of tail; nothing earthly is so humiliating to a Chinaman as the deplumation of his queue, an ornament to him of great personal pride and care , and the longer and thicker the queue is, so much the more is he admired and envied.
ref: 1866, S.B. Ellis, Memoris and Services of the Late Lieutenant-general, page 259:
text: From his headquarters in Minnesota and anxious to regain lost ground after his deplumation the summer before, General Terry proclaimed Gibbon's effort a "brilliant success."
ref: 2002, Bruce Hampton, Children of Grace: The Nez Perce War of 1877, page 181:
glosses: The stripping of someone's symbol(s) of status and prestige; humiliation.
Con-Dem
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: Labour leadership approves the Con-Dem cuts (Dave Reid, Socialist Party website)
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Conservative/Liberal Democrat government.
barmcloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barmcloths
Etymology: From Middle English barmcloth, barmclothe, barmecloth, from Old English bearmclāþ (“apron”), analysable as barm + cloth.
Senses: examples: text: His mother o'er her barm-cloth wide / Gazed forward somewhat timidly / The new-comer's bright weed to see.
ref: 1870, William Morris, “September: The Land East of the Sun and West of the Moon”, in The Earthly Paradise: A Poem, part III, London: F[rederick] S[tartridge] Ellis, […], →OCLC, page 80:
text: The knaves followed and banged the pots, and the girls held up their barmcloths filled with blossom heads, but they stinted at the bridge across Sir Guy's ditch, while Anto and Will went through the gate.
ref: 2019, James Meek, To Calais, In Ordinary Time:
glosses: An apron.
barmcloths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barmcloth
demorage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demorages
Senses: examples: text: This day, Captain Taylor brought me a piece of plate, a little small state dish, he expecting that I should get him some allowance for demorage of his ship William, kept long at Tangier, which I shall, and may justly do.
ref: 1663 November 17 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “November 7th, 1663”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume III, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of demurrage.
demorages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demorage
subquadrate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + quadrate.
Senses: examples: text: subquadrate achenes
text: subquadrate joints
synonyms: squarish
glosses: Nearly or approximately square.
gilthead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giltheads
Etymology: From gilt + head.
Senses: glosses: A marine fish, Sparus aurata (gilt-head bream), with a golden-coloured head; the giltpoll.
glosses: Symphodus melops, a coastal fish; the golden maid, conner, or sea partridge.
giltheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gilthead
anfracture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anfractures
Etymology: From Latin ānfrāctus (“bend; circuitous route”).
Senses: examples: text: But that these Trochisks may be right made, the whitest and light pulp of Coloquintida must be selected, and not onely incided, put pulverated small: being crass, and introsumed, it moves the Dysentery, and abrades the intestines from such portions as are contained in its gyres and anfractures.
ref: 1657, Jean de Renou, A Medicinal Dispensatory, page 576:
text: In some of the saloons and galleries which surround the celebrated "Court of Lions," we still see colors, applied formerly by the Arabs in the anfractures of the arabesque figures, remaining in all their integrity .
ref: 1852, J. Persoz, Ed. Collomb, “Of the Chemical Composition of Fragments of Colors Collected from the Arab Paintings of the Fifteenth Century, of the Alhambra, At Grenada”, in The Chemist: A Monthly Journal of Chemical Philosophy, page 359:
text: The hair and mucus found in the multiplicity of anfractures which help to constitute the nasal anatomy purify the air, which comes more or less charged with fine particles of dust and other irritable matter
ref: 1895 February, “Harmful Habits”, in The Musical Record, number 297, page 8:
glosses: A mazy winding.
examples: text: Who would have thought that in the anfractures of the rocks, in nooks where the sun had never penetrated, one would find rhododendrons, heath, mimosas, crocuses, jasmine, Chinese primroses, and laurel-thyme?
ref: 1904, Paul de Kock, Madame Pantalon, page 197:
text: Retracing our steps a little, we go down through the woods by a winding path to Saint-Berthevin's Pulpit, a little chapel consecrated to that saint and situated in an anfracture of the rock and placed just under the plateau where we were standing a few minutes ago.
ref: 1919, Syndicat d'initiative, Laval and its neighbourhood, page 48:
text: The sly machinations of the ocean had been defeated; the demons that dwell far down in the worm-eaten anfractures of the island caves were foiled .
ref: 1932, Sir Ronald Ross ·, The Child of Ocean, page 262:
text: To be noted also the presence of the Conus miles hidden in the madreporic anfractures of the intercotidal zone , and which remain dry for a few hours during the low tide .
ref: 1972, La Conchiglia - Volume 4:
text: At each anfracture, one could see climbing plants or palms, trees and lianas.
ref: 1996, Francis Garnier, Travels in Cambodia and part of Laos, page 229:
glosses: A fissure or cavity that traces an irregular path.
Related terms: anfractuous
anfractures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anfracture
uncitied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: cityless
uncitied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uncity
uncities
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uncity
uncity
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uncities
form: uncitying
form: uncitied
form: uncitied
Etymology: From un- + city.
Senses: glosses: To deprive of the status of a city.
uncitying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uncity
forereach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forereaches
form: forereaching
form: forereached
form: forereached
Etymology: From fore- + reach.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To shoot ahead, especially when going in stays.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To advance or gain upon; said of a vessel that gains upon another when sailing close-hauled.
Synonyms: head reach
forereached
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forereach
forereaches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forereach
forereaching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forereach
ferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈfɪəɹəs/
/ˈfɛɹəs/
Forms: form: more ferous
form: most ferous
Etymology: From Latin ferus. See fierce and feral.
Senses: examples: text: And in this he had a speciall aim , and hope also , to establish Christian Laws among Infidels ; and by domestical , to chace away those ferous , and indomitable Creatures , that infested the Land
ref: 1653, Arthur Wilson, The History of Great Britain […] :
glosses: wild; savage; feral
misincline
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misinclines
form: misinclining
form: misinclined
form: misinclined
Etymology: From mis- + incline.
Senses: glosses: To cause to have a wrong inclination or tendency; to affect wrongly.
misinclined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misincline
misinclines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misincline
misinclining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misincline
alsike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alsikes
Etymology: From Alsike, Sweden.
Senses: examples: text: The next best growth was shown by the alsikes and N.Z. white clovers. Only about a third of the varieties were significantly affected by phosphate levels.
ref: 1974, New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, volume 2, number 3, page 256:
glosses: Trifolium hybridum, a species of clover with pinkish or white flowers.
wikipedia: Alsike, Sweden
Synonyms: Alsike clover
alsikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alsike
parishional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈɹɪʃ(ə)nəl/
Etymology: Alteration of parochial, after parishioner.
Senses: examples: text: At one stage the introduction of a parishional poor-rate to deal with local paupers was considered […]
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 266:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a parish; parochial.
reinstation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reinstations
Senses: glosses: reinstatement
reinstations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reinstation
bedrabble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bedrabbles
form: bedrabbling
form: bedrabbled
form: bedrabbled
Etymology: From Middle English bedrabelen, equivalent to be- + drabble.
Senses: glosses: To make dirty or wet, e.g. with rain and mud.
Related terms: bedravel
bedrabbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bedrabble
bedrabbles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bedrabble
bedrabbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bedrabble
Allhallow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The evening before All Hallows'; Halloween.
Derived terms: Allhallowtide
incapsulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incapsulations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of encapsulation.
incapsulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incapsulation
Christianisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Christianism
ricinelaidic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of ricinoleic + elaidic acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The trans isomer of the fatty acid ricinoleic acid.
maltworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maltworms
Etymology: From malt + worm.
Senses: examples: text: […] beg my pardon, in which you ſhall not onely ſaue a proper hanſome tall fellow and a ſtout Captaine, but alſo you ſhall purchaſe the prayers of all the ale wiues in the towne, for ſauing a mault-worme and a cuſtomer to helpe away their ſtrong ale.
ref: 1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act III:
text: The fiend hath prick'd down Bardolph irrecoverable; and his face is Lucifer's privy-kitchen, where he doth nothing but roast malt-worms.
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
glosses: A tippler; a drinker of alcohol.
Synonyms: alcoholic
souse
suck-pint
maltworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maltworm
bloodstick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bloodsticks
Etymology: From blood + stick.
Senses: examples: 1831-1850, William Youatt, On the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse
A bloodstick - a piece of hard wood loaded at one end with lead — is used to strike the fleam into the vein
topics: farriery
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
glosses: A piece of hard wood loaded at one end with lead, used to strike the fleam into the vein.
bloodsticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bloodstick
sidewinded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sidewind
sidewinding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sidewind
caenophidians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caenophidian
nonrectilinear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + rectilinear.
Senses: glosses: Not rectilinear.
deliciate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deliciates
form: deliciating
form: deliciated
form: deliciated
Senses: glosses: To delight oneself; to indulge in feasting or revels.
Related terms: delicious
deliciated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deliciate
deliciates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deliciate
deliciating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deliciate
puerperous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin puerpera + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Bearing children.
involucret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: involucrets
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: An involucel.
involucrets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of involucret
trowl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: trowls
form: trowling
form: trowled
form: trowled
Senses: examples: text: Thirdly, he seems to prefer snapping, to trowling after this fish.
ref: December 15 1739, Henry Fielding, The Champion:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of troll (“entice fish with bait”).
trowled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trowl
trowls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of trowl
trowling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trowl
Observantines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Observantine
saurognathous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard”) + -gnathous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: having the bones of the palate arranged as in saurians, the vomer consisting of two lateral halves, as in the woodpeckers
exsanguious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exsanguious
form: most exsanguious
form: exanguious
Etymology: From Latin exsanguis, from ex (“out”) + sanguis, sanguinis (“blood”). Compare exsanguineous.
Senses: examples: text: exsanguious liver
text: The third is the paucitie of blood obſerved in this animal, ſcarce at all to be found but in the eye, and about the heart; which defect being obſerved, inclined ſome into thoughts, that the ayre was a ſufficient maintenance for theſe exauguious^([sic – meaning exanguious]) parts.
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, “Of the Cameleon”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 162:
glosses: Destitute of blood; bloodless.
examples: text: Insects are exsanguious.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Without red blood.
Cisatlantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: sĭsătlănʹtĭk
ipa: /sɪsætˈlæntɪk/
Forms: form: cis-Atlantic
form: cisatlantic
Etymology: From cis- (“on this side”) + Atlantic.
Senses: examples: text: Society to-day, trans-Atlantic and cis-Atlantic, very much needs more royal marriages.
ref: 1798, Thomas De Witt Talmage, Around the Tea-Table, page 190:
text: This well directed liberality and the vigilance and ability of the Cisatlantic defenders of Christianity.
ref: 1805, The Literary Miscellany, volume I, page 47:
text: I was much struck with a communication, which, in lack of perspicuity as well as pomp of language it would puzzle our cisatlantic writers to exceed.
ref: 1809, Oliver Oldschool, editor, The Port Folio, volume III, page 46:
glosses: Situated on the same side of the Atlantic Ocean.
disroot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /dɪsˈɹuːt/
Forms: form: disroots
form: disrooting
form: disrooted
form: disrooted
Etymology: From dis- + root.
Senses: examples: text: A piece of ground disrooted from its situation by subterraneous inundations.
ref: 1774, Oliver Goldsmith, History of the Earth and Animated Nature:
glosses: To uproot (tear up from the roots).
disrooted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disroot
disrooting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disroot
disroots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disroot
sgoldstino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sgoldstinos
Etymology: From s- + goldstino.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The theoretical superpartner of a goldstino.
cis-Atlantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cis- + Atlantic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Cisatlantic.
sgoldstinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sgoldstino
cisatlantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Cisatlantic.
primevous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /pɹaɪˈmiːvəs/
Forms: form: more primevous
form: most primevous
Etymology: Adapted borrowing of Latin prīmaevus + -ous, from prīmus (“first”) + aevum (“age”).
Senses: glosses: Primeval, primordial.
defluxion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: defluxions
Etymology: From Latin defluxio.
Senses: glosses: A flowing down; a running down.
examples: text: […] Lanfrank takes Notice of Tract. 3. Doct. 3. cap. 18. ſaying, "I have ſeen many who being full of Humours, have made an Iſſue under the Knee, before due Purgation had been premis'd; whence, by reaſon of the too great Defluxion of Humours, the Legs tumified, ſo that the cauterized Place corrupted, and a Cancer (or rather cacoethic Ulcer) was thereby made, with which great Difficulty was cur'd."
ref: 1732, George Smith, Institutiones Chirurgicæ: or, Principles of Surgery, … To which is Annexed, a Chirurgical Dispensatory, …, London: Printed [by William Bowyer] for Henry Lintot, at the Cross-Keys against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, →OCLC, page 254:
text: Chronic defluxion from the nose, with sense of stuffing and fulness, occasionally attends cerebral congestion.
ref: 1839, Robley Dunglison, Dunglison's American Medical Library, part 1, page 205:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A discharge or flowing of fluid matter, as from the nose in catarrh.
defluxions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of defluxion
stellionate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stellionates
Etymology: From Latin stellionatus (“cozenage, trickery”), from stellio (“a newt, a crafty, knavish person”).
Senses: examples: text: The crime of stellionate[…]includes every fraud which is not distinguished by a special name; but it is chiefly applied to conveyances of the same numerical right granted by the proprietor to different disponees
ref: 1754, John Erskine of Carnock, Principles of the Law of Scotland:
topics: law
glosses: Any fraud not distinguished by a more special name; chiefly applied to sales of the same property to two different persons, or selling that for one's own which belongs to another, etc.
stellionates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stellionate
stathmograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stathmographs
Etymology: From Ancient Greek στάθμη (státhmē, “a measuring line”) + -graph.
Senses: glosses: A device for recording the speed of a railway train.
stathmographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stathmograph
focuser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: focusers
Etymology: From focus + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I decided to upgrade my telescope with a feather-touch focuser.
glosses: A device which allows one to adjust the focus of an instrument such as a telescope.
Derived terms: Crayford focuser
builddowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of builddown
focusers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of focuser
ciclatoun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ciclatouns
form: checklaton
form: siclatoun
Etymology: From Middle English ciclatoun, from Old French siglaton, (chiefly) Anglo-French cyclaton and Anglo-Latin cyclaton, from Arabic سِقِلّاطُون (siqillāṭūn).
Senses: examples: text: There were but two complete suits—the best, of green and blue ciclatouns, with orphreys of ray velvet; another of blue ciclatouns and plunket.
ref: 1904, Transactions - Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, page 241:
text: The mantle was of ciclatoun lined with ermine and edged with sable.
ref: 1932, Max von Boehn, Modes and Manners, volume I (From the Decline of the Ancient World to the Renaissance), New York, N.Y.: Benjamin Blom, Inc., published 1971, page 209:
text: On September 5, 1082, Gonzalo Salvadorez bade farewell to the monastery of Oña, and, as was the custom of all who were about to set out for war, made his will. “[…] If I be slain by the Moors, I commend my soul to God and my mortal remains to Oña, to whose altar I bequeath 1,600 maravedis, three of my best horses, two mules, my clothing with two robes of ciclatoun and three purple cloaks, and also two silver goblets. […]”[…]Among the knights who appear at the King’s Court magnificently arrayed in coloured robes and fur cloaks, the Campeador, “he of the great beard”, is an outstanding figure, and his dress is described in detail: hose of good material; elaborate shoes; a shirt of the finest linen, embroidered in gold and silver at the neck and cuffs; a rich tunic of ciclatoun, interwoven with gold; and, over this, the garment that specially distinguished him, a red pelisse with gold borders; then, over all, his priceless mantle. There is nothing Oriental about this dress. Although the costly, gold-woven cloth called ciclatoun would come generally from the East, the material was in use throughout Europe.
ref: 1934, Ramón Menéndez Pidal, The Cid and His Spain, London: John Murray, pages 184–185:
text: He wore rare, fine clothes of ciclatoun of quite unusual splendour.[…]Over its outer surface lay a net of tiny pearls, its meshes a hand’s breadth apart, through which the ciclatoun burned like glowing embers.
ref: 1960, Gottfried von Straßburg (12th–13th century Middle High German), translated by not given, Tristan, published 2004, →ISBN:
glosses: A costly cloth, of uncertain material, used in the Middle Ages.
ciclatouns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ciclatoun
tambac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of tombak.
encephalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a distinct head.
raw_tags: said of mollusks
Derived terms: macrencephalous
micrencephalous
subesophageal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + esophageal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated beneath the esophagus.
tredille
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tredrille
Senses: glosses: An old card game for three players, a variety of ombre
Related terms: quadrille
Syriacism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Syriacisms
Etymology: From Syriac + -ism.
Senses: hypernyms: Aramaism
glosses: An idiom or other feature borrowed from Syriac.
Syriacisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Syriacism
resupine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin resupinus, from re- (“re-”) + supinus (“bent backward, supine”).
Senses: examples: text: a most resupine patience
ref: 1628, Kenelm Digby, Journal of a Voyage Into the Mediterranean:
text: He ſpake, and, downward ſway'd, fell reſupine, / With his huge neck aſlant.
ref: 1791, Homer, “[The Odyssey.] Book IX.”, in W[illiam] Cowper, transl., The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume II, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 208, lines 533–534:
glosses: Lying on the back; supine.
lotong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lotongs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lutung.
lotongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lotong
systematism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: systematisms
Senses: glosses: The reduction of facts or principles to a system.
systematisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of systematism
durous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more durous
form: most durous
Etymology: Latin durus.
Senses: glosses: hard
legist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliːdʒɪst/
Forms: form: legists
Etymology: From Middle French légiste, from Medieval Latin lēgista, from Latin lex (“law”). Compare legal.
Senses: examples: text: There were a number of lawyers of the older type, men in sharp contrast and antagonism to the younger legists of the new American school.
ref: 1933 September, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Second Conference at Basra, 1978”, in The Shape of Things to Come, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, 3rd book (The World Renascence: The Birth of the Modern State), page 309:
glosses: One skilled in the law.
examples: text: ‘King and kingdom,’ concurred d'Aguesseau, wisest of wise eighteenth-century legists, ‘form a single entity.’
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 3:
glosses: A writer on law; also, a lawmaker, a legislator.
legists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of legist
hatchure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hatchures
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hachure.
hatchure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hatchures
form: hatchuring
form: hatchured
form: hatchured
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hachure.
hatchures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hatchure
ferrary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin ferraria (“iron works”). See ferreous.
Senses: examples: text: And all my tools of heavenly ferrary.
Thus from his anvil the huge monster rose
ref: c. 1610s, Homer (attributed), translated by George Chapman, The Crowne of all Homers Workes: Batrachomyomachia, or the Battaile of Frogs and Mise […], published 1624:
glosses: The art of ironworking.
praisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more praisable
form: most praisable
Etymology: From praise + -able.
Senses: glosses: Fit or able to be praised; praiseworthy; commendable.
Derived terms: praisably
unpraisable
syncytiotrophoblasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syncytiotrophoblast
proctorage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From proctor + -age.
Senses: glosses: Management by a proctor
examples: text: the fogging proctorage of money
ref: 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavses that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC; republished in (Please provide a date or year):
glosses: control; superintendence.
pteryloses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pterylosis
pterylosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pteryloses
Senses: examples: text: In a detailed study of the pterylosis of the genus Passer (with special emphasis on the house sparrow), Clench (1970) identified nine feather tracts: dorsal, scapulohumeral, femoral, ventral, lateral neck, capital, alar, crural, and caudal.
ref: 2006, Ted R. Anderson, Biology of the Ubiquitous House Sparrow:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: The particular arrangement of feathers on a bird.
Related terms: ptilosis
damassin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: damassins
Etymology: From French damas. See damask.
Senses: glosses: A kind of modified damask or brocade, having flowered patterns in gold or silver thread.
alluminor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alluminors
Etymology: From Old French alumineor, from Latin ad + liminare. See luminate.
Senses: examples: text: Alluminor denotes one, that by his Trade coloureth or painteth upon Paper or Parchment. At this day we call such a one a Limner.
ref: 1607, John Cowell, The Interpreter:
glosses: An illuminator of manuscripts and books; a limner.
alluminors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alluminor
anaphroditic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From an- + Aphrodite + -ic.
Senses: synonyms: anaphroditous
glosses: nonsexual, without sexual intercourse.
Related terms: anaphrodite
cetrarin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From translingual Cetraria + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A white substance extracted from Iceland moss, one of whose ingredients is cetraric acid.
shopwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shopwomen
Etymology: From shop + woman.
Senses: glosses: A woman employed in a shop.
shopwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shopwoman
hornbeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hornbeaks
Etymology: From horn + beak.
Senses: glosses: A hornfish.
hornbeaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hornbeak
lodemanage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English lodemanage.
Senses: examples: text: Court of Lodemanage
translation: a court which sat at Dover to appoint pilots of the Cinque Ports
english: a court which sat at Dover to appoint pilots of the Cinque Ports
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Pilotage.