cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tuberculoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tuberculomas
form: tuberculomata
Senses: examples: text: […] a famous case, in the 1890s, in which the development of a one-sided Parkinsonism was correlated with the growth of a tuberculoma of one cerebral peduncle […]
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A lesion associated with tuberculosis.
tuberculomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tuberculoma
tuberculomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tuberculoma
gegenhalten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From German Gegenhalten.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: paratonia
neurocysticercosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌn(j)ʊəɹəˌsɪstɪsɜː(ɹ)ˈkəʊsɪs/
Forms: form: neurocysticercoses
Etymology: From neuro- + cysticercosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The presence of larval cysts of Taenia solium, the pork tapeworm, in the parenchyma of the brain, often associated with seizures and sometimes fatal.
Derived terms: neurocysticercotic
neurocysticercotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neurocysticerc(osis) + -otic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or afflicted with, neurocysticercosis.
hypophonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypo- + -phonia.
Senses: examples: text: She would have to make a notable effort to speak, but the effort notwithstanding she would speak a whisper quite different in quality from the hypophonia she had shown in her pre-DOPA days.
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The condition of having a quiet voice; inability to speak loudly.
Derived terms: hypophonic
wake up and die right
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: “Christ Almighty, yes, Floyd!” Hank turned on Evenwrite, relieved in a way to have someone to shout at again. “Sure I can sell lumber. But wake up and die right! use your damn head! Look!”
ref: 1964, Ken Kesey, Charles Bowden, Sometimes a Great Notion, 2006 edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 413:
text: We think it’s about time for the hypocritical members of the parent-teacher click responsible for obsolete standards and regulations to wake up and die right!
ref: 2004, National Lampoon, edited by Scott Rubin, Sean Crespo, and Mason Brown, National Lampoon's Big Book of Love, →ISBN, →OCLC:
glosses: Get a grip.
raw_tags: used imperatively
Related terms: straighten up and fly right
wheelswarf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wheel + swarf.
Senses: glosses: swarf (grit worn away by grinding)
why and wherefore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whys and wherefores
form: whies and wherefores
Senses: examples: text: Never mind the why and wherefore, / Love can level ranks, and therefore, / Though his lordship's station's mighty / Though stupendous be his brain.
ref: 1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, H.M.S. Pinafore; […], San Francisco: Bacon & Company, […], →OCLC:
text: Bursting into the kirk she called the office-bearers to her assistance, whereupon the minister in miniature raised his voice and demanded the why and wherefore of the ungodly disturbance.
ref: 1888, J[ames] M[atthew] Barrie, “(please specify the page)”, in Auld Licht Idylls, London: Hodder and Stoughton, […], →OCLC:
text: Those whose nature it is to be rational will instinctively ask why and wherefore, and wrestle with themselves for an answer. But why every Tom, Dick and Harry should have the why and wherefore of the universe rammed into him, and should be allowed to draw the conclusion hence that he is the ideal person and responsible for the universe, I don't know.
ref: 1922, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “First Steps in Education”, in Fantasia of the Unconscious, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Seltzer, →OCLC, pages 111–112:
text: [T]ruth be told, once clothes make it into the stores, the why and wherefore of their creation in the designer mind is essentially beside the point.
ref: 2015 February 16, Vanessa Friedman, “At New York Fashion Week, Whatever Looks Warm Will Work”, in New York Times, retrieved 17 Jun 2018:
qualifier: set phrase; often pluralized; set phrase; often pluralized
glosses: A full and complete explanation.
rupturewort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ruptureworts
Etymology: From rupture + wort. Possibly related to the taxonomic name Herniaria, which is based on Latin hernia (whence English hernia), a condition where part of the body abnormally extrudes into another part, thus causing a rupture.
Senses: glosses: A plant of the genus Herniaria, especially Herniaria glabra, formerly used in the treatment of hernia and for other medicinal purposes.
glosses: A West Indian plant (Alternanthera sessilis, syn. Alternanthera polygonoides), somewhat resembling burstwort.
ruptureworts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rupturewort
homotaxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From homo- + taxis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Similarity in formation of parts.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Similarity in the lithostratigraphic or biostratigraphic vertical sequence of rock strata in different locations that are not necessarily similar in age.
Synonyms: homotaxy
Derived terms: homotaxic
Related terms: homotactic
homotaxeous
haemad
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈhiːmæd/
Forms: form: more haemad
form: most haemad
form: hæmad
form: hemad
Etymology: From haema- + -ad.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: ventrad
glosses: Toward the haemal side.
suberone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suberones
Etymology: From suberic + -one.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: cycloheptanone
suberones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suberone
purpureo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Latin purpureus (“purple”).
Senses: glosses: purple; used to designate certain brilliant purple-red compounds of cobaltic chloride and ammonia, similar to the roseocobaltic compounds
interluency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin interluens, present participle of interluere (“to flow between”), from inter + luere.
Senses: examples: text: those parts of Asia and America which are now disjoyned by the interluency of the Sea
ref: a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:
glosses: A flowing between; intervening water.
pignoration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pignorations
Etymology: From Latin pignorātio, pignerātio, derivation of pignerāre (“to pledge”), derivation of pignus, genitive pignoris, pigneris (“a pledge, a pawn”). Compare French pignoration.
Senses: glosses: The act of pledging or pawning.
topics: law
glosses: The taking of cattle doing damage, by way of pledge, until compensation is made
pignorations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pignoration
pinkroot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinkroots
Etymology: From pink + root.
Senses: glosses: A perennial North American herb (Spigelia marilandica), sometimes cultivated for its showy red blossoms.
glosses: An annual South American and West Indian plant (Spigelia anthelmia).
glosses: The root of Spigelia marilandica or Spigelia anthelmia, used as a powerful vermifuge.
Synonyms: sense: Spigelia marilandica
word: Carolina pink
sense: Spigelia marilandica
word: Maryland pinkroot
sense: Spigelia marilandica
word: wormgrass
pinkroots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinkroot
wormgrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wormgrasses
Etymology: From worm + grass, from its use as an anthelminthic.
Senses: glosses: Spigelia marilandica, the pinkroot.
Synonyms: Indian pink
wormroot
assoilment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assoilments
Etymology: From assoil + -ment.
Senses: glosses: Act of soiling (defilement)
assoilment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assoilments
Etymology: From assoil + -ment.
Senses: glosses: Act of assoiling, or state of being assoiled; absolution; acquittal.
assoilments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assoilment
councilist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: councilists
Etymology: From council + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: I will in three months be an expert Counceliſt.
ref: 1642 April, John Milton, An Apology for Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 197:
glosses: One who belongs to a council; one who gives an opinion.
glosses: A communist who advocates workers' councils
Related terms: councilism
councilists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of councilist
praezygapophyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of praezygapophysis
praezygapophysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: praezygapophyses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of prezygapophysis.
caviar to the general
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Something of quality unbefitting to those who possess it.
Related terms: cast pearls before swine
Hathor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἅθωρ (Háthōr), from Egyptian ḥwt-ḥr O10-C9.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The goddess of joy, love, and motherhood; one of the "Eyes / Daughters of Ra", the consort of Ra/Horus; often depicted as having a cow's head.
Coordinate terms: sense: Eyes / Daughters of Ra
word: Bas
sense: Eyes / Daughters of Ra
word: Bast
sense: Eyes / Daughters of Ra
word: Bastet
sense: Eyes / Daughters of Ra
word: Sekhmet
Derived terms: Hathor column
hypalgesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypalgesias
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hypoalgesia.
Bastet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bast
form: Baast
form: Ubasti
form: Basset
form: Phast
Etymology: From Egyptian bꜣstjt (“Bastet”, literally “she of the ointment jar”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The goddess of the sun and the moon, of cats, and Lower Egypt; one of the "Eyes / Daughters of Ra", the consort of Ptah, often depicted as having a she-cat's head.
Coordinate terms: sense: Eyes / Daughters of Ra
word: Hathor
sense: Eyes / Daughters of Ra
word: Sekhmet
hypalgesic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypalgesic
form: most hypalgesic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hypoalgesic.
hypalgesias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypalgesia
Sekhmet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sachmet
form: Sakmet
form: Sakhet
form: Sekmet
form: Sakhmet
form: Sekhet
Etymology: From Egyptian sḫmt (“Sekhmet”), in turn from sḫm (“to have control”) (compare sḫm jb (“violent”)).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The goddess of death, war, violence, plague, and medicine; one of the "Eyes / Daughters of Ra", the consort of Ptah; depicted as having the head of a lioness.
Coordinate terms: sense: Eyes / Daughters of Ra
word: Hathor
sense: Eyes / Daughters of Ra
word: Bas
sense: Eyes / Daughters of Ra
word: Bast
sense: Eyes / Daughters of Ra
word: Bastet
foulder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈfoʊldə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: foulders
form: fouldering
form: fouldered
form: fouldered
form: fouldre
Etymology: From Middle English fouldre (“lightning”), from Old French foudre also fouldre (modern French foudre), from Latin fulgur. See fulgor.
Senses: examples: text: flames of fouldring heat
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 20:
glosses: To flash like lightning; to lighten; to gleam; to thunder.
Derived terms: enfouldered
fouldering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of foulder
thrack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /θɹæk/
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: thracks
form: thracking
form: thracked
form: thracked
Etymology: From Middle English *threkken, thrucchen, from Old English þryccan (“to press, oppress, afflict”). More at thrutch.
Senses: examples: text: But certainly we shall one day find , that the strait gate is too narrow for any man to come bustling in , thrack'd with great possessions, and greater corruptions
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
glosses: To load or burden.
thracked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of thrack
thracking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of thrack
thracks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of thrack
capitellate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin capitellātus, from capitellum + -ātus, diminutive of caput (“head”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a very small knob-like termination, or collected into minute capitula.
pewtery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pewtery
form: most pewtery
Etymology: From pewter + -y.
Senses: examples: text: a pewtery taste
text: pewtery color
glosses: Of or resembling pewter.
exesion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪɡˈziːʒən/
Forms: form: exesions
Etymology: From Latin exedere, exesum (“to eat up”), from ex (“out”) + edere (“to eat”).
Senses: examples: text: he denieth the exesion or forcing through the belly
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The act of eating out or through.
exesions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exesion
ambustion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ambustions
Etymology: From Latin ambustio.
Senses: examples: text: I have found it very commodious in Ambustion, scaldings, burnings
ref: 1670, George Thomson, Αἱματιασις; or, the true way of preserving the Bloud:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A burn or scald.
ambustions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ambustion
nearfield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nearfields
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of near-field.
nearfield
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nearfield
form: most nearfield
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of near-field.
nearfields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nearfield
endorhiza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endorhizae
Etymology: From endo- + Ancient Greek ῥίζα (rhíza, “root”). So called because many monocotyledons have an endorhizal embryo.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any monocotyledonous plant.
endorhizae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endorhiza
preach to deaf ears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preaches to deaf ears
form: preaching to deaf ears
form: preached to deaf ears
form: preached to deaf ears
Senses: examples: text: Roosevelt was tired of preaching to deaf ears. He was ready to try something else.
ref: 2002, Edward M. Bennet, Separated by a Common Language: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Anglo-American Relations, 1933-1939, Writers Club Press, →ISBN, page 126:
synonyms: like talking to a wall
glosses: To attempt to persuade a party that does not wish to listen or cannot be altered in its conviction.
Related terms: fall on deaf ears
turn a deaf ear
preach in the desert
psychomological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Hmmm, maybe I could get....hmmm, not sure how I'm going to get gradual light changes for the little girls....hmmm...m-u-s-t m-a-k-e b-r-a-i-n w-o-r-k!! B-u-t i-t'-s t-o-o-o h-a-r-d!!! gasp!!!! gasp!!!
-Emily
Just a girl with her fair share of psychomological problems!
ref: 1999 February 8, "Emily Spears" (username), "Is it important to gradually shut the lights off?", in rec.aquaria.freshwater.mischttp://groups.google.com/group/rec.aquaria.freshwater.misc/browse_thread/thread/2d688f0124cc85d3/c6ebb581adababab?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&q=%22psychomological%22, Usenet
text: I agree with Paul about the psychomological advantages of having a warm drink to hand and would suggest that the OP try to find room in his pack for a flask.
ref: 2002 November 2, "Stuart Baldwin" (username), "camelbac hydration", in uk.rec.walkinghttp://groups.google.com/group/uk.rec.walking/browse_thread/thread/38045af70dd81022/55f6b6a951a44da1?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&q=%22psychomological%22, Usenet
text: I think this might be deeply psychomological and all that or could be as simple as "Guys are wired up differently than women".
ref: 2008 December 30, "Hoots" (username), "I look for penpals", in soc.penpalshttp://groups.google.com/group/soc.penpals/browse_thread/thread/e8e2cfca115320b6/bcd9d10b46b4cf4d?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&q=%22psychomological%22, Usenet
glosses: psychological.
metrotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metrotomies
Etymology: By surface analysis, metro- + -tomy; compare French métrotomie.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of hysterotomy.
synonyms: word: hysterotomy
bernouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bernouses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of burnoose.
bernouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bernouse
assithment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assithments
Senses: glosses: Dated form of assythment.
attabal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attabals
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of atabal.
attabals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attabal
sideromancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sidero- + -mancy.
Senses: glosses: divination by studying the burning of straws on heated iron.
cornamute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cornamutes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of cornemuse.
cornamutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cornamute
porrection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porrections
Etymology: Latin porrectio: compare French porrection.
Senses: examples: text: The two flaps on the free end of the underlip clasp little clusters of pollen grains between them and grind them behind by quick alternate porrections and retractions
ref: 1867, A. R. Wallace, letter to Charles Darwin:
glosses: The act of stretching forth, or holding forward, as if offering.
porrections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porrection
talk over someone's head
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: talks over someone's head
form: talking over someone's head
form: talked over someone's head
form: talked over someone's head
Senses: examples: text: NASA was often accused of talking over the public's head.
ref: 2001, Dan Brown, Deception Point, Pocket Books, →ISBN:
glosses: To communicate something beyond the level of comprehension of the target.
excarnificate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: excarnificates
form: excarnificating
form: excarnificated
form: excarnificated
Etymology: From Latin ex (“out”) + carnificatus, past participle carnificare (“to carnify”). Compare Latin excarnificare (“to tear to pieces, torment”). See carnify.
Senses: examples: text: VVhat ſhall vve ſay to the multitudes of thoſe that are thus martyred, […] VVhat are to the racking and excarnificating their bodies, before this laſt puniſhment?
ref: 1664, H[enry] More, chapter XV, in A Modest Enquiry into the Mystery of Iniquity, […], London: […] J[ames] Flesher for W[illiam] Morden […], →OCLC, book II, page 167:
glosses: To strip (something) of flesh; to excarnate.
excarnificated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of excarnificate
excarnificates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of excarnificate
excarnificating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of excarnificate
surcharger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surchargers
Etymology: From surcharge + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who surcharges.
surchargers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surcharger
sanable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sanable
form: most sanable
Etymology: From Latin sanabilis, from sanare (“to heal”), from sanus (“sound, healthy”). See sane.
Senses: examples: text: sanable grief
text: sanable injury
glosses: Capable of being healed or cured; remediable.
refrication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin refricare to rub again.
Senses: examples: text: A continual refrication of the memory.
ref: 1633, Joseph Hall, A paraphrase upon the hard texts of Scripture:
glosses: A rubbing up afresh; a brightening.
columbic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From columbo + -ic + acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: niobic acid
gournet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gournets
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of gurnard.
gournets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gournet
spiring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aɪəɹɪŋ
enpr: spī(ə)rĭng
ipa: /ˈspaɪ(ə)ɹɪŋ/
enpr: spīərĭng
ipa: /ˈspaɪəɹɪŋ/
Senses: examples: text: spiring grass
ref: 1802, John Drayton, A View of South-Carolina:
text: Too much heat is often given to seedlings, when raised in a hotbed or greenhouse; and the plants become spiring and weakly, in lieu of being short stemmed^([sic]) and strong.
ref: 1825, Benjamin Maund, The Botanic Garden: Consisting of Highly Finished Representations of Hardy Ornamental Flowering Plants, Cultivated in Great Britain : with Their Names, Classes, Orders, History, Qualities, Culture and Physiological Observations, volume 3, Simpkin & Marshal, →OCLC:
glosses: present participle and gerund of spire
Alcoranic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Alcoranic
form: most Alcoranic
form: Alkoranic
Etymology: From Alcoran + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Qur'an; qur'anic.
Quranically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more Quranically
form: most Quranically
form: Koranically
form: Qur'anically
Etymology: From Quranic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: The Quran modified this system by introducing the golden rule of inheritance, the primacy of distribution of certain fixed shares to several categories of Quranically designated heirs comprised mainly of the nearest female relatives […]
ref: 1982, John L. Esposito, Women in Muslim Family Law, page 5:
text: In his study of memory skills in Moroccan children, Wagner (1978) found no differences between unschooled and Quranically schooled children on most tasks.
ref: 1983, William Fowler, Potentials of Childhood:
text: […] some scholars argue that these modern gains have not gone far enough in securing women's Quranically ordained rights.
ref: 2011, John L. Esposito, What everyone needs to know about Islam, page 160:
glosses: In terms of, or in the context of, the Qur'an.
propagable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more propagable
form: most propagable
Senses: synonyms: propagatable
glosses: Capable of being propagated.
sexavalent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sexa- + -valent.
Senses: glosses: hexavalent
famble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæmbəl/
rhymes: -æmbəl
Forms: form: fambles
Etymology: Possibly related to fumble.
Senses: examples: text: We clap our fambles.
ref: c. 1622, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger [et al.?], “Beggars Bush”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act II, scene i:
text: A Bow Street Runner says "I knew a cove as talked the way you do – leastways, in the way of business I knew him! In fact, you remind me of him very strong […] He was on the dub-lay, and very clever with his fambles. He ended up in the Whit, o’ course."
ref: 1951, Georgette Heyer, The Quiet Gentleman:
text: I'm keeping my fambles clean on this trip.
ref: 1999, Nancy Kress, Yanked!, page 47:
glosses: A hand.
famble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæmbəl/
rhymes: -æmbəl
Forms: form: fambles
form: fambling
form: fambled
form: fambled
Etymology: From Middle English falmelen.
Senses: examples: text: “Stow that, Jem, if you please, ” said Gemman Joe, as he had been called by his comrade.— "Toggery is too apt to tell tales. I won't have a rag of it fambled. It's a prime job for us already, for we are to touch. five-and-twenty guineas a-piece, you know, for doing his business, and we don't get such a grab as that every day."
ref: 1833, Horace Smith, Gale Middleton: A Story of the Present Day - Volume 1, page 149:
text: Destiny, it might be said, simply opened its mouth to speak and, for reasons no one really knew, fambled to a halt.
ref: 1981, Alexander Theroux, Darconville's Cat, page 310:
text: “You know, I realized,” she began, her eyes sparkling in the pub's dimness, “that I didn't even catch your name at the Oxford Union the other night.” “Um, Sharpe,” I fambled. “Philip.”
ref: 2017, Mark Sampson, The Slip:
glosses: To stammer.
Related terms: english: probably etymologically related to one of the above
translation: probably etymologically related to one of the above
word: fimble-famble
fambles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of famble
paratonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paratonic
form: most paratonic
Etymology: From paratonia + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: A primary symptom in Parkinsonism, but also manifest at higher levels, as gegenhalten (paratonic rigidity), catatonic rigidity, hysterical rigidity, and neurotic rigidities and obstinacies.
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to paratonia.
paratonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From paratone + -ic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Relating to paratones.
paratonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paratonic
form: most paratonic
Etymology: From para- + tonic.
Senses: glosses: Retarding a plant's growth.
tryptich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of triptych.
verbigerations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verbigeration
verbigerative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more verbigerative
form: most verbigerative
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or exhibiting, verbigeration.
verbigerate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: verbigerates
form: verbigerating
form: verbigerated
form: verbigerated
Senses: glosses: To repeat meaningless words and phrases, especially as a symptom of mental illness.
glosses: To talk; to chat.
Related terms: verbigeration
verbigerative
verbigerated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of verbigerate
verbigerates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of verbigerate
verbigerating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of verbigerate
myokymic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From myokymia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to myokymia.
myokymia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myokymias
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An involuntary spontaneous quivering of part of a muscle, insufficient to move a joint.
Derived terms: myokymic
myokymias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myokymia
contractured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more contractured
form: most contractured
Etymology: From contracture + -ed.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: deformed by contracture
palipraxia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palipraxias
Etymology: From pali- + -praxia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A repetitive complex movement; hyperkinesis.
palipraxias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palipraxia
aphrenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a- + phreno- + -ia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: stoppage of thought; inability to think
phonatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to phonation.
Anglified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Anglify
Anglifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Anglify
Anglify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Anglifies
form: Anglifying
form: Anglified
form: Anglified
Etymology: From Latin Anglus (“Englishman”) + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: Why should Pennsylvania […] become a Colony of aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us, instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our language or customs, any more than they can acquire our complexion?
ref: 1751, Benjamin Franklin, Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc.:
text: Englishmen speak to their servants in French, and the shops are all French; indeed I should think that Calais or Boulogne was much more Anglified
ref: 1860, Charles Darwin, Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology […] :
glosses: To convert to English (language or culture); to anglicise.
Related terms: Anglification
Englify
Anglifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Anglify
postscutella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postscutellum
postscutellum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postscutella
Etymology: From post- + scutellum.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: mesonotum
postnotum
glosses: The hindmost dorsal piece of a thoracic somite of an insect; the plate behind the scutellum.
Related terms: postscutellar
pibcorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pibcorns
form: pib-corn
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pibgorn.
synonyms: word: pibgorn
pibcorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pibcorn
succulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more succulous
form: most succulous
Senses: glosses: succulent; juicy
pieshops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pieshop
Cornish fairings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cornish fairing
stubbedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stubbed + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Now, by examining this figure, it will be seen that the cutting edge, A, when pushed forward, will work more like a scraper than a cutter, owing to its stubbedness, and that in fact the back of the basil—i. e., the bevel of the iron at B—pressed against the wood at the back of the cutter, thus preventing it from performing its proper duties.
ref: 1909, C. Godfrey, Hints for Carpenters, page 30:
glosses: The quality or state of being stubbed, or short and truncated.
Synonyms: stubbiness
drightens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drighten
tritical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɪtɪkəl/
Forms: form: more tritical
form: most tritical
Etymology: Formed from trite, in imitation of critical.
Senses: examples: text: his conjectures often betray a want either of discernment or of experience; and he appears, from a tritical philosophy, to have carried his uncommon credulity, and a peculiar propensity to the marvellous, into our British, Roman, and Dano-Saxon Archaeology.
ref: 1782, Thomas Warton, The History and Antiquities of Kiddington:
glosses: trite
Related terms: tritically
triticality
triticalness
tetanin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tetanus + -in?
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: tetanine
glosses: A poisonous base (ptomaine) formed in meat broth by a microbe from the wound of a person who has died of tetanus.
disulphuric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disulfuric acid
Etymology: From di- + sulphuric + acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A thick oily liquid, H₂S₂O₇.
Synonyms: Nordhausen acid
by-rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of by-room
afterling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: afterlings
Etymology: From Middle English afterling, equivalent to after + -ling. Cognate with Scots afterling, efterling (“afterling”, adjective).
Senses: examples: text: Lange terms him "an afterling of the speculative Romanticism," and it seems clear that he is connected with the Hegelian Right and even with Schelling.
ref: 1877, Nicholas Patrick Wiseman, The Dublin review:
text: [...] of fair probability, or unclouded possibility, he is not, in fair judgment justly subject to abuse or censure by some afterling, building upon his work, who happens to discover documents which he believes are unknown to the Colonel.
ref: 1922, Albert Alonzo Pomeroy, History and genealogy of the Pomeroy family:
glosses: One who comes after or later; an aftercomer; one who is late.
afterling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more afterling
form: most afterling
Etymology: From Middle English afterling, equivalent to after + -ling. Cognate with Scots afterling, efterling (“afterling”, adjective).
Senses: examples: text: "That Heresie, whose afterling entry falling out in the dreg of all tymes doth render it suspect."
ref: 1890, Notes and queries:
glosses: Coming after; later; subsequent; of later date; late in order of time or succession.
afterlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of afterling
walk-ons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of walk-on
163rd game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 163rd games
Etymology: One game beyond the customary length of the Major League Baseball season, 162 games.
Senses: examples: text: Much to the surprise of both the Red Sox and the Yankees, the Yankees lost. The Red Sox, however, did not. ¶ As a result, baseball's two best teams would be facing each other in a 163rd game. The winner would take on the Kansas City Royals in the league championship series, the prelude to the World Series, […]
ref: 2008, Richard Bradley, The Greatest Game, Free Press, →ISBN, page x:
text: The win-loss percentage is simply the number of games won divided by the total number of games played (the total number of games played is 162 at the end of the regular season). If two teams are tied at the end of the regular season, a 163rd game will be scheduled to break the tie.
ref: 2016, Dan Formosa, Paul Hamburger, Baseball Field Guide, 3rd edition, New York: The Experiment, →ISBN, page 18:
text: After the 162-game season, the Rays and the Rangers were both 91–71 and tied for the second wild-card spot in the AL. That meant a 163rd game was needed to decide who would go to the playoffs.
ref: 2023, Luke Hanlon, Tampa Bay Rays, Minneapolis: Abdo Publishing, →ISBN, page 29:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A one-game playoff between two teams for a playoff spot.
wikipedia: Major League Baseball
scapus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scapi
Etymology: From Latin scapus (“shaft”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A scape.
topics: architecture
glosses: The shaft of a column.
Mizo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɪzoʊ/
Forms: form: Mizos
form: Mizo
Etymology: Borrowed from Mizo mizo.
Senses: glosses: Someone from Mizoram.
Mizo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈmɪzoʊ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Mizo mizo.
Senses: glosses: A language spoken in India, especially Mizoram, and adjoining parts of Bangladesh and Myanmar.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Mizo terms
dis legomenon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dis legomena
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δὶς λεγόμενον (dìs legómenon, “(something) said only twice”), from δίς (dís, “twice, doubly, again”) and λεγόμενον (legómenon), passive participle of λέγω (légō).
Senses: examples: text: Beyond [violenza's] dis legomenon (two appearances) in Inferno 11, and its hapax legomenon ... in Inferno 12 and 29, the word ... seems to have exhausted its impact[.]
ref: 2017 January, Ellie Emslie Stevens, “Eschatological Inversions in Isaiah and Dante: From Malicious to Redemptive Violence”, in Annali d'Italianistica:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word that occurs only twice in a given corpus.
Related terms: hapax legomenon
tetrakis legomenon
tris legomenon
dis legomena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dis legomenon
somnambulic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more somnambulic
form: most somnambulic
Senses: examples: text: somnambulic consciousness
text: somnambulic adventures
text: somnambulic session
glosses: related to somnambulism, walking in sleep
Synonyms: word: somnambulistic
word: somnambulant
sentisection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sentisections
Etymology: From Latin sentire (“to feel”) + English section.
Senses: examples: text: The two kinds of vivisection, sentisection and callisection
ref: 1883, Burt Green Wilder, On the Brain of a Cat Lacking the Callosum, Preliminary Notics:
glosses: painful vivisection, without the use of anesthetic
Related terms: callisection
dichroiscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dichroiscopes
Senses: glosses: Dated form of dichroscope.
dichroiscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dichroiscope
Dacotah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dacotahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Dakota.
Dacotahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dacotah
Dacota
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dacotas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Dakota.
Dacotas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dacota
gorebill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gorebills
Etymology: From Middle English gore, gare (“spear”) + bill. More at gar.
Senses: glosses: The garfish.
gorebills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gorebill
enterography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From entero- + -graphy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Radiography of the intestines, usually contrast radiography.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The scientific description of the intestines; enterology.
sclerogenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sclerogenous
form: most sclerogenous
Etymology: From sclero- + -genous.
Senses: examples: text: sclerogenous cell
text: Their centre is porous, as may be seen if the colouring matter with which they are usually filled be removed, the pores pasing through the very thick layers of sclerogenous deposits, and communicating with the contiguous cells.
ref: 1872, H. Pocklington, “Pareira. Microscopical Characters”, in Year-book of Pharmacy, page 23:
text: In the outermost rows of this zone are a large number of sclerogenous cells, forming isolated groups; these occur here and there, but less numerously, in the remainder of the zone.
ref: 1877 November 10, M. Planchon, “Hoang-Nan Bark”, in The Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions, volume 8, page 364:
text: In a powder which should contain only the foregoing histological elements, any admixture of mineral matters, starches or starch-bearing tissues, sclerogenous or libriform tissues , epidermal tissues bearing hairs or glands, acicular raphides and most crystal-bearing tissues, should be distinguished without much difficulty.
ref: 1888 September 22, William Kirkby, “Note on Insect Powder”, in Transactions of the Pharmaceutical Meetings, volume 19, page 240:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Making or secreting a hard substance; becoming hard.
examples: text: sclerogenous hepatitis
text: This method, founded as everyone knows upon the irritant and sclerogenous properties of zinc chlorid, presents the inconvenience of being applicable only to superficial tumors and may set up lesions from irritation more or less distant from the cancer area
ref: 1901, M. L. Lambert, “Special Translations: Treatment of Cancer”, in International Medical Magazine, volume 10, page 745:
text: This observation is based on the minute histopathological study of 48 cases of Botkin's disseas and 102 cases of sclerogenous hepatitis .
ref: 1958, Calcutta. School of Tropical Medicine, Bulletin - Volume 6, page 177:
text: O₂ deficiency is the main sclerogenous noxae that triggers the nonspecific mesenchyme reaction discovered and described by Hauss.
ref: 1995, William J. Rea, Chemical Sensitivity: Clinical Manifestation - Volume 3, page 1333:
glosses: Characterized by or causing a hardening of tissue.
pseudonavicula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudonaviculas
form: pseudonaviculae
Etymology: From pseudo- + Latin nāvicula, diminutive of nāvis (“ship”). See navicular.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the minute spindle-shaped embryos of gregarines and some other Protozoa.
pseudonaviculas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudonavicula
photozincographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more photozincographic
form: most photozincographic
Etymology: From photo- + zincographic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to photozincography.
apophlegmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From apo- + phlegmatic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Designed to facilitate discharges of phlegm or mucus from the mouth or nostrils.
apophlegmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apophlegmatics
Etymology: From apo- + phlegmatic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any apophlegmatic medicine.
apophlegmatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apophlegmatic
santoninic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid related to santonin.
CISPA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Cayman Islands Society of Professional Accountants.
glosses: Initialism of Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act.
deciduate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsɪdʒʊət/
Etymology: From decidua + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: deciduate placenta
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having, or characterized by, a decidua.
Derived terms: adeciduate
indeciduate
nondeciduate
deciduate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsɪdʒʊət/
Forms: form: deciduates
Etymology: From the substantivation of the above adjective. Equivalent to decidua + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: In the non-deciduates this relation is one of simple contact; but this same relation has been likewise observed in mammiferous deciduates, whether they have the zonarial or the discoidal form of placenta.
ref: 1884, Giovanni Battista Ercolani, The Reproductive process, page 405:
text: Still more characteristic of the deciduates is the peculiar and very intimate connection between the chorion frondosum and the corresponding part of the mucous coat of the womb, which we must regard as a real coalescence of the two.
ref: 1905, Ernst Haeckel, Joseph McCabe, The evolution of the species of phylogeny, page 616:
glosses: An animal that sheds a decidua.
deciduate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsɪdʒʊət/
Forms: form: deciduates
form: deciduating
form: deciduated
form: deciduated
Etymology: From decidua + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: In favorable situations, the shrub carries leaves throughout the year, but more often it largely deciduates in the spring dry season .
ref: 1998, Paul Schultz Martin, Gentry's R’o Mayo Plants, page 431:
text: When it rains, it deciduates its tart perfume and breathes it through the house.
ref: 2005, The Bulletin - Volumes 6494-6500, page 68:
text: The larch, looking like a scrawny spruce or fir, is unusual for a conifer: it deciduates in the fall , the needles turning yellow before they drop.
ref: 2007, Jerome Malitz, Susan Malitz, Acadia National Park Dayhiker's Guide: Maine's Coastal Gem, page 9:
glosses: To shed or release (a part of itself).
examples: text: The Pythagorean Monad was not, therefore,to his mind, an abstraction in which no personality inhered; but a true living God, out of which All is, and in whom All exists; the eternal Being, out of which Existence springs, and from which Life, in its individual and personal forms, deciduates.
ref: 1856, The British Controversialist:
text: It follows, therefore, that the line of demarcation between a diffused non-deciduate, and a zonary deciduate placenta, is not so sharp as has usually been supposed, but is graded over by the ruminant polycotyledonary placenta, in which the epithelial layer is the preponderating if not the only element of the mucosa which deciduates during parturition.
ref: 1876, Sir William Turner, Lectures on the Comparative Anatomy of the Placenta:
glosses: To be shed or released from what (the subject) was originally part of.
deciduae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decidua
escharine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more escharine
form: most escharine
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Like, or pertaining to, the former genus Eschara or family Escharidae, almost all now in phylum Bryozoa, principally in suborder Flustrina.
trachelorrhaphies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trachelorrhaphy
trachelorrhaphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /tɹækiːˈlɒɹəfɪ/
/ˌtɹakiːˈlɒɹəfi/
Forms: form: trachelorrhaphies
Etymology: From trachelo- (“cervix uteri”) + -rrhaphy (“suturing”).
Senses: examples: text: We have had recently in gynecological work several “fads.” Sims’ cervix splitting, Emmet’s operation of trachelorrhaphy, divulsion of the cervix a la Goodell, going the way of all “fads.”
ref: 1892, American Gynecological Journal, II, page 142:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The operation of sewing up a laceration of the neck of the uterus.
Synonyms: tracheloplasty
confirmingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more confirmingly
form: most confirmingly
Etymology: From confirming + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: “There's quite a variety of whales here,” Robert said. Gerd nodded confirmingly.
ref: 1994, Anne Provoost, My Aunt is a Pilot Whale, page 153:
text: Gerald played along and said, “Hello, Barry,” and not only seized his hand but covered it confirmingly with his other hand, as if he was canvassing […]
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 5, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
glosses: So as to confirm; in a confirming manner.
pimaric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid found in galipot, derived from pine trees. It is isomeric with abietic acid.
Derived terms: isopimaric acid
levopimaric acid
pimarate