cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sweetkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweetkins
Etymology: From sweet + -kin. Cognate with Middle Dutch soetken (“a sweetheart”).
Senses: examples: text: "There now, my sweetkin. Don't be scared. It's just a silly old eunuch."
ref: 2004, Debbie Taylor, The Fourth Queen: A Novel:
text: The screaming stopped briefly for want of breath and, quickly noticing his wife's expression and without an iota of guile evident, he said, 'On the other hand, my sweetkin, maybe you're right, you always are, you're so clever, so yes, […]
ref: 2009, Cassandra Clark, Hangman Blind:
text: “How clever of you, sweetkin. So it is.”
ref: 2010, Catherine Fisher, Sapphique:
glosses: A sweetheart; darling.
sweetkin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sweetkin
form: most sweetkin
Etymology: From sweet + -kin. Cognate with Middle Dutch soetken (“a sweetheart”).
Senses: glosses: Sweet; lovely.
polyethism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The presence of different work activities among different members of an insect community, or at different times in an insect's life
bumfucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bumfuck
bumfucks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bumfuck
bumfucking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bumfuck
bumfucked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bumfuck
hood ornaments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hood ornament
antidromous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + -dromous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: antidromal
glosses: Changing the direction in the spiral sequence of leaves on a stem.
nigrification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin nigrificare (“to blacken”), from niger (“black”) + -ficare (“to make”, in comparative). See -fy.
Senses: examples: text: the physical disquisition concerning the nigrification of the rete mucosa in blacks
ref: 1812, David Stewart Erskine, The Anonymous and Fugitive Essays of the Earl of Buchan:
glosses: The act or process of making black.
Related terms: nigrify
endophragmal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endophragma + -al.
Senses: examples: text: endophragmal skeleton
text: endophragmal system
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to the endophragma.
hyalograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyalographs
Etymology: From hyalo- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for tracing designs on glass.
Related terms: hyalography
hyalographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyalography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to hyalography.
hyalographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyalograph
worshipt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of worship
didacticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From didactic + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The best training for style is speech; not monologues, or lectures ex cathedra, like those of the German professors, of whose uninterrupted didacticity their literature bears too many marks
ref: 1826, Julius Hare, Guesses at Truth by Two Brothers:
glosses: Aptitude for teaching.
Related terms: didactic
oligospermous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oligo- + sperm + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having or bearing few seeds.
Related terms: monospermous
oligospermic
Raskolnik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Raskolniks
form: Raskolniki
form: Rascolnik
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian раско́льник (raskólʹnik, “schism-maker, schismatic”), from раско́л (raskól, “schism”).
Senses: glosses: Any of those who separated from the official Russian Orthodox Church after 1666 as a protest against church reforms introduced by Patriarch Nikon between 1652 and 1666.
Related terms: Old Believer
Old Ritualist
Raskolniks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Raskolnik
lenitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin lenitudo.
Senses: examples: text: Saint Augustine, correcting in himself ſuch lingring and dangerous delay, ſuch lenitude and backwardneſſe of mind and will to repent[…]
ref: 1650, R. Winterton, The Considerations of Drexelius Upon Eternity:
glosses: The quality or habit of being lenient; lenity.
Rascolnik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rascolniks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Raskolnik.
Rascolniks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rascolnik
registership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: registerships
Etymology: From register + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The office or position of a register.
registerships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of registership
unsped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + sped.
Senses: examples: text: Venulus withdraws;
Unsped the service of the common cause
ref: 1717, Samuel Garth, Metamorphoses:
glosses: Not performed; not dispatched.
cariosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: caries
monembryonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mon- + embryonic.
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of monoembryonic (“having only a single embryo.”).
monembryony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See mon- + embryo.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: # Archaic spelling of monoembryony.
Related terms: monembryonic
volta-electric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: voltaelectric
Senses: examples: text: The similarity of action, almost amounting to identity, between common magnets and either electro-magnets or volta-electric currents, is strikingly in accordance with and confirmatory of M. Ampere’s theory, and furnishes powerful reasons for believing that the action is the same in both cases; […] I propose to call the agency thus exerted by ordinary magnets, magneto-electric or magnelectric induction.
ref: 1831 November 24, Michael Faraday, “Experimental Researches in Electricity”, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, volume 122, published 1832, pages 138–39:
text: In these equations v₁, v₂, … v₂₁ denote the volta-electric differences from copper which must be given to part 1, part 2, … part 21 of the surface of the molecule in order that the 21 piezo-electric and pyro-electric coefficients may have their given values […]
ref: 1893, Lord Kelvin, “On the Theory of Pyro-electricity and Piezo-electricity of Crystals”, in The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, volume 36, number 222, page 459:
text: The first series of these researches, presented to the Royal Society on 24 November 1831, contained the first account of his discovery of voltaelectric and magnetoelectric induction.
ref: 1998, Iwan Rhys Morus, Frankenstein’s Children: Electricity, Exhibition, and Experiment in Early-Nineteenth-Century London, →ISBN, page 32:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: voltaic
glosses: Of or pertaining to voltaic electricity, i.e. electric currents, or voltaism, the chemical generation of electricity.
Vienna Standard Mean Ocean Water
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A standard defining a standardized isotopic composition of water.
Related terms: VSMOW
Aristarchs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aristarch
malamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malamides
Etymology: Blend of malic + amide
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The acid amide derived from malic acid, as a white crystalline substance metameric with asparagine.
malamides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malamide
orthodoxality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From orthodoxal + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being orthodox.
daintrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daintrels
Etymology: From daint or dainty. Compare Old French daintier.
Senses: examples: text: But by thy words as I thẽ [then] ſmelled, thy daintrels be not manye.
ref: c. 1553 (date written), “S.” [pseudonym; attributed to William Stevenson], […] Gammer Gurtons Nedle: […], London: […] Thomas Colwell, published 1575, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, signature [B.ii.], recto:
glosses: A delicacy.
daintrels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daintrel
veratrol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: veratrols
Etymology: From Veratrum + -ol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A liquid hydrocarbon obtained by the decomposition of veratric acid, and constituting the dimethyl ether of pyrocatechin.
Related terms: english: possibly a synonym???
translation: possibly a synonym???
word: veratrole
veratrols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of veratrol
grinding frame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grinding frames
Senses: examples: text: In a grinding mill, the combination of a stationary frame having an annular rack, a stationary burr, a driving ring mounted on said frame, a rotary grinding frame, an annular rack carried thereby, a rotatable burr connected with the latter rack and arranged to co-operate with said staionary burr, and one or more pinions carried by said ring and meshing with said annular racks, substantially as descrbed.
ref: 1901, Joseph Dain, Jr., “No. 65,814: Grinding Mill”, in The Canadian Patent Office Record, volume 28, page 86:
text: The grinding frame is arranged to grind two rolls at one time, one on each side of the traversing grinding wheel, the rolls being placed in V-shaped notches in the slides c that rest on top of the frame.
ref: 1906, International Library of Technology, page 32:
text: In a track grinding apparatus, the combination with a grinding frame and a carriage, said carriage including a cross shaft and wheels, of a supporting frame in the grinding frame, a bell-crank lever journaled on the cross shaft of the carriage, a connection between the bell-crank lever and the grinding frame, ...
ref: 1921 August 30, Henry Perazzoli, “1,389,528: Track-Grinding Machine”, in Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, page 942:
glosses: Any frame for supporting a grinding apparatus.
glosses: Any frame for supporting a grinding apparatus.
A machine for grinding the teeth of card clothing used on a carding machine
glosses: Any frame for supporting a grinding apparatus.
A machine for grinding a welded area smooth
grinding frames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grinding frame
oceanwater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ocean + water.
Senses: glosses: The water of the ocean.
nontissue
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + tissue.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to tissues of the body.
melancholizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of melancholize
melancholizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of melancholize
melancholized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of melancholize
melancholiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From melancholy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being melancholy.
sweetroot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweetroots
Etymology: From sweet + root.
Senses: glosses: liquorice
examples: text: Like other members of this large family, sweetroot presents its tiny flowers in terminal, umbrella-shaped inflorescences that do little to assure us that the plant is not the deadly water hemlock (Cicula douglasii)
ref: 1997, Gregory L. Tilford, Edible and Medicinal Plants of the West, Sweetroot, Osmorrhiza occidentalis, page 142:
text: The plant is sometimes confused with Osmorhiza chilensis (western sweetroot), which often shares the same habitat. However, unlike red baneberry, sweetroot has a strong licorice-like odor.
ref: 2009, Ray S. Vizgirdas, Edna M. Rey-Vizgirdas, Wild Plants of the Sierra Nevada, page 64:
glosses: western sweet cicely, western sweetroot (Osmorhiza occidentalis)
sweetroots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sweetroot
meteoric water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meteoric waters
Senses: glosses: Water originating from precipitation.
inurbanities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inurbanity
inurbanity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inurbanities
Etymology: Compare French inurbanité.
Senses: examples: c. 1629 Joseph Hall, Answer to Pope Urban his inurbanity expressed, in a brief against the Protestants of France
glosses: Lack of urbanity or courtesy; bad manners.
antivertiginous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + vertiginous.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Preventing or countering vertigo.
antivertigo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + vertigo.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Preventing or countering vertigo.
cryophorus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryophoruses
Etymology: Fron cryo- + Ancient Greek -φόρος (-phóros, “bearing”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An instrument used to illustrate the freezing of water by its own evaporation. The ordinary form consists of two glass bulbs connected by a tube and containing only a quantity of water and water vapour, devoid of air. The water is in one of the bulbs, and freezes when the other is cooled below zero.
cryophoruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryophorus
doubtance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English doutaunce, from Old French doutance, from Medieval Latin dubitantia. Equivalent to doubt + -ance. Compare dubitancy.
Senses: glosses: doubt; uncertainty
kingdomed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From kingdom + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: a huge-kingdomed ruler
glosses: Having a specified type or number of kingdoms.
examples: text: That 'twixt his mental and his active parts
Kingdom'd Achilles in commotion rage
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
glosses: Having a kingdom or the dignity of a king.
ventro-inguinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: ventroinguinal
Etymology: From ventro- + inguinal.
Senses: examples: text: a ventro-inguinal block
text: a ventro-inguinal hernia
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to both the abdomen and the groin, or to the abdomen and inguinal canal.
teracrylic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An oily aliphatic carboxylic acid, 3,4-dimethyl-3-pentenoic acid, having a cheesy odour, obtained by distillation of terpenylic acid.
hydrarthrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrarthroses
Etymology: From hydro- + arthrosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: word: intermitent hydrarthrosis
english: more common today
translation: more common today
glosses: An effusion of watery liquid into the cavity of a joint, usually the knee.
hydroarthroses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydroarthrosis
impregnant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɹɛɡnənt/
Etymology: From im- (“not”) + pregnant.
Senses: glosses: Not pregnant; unfertilized or infertile.
impregnant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɹɛɡnənt/
Forms: form: impregnants
Etymology: From impregn(ate) + -ant.
Senses: examples: text: It is the Pole , to which we turn , and our sympathizing Judgements seldom decline from the direction of this Impregnant
ref: 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC:
glosses: That which impregnates.
examples: text: The impregnation of reinforced and prestressed concrete highway structures using hydrophobic pore-lining impregnants.
glosses: that which is impregnated
opsiometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opsiometers
Etymology: Ancient Greek; compare French opsiomètre.
Senses: glosses: An old type of optometer.
opsiometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opsiometer
spongoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spongoid
form: most spongoid
Etymology: From sponge + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Resembling sponge.
spongoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spongoids
Etymology: From sponge + -oid.
curvilinead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curvilineads
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An instrument for drawing curved lines.
curvilineads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curvilinead
derring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛɹɪŋ/
homophone: daring (Mary–marry–merry merger)
rhymes: -ɛɹɪŋ
Forms: form: more derring
form: most derring
Senses: examples: text: Drad for his derring doe and bloody deed.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: daring; warlike
Derived terms: derring-do
deserver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deservers
Etymology: From Middle English deserver; equivalent to deserve + -er.
Senses: examples: text: a deserver of punishment
glosses: Someone who deserves.
deservers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deserver
dipsetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪpˈsɛtɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Forms: form: more dipsetic
form: most dipsetic
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: examples: text: a sort of tray of dipsetic saltines standing between him and some solid sustenance
ref: 1993, James Nielsen, Unread Herrings:
glosses: Tending to produce thirst.
unbenumb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unbenumbs
form: unbenumbing
form: unbenumbed
form: unbenumbed
Etymology: From un- + benumb.
Senses: glosses: To relieve of numbness; to restore sensation to.
unbenumbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unbenumb
unbenumbed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not benumbed.
examples: text: […] he seemed again to see Greek pages and understand them, again to feel his mind moving unbenumbed among familiar ideas.
ref: 1863, George Eliot, Romola, Volume II, Book II, Chapter X, pages 104-105:
glosses: Clear, unclouded; not hindered.
unbenumbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unbenumb
unbenumbs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unbenumb
whethering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The retention of the afterbirth in cows or sheep.
piggy wiggies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piggy wiggy
mouthcoating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mouthcoatings
Etymology: From mouth + coating.
Senses: glosses: The type and degree of coating in the mouth after mastication of a food.
Related terms: mouthfeel
mouthcoatings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mouthcoating
fishy wishies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fishy wishy
gladiatorism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gladiator + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The art or practice of a gladiator.
olestra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: olestras
Etymology: 1980s, from (p)ol(y)est(e)r + -a.
Senses: examples: text: What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra.
ref: 1999, Chuck Palahniuk (novel), Jim Uhls (screenplay), Fight Club (motion picture), spoken by Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt):
glosses: A fat substitute (a glyceride of sucrose) that cannot be easily digested and therefore adds no fat, calories, or cholesterol to food products; also used as an industrial lubricant.
kiddy widdies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kiddy widdy
kitty witties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kitty witty
coochy coos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coochy coo
moo cows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moo cow
papyrograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: papyrographs
Etymology: From papyro- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: An early device for reproducing documents by means of a paper stencil and corrosive ink.
glosses: Synonym of papyrology.
synonyms: word: papyrology
Derived terms: papyrographer
papyrographic
papyrography
papyrograph
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: papyrographs
form: papyrographing
form: papyrographed
form: papyrographed
Etymology: From papyro- + -graph.
Senses: examples: text: Papyrographed descriptions of the experiments were distributed to the students and commented on in class before the experiments were undertaken.
ref: 1892 November 1, Mary Whiton Calkins, “Experimental Psychology at Wellesley College”, in The American Journal of Psychology, page 465:
glosses: To use a papyrograph; to copy by means of a papyrograph.
papyrographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of papyrograph
competitrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: competrices
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin competītrīx. By surface analysis, competitor + -trix.
Senses: examples: text: Queen Anne being now without competitrix for her title, thought her self secure
ref: Edward Herbert, The History of England Under Henry VIII, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
synonyms: competitress
glosses: A female competitor.
rasam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Probably borrowed from Tamil ரசம் (racam), from Sanskrit रस (rasa, “juice”). Doublet of rasa.
Senses: examples: text: A couple of vegetables, sambar (spicy and sour lentils and vegetables boiled with masalas and spices), rasam (a hot and fiery lentil soup-like dish) and curds (yoghurt) served with heaps of rice and eaten in that order. A non-vegetarian version of the “meals” can be found in “Military” hotels.
ref: 2017 July 12, Sanjiv Khamgaonkar, “40 Mumbai foods we can’t live without”, in CNN:
glosses: A spicy South Indian soup made with tamarind juice.
colegatee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colegatees
form: co-legatee
Etymology: From co- + legatee.
Senses: glosses: A joint legatee.
colegatees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colegatee
olestras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of olestra
coachdog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coachdogs
Etymology: From coach + dog.
Senses: examples: text: Dog No. 1 was then confined in a comfortable kennel, while No. 2 had to run after the doctor's coach, not at a breathless rate of speed, but at a fair, brisk trot, for two hours and a half. As soon as they got home, the coach-dog and his comrade were slain and dissected: the kennel-dog had completely digested his meal, while the chips and cubes in the coach-dog's stomach had not changed their form at all; the process of assimilation had not even begun!
ref: 1881 February 24, Felix Leopold Oswald, “Physical Education”, in Popular Science Monthly:
glosses: A dog trained to accompany carriages.
glosses: The Dalmatian (often used as a coach dog).
Synonyms: carriage dog
coachdogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coachdog
ratiocinator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ratiocinators
Etymology: From ratiocinate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: Hence the rise in publishing of the “smart thinking” book, an elevated species of self-help for the aspiring ratiocinator.
ref: 2021 August 21, Steven Poole, “Can ‘smart thinking’ books really give you the edge?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: One who ratiocinates; a reasoner.
disjointly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more disjointly
form: most disjointly
Etymology: From disjoint + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Saint Ambrose ſaith, when they are perfect, then are they joyned, but disjoyntly, no way can they be perfect.
ref: 1634, Miles Sandys, Prudence the First of the Foure Cardinall Virtues:
glosses: In a disjointed state.
eutrophies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eutrophy
eutrophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eutrophies
Etymology: From eu- + -trophy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: healthy nutrition
topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: The quality of being rich in minerals and nutrients.
raw_tags: of a body of water
eutrophy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eutrophies
form: eutrophying
form: eutrophied
form: eutrophied
Etymology: From eu- + -trophy.
Senses: glosses: To make or become rich in minerals and nutrients, which often manifests itself in a green color.
raw_tags: of a body of water
Related terms: eutrophic
eutrophicate
hypereutrophy
oligotrophy
mesotrophy
victoress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: victoresses
form: victress
Etymology: From victor + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: But when the victoreſſe arriued there, / Where late ſhe left the penſife Scudamore, / With her owne truſty Squire, both full of feare, / Neither of them ſhe found where ſhe them lore:[…].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part I (books I–III), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 44, page 588:
text: And at the field fought before Bebriacum, ere the battailes joyned, tvvo Ægles had a conflict and bickered together in all their fights: and vvhen the one of them was foyled and overcome, a third came at the very inſtant from the ſunne riſing and chaſed the Victreſſe avvay.
ref: 1606, Caius [i.e., Gaius] Suetonius Tranquillus, “The Historie of Flavius Vespatianus Augustus”, in Philêmon Holland, transl., The Historie of Twelve Cæsars Emperours of Rome. […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes and George Snowdon] for Matthew Lownes, →OCLC, section 5, page 243:
glosses: A female victor.
Synonyms: conqueress
victrice
victrix
victoresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of victoress
clean-timbered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clean-timbered
form: most clean-timbered
Senses: examples: text: I thinke Hector was not so cleane timber'd.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
glosses: Well-propotioned; symmetrical.
gelder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gelders
Etymology: From Middle English geldere, equivalent to geld + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who gelds or castrates.
Derived terms: gelder rose
sowgelder
gelders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gelder
trender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trenders
Etymology: From trend (“tendency; fad”) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The computer can ferret out slow-movers, down-trenders, and nonstandards, which leads to simplification and higher turnover.
ref: 1965, National Industrial Conference Board, Emerging trends in marketing: a symposium:
text: The other functions which have significant trends (accounting for 93.8 percent of total unified budget outlays at the mean) total 17.6 percent of potential GNP. Measured at the means, there were more dollars involved in downtrends relative to the economy than in uptrends (due almost entirely to the presence of Function 050 (National defense) among the downward trenders).
ref: 1980, Federal Finance: The Pursuit of American Goals : Studies:
text: LOW NOISE, TIGHT TRENDERS The stocks listed in exhibit 7.12 are "tight trenders" — they post excellent upside performance relative to their standard error, or the volatility incurred in achieving this ...
ref: 1997, Bernie Schaeffer, The Option Advisor: Wealth-Building Techniques Using Equity & Index Options, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 179:
glosses: Something which trends (has a tendency to go) in a certain way.
examples: text: I also saw, or thought I saw, a very similar clash of assumptions, hypotheses and explanatory styles between the tenets of the old orthodoxy (a mixture of behaviourism, structuralism, cultural relativism, Wittgensteinian holism and Piagetian constructivism) and the ideas of the new trenders.
ref: 2003, Pierre-André Cazenave, Immunology - Pasteur'S Heritage, New Age International, →ISBN, page 101:
glosses: Someone who is trendy, who sets or follows trends.
trender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trenders
Etymology: From trend (“clean wool”) + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who cleans the filth from wool.
trenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trender
ungelded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + gelded.
Senses: examples: text: ungelded bulls and rams
glosses: Not gelded or castrated.
vin ordinaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vins ordinaires
Etymology: French, literally "common wine".
Senses: examples: Cherry Jones as Nan Pierce (2023), 42:37 from the start, in Succession, season 4, episode 1: “I got a taste for hypermarché vin ordinaire when I was 19 years old and I have never been able to shake it.”
glosses: A cheap claret, used as a table wine in France.
glosses: Cheap wine mixed with water, commonly drunk in France and the south of Europe.
forbearer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forbearers
Etymology: From forbear + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The West, as a father, all goodness doth bring, The East, a forbearer no manner of thing
ref: 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:
glosses: One who forbears.
forbearers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forbearer
fripper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɹɪpə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: frippers
Etymology: From French fripier, from friper (“to rumple, fumble, waste”).
Senses: examples: text: which Collections are much like a Frippers or Brokers Shoppe; that hath ends of eucrie thing, but nothing of worth
ref: 1605, Francis Bacon, “The Second Booke”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: fripperer
glosses: A dealer in frippery (old clothes).
frippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fripper
krang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹæŋ/
Forms: form: krangs
form: crang
form: kreng
Etymology: From Dutch kreng (“a carcass”), from Middle Dutch crenge (“carrion, carcass”), compare with Old English crinċġan (“to fall, yield, cringe”). Cognate with Danish kreng (“a carcass”).
Senses: examples: text: Natives came 30 miles over the ice in two sleighs from Navy Board Inlet; hundreds of mollies following the ship all day for bits of krang and blubber.
ref: 1900, Andrew Barclay Walker, The Cruise of the Esquimaux, Steam Whaler, to Davis Straits and Baffin Bay, April-October 1899, page 47:
text: The carcass of the whale, as left after the flensing, is cut to pieces on the platform and receiver for the krang, where krang and bone are elevated and placed in the krang boilers by machinery.
ref: 1907, Daily Consular and Trade Reports - Issues 2757-2805, page 14:
text: The Mollies do not evince an amiable disposition towards each other; and as the krang ( such is the name given to the refuse parts of the whale ) is cut off, they were to be seen sitting on the water by thousands tearing at the floating pieces, and when one morsel seemed more tempting than another, driving their weaker brethren away from it, and fighting over it as if the sea was not covered with other bits equally good.
ref: 1909, William Henry Giles Kingston, Peter the Whaler, page 199:
text: The harpooner makes a cut across the neck and then down the body, taking care to take as little of the flesh - or 'Krang' as the body is called in whaling language – as possible.
ref: 2003, Frank Nugent, Seek the Frozen Lands: Irish Polar Explorers 1740-1922, page 164:
glosses: The portions of a whale that remain after the blubber has been removed, especially the flesh and organs.
examples: text: Sideways hurled The krang o ' a warld The sun has flensed Is lyin ' forenenst.
ref: 1926, Hugh MacDiarmid, Penny Wheep, page 57:
glosses: Anything that remains after flensing (not necessarily from a whale).
krangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of krang
lacturamic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: lactic, urea, amic, acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An organic amido acid, regarded as a derivative of lactic acid and urea.
dioritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dioritic
form: most dioritic
Etymology: From diorite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Containing diorite.
Derived terms: leucodioritic
notionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: notionists
Etymology: From notion + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Content not yourselves with some part of it, that you read the gospel, or new Testament, but neglect the old as is the practice of some flush notionist.
ref: a. 1690, Ezekiel Hopkins, A Discourse concerning the Use of the Holy Scriptures:
glosses: One whose opinions are ungrounded notions.
notionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of notionist
diorites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diorite
eophytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eophyte + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: eophytic bed
glosses: Of or pertaining to eophytes.
mycetoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mycetoid
form: most mycetoid
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μύκης (múkēs) + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: mycetoid ulcer
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Resembling a fungus.
tumulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tumulous
form: most tumulous
Etymology: From Latin tumulōsus (“full of hills or hillocks, hilly”), tumulus (“mound, hill, hillock”) + -ōsus, from tumeō (“I swell”).
Senses: examples: text: Tumulous waves
ref: 1725–1726, Homer, “(please specify the book or chapter of the Odyssey)”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:
glosses: Full of small hills or mounds; hilly; tumulose.
unmoralized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmoralized
form: most unmoralized
Etymology: From un- + moralized.
Senses: examples: text: Senſuality, Levity and Profaneneſs of ſpirit makes holy things, though of themſelves very eaſie and pleaſant, both unpleaſant, hard and tedious to ſuch unmoralized Minds.
ref: 1713, Franciscus Euistor the Palæopolite [pseudonym; Henry More], “The Fourth Dialogue”, in Divine Dialogues, Containing Sundry Disquisitions & Instructions Concerning the Attributes of God and His Providence in the World. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Joseph Downing […], →OCLC, paragraph XIV, page 319:
glosses: Not led or restrained by morality.
unwayed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: unweighed
Forms: form: more unwayed
form: most unwayed
Etymology: From un- + way + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Captain Goyto met the person who had charge of it, and sent him to Ferrante without the horse, with a message that as the animal was young and unwayed, he intended to break him for Ferrante.
ref: 1551, Calendar of State Papers, Foreign Series, of the Reign of Edward VI., 1547-1553:
text: a. 1642, John Suckling, letter to a cousin
for beasts that have been rid off their legs are as much for a man's use as colts that are unwayed, and will not go at all.
text: Though I am unwayed, yet I am going to depart this moment .
ref: 1813, Joseph Neef, The Method of Instructing Children Rationally in the Arts of Writing and Reading, page 157:
glosses: Not used to travel.
examples: text: What an unwayed Behaviour hath this Flemish drunkard pickt (I'th' devills name) out of my Conversation, that he dares in this manner assay me?
ref: 1602, William Shakespeare, Sir John Falstaff and the Merry Wives of Windsor:
text: Fansie me leading, like Cattel, the remainder (if there be any left) of my rallied Army, through unwayed Mountains, and Summer- Thickets!
ref: 1690, W. R., The English Orator:
text: if her streets and roads are to be washed into the unwayed deep ; if the gay sunbeams that now flicker over her green hills and fields are to dance on the foam and surge and over the echoless caves of the ocean,—these dire happenings will come only when those who have known the Cape Cod of our day have been gathered to their fathers.
ref: 1911 August 10, Milton Reed, “Cape Cod: An Automobile Tour”, in Christian Register and Boston Observer:
text: By contrast John Brinsley is worried by her cult of virginity; a 'malcontent' she lives 'all alone without a husband, ranging of the unwayed woods' (after her transformation he shows more approval).
ref: 2004, Charles Martindale, Latin Poetry and the Judgement of Taste: An Essay in Aesthetics, page 216:
glosses: Having no ways or roads; pathless.
practicalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹæktɪkəlaɪz/
Forms: form: practicalizes
form: practicalizing
form: practicalized
form: practicalized
Etymology: From practical + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: practicalizing influences
ref: 1873, John Stuart Mill, Autobiography:
glosses: To render practical; to put into practice.
Derived terms: practicalizer
practicalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of practicalize
practicalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of practicalize
practicalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of practicalize
uniformal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌjuːnɪˈfɔː(ɹ)məl/
Forms: form: more uniformal
form: most uniformal
Senses: examples: text: Her comely nose, with uniformal grace,
Like purest white, stands in the middle place
ref: a. 1674, Robert Herrick, The Description of a Woman:
glosses: uniform
untwirl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: untwirls
form: untwirling
form: untwirled
form: untwirled
Etymology: From un- + twirl.
Senses: examples: Edward Topham, The Poetry of The World
the latchet of the door untwirl'd
glosses: To untwist; to undo.
untwirled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of untwirl
untwirled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untwirled
form: most untwirled
Senses: glosses: Having not been twirled, or having had a twirl undone.
untwirling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of untwirl
untwirls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of untwirl
necrophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: necrophores
Etymology: From necro- + -phore.
Senses: glosses: Any of various beetles, especially of the genus Nicrophorus, that bury the carcasses of small vertebrates (such as birds and rodents) as a food source for their larvae.
Synonyms: burying beetle
carrion beetle
sexton beetle
Related terms: necrophoresis
necrophoretic
necrophoric
necrophores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of necrophore
stealings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stealing
robbeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: rob + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rob
stealest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: steal + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of steal
aglutition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a- (“not”) + Latin glutire (“to swallow”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Inability to swallow.
Related terms: glutition
lactodensimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lactodensimeters
Etymology: From lacto- + densimeter.
Senses: glosses: A lactometer
lactodensimeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lactodensimeter
broomstaff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broomstaffs
form: broomstaves
Etymology: From broom + staff.
Senses: examples: text: They fell on; I made good my place; at length they came to the broom-staff with me, I defy'd 'em still […]
ref: 1612, William Shakespeare, Henry VIII, act 5 scene 4, line 3224:
glosses: A broomstick.
broomstaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of broomstaff
funeration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: funerations
Etymology: From Latin fūnerātiō, from fūnerātus, past participle of fūnerō (“I funerate”), from fūnus, fūneris (“funeral”).
Senses: examples: text: For in the Rites of funeration they did use to anoint the dead body, with Aromatick Spices and Oyntments, before they buried them.
ref: 1693, Sir Norman Knatchbull, Annotations upon some difficult texts in all the books of the New Testament:
glosses: the act of burying with funeral rites
funerations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of funeration
inexpansible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inexpansible
form: most inexpansible
Etymology: From in- + expansible.
Senses: examples: text: Let a certain quantity of air at a temperature of 0°, contained in a perfectly inexpansible vessel, have its temperature raised 1 °
ref: 1867, John Tyndall, Sound, 8 lectures:
glosses: Incapable of expansion or enlargement.
caloriduct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caloriducts
Etymology: From Latin calor (“heat”) (from calere (“to warm”)) + English duct.
Senses: glosses: A tube or duct for conducting heat; a caliduct.
caloriducts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caloriduct
double-ender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double-enders
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A vessel capable of moving both forwards and backwards, having bow and rudder at each end.
glosses: A locomotive with a pilot at each end.
glosses: A cross-cut sawing machine, with two adjustable circular saws, for sawing both ends of timber.
glosses: A dildo designed to penetrate two people simultaneously.
double-enders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double-ender
seldomness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From seldom + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: the seldomness and oftenness of doing well
ref: 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: Rareness; infrequency; uncommonness.
Synonyms: rarity
rareness
anaglyptograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀνάγλυπτος (anágluptos, “wrought in low relief”) (ultimately from γλύφω (glúphō)) + -graph.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for making accurate engravings of any embossed object, such as a medal.
Falernian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Falernian
form: most Falernian
Senses: examples: text: Sandbanks, marshes, forests, savages, - precious little to eat fit for a civilised man, nothing but Thames water to drink. No Falernian wine here, no going ashore.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 195:
glosses: Of, produced in, or pertaining to Mount Falernus, in Italy.
Falernian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: What’s a Helen of Troy compared to a flask of this red Falernian? Why good wine gets better the longer you keep it, while woman loses her flavour year by year.
ref: 1863, George Whyte-Melville, “Chapter XV: Red Falernian”, in The Gladiators:
glosses: A wine produced from Aglianico grapes on the slopes of Mount Falernus, much esteemed in Ancient Rome.
kirsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈkɜː(ɹ)səm/
Etymology: Corrupted from chrisom.
Senses: examples: text: I am [a] true kirsome woman.
ref: c. 1608–1610, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Coxcomb”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act IV, scene vii:
glosses: Christian; christened.
ophiomorphous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ophiomorphous
form: most ophiomorphous
Etymology: From ophio- + -morphous.
Senses: synonyms: snakelike
snaky
anguiform
serpentine
glosses: Having the form or shape of a snake.
disenslave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˌdɪsənˈsleɪv/
Forms: form: disenslaves
form: disenslaving
form: disenslaved
form: disenslaved
Etymology: From dis- + enslave.
Senses: examples: text: He shall disenslave and redeem his soul.
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
glosses: To free from slavery, to emancipate.
disenslaved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disenslave
disenslaves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disenslave
disenslaving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disenslave
entomotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From entomo- + -tomy.
Senses: glosses: The science of dissecting insects.
Related terms: entomotomist
flanneled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: flannelled
Etymology: From flannel + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Covered or wrapped in flannel.
madoqua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: madoquas
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A small Abyssinian antelope, Salt's dik-dik (Madoqua saltiana)
madoquas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of madoqua