cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cockshaft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cockshafts
Etymology: From cock + shaft.
Senses: examples: text: She writhed beneath him with soft urgency as he pumped into her, his cockshaft feeling the pressure of Portia's fingers through the thin muscular membrane that divided Olivia's vagina from her rectum.
ref: 2010, Felix Baron, Dominant:
glosses: The shaft of the penis.
cockshafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cockshaft
reprevable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reprevable
form: most reprevable
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of reprovable.
deadhearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more deadhearted
form: most deadhearted
Etymology: From dead + hearted.
Senses: glosses: spiritless or uncompassionate.
Derived terms: deadheartedly
Related terms: deadheartedness
flyposter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flyposters
Etymology: (person): flypost + -er
Senses: glosses: One who illegally posts flyers or similar material in public places.
glosses: A flyer, poster, etc. that is illegally posted in a public place.
flyposters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flyposter
opiniative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more opiniative
form: most opiniative
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of opinionative.
Derived terms: opiniatively
opiniativeness
deadheartedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From deadhearted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being deadhearted.
Pelusiac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Pelusiac
form: most Pelusiac
Etymology: Latin Pelusiacus.
Senses: examples: text: the Pelusiac (or former eastern) outlet of the Nile
glosses: Pelusian
enfreedom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enfreedoms
form: enfreedoming
form: enfreedomed
form: enfreedomed
Etymology: From en- + freedom.
Senses: examples: text: setting thee at liberty, enfreedoming thy person
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 III, scene i]:
text: Bethink of its children enfreedomed to play,
Of its pastimes at ball and its games of croquet
ref: 1885, Alfred Huidekoper, Meadowside Musings and Songs of the Affections, A Plea for Summer:
glosses: To set free.
enfreedomed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enfreedom
enfreedoming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enfreedom
enfreedoms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enfreedom
cruentous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cruentous
form: most cruentous
Etymology: Latin cruentus.
Senses: synonyms: word: cruentate
qualifier: literal and figurative
glosses: bloody
anadrom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anadroms
Etymology: Compare French anadrome.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any anadromous fish, a fish that lives in the sea and goes up rivers to breed in fresh water.
anadroms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anadrom
anadiplotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒtɪk
Senses: glosses: Relating to anadiplosis.
tactilely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈtæk.taɪl.li/
/ˈtæk.tə(l).li/
Forms: form: more tactilely
form: most tactilely
Etymology: From tactile + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a tactile manner; by, or relating to, the sense of touch.
Synonyms: tactually
impanelment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impanelments
form: empanelment
Etymology: From impanel + -ment.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The act or process of impaneling, or the state of being impaneled.
impanelments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impanelment
empanelment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: empanelments
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of impanelment.
empanelments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of empanelment
unpreferable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpreferable
form: most unpreferable
Etymology: From un- + preferable.
Senses: glosses: Not preferable; undesirable.
touze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: touzes
form: touzing
form: touzed
form: touzed
Senses: examples: text: As a bear, whom angry curs have touz'd.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 33:
text: Oh the moſt inhumane, barbarous Hackney-Coach! I'm jolted to a Jelly—Am I not horribly touz'd?
ref: 1693, Will[iam] Congreve, The Old Batchelour, a Comedy. […], London: […] Peter Buck, […], →OCLC, Act IV, scene (please specify |scene=ii or iii), page 34:
glosses: Alternative form of touse.
touzed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of touze
touzes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of touze
touzing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of touze
preterlapsed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin praeterlapsus, past participle of praeterlabi (“to glide by”). See preter- and lapse.
Senses: examples: text: preterlapsed ages
ref: 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC:
glosses: past; former
debacchation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: debacchations
Etymology: Latin debacchatio.
Senses: examples: text: What confidence can such have of the suffrage of the saints, who defile their holiday with most foolish vanities, most impure pollutions, most wicked debacchations, and sacrilegious execrations.
ref: 1632, William Prynne, Histrio-Mastix, Part I, page 538, Act VI:
text: In that convulsive, nervous disorder, called hysterics, the patients are affected with divers strange, inconsistent and contrary symptoms; […] are weak, sad, fearful, and suspicious ; grow stiff and immovable, and again flexible ; then falling into a fit of rage, quarrelling, and debacchation ; so strong as scarce to be held by three or four persons
ref: 1820, POLWHELE, The enthusiasm of Methodists and Papists considered by Bishop Lavington, page 249:
text: Among those whose presence lent either a tone of dignity or debacchation to the far-famed occasion were: Beekman, Bixler, Boyd, Carver, Caemr, Collins […]
ref: 1920, Princeton Alumni Weekly, princeton alumni weekly, page 116
glosses: wild raving or debauchery, as if drunk.
debacchations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of debacchation
buttonball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buttonballs
Etymology: From button + ball?
Senses: glosses: A tree, the buttonwood or American sycamore.
buttonballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buttonball
goosewinged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From goosewing + -ed.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: wung-out
glosses: Having a goose wing; said of a fore-and-aft sailboat with the foresail set on one side (e.g. starboard) and mainsail on the other (e.g. port), often used when the boat is running (with the wind almost directly at the stern).
slaughterhall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slaughterhalls
Etymology: From slaughter + hall.
Senses: glosses: The area of a slaughterhouse where the animals are killed.
slaughterhalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slaughterhall
baker-legged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more baker-legged
form: most baker-legged
Senses: glosses: Having legs that bend inward at the knees.
Related terms: knockkneed
slop shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slop shops
form: slopshop
form: slop-shop
Etymology: From slop + shop.
Senses: examples: text: [H]e was therefore eaſily prevailed on to bind me apprentice to one of my ſtep-mother's friends, who kept a ſlop-ſhop in Wapping.
ref: 1798, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, “[Maria: or, The] Wrongs of Woman”, in W[illiam] Godwin, editor, Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. […], volume I, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […]; and G[eorge,] G[eorge] and J[ohn] Robinson, […], →OCLC, chapter V, page 86:
text: We were therefore under the necessity of sending to a slop shop and each purchasing a shirt, etc.
ref: 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 189
text: Then I began to pity myself, and I saw that it would be a greater charity to bestow on me a flannel shirt than a whole slop-shop on him
ref: 1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden:
glosses: A shop where slops (ready-made clothes) are sold.
slopshops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slopshop
sorb apple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sorb apples
Senses: glosses: A European fruit tree, Sorbus domestica, also called the service tree
glosses: The fruit of this tree, also called the sorb
mill-sixpence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mill-sixpences
Senses: examples: text: seven groats in mill-sixpences
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: a mill sixpence of my mother's I loved as dearly, and a two-pence I had to spend over and above[…]
ref: 1621 August 13 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), Ben Jonson, “The Masque of the Gypsies”, in Q. Horatius Flaccus: His Art of Poetry. […], London: […] J[ohn] Okes, for John Benson […], published 1640, →OCLC:
glosses: A milled sixpence.
sorb-apple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sorb-apples
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sorb apple.
diandrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + -androus. Compare French diandre.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: diandrian
glosses: Of or pertaining to the obsolete class of plants Diandria, which had two stamens.
Related terms: diandry
sorb-apples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sorb-apple
sorb apples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sorb apple
slopings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sloping
pseudova
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudovum
pseudovum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudova
Etymology: From pseudo- + ovum.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: An egg-like germ produced by the agamic females of some insects and other animals, and by the larvae of certain insects. It is capable of development without fertilization.
enneahedral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ennea- + -hedral.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having nine sides.
Synonyms: nonahedral
Related terms: enneahedron
blondly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more blondly
form: most blondly
Etymology: From blond + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The portrait shows Essex's hair waved, almost curled, and dark auburn, darker than the blondly reddish beard, and this might be an accident of pigments unequally deepened by time; but that's improbable.
ref: 1969, Booth Tarkington, Some old portraits: a book about art and human beings, page 1:
text: I got chills, while on Clym's blondly hairy foot, a mechanical beetle with copper pincers crawled amidst tattooed green and yellow crenna roothairs, to disappear under his pants' cuff.
ref: 1984, Samuel R. Delany, Carl Freedman, Stars in my pocket like grains of sand, page 85:
text: Calvin's younger, and blondly pretty, brother proved to be a budding backwoods aesthete.
ref: 1993, Wright Morris, Writing my life: an autobiography, page 380:
glosses: In a blond manner.
pourparties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pourparty
pourparty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pourparties
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of purparty.
lactucic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From translingual Lactuca + -ic + acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of various acids derived from the juice of Lactuca virosa.
cullibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cullible + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: July 16 1728, Jonathan Swift, letter to Alexander Pope
I suppose Mr. Gay will return from the Bath with twenty pounds more flesh, and two hundred less in money: Providence never designed him to be above two and twenty, by his thoughtlessness and cullibility.
text: If there is not a fund of honest cullibility in man , so much the worse ; my heart relented , and I gave up my second resolution as quietly as the first
ref: 1768, Mr. Yorick [pseudonym; Laurence Sterne], A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, […], →OCLC:
text: While he meditated on the project, he could not help smiling at the cullibility of his father, who had thus, he thought, taken into his protection, and made the companion of his wife and daughter, the deserted mistress of Willoughby.
ref: 1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview, published 2004, page 184:
glosses: Gullibility.
procinct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin procinctus, from procingere, procinctum (“to gird up”).
Senses: examples: text: Warr he perceiv'd, Warr in procinct, and found
Already known what he for news had thought
To have reported
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: A state of complete readiness for action.
glosses: Obsolete spelling of precinct.
subhexagonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + hexagonal.
Senses: glosses: Not quite hexagonal; approaching a hexagonal shape.
mandarinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mandarinisms
Etymology: From mandarin + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: It seems to me that it is these very governments of centralized mandarinism that play at providence, in which they closely resemble the communists, as indeed all absolutism contains a strong element of communism.
ref: 1853, Francis Lieber, On Civil Liberty and Self-government:
glosses: A government of mandarins; character or spirit of the mandarins.
mandarinisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mandarinism
tripang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tripangs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of trepang.
tripangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tripang
pornerastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pornerastic
form: most pornerastic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πόρνη (pórnē, “prostitute”) + ἐραστής (erastḗs, “lover”) + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: We hear nothing of those petit crevé vices, those pornerastic habits in high places, those Diamond-necklace scandals, those unmentionable gambols of the Porphyro-geniti, which are too often thrust before our eyes in fiction.
ref: 1891, Frederic Harrison, The Choice of Books:
glosses: Lascivious; licentious.
adlegation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin adlegatio, allegatio (“a sending away”), from adlegare, allegare (“to send away with a commission”), from ad (“in addition”) + legare (“to send as ambassador”). Compare allegation.
Senses: examples: text: it thought it had a power of extending it's right of adlegation
ref: 1745, The Constitution and Government of the Germanic Body:
glosses: A right formerly claimed by the states of the German Empire of joining their own ministers with those of the emperor in public treaties and negotiations to the common interest of the empire.
pomarine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pɑməɹɪn/
Forms: form: pomarines
Etymology: Ancient Greek a lid + nose.
Senses: examples: text: See, you have a couple of them lying on the water, wounded : you pick them up, and find them both pomarines, the one an old bird, with the two central tail-feathers elongated and rounded at their tips; the other a young bird[…]
ref: 1859, The zoologist: a popular miscellany of natural history, page 6331:
text: […] to have been pomarines : the first flock of ten or twelve birds were undoubtedly of that species, their great size and clumsy-looking tails clearly pointing them out as such, and all exhibiting white underneath, and long tails[…]
ref: 1875, Edward Newman, James Edmund Harting, William Lucas Distant, Frank Finn, The Zoologist: A Monthly Journal of Natural History ..., page 4701:
text: All three species occur in two color phases: a light phase, with dark gray-brown back and white underparts, across which (in pomarines and parasitics) there is usually a grayish breast-band; and a dark phase[…]
ref: 2012 July 31, E. C. Pielou, A Naturalist's Guide to the Arctic, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 225:
glosses: Short for pomarine jaeger
Related terms: pomarine gull
pomarine jaeger
pomarine skua
clearstarch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clearstarches
form: clearstarching
form: clearstarched
form: clearstarched
Etymology: From clear + starch.
Senses: examples: text: to clearstarch caps
text: to clearstarch muslin
text: Had always said and believed that Pickwick would marry Mrs. Bardell; knew that Mrs. Bardell's being engaged to Pickwick was the current topic of conversation in the neighbourhood, after the fainting in July; had been told it herself by Mrs. Mudberry which kept a mangle, and Mrs. Bunkin which clearstarched, but did not see either Mrs. Mudberry or Mrs. Bunkin in court.
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
glosses: To stiffen with starch, and then make clear by clapping with the hands.
Derived terms: clearstarcher
clearstarched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of clearstarch
clearstarches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of clearstarch
clearstarching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of clearstarch
recoinings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recoining
crossdress
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crossdresses
form: crossdressing
form: crossdressed
form: crossdressed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cross-dress.
hydrotimeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrotimeter
police boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of police box
bicorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bicorn
forest falcon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forest falcons
Senses: glosses: Any of the small New World falcons of the genus Micrastur.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Micrastur ruficollis
word: barred forest falcon
taxonomic: Micrastur buckleyi
word: Buckley’s forest falcon
taxonomic: Micrastur semitorquatus
word: collared forest falcon
taxonomic: Micrastur mintoni
word: cryptic forest falcon
taxonomic: Micrastur gilvicollis
word: lined forest falcon
taxonomic: Micrastur plumbeus
word: plumbeous forest falcon
taxonomic: Micrastur mirandollei
word: slaty-backed forest falcon
conservation biology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The scientific study of the state of Earth's biodiversity with the objective to protect it from becoming extinct.
Adam-teasing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: There may even be a report on 'Eve-teasing' (sexual harassment of women), but nothing on Adam-teasing.
ref: 2002, Lonely Planet Publications, Delhi, 3rd edition, page 52:
text: They ignored men outside the premises of the school, but within its protective precincts they indulged in a bit of Adam-teasing.
ref: 2006, Prabhaker Acharya, The Suragi Tree, page 208:
text: Hardly surprising, then, that the first time I witnessed 'Adam teasing' , I nearly whooped with joy. There, trundling along Aurobindo Marg, came an autorickshaw packed with the loudest, most outrageous women I'd ever seen. […] The auto careened to a stop and out they spilled, surrounding some poor hapless chap, wiggling their hips at him, pinching his bum, their eyes flashing, tossing their proud manes, daring him to flirt back.
ref: 2010, Khushwant Singh, City Improbable, page 239:
glosses: The sexual harassment of men by women.
introduced species
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: introduced species
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: A species living outside its native distributional range which has arrived there by human activity, directly or indirectly, deliberately or accidentally.
Synonyms: alien species
exotic species
adventive species
immigrant species
foreign species
non-indigenous species
non-native species
Hyponyms: english: harmful introduced species
translation: harmful introduced species
word: invasive species
bitchload
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bitchloads
Etymology: From bitch + load.
Senses: glosses: A large amount or number.
hit rock bottom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hits rock bottom
form: hitting rock bottom
form: hit rock bottom
form: hit rock bottom
Senses: synonyms: reach rock bottom
glosses: To reach the lowest possible state in one's life.
genetic diversity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: genetic variation that manifests within a species.
Chelsea pensioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chelsea pensioners
Senses: glosses: Any of the retired British army officers now resident in Royal Hospital Chelsea, noted for their ceremonial scarlet coats and tricorne hats.
Related terms: Greenwich pensioner
Chelsea pensioners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chelsea pensioner
townee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: townees
Etymology: From town + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: I assured myself that I was not the laugh of some townee on the bridge, distorted by my over-sensitive organization.
ref: 1929, Aleister Crowley, The Stratagem: And Other Stories, page 64:
glosses: Dated form of townie.
townees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of townee
critical load
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: critical loads
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: The maximum load that a given system can sustain before it fails.
slice category
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slice categories
Senses: topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A category whose objects are morphisms (of some given category) with a common codomain, and whose morphisms are commuting triangles where two morphisms of each of such triangles share the said common codomain.
Synonyms: overcategory
Hypernyms: comma category
crisphead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crispheads
Etymology: From crisp + head.
Senses: glosses: A lettuce (such as iceberg lettuce) with crisp tightly packed light-green leaves in a firm head.
plaquets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plaquet
burgamot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burgamots
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of bergamot.
burgamots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burgamot
herbarize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: herbarizes
form: herbarizing
form: herbarized
form: herbarized
Senses: examples: text: Well, any way, Doctor, we will make an appointment for a whole day here next spring ; we will botanize, herbarize and naturalize to our hearts' content, from morn till night."
ref: 1854, Somerton, The heiress of Somerton, page 226:
glosses: Alternative form of herborize.
herbarized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of herbarize
herbarizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of herbarize
herbarizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of herbarize
moniment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moniments
Etymology: From Latin monimentum, monumentum. See monument.
Senses: glosses: Something to preserve memory; a reminder; a monument.
examples: text: That of his shape , appear'd no litle moniment .
Onely his shield and armour
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A mark, image, or superscription; a record.
moniments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moniment
telangiectases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telangiectasis
telangiectasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telangiectases
Etymology: From telo- + angiectasis.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of telangiectasia.
synonyms: word: telangiectasia
escrod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: escrods
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of scrod.
escrods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of escrod
defibrinize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: defibrinizes
form: defibrinizing
form: defibrinized
form: defibrinized
Etymology: From de- + fibrin + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To remove fibrin from; to defibrinate
Related terms: defibrinization
defibrinized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of defibrinize
defibrinizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of defibrinize
defibrinizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of defibrinize
notwheat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From not + wheat.
Senses: examples: text: Notwheate, so termed, because it is vnbearded[…]
ref: 1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, London: […] S[imon] S[tafford] for Iohn Iaggard, […], →OCLC:
glosses: unbearded wheat
sheenly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sheenly
form: most sheenly
Etymology: From sheen + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: 1832?, William Motherwell, The Ritters Ride Home
The bay glitters sheenly in sunlight, / No oar shivers now its clear mirror.
text: Shapes of brightness overlean thee, / With their diadems of youth / Striking on thy ringlets sheenly […]
ref: 1840, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A Child Asleep:
glosses: brightly
ouretic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Compare uretic.
Senses: examples: text: ouretic acid
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: uric
supparasitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supparasitations
Etymology: See supparasite.
Senses: examples: text: When a man basely subjects himself to serve the humours of the great, by gross supparasitation, by either unjust or unfit actions and offices […]
ref: c. 1625, Joseph Hall, The Fall of Pride (sermon)
glosses: The act of flattering to gain favour; servile approbation.
supparasitations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supparasitation
elaphure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɛləfjʊə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: elaphures
Senses: glosses: Père David's deer (Elaphurus davidianus), a Chinese deer with unusual antlers.
elaphures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elaphure
surreption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˌɹɛpˈʃən/
ipa: /ˌsʌɹəpˈʃən/
Forms: form: surreptions
Etymology: From Latin surreptio, or subreptio. Compare subreption.
Senses: examples: text: Fame by surreption got / May stead us for the time, but lasteth not.
ref: 1610, Ben Jonson, The Speeches at Prince Henry's Barriers:
glosses: The obtaining of something in a surreptitious manner, or by craft or stealth.
topics: law
glosses: An unperceived or sudden arrival.
surreptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surreption
acturience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin agō, actum (“to act”).
Senses: examples: text: Acturience, or desire of action, in one form or another, whether as restlessness, ennui, dissatisfaction, or the imagination of something desirable.
ref: 1876, John Grote, A Treatise on the Moral Ideals:
glosses: impulsiveness
adsignification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: adsignifications
Etymology: From ad- + signification.
Senses: examples: text: there is no adsignification of Manner or Time in that which is called the Indicative Mood
ref: 1786, John Horne Tooke, Epea Pteroenta:
glosses: additional signification
Related terms: adsignify
adsignifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adsignification
phrenomagnetism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phreno- + magnetism.
Senses: qualifier: 1840s to 1850s
glosses: A form of mind control using magnetic or mesmeric influence to (apparently) will someone to act, such as by touching parts of the head.
Related terms: phrenomagnetic
hypnosis
haematosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hematosis.
basenames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basename
dramatology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma, “an act, a theatrical act, a play”), and -ology, -λογία (-logía, “study of”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
qualifier: psychotherapy
glosses: The practice of viewing all symptoms as valid communications, including words, posture, tone of voice, and movements of the face and limbs.
Derived terms: dramatological
mitochondrial matrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mitochondrial matrices
form: mitochondrial matrixes
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The material within the space, enclosed by the mitochondrial inner membrane. It is composed of enzymes, DNA filaments, granules, protein crystals, glycogen, and lipid.
lookdown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lookdowns
Etymology: From look + down.
Senses: glosses: An oddly-shaped Atlantic marine fish, Selene vomer.
Related terms: moonfish
lookdowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lookdown
quit-rent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quit-rents
Senses: examples: text: He, too, was a knight, possessing quit-rents, a mill, and some woodland; his brothers held their share of an enfeoffed inheritance from him, according to the system of inheritance which was practised among the nobility; his wife was 'Dame Mary, the steward's lady'.
ref: 2015, Marc Bloch, Land and Work in Mediaeval Europe:
glosses: Alternative spelling of quitrent.
quit rent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quit rents
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of quitrent.
fiorin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɪəɹɪn/
Forms: form: fiorins
Etymology: Compare Irish fiothran (“a sort of grass”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: creeping bent
glosses: creeping bentgrass (Agrostis stolonifera).
fiorins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fiorin
toxodont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toxodonts
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the †Toxodontia, an extinct notoungulate suborder of Mammalia with long curved incisors, found in the South American Tertiary formation.
toxodonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toxodont
phren-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phreno-.
pleuroperitoneum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pleuro- + peritoneum.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The pleural and peritoneal membranes, or the membrane lining the body cavity and covering the surface of the enclosed viscera; the peritoneum; used especially in the case of those animals in which the body cavity is not divided.
Related terms: pleuroperitoneal
phrenomagnetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phreno- + magnetic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to phrenomagnetism.
demephitize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: demephitizes
form: demephitizing
form: demephitized
form: demephitized
Etymology: From de- + mephitize. Compare French méphitiser, "to infect with mephitis".
Senses: glosses: To purify from mephitis; to eliminate foul odours.
Related terms: demephitization
demephitized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of demephitize
demephitizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of demephitize
demephitizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of demephitize
agenesic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See agenesis
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: sterile, infertile
agenesic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agenesics
Etymology: See agenesis
Senses: glosses: Such a person or animal
phreni-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phreno-.
phrenico-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phreno-.
tannage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tannages
Etymology: From tan + -age.
Senses: examples: text: They should have got his cheek fresh tannage / Such a day as to-day in the merry sunshine! / Had they stuck on his fist a rough-foot merlin!
ref: 1845, Robert Browning, “The Flight of the Duchess”, in Tim Cook, editor, The Works of Robert Browning, published 1994, page 340:
text: 1938, US Depoartment of Agriculture, Technical Bulletin, Issues 551-575, page 36,
After the layer tannage was completed, the crops and bellies from the 44 hides were reassembled and handled as a unit in each subsequent process until finished.
text: With the exception of spruce bark, which cannot be considered to be a typical tannin, all the tannins give degrees of tannage in the neighbourhood of 50.
ref: 1954, Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, volume 102, page 850:
text: 2009, National Institute of Industrial Research Board Of Consultants & Engineers, Leather Processing & Tanning Technology Handbook, India, page 37,
The possible combined tannages are numerous but are, in general, limited to the light leathers. Combination tannages are very ancient.
glosses: The act, operation, or result of tanning; a tanning.
glosses: The act of steeping cast slabs of artificial marble in a solution of potash alum to harden it and make it insoluble.
Derived terms: pretannage
retannage
tannages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tannage
boragewort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: borageworts
Etymology: From borage + wort.
Senses: glosses: Any plant of the borage family (Boraginaceae).
borageworts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boragewort
basilican
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more basilican
form: most basilican
Etymology: From basilica + -an.
Senses: examples: text: There can be no doubt that the first churches in Constantinople were in the basilican form.
ref: 1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity:
glosses: Of, relating to, or resembling a basilica; basilical.
psephism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsiːfɪzəm/
/ˈsɛfɪzəm/
Forms: form: psephisms
Etymology: Ancient Greek ψήφισμα (psḗphisma, “a decree”) from ψηφίζω (psēphízō, “to vote”)
Senses: examples: text: No psephism shall pass to the commons before the senate's supervisal. The tablets on which the psephisms are engraved are by no means to be removed.
ref: 1694, John Potter, Archaeologica Graeca:
text: The well-known story of the Spartan psephism quoted by Boethius de musica, via. that the Spartans ordered him to cut off four of his eleven strings […] is contradicted by the present text
ref: 1880, John Pentland Mahaffy, History of Classical Greek Literature:
synonyms: psephisma
qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: A proposition adopted by a majority of votes, especially by the vote of the Athenian people; a statute.
psephisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psephism
endogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From endo- + genesis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of endogeny (“growth from within”).
synonyms: word: endogeny
extra: growth from within
harquebuze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harquebuzes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of arquebus.
harquebuzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harquebuze
prescriptibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being prescriptible.
endearedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more endearedly
form: most endearedly
Etymology: From endeared + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With affection or endearment; dearly or lovingly
appallment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: appalment
Etymology: From appall + -ment. This word is likely a nonce; Oliver Wendell Holmes claimed to have coined it, but there are uses that predate Holmes and others that are unlikely to have picked it up from his use.
Senses: examples: text: the furious slaughter of them was a great discouragement and appallment to the rest: that there died upon the place all the chieftains
ref: 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:
text: I supopse we might way that if there truly has been a resurgence of interest in the state of the mind and culture of graduating students , particularly the abler ones, it could be attributed to a kind of appallment - appallment of the teacher at his own failures; appallment of the student at how little has been expected of him and how little responsibility has been put upon him for his education; appallment of the educated public at the limited and partial carry-over from formal education into everyday, actual life.
ref: 1965 ·, Joseph W. Cohen, The Superior Student in American Higher Education, page 99:
text: An old friend of mine here, Lucy Clifford (W.K.'s widow) who was there at the "high table" and has sent me a catalogue of the guests which I hang over in the appallment of fascination — or the fascination of appallment; and which, as she has just returned and I am to see her tonight, she will fill out with hideous detail — though indeed she appears, by a line she wrote me, to have enjoyed, rather, the weird desolation of it.
ref: 1974, Henry James, edited by Leon Edel, Letters - Volume 4, page 606:
text: Michael Gartner, editor of The Des Moines Register & Tribune, sent him a reproachful note; Gartner was filled with appallment.
ref: 2010, James J. Kilpatrick, The Writer's Art:
glosses: Shock or depression occasioned by terror or disgust; dismay; the state of being appalled.
sarcous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: By surface analysis, sarc- + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: sarcous elements that make up muscle fibre
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: fleshy
Related terms: sarcoid
sarcoma
sarcomatous
limbat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlɪmbæt/
Etymology: From French limbat, a rebracketing of l’imbat, from Ottoman Turkish امبات (imbat, “sea breeze”). Doublet of imbat.
Senses: examples: text: The heats increase as the summer advances, and would be altogether intolerable, if a cooling wind called limbat did not arise.
ref: 1797, Robert Heron, A Collection of Late Voyages and Travels:
text: There are various other periodical winds: of these, however, that generally known by the name of limbat, which is common in the island of Cyprus, shall only be mentioned here.
ref: 1807, Andrew Mackay, The Complete Navigator:
text: The intensity of the summer heat is, however, modified after a time by a cooling wind which [Giovanni] Mariti calls limbat. […] This limbat wind is said to be the cause of those fevers which attack the inhabitants, to which Europeans are even more subject.
ref: 1878, Frederic Henry Fisher, Cyprus, Our New Colony and What We Know About It, pages 59–60:
glosses: A periodic cooling wind in Cyprus, blowing from the northwest.
pentadecatoic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From penta- + decatoic + acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid related to pentadecane.
anabaptize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: anabaptizes
form: anabaptizing
form: anabaptized
form: anabaptized
Etymology: From New Latin anabaptizāre, from Ancient Greek ἀνα- (ana-, “again”) + βᾰπτῐ́ζω (băptĭ́zō, “to baptize”). See baptize and Anabaptist.
Senses: examples: text: To say truth, though some call their profound Ignorances, New Lights, they were better Anabaptised into the Appellation of Extinguishers; carryed about with every winde.
ref: 1654, Richard Whitlock, Zootomia; Or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English:
glosses: To baptize or christen again, or to a different denomonation; to rename or rechristen
anabaptized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of anabaptize
anabaptizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of anabaptize
anabaptizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of anabaptize
Hutterite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hutterites
Etymology: From Hutter + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A member of a communal branch of Anabaptists founded by Jakob Hutter.
Hutterites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hutterite
forceth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: force + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of force
forcest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: force + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of force
chantest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: chant + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of chant
enchantest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: enchant + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of enchant
enchanteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: enchant + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enchant
chanteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: chant + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chant
bewitcheth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: bewitch + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bewitch
bewitchest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: bewitch + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of bewitch
taxgatherer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taxgatherers
Etymology: From tax + gatherer.
Senses: examples: text: Or think of a decent young citizen in a toga - perhaps too much dice, you know - coming out here in the train of some prefect, or tax-gatherer, or trader even, to mend his fortunes.
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 196:
glosses: One who collects taxes or revenues; a tax collector.
taxgatherers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taxgatherer
taxgathering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tax + gathering.
Senses: glosses: The collecting of taxes or revenues.
Related terms: taxgatherer
plasmodial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: plasmodial behaviour
text: the plasmodial form of a life cycle
text: plasmodial mitosis
text: plasmodial myosin
text: plasmodial phase
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Resembling or relating to a plasmodium.
examples: text: plasmodial infection
glosses: Of or relating to Plasmodium, a parasite.
Derived terms: antiplasmodial
meroplasmodial
plasmodially
plasmodial slime mold
protoplasmodial
pseudoplasmodial
waterwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waterworts
Etymology: From water + wort.
Senses: glosses: Any of the family Elatinaceae of aquatic plants, especially one in the genus Elatine.
waterworts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waterwort
colibacillosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colibacilloses
Etymology: coli + bacillosis
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: disease caused by the bacterium Escherichia coli
sneezewood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sneezewoods
Etymology: From sneeze + wood, since its sawdust can cause sneezing.
Senses: synonyms: nieshout
glosses: The wood of a South African tree, Ptaeroxylon obliquum.
sneezewoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sneezewood
colibacilloses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colibacillosis