cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Genevese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Geneveses
form: Genevese
Etymology: From Geneva + -ese. Compare Genevan, Genevian, Genevois.
Senses: examples: text: I am by birth a Genevese; and my family is one of the most distinguished of that republic.
ref: 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter I, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume I, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, page 39:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Geneva.
Genevese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Genevese
form: most Genevese
Etymology: From Geneva + -ese. Compare Genevan, Genevian, Genevois.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Geneva; Genevan.
creaght
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kɹeɪt/
Forms: form: creaghts
Etymology: Perhaps from a Goidelic language; compare Old Irish graig (“horses (collective)”).
Senses: examples: text: Owen sent me to hurry off the creaght
ref: 1835, Samuel Ferguson, “Corby Mac Gillmore”, in The Dublin University Magazine:
glosses: A drove or herd.
creaghts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creaght
inexpugnably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inexpugnably
form: most inexpugnably
Etymology: From inexpugnable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Incommensurability that is inexpugnably lodged up in the perverse and unreclaimable Hyle?
ref: 1662, Henry More, The Defence of the Moral Cabbala:
glosses: In an inexpugnable manner.
truncheoneer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: truncheoneers
form: truncheoner
Etymology: From truncheon + -eer.
Senses: glosses: A person armed with a truncheon.
truncheoneers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of truncheoneer
outstride
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outstrides
form: outstriding
form: outstrode
form: outstridden
Etymology: From out- + stride.
Senses: glosses: To surpass in striding, to stride faster or longer.
outstrides
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outstride
outstriding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outstride
outstrode
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of outstride
orn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔː(ɹ)n/
Forms: form: orns
form: orning
form: orned
form: orned
Etymology: From Old French orner, from Latin ornō.
Senses: examples: text: God stered vp prophetes and orned his chirche with great glory.
ref: 1545, George Joye, The exposicion of Daniel the Prophete […] :
glosses: To ornament; to adorn.
orn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔː(ɹ)n/
Forms: form: orns
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of orange.
orn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔː(ɹ)n/
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of orange.
orned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of orn
orning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of orn
orns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of orn
emanatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more emanatory
form: most emanatory
Etymology: From emanate + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: this Secondary or Emanatory Subftance may be rightly called Substance, because it is a Subject indued with certain powers and activities
ref: 1659, Henry More, The Immortality of the Soul, so Farre Forth as It is Demonstrable from the Knowledge of Nature and the Light of Reason, London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for William Morden […], →OCLC:
glosses: emanative; of the nature of an emanation
hydrobarometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrobarometers
Etymology: From hydro- + barometer.
Senses: glosses: An early form of depth gauge, that measured water pressure, as well as temperature.
Derived terms: telehydrobarometer
hydrobarometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrobarometer
languisher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: languishers
Etymology: From languish + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who languishes.
languishers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of languisher
Bonapartean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bonapartean
form: most Bonapartean
Etymology: From Bonaparte + -an.
Senses: examples: text: That Austria was averse to the dethronement of Bonaparte, there can be no doubt, from her well known political character, and her interest in the continuation of the Bonapartean dynasty.
ref: 1814, Alexis Eustaphieve, Memorable predictions of the late events in Europe, page 98:
text: But here I was again mistaken; for Mehevi, in conducting his warlike operations, rather inclined to the Fabian than to the Bonapartean tactics, husbanding his resources and exposing his troops to no unnecessary hazards.
ref: 1846, Herman Melville, Typee, a Romance of the South Sea:
text: Because the historical Bonapartean physiognomy is remarkable for a strong jaw-bone, every prince and princess of the Imperial family, with the exception of the Emperor, assert their Bonapartean blood by protruding their chins and clenchng their teeth, although there are some of them, who, if they followed nature, would allow that portion of their faces to retreat.
ref: 1863, Ahriman III K.G., Ought France to Worship the Bonapartes?, page 168:
text: He takes her back, presumably to a happy marriage, though not to be a Princess: he is able to act on his own account because in some Bonapartean reshuffle of territory he has lost his Principality.
ref: 2003, Helen Hughes, The Historical Romance:
glosses: Of or pertaining to Napoleon Bonaparte or his family.
examples: text: It would be easy to extend the list of words that might be demonstrated, by means of the Bonapartean versions, to possess exclusively Northumbrian characteristics, from the lists about to be given (from which about thirty more words could be tested in the same manner and with the same results as the preceding five words have exhibited); but to repeat the same process so often over would only be tedious.
ref: 1869, Robert Backhouse Peacock, A Glossary of the Dialect of the Hundred of Lonsdale, North and South of the Sands, In the County of Lancaster:
text: Hence, whatever may be though of the palaeotypic equivalents afterwards added, each vowel can be immediately identified as B1, B2, etc., B indicating Bonapartean, and thus referred to in any English or foreign treatise.
ref: 1871, Alexander John Ellis, On Early English Pronunciation, with Especial Reference to Shakspere and Chaucer:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the philology of Louis Lucien Bonaparte
Bonapartean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bonaparteans
Etymology: From Bonaparte + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Yet so well advised were the Bonaparteans of their leader's promised coming, that during the preceding winte , a standing toast among them wa , “The violet, which will return in the spring.”
ref: 1843, George William Johnson, The Stranger in India: Or, Three Years in Calcutta - Volume 2, page 263:
text: Though I have been in America, Asia, Africa, as well as Europe, and in a country notorious of late, (let the Bonaparteans say where,) beyond the limits of them all, I have, in my present visitation, been carried in the line of my vocation further north than ever I was before.
ref: 1852, Andrew Bell, quoted in, “The Life of the Rev. Andrew Bell, by Robert Southey”, in Calcutta Review:
text: Shakspeare has been called silly by Puritans, Milton worse than silly by Prelatists and Papists, Wordsworth was long called silly by Bonaparteans; what will not the odium theologicum or politicum find worthless and silly?
ref: 1875, Charles Porterfield Krauth, The Conservative Reformation and Its Theology:
text: At Boulogne they are in politics Bonaparteans; at Calais Bourboneans.
ref: 1883, George Matthews Arnold, Robert Pocock, page 205:
glosses: A supporter of Bonapartism.
hyalescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyaline + -escence.
Senses: examples: text: I cannot now say whether the anemia of that background figure, its apparitional hyalescence, as it were, belongs to the faded memory or to the remembered object itself.
ref: 1991, Rebecca Goldstein, The Dark Sister, Penguin Books, published 1993, page 128:
glosses: The process of becoming, or the state of being, transparent like glass.
dichromic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + Ancient Greek χρῶμα (khrôma, “color”) + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Their vision is therefore, in fact, dichromic; all their compound colours are resolvable into two elements only instead of three.
ref: 1866, Sir J. Herschel, Familiar Lectures on Scientific Subjects:
glosses: furnishing or giving two colours; said of defective vision, in which all the compound colours are resolvable into two elements instead of three
glosses: containing two atoms of chromium
Derived terms: dichromic acid
Related terms: dichroic
bridebed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bridebeds
Etymology: From bride + bed.
Senses: glosses: The marriage bed.
bridebeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bridebed
antielectron neutrino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antielectron neutrinos
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An antileptonic elementary particle that is the antiparticle of an electron neutrino
antimonotone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: anti-monotone
Etymology: From anti- + monotone.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Order-reversing.
Synonyms: antimonotonic
antitone
antimuon neutrino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antimuon neutrinos
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An antileptonic elementary particle that is the antiparticle of a muon neutrino
antisaccade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antisaccades
form: anti-saccade
Etymology: From anti- + saccade.
Senses: qualifier: ethology
glosses: An (often voluntary) movement of the eye away from a point of stimulus
Related terms: antisaccadic
improfitable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more improfitable
form: most improfitable
Etymology: From im- + profitable.
Senses: antonyms: profitable
glosses: Synonym of unprofitable.
synonyms: word: unprofitable
senatorially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From senatorial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a senatorial manner.
dilogical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek δίλογος (dílogos, “doubtful”) and/or διλογία (dilogía, “repetition”).
Senses: examples: text: delivered their opinions in such spurious, enigmatical, dilogical terms, as the devil gave his oracles
ref: 1629, Thomas Adams, Sermons:
glosses: ambiguous; of double meaning
miseration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English miseracion, from Latin miserātiō.
Senses: glosses: commiseration; compassion.
outroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outrooms
Senses: examples: text: If our Artist lodgeth her in the out-rooms of his soul for a night or two, it is rather to heare then believe her relations
ref: 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC:
text: Bearing that . . . the said Roger Murphey . . . did upon Saturnday [11 Dec. 1731] under cloud of night or uponone or other of the nights of the said month without any provocation most basely and felloniously murder and kill the said Francis Galbreth in an outroom of the dwelling house possessed by Robert Compbell, inkeeper at Dalmalie in Glenurchay, with a kive by giving him a would therewith in the belly whereof he dyed within twenty four hours thereafter or thereby , at least at the time and place foresaid when he the said (145) Roger Murphey was strugling with the said Francis Galbreth
ref: 1969, The Stair Society - Volume 25, page 453:
text: She turned away before she burst into tears and left the living room for the outroom, slamming the door behind her .
ref: 2023, Patty Jansen, Beginnings:
glosses: An outer room.
examples: text: The household who occupies the outroom may by connected to the main occupier of the premises by employment, but not necessarily so.
ref: 1963, Oliver James Claudius Francis, The People of Modern Jamaica:
text: Then he took her by the hand and led her round the house to the outroom, which he unlocked with great ceremony.
ref: 2009, André Brink, A Fork in the Road:
text: On the very day that they arrived at our home, we had a disquieting incident involving Adrian, the decrepit old man who continued to live in a small outroom on the property.
ref: 2021, George E. Eaton, Memoirs: Interlocking Halls of Academe with Corridors of Power:
text: The outroom was a tumble down shed at the bottom of the vegetable garden, where various tools, odd bits of furniture, empty boxes and other fascinating things rotted slowly together.
ref: 2022, Jean D'Costa, Sprat Morrison:
glosses: A small (but possibly consisting of multiple rooms) outbuilding, such as a shed or sleepout.
outrooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outroom
morbosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morbosity
morbosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morbosities
Etymology: Latin morbositas.
Senses: examples: text: For as the inference is fair, affirmatively deduced from the action to the organ, that they have eies because they see; so it is also from the organ to the action, that they have eies, therefore some sight designed; if we take the intention of Nature in every species, and except the casuall impediments, or morbosities in individuals.
ref: 1646/50, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:
glosses: A diseased state; unhealthiness.
glosses: a morbid feature
chromatoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromatoscopes
Etymology: From chromato- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: A reflecting telescope, part of which is made to rotate eccentrically, so as to produce a ringlike image of a star, instead of a point; used in studying the scintillation of the stars.
chromatoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chromatoscope
comprehensibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From comprehensible + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being comprehensible; comprehensibility.
presignification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presignifications
Etymology: From pre- + signification.
Senses: examples: text: To this kind we may refer the presignification and prediction of future events, especially those which are contingent, and depend upon man's free choice; to the doing of which nothing is more evident in itself, nor more acknowledged by all, than that a power or wisdom supernatural is required […]
ref: a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). The Being of God Proved from Supernatural Effects”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:
glosses: A prior signification; the act of signifying or showing beforehand.
presignifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of presignification
selenio-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: selenium
Synonyms: topics: chemistry
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: selen-
topics: chemistry
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: seleno-
extemporarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From extemporary + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an extemporary manner.
disepalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + sepalous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: bisepalous
glosses: Having two sepals.
biepitaxial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + epitaxial.
Senses: glosses: Having two epitaxial layers on the same substrate
electrodynamically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From electrodynamic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of electrodynamics
antimoniuretted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: antimoniureted
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Combined with or containing antimony.
Derived terms: antimoniuretted hydrogen
tendment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tend + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile if chance some desp'rate patient die / […] / Whether ill-tendment, or recureless pain, / Procure his death […]
ref: 1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC:
glosses: attendance; care
extendedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extendednesses
Etymology: From extended + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being extended; extension.
recordership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recorderships
Etymology: From recorder + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The role, duties, or office of a recorder.
recorderships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recordership
terminatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From terminate + -ory.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the termination of something; terminative.
botcheries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of botchery
botchery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: botcheries
Etymology: From botch + -ery.
Senses: glosses: An act of botching, or being sloppy.
synonyms: botch job
glosses: Something botched; clumsy or careless workmanship.
vaunt-courier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vaunt-couriers
Senses: examples: text: You sulphurous and thought - executing fires , Vaunt couriers to oak - cleaving thunder - bolts
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
glosses: Obsolete form of van-courier.
vaunt-couriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vaunt-courier
gliotransmission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gliotransmissions
Etymology: From glio- + transmission.
Senses: glosses: transmission between neurons facilitated by substances (gliotransmitters) released from glial cells
isotopologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + topologic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of or pertaining to isotopologs
isovalently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From isovalent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an isovalent manner
crojik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crojiks
Senses: glosses: A triangular sail on old sailing ships.
Synonyms: cross-jack
micropolarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micropolarities
Etymology: From micro- + polarity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being micropolar
glosses: A microscopic polarity
optoelectrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of optoelectric.
recontraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recontractions
Etymology: From re- + contraction.
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent contraction
skymapping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sky + mapping.
Senses: glosses: The production of a skymap.
transneptunian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of trans-Neptunian.
tropocollagen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tropocollagens
Etymology: From tropo- + collagen.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A component of fibres of collagen in which three polypeptide chains are coiled around each other.
unknottedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + knottedness or from unknotted + -ness.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The condition of being unknotted
knottedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From knotted + -ness.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The condition of being knotted
Derived terms: unknottedness
inferiae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin inferiae, from inferus (“underneath”).
Senses: glosses: Sacrifices offered to the souls of deceased heroes or friends.
dispender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dispenders
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English dispendour, from Old French despendour. By surface analysis, dispend (“distribute, dispense”) + -er. Doublet of dispenser and spencer.
Senses: examples: text: He was so greatly beloued of al sorts of people for his gentlenes, affability & liberality, as many men liuing, but more at their death (especially Cleargy men) would put their goods & children into his hands; the one assuring themselues of a faithfull keeper, the other of a discréete and conscionable dispender.
ref: 1601, Francis Godwin, The Succession of the Bishops of England […], published 1625, page 561:
glosses: A steward or treasurer.
dispenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dispender
omnipotencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of omnipotency
omnipotency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒmˈnɪpətənsi/
Forms: form: omnipotencies
Etymology: From Late Latin omnipotentia.
Senses: examples: text: he is of that power, majesty, omnipotency, and dominion, that no creature can withstand him.
ref: , III.2.1.i
glosses: Omnipotence.
resubjection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + subjection.
Senses: glosses: A second subjection.
elementalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From elemental + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of elementarism (“the view that things are constructed from simpler elements”).
synonyms: word: elementarism
extra: the view that things are constructed from simpler elements
glosses: The theory that the heathen gods originated in the personification of elemental powers
Related terms: elementalist
elementalistic
earable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɪəɹəbəl/
Forms: form: more earable
form: most earable
form: errable
Etymology: From Middle English ayreable, erable, erybyll; equivalent to ear (“to plough”) + -able, on the model of arable, which is a piecewise doublet.
Senses: glosses: arable; tillable
guardship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guardships
Etymology: From guard + ship.
Senses: glosses: A warship stationed at a port etc. to act as a guard.
guardship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From guard + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: under his guardship
text: Your usher's post must next be handled:
How blest am I by such a man led!
Under whose wise and careful guardship
I now despise fatigue and hardship
ref: 1730, Jonathan Swift, A Panegyrick on the Dean:
glosses: Care; protection.
turbinella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turbinellas
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the genus Turbinella of large marine gastropods.
Derived terms: turbinella oak
turbinellas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turbinella
hæmatoxylin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of haematoxylin.
photoplotter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photoplotters
Etymology: From photo- + plotter.
Senses: glosses: An electromechanical-optical machine that exposes a latent image on a medium by means of a computer-controlled light source.
photoplotters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photoplotter
assimulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assimulations
Etymology: From Latin assimulātiō. Compare Middle English assumylaciown (“simulation, counterfeiting, pretence”). By surface analysis, assimulate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: assimulation; when a hard body assimulateth a soft , being contiguous to it
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “I. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of assimilation.
retrochoir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛ.tɹəˌkwaɪ.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɹɛ.tɹəˌkwaɪɚ/
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: retrochoirs
form: retroquire
Etymology: From retro- + choir.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Any extension of a church behind the high altar, such as a chapel.
topics: architecture
glosses: In an apsidal church, all the space beyond the line of the back or eastern face of the altar.
Synonyms: back-choir
retrochoirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retrochoir
venereous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more venereous
form: most venereous
Etymology: Latin venereus, venerius.
Senses: glosses: venereal (of diseases)
glosses: exciting lust; aphrodisiac
examples: text: The Males are less than the Females; are very venerous, endeavouring a Coit in the very Box in which they are hatch'd.
ref: 1713, W[illiam] Derham, Physico-Theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation. […], London: […] W[illiam] Innys, […], →OCLC:
glosses: lustful; lascivious; libidinous
contrivable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From contrive + -able.
Senses: examples: text: A perpetual motion may seem easily contrivable.
ref: 1648, John Wilkins, Mathematical Magick:
glosses: Capable of being contrived, invented, or devised.
Derived terms: uncontrivable
discommodity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discommodities
Etymology: From dis- + commodity.
Senses: examples: text: The Diſcommodities of Vſury are: Firſt, that it makes fevver Merchants. For vvere it not, for this Lazie Trade of Vſury, Money vvould not lie ſtill, but vvould, in great Part, be Imployed vpon Merchandizing; VVhich is the Vena Porta of VVealth in a State.
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Usurie. XLI.”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, page 240:
text: Too neare the Sea, too remote, Hauing the Commoditie of Nauigable Riuers, or the diſcommoditie of their Ouerflovving; […]
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Building. XLV.”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, page 258:
glosses: Disadvantage; inconvenience.
pretenseful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pretenseful
form: most pretenseful
Etymology: From pretense + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Full of pretense or pretenses.
rewardable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rewardable
form: most rewardable
Etymology: From reward + -able.
Senses: examples: text: rewardable person
text: rewardable work
glosses: Worthy of reward.
examples: text: To which may be added this advantage, that the services of churchmen are rewardable upon the church's stock: no need to disimprove the royal banks to pay thanks to bishops.
ref: 1642, Jeremy Taylor, The Sacred Order and Offices of Episcopacy or Episcopacy Asserted against the Arians and Acephali New and Old:
glosses: Capable of being rewarded.
Related terms: rewardableness
rewardably
hemicarp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemicarps
Etymology: Ancient Greek [Term?]
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: One portion of a fruit that spontaneously divides into halves.
Related terms: dehisce
hemicarps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemicarp
planetule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planetules
Etymology: From planet + -ule.
Senses: examples: text: At the surface of Mars, for instance, the gravity is only one third that at our own surface, at the moon one-sixth, and in the singular little planetules grouped between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, probably not more than one-twentieth.
ref: 1836, William Daniel Conybeare, An Elementary Course of Theological Lectures, in Three Parts:
glosses: A little planet.
planetules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planetule
sleetiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sleety + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being sleety.
ignorantist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ignorantists
Etymology: From ignorant + -ist.
Senses: synonyms: obscurantist
glosses: Somene opposed to the diffusion of knowledge.
Related terms: ignorantism
ignorantists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ignorantist
monkly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more monkly
form: most monkly
Etymology: From monk + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: monkly habits
text: monkly haircut
glosses: Like or befitting a monk.
glosses: Pertaining to monks; monastic.
Derived terms: unmonkly
gyrland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyrlands
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of garland.
gyrlands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyrland
isosulphocyanate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isosulphocyanates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt of isosulphocyanic acid.
isosulphocyanates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isosulphocyanate
molossine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /məˈlɒsaɪn/
Forms: form: molossines
Etymology: Molossus + -ine
Senses: examples: text: The monk bat is a molossine.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A bat of the genus Molossus.
molossines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of molossine
reductibilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reductibility
reductibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reductibilities
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being reducible.
increst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: incrests
form: incresting
form: incrested
form: incrested
Etymology: From in- + crest.
Senses: examples: text: Two foaming billows flow'd upon her breast,
Which did their tops with coral red increst
ref: 1616, William Drummond of Hawthornden, “Song XIII”, in Poems: Amorous, Funerall, Divine, Pastorall: in Sonnets, Songs, Sextains:
glosses: To adorn with a crest.
incrested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of increst
incresting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of increst
incrests
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of increst
armiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Etymology: From Latin armifer, from arma (“arms”) + ferre (“to bear”).
Senses: glosses: Bearing arms (weapons).
opeidoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opeidoscopes
Etymology: Coined by its inventor Amos Dolbear, from Ancient Greek roots.
Senses: examples: text: Among many experiments in transmitting speech I tried that of a conical point of iron fastened to the middle of an opeidoscope membrane, the point being attached to a fine wire in such a manner as not to interfere with its freedom of movement […]
ref: 1878, George Bartlett Prescott, The Speaking Telephone, Talking Phonograph, and Other Novelties:
text: This is a modification of the opeidoscope. A thin membrane of goldbeater's skin or rubber is stretched over a wooden or metallic cell and secured by a winding of thread. To the center of the membrane is cemented a small thin mirror.
ref: 1902, George Milton Hopkins, Experimental science:
text: I can't help thinking that, had he lived to see the electronic cricket sensor, the inventor of the opeidoscope probably would have approved.
ref: 2009, May Berenbaum, The Earwig's Tail: A Modern Bestiary of Multi-legged Legends:
glosses: An instrument, consisting of a tube with one end open and the other end covered with a thin flexible membrane with a mirror attached to its centre, used for exhibiting upon a screen, by means of rays reflected from the mirror, the vibratory motions caused by sounds that enter the tube.
rhetoricate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rhetoricates
form: rhetoricating
form: rhetoricated
form: rhetoricated
Etymology: From Latin rhetoricari. See rhetoric.
Senses: examples: , "A Discourse Against Long and Extempore Prayers"
A person ready to sink under his Wants, has neither time, nor heart, to Rhetoricate, or make Flourishes.
glosses: To use rhetorical tropes or embellishments.
rhetoricated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rhetoricate
rhetoricates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rhetoricate
rhetoricating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rhetoricate
infirmatories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infirmatory
infirmatory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infirmatories
Senses: examples: text: The prisoners of war, our infirmatories, and the languishing in 12 other places
ref: 9 September 1665, John Evelyn, letter to Lord Viscount Cornbury:
glosses: An infirmary.
ornithichnology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ornitho- + ichnology.
Senses: examples: text: Ornithichnology; or Description of the Footmarks of Birds
ref: 1858, Edward Hitchcock, Ichnology of New England: A Report on the Sandstone of the Connecticut Valley, Especially Its Fossil Footmarks:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: The branch of science that deals with ornithichnites (fossilised bird footprints).
supremities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supremity
supremity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supremities
Etymology: From supreme + -ity, compare Latin suprēmitās.
Senses: examples: text: She was young and beautiful, with dark, oriental features, and a bearing which aimed at supremity of arrogance.
ref: 1904, George Gissing, chapter 12, in Veranilda:
text: That hour at the entrance to Deception Pass had been the climax of her suffering—the flood of her wrath—the last of her sacrifice—the supremity of her love—and the attainment of peace.
text: The values of War or Empire and Love are ever twin supremities in Shakespeare.
ref: 1931, G. Wilson Knight, chapter 8, in The Imperial Theme:
glosses: Supremacy.
savagism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: savagisms
Etymology: From savage + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The state of being savage; wildness; lack of civility.
savagisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of savagism
ethidene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ether.
Senses: glosses: ethylidene
requisitionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: requisitionists
Etymology: From requisition + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who makes or signs a requisition, especially of debt.
requisitionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of requisitionist
syllabaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syllabarium
syllabarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɪləˈbɛəɹi.əm/
ipa: /ˌsɪləˈbɛɹi.əm/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm
Forms: form: syllabariums
form: syllabaria
Etymology: From Latin syllabārium.
Senses: glosses: Historical form of syllabary.
overmount
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overmounts
form: overmounting
form: overmounted
form: overmounted
Etymology: From over- + mount. Compare surmount.
Senses: examples: text: the pretty purple ground-nut, which, despising its name, overmounts the tallest shrubs
ref: 1845, Sylvester Judd, Margaret: a Tale of Real and Ideal:
glosses: To tower over; to go or rise higher than.
overmount
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overmounts
Etymology: From over- + mount. Compare surmount.
Senses: glosses: A piece of shaped cardboard used to prevent the glass of the frame from lying too closely upon an engraving or a picture.
overmounted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overmount
overmounting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overmount
overmounts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overmount
overmounts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overmount
antipathize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: antipathizes
form: antipathizing
form: antipathized
form: antipathized
form: antipathise
Etymology: From antipathy + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To feel or show antipathy.
antipathized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of antipathize
antipathizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of antipathize
antipathizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of antipathize
refocillation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refocillations
Etymology: From the Latin refocillātiō.
Senses: examples: text: Marry, sir, some precious cordial, some costly refocillation, a composure comfortable and restorative
ref: 1608, Thomas Middleton, A Mad World, My Masters:
glosses: The restoration of strength by means of refreshment.
Related terms: refocillate
irreflection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: irreflexion
Etymology: From French irréflexion.
Senses: glosses: Lack of reflection or consideration.
schorly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more schorly
form: most schorly
Etymology: From schorl + -y.
Senses: examples: text: schorly granite
text: schorly rock
glosses: Pertaining to, or containing, schorl.
beminded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From bemind.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bemind
beminded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bemind.
Senses: examples: text: And if the mind of the whole is taken to be a distinct consciousness, its relation to its beminded parts also requires to be made intelligible.
ref: 2004, Errol E. Harris, Nature, Mind and Modern Science:
glosses: Possessing or endowed with a mind.
gingerness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ginger + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Gingerliness.
examples: text: Gingernut was small and ginger too, though of course he didn’t wear braces. That smallness and gingerness was probably, deep down, why Zoe chose him out of the dozens of little balls of fluff snuggled up together behind the glass at the pet shop.
ref: 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Redheadedness.
encyclopedian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: encyclopaedian
form: encyclopædian
Etymology: From encyclopedia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Encyclopedic; embracing the whole circle of learning, or a wide range of subjects.
Synonyms: word: encyclopediac
word: encyclopediacal
word: encyclopedial
word: encyclopedic
word: encyclopedical
encyclopedian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encyclopedians
form: encyclopaedian
form: encyclopædian
Etymology: From encyclopedia + -an.
Senses: examples: text: This is how Alzheimer's transforms encyclopedians into vegetables, how Parkinson's immobilizes triatheletes.
ref: 2012, Rob Benvie, Maintenance:
glosses: A person who has an encyclopedic knowledge.
single-point urban interchanges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of single-point urban interchange
SPUIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SPUI
resplendishing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more resplendishing
form: most resplendishing
Senses: examples: text: obscure his resplendishing fame
ref: 1593, Gabriel Harvey, Pierces Supererogation:
glosses: resplendent; shiny
endogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: endogenous
examples: text: endogenetic forces
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Originating or occurring within the earth.
ricinine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin ricinus (“castor oil plant”) + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkaloid extracted from the seeds of the castor oil plant, chemical formula C₈H₈N₂O₂
mesaticephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μέσατος (mésatos) (superlative degree of μέσος (mésos)) + -cephalic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having a cranium with a medium ratio of length to breadth.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: with a medium ratio of length to breadth.
raw_tags: of a cranium
Related terms: brachycephalic
dolichocephalic
Fenianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfiːniənɪzəm/
Forms: form: Fenianisms
Etymology: From Fenian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The principles, purposes, doctrines, or beliefs of the Fenians.
Related terms: Fenianist
Fenianisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fenianism
arteriac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin arteriacus, from Ancient Greek ἀρτηριακός (artēriakós). By surface analysis, artery + -ac.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:arteriac.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the arteries; arterial.
irreputable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more irreputable
form: most irreputable
Etymology: From ir- + reputable.
Senses: examples: text: The man who buys on credit by assigning his salary is taking a very hazardous step. Irreputable instalment credit houses are continually laying their pitfalls in the path of the worker.
ref: 1912, September. "Assigning Your Salary", Wells Fargo Messenger, Volumes 1–2, Wells Fargo & Company, page 198
glosses: disreputable; of ill repute
Related terms: irrefutable
water hog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water hogs
Senses: synonyms: water pig
glosses: The capybara.
water hogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water hog
conversably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more conversably
form: most conversably
Etymology: From conversable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a conversable manner, sociably
trifasciated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + fasciated.
Senses: glosses: Having, or surrounded by, three fasciae, or bands.
snithy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: snithier
form: more snithy
form: snithiest
form: most snithy
Etymology: From snithe (“sharp, cutting”) + -y. Cognate with Dutch snedig (“sharp, witty”), German schneidig (“cutting, sharp-edged”). More at snithe.
Senses: glosses: Sharp; cutting.
glosses: Cold, piercing.
raw_tags: of wind or weather
nanna nap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanna naps
Etymology: nanna (“grandmother”) + nap
Senses: glosses: A quick refreshing sleep, especially taken by an older person.
federaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of federary
federary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: federaries
Etymology: See federal.
Senses: examples: text: shee's a Traytor, and Camillo is
A Federarie with her, and one that knowes
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
glosses: A confederate or an accomplice.
laryngotracheotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laryngotracheotomy
laryngotracheotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laryngotracheotomies
Etymology: From laryngo- + tracheotomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The operation of cutting into the larynx and the upper ring of the trachea.
preemptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preemptors
Etymology: Compare Latin praeemptor.
Senses: glosses: Someone who preempts; especially one who appropriates public land.
preemptors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preemptor
pentacapsular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From penta- + capsular.
Senses: glosses: Having five capsules.
hectorly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hectorly
form: most hectorly
Etymology: From hector + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: hectorly, ruffian-like swaggering or huffing
ref: a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). Of Industry in our particular Calling, as Gentlemen”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:
glosses: Resembling a hector; bullying, insolent, or taunting.
holophotal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From holo- + photo- + -al.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Causing no loss of light; applied to reflectors which throw back the rays of light without perceptible loss.
Related terms: holophote
schemist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schemists
Etymology: From scheme + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Baron Puffendorf observed well of those independent schemists
ref: 1730, Daniel Waterland, Supplement to The Nature, Obligation, and Efficacy of the Christian Sacraments Considered:
glosses: A schemer.
glosses: A proponent of a scheme or system.
glosses: An astrologer.
schemists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schemist
revisory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more revisory
form: most revisory
Etymology: From revise + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: An appellate jurisdiction , therefore , that acts , and is acted upon alternatively , in the exercise of an independent revisory authority , must have the means , and can scarcely fail to possess the will , to give it a full and satisfactory review
ref: 1833, Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States:
glosses: Having the power or purpose to revise or review.
enubilous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more enubilous
form: most enubilous
Etymology: See enubilate.
Senses: glosses: Free from fog, mist, or clouds; clear.
birdikin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birdikins
Etymology: From birdie or birdy + -kin.
Senses: examples: text: Mrs. Prior and her basket were gone when we repaired to the drawing-room: having been hunting all day, the hungry mother had returned with her prey to her wide-mouthed birdikins.
ref: 1860 January–June, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, Lovel the Widower, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1861, →OCLC:
glosses: A young bird.
birdikins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birdikin
dolioform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dolioform
form: most dolioform
form: doliiform
Etymology: From Latin dolium (“large jar”) + -form.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Shaped like a barrel or cask.
interepimeral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + epimeral.
Senses: examples: text: interepimeral gland
text: interepimeral hair
text: interepimeral space
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Between the epimeral plates.