cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
big business
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Because he is liberal, temperate and articulate, and because he freely recognizes past Big Business abuses, Wendell L. Willkie, president of huge Commonwealth & Southern Corp., is in a class by himself as a persuasive businessman-critic of the New Deal. . . . "Today it is not Big Business that we have to fear," concluded Businessman Wilkie. "It is Big Government."
ref: 1940 March 18, “Life on the Newsfronts of the World: Big Government”, in Life, retrieved 13 Dec 2011, page 26:
text: In an uncharacteristic rebuff to big business, President Carlos Saul Menem plans this week to propose a package of labor regulations that leaves intact most Government-mandated severance benefits and limits companies' right to hire part-time workers.
ref: 1998 March 17, Clifford Krauss, “International Business: Argentine Labor Code Largely Intact”, in New York Times, retrieved 14 Dec 2011:
text: That smacks of cozy dealings between the government and the tycoons . . . . "Invariably, people see this as a conspiracy between the government and big business," says legislator Alan Leong.
ref: 2005 January 17, Chaim Estulin, “Hong Kong's New Culture”, in Time:
glosses: Large, for-profit corporations collectively, understood as having significant economic, political, or social influence.
Hyponyms: alt: Big Ag
word: big ag
alt: Big Pharma
word: big pharma
english: Big Tech
translation: Big Tech
word: big tech
english: Big Tobacco
translation: Big Tobacco
word: big tobacco
word: Big Four
word: Big Three
Related terms: big government
big labor
big money
Big Business
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of big business.
fulldriven
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fulldriven
form: most fulldriven
form: full-driven
Etymology: From Middle English ful driven, equivalent to full + driven.
Senses: examples: text: A transistor switch may be underdriven, fulldriven, or overdriven when switching ON or OFF. ... A fulldriven switch would be switched from one borderline to the other borderline, eg, A' for OFF and B' for ON.
ref: 1958, Richard B. Hurley, Junction Transistor Electronics, Digitized edition (Electronics), Univ. of Michigan, published 2006, page 341:
glosses: Fully driven or clenched; completed; made up.
fullfeed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fullfeeds
form: fullfeeding
form: fullfed
form: fullfed
form: full-feed
Etymology: A back-formation from fullfeeding; equivalent to full + feed.
Senses: examples: text: If it is desired to fullfeed hogs, they will make a rapid fattening growth by increasing the grain ration while on pasture, [...]
ref: 1914, Virginia. Dept. of Agriculture and Immigration, Bulletin:
text: Efforts were made to fullfeed animals without undue waste, and unconsumed feed was redistributed as part of the procedure.
ref: 1966, American Society of Animal Science, American Society of Animal Production, American Dairy Science Association, Journal of animal science:
glosses: To overfeed; feed to fullness or excess; make plump; fatten.
Derived terms: fullfed
fullfed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fullfed
form: most fullfed
form: full-fed
Etymology: From fullfeed, equivalent to full + fed.
Senses: glosses: Fed to fullness; plump.
fullfed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: full-fed
Etymology: From fullfeed, equivalent to full + fed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fullfeed
postpositionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more postpositionally
form: most postpositionally
Etymology: From postpositional + -ly.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: In a postpositional manner.
glosses: As a postposition.
postpositional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From postposition + -al.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a postposition.
Derived terms: postpositionally
postpositional phrase
postpositional
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postpositionals
Etymology: From postposition + -al.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A postposition.
sharn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: shairn
form: shearn
form: shern
Etymology: From Middle English scharn, from Old English sċearn (“sharn, dung, muck, filth”), from Proto-West Germanic *skarn, from Proto-Germanic *skarną (“manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *sker- (“dung, manure”). Cognate with North Frisian skern (“dung, manure”), Danish, Swedish, and Icelandic skarn (“dung”), German Harn (“urine”). Doublet of skarn.
Senses: examples: text: right between the byre and the stable and the barn on one side and the house on the other was the cattle-court and right in the middle of that the midden, high and yellow with dung and straw and sharn, and Mistress Strachan could never forgive Peesie's Knapp because of that awful smell it had.
ref: 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 19:
glosses: The dung or manure of cattle or sheep.
Derived terms: sharnbod
sharny
red velvet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red velvets
Senses: examples: red velvet cake
red velvet yogurt
glosses: Cocoa flavor with red coloring.
examples: text: "Give me the cupcakes," he said under his breath. ¶ The girl's eyes dug into him. Her pink mouth hung open. "Red velvet's the favorite." ¶ "Give me those. The red velvets."
ref: 2009, John Wray, Lowboy, →ISBN, page 131:
glosses: A red-velvet-flavored thing
Related terms: red velvet cake
red velvet mite
nanoelemental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nanoelemental
form: most nanoelemental
Etymology: From nanoelement + -al.
Senses: glosses: of, or pertaining to a nanoelement
directed graphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of directed graph
nasal consonant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nasal consonants
Senses: hypernyms: nasal
sonorant
resonant
coordinate_terms: nasal vowel
glosses: A consonant sound produced by air moving though the nose with the mouth passage occluded.
zhlub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zhlubs
Senses: glosses: a crude person lacking in social skills and exhibiting insensitivity, clumsiness and a lack of manners
glosses: an oaf, a bumpkin
glosses: a nebbish, a timid person
Related terms: schlub
zhlubby
sputcheon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspʌt͡ʃən/
Forms: form: sputcheons
Etymology: Origin unknown.
Senses: examples: text: Schlussblech, […] The sputcheon of the mouth-piece; inner part of the mouth-piece, which retains the lining of metal-scabbards.
ref: 1848, Geo[rge] F[loyd] Duckett, Technological Military Dictionary, German–English–French, new edition, London: Parker, Furnival, and Parker, […], →OCLC, page 319, column 1:
text: […] [batte] de la cuvette, sputcheon of the mouth-piece of a sword-scabbard, or that part which retains the wooden scabbard (fût).
ref: 1852, [Robert] Burn, “Batte”, in A Naval and Military Technical Dictionary of the French Language. […], 2nd edition, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 37, column 2:
text: Mouth pieces and sputcheons will no longer be supplied separately, but mouth pieces with the sputcheon strongly attached will be furnished.
ref: 1871 July 1, “Army Circulars. 1871.”, in The Army List, for July, 1871, London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, →OCLC, clause 109 (Repairs to Cavalry Sword Scabbards), paragraph 3, page 367:
text: It may be interesting to enumerate the number of operations required for the making of a new British cavalry sword, independently of the production of the steel. They are as follows: / The manufacture of the blade, 32 operations; scabbard, 30; scabbard mouthpiece with sputcheon, 32; […]
ref: 1886 June 3, “Swords and Sword Making at Solingen, Germany. (Concluded.)”, in Merrick Cowles, John W. Weston, editors, The American Engineer. An Illustrated Weekly Journal, volume XI, number 22, Chicago, Ill.: Cowles & Weston, […], →OCLC, page 223, column 2:
text: The scabbard is of steel, and is fitted with an iron sputcheon with brass mouthpiece, braced on and fixed in scabbard with screws. […] The lining consists of two strips of wood held in position by the sputcheon.
ref: 1906 July 27, “[Appendix V.] Swords and Scabbards.”, in Dress Regulations for the Officers of the Canadian Militia. Militia Department, Ottawa: […] S. E. Dawson, […], published 1907, →OCLC, section 1 (Field Marshals and General Officers), page 71:
text: She held her mouth slitted open in anguish so that in Inman's mind it resembled the sputcheon to a sword scabbard.
ref: 1997, Charles Frazier, “A Vow to Bear”, in Cold Mountain, New York, N.Y.: Atlantic Monthly Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 273:
glosses: The metal lining of a scabbard's mouth.
schiavona
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schiavonas
Etymology: From Italian. So named because the sword was popular among the Schiavoni (“Slavs”), Istrian and Dalmatian Slavs who formed the bodyguard of the Doge of Venice.
Senses: glosses: A type of sword with a basket-shaped guard, popular during the 16th and 17th centuries.
Hypernyms: sword
Anglo-Normans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Anglo-Norman
air plants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of air plant
zero G
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈziɹoʊ d͡ʒiː/
Forms: form: zero g
form: zero-g
form: zero-G
form: zero gee
form: zero-gee
Etymology: Clipping of zero gravity. Coined by British science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke (as "zero 'g'") in his 1952 novel Islands in the Sky.
Senses: glosses: zero gravity
wikipedia: Arthur C. Clarke
Islands in the Sky
confidence level
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confidence levels
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: The probability that a measured quantity will fall within a given confidence interval.
Synonyms: c.l.
CL
c.l.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CL
Senses: examples: Due to its effect on the expansion rate of the Universe during Big Bang nucleosynthesis (BBN), the theoretical expectations for the primordial abundances of light elements depend on N_ν. Astrophysical measurements of the primordial ⁴He and ²D abundances lead to a value of N_ν = 3.14_-0.65 at 68% c.l., in very good agreement with the Standard Model expectation.
glosses: Initialism of confidence level.
autogeneal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Self-produced; autogenous.
chattelism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chattel + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The act or condition of holding chattels; slavery.
glosses: The state of being a chattel.
corocore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corocores
Senses: glosses: Rare form of caracoa.
corocores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corocore
dodecastyle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: duodecastyle
Etymology: From dodeca- + -style.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Having twelve columns in front
dodecastyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dodecastyles
form: duodecastyle
Etymology: From dodeca- + -style.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A portico or building with twelve columns in front.
dodecastyles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dodecastyle
epistolize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: epistolizes
form: epistolizing
form: epistolized
form: epistolized
Senses: glosses: To write epistles.
Derived terms: epistolizer
epistolized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of epistolize
epistolizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of epistolize
epistolizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of epistolize
experimentalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: experimentalizes
form: experimentalizing
form: experimentalized
form: experimentalized
Etymology: From experimental + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make experiments upon.
examples: text: September 18 1852, John Stuart Mill, letter to Alexis de Tocqueville
I investigate, I experimentalize; I try to grasp the facts more closely than has yet been attempted
text: The Fellatas flocked from all quarters to this new seat of civilization and learning; and his growing power induced Danfodio to experimentalize upon its extent.
ref: 1829, Hugh Clapperton, “Travels”, in The Westminster Review:
text: Dear Rowland, it must be your business and mine to experimentalize on the utility and practicability of a revertent to this disgusting disorder which now vexes and threatens death to the state.
ref: 1848, Thomas Hall, Rowland Bradshaw, page 295:
glosses: To experiment.
experimentalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of experimentalize
experimentalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of experimentalize
experimentalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of experimentalize
flewed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From flew + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind; / So flewed, so sanded; and their heads are hung / With ears that sweep away the morning dew;
ref: c. 1595–1596, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, act 4, scene 1:
glosses: Having large flews, the hanging upper lip common to certain breeds of dog.
glump
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: glumps
form: glumping
form: glumped
form: glumped
Etymology: See glum.
Senses: glosses: To be glum; to sulk.
Derived terms: glumpish
glumps
glumpy
glump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glumps
Etymology: Blend of glom or glob + clump
Senses: glosses: A globular clump.
glump
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: glumps
form: glumping
form: glumped
form: glumped
Etymology: Blend of glom or glob + clump
Senses: examples: text: “There's some ionic residue on this lamp. Glumpus was here for sure.” “Glumpus?” “I decided to give the nanites a name, since they glump so much.” “Aw, cute.”
ref: 2024 October 31, Stephanie Amante-Ritter, “The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel” (5:09 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 5, episode 3, spoken by Samanthan Rutherford (Eugene Cordero):
glosses: To have an affinity for clumping into a glob.
glumped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of glump
glumping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of glump
glumps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of glump
glumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A state of sulking; sullen mood.
indefinitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indefinitudes
Senses: glosses: The quality of being indefinite or vague.
examples: text: They arise to a strange and prodigious multitude, if not indefinitude, by their various positions, combinations, and conjunctions.
ref: a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:
glosses: An indefinite number or quantity.
indefinitudes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indefinitude
possessionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From possession + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: possessionary interest
text: possessionary rights
glosses: Of or pertaining to possession.
thruout
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Etymology: See thru.
Senses: examples: text: He connected the bulb in circuit with his conventional radio apparatus, using the same circuits for additional electrodes that he had used thruout his experiments with the thing.
ref: 1920 May 24, The Electrical Experimenter, New York, page 78, column 2:
text: It led to a drive against screeno as used in movie houses thruout the city.
ref: 1943, Billboard, volume 55, number 3:
text: St. Paul arrived in Greece 1,900 years ago this summer. It was a momentous event for the peoples of the western world. To signalize this undevicesimal centennial, the Greek Orthodox church is inviting scholars and religious leaders thruout the world to Athens for a delayed celebration in June of 1951.
ref: 1950 March 4, John Evans, “Notes on News in Religion”, in Chicago Daily Tribune, volume CIX, number 54, Chicago, Ill., page 8:
text: Daily Times-Advocate / SERVES MORE SUBSCRIBERS THRUOUT NORTHERN SAN DIEGO COUNTY THAN ANY OTHER NEWSPAPER
ref: 1964 May 27, Daily Times-Advocate, volume LI, number 237, Escondido, Calif., →OCLC, page 1:
glosses: Nonstandard spelling of throughout.
thruout
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: See thru.
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard spelling of throughout.
Whitson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Whitsun.
wiggeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wiggery
wiggery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪɡəɹi/
homophone: Whiggery
Forms: form: wiggeries
Etymology: From wig + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: There was nothing about their outward appearance of the august wiggery of statecraft, nothing of the ponderous dignity of ministerial position.
ref: 1868, Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn:
glosses: A wig or wigs; false hair.
examples: text: Fire peels the wiggeries away from them [facts].
ref: 1858–1865, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Any cover or screen, such as red-tapism.
indefensibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: veiling its enormity, and its indefensibility
ref: 1871, Robert Walsh, The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art:
glosses: The quality or state of not being defensible.
skyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more skyish
form: most skyish
Etymology: From Middle English skyyssh, equivalent to sky + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: the skyish head Of blue Olympus
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
glosses: Like the sky
glosses: lofty; ethereal.
sublumbar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + lumbar.
Senses: examples: the sublumbar lymph glands
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the lumbar region of the vertebral column.
sylvanium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silvanium
Etymology: From New Latin silvānium, so called from Transylvania, where it was first found, + -ium.
Senses: glosses: tellurium
siphonet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: siphonets
Etymology: From siphon + -et.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: honey tube
glosses: a cornicle (tubular organs on aphids, which secrete honeydew).
siphonets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of siphonet
glary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɛəɹi/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi
Forms: form: glarier
form: glariest
Etymology: From glare + -y.
Senses: examples: November 29, 1659, S. Hartlir, letter to Robert Boyle
Bright, crystal glass is glary.
glosses: Of a dazzling lustre; glaring; bright; shining.
examples: text: He gave me that glary look again, but he'd been overruled.
ref: 2011, C. Y. Bourgeois, Visions of You, page 136:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a glare, or angry look.
Derived terms: glariness
pantalet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pantalets
Senses: glosses: One of the legs of loose-fitting undertrousers formerly worn under the skirt of children and women in the 19th century. They could be worn as two garments, or joined as one.
Related terms: pantaloon
pants
fowlerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fowlerites
Etymology: From Fowler + -ite, after Dr. Samuel Fowler.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A variety of rhodonite that contains zinc.
fowlerites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fowlerite
repaganize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: repaganizes
form: repaganizing
form: repaganized
form: repaganized
Etymology: From re- + paganize.
Senses: glosses: To paganize again; to return to paganism.
Related terms: repaganization
repaganized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of repaganize
repaganizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repaganize
repaganizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of repaganize
bubukle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bubukles
Etymology: Perhaps related to bubo and/or carbuncle.
Senses: examples: text: His face is all bubukles, and whelks, and knobs, and flames o' fire; and his lips blows at his nose, and it is like a coal of fire, sometimes plue and sometimes red; but his nose is executed, and his fire's out.
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: His moon face wore the perpetual smile of a simpleton and was headlighted by a bubukle nose. The facial blotch was not congenital but was from mustard gas in '17.
ref: 1948, Andrew Geer, The Sea Chase, page 8:
text: Probably it was less painful to have white whelks than red carbuncles and bubukles.
ref: 1951, Ivor John Carnegie Brown, I Break My Word, page 30:
glosses: A red pimple.
bubukles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bubukle
internuncioship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: internuncioships
Etymology: From internuncio + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: Several billets paſſed between us before I went out, by the Internuncioship of Dorcas
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
glosses: The office or function of an internuncio.
internuncioships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of internuncioship
otacoustic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oto- + acoustic.
Senses: examples: text: an otacoustic instrument
text: otacoustic treatment
glosses: Assisting the sense of hearing.
otacoustic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: otacoustics
Etymology: From oto- + acoustic.
Senses: glosses: A kind of ear trumpet.
imbank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: imbanks
form: imbanking
form: imbanked
form: imbanked
Etymology: From im- + bank.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of embank.
Derived terms: imbankment
unimbanked
imbanked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of imbank
imbanking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of imbank
imbanks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of imbank
ichthyographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ichthyography
ichthyography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: ichthyographies
Etymology: From ichthyo- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: The scientific description of fishes
Derived terms: ichthyographical
Related terms: ichthyograph
ichthyographer
ichthyographic
sleepfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sleepful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: sleepiness
dummerer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dummerers
Etymology: Related to dumb.
Senses: examples: text: every village almost will yield abundant testimonies amongst us; we have dummerers , Abraham men, &c.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
glosses: One who pretends to be dumb (unable to speak).
Related terms: mute
dummerers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dummerer
graduator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graduators
Etymology: From graduate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: a graduator of instruments
glosses: One who graduates (determines or indicates graduation).
glosses: An instrument for dividing any line, straight or curved, into smaller regular intervals.
glosses: An apparatus for diffusing a solution, such as brine or vinegar, over a large surface, for exposure to the air.
graduators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of graduator
hagborn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: hag-born
form: hag-borne
Etymology: From hag + born.
Senses: examples: text: Pro. […]Then was this Iſland / (Saue for the Son, that he^([sic]) did littour heere, / A frekelld whelpe, hag-borne) not honour'd with / A humane ſhape.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 4:
text: Out, thou freckled whelp ! thou hagborn ! Out, I say !
ref: 1879, Augustus B. Wood, Cupid on Crutches, Or, One Summer at Narragansett Pier, page 113:
text: The hagborn creature came up to the captain and raised his right hand, palm out, in a rough salute.
ref: 1946, Francis P. Scannell, In Line of Duty, page 39:
text: Ned bites his thumb at her. 'Screw you and your mother and your hagborn dropsical brood, you scrofulous tit-sore slut!' he shouts, already beginning to feel better.
ref: 1982, The Granta, page 96:
glosses: Born of a hag or witch.
roughleg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roughlegs
Etymology: From rough + leg.
Senses: glosses: Buteo lagopus, a bird of prey.
roughlegs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roughleg
sharebeam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sharebeams
form: share-beam
Etymology: From share + beam.
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: The part of a plough to which the share is attached.
sharebeams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sharebeam
dissymmetrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dissymmetrical
form: most dissymmetrical
Etymology: From dis- + symmetrical.
Senses: glosses: Lacking symmetry.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: chiral
Synonyms: asymmetrical
unsymmetrical
packtong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paktong.
slatt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slatts
Etymology: See slat (“a strip of board”).
Senses: glosses: A stone slab used as a veneer for coarse masonry.
slatt
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Acronym of slime love all the time and slime life all the time. Coined and popularised by Young Thug.
Senses: glosses: Used to express affection between friends, especially within the hip-hop community.
slatts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slatt
paktongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paktong
sonneteering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sonneteer
sonneteering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sonneteerings
Senses: glosses: The writing of sonnets.
sonneteered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sonneteer
hungred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hungred
form: most hungred
Senses: synonyms: word: anhungred
glosses: hungry
incommunicating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + communicating.
Senses: examples: text: [Justices] daily in Term-time Converſe and Conſult with one another; […] and by this Means their Judgments and their Adminiſtrations of Common Juſtice carry a Conſonancy, Congruity, and Uniformity one to another, whereby both the Laws and the Adminiſtrations thereof are preſerved from that Confuſion and Diſparity that would unavoidably enſue, if the Adminiſtration was by ſeveral incommunicating Hands, or by provincial Eſtabliſhments: […]
ref: 1713, [Matthew Hale], “Touching Trials by Jury”, in The History of the Common Law of England: […], [London]: […] J[ohn] Nutt, assignee of Edw[ard] Sayer Esq; for J. Walthoe, […], →OCLC, pages 255–256:
glosses: Having no communion or intercourse with each other.
oxidizement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oxidize + -ment.
Senses: glosses: oxidation
reamputation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reamputations
Etymology: From re- + amputation.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A second amputation performed upon the same body part.
Related terms: reamputate
reamputations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reamputation
sectionality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sectional + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being sectional; sectionalism.
Related terms: cross-sectionality
affamishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From affamish + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: affamishment of his body
ref: 1612–1626, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volume (please specify |volume=II, V, or VI), London, →OCLC:
glosses: starvation or great hunger
Related terms: famish
aquiparous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aqui- + -parous.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Secreting water; applied to certain glands.
supracostal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supra- + costal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: extracostal
infracostal
intercostal
intracostal
subcostal
glosses: Situated above (superior to) a rib or the ribs.
subtrihedral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌsʌbtɹaɪˈhiːdɹəl/
Etymology: From sub- + trihedral.
Senses: examples: text: the subtrihedral crown of a tooth
text: 1840-1845, Richard Owen, Odontography
The anterior or external teeth of the upper resemble those of the lower jaw ; they are strong , conical , subtrihedral , hollow at the base , which is obliquely truncated , and rounded and obtuse at the apex
glosses: Almost trihedral.
euchroic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eu- + Ancient Greek χρώς (khrṓs) + -ic, meaning "well-colored".
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An imide acid, C₁₂H₄N₂O₈, that turns dark blue on reduction.
Related terms: euchrone
authorism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: authorisms
Etymology: From author + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Authorism of the work is ascribed to Cicero.
glosses: Authorship.
examples: text: My publisher put up with my authorisms.
text: No person could be more ready to discern and to praise its graces; but, from the commencement of the Botanic Garden, the jealous spirit of authorism darkened his candor.
ref: 1999, Gary Kelly, Jennifer Kelly, Anna Seward, Bluestocking feminism: writings of the Bluestocking Circle, 1738-1785:
glosses: A habit or practice of an author.
discourager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discouragers
Etymology: From discourage + -er.
Senses: examples: text: the promoter of truth and the discourager of error
ref: 1849, George Cornewall Lewis, An Essay on the Influence of Authority in Matters of Opinion:
glosses: One who discourages.
discouragers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discourager
forensal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: [B]eing juſtified by Faith, in a Forenſal ſenſe, that is, acquitted and aſſoiled from the guilt of all our ſins, as vvell as in ſeveral meaſures, according to our ſeveral ages and grovvths in Chriſtianity; […]
ref: 1664, H[enry] More, chapter V, in A Modest Enquiry into the Mystery of Iniquity, […], London: […] J[ames] Flesher for W[illiam] Morden […], →OCLC, book II, page 112:
text: the Dutch pharmacist includes forensal and quantitative analysis , as well as microscopical study of the pharmaceutical drugs and their adulterations
ref: 1882, American Journal of Pharmacy, volume 54:
glosses: Forensic.
transanimation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transanimations
Etymology: From trans- + animation.
Senses: examples: text: The immortality of the soul they did not flatly deny , but falsely believe ; disguised under the opinion of transanimation, conceiving that dying men's souls afterward passed into other bodies, either preferred to better, or condemned to worse
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: The conveyance or passing of a soul from one body to another.
glosses: Resuscitation of a stillborn infant.
transanimations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transanimation
Iowas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Iowa
equipondious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin aequipondium (“an equal weight”), from aequus (“equal”) + pondus (“weight”).
Senses: examples: text: And what happineſs is there in a ſtorm of paſſions? On this account the Scepticks affected an indifferent æquipondious neutrality as the only means to their Ataraxia, and freedom from paßionate diſturbances.
ref: 1665, Joseph Glanvill, chapter XXVII, in Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; in an Essay of the Vanity of Dogmatizing, and Confident Opinion with a Reply to the Exceptions of the Learned Thomas Albius, London: E. Cotes, page 168:
glosses: Of equal weight on both sides; balanced.
morsitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] and his research into the literature of the subject, with his liberal recognition of the quotation marks, indicates his well-disposed mind toward the men who have blazed the way before him in this difficult and intricate mechanism of morsitation.
ref: 1909, Transactions of the National Dental Association, page 83:
glosses: The act of biting or gnawing, especially by insects.
tulip-eared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Prick-eared (said of certain dogs).
areet
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of all right.
areet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of all right.
semilogical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + logical.
Senses: examples: text: in the Fallacy which has been called semilogical […] the extremes are compared with two different terms[…]
ref: 1826, Richard Whately, Elements of Logic:
glosses: Only partly logical.
lithofracteur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithofractor
Etymology: Borrowed from French lithofracteur. Compare litho- (“rock”), fracture (“to break”).
Senses: glosses: An explosive compound of nitroglycerin.
nyctitropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: nyctotropic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek νύχτατροπικός (núkhtatropikós, literally “night-turning”).
Senses: examples: text: Nyctitropic movements of plants usually consist in a folding or drooping of the leaves, the advantage being in lessening the radiation of heat.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: nyctinastic
glosses: Turning or bending at night into different positions.
stoicisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stoicism
impunibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more impunibly
form: most impunibly
Etymology: From impunible + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: no Man impunibly violates a Law established
ref: 1747, John Ellis, The Knowledge of Divine Things from revelation:
glosses: In an impunible manner; without punishment.
tussuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tussucks
Senses: examples: text: The Fruit is remarkable for the ſeveral Tussucks or Bunches of Thorns wherewith it is armed all round about : each Bunch consisting of about fix or eight Thorns
ref: 1681, Nehemiah Grew, Musæum Regalis Societatis. Or A Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and Preserved at Gresham Colledge. […], London: […] W. Rawlins, for the author, →OCLC:
glosses: Archaic form of tussock.
tussucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tussuck
broadpiece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broadpieces
Etymology: From broad + piece.
Senses: glosses: An old English gold or silver coin, broader than a guinea, such as a Carolus or Jacobus.
broadpieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of broadpiece
rejuvenescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more rejuvenescent
form: most rejuvenescent
Senses: synonyms: rejuvenating
glosses: Becoming, or causing to become, rejuvenated.
graven image
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graven images
Senses: glosses: A carved idol or representation of a god used as an object of worship.
hallmote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hallmotes
form: halimot
form: halimote
form: hallmoot
Etymology: From Middle English hallmote, equivalent to hall + mote (“meeting”), see moot.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: In England, a court held in a justice's hall; a court-leet; court-baron.
undulatus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undulatuses
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
synonyms: undulatus asperatus cloud
undulatus asperatus
undulatus cloud
asperatus cloud
asperatus
glosses: Ellipsis of undulatus asperatus cloud.
lobus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lobi
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin lobus, from Ancient Greek λοβός (lobós).
Senses: examples: text: The lobus of Morgagni is a lobe at the base of the prostate, discovered by Morgagni, and since described by Sir Everard Home.
ref: 1865, Richard Dennis Hoblyn, A Dictionary of Terms Used in Medicine and the Collateral Sciences:
topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A lobe.
Related terms: word: lobi pulmonales
word: lobi reniculi
word: lobus biventralis
sense: the caudate lobe.
word: lobus caudatus
sense: the insula of the brain.
word: lobus opertus
word: lobus quadratus
sense: a prominent oblong lobe on the posterior surface of the liver.
word: lobus Spigelii
o.s.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of old series.
raw_tags: in bibliographies
o.s.
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of oneself.
o.s.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
publishing
scriptwriting
writing
glosses: Initialism of off-screen.
Morori
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An endangered language of Irian Jaya, Indonesia. It is a sole member of the Moraori branch within the large Trans-New Guinea family.
yoke-footed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: zygodactylous, zygodactylic
shild
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shildren
Senses: examples: text: "Und Shonny Schwartz' barents vas poorer as be" — Oh, dhose shildren, dhose shildren, dhey boddher mine life ! — But shtop shust a leedle. If Katrine, mine vife, […]
ref: 1888, Charles Follen Adams, Dialect Ballads, page 60:
text: RAGGOU. For oughta me see, dis shild be your shild.
CAPTAIN. How prove you that, sir?
RAGGOU. Begar, she say de shild belong to de troop, and you say de troop belong to you; derefore, de shild is your shild, begar. […]
RAGGOU. […] Madam Dol, before my Capitain, if your shild be born wid never a shart, den it by my shild, for me have had no shart dis forty week.
ref: 2001, J. Douglas Canfield, Maja-Lisa von Sneidern, The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Drama, Broadview Press, page 960, quoting some edition of John Lacy's The Old Troop: Or, Monsieur Raggou (originally from 1672)
glosses: Alternative form of child representing German- or French-accented speech.
alcoholature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alcoholatures
Etymology: Compare French alcoolature.
Senses: examples: text: The experiment of Mother Tinctures are identical to those prescribed for the tincture or alcoholatures mentioned in the pharmacopoea.
ref: 1985, O. A. Julian, Materia Medica of Nosodes with Repertory, page 105:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An alcoholic tincture prepared with fresh plants.
alcoholatures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alcoholature
amyelous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + myelo- + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: amyelous foetus
text: amyelous embryo
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Lacking the spinal cord.
biomagnetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + magnetic.
Senses: examples: text: biomagnetic field
text: biomagnetic measurements
text: biomagnetic phenomena
text: biomagnetic separation
text: biomagnetic theory
glosses: Relating to biomagnetism.
Derived terms: biomagnetically
brockish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more brockish
form: most brockish
Etymology: From brock + -ish?
Senses: examples: text: Those brockish boores haue gone frely foreward without checke.
ref: 1546, John Bale, The Actes of Englysh Votaries:
glosses: beastly; brutal
cathartin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cathartic + -in?
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The bitter purgative principle of senna. It is a glucoside with the properties of a weak acid.
Synonyms: cathartic acid
cathartina
cocooneries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cocoonery
cocoonery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cocooneries
Etymology: From cocoon + -ery.
Senses: synonyms: magnanery
glosses: A building or room for the rearing of silkworms.
cricothyroid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɹʌɪ.kə(ʊ)ˈθʌɪ.ɹɔɪd/
ipa: /ˌkɹaɪ.koʊˈθaɪˌɹɔɪd/
rhymes: -aɪɹɔɪd
Forms: form: cricothyroideus
Etymology: From crico- + thyroid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining both to the cricoid and the thyroid cartilages.
Derived terms: cricothyroidotomy
cricothyroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɹʌɪ.kə(ʊ)ˈθʌɪ.ɹɔɪd/
ipa: /ˌkɹaɪ.koʊˈθaɪˌɹɔɪd/
rhymes: -aɪɹɔɪd
Forms: form: cricothyroids
form: cricothyroideus
Etymology: From crico- + thyroid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Clipping of cricothyroid muscle.
dermopteran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dermopterans
Etymology: Dermoptera + -an
Senses: topics: biology
mammalogy
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any mammal in the order Dermoptera, a colugo.
examples: text: Earwigs are dermopterans.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any insect which has the anterior pair of wings coriaceous, and does not use them in flight.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Misspelling of dermapteran.
dermopterans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dermopteran
epigrammatize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: epigrammatizes
form: epigrammatizing
form: epigrammatized
form: epigrammatized
Senses: glosses: To represent or express by epigrams.
Derived terms: epigrammatizer
epigrammatized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of epigrammatize
epigrammatizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of epigrammatize
epigrammatizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of epigrammatize
mislayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mislayers
Etymology: From mislay + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The Miſlaier of a Meere Stone is to blame.
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Judicature”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, pages 316–317:
glosses: One who mislays.
mislayers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mislayer
musal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈmjuːzəl/
Etymology: From Muse + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Muses
glosses: Of or pertaining to poetry; poetic.
nombles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] as she had seen the red blood and the new grave, when she was a little girl, and ran home and mentioned it to her grandfather, who charged her as she valued her life never to mention that again, as it was only the nombles and hide of a deer which he himself had buried there.
ref: 1800, James Hogg, The Mysterious Bride:
glosses: Alternative form of numbles.
recusative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈkjuːzətɪv/
Forms: form: more recusative
form: most recusative
Etymology: From the Late Latin recūsātīvus (“prohibitory”).
Senses: examples: text: it is acquisitive and effective , or recusative and destructive , otherwise than it is in any other faculties
ref: 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in All Her General Measures; […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] James Flesher, for Richard Royston […], →OCLC:
text: For many years, scholars have concentrated espcially on the "recusative” function of medieval marvels, especially of gargoyles and other grotesques—that is, their signification as demonic or morally reprehensible—which, as Williams notes, may be the easiest signification of the monstrous to comprehend or to describe:.
ref: 2004, Erika E. Hess, Literary Hybrids:
text: On Tír, it was only the recusative priests who painted their faces —they painted them black, along with the palms of their hands
ref: 2014, Frank P. Ryan, The Sword of Feimhin:
text: As we move from Montagu's own theorization of translation to her complex recusative acts of allusion and finally to her Virgilian allegories, we can track two coextensive performances .
ref: 2019, Daniel O'Quinn, Engaging the Ottoman Empire: Vexed Mediations, 1690-1815, page 166:
glosses: Refusing; denying; rejecting of the norm.
examples: text: A sentence which is negative (in meaning) is not always recusative (containing the word 'not'), and vice versa: a propositive syntagm need not always be positive.
ref: 1972, Niels Danielsen, Die Frage: Eine sprachwissenschaftliche Untersuchung:
text: In recusative negation the negative element is separable from the rest of the utterance which can act as an autonomous non-negative utterance.
ref: 2008, Matti Miestamo, Standard Negation:
text: Exceptions are found in some Central/North Dravidian languages which developed a recusative type of negation under the influence of Indo-Aryan/Iranian languages.
ref: 2010, Jan Wohlgemuth, Michael Cysouw, Rara & Rarissima, page 301:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Including the word 'not' (or its equivalent).
roseheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rosehead