cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
enlards
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enlard
nectostem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From necto- + Ancient Greek στέμμα (stémma, “wreath”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: That portion of the axis which bears the nectocalyces in siphonophores.
perfusive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more perfusive
form: most perfusive
Etymology: From perfuse + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: perfusive particles
glosses: Tending to flow over, or to spread through.
examples: text: perfusive media
text: perfusive bed
text: perfusive material
glosses: Conducive to the flow or movement of fluids.
Derived terms: hypoperfusive
perfusivity
siphonoglyphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of siphonoglyph
plauditory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplɔːdɪt(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ˈplɔːdət(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ˈplɔdətɔɹi/
ipa: /ˈplɑdətɔɹi/
Forms: form: more plauditory
form: most plauditory
Etymology: From plaudit + -ory, possibly on the model of auditory.
Senses: examples: text: plauditory comments
glosses: Applauding; commending.
exaltment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exaltments
Etymology: From exalt + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: As to the substance of this particular, we may consider, that sanctity implying a discrimination, a distance, an exaltment in nature or use of the thing, which is denominated thereby […]
ref: 1681, Isaac Barrow, A brief exposition of the Lord's prayer and the Decalogue to which is added the doctrine of the sacraments:
text: For of exaltments wonderous they could tell
ref: 1834, J. C. Mercier, “The Painter's Progress”, in Arnold's Magazine of the Fine Arts, volume 4:
text: 'Oh, the same princess Pride rules them both,' answered the angel, 'this young man is only speaking fair on account of the errand he comes upon; he is seeking popularity at present, with the intent to raise himself thereby to the highest office in the kingdom – it is easy for him to lament to the people how much they are wronged by the oppression of bad masters; but his own exaltment, and not the weal of the kingdom, is the heart of the matter.'
ref: 1909 [1703], Ellis Wynne, translated by Robert Gwyneddon Davies, The Visions of the Sleeping Bard, translation of original in Welsh:
glosses: exaltation
exaltments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exaltment
oragious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oragious
form: most oragious
Etymology: French orageux.
Senses: examples: text: […], whose early life may have been rather oragious, was yet a gentleman perfectly well conserved
ref: 1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC:
glosses: stormy
cucumberfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cucumberfish
form: cucumberfishes
Etymology: From cucumber + fish.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cucumber fish.
cucumberfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cucumberfish
inblown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in + blown.
Senses: examples: text: And the capsule's texture yielded to inflate in as correlative ratio to the maximal limit of "i" that the inblown "kh" ( and "m" ) could extort from such texture; and the trio of which equalized a given buoyantly expansion, halted only by that incorporal "i" the textural tenacity would not yield.
ref: 1953, Philip Warsaw, Genesis, Mother of Sciences: An Exposition, page 220:
text: Inblown organic debris will also gradually add substrate for saprophagous food chains.
ref: 2014, Advances in Agronomy - Volume 127, page 82:
glosses: Blown in or into.
wagati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The leopard cat.
bookfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bookful
booksful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bookful
shelfful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shelffuls
form: shelvesful
Etymology: From shelf + -ful.
Senses: examples: a shelfful of books
glosses: Enough to fill a shelf.
Coordinate terms: basketful
boxful
cabinetful
drawerful
shelvesful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shelfful
shelffuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shelfful
vibroscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vibroscopes
Etymology: From vibro- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for observing or tracing vibrations.
glosses: An instrument resembling the phenakistoscope.
vibroscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vibroscope
invectively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more invectively
form: most invectively
Etymology: From invective + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: most invectively he pierceth through
The body of the country
ref: c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
text: However, what matters to them is the intention of such a question, especially when they are invectively referred to as chinky and other remarks that are considered to be derogatory
ref: 2021, Thongkholal Haokip, “From ‘Chinky’ to ‘Coronavirus’: racism against Northeast Indians during the Covid-19 pandemic”, in Asian Ethnicity, page 356:
glosses: In an invective manner; by complaining.
phenylic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phenyl + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: phenylic acid
text: phenylic cyanate
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to, derived from, or containing phenyl.
indisputed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more indisputed
form: most indisputed
Etymology: From in- + disputed.
Senses: examples: text: Natura nihil agit frustra, is the only indisputed Axiome in Philosophy.
ref: 1643, Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, I.15:
glosses: Undisputed.
Derived terms: indisputedly
rostelliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rostelliform
form: most rostelliform
Etymology: From Latin rostellum + -form.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the form of a rostellum, or small beak.
wevil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wevils
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of weevil.
wevils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wevil
refractiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From refractive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or condition of being refractive.
pseudodigraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudodigraphs
Etymology: From pseudo- + digraph.
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A graph that resembles a directed graph but violates one of the normal rules, as for example by including a directed loop.
pseudodigraphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudodigraph
oryctology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From New Latin oryctologia.
Senses: glosses: The study of things dug out of the earth, including minerals and fossils.
Derived terms: oryctologic
oryctological
oryctologist
Related terms: oryctognosy
subbag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subbags
Etymology: From sub- + bag.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A partial bag (collection of objects with possible duplicates).
subbags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subbag
phylloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phylloid
form: most phylloid
Etymology: From phyllo- + -oid.
Senses: synonyms: leaflike
phylloidal
phyllous
glosses: Resembling a leaf.
phylloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phylloids
Etymology: From phyllo- + -oid.
Senses: glosses: A leaf-like structure.
regenerateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From regenerate + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being regenerate.
weatherliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From weatherly + -ness.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The quality of being weatherly.
filatories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filatory
filatory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪlətəɹi/
ipa: /ˈfɪlətɹi/
ipa: /ˈfɪləˌtɔɹi/
Forms: form: filatories
Etymology: From Latin filatorium (“place for spinning”), from filare (“to spin”), from filum (“a thread”).
Senses: examples: text: It [a silk manufactory] has 3 filatories, each of 640 reels, which are set in motion by a water-wheel; and besides a small filatory, turned by men.
ref: 1799, William Tooke, A View of the Russian Empire during the Reign of Catharine II and to the close of the present Century:
glosses: A machine for forming threads.
rupicola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rupicolas
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
synonyms: cock-of-the-rock
glosses: Any of several South American passerine birds, of the genus Rupicola, having bright plumage and a fan-shaped crest on the head.
rupicolas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rupicola
keelman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keelmen
Etymology: From keel + -man.
Senses: glosses: A keeler; one who manages or works on a coal boat.
keelmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keelman
monogastric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + gastric.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a simple single-chambered stomach.
monogastric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monogastrics
Etymology: From mono- + gastric.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any organism with a simple single-chambered stomach.
eremitism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eremite + -ism.
Senses: synonyms: hermitism
glosses: The state of being a hermit; seclusion from society.
Related terms: eremitic
exhibitory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin exhibitorius relating to giving up: compare French exhibitoire exhibiting.
Senses: examples: text: In an exhibitory bill, or schedule, of expences for their removal this year, as it seems, mention is made of carrying the clock from the college-hall to Garsington-house
ref: 1780, Thomas Warton, The Life of Sir Thomas Pope:
glosses: exhibiting; publicly showing
dogvane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dogvanes
Etymology: From dog + vane.
Senses: examples: text: she had an ugly knack of stopping, and swinging one leg all manner of ways, like a dogvane in a calm.
ref: 1826, Old Sailor, Greenwich Hospital:
text: Nor was any mariner surprised when, after inspecting the compass, and then the dog-vane, and then ascertaining the precise bearing of the odor as nearly as possible, Ahab rapidly ordered the ship’s course to be slightly altered, and the sail to be shortened.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick or the Whale:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A small vane of bunting, feathers, or other light material, fastened to the end of a short staff and placed on the weather gunwale of a sailing ship to assist the helmsman to judge the direction of the wind.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A cockade worn on a hat (worn in the British Navy in the 18th and 19th centuries)
dogvanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dogvane
ustorious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ustorious
form: most ustorious
Etymology: From Latin urere, ustum (“to burn”).
Senses: examples: text: And I should tell him , it is by an ustorious quality in the mirror or glass , and by a cleaving power in the wedge , arising from a certain unknown substantial form in them , whence they derive these qualities
ref: 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth, […], 2nd edition, London: […] John Clark and Richard Hett, […], Emanuel Matthews, […], and Richard Ford, […], published 1726, →OCLC:
glosses: Having the quality of burning.
vaginula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vaginulas
form: vaginulae
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin vāgīnula, diminutive of vagina (“sheath”).
Senses: examples: text: In Sphagnum it is shaped somewhat like a button , having a very narrow neck, which is firmly embraced by the vaginula.
ref: 1837, The transactions of the Linnean Society of London, page 468:
text: The plant is distinctive in the reddish brown tomentum, the longly hairy vaginula and the erect or spreading peristome teeth (normally corticolous species have reflexed teeth and normally saxicolous species a ± glabrous vaginula).
ref: 1980, Anthony John Edwin Smith, The Moss Flora of Britain and Ireland, page 483:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A little sheath, such as that about the base of the pedicel of most mosses.
Related terms: vagina
vaginule
vaginulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vaginula
vaginulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vaginula
ringbolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ringbolts
form: ring bolt
form: ring-bolt
Etymology: From ring + bolt.
Senses: examples: text: The anchors and ring-bolts, and other iron work, were blackened with coal-tar
ref: 1840, R[ichard] H[enry] D[ana], Jr., “CHAPTER XXXV”, in Two Years before the Mast. […] (Harper’s Family Library; no. CVI), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […], →OCLC:
glosses: an eyebolt with a captive ring passing through it
Derived terms: ringbolt hitching
ringbolts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ringbolt
domable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdəʊməbl̩/
ipa: /ˈdoʊməbl̩/
Forms: form: more domable
form: most domable
Etymology: From Late Latin domābilis (“tameable”), from domāre (“to tame”), present infinitive of domō (“to break in, to tame”), from Proto-Italic *domaō (“to tame”), from Proto-Indo-European *demh₂- (“to domesticate, to tame”); compare Old French domable.
Senses: examples: text: And this may alſo bee the reaſon, why God preſenting all other creatures to the preſence of man, he did not likewiſe bring him the fiſhes as well as the beaſts of all ſpecies and kindes, because the beaſts being domable, and eaſie to be tamed by man (at leaſtway whiles man was ſubject to God) might serue for the vſe of man, while man was not diſobedient to God: […]
ref: 1617, [John Salkeld], A Treatise of Paradise. And the Principall Contents thereof: […] , London: Printed by Edward Griffin for Nathaniel Butter, →OCLC, page 188:
text: Alpaca. (Camelus Pacos,) also Paco. […] This animal, like the camel, is domable, and will carry from seven to nine stone; it will fall on its knees for the convenient reception and exoneration of its burthen.
ref: 1815, Antonio de Alcedo, “Provincial Terms, &c.”, in G[eorge] A[lexander] Thompson, editor, The Geographical and Historical Dictionary of America and the West Indies. Containing and Entire Translation of the Spanish Work of Colonel Don Antonio de Alcedo, […] In Five Volumes, volume V, London: Printed for the author, and published by Carpenter and Son, […]; [et al.], →OCLC, page 8:
text: Domáble, a. Tameable, conquerable, domable, susceptive of taming.
ref: [1831, Henry Neuman, Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti, edited by M[ateo] Seoane, Neuman and Baretti's Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages; […] In Two Volumes, 5th edition, volumes I (Spanish and English), London: Printed for Longman, Rees, and Co. [et al.], →OCLC, page 336:
synonyms: domesticable
domesticatable
tamable
tameable
antonyms: undomesticable
undomesticatable
untamable
untameable
glosses: Capable of being tamed; tameable, domesticable.
wikipedia: Burgthann
Derived terms: word: domableness
Japanese horseradish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of wasabi (Eutrema japonica)
synonyms: word: wasabi
extra: Eutrema japonica
unfocusable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfocusable
form: most unfocusable
Etymology: From un- + focusable.
Senses: glosses: Not focusable.
unconfusable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unconfusable
form: most unconfusable
Etymology: From un- + confusable.
Senses: glosses: Impossible to confuse.
Vaticanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Vatican + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The doctrine of papal supremacy; views in support of the authority of the pope.
Related terms: Vaticanist
ultramontanism
transnatation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin transnatare (“to swim over”); trans (“across, over”) + natare (“to swim”).
Senses: glosses: The act of swimming across (a river, etc).
Eusebian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Eusebian
form: most Eusebian
Etymology: From Eusebius + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Eusebius of Caesarea (c. AD 263–339), Ancient Roman historian, exegete, and Christian polemicist.
glosses: Of or relating to Eusebius of Nicomedia (died 341), bishop of Berytus (modern-day Beirut) in Phoenicia.
Derived terms: Eusebian Canons
Eusebian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eusebians
Etymology: From Eusebius + -an.
Senses: glosses: A follower of Eusebius.
Eusebians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eusebian
snipebill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snipebills
Senses: glosses: A plane for cutting deep grooves in mouldings.
glosses: A bolt by which the body of a cart is fastened to the axle.
snipebills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snipebill
subsannation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subsannations
Etymology: Latin subsannatio, from subsannare (“to deride by mimicking gestures”).
Senses: examples: text: In the first place we need not travel far , either in regard of time or place , to find Precedents of such as have undergone no small censures and ſubſannations for vindicating Truth
ref: 1677, John Webster, the Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft:
glosses: derision; mockery
torets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toret
monorganic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + organic.
Senses: examples: text: monorganic disease
text: monorganic disturbance
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Belonging to, or affecting, a single organ or organ group.
disinhume
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disinhumes
form: disinhuming
form: disinhumed
form: disinhumed
Etymology: From dis- + inhume.
Senses: glosses: To disinter; to dig up from the earth.
disinhumed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disinhume
disinhumes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disinhume
disinhuming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disinhume
onychomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From onycho- + -mancy.
Senses: examples: text: I am still not sure what to make of this treatise on onychomancy, that is, divining by observing the fingernails, except that he accounted for the practice as an example of the acute application of observational technique to the signs and symbols left by intelligent nature for humans to decipher in view of some benefit.
ref: 2016, Brendan Dooley, Angelica's Book and the World of Reading in Late Renaissance Italy:
synonyms: onymancy
glosses: An ancient form of divination based on the symbols that are reflected by sunlight on a person's fingernails.
Derived terms: word: onychomancer
kinnikinic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kinnikinics
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kinnikinnick (mixture which is smoked).
glosses: Alternative form of kinnikinnick (any of the plants used in this mixture).
kinnikinics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kinnikinic
hederaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hederaceous
form: most hederaceous
Etymology: Latin hederaceus, from hedera (“ivy”).
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or resembling ivy.
Vichy water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Vichy waters
Etymology: Vichy in France.
Senses: glosses: A naturally effervescent mineral water from the springs at Vichy in France.
glosses: Any sparkling mineral water resembling it.
Synonyms: word: Vichy
Vichy waters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Vichy water
asymmetrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more asymmetrous
form: most asymmetrous
Senses: examples: text: [T]he Quantities compared with reſpect to ſuch a Meaſure are by Geometricians wont to be called Symmetrous or Aſſymmetrous, i.e. Commenſurable or Incommenſurable, and ſcarce any Thing in the Mathematics is more wonderful or more uſeful than the Contemplation of thoſe Properties, though nothing more remote from a vulgar Capacity and Conception.
ref: 1734, Isaac Barrow, “Lecture XV. Of the Acceptation of the Words Paronymous to Measure, viz. Mensurability, Mensuration, Commensurability and Incommensurability”, in John Kirkby, transl., The Usefulness of Mathematical Learning Explained and Demonstrated: Being Mathematical Lectures Read in the Publick Schools at the University of Cambridge. […], London: […] Stephen Austen, […], →OCLC, page 282:
glosses: Asymmetrical.
trainel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trainels
Etymology: Old French
Senses: examples: text: Much use there is of it [cork][…]for flotes to trainels or drag~nets.
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XVI.]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
glosses: A dragnet.
trainels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trainel
epodic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more epodic
form: most epodic
Etymology: From epode + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: epodic forms
text: epodic meter
text: epodic literature
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: Pertaining to or resembling an epode.
Know-Nothingism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Know-Nothing + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The doctrines, principles, or practices of the Know-Nothings.
merchandries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of merchandry
merchandry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merchandries
Etymology: From Middle English marchaundrye, from Old French marcheanderie.
Senses: examples: text: He may follow husbandry, and merchandry, upon his own choice.
ref: 1678, Robert Sanderson, Nine Cases of Conscience Resolved:
glosses: trade; commerce
deformat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deformats
form: deformatting
form: deformatted
form: deformatted
Etymology: From de- + format.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To remove the formatting from.
Derived terms: deformatter
almries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of almry
almry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: almries
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of almonry.
evibrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: evibrates
form: evibrating
form: evibrated
form: evibrated
Etymology: From Latin evibrare. See vibrate.
Senses: examples: text: [H]e is ſaid to rule the Nations vvith a rod of iron, […] VVhich is a Prophetick Symbol of that vvonderful contrition of heart that the povverful VVord of God makes vvhen ſincerely and ſeaſonably evibrated againſt the enemies of his Kingdom; […]
ref: 1664, H[enry] More, chapter XIV, in Synopsis Prophetica; or, The Second Part of the Modest Enquiry into the Mystery of Iniquity: […], London: […] James Flesher, for William Morden […], →OCLC, book II, page 421:
glosses: To vibrate.
evibrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of evibrate
evibrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of evibrate
evibrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of evibrate
heliciform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heliciform
form: most heliciform
Etymology: From helix + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of a helix; spiral; helical.
insufficience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We will give you sleepy drinks, that your senses, unintelligent of our insufficience, may, though they cannot praise us, as little accuse us
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 I, scene i]:
glosses: Obsolete form of insufficiency.
prediscover
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prediscovers
form: prediscovering
form: prediscovered
form: prediscovered
Etymology: From pre- + discover.
Senses: glosses: To discover beforehand.
prediscovered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prediscover
prediscovering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prediscover
prediscovers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prediscover
torturable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more torturable
form: most torturable
Etymology: From torture + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The torturable class, initially limited to slaves, could be whipped, beaten with rods or chains, stretched on the rack, exposed to red-hot metal, confined in quarters that required painful constriction of their bodies […]
ref: 2000, John Conroy, Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People: The Dynamics of Torture, page 27:
glosses: Capable of, or suitable for, being tortured.
dislink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /dɪsˈlɪŋk/
Forms: form: dislinks
form: dislinking
form: dislinked
form: dislinked
Etymology: From dis- + link.
Senses: examples: text: she dislink'd herself
ref: 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Vivien”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 141:
text: Let it be distinctly understood that, while I have drawn a parallel between Victor Hugo and Walt Whitman, as regards their radicalism in poetical reform, I should wish distinctly and emphatically to assert that the Whitmanesque reform in style —as illustrated in its best specimens,— is as far in advance of that of Hugo as his was in advance of Classicism. Whitman's method dislinks entirely from all past theories.
ref: 1896, William Sloane Kennedy, Reminiscences of Walt Whitman, page 178:
glosses: To unlink; to disunite or separate.
dislinked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dislink
dislinking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dislink
dislinks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dislink
expurge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: expurges
form: expurging
form: expurged
form: expurged
Etymology: From Middle French expurger, from Old French espurgier, from Latin expurgō (“purge, cleanse, purify”). See expurgate.
Senses: examples: text: perfected those catalogues and expurging indexes
ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC:
glosses: To expurgate.
expurged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of expurge
expurging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of expurge
repenter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: repenters
Etymology: From repent + -er.
Senses: examples: text: a frequent repenter of one's sins
glosses: Someone who repents.
repenters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repenter
vitriolous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vitriolous
form: most vitriolous
Etymology: From vitriol + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of vitriolic.
oscillancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: oscillation.
panton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pantons
Etymology: From French patin. See patten.
Senses: glosses: A horseshoe to correct a narrow, hoofbound heel.
glosses: An idle fellow.
pantons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panton
hoult
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoults
Etymology: Variant of holt.
Senses: examples: text: The nearest way seem'd best, o'er hoult and heath / We went, through deserts waste, and forests wide.
ref: 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book VIII, xii
glosses: A wood; copse.
hoults
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoult
thermotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermotypes
Etymology: From thermo- + -type.
Senses: glosses: An image (as for example of a slice of wood) obtained by first wetting the object slightly with an acid, then taking an impression with a press, and next strongly heating this impression
glosses: A type of climate that has a specifies temperature range
Related terms: thermotypic
thermotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thermotype
jockeyism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jockeyisms
Etymology: From jockey + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The skills of jockeys riding a horse in a race.
bespeaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bespeakers
Etymology: From bespeak + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who bespeaks.
bespeakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bespeaker
lithophytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lithophyte + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to lithophytes
lithophytic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithophytics
Etymology: From lithophyte + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lithophyte.
misconstruer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misconstruers
Etymology: From misconstrue + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who misconstrues.
misconstruers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misconstruer
executer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: executers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of executor.
executers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of executer
farthermore
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of furthermore.
insolubleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From insoluble + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: But that vve may the more diſtinctly conſider this grand argument, […] it vvill be convenient to obſerve, that it does, at once, both propoſe a queſtion, and contain an objection, grounded upon the ſurmiſed inſolubleneſs of that queſtion.
ref: 1672, Robert Boyle, “[Tracts. […].] An Hydrostatical Discourse, Occasioned by the Objects of the Learned Dr. Henry More, against Some Explications of New Experiments Made by Mr. Boyle; and Now Published by Way of Preface to the Three Ensuing Tracts. Chapter V.”, in The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle. […], volume III, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], published 1744, →OCLC, section II, page 281, column 1:
text: All his occasional pangs of dubiousness as to the grand governing thing of all—the reality of the physical relationship—only recoiled back upon him with added tribute of both certainty and insolubleness.
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
glosses: The quality or state of being insoluble; insolubility.
befringe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪndʒ
Forms: form: befringes
form: befringing
form: befringed
form: befringed
Etymology: From be- (“on, at, upon”) + fringe.
Senses: examples: text: [...] women themselves went in armour, (having a brave lasse like another Penthesilea for their leader, so befringed with gold, that they called her Golden-foot) riding astride like men [...]
ref: 1639, Thomas Fuller, chapter 27, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, page 78:
text: And when I flatter, let my dirty leaves
(Like Journals, Odes, and such forgotten things
As Eusden, Philips, Settle, writ of Kings)
Cloath spice, line trunks, or flutt’ring in a row,
Befringe the rails of Bedlam and Sohoe.
ref: 1737, Alexander Pope, The First Epistle of the Second Book of Horace, Imitated, London: T. Cooper, page 23:
text: 1823, Lord Byron, Don Juan: Cantos IX.—X.—XI., London: John Hunt, Canto 10, stanza 29, p. 32,
… each dress he sported,
Which set the beauty off in which he glowed,
As purple clouds befringe the sun …
text: […] during a year or more, Gentleman Brown’s ship was to be seen, for many days on end, hovering off an islet befringed with green upon azure, with the dark dot of the mission-house on a white beach […]
ref: 1900, Joseph Conrad, chapter 41, in Lord Jim, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, page 415:
glosses: To furnish or adorn with a fringe.
befringed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of befringe
befringed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more befringed
form: most befringed
Senses: glosses: Having a fringe
befringes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of befringe
befringing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of befringe
moorstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moorstones
Etymology: From moor + stone.
Senses: examples: text: Most of them are what is called moorstone, a kind of granite, but which is so damp that it must, when built in the wall of a house, be lined with brick or other stone.
ref: 1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 176
glosses: A type of English granite, found mostly in Cornwall.
moorstones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moorstone
unempirically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unempirically
form: most unempirically
Etymology: From unempirical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: unempirically confirmed
text: argue unempirically
text: think unempirically
glosses: Not empirically; without experiment or experience.
admissory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: admissory comment
text: admissory speech
glosses: Pertaining to admission.
examples: text: admissory rite
glosses: conceding or allowing admission
fuscin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfʌsɪn/
Etymology: From Latin fuscus (“dark-colored, tawny”) + -in.
Senses: glosses: A brown nitrogenous pigment contained in the retinal epithelium; a variety of melanin.
Derived terms: lipofuscin
frangulin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From translingual Frangula + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A yellow crystalline dyestuff extracted from a species (Frangula alnus) of alder buckthorn.
Synonyms: rhamnoxanthin
genealogize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: genealogizes
form: genealogizing
form: genealogized
form: genealogized
Etymology: From genealogy + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To investigate family lineage.
glosses: To relate the history of a family.
Derived terms: genealogizer
genealogized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of genealogize
genealogizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of genealogize
genealogizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of genealogize
cantharidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cantharide + -al.
Senses: examples: text: cantharidal plaster
text: cantharidal ether
text: cantharidal cerate
glosses: Of, made of, or pertaining to cantharides.
moodish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more moodish
form: most moodish
Etymology: From mood + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: I had been a little moodish with her, earlier; I was determined not to be moodish now.
ref: 1999, Sarah Waters, Affinity, Virago Press (2012), page 51:
glosses: moody.
Derived terms: moodishly
moodishness
kawn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kawns
form: khan
Senses: glosses: An inn in Turkey.
kawns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kawn
wonderwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wonderworks
form: wonder-work
Etymology: From Middle English wonderworc, from Old English wundorweorc, wundorġeweorc (“a wondrous work, miracle”), equivalent to wonder + work. Compare Dutch wonderwerk, German Wunderwerk.
Senses: glosses: A wonderful work or act
examples: text: Unheeded, searching through the crowd to find / Fit speculation; such as in strange land / He found in wonder-works of God and Nature's hand.
ref: 1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza X:
glosses: A miracle.
Related terms: work wonders
wonderworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wonderwork
setness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: setnesses
Etymology: From set + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: the starched setness of a sententious writer
ref: 1884, Robert Masters, Memoirs […] of Thomas Baker:
text: They who had shrugged their shoulders at her little peculiarities and setnesses […] acknowledged that now she was the exact person that was wanted.
ref: 1851 June – 1852 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Boston, Mass.: John P[unchard] Jewett & Company; Cleveland, Oh.: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, published 20 March 1852, →OCLC:
glosses: The quality or state of being set; formality; obstinacy.
heightener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heighteners
Etymology: From heighten + -er.
Senses: glosses: That which heightens.
heighteners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heightener
nothingism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nothing + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: [The Beats] have broken away to form their own vague, non-inspirational rebellion of rejection and nothingism. […] They are a failure.
ref: c. 1959, Lorraine Hansberry, The Negro Writer and His Roots: Toward a New Romanticism:
glosses: nihility; nothingness
Related terms: do-nothingism
Know-Nothingism
indilatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more indilatory
form: most indilatory
Etymology: From in- + dilatory.
Senses: glosses: Not dilatory.
inknot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inknots
form: inknotting
form: inknotted
form: inknotted
Etymology: From in- + knot.
Senses: examples: text: let him be inknotted with the band of excommunication
ref: 1598, John Bishop, A Courteous Conference with the English Catholickes […] :
glosses: To fasten or bind, as with a knot; to knot together.
inknots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inknot
inknotted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inknot
inknotting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inknot
orologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orologists
Etymology: From orology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The curious orologist may refer to the work in the British Museum.
ref: 1807, Joseph Wilson, A History of Mountains: Geographical and Mineralogical:
glosses: an expert in orology.
orologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orologist
water joint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water joints
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A joint in a stone pavement where the stones are left slightly higher than elsewhere, the rest of the surface being sunken, intended to prevent the settling of water in the joints.
water joints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water joint
whisp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪsp
Forms: form: whisps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wisp.
whisps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whisp
fellinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Only used in fellinic acid
Nazaritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Nazaritic
form: most Nazaritic
form: nazaritic
Etymology: From Nazarite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a Nazarite or Nazarites.
hematinometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hematinometers
Etymology: From hematin + -o- + meter.
Senses: glosses: A type of haemoglobinometer.
wreakless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wreakless
form: most wreakless
Etymology: From wreak + -less.
Senses: examples: text: A man that apprehends death no more dreadfully, but as a drunken sleepe, carelesse, wreaklesse, and fearelesse of what's past, present, or to come: insensible of mortality, and desperately mortall.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
text: 1880, Algernon Charles Swinburne, "Birthday Ode" (poem) in Songs of the Springtides
And under these the watch of wreakless wrong
glosses: unrevengeful.
Kymry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Cymry.
overdelicate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overdelicate
form: most overdelicate
Etymology: From Middle English overdelicat, equivalent to over- + delicate.
Senses: glosses: Excessively delicate.
Derived terms: overdelicately
fractionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: frăkʹshənâri
ipa: /ˈfɹæk.ʃən.æɹ.i/
enpr: frăkʹshənri
ipa: /ˈfɹæk.ʃən.ɹi/
Forms: form: more fractionary
form: most fractionary
Etymology: From fraction + -ary.
Senses: glosses: fractional
examples: text: fractionary ideals
text: fractionary power series
text: fractionary decomposition
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having a common denominator.
musculophrenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From musculo- + phrenic.
Senses: examples: text: the musculophrenic artery
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the muscles and the diaphragm.
whort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whorts
Etymology: See whortleberry.
Senses: examples: text: he consumed mechanically a number of slices of bread and whort jam.
ref: 1899, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, Love and Mr. Lewisham: The Story of a Very Young Couple, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC:
text: Through weeds and thorns, and matted underwood
I force my way; now climb, and now descend
O'er rocks, or bare or mossy, with wild foot
Crushing the purple whorts[…]
ref: 1793–1817 (date written), S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “The Picture”, in Sibylline Leaves: A Collection of Poems, London: Rest Fenner, […], published 1817, →OCLC:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The whortleberry, or bilberry (fruit).
whort
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Etymology: Representing dialectal or nonstandard pronunciation.
Senses: examples: text: When yer 'asn't gort no work yer doesn't git no pye,
And when the cash ain't 'andy, then be keerful whort yer sye,
ref: 1898, Barry Pain, The Curick:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of what.
whorts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whort
sextonship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sextonships
Etymology: From sexton + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: For Example, they [reduced divines] may be Lappers of Linnen, Bayliffs of the Mannor, they may let Blood or apply Plaiſters for three Miles round; they may get a Diſpenſation to hold the Clerkſhip and Sextonſhip of their ovvn Pariſh in Commendam.
ref: 1732 March 6 (Gregorian calendar; date written), [Jonathan Swift], Considerations upon Two Bills Sent Down from the R[ight] H[onourable] the H[ouse] of L[ords] to the H[onoura]ble H[ouse] of C[ommons of Ireland] Relating to the Clergy of I[relan]d, London: […] A. Moore, […], published 1732, →OCLC, pages 30–31:
glosses: The office or position of a sexton.
sextonships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sextonship
Boswellism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Boswellisms
Etymology: From Boswell + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The writing style of James Boswell (1740–1795), Scottish lawyer and writer, best known for his biography of Samuel Johnson.
Boswellisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Boswellism
hopingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hopingly
form: most hopingly
Etymology: From hoping + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: One sign of despair is the peremptory contempt of the condition which is the ground of hope; the going on not only in terrours and amazement of conscience, but also boldly, hopingly, and confidently in wilful habits of sin.
ref: 1644, Henry Hammond, Practical Catechism:
text: […] we deplore the existence of the system in our country, and look forward hopingly to the day when it shall cease from the land, as a day of jubilee and thanksgiving to all America.
ref: 1832, Caleb Cushing, An Oration:
glosses: In a hopeful manner.
irresolubleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From irresoluble + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being irresoluble.
misarrange
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misarranges
form: misarranging
form: misarranged
form: misarranged
Etymology: From mis- + arrange.
Senses: examples: text: which often became ridiculous from his misarranging the triads and quaternions with which he loaded his sentences
ref: 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], chapter III, in Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC, page 42:
glosses: To incorrectly arrange
misarranged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misarrange
misarranges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misarrange
misarranging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misarrange
microtomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microtomy
frondlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frondlets
Etymology: From frond + -let.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A very small frond.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A distinct portion of a compound frond.
frondlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frondlet
metropolitical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more metropolitical
form: most metropolitical
Senses: examples: text: […] a lawful Archbishop of their own religion, legally established in the Metropolitical Chair by an acknowledged authority […]
ref: 1620, Joseph Hall, The Honour of the Married Clergy:
glosses: metropolitan; pertaining to a metropolis
irredeemability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ir- + redeemability.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being irredeemable.