cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
portpass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: portpasses
form: port-pass
form: port pass
Etymology: From port + pass. Compare passport.
Senses: examples: text: “Is this enough?” The man frowned as he inspected the coin. “We don't take foreign money. You got traveler's checks?” “I have a portpass.” Tali flashed the small document that claimed Miss Smith was in this country legally.
ref: 2009, Jody Wallace, Survival of the Fairest:
glosses: A document or documentation allowing for legal entry into another land; a passport.
examples: text: The fingerprints are used for a quick background check with the FBI's IAFIS database, and the photograph and hand geometry are stored on a personalized smartcard, the “portpass.”
ref: 2006, Torin Monahan, Surveillance and security:
glosses: Anything allowing for entry into or through a port.
zhee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: zhē
ipa: /ˈʒiː/
Forms: form: zhees
Etymology: From Pitman zee, which it resembles phonetically and graphically, and the sound it represents.
Senses: glosses: The letter for the zh sound /ʒ/ in Pitman shorthand.
Related terms: ish
ezh
the name of the IPA letter for this sound
theif
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theives
form: theifs
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of thief.
glosses: Misspelling of thief.
chalastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chalastic
form: most chalastic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χαλαστικός (khalastikós).
Senses: examples: text: Octavius Horatianus, lib. 2, cap. 5, prescribes chalastic cataplasms, or dry purging medicines […]
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 5, member 3, subsection 1:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Reducing stiffness; laxative.
latrodectism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From translingual Latrodectus + -ism.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A condition caused by the bite of a widow spider (genus Latrodectus)
intherest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intherests
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of interest.
tartane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tartanes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tartan (“sailing vessel”).
scolopendrism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From translingual Scolopendra + -ism.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A condition caused by venom from the centipede genus Scolopendra.
Dumbfuckistan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From dumbfuck + -i- + -stan, stereotyping people from that region as uneducated.
Senses: glosses: The United States of America.
examples: text: […] an unapologetic liberal screed about the deteriorating state of our national dialogue, which is dragging down our culture, our politics, and our lives.
ref: 2016, Ian Gurvitz, Welcome to Dumbfuckistan: The Dumbed-Down, Disinformed, Dysfunctional, Disunited States of America:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The red states collectively.
Related terms: Jesusland
crotalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Crotalaria + -ism
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A condition caused by poisonous plants in the genus Crotalaria.
glucoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glucose
error/mistake distinction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the error/mistake distinction
Senses: topics: education
glosses: The distinction drawn by some language teachers between an "error" (a mistaken belief that a given usage or construction is correct; or, an incorrect use resulting from such a belief) and "a mistake" (an accidental use of a usage or construction despite knowing that it is incorrect).
Galician-Asturian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A set of Galicia dialects found in Asturias.
Synonyms: Eonavian
Related terms: Asturian
Galician
half stack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half stacks
Senses: glosses: An amplifier set consisting of an amp head and a cabinet.
Related terms: full stack
beach bum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beach bums
Senses: glosses: A person who relaxes frequently on the beach.
milleporite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milleporites
Etymology: From millepore + -ite.
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A fossil millepore.
milleporites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milleporite
pleurothotonus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πλευρόθεν (pleuróthen, “sidewards”) + τόνος (tónos, “tension”). See further at opisthotonos.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A rare neurological disorder characterized by dystonia and abnormal and sustained involuntary muscle contraction.
Synonyms: Pisa syndrome
disregardfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more disregardfully
form: most disregardfully
Etymology: From disregardful + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: negligently
heedlessly
glosses: In a disregardful manner; showing disregard
cloam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cloams
form: clome
form: clomb
Etymology: From Middle English *clom, from Old English clām (“paste, mortar, mud, clay, poultice”), from Proto-West Germanic *klaim, from Proto-Germanic *klaimaz (“clay”), from Proto-Indo-European *gleym-, from *gley- (“to stick, smear”). Related to cleam, claim, clem.
Senses: glosses: Clay.
glosses: Earthenware.
Derived terms: cloam oven
cloamen
cloam
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cloam
form: most cloam
form: clome
form: clomb
Etymology: From Middle English *clom, from Old English clām (“paste, mortar, mud, clay, poultice”), from Proto-West Germanic *klaim, from Proto-Germanic *klaimaz (“clay”), from Proto-Indo-European *gleym-, from *gley- (“to stick, smear”). Related to cleam, claim, clem.
Senses: glosses: Made of earthenware.
cloam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cloams
form: cloaming
form: cloamed
form: cloamed
form: clome
form: clomb
Etymology: From Middle English *clom, from Old English clām (“paste, mortar, mud, clay, poultice”), from Proto-West Germanic *klaim, from Proto-Germanic *klaimaz (“clay”), from Proto-Indo-European *gleym-, from *gley- (“to stick, smear”). Related to cleam, claim, clem.
Senses: glosses: To make cloam.
glosses: To gutter (as a candle).
Derived terms: cloamer
tenorino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenorinos
form: tenorini
Etymology: From Italian tenorino.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A high tenor.
aristulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aristulate
form: most aristulate
Etymology: Diminutive from arista; see -ule, -ate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a short beard or awn
supersaliency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: [T]heir coition is made by supersaliency, like that of horses, as we are informed by some who have beheld them in that act
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
text: […] I therefore think, Sarah, that the incommensurability of the crime with the effect, completely warrants the supersaliency of this noctivagant delinquent.
ref: 1823, James Hogg, “Peril Second. Leasing. Circle II.”, in The Three Perils of Woman; or, Love, Leasing, and Jealousy. […], volume III, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, […], →OCLC, page 91:
glosses: The act of leaping on anything.
Related terms: supersalient
gowany
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gowany
form: most gowany
Etymology: From gowan + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Sweeter than gowany glens or new-mawn hay.
ref: 1725, Allan Ramsay, The Gentle Shepherd:
text: When the gowany' braes / Were our temple o' joy and glee, / Some dour auld body would shake his head, / And tell us our gladness away would flee […]
ref: a. 1835, John Mackay Wilson, Wilson's Tales of The Borders (and of Scotland)
glosses: Covered with daisies.
preventional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more preventional
form: most preventional
Etymology: From prevention + -al.
Senses: examples: text: preventional imprisonment
text: preventional approach
glosses: preventive.
metasterna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metasternum
metasternum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)nəm
Forms: form: metasterna
Etymology: From meta- + sternum.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of xiphoid process (“small cartilaginous extension to the lower part of the sternum”).
synonyms: word: xiphoid process
extra: small cartilaginous extension to the lower part of the sternum
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: The ventral sclerite (or exoskeletal plate) of the metathorax of insects.
Derived terms: metasternal
clavigerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From claviger + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: It seems probable that the famous 'Cerne Giant'—a colossal human figure wielding a club—which is cut in the chalk on the hill-side east of Cerne Abbas in Dorsetshire, may belong to the Bronze Age and be connected with phallus-worship. […] it is petrographic, colossal, nude, ithyphallic, and clavigerous; and that ' forms which possess these five characteristics have been found in the rock carvings of Scandinavia ... and belong only to the Bronze Age and to its overlap with the Early Age of Iron'.
ref: 1907, T.R. Holmes, Ancient Britain, page 207:
text: Twenty-five drawings of a clavigerous lion guarding a rather imbecile teenage Britannia.
ref: 1968, Anthony Burgess, Enderby Outside:
text: Beadles doubted whether the tiny caliber weapon would stop the clavigerous thug .
ref: 2013, Mike Baron, Skorpio:
glosses: Bearing a club.
examples: text: Is it really more knowledge we want, or more understanding? Are we in fact clavigerous and fail to realize the aperient properties of that which is in our hand?
ref: 1927, Psyche - Volume 7, page 2:
glosses: Bearing a key.
examples: text: Histioteuthids.—Teuthidoid Decaceres with the six upper arms connected by a very extensive web, without lachrymal sinuses, a siphon without valve or dorsal bridle, without nuchal crests, long claviegerous tentacular arms "bearing large central, and small marginal suckers and tubercles." buccal membrane "with six smooth lobes," and with four buccal aquiferous openings.
ref: 1883, Theodore Gill, “Zoology”, in Spencer F. Baird, editor, Record of Scientific Progress for 1882:
text: Sensillus a clavigerous bristle , only club of which projects beyond border of pteromorphae.
ref: 1956, Leonard Dale Tuthill, Psyllidae of Pacific Entomological Survey, page 141:
glosses: Club-like.
concubinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more concubinal
form: most concubinal
Etymology: Latin concubinalis.
Senses: examples: text: concubinal relationship
text: concubinal union
glosses: Of or pertaining to a concubine or concubinage.
sickleman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sicklemen
Etymology: From sickle + -man.
Senses: examples: text: You sunburned sicklemen, of August weary.
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 IV, scene i]:
glosses: Someone who uses a sickle; a reaper.
sicklemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sickleman
parapetalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + petalous.
Senses: examples: text: parapetalous multiplication
text: parapetalous stamens
text: parapetalous staminodes
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Growing, or occurring, by the side of a petal.
poledavies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poledavy
poledavy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poledavies
form: poldway
form: poldavis
form: poldavy
form: poledavis
Etymology: Uncertain.
Senses: examples: text: You must be content with homely Polldaui ware from me.
ref: 1655, James Howell, Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A sort of coarse canvas.
tewed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tew
tewed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tewed
form: most tewed
Senses: examples: text: These lockes that hang unkempt, these hollowe dazled eyes, These chattering teeth, this trebling tongue, well tewed with carefull cries.
ref: 1573, George Gascoigne, John William Cunliffe, “The Anatomye of a Lover”, in The Complete Works of George Gascoigne, published 1907, page 37:
text: He would take no medicine, have no doctor, change no habits—"what did they want to mak on him? he wad du weel eneugh! nowt ailed him to speak on— he was nobbut a lile bit tewed wi ' t' summer's wark, an' off his feed, like auld Horney in t'byre younder;"
ref: 1866, Elizabeth Lynn Linton, Lizzie Lorton of Greyrigg, page 114:
text: Sair tewed wi’ wark, I laid me down,
And sloomed aneth the Roden Tree;
I had a dream I’ll ne’er forget
Till Mercy’s right hand reaches me.
ref: 1868, William Shelley, “Aneth the Roden Tree”, in Flowers by the Wayside:
glosses: fatigued; worn from labour or hardship
metaplast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metaplasts
Etymology: See metaplasm.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word having more than one form of the root.
metaplasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metaplast
apyretic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + pyretic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Without fever, free from fever.
Related terms: apyrexia
pyretic
pyretotherapy
pyrexia
tronator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tronators
Etymology: Latin. See tronage.
Senses: glosses: An officer responsible for weighing wool.
tronators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tronator
conveyorization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From conveyor + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The streamlining of an industrial operation by means of conveyors.
Related terms: conveyorize
conveyorized
deordination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deordinations
Etymology: Latin deordinatio (“depraved morality”).
Senses: examples: 1820-1822, Reginald Heber, Life of Jeremy Taylor
inadvertency, and tyranny, had besmeared her; and being thus cleansed and washed , is accused by the Roman parties of novelty , and condemned , because she refuses to run into the same excess of riot and deordination
glosses: disorder; dissoluteness
deordinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deordination
transcolate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: transcolates
form: transcolating
form: transcolated
form: transcolated
Etymology: From trans- + Latin colare, colatum (“to filter, to strain”).
Senses: examples: text: The vrine is transcolated through the flesh of the kidneis.
ref: 1615, Helkiah Crooke, Mikrokosmographia:
glosses: To strain, as if through a sieve.
transcolated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of transcolate
transcolating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of transcolate
priestcap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: priestcaps
Etymology: From priest + cap, from its shape.
Senses: examples: text: At one point where the path ran close to Westring-park proper, the park on higher ground, a grass-bank seven feet high dividing them, he was a-top of the bank in caftan, priest-cap, and phylacteries, taking snuff—Baruch Frankl
ref: 2014, Matthew Phipps Shiel, The Lord of the Sea:
glosses: A skullcap.
examples: text: One led from Dryea's Battery toward the Priestcap and by various windings to within about twenty yards of the parapet.
ref: 1894, D.H. Hanaburgh, History of the One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Regiment: New York Volunteers (US Infantry): in the Late Civil War, page 66:
text: For the next hour the Union troops tried to storm the priestcap, but there was only "a continued repetition of this scene; a yell, a rush, shouts, muskets, cries, and groans."
ref: 1990, Carl Moneyhon, Carl H. Moneyhon, Bobby Leon Roberts ·, Portraits of Conflict, page 226:
text: In the center, Augur and Paine attacked with vigor and were bloodily repulsed when they struck what turned out to be the strongest point of the enemy line, the priestcap near the Jackson road;
ref: 2009, Shelby Foote, The Civil War Volume II: Fredericksburg to Meridan, page 402:
glosses: A form of redan in fortifications; a swallowtail.
priestcaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of priestcap
rebrander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rebranders
Etymology: From rebrand + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, rebrands.
rebranders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rebrander
thegnhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thegnhoods
Etymology: From thegn + -hood.
Senses: examples: E. A. Freeman
Why then did not the Thegnhood of England grow into a nobility such as that which in other lands grew out of the same elements?
glosses: Obsolete form of thanehood.
recallment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From recall + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of bringing something back from one's memory; recall.
examples: text: Clement Marot stayed; I followed after, / And asked, as a grace what it all meant— / If she wished not the rash deed's recalment?
ref: 1845, Robert Browning, “[Dramatic Romances and Lyrics.] The Glove.”, in Poems […], new edition, volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, […], published 1849, →OCLC, page 414:
glosses: The recalling of an action; the undoing of something.
courtepies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of courtepy
courtepy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: courtepies
Etymology: From Middle English, from Dutch kort (“short”) + pije (“a coarse cloth”).
Senses: examples: 1905–06, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel
The old tunic, overtunic and cyclas were too sad and simple for the new fashions, so now strange and brilliant cotehardies, pourpoints, courtepies, paltocks, hanselines and many other wondrous garments, particoloured or diapered, with looped, embroidered or escalloped edges, flamed and glittered round the King.
glosses: A short coat of coarse cloth.
formicid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: formicids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the ant family Formicidae.
formicids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of formicid
homodynamous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: successive or homodynamous parts in plants and animals
topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: homodynamic
glosses: Pertaining to, or involving, homodynamy.
uncheesy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncheesy
form: most uncheesy
Etymology: From un- + cheesy.
Senses: examples: text: This genuinely fun and surprisingly uncheesy mystery-and-magic cocktail show stars illusionist Warren Gibson and “Annabelle,” a ghost who plays a grand piano — and even takes requests.
ref: 2008, Cheryl Farr Leas, Hawaii for Dummies, page 310:
text: Thank the genius who thought to shape it into chips and deep-fry it, or those who grill this mad uncheesy cheese with an idiosyncratic squeak and put in a salad wrap.
ref: 2023 June 26, Zoe Williams, “Perv-O-Shine and sleep vaping: 23 things I learned about the world – and myself – at Glastonbury 2023”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Not cheesy.
ARs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of AR
paraconic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Approximately para- + aconitic acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A carboxylic acid 5-oxotetrahydro-3-furancarboxylic acid that is isomeric with itaconic acid, citraconic acid, and mesaconic acid
pseudometallic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pseudometallic
form: most pseudometallic
Etymology: From pseudo- + metallic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Falsely or imperfectly metallic in lustre.
glosses: Somewhat metallic
clome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clomes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cloam.
clome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clome
form: most clome
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cloam.
clome
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clomes
form: cloming
form: clomed
form: clomed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cloam.
deliverly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more deliverly
form: most deliverly
Etymology: From deliver + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Swim with your bodies, / And carry it sweetly and deliverly.
ref: 1613–1614, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, “The Two Noble Kinsmen”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act III, scene v:
glosses: actively, quickly or nimbly
ghastful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ghastful
form: most ghastful
form: gastful
form: gashful
Etymology: From Middle English gastful, equivalent to ghast + -ful. See ghastly.
Senses: examples: text: Very desolate was that valley, having a dark aspect and a ghastful, such as a man might look for in the infernal glens of Pyriphlegethon or Acheron.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, chapter 174, in The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC:
glosses: Causing fear; terrifying.
examples: text: Th' Almighty anſwers — "I my ſelf will place
"The dreadful Stains of Murther on the Face,
"That all may ſhun thy Crimes and Fate. — He ſaid,
The Caitiff heard, with ghaſtful Looks he fled.
ref: 1716, Samuel Wesley, The history of the Old and New Testament attempted in verse, page 13:
glosses: Terrified, frightened.
Derived terms: ghastfully
ghastfulness
Bosporian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bosporian
form: most Bosporian
Etymology: From Bosporus + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Bosporan.
synonyms: word: Bosporan
elliptograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elliptographs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ellipsograph.
elliptographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elliptograph
endostyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endostyles
Etymology: From endo- + -style.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A longitudinal ciliated groove on the ventral wall of the pharynx which produces mucus to gather food particles, found in urochordates and cephalochordates and in the larvae of lampreys.
Derived terms: endostylar
endostyles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endostyle
ostentous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ostentous
form: most ostentous
Senses: examples: text: He gives us occaſion to shew the world our Parts, and Piety , which elſe perhaps in our dark Graves would ſleep and moulder with us quire unknown ; or , could not otherwiſe well be ſeen without the vanity of a light and an oſtentous mind.
ref: 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
glosses: ostentatious
ichnolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ichnolites
Etymology: From ichno- + -lite.
Senses: glosses: A fossil footprint; an ichnite.
ichnolites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ichnolite
cometographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cometographers
Etymology: From comet + -o- + -grapher.
Senses: glosses: someone who describes or writes about comets
Related terms: cometography
cometographical
cometographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cometographer
panacean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌpænəˈsiːən/
Forms: form: more panacean
form: most panacean
Etymology: From panacea + -an.
Senses: examples: June 4, 1782, William Whitehead, O. D. F for his Majestey's Birth-day
panacean dews
glosses: Having the properties of a panacea; solving everything.
tenorini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenorino
endopleura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From endo- + pleura.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: tegmen (inner coating of a seed)
haunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haunces
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hanse.
haunce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: haunces
form: hauncing
form: haunced
form: haunced
Senses: examples: text: They haunce her cause with fals surquedrie
ref: a. 1451, John Lydgate, The Complaint of the Black Knight:
glosses: To enhance.
haunced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of haunce
haunces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haunce
haunces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of haunce
hauncing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of haunce
cockshead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cocksheads
Etymology: From cock + -s- + head.
Senses: synonyms: cockshead sainfoin
glosses: A leguminous herb, Onobrychis caput-galli, with small spiny-crested pods.
Related terms: cockhead
cocksheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cockshead
discina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discinas
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the brachiopod genus Discina.
discinas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discina
apyrexial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: apyrexial interval
text: A second paroxysm and intermission of the same duration appears on the second day; then a third paroxysm, sometimes, though not always, milder than the two preceding, on the second night, followed by an apyrexial period of twelve or eighteen hours
ref: 1853, T. Ross Jameson, “on the Type and Laws of Propagation of Tropical Fevers”, in The Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science, Volume 16:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to apyrexia.
subtilizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subtilizers
Etymology: From subtilize + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who subtilizes.
subtilizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subtilizer
galvanocaustic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From galvano- + caustic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the use of galvanic heat as a caustic, especially in medicine.
semiligneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + ligneous.
Senses: examples: text: A semiligneous stem is partly woody and partly herbaceous.
glosses: Half or partially ligneous.
asphyxial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From asphyxia + -al.
Senses: examples: text: asphyxial phenomena
text: asphyxial death
text: asphyxial exposure
glosses: Of or relating to asphyxia.
Derived terms: nonasphyxial
postasphyxial
massagingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more massagingly
form: most massagingly
Etymology: From massaging + -ly.
Senses: glosses: By means of massage; so as to produce a massaging effect.
marsipobranch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marsipobranchs
Senses: glosses: One of the Marsipobranchia, a former classification roughly equivalent to the cyclostomes.
marsipobranchs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marsipobranch
yauld
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: yaulder
form: more yauld
form: yauldest
form: most yauld
form: yald
Etymology: From Middle English yeld, from Old English ġilde (“valuable, of worth”), from Proto-Germanic *gildiz (“valuable, valid, wholesome, precious”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (“to pay for, repay”). Cognate with Scots yauld (“active, strong, mighty”), Old Norse gildr (“of full worth, size, measure, or quality; full; complete; absolute; great”) (whence Icelandic gildur (“valid, thick, prominent, important”), Swedish gild (“stout, of full size”), Danish gild (“brawny, of full size, fine”). Related to yield.
Senses: qualifier: Now chiefly dialectal
glosses: Vigorous; strong; healthy.
qualifier: Now chiefly dialectal
glosses: Active; sprightly; alert.
qualifier: Now chiefly dialectal
glosses: Supple; active; athletic; nimble.
depeople
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: depeoples
form: depeopling
form: depeopled
form: depeopled
Etymology: From de- + people.
Senses: glosses: To depopulate.
depeopled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of depeople
depeoples
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of depeople
depeopling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of depeople
yald
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: yalder
form: more yald
form: yaldest
form: most yald
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yauld.
overdare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overdares
form: overdaring
form: overdared
form: overdared
Etymology: From over- + dare.
Senses: examples: text: Meete you for this, proud ouerdaring peeres,
Ere my sweete Gaueston shall part from me,
This Ile shall fleete vpon the Ocean,
And wander to the vnfrequented Inde.
ref: 1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
text: 1912, William Butler Yeats, The Countess Cathleen, Scene III, in Poems, London: T. Fisher Unwin, p. 59,
When one so great has spoken of love to one
So little as I, though to deny him love,
What can he but hold out beseeching hands,
Then let them fall beside him, knowing how greatly
They have overdared?
glosses: To dare too much or rashly; to be too daring.
overdared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overdare
overdares
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overdare
overdaring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overdare
overdaring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “Of a truth,” said he, “I relinquish my overdaring and my pride in craving thy mercy […]”
ref: 1849, “Geraint the Son of Erbin”, in Charlotte Guest, transl., The Mabinogion, volume 2, London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, page 83:
glosses: Excessive boldness.
overdaring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overdaring
form: most overdaring
Senses: glosses: Too daring; foolhardy.
Derived terms: overdaringly
underdeclared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underdeclared
form: most underdeclared
Etymology: From under- + declared.
Senses: examples: underdeclared income on a tax form
glosses: declared to be smaller than is the case
bewitcheries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bewitchery
bewitchery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bewitcheries
Etymology: From bewitch + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: There is a certain bewitchery or fascination in words.
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
glosses: The power of bewitching or fascinating; charm; witchcraft.
bolections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bolection
whinyard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whinyards
Etymology: Compare English dialect and Scots whingar, whinger; perhaps from Old English winn (“contention, war”) + geard, gyrd (“a staff, rod, yard”); or compare Old English [Term?] (“whistle”, verb), English whine.
Senses: examples: text: It is not a necessary inference that he was wounded, though she says they struck him over her shoulder with whinyards; their object, undoubtedly, was to get him out of the queen's presence in the first place.
ref: 1905, John Hill Burton, The History of Scotland from Agricola's Invasion to the Extinction of the Last Jacobite Insurrection, volume 4:
glosses: A sword, especially a hanger.
glosses: The shoveler, a type of duck.
glosses: The pochard, a type of duck.
whinyards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whinyard
plasmogamy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /plæzˈmɒ.ɡə.mi/
Etymology: From plasma + -o- + -gamy (“union for propagation”).
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Stage of sexual reproduction joining the cytoplasm of two parent mycelia without the fusion of nuclei.
Derived terms: plasmogamic
simplisticness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From simplistic + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being simplistic.
Related terms: simplism
simplistic
simplistically
pulveraceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pulveraceous
form: most pulveraceous
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: pulverulent
glosses: Having a fine, powdery surface
calker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calkers
form: caulker
Etymology: From calk + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who calks.
glosses: A calk on a shoe.
calkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calker
Sandemanianism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sandemanian + -ism.
Senses: examples: A. Fuller, Strictures on Sandemanianism
It is not my design to censure Sandemanianism in the gross. There are many things in the system which, in my judgment, are worthy of serious attention.
glosses: The faith or system of the Sandemanians.
cleve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cleves
Etymology: From Middle English cleve, from Old English clēofa, clēafa (“that which is cloven, a cleft, chasm, cave, den, lair, cell, chamber, cellar, apartment”), from Proto-Germanic *klebô (“chamber, cell”), from Proto-Indo-European *glewbʰ- (“to cut, cleave, split, divide”). Cognate with Old Norse klefi (“a closet, sleeping closet, bedroom”) (whence Icelandic klefi (“cell, compartment”)). Related to cleave.
Senses: glosses: A room; chamber.
glosses: A cottage.
glosses: A cliff or hillside.
beeregar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From beer + eager. Compare English alegar, English vinegar.
Senses: glosses: a sour vinegar-like byproduct of beer
good-den
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: good den
form: goodden
form: godden
form: God-den
form: God give you good den
form: Godgigoden
form: Godigeden
Etymology: Corruption of good e'en, for good evening.
Senses: examples: text: Enter Iohn the Baſtard.
Baſtard My lord and brother, God ſaue you.
Prince Good den brother.
Baſtard If your leiſure ſeru’d, I would ſpeake with you.
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, Much Adoe about Nothing. […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], signatures E2, recto – E2, verso:
glosses: A salutation; "good evening".
glacises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glacis
theomorphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theomorphisms
Etymology: From theo- + -morphism, from Ancient Greek θεος (theos, “god”) + μορφη (morphē, “shape, form”).
Senses: glosses: The bestowal of divine attributes on humanity.
Related terms: theomorphic
flucan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flucans
form: flookan
form: fluccan
form: flukan
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: Soft clay-like matter found in or surrounding the vein.
redditive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin redditivus.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Answering to an interrogative or inquiry; conveying a reply.
glosses: Restorative; relating to the process of restoring.
redditive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redditives
Etymology: From Latin redditivum.
Senses: examples: text: AN Interrogative and its Redditive (i. e. the Word which answers it) shall be of the same Case and Tense[.]
ref: Shorter Examples; Or, Second Book of English Examples, to be Rendered Into Latin – Adapted to the Use of the Lower Class, Eton, printed by E. Williams, 1826, p.30
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word which answers an interrogative.
insuppressive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: more insuppressive
form: most insuppressive
Etymology: From in- + suppress + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: the insuppressive mettle of our spirits
ref: 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
glosses: insuppressible; that cannot be suppressed
howves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of howve
medicornu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌmiːdiˈkɔː(ɹ)njuː/
Forms: form: medicornua
Etymology: From Latin medius (“middle”) + cornu (“horn”).
Senses: examples: text: In man there are three extensions of the cella: cephalic, PRECORNU, ventral, MEDICORNU, and caudal, POSTCORNU; the last is wanting in the sheep as in most other mammals.
ref: 1893, Burt Green Wilder, Physiology Practicums:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The middle or inferior horn of each lateral ventricle of the brain.
medicornua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of medicornu
intercessorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: more intercessorial
form: most intercessorial
Senses: glosses: intercessory
popeling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: popelings
form: Popeling
Etymology: From pope + -ling.
Senses: glosses: A petty or deputy pope.
examples: text: He takes his vantage on religion,
To plant the Pope and popelings in the realm
ref: 1593, Christopher Marlowe, The Massacre at Paris:
glosses: An adherent of the pope.
popelings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of popeling
amphitheatral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more amphitheatral
form: most amphitheatral
Etymology: From Latin amphitheatralis.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of amphitheatrical.
hoidenhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hoiden + -hood.
Senses: synonyms: hoydenhood
glosses: The state of being a hoyden.
detractive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æktɪv
Forms: form: more detractive
form: most detractive
Etymology: From detract + -ive?
Senses: glosses: Tending to detract or belittle; depreciative; defamatory
Derived terms: detractively
detractiveness
switchel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: switchels
form: switzel
form: swizzle
Etymology: Possibly related to sweet.
Senses: glosses: A beverage of water and vinegar, often seasoned with ginger and sweetened with molasses, honey, or similar.
switchels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of switchel
vaginule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vaginules
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vaginula.
vaginules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vaginule
traitress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traitresses
Etymology: French traîtresse.
Senses: examples: text: My wife, my traitress, let her not come near me.
ref: 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, line 725:
text: Would'st thou revenge thee, traitress, hadst thou pow'r?
ref: 1690, [John] Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number):
glosses: Obsolete form of traitoress.
traitresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of traitress
asphaltus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of asphalt.
citiner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪtɪnə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: citiners
Senses: examples: text: 'Tis not lack of liking, but lack of living, that severs us. And you talk like yourself and a citiner in this, i'faith.
ref: 1605 August (first performance), Geo[rge] Chapman, Ben Ionson, Ioh[n] Marston, Eastward Hoe. […], London: […] [George Eld] for William Aspley, published September 1605, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: One who is born or bred in a city; a citizen.
citiners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of citiner
springal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: springals
Senses: examples: text: For, but for that, and the loose-bodied gown, / I should have discover’d apparently / The young springal cutting a caper in her belly.
ref: 1623, John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, act II, scene i:
glosses: Alternative form of springald (“a youth”).
examples: text: Various ‘artillery’ machines were employed. These were similar to machines known in antiquity to Rome and Byzantium. One such machine, particularly useful against wooden castles and on ships, was the springal.
ref: 1980, Chris Cook, John Stevenson, Weapons of War:
glosses: Obsolete form of springald (“military engine for launching stones and arrows”).
springals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of springal
opodeldoc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɒpəˈdɛldɒk/
Forms: form: opodeldocs
Etymology: So called by Paracelsus. The first syllable may be from Ancient Greek ὀπός (opós, “vegetable juice”).
Senses: glosses: A kind of plaster, said to have been invented by Mindererus, used for external injuries.
glosses: A saponaceous, camphorated liniment; a solution of soap in alcohol, with the addition of camphor and essential oils.
opodeldocs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opodeldoc
preferist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preferists
Etymology: From prefer + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A preferer, someone that prefers or chooses (one thing over another).
donkey-punches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of donkey-punch
donkey-punches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: So I was at a frat party, we were all circle jerkin' when another frat-brother and I got real horny. We went up to my room and he started cornholing me. I was about to come so he donkey-punches me. I shit all over myself and him
ref: 2004 March 30, Fernanernie, “Shit”, in Tcstangs.com:
text: Sometimes, when he donkey-punches daddy in the testies leaving bruises the pain is unlike any other pain
ref: 2006 January 3, ProTouring2.2, S10forum.com:
text: he donkey-punches his way to victory.
ref: 2010 April 20, bobthebuilder, “How Fedor will defeat the 'new breed'”, in Sherdog.net, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2010:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of donkey-punch
counterpole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterpoles
Etymology: From counter- + pole.
Senses: examples: text: It is enough to say, that it [German prose] offers the counterpole to the French style.
ref: 1840, Thomas De Quincey, “Style”, in Critical Suggestions on Style and Rhetoric with German Tales and Other Narrative Papers (De Quincey’s Works; XI), London: James Hogg & Sons, published 1859, →OCLC, part I, page 191:
synonyms: polar opposite
glosses: The exact opposite.
counterpoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterpole
inobservant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inobservant
form: most inobservant
Etymology: Latin inobservans.
Senses: examples: text: If they are petulant or unjust, he, perhaps, has been inobservant or imprudent […]
ref: March 1, 1772, Richard Hurd, sermon on St. Matthew, xi, 29
glosses: Not observant
Synonyms: heedless
nonobservant
unobservant
unobserving
Derived terms: inobservantly
hornel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hornels
Senses: glosses: A sand eel.
hornels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hornel
depopulacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: c. 1624, George Chapman, "Batrachomyomachia (The Battle of Frogs and Mice)".
Mars answer'd : O Jove, neither she nor I, / With both our aids can keep depopulacy / From off the Frogs.
glosses: depopulation
cartilagineous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cartilagineous
form: most cartilagineous
Etymology: From French cartilagineux or directly from Latin cartilāginōsus.
Senses: examples: text: [T]here are other Bodies beſides Shells found in the Earth, reſembling the Teeth and Bones of ſome Fiſhes, […] the Vertebres of Thornbacks and other Cartilagineous Fiſhes there found, and ſold for Stones among the Gloſſopetræ, […]
ref: 1692, John Ray, “Of Formed Stones, Sea-shells, and Other Marine-like Bodies Found at Great Distances from the Shores?”, in Miscellaneous Discourses Concerning the Dissolution and Changes of the World. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC, page 109:
glosses: Archaic form of cartilaginous.
transcalent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more transcalent
form: most transcalent
Etymology: From trans- + Latin calens, present participle of calere (“to grow warm”).
Senses: examples: text: transcalent package
glosses: Permitting heat to pass through; conductive to heat.
maudle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔːdəl/
ipa: /ˈmɔdəl/
ipa: /ˈmɑdəl/
Forms: form: maudles
form: maudling
form: maudled
form: maudled
Etymology: A back-formation from maudlin, taken as the present participle.
Senses: glosses: To throw into confusion or disorder.
glosses: To render maudlin.
glosses: To act in an excessively sentimental way.
maudled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of maudle
maudles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of maudle
maudling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of maudle
prehensible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prehensible
form: most prehensible
Etymology: Compare French préhensible.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being seized.
palsical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more palsical
form: most palsical
Etymology: From palsy + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: For this heat doth help the palsical, it restores and preserves the wasted strength of the native heat
ref: 1749, Johann Heinrich Cohausen, Hermippus Redivivus:
glosses: Affected with palsy; palsied; paralytic.
trunkback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trunkbacks
Etymology: From trunk + bank.
Senses: glosses: The leatherback.
trunkbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trunkback