cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
shandygaff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shandygaffs
Etymology: The origin is unknown. Perhaps from dialectal shandy (“boisterous, empty-headed”) + gaff (“outcry, nonsense”).
Senses: examples: text: “A bottle of beer for the cabman there at that table,” said Tom. “Whatever you please from shandygaff to champagne at this one here; and you sit down with us. Let me make you acquainted with my friend, Mr. Carthew. I've come on business, Billy; I want to consult you as a friend; I'm going into the island trade upon my own account.”
ref: 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, “chapter 22”, in The Wrecker:
text: On that side, plain for hundreds of miles; on this, forest: there, they drink squash and shandygaff; here, whisky and strong beer
ref: 1894, Horace Tucker, “chapter 32”, in The New Arcadia:
text: There would always be weighty enquiries as to what they could have, and it would work out always at cold beef and pickles, or fried ham and eggs and shandygaff, two pints of beer and two bottles of ginger beer foaming in a huge round-bellied jug.
ref: 1909, H. G. Wells, “chapter 1”, in The History of Mr. Polly:
text: After this excursion into culture and charity, Broad street feels the need of one more whistle-wetting before it wanders off onto the vast expanse of sunny, pollen-scented meadows that stretch toward the dry zones of League Island. For this purpose exists the cool haven of McBride, on the corner of Moyamensing avenue. There I encountered one of the best beakers of shandygaff in my experience. And—wonder of wonders—it can still be bought for a nickel.
ref: 1920, Christopher Morley, “South Broad Street”, in Travels in Philadelphia:
text: What will I take now? He drew his watch. Let me see now. Shandygaff?
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 8: Laestrygonians]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 163:
glosses: A mixture of strong beer and ginger beer.
Derived terms: shandy
shandygaffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shandygaff
tentwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tent + wort.
Senses: synonyms: wall-rue
glosses: A small fern, Asplenium ruta-muraria.
horsewood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horsewoods
Etymology: From horse + wood.
Senses: glosses: A mimosoid tree found in the Caribbean and Latin America, Zygia latifolia, with crimson blossoms. Also other trees in Zygia.
glosses: A tropical shrub or small tree related to citrus, Clausena anisata, with a fetid scent which has been compared to that of horse urine.
Derived terms: false horsewood
horsewoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horsewood
correctory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more correctory
form: most correctory
Etymology: From correct + -ory?
Senses: glosses: Containing or making correction; corrective.
correctory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: correctories
Etymology: From correct + -ory?
Senses: glosses: Any of the text-forms of the Latin Vulgate resulting from the critical emendation as practiced during the course of the thirteenth century.
incognizance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + cognizance.
Senses: examples: text: Now, this incognizance may be explained on three possible hypotheses.
ref: 1859–1860, William Hamilton, edited by H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:
glosses: Failure to cognize, apprehend, or notice.
laparocele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laparoceles
Etymology: From laparo- + -cele.
Senses: examples: text: As a matter of fact, even though there are several similarities with the problem related to secondary seromas in the laparoscopic surgery of inguinal hernias, especially of large direct hernias, the intraoperative treatment of the sac in laparocele shows different technical aspects and characteristics.
ref: 2013, Salvador Morales-Conde, Laparoscopic Ventral Hernia Repair, page 442:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A rupture or hernia in the lumbar regions.
laparoceles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laparocele
footcloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: footcloths
Etymology: From foot + cloth.
Senses: examples: text: Behind Lord Howard and the Dame,
Fair Margaret on her palfrey came,
Whose footcloth swept the ground.
ref: 1805, Sir Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel:
glosses: A housing or caparison for a horse.
footcloths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of footcloth
ichthyotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ichthyo- + -tomy.
Senses: glosses: The anatomy or dissection of fishes.
Derived terms: ichthyotomist
albuminiparous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin albumen + parere (“to bear, bring forth”).
Senses: examples: text: albuminiparous gland
glosses: Producing albumin.
copesmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copesmates
Etymology: From cope + -s- + mate.
Senses: examples: text: 'Mis-shapen Time, copesmate of ugly Night.
ref: 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC:
text: Tie thy selfe unto that, whereto thou are subject, but tie not him; he is neither thy companion, nor thy brother, nor thy fellow Citizen, nor thy copesmate.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: An associate or companion; a friend; a partner.
copesmates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copesmate
prelumbar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + lumbar.
Senses: examples: text: prelumbar bristle
text: prelumbar gland
text: prelumbar plexus
text: prelumbar puncture
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated immediately in front of the pubic region, especially of the spine.
lirelliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lirelliform
form: most lirelliform
form: lirellaeform
Etymology: From lirella + -iform.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
lichenology
natural-sciences
synonyms: lirellate
lirelline
glosses: Like a lirella.
cardiographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: cardiographic recorder
text: cardiographic technician
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
synonyms: electrocardiographic
glosses: Of or pertaining to, or produced by, a cardiograph.
Derived terms: angiocardiographic
mechanocardiographic
phonocardiographic
pneumocardiographic
telecardiographic
pantamorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From panta- + -morphic.
Senses: examples: text: a pantamorphic deity
text: pantamorphic transformation
glosses: Taking all forms.
republicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: republicates
form: republicating
form: republicated
form: republicated
Etymology: Compare Latin republicare.
Senses: glosses: To publish or make public again.
Synonyms: republish
republicated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of republicate
republicates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of republicate
republicating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of republicate
saponacity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being saponaceous; soapiness.
logspace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From log + space.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: logarithmic space
Dvorakian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /(d)vɔɹˈʒækɪən/
/(d)vɔɹˈʒɑːkiən/
Forms: form: more Dvorakian
form: most Dvorakian
form: Dvořákian
Etymology: From Dvořák + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904), Czech composer of Romantic music.
sportabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sportability
sportability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sportabilities
Etymology: From sport + -ability.
Senses: glosses: sportiveness
homocerebrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From homo- + cerebrin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A body similar to, or identical with, cerebrin.
Related terms: kerasin
enkephalins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enkephalin
encephalin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encephalins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of enkephalin.
metencephalin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metencephalins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of metenkephalin.
encephalins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of encephalin
metencephalins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metencephalin
Observantine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: French observantin.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Observant branch of Franciscan friars
Observantine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Observantines
Etymology: French observantin.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Observant branch of Franciscan friars.
hereticate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hereticates
form: hereticating
form: hereticated
form: hereticated
Etymology: First attested in 1629; borrowed from Medieval Latin haereticātus, perfect passive participle of haereticō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: And let no one be minded, on the score of my neoterism, to hereticate me.
ref: 1873, Fitzedward Hall, Modern English:
text: If that great Chancellor of Paris were now alive, he would freely teach his Sorbonne, as he once did, that it is not in the Pope's power, that I may use his own word, to hereticate any proposition.
ref: c. 1629, Joseph Hall, Answer to Pope Urban his inurbanity expressed, in a brief against the Protestants of France:
glosses: To denounce as heresy or a heretic.
hereticated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hereticate
hereticates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hereticate
hereticating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hereticate
braggardism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: braggardisms
Etymology: From braggard + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Why, Valentine, what Braggardiſme is this?
ref: c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv], page 26, column 2:
text: […] they could be seen venturing slowly and quietly under the projectiles, as far as the spots where the soldiers had fallen. They often crawled along on hands and knees, and endeavoured to take advantage of the various ditches and hedges, of all the protection that the ground afforded, never evincing any braggardism in unnecessarily exposing themselves to peril.
ref: 1892, Émile Zola, chapter 5, in Ernest Alfred Vizetelly, transl., La Débâcle, part 2; republished as The Downfall, London: Chatto & Windus, 1893, page 252:
text: Once, Brutan came back from the arena with his left cheek laid open from an animal’s claw. But the wound had dulled no part of his braggardism and he told a highly colored tale of an encounter against nearly impossible odds.
ref: 1943 January, Howard Browne, “Warrior of the Dawn”, in Amazing Stories, chapter 20:
glosses: Boastfulness; tendency to brag.
Related terms: braggartism
braggardisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of braggardism
Observant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Observants
Senses: glosses: A member of a Franciscan order that strictly observes the rules of St. Francis.
Synonyms: Observantine
Derived terms: Observantism
Observantist
religionize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: religionizes
form: religionizing
form: religionized
form: religionized
Etymology: From religion + -ize.
Senses: antonyms: dereligionize
glosses: To bring under the influence of religion.
glosses: To profess religion.
examples: text: Dressler refers to a “trend to religionize Alevism” in the context of a discussion of the changing role of the dede, or Alevi spiritual leader […]
ref: 2015, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion, →ISBN, page 166, note 103:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: To interpret or conceptualize as religion.
Derived terms: religionization
religionized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of religionize
religionizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of religionize
religionizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of religionize
consectaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of consectary
consectary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consectaries
Etymology: From Latin cōnsectārius.
Senses: glosses: That which follows by consequence or is logically deducible.
examples: text: His tautology also of indissoluble and individual is not to be imitated ; especially since neither indissoluble nor individual hath aught to do in the exact definition, being but a consectary flowing from thence
ref: 1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC:
glosses: Deduction from premises; a corollary.
glosses: A conclusion of any kind.
consectary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin cōnsectārius.
Senses: examples: text: Consectary impieties.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Following by consequence; consequent; deducible.
condurrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Condurra + -ite, after the Condurra mine in Cornwall, England.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A variety of the mineral domeykite, or that contains domeykite copper arsenide.
domeykites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of domeykite
maturative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maturatives
Etymology: From Middle English maturatif, from Middle French maturatif, from Medieval Latin mātūrātīvus. By surface analysis, mature + -ative or maturate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: Maturatives, or alterative Medicines in the Chest and Ship to be had are very many , yea more then I can call to mind at this time , wherefore to be brief , Emplastrum Diachylon cum Gummis I put for the principal , for it is for that purpose only, Parqacelsus Plaisters applyed thick spread, the place first anointed with oyl of Lillies, will do well.
ref: 1655, John Woodall, The Surgeons Mate, page 143:
text: Wherefore (says he) the safest way is, not always to confide in one Medicament alone, but rather to compound them, according to the Nature and Temper of the Part, and to mingle Digestives with Sarcoticks: Since that Experience testifies, that such are used with far better Success, than meer Maturatives alone.
ref: 1716, Thomas Sydenham, Praxis Medica. The Practice of Physick, page 291:
text: If the subcutaneous infection still exists, the resolutives help rid the would of any remaining infection; the softening drugs make the wound amenable to treatment; if there was no choice but to mature and lance the aposteme, the maturatives were used; cleansing drugs rid the wound of the remaining pus; and sedatives eased the discomfort.
ref: 2009, Esther Cohen, The Modulated Scream: Pain in Late Medieval Culture, page 98:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A remedy used in medieval medicine to promote maturation; a maturant.
examples: text: What is characteristic of the maturatives as a kind of special case of the conformatives is the factor of growth, of alteration in time, but also something more, as we shall presently see.
ref: 1971, Foundations of Language: Supplementary series, page 367:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A verb that implies the process of growth, progress or maturation
maturatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maturative
neurapophysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurapophyses
Etymology: From neur- + apophysis.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The structure that forms the neural arch of a vertebra.
Derived terms: neurapophysial
Related terms: word: neuropophysis
baldhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baldheads
Etymology: From bald + head.
Senses: examples: text: Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the way, young lads came out from the city and mocked him and said to him, "Go up, you baldy; go up, you baldhead!"
ref: 2000, World English Bible, 2 Kings 2:23
synonyms: baldy
glosses: A person whose head is bald.
glosses: A white-headed variety of pigeon.
glosses: A person who is not Rastafarian.
baldheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baldhead
precognizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more precognizable
form: most precognizable
Etymology: From pre- + cognizable.
Senses: glosses: cognizable beforehand
neurapophyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurapophysis
Gunter's scale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡʌntəz ˈskeɪl/
ipa: /ˌɡʊn-/
ipa: /ˌɡʌntɚz ˈskeɪl/
ipa: [-ɾɚz-]
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: Gunter's scales
Etymology: From Gunter + -'s + scale, from the surname of its inventor, the English clergyman, geometer, and mathematician Edmund Gunter (1581–1628).
Senses: synonyms: Gunter's rule
glosses: A wooden rule, two feet long, on one side of which is marked scales of equal parts, of chords, sines, tangents, rhombs, etc., and on the other side scales of logarithms of these various parts, by means of which many problems in navigation and surveying may be solved mechanically, using only divides.
wikipedia: Edmund Gunter
Related terms: Gunter's chain
Gunter's line
Gunter's proportion
Gunter's quadrant
Gunter's rule
Gunter's scales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gunter's scale
inappellability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: the inappellability of the councils
ref: c. 1826, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Hooker:
glosses: The quality of being inappellable; unappealability.
induplicative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪndjuːplɪˈkeɪtɪv/
rhymes: -eɪtɪv
Etymology: From induplicate + -ive; compare duplicative.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having induplicate sepals or petals in aestivation.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having induplicate leaves in vernation.
roughings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: rowen; a second crop of hay
inopportunity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + opportunity, from Latin inopportunitas.
Senses: glosses: Lack of opportunity or chances to do something
glosses: unseasonableness, or wrong or inadequate time to do something
glosses: inconvenience.
dextrally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dextrally
form: most dextrally
Etymology: From dextral + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The hands of a watch rotate dextrally.
text: rotate it on its axis inward, i.e., sinistrally for the right eye and dextrally for the left
ref: 1895, Joseph LeConte, Sight: An Exposition of the Principles of Monocular and Binocular Vision:
glosses: Towards the right.
degarnishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From degarnish + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of depriving or stripping, as of furniture, equipment, supplies or of a garrison.
sanguinaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sanguinaceous
form: most sanguinaceous
Etymology: From Latin sanguis (stem sanguin-) + -aceous.
Senses: glosses: sanguine
Lingism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪŋɪzəm/
Etymology: From Ling + -ism, after Pehr Henrik Ling (1776-1839).
Senses: glosses: kinesiatrics
wikipedia: Pehr Henrik Ling
double-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: doublehanded
Senses: examples: text: With this double-handed frontal horizontal grip the child is held in secure prone position so that its legs can move freely.
ref: 2002, Lilli Ahrendt, Mathilde Kohl, Baby Swimming, →ISBN, page 116:
glosses: Involving both hands.
examples: text: Usually 2–3.5 metres in length, double-handed spinning rods are ideal for tackling slightly larger fish, including tailor, salmon (hahawai), trevally, flathead, snapper, barramundi, and Murray cod.
ref: 2010, Steve Starling, Fishing For Dummies, →ISBN:
glosses: Designed to be used with two hands.
examples: text: The double-handed conversation had started to resemble a vaudeville act.
ref: 2010, Malcolm Pryce, Last Tango in Aberystwyth, →ISBN:
glosses: Involving two people.
examples: text: A “double-handed” strategy is called for, where the authorities show a readiness to intervene in the short run to support the economy should it flag again, while at the same time providing economic agents with a sense of long-term direction and governance to re-establish confidence.
ref: 2003 June, “Economic Outlook”, in OECD Economic Outlook, number 1, number 73, →ISBN:
text: Duchamp played a double-handed game, on one hand a public strategy on the other a clandestine commitment.
ref: 2010, Gary Willis, The Key Issues Concerning Contemporary Art, →ISBN:
glosses: Serving two purposes or involving two approaches.
examples: text: Ibrahim, who entertains suspicions of this double-handed policy, compromises the Prince by every means in his power.
ref: 1835, Alphonse de Lamartine, A Pilgrimage to the Holy Land:
text: While the idea of a “special post” reflects, as we have seen earlier, the double-handed way in which female professional labor was capitalized upon by the state, it also shows how the colonial bureaucracy used the vector of work to normalize a certain congruity between gender and citizenship.
ref: 2010, Sukanya Banerjee, Becoming Imperial Citizens, →ISBN, page 131:
glosses: deceitful; deceptive
Derived terms: double-handedly
double-handedness
double-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: doublehanded
Senses: examples: text: Holding his stick double-handed, the man swung it around mid-height towards Henry's already bruised rib cage.
ref: 2015, Nick Oldham, Edge: A Henry Christie thriller, →ISBN:
glosses: With two hands.
double-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: doublehanded
Senses: examples: text: I could see it the first time I met her, the way she peered at Carlo, whom she had just met. and at the gala the other night, the way she fell into Adrian Franklin and then double-handed his hand when he helped her up.
ref: 2015, Becky Masterman, Fear the Darkness, →ISBN:
glosses: simple past and past participle of double-hand
muddlehead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muddleheads
Etymology: From muddle + head.
Senses: examples: text: The Anglo-Saxon muddlehead is always doing this. It is his great intellectual excellence, and makes him the ridicule of Europe
ref: 1882, Charles Reade, Readiana: Comments on Current Events:
text: A reactionary muddlehead who waves the feminist banner does not thereby cease to be a reactionary muddlehead.
ref: 1978 April 1, John Lauritsen, “Praising Mitzel”, in Gay Community News, page 4:
glosses: A stupid person.
Related terms: muddleheaded
muddleheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muddlehead
cholaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cholaemias
form: cholemia
Etymology: From New Latin cholaemia, from Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ, “gall, bile”) + αἷμα (haîma, “blood”). By surface analysis, chole- + -aemia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A condition caused by the presence of excess bile in the blood, sometimes leading to somnolence and coma.
Derived terms: cholaemic
cholaemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cholaemia
cholemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cholemias
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cholaemia.
cholemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cholemia
multarticulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multarticulate
form: most multarticulate
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of multiarticulate.
owel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more owel
form: most owel
Etymology: From Old French oel, owel, iwel, ivel, French égal, from Latin aequalis. Doublet of equal.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: equal
spruntly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more spruntly
form: most spruntly
Etymology: From sprunt + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: How do I look to-day, am I not drest Spruntly? [Looks in her glass]
ref: 1616, Ben Jonson, The Devil Is an Ass, act 4, scene 1:
glosses: In a sprunt manner, i.e. youthfully or elegantly.
Synonyms: elegantly
sprucely
transpeciate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /tɹænˈspiːʃieɪt/
/tɹɑːnˈspiːʃieɪt/
Forms: form: transpeciates
form: transpeciating
form: transpeciated
form: transpeciated
Etymology: From trans- + Latin species (“form”).
Senses: examples: text: power to transpeciate a man into a horse
ref: 1642, [Thomas Browne], “(please specify the page)”, in Religio Medici, London: […] Andrew Crooke, →OCLC:
topics: fantasy
glosses: To change from one species into another; to transform.
transpeciated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of transpeciate
transpeciates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of transpeciate
transpeciating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of transpeciate
goliardery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Goliard + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: The Goliards became a kind of monkish rhapsodists , the companions and rivals of the Jongleurs ( the reciters of the merry and licentious fabliaux ) ; Goliardery was a recognised kind of mediæval poetry
ref: 1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity:
text: The medieval Latin equivalent of a "bourgeois" tradition is to be seen variously in comedy, goliardery, and satire, and in epistolary and expository prose.
ref: 1957, Charles Muscatine, Chaucer and the French Tradition, page 251:
text: Goliardery cannot be described as religious verse; it is characterised by a strong sense for the worldly life, containing a good deal of love poetry and drinking poems.
ref: 1988, The Bryggen Papers, volume 2, Supplementary series, page 27:
text: Jean is of course not basing his poem on a refurbishment of twelfth-century goliardery.
ref: 1992, Jelena O. Krstovic, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, volume 8, page 409:
text: In its burlesque form it reflected and, like so much of courtliness in Italy, in great part derived from the larger European tradition, as much aristocratic as popular, of Rabelaisian irreverence, goliardery, fabliaux, facetiae.
ref: 1997, Philip Jones, The Italian City-State: From Commune to Signoria, page 329:
glosses: The satirical or ribald poetry of the Goliards.
Goliards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Goliard
exploiture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exploitures
Etymology: From exploit + -ure.
Senses: examples: text: Whose seruice thou canst not lacke for thexploiture of such affaires.
ref: 1549, Erasmus, “(please specify the book of the Bible, or other title)”, in Nicolas Udall [i.e., Nicholas Udall; et al.], transl., The Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Newe Testamente, London: […] Edwarde Whitchurche:
glosses: The act of exploiting or accomplishing; achievement.
examples: text: The plot of the tragedy at hand was the very old one of the decoy and the ambuscade—a plot, it seems, which was never so old but that it rewarded some further exploiture by Marion.
ref: 1883, Harper's Magazine:
glosses: exploitation
exploitures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exploiture
modicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin modicitas; compare French modicité.
Senses: examples: text: modicity of price
text: modicity of revenues
glosses: moderateness; smallness
Related terms: modicum
shortclothes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From short + clothes.
Senses: examples: text: Shortclothes were worn with long stockings.
glosses: A covering for the legs of men or boys, consisting of trousers which reach to the knees, similar to modern-day shorts.
inthrall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inthralls
form: inthralling
form: inthralled
form: inthralled
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of enthrall.
inthralled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inthral
glosses: simple past and past participle of inthrall
inthralling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inthral
glosses: present participle and gerund of inthrall
inthralls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inthrall
lactimide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lactimides
Etymology: Blend of lactic + imide
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A white crystalline substance obtained as an anhydride of alanine, and regarded as an imido derivative of lactic acid.
lactimides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lactimide
electricity pylon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electricity pylons
Senses: glosses: A tall structure built to support an overhead power line.
Synonyms: transmission tower
electricity pylons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electricity pylon
blowdowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blowdown
autotoxicus
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Only used in horror autotoxicus
exceedable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From exceed + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Our original five-year goal of 2350000 average daily paid circulation by the end of 1987 is not only achievable but exceedable.
ref: 1984, Allen H. Neuharth, “To Readers”, in New York Magazine:
glosses: Capable of being exceeded; surpassable.
glosses: Capable of exceeding or surpassing.
Derived terms: unexceedable
crossable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crossable
form: most crossable
Etymology: From cross + -able.
Senses: examples: text: After the heavy rains, the river was no longer easily crossable.
text: Once the wet kicks in up north, you can be stranded for months waiting for swollen rivers to subside to a crossable depth, but visiting Cape York at this time of year was unavoidable for me, as the wet season is the only time of year that the Red-bellied Pitta and Black-winged Monarch are present, spending the rest of their time in New Guinea.
ref: 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 289:
glosses: Able to be crossed.
Derived terms: crossability
uncrossable
crossability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crossabilities
Etymology: From crossable + -ity.
Senses: synonyms: crossableness
antonyms: uncrossability
uncrossableness
glosses: The state of being crossable.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The ability of different species to cross-breed or cross-fertilize.
tympanitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tympan- + -itis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of myringitis.
synonyms: word: myringitis
seismometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From seismo- + -metry.
Senses: glosses: The measurement of earthquakes using a seismometer.
Related terms: seismogram
seismography
seismology
seismometric
seismometrical
nopalries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nopalry
nopalry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnəʊp(ə)lɹi/
ipa: /ˈnoʊpəlri/
Forms: form: nopalries
Etymology: From nopal + -ry (variant of -ery), a variant of nopalery.
Senses: examples: text: This ſpecies [the wild cochineal] multiplies more readily, ſpreads further and faſter without any aſſiſtance; ſo that a nopalry is ſoon covered with them.
ref: 1783, [Guillaume Thomas François] Raynal, “Of the Culture of the Cochineal”, in J[ohn] O[badiah] Justamond, transl., A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies. […], new edition, volume III, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], book VI (Discovery of America. Conquest of Mexico; and Settlements of the Spaniards in that Part of the New World), page 354:
text: The cochineal industry spread rapidly, plantations called nopalries arising in such diverse regions as Spain, India, Algeria, South Africa, Jamaica, and the Canary Islands.
ref: 1945, “Cochineal Cactus”, in Journal of the New York Botanical Garden, volume 46, New York, N.Y.: New York Botanical Garden, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 84, column 2:
text: This was another experimental garden started under Dr. Berry as a ‘Nopalry’ or place for the rearing of the cochineal insect on cacti, which however, became a sort of experimental garden where exotic plants were received as they arrived in the Port of Madras and were nursed and looked after until they could be despatched to the interior stations.
ref: 1960, A. K. Yegna Narayan Aiyer, P. Abraham, Cultivation of Cloves in India (I.C.A.R. Bulletin), New Delhi: Indian Council of Agricultural Research, →OCLC, page 5:
glosses: Alternative spelling of nopalery.
truantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more truantly
form: most truantly
Etymology: From truant + -ly.
Senses: glosses: like a truant
truantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more truantly
form: most truantly
Etymology: From truant + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Like a truant; in idleness.
iridiated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more iridiated
form: most iridiated
Senses: glosses: iridescent
biblicism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biblicisms
Etymology: Compare French biblicisme. Equivalent to biblical + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Learning or literature relating to the Bible.
examples: text: Such biblicisms — ultimately Hebraisms, since they derive from the Hebrew Bible — can still be found in later products of ancient Christian literature, since the Greek Bible of Hellenistic Judaism remained the Bible of the Christians[…]
ref: 1995, Helmut Koester, John H Morison Professor of New Testament Studies and Winn Professor of Ecclisiastical History Helmut Koester, Introduction to the New Testament, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 113:
glosses: A term derived from the Bible
Related terms: biblicist
biblicisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biblicism
lingle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪŋɡəl
Forms: form: lingles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lingel.
lingles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lingle
frogbit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frogbits
Etymology: From frog + bit, perhaps to explain the notched petal tips.
Senses: synonyms: European frogbit
common frogbit
European frog's-bit
glosses: Hydrocharis morsus-ranae, with roundish leaves and small white flowers. It is free-floating.
glosses: An American plant, Limnobium spongia, with is also free-floating.
synonyms: Amazon frogbit
South American frogbit
glosses: A South American plant, Limnobium laevigatum.
frogbits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frogbit
meawl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: meawls
form: meawling
form: meawled
form: meawled
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of mewl.
meawled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of meawl
meawling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of meawl
meawls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of meawl
burghmote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burghmotes
Etymology: From burgh + mote.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of barmote.
synonyms: word: barmote
burghmotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burghmote
coparcenies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coparceny
coparceny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coparcenies
Etymology: Clipping of coparcenary.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: coparcenary
antilegalization
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antilegalization
form: most antilegalization
Etymology: From anti- + legalization.
Senses: glosses: Opposing legalization.
seat sale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seat sales
Senses: glosses: A sale of reduced-price airline tickets.
fluidrachm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluidrachms
Senses: examples: text: Of these the latter is quite as important as the former . If only one is to be retained , it should be the latter , so that the physician could learn once for all that the average dose of a tincture is a fluidrachm
ref: 1909, Comments on the Pharmacopœia of the United States:
glosses: Alternative form of fluidram.
Related terms: drachm
fluid drachm
fluidram
fluidrachms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluidrachm
fluey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fluey
form: most fluey
Etymology: From flue + -y.
Senses: examples: text: A black portmanteau, a black bag, a desk, a dressing-case, a brown-paper parcel, a hat-box, and an umbrella strapped to a walking-stick. It was all very dusty and fluey. I had our porter up to get under the bed and fetch it out; and though he habitually wallows in dust,--swims in it from morning to night, and wears a close-fitting waistcoat with black calimanco sleeves for the purpose,--it made him sneeze again, and his throat was that hot with it that it was obliged to be cooled with a drink of Allsopp's draft.
ref: 1862, Charles Dickens, Somebody's Luggage:
glosses: Downy; fluffy.
fluey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: fluier
form: fluiest
Etymology: From flu + -ey.
Senses: examples: text: I felt fluey this morning: all bunged up, achey, dizzy and tired.
glosses: As if suffering from influenza.
Ramean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rameans
Senses: glosses: A Ramist.
Rameans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ramean
gustard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gustards
Senses: examples: text: As a resident species it appears to have been entirely confined to Berwickshire; it is thus referred to by Hector Boece, who flourished about 350 years ago :--'Besides these, we have another foule in Mers, more strange and uncouth than all these aforementioned, called a Gustard, fully so great as a Swan, but in colour of feathers and tast of flesh little differing from a Partridge'.
ref: 1881, Henry Eeles Dresser, A History of the Birds of Europe, page 7:
text: Translation: I have received from Scotland a picture of a web-footed bird purporting to be a Gustard which I have placed above after the wild Geese, since it is plainly different from a Gustard or Tarda which we are here describing, and perhaps he who sent it me has erred as regards its name. The true tarda, indeed, seems to be called Gustard by the British
ref: 1923, The Scottish Naturalist, page 175:
text: It was found in the Merse of Berwickshire, in the south of Scotland, where it was called the "gustard" ; and in England on the Yorkshire Wolds, the open chalk country around Royston, and the chalk downs of Berkshire, Wiltshire, Dorset, Hampshire and Sussex.
ref: 1952, Herbert Leeson Edlin, The Changing Wild Life of Britain, page 66:
glosses: A bird, the great bustard.
gustards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gustard
balisaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balisaurs
Etymology: From Hindi [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A badger-like animal of India, Arctonyx collaris, the sand bear.
balisaurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balisaur
maudlinwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maudlinworts
Etymology: From maudlin + wort.
Senses: synonyms: whiteweed
glosses: The oxeye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare).
maudlinworts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maudlinwort
giantship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giantships
Etymology: From giant + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: The real theme [of a story] may be, and perhaps usually is, something that has no sequence in it, something other than a process and much more like a state or quality. Giantship, otherness, the desolation of space, are examples that have crossed our path.
ref: 1966, C. S. Lewis, On Stories:
synonyms: giantness
glosses: The state, personality, or character of a giant.
examples: text: His Giantſhip is gone ſomewhat creſt-fall'n,
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, page 74:
glosses: A term of address for a giant.
giantships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giantship
eparterial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From epi- + arterial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated upon or above an artery; applied especially to the branches of the bronchi given off above the point where the pulmonary artery crosses the bronchus.
tidesman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tidesmen
Etymology: From tide + -s- + -man.
Senses: glosses: A tide waiter
tidesmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tidesman
epipolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: epipolic light
text: epipolic dispersion
glosses: fluorescent
Related terms: epipolism
binkying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of binky
binkied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of binky
lava-lava
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lava-lavas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lavalava.
metewand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metewands
form: metwand
form: mete-wand
form: met-wand
Etymology: From mete + wand.
Senses: examples: text: A true touchstone , a sure metewand lieth before both their eyes
ref: a. 1569 (date written), Roger Ascham, edited by Margaret Ascham, The Scholemaster: Or Plaine and Perfite Way of Teaching Children, to Vnderstand, Write, and Speake, the Latin Tong, […], London: […] John Daye, […], published 1570, →OCLC:
synonyms: yardstick
glosses: A measuring rod (in both its literal and figurative sense).
metewands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metewand
opisthotonos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opisthotonus
Etymology: From Latin opisthotonus, and its source, Ancient Greek ὀπισθότονος (opisthótonos), corresponding to opistho- + tonus (“muscle tension”).
Senses: examples: text: [T]he Actors struggled & bounced, and sprunted as if in Convulsions; like Patients under the Influence of a Disease called in Jamaica the Opisthotonos or dry Gripes […].
ref: 1786 August 16, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Sustained tetanic spasm in which the body is bent backwards and stiffened, as produced by various diseases.
Coordinate terms: emprosthotonus
emprosthotonos
orthotonos
orthotonus
pleurothotonus
pleurothotonos
pleurosthotonus
pleurosthotonos
opisthotonus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of opisthotonos.
Derived terms: opisthotonic
crinoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔɪdəl
Etymology: From crinoid + -al.
Senses: examples: text: crinoidal limestone
text: crinoidal remains
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Relating to, consisting of, or containing crinoids.
forestaff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forestaffs
form: forestaves
Etymology: From fore- + staff.
Senses: examples: text: with a Forestaff, take the Altitude of the North Star
ref: 1722, Andrew Wakely, The Mariner's Compass:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies, later replaced by the sextant.
Synonyms: cross-staff
forestaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forestaff
crinklings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crinkling
ingeneration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: generation; the creating or causing of something
intemerateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From intemerate + -ness.
Senses: examples: August 15 1607, John Donne, letter to Henry Godyere
They shall therefore ever keep the sincerity and intemerateness of the fountain, whence they are derived.
glosses: The state of being unpolluted; purity.
curvograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curvographs
Etymology: From Latin curvus (“bent”) + -graph.
Senses: glosses: An arcograph.
curvographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curvograph
antichamber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antichambers
Senses: examples: text: He followed his conductor, who, after leading him along two passages, ascended a flight of stairs, and, turning to the right, ushered him into another spacious, but elegant apartment, through an antichamber. […] “These, and a range of apartments to the left of the antichamber, are allotted, my lord, for your residence,” said he, […]
ref: 1807, [Miss Guion], chapter V, in The Three Germans. Mysteries Exemplified in the Life of Holstein of Lutztein. A German Romance. […], volume I, London: […] J[ames] F[letcher] Hughes, […], →OCLC, pages 99–100:
glosses: Obsolete form of antechamber.
antichambers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antichamber
interfusions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interfusion
pentamethylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentamethylenes
Etymology: From penta- + methylene, being composed of five methylene residues.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Five methylene groups in a molecule
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of cyclopentane.
synonyms: word: cyclopentane
Related terms: trimethylene
tetramethylene
pentamethylenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pentamethylene
stulp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stulps
Etymology: From Middle English stulp, stulpe, from Old Norse stólpi (“post, pillar”), from Proto-Germanic *stulpô (“post, pole, pillar”), from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to be stiff”). Cognate with Icelandic stólpi, Swedish stolpe, Danish stolpe.
Senses: examples: text: Or 'neath the hazel's leafy thatch, On a stulp or mossy ground
ref: 1821, John Care, The Village Minstrel: And Other Poems:
glosses: A short stout post used for any purpose, such as the marking of a boundary.
stulps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stulp
sea pigeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea pigeon