cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
imperception
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imperceptions
Etymology: From im- + perception.
Senses: examples: text: auditory imperception
text: color imperception
text: stimulus imperception
glosses: Lack of perception; failure to perceive.
imperceptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imperception
glycosine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycosines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An organic base, C₆H₆N₄, produced by the action of ammonia on glyoxal.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The organic compound 1-methyl-2-(phenylmethyl)-4(1H)-quinazolinone (a fused derivative of pyrimidine) found in the toothbrush plant, Glycosmis pentaphylla, sometimes used to ease the pain of arthritis
glycosines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glycosine
brazenfaced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more brazenfaced
form: most brazenfaced
Etymology: From brazen + faced.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of brazen-faced.
well-willer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: well-willers
form: wellwiller
Etymology: Possibly a calque of Latin benevolēns from bene (“well”) + volēns (“(one) wishing”).
Senses: examples: text: For he determined with him selfe thenceforth to send no embassadour vnto Constantius, neyther to doe homage, or to honor him as his superiour, patrone, or wellwiller: but to deale in all matters accordinge vnto his owne will and pleasure.
ref: 1577, “The Ecclesiasticall Historye of Socrates Scholasticvs”, in Meredith Hanmer, transl., The Auncient Ecclesiasticall Histories of the First Six Hundred Yeares after Christ, London: Thomas Vautroullier, Book 3, Chapter 1,pp. 296-297:
text: […] I beseech you, be ruled by your well-willers.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: Thus hoping you will be thus advis’d, and will withal excuse my Errors, I shall ever study how to serve you, and subscribe my self a well-willer to all men.
ref: 1674, Charles Cotton, The Compleat Gamester, London: R. Cutler, The Epistle to the Reader:
text: Every-body and every-thing had a black and a white side, as ill-willers and well-willers were pleased to report.
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], chapter 20, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume VI, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC, page 61:
text: As down the wind driveth and thrusts through the sea
The sail-burg that striveth to turn and go free,
But the lads at the tiller they hold her in hand,
And the wind our well-willer drives fierce to the land.
ref: 1891, William Morris, chapter 21, in The Story of the Glittering Plain:
synonyms: friend
good willer
supporter
well-wisher
antonyms: enemy
evil willer
ill-willer
glosses: One who wishes (someone) well, or means kindly (toward someone).
well-willers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of well-willer
whorler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whorlers
Senses: glosses: A potter's wheel.
whorlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whorler
olibene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From olibanum + -ene.
Senses: glosses: An essential oil, principally a mixture of diterpenes, obtained by the distillation of olibanum.
Synonyms: conimene
imbolden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: imboldens
form: imboldening
form: imboldened
form: imboldened
Senses: examples: text: Steel your thoughts, ſharp your reſolue, imboldẽ your spirit, graſp your ſvvords; alarum miſchief, & vvith an vndãted brovv, out ſcout the grim oppoſition of most menacing perill.
ref: 1600 or 1601 (date written), I. M. [i.e., John Marston], Antonios Reuenge. The Second Part. […], London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, and are to be soulde [by Matthew Lownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act V, scene iii, signatures I4, recto – I4, verso:
text: Their lookes imboldned, modeſtie novv gone, / Conuert at length to little-differing Stone.
ref: 1626, Ovid, “The Tenth Booke”, in George Sandys, transl., Ovid’s Metamorphosis Englished […], London: […] William Stansby, →OCLC, page 201:
text: I have called myſelf to Account upon it, vvhether any Levity in my Looks, my Dreſs, my Appearance, could imbolden ſuch an affrontive Inſolence.
ref: 1742, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXXII. The Journal Continued.”, in Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded. […], volume III, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; and sold by C[harles] Rivington, […]; and J. Osborn, […], →OCLC, page 231:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of embolden.
imboldened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of imbolden
imboldening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of imbolden
imboldens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of imbolden
metalliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more metalliform
form: most metalliform
Etymology: From Latin metallum (“metal”) + -form. Compare French métalliforme.
Senses: glosses: Having the form or structure of a metal.
rimbase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rimbases
Etymology: From rim + base.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A short cylinder connecting a trunnion with the body of a cannon.
rimbases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rimbase
teazel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teazels
Senses: glosses: Dated form of teasel.
teazel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: teazels
form: teazeling
form: teazelling
form: teazeled
form: teazeled
form: teazelled
form: teazelled
Senses: glosses: Dated form of teasel.
teazels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teazel
warpage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warpages
Etymology: From warp + -age.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of warping.
glosses: The warpedness resulting from that act or process.
glosses: A charge per ton made on shipping.
warpages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of warpage
glyoxime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glyoximes
Etymology: Blend of glyoxal + oxime
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The oxime HO-N=CH-CH=N-OH produced by the action of hydroxylamine on glyoxal
glyoximes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glyoxime
metasternal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)nəl
Etymology: From meta- + sternal.
Senses: examples: text: metasternal disc
text: metasternal foveae
text: metasternal wing
glosses: Of or pertaining to the metasternum.
asheries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ashery
ashery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asheries
Etymology: From ash + -ery.
Senses: glosses: A depository for ashes.
glosses: A place where lye, potash or pearlash is made.
wishtonwish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wishtonwishes
Etymology: From a Native American word which was an onomatopoeic representation of the animals' cry.
Senses: examples: text: On the twenty fourth of October, while on a short excursion from this place, Lt. Pike and Dr. Robertson, (a gentleman who accompanied the expedition,) killed some prairie squirrels, or wishtonwishes, and nine rattle snakes, […]
ref: 1812 April, “Pike's Expedition”, in The General Repository and Review, volume 1, page 398:
text: […] who, it turned out, devoted all his spending money to them, asked me if I had ever seen a "wishtonwish."
ref: 1937, James Thurber, Let Your Mind Alone, page 189:
qualifier: except perhaps in dialects
glosses: The prairie dog.
wishtonwishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wishtonwish
raintight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more raintight
form: most raintight
Etymology: From rain + tight.
Senses: examples: a raintight roof
glosses: So tight as to exclude rain.
reattainment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reattainments
Etymology: From re- + attainment.
Senses: glosses: subsequent attainment; attainment again
reattainments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reattainment
oleraceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /əʊləˈɹeɪʃəs/
Etymology: From Latin oleraceus, from olus, oleris (“garden or pot herbs, vegetables”).
Senses: examples: text: grow unto a ligneous substance, and from an herby and oleraceous vegetable, to become a kind of tree
ref: c. 1683 (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “(please specify the page)”, in [Thomas Tenison], editor, Certain Miscellany Tracts, London: […] Charles Mearn, […], published 1683, →OCLC:
glosses: Relating to potherbs.
gaultheria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɔːlˈθɪə.ɹi.ə/
ipa: /ɡɔlˈθɪɹ.i.ə/
Forms: form: gaultherias
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Gaultheria.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant of the genus Gaultheria of evergreen ericaceous shrubs.
gaultherias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gaultheria
fanciless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fanciless
form: most fanciless
Etymology: From fancy + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Zounds! shall a pert or bluff important wight, / Whose brain is fanciless, whose blood is white; / A mumbling ape of taste; prescribe us laws […]
ref: 1753, John Armstrong, Taste:
glosses: Having no fancy; without ideas or imagination.
interdictive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪktɪv
Etymology: From interdict + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: interdictive measures
text: [A]gainſt a perſiſting ſtubbornes, or the fear of a reprobate ſenſe, [will be requir'd] a timely ſeparation from the Flock by that interdictive Sentence, leſt his Converſation unprohibited, or unbranded, might breath a peſtilential murrein into the other Sheepe.
ref: 1641, John Milton, Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 159:
synonyms: prohibiting
glosses: Having the power to prohibit.
Derived terms: interdictively
Indiaman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Indiamen
Etymology: From India + -man.
Senses: examples: text: No place is so propitious to the formation either of close friendships or of deadly enmities as an Indiaman
ref: 1841, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Warren Hastings:
text: Buried treasures are naturally among the problems which have come to Mr. [Sherlock] Holmes. One genuine case was accompanied by a diagram here reproduced. [...] Each Indiaman in those days had its own semaphore code, and it is conjectured that the three marks upon the left are signals from a three-armed semaphore.
ref: 1924 September, Arthur Conan Doyle, “Sidelights on Sherlock Holmes”, in Memories and Adventures, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, →OCLC, page 110:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A large ship that traded between Britain and India on behalf of the East India Company.
Derived terms: West Indiaman
Indiamen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Indiaman
rewardful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rewardful
form: most rewardful
Etymology: From reward + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Yielding reward.
pedimental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛntəl
Etymology: From pediment + -al.
Senses: examples: text: pedimental sculpture
glosses: Of or pertaining to a pediment.
muscarin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of muscarine.
organographist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organographists
Etymology: From organography + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone knowledgeable in organography.
organographists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of organographist
furtherer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: furtherers
Etymology: From further + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who furthers something, or helps in achieving an aim.
furtherers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of furtherer
phormium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɔ(ɹ)ˌmiəm/
Forms: form: phormiums
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any plant in the genus Phormium, New Zealand flax.
phormiums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phormium
momentally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From momental + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: momentarily
glosses: For a moment; briefly.
enchainment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enchainments
Etymology: From enchain + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of enchaining or linking together
glosses: The state of being enchained.
enchainments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enchainment
tephramancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tephromancy
Etymology: From tephra + -mancy.
Senses: synonyms: spodomancy
glosses: Divination by ashes, especially, especially those of a victim has been sacrificed.
organographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organographers
Etymology: From organography + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who studies organography.
Synonyms: organographist
organographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of organographer
aftermentioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From after- + mentioned.
Senses: glosses: Mentioned afterwards.
Related terms: aforementioned
hereinafter
hereinunder
shadowish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shadowish
form: most shadowish
Etymology: From shadow + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: ours being that truth whereof theirs was but a shadowish prefigurative resemblance
ref: 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: Shadowy; vague.
rovingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From roving + -ness.
Senses: glosses: A tendency to rove; a nomadic condition.
kernish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kernish
form: most kernish
Etymology: From kern + -ish, from kern (“a boor”).
Senses: examples: text: Ireland […] was once the conqueſt of one ſingle Earl with his private forces, and the ſmall aſſiſtance of a petty Kerniſh Prince,
ref: 1642, John Milton, The Reason of Church-Government Urg’d against Prelaty; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, pages 218–219:
glosses: clownish; boorish
vansire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈvænsɪə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: vansires
Etymology: Borrowed from French vansire, from Malagasy vontsira.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: An ichneumon, Atilax paludinosus (syn. Herpestes galera), native to Africa and Madagascar. It is reddish brown or dark brown, grizzled with white.
Synonyms: sense: Atilax paludinosus
word: vondsira
sense: Atilax paludinosus
word: water mongoose
sense: Atilax paludinosus
word: marsh mongoose
sense: Atilax paludinosus
word: marsh ichneumon
vansires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vansire
pacaras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pacara
myrioscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myrioscopes
Etymology: From myrio- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: A form of kaleidoscope, especially one consisting of mirrors arranged so as by multiplied reflection from a small piece of carpet to show how it looks covering a whole floor.
myrioscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myrioscope
gelatification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: gelatinization
granulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more granulous
form: most granulous
Etymology: From Middle English granulous, from Medieval Latin granulōsus.
Senses: glosses: granular
cnidocil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cnidocils
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The fine hairlike trigger of a cnidoblast.
cnidocils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cnidocil
cavasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cavass
lactucone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From translingual Lactuca (“genus of lettuces”) + -one.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A white, crystalline, tasteless substance found in the milky sap of species of Lactuca, and constituting an essential ingredient of lactucarium.
siphonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From siphon + -al.
Senses: examples: text: siphonal index
text: siphonal area
text: siphonal tufts
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Resembling or relating to a siphon.
powldron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: powldrons
Etymology: See pauldron.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of pauldron.
powldrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of powldron
inumbrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inumbrates
form: inumbrating
form: inumbrated
form: inumbrated
Etymology: First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin inumbrātus, perfect passive participle of inumbrō (“to shade”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: An eclipse had suddenly inumbrated the moon, and as the black shadow was perceived stealing rapidly onwards, and casting a mysterious gloom over the face of nature[…]
ref: 1844, Sir William Cornwallis Harris, The Highlands of Æthiopia:
glosses: To put in shadow; to darken.
Related terms: umbrella
inumbrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inumbrate
inumbrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inumbrate
inumbrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inumbrate
prismoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔɪdəl
Forms: form: more prismoidal
form: most prismoidal
Etymology: From prismoid + -al.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of a prismoid.
intrafoliaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + foliaceous.
Senses: examples: text: intrafoliaceous stipules
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Growing immediately above or in front of a leaf.
conventicler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conventiclers
Etymology: From conventicle + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I fear 'tis unavoidable if the conventiclers be permitted still to scatter. A man may be suffered to quote an adversary to our religion when he speaks truth
ref: [1682], [John] Dryden, Religio Laici or A Laymans Faith. A Poem, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
glosses: Someone who supports or frequents conventicles.
conventiclers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conventicler
zacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zac
Zach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /zæk/
Forms: form: Zac
form: Zack
form: Zak
Senses: examples: text: Here it was the province of an electronic harpsichordlike timbre (presumably from a laptop) and an electric bass, played assertively by Zach Layton and supported by the drummer, David Justh. Mr. Justh added considerable filigree in the course of the 66-minute performance, none sanctioned by the score, but captivating enough to justify its berth.
ref: 2007 December 1, Allan Kozinn, “That Same Old Beat, With Brand-New Choices”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 17 Jan 2018:
text: In his book, Polystate: A Thought Experiment in Distributed Government, Zach Weinersmith speculates about what governments would look like if they didn’t rule over geographic locations, but instead ruled over minds.
ref: 2014 June 12, George Dvorsky, “12 Futuristic Forms of Government That Could One Day Rule the World”, in Gizmodo:
glosses: A diminutive of the male given names Zachariah or Zachary.
glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
Zac
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /zæk/
Forms: form: Zach
form: Zack
form: Zak
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given names Zachariah or Zachary.
Alfonsine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Alphonsine
Etymology: Equivalent to Alfonso + -ine, by way of earlier Alphonsine from Latin Alphōnsīnus.
Senses: examples: text: The tables have been published by Rico y Sinobas (1866), in the same volume as his version of the Libro de las tablas alfonsies, and he claimed that they were "numerical fragments" of the original Alfonsine Tables.
ref: 2000, José Chabás, Bernard R. Goldstein, Astronomy in the Iberian Peninsula:
glosses: Of or relating to Alfonso X of Castile (1221–1284) or the Alfonsine tables, astronomical tables prepared under his patronage.
Alfonsine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Alfonsines
form: Alphonsine
Etymology: Equivalent to Alfonso + -ine, by way of earlier Alphonsine from Latin Alphōnsīnus.
Senses: examples: text: The oriental observers gave the method of determining the rising of the star, of taking the altitude of the sun, and of drawing the meridian line: they enabled the student to solve all the practical problems of astronomy. In the intellectual genealogy of man they may claim to be the progenitors of Kepler and of Newton; and the calculations of the Alfonsines are the remote but efficient causes of the perfection of modern astronomy.
ref: 1821 October, “Art[icle] IX.—1. Vox Stellarium, a Loyal Almanac for the Year of our Lord 1821. By Francis Moore, […]. 2. History of Chemistry, prefixed to a Manual of Chemistry, by William Thomas Brande, […]”, in The Quarterly Review, volume XXVI, London: John Murray, […], published 1822, →OCLC, page 183:
text: The General estoria says notable things about Seth and his descendents:^([sic]) not least, it tells us that these men were the first to have knowledge of the liberal arts, eminently of astrology. This bit of information comes to the work from Josephus’ Antiquities of the Jews; the Alfonsines do scarcely more than expand Josephus’ astrology to cover all seven liberal arts and theology.
ref: 1991, Charles F[rederic] Fraker, “A Hermetic Theme in the ‘General estoria’”, in Karl-Hermann Körner, Günther Zimmermann, editors, Homenaje a Hans Flasche: Festschrift zum 80. Geburtstag am 25. November 1991, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, →ISBN, page 257:
text: Instead, Ptolemy invoked a ninth sphere to provide the diurnal east-to-west motion and taught that the eighth sphere turned from west to east very slowly about the poles of the ecliptic, completing a full revolution in 36,000 years. However, Clavius relates, Albategnius (al-Battānī) found a different rate, namely, one revolution in 23,760 years and the Alfonsines still another, one revolution in 49,000 years.
ref: 1994, James M. Lattis, “Accommodations to Copernicus”, in Between Copernicus and Galileo: Christoph Clavius and the Collapse of Ptolemaic Cosmology, Chicago, Ill.; London: The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, chapter 6 (Strains on Ptolemaic Cosmology, Inside and Out), page 164:
glosses: One of the scholars who compiled the Alfonsine tables.
Alfonsine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Alfonsine.
Senses: glosses: A municipality of the province of Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
spermoderm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spermoderms
Senses: examples: text: In the seed these membranes are called by various names, of which the most frequently used are spermoderm or testa for the primine; mesosperm, for the secondine; and endopleura for the other.
ref: 1835, John Lindley, A Key to Structural, Physiological, and Systematic Botany, Longman et al. (publishers), page 35:
text: […] The general covering of the seed is called spermoderm (σπέρμα, seed, and δέρμα, covering). […] The Spermoderm usually consists of two parts, an external membrane, called the episperm or testa (ἐπί, upon, or on the outside, and σπέρμα, a seed, or testa, a shell), and an internal membrane, called endopleura (ἔνδον, within, and πλευρά, side).
ref: 1851, John Hutton Balfour, Manual of Botany, Second Edition, John Joseph Griffin and Co., page 275
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A seed coat or testa.
spermoderms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spermoderm
ramulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæm.jʊ.ləs/
ipa: /ˈɹæm.jə.ləs/
Forms: form: more ramulous
form: most ramulous
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ramulose.
dough-baked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: half-baked
glosses: Imperfectly baked.
examples: Near-synonym: half-baked
glosses: Not brought to perfection; unfinished.
examples: text: But as to your milksops, your dough-baked lovers, who stay at home and strut among the women, when glory is to be gained in the martial field; I despise them with all my heart.
ref: 1753, Samuel Richardson, The History of Sir Charles Grandison:
glosses: Dandy but soft, and thus unmanly; dull-witted.
raw_tags: of a person
lathers up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lather up
lathering up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lather up
lathered up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lather up
glosses: In a nervous, anxious, or vexed state; in a lather.
fertileness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fertile + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: ... and he, according to the fertileness of the Italian wit, did not only afford us the demonstration of his practice, but sought to enrich our minds.
ref: c. 1583, Sir Philip Sidney, “An Apologie for Poetrie”, in A Defence of Poesie and Poems:
text: This valley is eighty-seven miles long. It did not have the fertileness of Brown's Park.
ref: 1915, E. L. Kolb, chapter 7, in Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico:
text: The fertileness of Place du Bois, "rich in its exhaustless powers of reproduction," reflects a golden age of easy life.
ref: 2001, Maureen Anderson, “Unraveling the Southern Pastoral Tradition”, in Southern Literary Journal, volume 34, number 1, page 4:
glosses: The state or characteristic of being fertile.
Synonyms: fecundity
fertility
Orientalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Orientalizes
form: Orientalizing
form: Orientalized
form: Orientalized
form: Orientalise
form: orientalize
form: orientalise
Etymology: From Oriental + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make Oriental; to cause to conform to Oriental manners or conditions.
Orientalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Orientalize
Orientalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Orientalize
Orientalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Orientalize
Socratically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more Socratically
form: most Socratically
Etymology: From Socratic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a Socratic manner, or with regards to Socrates.
Socratics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Socratic
boatwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boatwomen
Etymology: From boat + woman.
Senses: synonyms: boatswoman
glosses: A woman who manages a boat.
boatwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boatwoman
emphractic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more emphractic
form: most emphractic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐμφρακτικός (emphraktikós), from ἐμφράσσω (emphrássō), from ἐν- (en-) + φράσσω (phrássō).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Having the quality of closing the pores of the skin.
undispensed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + dispensed.
Senses: glosses: Not dispensed.
examples: text: Thus, besides maintaining the invalidity of an undispensed marriage between a baptized and an unbaptized person, not as intrinsic, but as of long-established ecclesiastical use, she holds all restrictions involving invalidity, or, as she calls them, diriment impediments, which have prevailed from before the separation, to be still in force for baptized Protestants.
ref: 1893 November, Charles C Starbuck, “The Roman Catholic Doctrine And Law Of Marriage”, in Methodist Review, volume 75, page 879:
text: The reason why it remains undispensed is that the dispensation which is actually granted cannot conceivably be construed as relating to the case that actually exists.
ref: 1960, Catholic University of America, Canon Law Studies - Issue 392, page 195:
text: Not even the most rigid of canonists would hold these undispensed religious subjectively (i.e., morally) responsible for their objective apostasy.
ref: 2002, F. Donald Logan, Runaway Religious in Medieval England, C.1240-1540, page 175:
glosses: Not freed by dispensation.
redhibitory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin redhibitōrius, from redhibeō.
Senses: examples: text: a redhibitory action or fault
text: rescinding both contracts because the cars had redhibitory defects
ref: 1998, “Watkins v. Freeway Motors - A need to clarify the principle of novation”, in Louisiana Law Review:
topics: law
glosses: Of or pertaining to redhibition (the annulling of a sale).
examples: text: My wish was to become a professional seaman, but my skills in mathematics were poor and I was wearing glasses, two redhibitory defects at a time when GPS and computers did not exist. Luckily sailing remains my lifelong hobby.
ref: 2009, Luc Hessel, “From clinical research to vaccination policy: 25years experience in vaccinology”, in Human Vaccines, →DOI:
qualifier: non-native speakers' English
glosses: Prohibitive (cf. French rédhibitoire).
Derived terms: redhibitory defect
redhibitory vice
Ferraras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ferrara
Methodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Methody
Methody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Methodies
Senses: examples: text: 'Job,' he said to me, solemn like, and yet with a kind of satisfaction shining through him, more like a Methody parson when he has sold a neighbour a marked horse for a sound one and cleared twenty pounds by the job than anything I can think on - 'Job, time's up, Job; but I never did expect to have to come and hunt you out in this 'ere place, Job.'
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: A Methodist.
geoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From geo- + -scopy.
Senses: examples: text: The School of Astronomy, geoscopy, and the choice of fortunate days
ref: 1882, William Elliot Griffis, Corea, the Hermit Nation:
glosses: Knowledge or study of the earth or soil, obtained by inspection.
Related terms: geoscopic
disuniter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disuniters
Etymology: From disunite + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Disuniter of all affection—awful seal to life's nothingness—warning and witness of power and judgment—Death has always enow of terror and sorrow, even when there are many to comfort the mourner, when the path has been smoothed for the sufferer, and life offers all its best and brightest to soothe the survivor;...
ref: 1830, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Juvenile Forget Me Not 1831, The Miniature, pages 37–45:
glosses: One who, or that which, disunites.
disuniters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disuniter
concentratively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more concentratively
form: most concentratively
Etymology: From concentrative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a concentrative manner.
curably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more curably
form: most curably
Etymology: From curable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: curably sick
antonyms: incurably
glosses: In a curable manner.
outbounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outbound
outbounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: So in short which are now the most out-bounds and abandoned space hee cleane wyped out many great townes
ref: 1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:
glosses: The farthest or exterior bounds; outer limits.
geoscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From geoscopy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to geoscopy.
verticillus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verticilli
Etymology: Latin, a whirl.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A whorl; a verticil.
masterous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more masterous
form: most masterous
Etymology: From master + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: illumine a period , to wreath an enthymema with masterous dexterity
ref: 1642 April, John Milton, An Apology for Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC:
glosses: masterly
oversubtile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oversubtile
form: most oversubtile
Etymology: From over- + subtile.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of oversubtle.
mellasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of molasses.
graffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹæfə(ɹ)/
homophone: grapher stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: graffers
Etymology: From graff + -er.
Senses: examples: text: A wall in neighbouring Clifton Hill is also very chatty, but the messages are the tags, pieces and throw-ups of subway-style graffiti writers, whose conversation is directed to other graffers rather than the general public (above).
ref: 2007, Christine Dew, Uncommissioned art: an A-Z of Australian graffiti:
glosses: A graffiti artist.
graffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹæfə(ɹ)/
homophone: grapher stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: graffers
Etymology: Compare greffier.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A notary or scrivener
graffers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of graffer
rangle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæŋɡl̩/
rhymes: -æŋɡəl
Forms: form: rangles
form: rangling
form: rangled
form: rangled
Etymology: From range + -le (frequentative suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Haue you not heard it long ago of cunning Fawkners tolde, / […] / And ſuch as knowe the luring voice of him that féedes them ſtill: / And neuer rangle farre abroade againſt the kéepers will, / Doe farre excéede the haggarde Hauke that ſtoopeth to no ſtale: / Nor forceth on the Lure awhit, but mounts with euery gale?
ref: 1567, George Turbervil[l]e, “The Louer to a Gentlewoman, that after Great Friendship without Desart or Cause of Mislyking Refused Him”, in Epitaphes, Epigrams, Songs and Sonets, with a Discourse of the Friendly Affections of Tymetes to Pyndara His Ladie. […], London: […] Henry Denham, →OCLC, folios 14, verso – 15, recto:
text: She bath’d her blade in blood up to the hilt, / And with the ſame their bodies all ſhe mangled, / All that abode her blowes, their bloud was ſpilt, / They ſcaped beſt that here and thither ranged,^([sic]) / Or thoſe whoſe horſes overthrown at tilt, / Lay with their maſters on the earth intangled.
ref: 1591, [Ludovico Ariosto], “The XIX. Booke”, in Iohn Haringtõ [i.e., John Harington], transl., Orlando Furioso in English Heroical Verse, […], London: […] Richard Field […], →OCLC, stanza 56:
text: The rangling rage that held from home Ulisses all too long, / Made chast Penelope complaine of him that did her wrong.
ref: 1594, Henry Willobie, edited by Charles Hughes, Willobie His Avisa, London: Sherratt and Hughes, published 1904, page 138:
glosses: To range about in an irregular manner.
rangle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæŋɡl̩/
rhymes: -æŋɡəl
Senses: examples: text: Previously she was seen eating on 1 pigeon fledgling 2 days before swalling the rangle
ref: 1982, Jorge L. B. Albuquerque, “Observations on the use of rangel by the Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus tundrius) wintering in southern Brasil”, in Raptor Research, volume 16, number 3, pages 91–92:
glosses: Stones or gravel eaten by birds of prey to improve digestion; gastroliths
rangled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rangle
rangles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rangle
rangling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rangle
Cnutian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Cnutian
form: most Cnutian
Etymology: From Cnut + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Canutian.
odiferously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more odiferously
form: most odiferously
Etymology: From odiferous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an odiferous manner.
odiferousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From odiferous + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Cab slowing and stopping in front of a tall yellow building. Shooting up out of the tenements. Wrack the mind for opening statements. Miss Tomson after all these empty weeks let me kiss your feet. They're clean. Or even if there's a slight odiferousness.
ref: 1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), page 230:
glosses: The quality of being odiferous.
sedarim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seder
pursuaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pursuaunt
form: most pursuaunt
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of pursuant.
sergeaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sergeaunts
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of sergeant.
odouriferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more odouriferous
form: most odouriferous
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of odoriferous.
computist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: computists
Etymology: From compute + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who performs computations.
examples: text: Despite the high acclaim and wide acceptance of Bede's work, centuries later, medieval computists were still working on the same problem. Given the (relatively) confined scope of the mathematics involved, how did computus manage to remain such a core intellectual pursuit? In part, computists refined the basic model Bede had popularised. The introduction of a golden number in circa 1150 enabled computists to reference a given year's position in the 19-year cycle.
ref: 2013 August 8, Charlotte Mulcare, “The lost mathematicians: Numbers in the (not so) dark ages”, in plus.maths.org, retrieved 08 Sep 2013:
glosses: One who performs computus (calculation of the date of Easter).
computists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of computist
Talmudistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Talmud + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Talmudic.
nunciature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nunciatures
Etymology: From Latin nūnciāre, nūntiāre (“to announce, report”), from nūncius, nūntius (“messenger”). Compare French nonciature, Italian nunziatura.
Senses: examples: text: Does their role include the bringing of the message of Christ in the political life of the country to which they are ambassadors? A clarification of the role of nunciature is necessary to maintain this "appropriate communication."
ref: 1980, Felix Casalmo, The Vision of a New Society:
glosses: The status or rank of a nuncio (diplomatic representative of the Roman Catholic Church).
examples: text: This was the prelate chosen by the new Pope, Innocent X., for the nunciature in Ireland: a man of noble birth, in the fifty-third year of his age, of uncertain bodily health, of great learning, especially as a canonist, of a fiery Italian temperament[…
ref: a. 1868, Thomas D'Arcy McGee, A Popular History of Ireland […] :
text: His ecclesiastical appointments showed how rapidly he had made his way, how supple was his mind: first of all secretary to the nunciature at Lisbon; […].
ref: 1896, Ernest A. Vizetelly, transl., Rome (The Three Cities), translation of Rome by Émile Zola:
text: During the first winter of the war, a junior officer in the nunciature to Italy was summoned to the foreign ministry by the chef de cabinet of Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano to review some matter of ecclesiastical property.
ref: 2013, David Alvarez, Revd Robert A., SJ Graham, Nothing Sacred: Nazi Espionage Against the Vatican, 1939–1945, Routledge, →ISBN, page 164:
text: Seeing as the meeting happened at the nunciature in Washington, it could only have happened with the approval and participation of the nuncio, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano.
ref: 2015 October 2, Emma Green, quoting Michael Sean Winters, “The Vatican Is Waging a PR War Over Kim Davis and the Pope”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: The building and staff of a nuncio; the equivalent of an embassy for the Holy See.
examples: text: At the same time he had certainly searched documents, studied encyclical letters, based his sketch upon facts: first Leo's religious education at Rome, then his brief nunciature at Brussels, and afterwards his long episcopate at Perugia.
ref: 1896, Ernest A. Vizetelly, transl., Rome (The Three Cities), translation of Rome by Émile Zola:
text: The Warsaw nuncio was content to preach a spirit of peace, and was severely taken to task by the Polish press during the summer of 1920. This cast something of a shadow over the final period of his nunciature.
ref: 2002, Philippe Levillain, The Papacy: Gaius-Proxies, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 1201:
glosses: The term of service of a nuncio.
Related terms: announce
nuncio
nunciatures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nunciature
odontoglossums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of odontoglossum
instrumentist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: instrumentists
Etymology: From instrument + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A performer on a musical instrument.
Synonyms: english: far more common
translation: far more common
word: instrumentalist
instrumentists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of instrumentist
oncidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oncidiums
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Oncidium of tropical orchidaceous plants.
oncidiums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oncidium
bronzesmith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bronzesmiths
Etymology: From bronze + smith.
Senses: glosses: A maker of bronze articles.
Related terms: bronzesmithing
bronzesmiths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bronzesmith
intermedian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The peculiar order Amphionidacea once occupied that intermedian position (Fransen, 2010), but recent molecular studies (De Grave et al., 2015) have placed that "order" squarely within the order Caridea.
ref: 2021, Frederick R. Schram, Stefan Koenemann, Evolution and Phylogeny of Pancrustacea, page 479:
glosses: Intermediate.
examples: text: The medians for the distribution of the number of holdings and the operated area are calculated and the intermedian distance plotted as a vector from the number of holdings median to the operated area median .
ref: 1981, V. S. Satyapriya, Labour Utilisation in Agriculture, Tumkur District, Karnataka, page 96:
text: The intermedian distance between end-scrapers and carinated scrapers ( A_(λE), λ_C ) , which is designated simply as △ in the following discussion, is displayed by a dashed line drawn between the two medians and is △ = [ (3.4227 – 2.5000 ) ² + (4.0000 – 2.0000)²]^½, which is equal to 2.2026 m.
ref: 1984, Harold Hietala, Paul A. Larson, Intrasite Spatial Analysis in Archaeology, page 65:
glosses: Between medians.
ovicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin ovum (“an egg”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of, resembling, or pertaining to an egg.
ordinalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ordinal + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Are the ideas of Ordinalism in Number, and of Superlativeness in Degree allied? The Metaphysical view, taken by itself, gives us but unsatisfactory evidence, whilst the Empirical view, taken by itself, does the same.
ref: 1841, Robert Gordon Latham, The English Language:
glosses: The state or quality of being ordinal.
emaceration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emacerations
Senses: glosses: emaciation
considerative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsɪdəɹeɪtɪv/
ipa: /kɑnˈsɪdəɹeɪtɪv/
ipa: /kənˈsɪdəɹətɪv/
ipa: /kənˈsɪdɹətɪv/
Forms: form: more considerative
form: most considerative
Senses: examples: text: [W]here ere I come, / I loue to be conſideratiue; and, 'tis true, / I haue, at my free houres, thought vpon / Some certaine Goods, vnto the State of Venice, / VVhich I do call my Cautions: […]
ref: 1605 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, Ben: Ionson His Volpone or The Foxe, [London]: […] [George Eld] for Thomas Thorppe, published 1607, →OCLC, Act IV, scene i, signature I2, recto:
glosses: Considerate; careful; thoughtful.
Derived terms: considerativeness
masthouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: masthouses
Etymology: From mast + house.
Senses: glosses: A building in which masts for vessels are made, fitted, or stored.
masthouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of masthouse
gasconader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gasconaders
Etymology: From gasconade + -er.
Senses: examples: text: “All this is play-acting,” Angelo said to himself; “this is a cool strong man playing the part of a gasconader and a fribble […]”
ref: 1870 November, Justin McCarthy, “Lady Judith: A Tale of Two Continents. Chapter VII”, in The Galaxy, volume 10, number 5, page 594:
glosses: A great boaster; a blusterer.
gasconaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gasconader
Christocentrism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Christo- + -centrism.
Senses: examples: text: The latter, a principial christocentrism, may include the monergistic view of salvation, but it will also assume that Christ is the principium cognoscendi theologiae or, in Kickel's phrase the Erkenntnissgrund of theology.
ref: 2011, David Gibson, Reading the Decree:
glosses: A form of Christianity that concentrates on the teaching of Jesus Christ.
Related terms: Christocentric
lit-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lit-houses
form: lithouse
Etymology: From lit (“dye, colour”) + house.
Senses: glosses: A dyehouse.
lithouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithouses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lit-house.
dye-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dye-houses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dyehouse.
forein
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more forein
form: most forein
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of foreign.