cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fuguists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fuguist
healingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more healingly
form: most healingly
Etymology: From healing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to heal or cure.
oblongish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oblongish
form: most oblongish
Etymology: From oblong + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat oblong in shape.
subtranslucent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + translucent.
Senses: examples: text: subtranslucent quartz
glosses: Imperfectly or somewhat translucent.
wolfkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʊlf.kɪn/
Forms: form: wolfkins
Etymology: From wolf + -kin.
Senses: examples: text: Kite and kestrel, wolf and wolfkin, from the wilderness, wallow in it.
ref: 1864, Alfred Lord Tennyson, BOÄDICÉA:
glosses: A young or small wolf.
Synonyms: wolfling
wolfkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʊlf.kɪn/
ipa: /ˈwʊlf.kɪn/
Forms: form: wolfkin
Etymology: From wolf + -kin.
Senses: examples: text: Arun is in training to be a priest of the Fire God when he is abruptly plucked from his peaceful studies, bespelled and staked out as bait to capture a monster—a wolfkin. But the wolfkin isn't quite what Arun expected.
ref: 2009, Maia Strong, The Ballad of Jimothy Redwing:
text: There was a rumour that the rare wolfkin had been sighted in the botanical gardens in the west of the city.
ref: 2010, Kate Atkinson, Not The End Of The World, →ISBN, page 31:
text: Wolfkin are humanoid wolves. They have long wolf faces and thick fur. They walk on the tips of their long feet and have thick ragged wolf tails.
ref: 2014, Heather Gunn, Aspect Core Rulebook FC 2015 SC, →ISBN, page 41:
topics: fantasy
glosses: Any of various nonhuman and non-wolf fantasy creatures that have features of a wolf.
wolfkins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wolfkin
recidivation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recidivations
Etymology: From Middle English recidivacion, from Latin recidīvātiō. By surface analysis, recidivate + -ion or recidive + -ation.
Senses: glosses: Relapse of a disease or a symptom.
examples: text: Recidiuation into ſinne maketh the former repentãce fruſtrate.
ref: 1610, The Second Tome of the Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Lavrence Kellam, […], →OCLC, Ecclesiasticvs 34, marginal note, page 423:
text: Investigation of recidivation during the postparole period revealed the fact that 23.6 per cent of the cases were found to be nondelinquent (meaning thereby, cases “who abandoned their delinquencies immediately on discharge from the reformatory or before the end of the end parole”); […]
ref: 1940, Walter C[ade] Reckless, “Relapse and the Results of Treatment”, in Criminal Behavior (McGraw-Hill Publications in Sociology), New York, N.Y.; London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., →OCLC, page 369:
text: The social conditions of these inmates would generally not have been examined in attempts to explain their high rate of incarceration and recidivation; rather, this kind of rationalization permitted the conclusion that the inmates, as individuals, had chosen to commit crimes and that their situations were entirely their own responsibility.
ref: 2007, Madeleine Youmans, “Specific Uses of Negative Politeness: The Middle-Class Anglo ‘Advice Culture’”, in Chicano-Anglo Conversations: Truth, Honesty, and Politeness (ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series), New York, N.Y.; Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge, published 2013, →ISBN, “Negative Politeness as Linguistic Power” section:
glosses: Synonym of recidivism.
synonyms: word: recidivism
air embolism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air embolisms
Senses: examples: text: Lieutenant Axel suspected an air embolism, meaning that Savino had taken a breath and held it before they’d pulled him up. As the pressure around him dropped to sea level, the pressure exerted by the air inside his lungs would have mounted until a bubble was expelled into his bloodstream. It would travel through veins and arteries until it lodged in a passage too small to pass through―in Savino’s case, one bringing blood to the brain. Air embolisms were often deadly, but Savino had survived.
ref: 2017, Jennifer Egan, Manhattan Beach, Corsair, page 290:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: condition caused by bubbles of gas in a vascular system.
Synonyms: sense: pathological condition
word: aeroembolism
sense: pathological condition
word: gas embolism
Komsomol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Comsomol
form: Consomol
form: Konsomol
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian комсомо́л (komsomól), acronym of коммунисти́ческий сою́з молодёжи (kommunistíčeskij sojúz molodjóži, “Communist Union of Youth”).
Senses: glosses: Young Communist League, the former youth wing of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Related terms: VLKSM
communist
Komsomolsk-na-Amure
Komsomolsk
Komsomolia
sabulosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being sabulous; sandiness; grittiness.
second wind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: second winds
Senses: examples: text: There is no need to describe how they toiled back up the gorge. It was pretty hard work, but oddly enough everyone felt more cheerful. They were getting their second wind; and the word supper had had a wonderful effect.
ref: 1951, C[live] S[taples] Lewis, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia, London: Geoffrey Bles, →OCLC:
text: Don't forget your second wind / sooner or later you'll feel that momentum kick in
ref: 1985, Billy Joel, “You're Only Human (Second Wind)”:
text: As I get up to leave, she [Tracey Emin] gets a second wind and starts to rant about the state of education, the NHS, the Post Office, the contaminated blood scandal …
ref: 2024 May 29, Simon Hattenstone, “The radical, ravishing rebirth of Tracey Emin: ‘I didn’t want to die as some mediocre YBA’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: X gained a second wind last year when Mr. Trump won the election. Some advertisers, courted by Ms. Yaccarino, returned to the platform partly because of Mr. Musk’s adjacency to the president.
ref: 2025 July 9, Mike Isaac, Kate Conger, “X CEO Linda Yaccarino Says She Is Leaving Elon Musk’s Platform”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A renewed feeling of energy after having reached the point of exhaustion.
Related terms: find another gear
runner's high
wind sprint
shielder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shielders
Etymology: From Middle English schilder; equivalent to shield + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Brice was at all times a shielder of the oppressed; and when the Exeter play-actors were purchased out of their theatre by the Methodists, who converted it into a chapel, and indicted them as vagrants, he published a poem […] which so stirred up popular feeling that the Methodists were fain to restore the place to its former possessors […]
ref: 1874, Henry Curwen, A History of Booksellers, the Old and the New, page 478:
glosses: Agent noun of shield: one who shields.
shielders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shielder
sentimentalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sentimentalistic
form: most sentimentalistic
Etymology: From sentimental + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Tending to be sentimental.
sabertooth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sabertooths
Etymology: Bahuvrihi compound of saber + tooth
Senses: glosses: A sabertooth tiger
glosses: Any animal with saber-like teeth, such as the saber-toothed cat or saber-toothed tiger
Derived terms: sabertooth fish
slipovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slipover
spryer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of spry: more spry
spryest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of spry: most spry
slanderously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more slanderously
form: most slanderously
Etymology: From slanderous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The best of friends become the worst of enemies when Barney makes a hilarious attack ad where he viciously pummels a cardboard cut-out of Homer before special guest star Linda Ronstadt joins the fun to both continue the attack on the helpless Homer stand-in and croon a slanderously accurate, insanely catchy jingle about how “Mr. Plow is a loser/And I think he is a boozer.”
ref: 2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in AV Club, archived from the original on 01 Feb 2013:
text: Case in point, as Lichfield detailed on Twitter last week: Almost as soon as the "hipster effect" article was published, a man furiously emailed the magazine claiming a photo of him was slanderously used alongside it without his permission. He was, it turned out, mistaken.
ref: 2019 March 11, Josh Hafner, “All hipsters look alike? Man claims article's 'hipster' photo is him, only to be mistaken”, in USA Today, archived from the original on 27 Feb 2024:
glosses: In a slanderous manner; in a manner that causes slander; in a false and defamatory way.
foolishest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: foolish + -est
Senses: glosses: superlative form of foolish: most foolish
Khorgas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chorgos
form: Gorgos
form: Horgos
form: Khorgos
Etymology: From Russian Хо́ргас (Xórgas) or Хо́ргос (Xórgos), from Uyghur قورغاس (qorghas) or Kazakh قورعاس or Қорғас (Qorğas).
Senses: examples: text: On the Chinese side of the Khorgas border point, a rash of buildings testified to the sudden spike in China-Kazakhstan exchanges over the border in the 1980s and early 1990s.
ref: 2005, Hugh Pope, Sons of the Conquerors, Overlook Duckworth, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 176–177:
text: This traditionally Kazakh stronghold is lush with farmland, pasture and flanking forest-blanketed mountains — a big change from the usual preconceptions of Xinjiang — and from here you can exit China at Khorgas and travel onward to Almaty. Although a train spur line is being built to Yining and Khorgas, the current method of travel for this excursion is by bus or private jeep.
ref: 2010, Bijan Omrani, Asia Overland: Tales of Travel on the Trans-Siberian & Silk Road, Odyssey Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 497:
text: At Fuyun I meet an employee of Boshihao Electronic, a firm registered in the southern city of Shenzhen, which is planning to open its robot production workshop in Khorgas and expects to start exporting service robots to Europe in 2017.[...]This is the new Wild West - quite literally, for the many young people flocking to Khorgas from the big Chinese mega-cities to the East.
When you cross the border to the Kazakh side, things are more subdued. The Kazakh Khorgos (the name of the town is the same, but there is a difference in pronunciation) is still more or less what it has always been: a couple of dozen old houses congregated around a pretty mosque and a road running down to the border post.
ref: 2018, Bruno Maçães, Dawn of Eurasia: On the Trail of the New World Order, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 129:
glosses: A county-level city of Ili, Xinjiang autonomous region, China on the border with Kazakhstan.
examples: text: This is the new Wild West - quite literally, for the many young people flocking to Khorgas from the big Chinese mega-cities to the East.
When you cross the border to the Kazakh side, things are more subdued. The Kazakh Khorgos (the name of the town is the same, but there is a difference in pronunciation) is still more or less what it has always been: a couple of dozen old houses congregated around a pretty mosque and a road running down to the border post.
ref: [2018, Bruno Maçães, Dawn of Eurasia: On the Trail of the New World Order, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 129:
glosses: A town in Kazakhstan on the border with Xinjiang, China.
Synonyms: sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Huoerguosi
word: Huo'erguosi
Huoerguosi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Huo'erguosi
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 霍爾果斯／霍尔果斯 (Huò'ěrguǒsī), without syllable-dividing mark (隔音符號／隔音符号 (géyīn fúhào)).
Senses: examples: text: The Chinese economic ministry identified the Xinjiang trading points as Huoerguosi between Yhining^([sic – meaning Yining]) on the Chinese side and Panfilov in the Soviet Union and Toergete about 640 km south between Kashgar on the Chinese side and Osh in the Soviet Union.
ref: 1983 July 8, “China to Reopen Trading Posts on Soviet Border”, in The Japan Times, volume 87, number 30346, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 1:
text: Huoerguosi was a busy trading post during the 1950s and 1960s. The gate was closed in 1970 and only two persons were left at the Chinese customs post to take charge of postal matters because postal communications were never suspended bewteen^([sic – meaning between]) the two countries. The two trading posts in Xinjiang opened simultaneously on 16 November 1983. Now although Huoerguosi past has a dozen customs officers, they are still understaffed. More than a hundred Soviet trucks cross the border daily and there is a continuous flow fo Soviet citizens crossing the border to visit their relatives.
ref: 1984 September 28 [1984 September 20], “A Stroll Along the Sino-Soviet Border -- Part I”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 190, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Beijing ZHONGGUO XINWEN SHE, translation of original by Tian Huiming (in Chinese), →ISSN, →OCLC, PRC International Affairs: Soviet Union, page C 1:
text: The State Council, the cabinet, has come out with details of support for two economic zones in the northwest region of Xinjiang, Kashigar and Huoerguosi, to help boost their economic development.
ref: 2011 October 11, Beijing and Shanghai Newsrooms, “PRESS DIGEST - China -- Oct 11”, in Ken Wills, Jonathan Hopfner, editors, Reuters, sourced from People's Daily, archived from the original on 05 Apr 2024, Technology:
glosses: Synonym of Khorgas: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
synonyms: word: Khorgas
extra: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name
Huocheng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 霍城 (Huòchéng).
Senses: examples: text: Two farmers in Xinjiang's Huocheng county were swept away by flood water triggered by heavy rain that started on Tuesday, Xinhua said.
ref: 2007 July 26, “China gives out meat from reserves amid severe flooding”, in The New York Times, sourced from The International Herald Tribune, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2024, Asia Pacific; republished as Floods in China spread to north after 500 die, Reuters, 2007 August 9, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2025:
glosses: A county of Ili, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
examples: text: Whereas the A'ertai city-site is 13km east of Huocheng Xian, the hoard was brought to light in an agricultural field on the western banks of the Kegan River that runs north of Huocheng Xian.
ref: 2012, Adam T. Kessler, “The Jin Dynasty (1115-1234 AD)”, in Song Blue and White Porcelain on the Silk Road, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 162:
glosses: Khorgas.
parduscos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pardusco
happy snap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: happy snaps
Senses: examples: text: I took a happy snap of the class standing in front of the museum.
qualifier: lighthearted
glosses: A photograph.
superfinely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more superfinely
form: most superfinely
Etymology: From superfine + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a superfine manner.
Khorgos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: This is the new Wild West - quite literally, for the many young people flocking to Khorgas from the big Chinese mega-cities to the East.
When you cross the border to the Kazakh side, things are more subdued. The Kazakh Khorgos (the name of the town is the same, but there is a difference in pronunciation) is still more or less what it has always been: a couple of dozen old houses congregated around a pretty mosque and a road running down to the border post.
ref: 2018, Bruno Maçães, Dawn of Eurasia: On the Trail of the New World Order, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 129:
glosses: Alternative form of Khorgas.
wife-beating questions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wife-beating question
nice as ninepence
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Corruption of nice as ninepins, from the neat and precise ordering of the skittles in the game of ninepins.
Senses: examples: text: She had been mistress of the farm so long that it would be hard for her to play second fiddle, but give her time and she'd be as good as new butter and as nice as ninepence, he said.
ref: 1913, Ethel Carnie, Miss Nobody, page 68:
qualifier: simile
glosses: Perfectly all right; fine.
qualifier: simile
glosses: Neat, tidy, in order.
Related terms: neat as ninepence
right as ninepence
saccharinic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saccharinic acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of many polyhydroxy carboxylic acids derived from sugars
Related terms: saccharinate
straight pool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of pool involving fifteen numbered balls, whose value is added to the score of the player who pots them.
degenerously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more degenerously
form: most degenerously
Etymology: From degenerous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: degenerately; immorally or vulgarly
immortalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immortalists
Etymology: From immortal + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: September 28 1657, Jeremy Taylor, A sermon preached at the funeral of Sir George Dalston
the inhabitants by Ister who were called ἀθανατίζοντες, "Immortalists;" because, in the midst of all their dark notices of things, they saw […] "that virtuous and good men do not die[…]"
glosses: One who holds the doctrine of the immortality of the soul.
examples: text: Advocates of nonbiostatic immortalist philosophies include the precryonics immortalist Federov and more recent thinkers such as Alan Harrington, Hans Moravec, and Frank Tipler.
ref: 2000, R. Michael Perry, Forever for All, page 48:
glosses: One who seeks to extend human life indefinitely.
immortalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From immortal + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Advocates of nonbiostatic immortalist philosophies include the precryonics immortalist Federov and more recent thinkers such as Alan Harrington, Hans Moravec, and Frank Tipler.
ref: 2000, R. Michael Perry, Forever for All, page 48:
glosses: Pertaining to a belief in or quest for immortality.
immortalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immortalist
imposingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From imposing + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being imposing.
jack-a-dandies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jack-a-dandy
jack-a-dandy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jack-a-dandies
Senses: synonyms: word: dude
word: fopling
word: barbermonger
word: beau
word: blade
word: blood
word: buck
word: carpet knight
word: cockscomb
word: dandy
word: dike
word: dood
word: dude
word: dudelet
word: exquisite
word: fashionable
word: fast man
word: fine gentleman
word: fop
word: foretop
word: fribble
word: gallant
word: go
word: jack-a-dandy
word: Jemmy-Jessamy
word: jetter
word: macaroni
word: masher
word: metrosexual
word: mignon
word: petit maître
word: popinjay
word: pretty boy
word: prig
word: puss-gentleman
word: smart
word: spark
word: spiff
word: swell
word: tippy
word: toff
glosses: A little, young, or worthless dandy.
glosses: A little or young foppish or rude person.
glosses: A small patch of light reflected from a shiny surface onto another surface such as a wall or ceiling.
jettee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jettees
Senses: examples: text: [I]nſtead of demolition, they found conſtruction; for the French vvere then at vvork on the repair of the jettees. On the remonſtrances of General [Henry Seymour] Convvay, ſome parts of theſe jettees were immediately deſtroyed.
ref: 1769, [Edmund Burke], Observations on a Late State of the Nation, London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC, page 86:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of jetty.
jettees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jettee
sneezingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From sneezing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With a sneeze or sneezes.
subindicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: subindicates
form: subindicating
form: subindicated
form: subindicated
Etymology: From sub- + indicate.
Senses: examples: text: For this Spirit of the World has Faculties that work not by Election, but fatally or naturally , as several Gamaicus we meet withall in Nature seem somewhat obscurely to subindicate
ref: 1659, Henry More, The Immortality of the Soul, so Farre Forth as It is Demonstrable from the Knowledge of Nature and the Light of Reason, London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for William Morden […], →OCLC:
glosses: To indicate or show by signs or hints; to hint at.
Related terms: subindication
subindicated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of subindicate
subindicates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of subindicate
subindicating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of subindicate
Oregon grapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Oregon grape
proverbialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proverbialisms
Etymology: From proverbial + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A proverbial phrase, or the use of proverbs.
Related terms: proverbialist
proverbialisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proverbialism
suboval
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + oval.
Senses: synonyms: ovalish
glosses: Somewhat or nearly oval.
subtepid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + tepid.
Senses: examples: text: subtepid water
glosses: Slightly tepid.
museful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmjuːzfəl/
Forms: form: more museful
form: most museful
Etymology: From muse + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: museful mopings
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: bringing out gentle rhythmic underpinnings and museful countermelodies
ref: 2022 October 24, David Bratman, “SF Symphony Has Spooky Fun With the 19th Century”, in San Francisco Classical Voice:
glosses: Meditative; thoughtfully silent; ponderous.
Derived terms: musefully
musefulness
twigless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From twig + -less.
Senses: glosses: Having no twigs.
vituperable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vituperable
form: most vituperable
Etymology: From Latin vĭtŭpĕrābĭlis: compare French vitupérable.
Senses: glosses: highly censurable; worthy of vituperation or severe censure.
naumachiae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of naumachia
naumachias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of naumachia
amendful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more amendful
form: most amendful
Etymology: From amend + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Farre fly such rigour your amendfull hand.
ref: c. 1612–1630, John Fletcher, George Chapman, Ben Jonson, Philip Massinger, “The Bloody Brother; or, Rollo. A Tragedy.”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: wherein whatsoever is presently defective, the anniversaries that, for as many years as God shall please to give me life and faculty, I constantly resolve to perform to his noblest name and virtues, shall, I hope, be furnished with supplies amendful and acceptable .
ref: 1875, “Eugenia (1614)”, in The Works of George Chapman: Poems and Minor Translations, page 325:
text: He said, and his amendful words did Hector highly please, Who rush'd betwixt the fighting hosts , and made the Trojans cease, By holding up in midst his lance:
ref: 1843, The Iliads of Homer:
glosses: Much improving.
bemonster
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bemonsters
form: bemonstering
form: bemonstered
form: bemonstered
Etymology: From be- + monster.
Senses: examples: text: Thou changed and self-cover’d thing, for shame!
Bemonster not thy feature!
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
text: One would think that clothing an official with decent taste was not a herculean task: yet ask a foreigner his opinion of the poor bemonstered force which protects our lives and purses. He might suppose that Dykwynkyn, or some other of the artists who work for the pantomimes, had designed the grotesque disfigurement of these unhappy men.
ref: 1871 February 25, uncredited author, “Wanted for London”, in All the Year Round, page 306:
text: A man by men bemonstered, but by love
Watched with blind eyes as of a wakeful dove [alluding to the novel The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo]
ref: 1880, Algernon Charles Swinburne, “Birthday Ode”, in Songs of the Springtides, London: Chatto & Windus, page 124:
text: Little by little the naked body was assuming shape under our hands. There were no longer those disfiguring gouts of clay which had produced dread in me by bemonstering the features.
ref: 1980, Barry Unsworth, Pascali’s Island, New York: Norton, published 1997, page 163:
glosses: To make monstrous or like a monster; make hideous; deform.
examples: text: 1812, William Tennant, Anster Fair, Edinburgh: George Goldie, 2nd edition, 1814, Canto 4, Stanza 21, p. 119,
So leap’d the men, half-sepulchred in sack,
Up-swinging, with their shapes be-monstring sky,
text: It was one of the League’s rare open exhibitions, and nonmembers in ordinary dress thronged among the cartoon-colored pavilions, the hedges of bemonstered appliqué banners, and the blazons strung on wire between trees.
ref: 1986, Peter S. Beagle, chapter 12, in The Folk of the Air, New York: Ballantine, page 165:
glosses: To fill or cover with monsters.
examples: 1921, R. H. Case, Review of The Percy Reprints: The Unfortunate Traveller by Thomas Nashe, The Modern Language Review, Volume 16, No. 1, January 1921, p. 77,
It […] ends with a crude but forceful intensification of the lust and blood of the Italian novella, complicated with the popular theme of scandalising the Pope and bemonstering the Jew.
glosses: To regard or treat (someone) as a monster; to call (someone) a monster.
bemonstered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bemonster
bemonstering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bemonster
bemonsters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bemonster
depurgatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more depurgatory
form: most depurgatory
Etymology: From Latin dēpurgō (“to cleanse, purify”) + -atory.
Senses: examples: text: Our SAVIOUR, Luke, 16. in the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus, describes the former as passing […] directly to the Place of eternal Torments, without mention of the purgatorial Fire; and Lazarus is described as being carried […] directly to Abrahams Bosom, without any mention of those depurgatory' Flames […]
ref: 1749, Peter Whitfield, An essay upon the Supremacy and Infallibility pretended to by the Church of Rome, page 180:
text: “It deserves to be borne in mind, that the depurgatory functions ought, in order to preserve health, to be increased during gestation, as the debris of the foetal, as well as the maternal system, have to be eliminated by the organs of the mother. […]”
ref: 1849, Leon C. Chesley, quoting William Tyler Smith, Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy, published 1978, page 28:
text: Patients who suffered from typical unilateral pulsatile headaches with nausea weren't diagnosed with migraine, but with so-called liver outbursts […] and "treated" with gallbladder depurgatory drugs.
ref: 2008, Carol C. Donley, Martin Kohn, Return to The House of God: Medical Resident Education, 1978-2008, page 47:
glosses: Serving to purge; tending to cleanse or purify.
displenish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: displenishes
form: displenishing
form: displenished
form: displenished
Etymology: From dis- + plenish.
Senses: glosses: To deprive or strip, as a house of furniture, or a barn of stock.
Derived terms: displenishment
displenished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of displenish
displenishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of displenish
displenishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of displenish
engagedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From engaged + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being deeply interested; engagement.
inconsistentness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inconsistent + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: But can't you see the inconsistentness of the plain people? Now a New Mennonite he says his conscience won't leave him wear grand [wear worldly dress] but he 'll make his livin' in Lancaster city by keepin' a jew'lry- store.
ref: 1904, Helen Reimensnyder Martin, Tillie: A Mennonite Maid; a Story of the Pennsylvania Dutch, page 113:
antonyms: consistentness
glosses: The quality of being inconsistent.
Synonyms: inconsistency
infractor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infractors
Etymology: Probably from Middle French infracteur, from Late Latin īnfrāctor.
Senses: glosses: One who infracts or infringes; a violator; a rule breaker.
infractors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infractor
scripturalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scriptural + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being scriptural; literal adherence to the Scriptures.
courtling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: courtlings
Etymology: From court + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: I grieve not, Courtling, thou art started up
A chamber-critic, and doth dine, and sup
ref: 1612, Ben Jonson, Epigrams:
glosses: A sycophantic or lesser courtier.
courtlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of courtling
usitative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin usitari (“to use often”).
Senses: examples: text: usitative verbs in Navajo language
text: the usitative aorist
ref: 1873, Henry Alford, The Greek Testament: With a Critically Revised Text:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Denoting usual or customary action.
usitative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: usitatives
Etymology: From Latin usitari (“to use often”).
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: a usitative verb
erythrodextrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erythrodextrins
Etymology: From erythro- + dextrin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A dextrin which gives a red colour with iodine.
erythrodextrins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of erythrodextrin
rechase
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rechases
form: rechasing
form: rechased
form: rechased
Etymology: From re- + chase: compare French rechasser.
Senses: glosses: To chase again; to chase or drive back.
rechased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rechase
rechases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rechase
rechasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rechase
upthunder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upthunders
form: upthundering
form: upthundered
form: upthundered
Etymology: From up- + thunder.
Senses: examples: text: Strange-eyed Destruction! who with many a dream
Of central fires through nether seas — upthundering
Soothes her fierce solitude.
ref: 1793, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ode on the Departing Year:
glosses: To send up a noise like thunder.
upthundered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of upthunder
upthundering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upthunder
upthunders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upthunder
woodlander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woodlanders
Etymology: From woodland + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who lives in a woodland.
woodlanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woodlander
incaverned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + cavern + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Then Lid creeps on along, and taking Thrushel, throwes
Her selfe amongst the rocks; and so incavern’d goes,
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 1 p. 6:
glosses: Enclosed or in a cavern, or as if in a cavern.
juncate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒʌŋkɪt/
Forms: form: juncates
Senses: examples: text: Sixe of thy fellowes of the best aray,
And beare with you both wine and juncates fit
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of junket.
juncates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of juncate
glossologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glossologists
Etymology: From glossology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who defines and explains terms with
glosses: someone versed in glossology i.e. a linguist
glossologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glossologist
intracolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + colic.
Senses: examples: text: the intracolic valve
text: intracolic pressure
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Within the colon.
obligable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɒblɪɡəbəl/
Forms: form: more obligable
form: most obligable
Etymology: From oblige + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The main difference between people seems to be, that one man can come under obligations on which you can rely, — is obligable; and another is not.
ref: 1860, R[alph] W[aldo] Emerson, “Essay Considerations by the Way.”, in The Conduct of Life, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC:
glosses: Acknowledging, or complying with, obligation; trustworthy.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Such that a person is obliged to do it; mandatory.
recalcitration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recalcitrations
Senses: examples: text: In this well-meant attempt he was foiled by the recalcitration of both the parties concerned.
ref: 1897, Stanley John Weyman, “The Professor and the Harpy”, in For the Cause:
glosses: opposition, repugnance, or unwillingness to follow rules or obey.
Related terms: recalcitrant
recalcitrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recalcitration
fathomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fathomers
Etymology: From fathom + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who fathoms.
fathomers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fathomer
fleshhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈflɛʃhʊd/
Etymology: From flesh + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: Thou who hast, Thyself,
Endured this fleshhood, knowing how, as a soaked
And sucking vesture, it would drag us down
And choke us in the melancholy deep,
Sustain me, that, with Thee, I walk these waves […]
ref: 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Seventh Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC:
glosses: The state or condition of having a form of flesh; incarnation.
glyphograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glyphographs
Senses: glosses: A plate made by glyphography, or an impression taken from such a plate.
glyphographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glyphograph
monanthous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + -anthous.
Senses: examples: text: monanthous leaf
text: monanthous raceme
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having only a single flower.
wheelband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheelbands
Etymology: From wheel + band.
Senses: examples: text: Yor high-flown cheps oft fyel and brick,
But we hev a'ways yet been yable
Te keep the wheelband i' the nick
Though oft wi' but a bareish tyeble.
ref: 1773, Thomas Wilson, The Pitman's Pay (poem):
glosses: The tyre of a wheel.
wheelbands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wheelband
encashment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encashments
Etymology: From encash + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: encashment of earned leave
topics: business
finance
synonyms: cashing
glosses: The act of encashing; the exchange for money of a check, draft, etc.
encashments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of encashment
gluish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɡluːɪʃ/
Forms: form: more gluish
form: most gluish
Etymology: From Middle English glewysch; equivalent to glue + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: and the liquor be gluish betweene your fingers
ref: 1622, John Bonoeil, His Majesties... Letter to the Earle of South-Hampton... Also a Treatise of the Art of Making Silke..., page 46:
glosses: Somewhat gluey.
irrepealability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + repeal + -ability.
Senses: glosses: the quality or state of being irrepealable
vesico-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: bladder, as
examples: (gallbladder)
glosses: bladder, as:
urinary bladder.
coordinate_terms: cholecysto-
glosses: vesiculo-: vesicle (cutaneous or mucosal); blister.
Coordinate terms: vesiculo-
waymaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waymakers
Etymology: From way + maker.
Senses: examples: text: Christ never comes before his waymaker
ref: a. 1626, Francis Bacon, Expostulation to Lord Coke:
synonyms: trailblazer
glosses: One who makes a way; a precursor; pioneer; pathfinder.
Related terms: waymaking
waymakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waymaker
vesicoprostatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vesico- + prostatic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the bladder and prostate.
Ojibway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ojibways
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of Ojibwe.
complacential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more complacential
form: most complacential
Senses: examples: text: complacential love
ref: 1689, Richard Baxter, A treatise of knowledge and love compared in two parts:
synonyms: complacent
glosses: Marked by, or causing, complacence.
Derived terms: complacentially
intemperature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare Old French intemperature.
Senses: examples: text: intemperature of the weather
ref: 1686, Robert Boyle, The Notion of Specific Remedies Prov'd agreeable to Mechanical Philosophy:
glosses: intemperateness
noctiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɒkˈtɪfəɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs
Etymology: From Latin noctifer. By surface analysis, noct- + -iferous.
Senses: examples: text: noctiferous confusion in the dark abyss
ref: 1855, J. T. Headley, The Keepsake:
glosses: night-time; dark like the night.
orbitonasal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪzəl
Etymology: From orbito- + nasal.
Senses: examples: text: orbitonasal, or ophthalmic, nerve
text: orbitonasal canal
text: orbitonasal foramen
text: orbitonasal fenestra
text: orbitonasal length
text: orbitonasal vein
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or between the eye socket and the nose.
oxamethane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxamethanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Ethyl oxamate, obtained as a white scaly crystalline powder.
Related terms: chloroxamethane
oxamethanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxamethane
bluntish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bluntish
form: most bluntish
Etymology: From blunt + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: They spent hours laboriously chopping wood with bluntish axes.
text: […] at nine years, the foremost teeth shew longer, yellower, and fouler than before; and the tushes become bluntish […]
ref: 1759, “Horsemanship”, in A New Universal History of Arts and Sciences, volume 2, London: J. Coote, page 97:
text: I was trying to shave with a bluntish razor-blade while the water ran into the bath.
ref: 1939, George Orwell, Coming Up for Air, Part I, Chapter 1:
text: The rather bluntish cast of his face was even blunter and plainer.
ref: 1950, Mervyn Peake, “78, IV”, in Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode:
glosses: Somewhat blunt.
Derived terms: bluntishly
bluntishness
granuliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more granuliform
form: most granuliform
Etymology: From granule + -iform.
Senses: examples: text: granuliform limestone
text: There is a fairly regular carinal band of more closely set, numerous granuliform spinelets
ref: 1928, Walter Kenrick Fisher, Asteroidea of the North Pacific and Adjacent Waters: Forcipulata:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having a granular structure or appearance.
hierogrammatist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hierogrammatists
Etymology: Compare French hiérogrammatiste.
Senses: glosses: A writer of hierograms
examples: text: […]the other us’d only by Priests, Prophets, Hierogrammatists or Holy Writers
ref: 1705, Thomas Greenhill, Νεκροκηδεία or The Art of Embalming:
glosses: One skilled in hieroglyphics.
hierogrammatists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hierogrammatist
niggish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more niggish
form: most niggish
Etymology: See niggard and -ish.
Senses: glosses: niggardly; stingy
revocability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɛvəkəˈbɪləti/
ipa: /ɹɪˌvəʊkəˈbɪləti/
ipa: /ɹɪˌvɒkəˈbɪləti/
ipa: /ˌɹɛvəkəˈbɪləti/
ipa: /ɹəˌvoʊkəˈbɪləti/
ipa: /ɹiˌvoʊkəˈbɪləti/
ipa: /ɹəˌvɑkəˈbɪləti/
Forms: form: revokability
Etymology: From revocable + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: the revocability of a law
synonyms: reversibility
reversibleness
revocableness
antonyms: irreversibility
irreversibleness
irrevocability
irrevocableness
glosses: The quality of being revocable.
extrabranchial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + branchial.
Senses: examples: text: Certain fishes have extrabranchial cartilage.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Outside of the branchial arches.
extrabranchial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extrabranchials
Etymology: From extra- + branchial.
Senses: examples: text: Outside of the deep internal visceral arches are the extravisceral cartilages. These may be divided into the labials of the mandibular arch, the extrahyals of the hyoid, and the extrabranchials of the branchial arches.
ref: 1928, D. J. Frank, The elasmobranch fishes (page 67)
glosses: Cartilage outside of the branchial arches.
glyptographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From glyptography + -ic. Compare French glyptographique.
Senses: examples: text: glyptographic research
text: glyptographic collection
glosses: Relating to glyptography, the art of engraving on precious stones.
misgraft
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misgrafts
form: misgrafting
form: misgrafted
form: misgrafted
Etymology: From mis- + graft.
Senses: glosses: To graft wrongly.
misgrafted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misgraft
misgrafting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misgraft
misgrafts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misgraft
riparious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /rɪˈpɛəɹi.əs/
ipa: /raɪˈ-/
ipa: /rɪˈpɛɹi.əs/
ipa: /raɪˈ-/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.əs
Etymology: Latin riparius.
Senses: examples: text: Of these, 18 (or 3 per cent.) are aquatic, 84 (or 14 per cent.) riparious or marshy, 65 ( or 11 per cent.) annuals in fields, of which 22 are found in the spring crops or "rubby."
ref: 1867, Linnean Society of London, Journal: Botany - Volume 9, page 306:
text: Hence, there are no real differences between the riparious carabid beetles of Central Africa and the Sahel zone with regard to their annual rhythms and control.
ref: 1979, P. J. den Boer, Hans Ulrich Thiele, Friedrich Weber, On the Evolution of Behaviour in Carabid Beetles, page 123:
text: Beside these , other aquatic and riparious beetles, such as members of the families Dytiscidae and Gyrinidae, never have been colonized by nematodes.
ref: 2013, S. Mark Henry, Symbiosis, page 221:
synonyms: riparian
glosses: Growing or living along the banks of rivers
examples: text: It was Settled at that period, that alluvions must belong to the riparious owner , according to this natural maxim, that the profit belongs to him who is exposed to suffer the damage, with which riparious property is threatened, no more than any other.
ref: 1809, John Elihu Hall, The American Law Journal and Miscellaneous Repertory:
text: The purchaser of a riparious estate under the words "front to the levee," does not acquire the alluvion or batture, when there is land susceptible of separate ownership beyond the levee.
ref: 1826, William Christy, A Digest of Martin's Reports:
text: First, that the city of New Orleans acquired, at the time of the union of the suburb Delord with the city, all the riparious rights which Madame Delord possessed by virtue of a valid contract, and for a valuable consideration; and secondly, that Madame Delord has never disposed of any portion of her riparious rights in favor of the defendants.
ref: 1910, The American Decisions, page 645:
topics: law
glosses: Pertaining to riverfront property.
stancher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stanchers
Etymology: From stanch + -er.
Senses: examples: text: a stancher of blood in case of dangerous wounds
ref: 1893, Maturin Murray Ballou, The Story of Malta:
glosses: One who, or that which, stanches or stops a flow.
stanchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stancher
uranoplasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uranoplasty
uranoplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uranoplasties
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of uraniscoplasty.
florulent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more florulent
form: most florulent
Etymology: Latin florulentus, from flos (“flower”).
Senses: examples: text: The peculiar florulent aspect of the cervix
ref: 1868, William Percivall, The Anatomy of the Horse:
glosses: Flowery; blossoming.
jovialties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jovialty