cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
amphigory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæm.fɪ.ɡɔ.ɹi/
Forms: form: amphigories
Etymology: From French amphigouri, of uncertain derivation; perhaps from Ancient Greek ἀμφί (amphí) + γῦρος (gûros, “circle”) or -αγορία (-agoría, “speech”).
Senses: examples: text: There is always a danger that a poet, in search after the infinitely ingenious, may lapse into amphigory, into sheer absurdity and triviality, which Cowper, in spite of his elegant lightness, does not always escape.
ref: 1919, Edmund Gosse, “The Lyrical Poetry of Thomas Hardy”, in Some Diversions of a Man of Letters, London: Heinemann, page 253:
text: Greenberg answered with the same sort of polite amphigory the cosmic linguist had selected. “I have long wished for the boon of experiencing in person the scholarly aura of Dr. Ftaeml, but I had never dared let the wish blossom into hope. Your servant and pupil, sir.”
ref: 1954, Robert A. Heinlein, chapter 6, in The Star Beast, New York: Ballantine, page 100:
text: You will notice that the selection by Hiraf is either meaningless or ambiguous when analyzed, although it has an impressive ring at first reading. Nonsense statements such as these are known as amphigory and are characteristic of much occult metaphysics. Amphigory, of course, allows readers to project their own meaning into such statements, since there is little inherent meaning to begin with
ref: 1990, Andrew Neher, chapter 7, in The Psychology of Transcendence, New York: Dover, page 284:
glosses: A nonsense verse; a rigmarole, which is meaningless despite possibly appearing to have meaning.
Derived terms: amphigoric
odontogeny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From odonto- (root of Ancient Greek ὀδούς (odoús, “tooth”) + root of Ancient Greek γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “to be born”). Compare French odontogénie.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The generation, or mode of development, of the teeth.
pistachioes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pistachio
ganil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: French
Senses: examples: text: Here [in Pure limes] may be included stalactites , marble , limestone , chalk , zufa , ganil
ref: 1799, John Coakley Lettsom, The Naturalist's and Traveller's Companion:
glosses: A kind of brittle limestone.
atsit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: atsits
form: atsitting
form: atsat
form: atseet
form: atsat
form: atseet
form: atsitten
Etymology: From Middle English atsitten, ætsitten, from Old English ætsittan (“to sit by, remain, stay, wait”), equivalent to at- + sit. See also asit.
Senses: glosses: To remain sitting; stay; abide.
glosses: To sit against; withstand; disobey.
choristic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /kɔːˈɹɪstɪk/
Forms: form: more choristic
form: most choristic
Senses: glosses: choral; relating to a choir
counterprove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: counterproves
form: counterproving
form: counterproved
form: counterproved
Etymology: From counter- + prove.
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: To take a counterproof of.
counterproved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of counterprove
counterproves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of counterprove
counterproving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of counterprove
semicubical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + cubical.
Senses: examples: text: A semicubical parabola is a curve in which the ordinates are proportional to the square roots of the cubes of the abscissas.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the square root of the cube of a quantity.
atslike
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: atslikes
form: atsliking
form: atsliked
form: atsliked
Etymology: From Middle English atsliken, ætsliken, equivalent to at- + slike. Compare German entschleichen.
Senses: glosses: To slip away.
emyd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emyds
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: emydid
glosses: Any freshwater tortoise of the family Emydidae.
emyds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emyd
cosureties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cosurety
cosurety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cosureties
Etymology: From co- + surety.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: someone who is surety with another.
boraginaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more boraginaceous
form: most boraginaceous
Etymology: Boraginaceae + -ous
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, or resembling the Boraginaceae, a plant family which includes the borage, heliotrope, beggar's lice, and many other pestiferous plants.
readept
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: readepts
form: readepting
form: readepted
form: readepted
Etymology: From re- + Latin adeptus, past participle of adipisci (“to obtain”).
Senses: examples: text: Henrie the sixt had by their means readepted the kingdome
ref: 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “The Historie of Englande”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:
glosses: To regain; to recover.
readepted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of readept
readepting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of readept
readepts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of readept
sombrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒmbɹəs/
Forms: form: more sombrous
form: most sombrous
Etymology: From French sombre + -ous. Compare Spanish sombroso.
Senses: examples: text: Before me rose an avenue / Of tall and sombrous pines; / Abroad their fan-like branches grew, / And, where the sunshine darted through, / Spread a vapor soft and blue, / In long and sloping lines.
ref: 1839, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Prelude:
text: It was some time before my eyes became used to its artificial dusk, and I could make out the different animals leading their sombrous lives behind the glass by the light of a pale moon.
ref: 2001, WG Sebald, translated by Anthea Bell, Austerlitz, Penguin, published 2011, page 2:
glosses: Gloomy; sombre.
Related terms: sombrously
sombrousness
ringbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ringbirds
Etymology: From ring + bird, because of its collar of white feathers.
Senses: glosses: The reed bunting.
ringbirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ringbird
phyma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phymas
form: phymata
Etymology: From Ancient Greek [Term?].
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A tubercle, tumor, or abscess on any external part of the body.
Derived terms: hepatophyma
phymata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phyma
phymas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phyma
precrural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + crural.
Senses: examples: text: the precrural glands of the horse
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated in front of the leg or thigh.
funeralist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: funeralists
Etymology: From funeral + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: I am not here to fulfil the office of his funeralist, his biographer, or his eulogist. These duties either have been or will be discharged by others. I am here only as the interpreter of his monument.
ref: 1880, Thomas M. Finney, The life and labors of Enoch Mather Marvin, late bishop, page 807:
text: Preparations went on apace, and the great day dawned, clear and sunshiny as the most enthusiastic funeralist could desire.
ref: 1909, Triangulating Peace: Democracy, Interdependence, and International Organizations, volume 10 (edited by Bruce M. Russett, John R. Oneal)
text: Cosmetic art is often applied by professional funeralists to reduce signs of the illness or trauma associated with the death.
ref: 2004, Robert Kastenbaum, On our way: the final passage through life and death, page 263:
glosses: A funeral director; one who arranges a funeral, often after preparing a body for it.
funeralists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of funeralist
purprise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pə(ɹ)ˈpɹaɪz/
Forms: form: purprises
Etymology: From Old French porpris, from porprendre (“to take away entirely”); por- (“for”) + prendre (“to take”).
Senses: examples: text: The place of justice is an hallowed place ; and therefore , not only the bench , but the foot – pace and precincts , and purprise thereof , ought to be preserved without scandal and corruption
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Judicature”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
glosses: An enclosed space, such as the land within the borders of a manor.
purprises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purprise
pronunciative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pronunciative
form: most pronunciative
Etymology: Latin pronunciativus.
Senses: examples: text: The letter y has the same pronunciative value as i, and can always be substituted by i.
ref: 1934, Mont Follick, The Influence of English, page 118:
glosses: Of or relating to pronunciation.
examples: text: the confident and pronunciative School of Aristotle
ref: 1609 (revised 1625), Francis Bacon, De Sapientia Veterum ('Wisdom of the Ancients')
glosses: Uttering confidently; dogmatical.
examples: text: Such a judge is not an authoritative judge, but pronunciative only; neither can he make law, but declare it, without any negative voice.
ref: 1844, John Bramhall, The Works of the Most Reverend Father in God, John Bramhall, page 421:
glosses: Pertaining to making pronouncements; declamatory.
examples: text: It would probably be the most logical course to treat of the adjunctive genus first (as it, generally speaking, keeps closer to the root than the sejunctive one) both in its pronunciative and its imperative mood; and then deal with the sejunctive in both moods.
ref: 1878, L. Dahle, “Studies in the Malagasy Language”, in The Antananarvio Annual and Madagascar Magazine, page 82:
glosses: The mood of a verb that implies a pronouncement or assertion.
cherup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cherups
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of chirrup.
cherup
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cherups
form: cheruping
form: cherupping
form: cheruped
form: cheruped
form: cherupped
form: cherupped
Senses: examples: text: Those with sweet water oft her handmaid fills,
Which, as she went, would cherup through the bills.
ref: 1598, Christopher Marlowe, Hero and Leander:
glosses: Archaic form of chirrup.
cherups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cherup
cheruped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cherup
cheruping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cherup
cherupping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cherup
cherupped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cherup
slike
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪk
Forms: form: slikes
form: sliking
form: sliked
form: sliked
Etymology: From Middle English sliken, from Old English *slīcan (“to crawl, slink”), from Proto-West Germanic *slīkan, from Proto-Germanic *slīkaną (“to creep, crawl”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyg-, *sleyǵ- (“to glide, smooth, spread”). Cognate with German Low German slieken (“to slink, crawl”), German schleichen (“to creep, crawl, slink, sneak”), Old English slīcian (“to make sleek, slick, smooth, or glossy”).
Senses: glosses: To crawl; creep; slide.
Related terms: sleech
sleek
slick
slitch
sludge
slike
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪk
Forms: form: slikes
form: sliking
form: sliked
form: sliked
Etymology: From Middle English sliken, slikien, from Old English slīcian (“to make sleek, slick, smooth, or glossy”). See above.
Senses: glosses: To make sleek or smooth.
slike
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪk
Forms: form: slikes
form: sliking
form: sliked
form: sliked
Etymology: From Middle English *slīken, from Old English slīcan (“to strike”), from Proto-West Germanic *slīkan, from Proto-Germanic *slīkaną (“to hew, hammer, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyg-, *sleyǵ- (“to beat”). Cognate with Old Frisian slēc (“a shock, blow”), Middle Low German slîken (“to beat”), Old English sliċċ, sliċ (“beater, hammer, mallet”), Latin ligō, ligōnis (“hoe, mattock”).
Senses: glosses: To rend asunder; cleave.
phanerocodonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phanero- + Ancient Greek κώδων (kṓdōn, “bell”) + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: phanerocosonic gonophore
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having an umbrella-shaped or bell-shaped body, with a wide, open cavity beneath; said of certain jellyfishes.
Coordinate terms: adelocodonic
Monothelitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Monothelitic
form: most Monothelitic
Etymology: From Monothelite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Monotheletes or their beliefs.
man down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæn ˌdaʊn/
Forms: form: mans down
form: manning down
form: manned down
form: manned down
Etymology: man (“to brace (oneself), to fortify or steel (oneself) in a manly way; to supply (something) with staff or crew; to accustom (a hawk or other bird) to the presence of men”) + down
Senses: examples: text: Ministers and a good many of their supporters worked in relays, and had so manned down the feeble and numerically small Opposition till we had not strength nor mental energy enough to resist.
ref: 1901, New Zealand House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates, volume 116, Wellington: Government Printer, →OCLC, page 171, column 2:
text: A famous champion, he; super-expert in the art of "manning down" his opponent, and sometimes in the heat of battle glowing with such an ardour of excitement that he would make wide jumps, quite against every rule, and sweep off pieces wholesale.
ref: 1924, George Allan England, The White Wilderness: A Story of the Great Newfoundland Seal-hunt, of Artic Floes, of Perils and Adventures Manifold, London; New York, N.Y.: Cassell and Co., →OCLC, page 160:
text: Normally, I'd psych myself out of approaching her. I looked at her, trying to find something that reinforced my manning down.
ref: 2013, Alexei Auld, Tonto Canto Pocahontas, [United States]: TemRose Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: To lose courage or cause to lose courage.
examples: text: These men have gotten word that the fort we left, Ridgeway, is manning down. So we have no worries about that.
ref: 2011, Denise A. Bates, House of Bull: Book Three, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 392:
glosses: To reduce in manpower.
examples: text: Eyasses begin a transition period in the late summer as their falconry training begins. This critical period involves manning down the raptor, slowly lowering the body weight, and controlled flight training.
ref: 1995, Main Conference Proceedings: Annual Conference & Expo, August 28 – September 2, 1995, Orlando, Fla.: Association of Avian Veterinarians, →OCLC, page 176:
text: When taken directly from the chamber, initially Mrs Woods [a sparrowhawk] showed a high level of fear but when manned down, she went on to show no aggression whatsoever.
ref: 2014, Ben Crane, Sparrowhawks: A Falconer's Guide, Ramsbury, Marlborough, Wiltshire: The Crowood Press, →ISBN:
topics: falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: To train (a raptor or other type of bird) to become accustomed to the presence of people; to man.
alcyonoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alcyonoid
form: most alcyonoid
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: alcyonic
glosses: Like or relating to the Alcyonaria.
alcyonoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alcyonoids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: alcyonic
glosses: Any member of the Alcyonaria.
alcyonoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alcyonoid
decerption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsɜːpʃən/
Forms: form: decerptions
Senses: glosses: The act of plucking off, cutting off, or extraction
glosses: Something plucked off or torn off
examples: text: if our souls are but particles and decerptions of our parents, then I must have been guilty of all the ſins that ever were committed by my Progenitors ever since Adam
ref: 1662, Joseph Glanvill, Lux Orientalis:
glosses: a fragment, a piece.
Related terms: decerp
decerptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decerption
metacrolein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meta- + acrolein.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A polymeric modification of acrolein obtained by heating it with caustic potash.
friezer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: friezers
form: frizzer
Etymology: From frieze + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that friezes or frizzes.
friezers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of friezer
organophyly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Simplified learned borrowing from German Organophylogenie, itself from organo- + Phylogenie; equivalent to a reduction of organo- + phylogeny to organo- (“biological tissue”) + -phyly (“tribehood”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
qualifier: theory of recapitulation
glosses: The direct study of the evolution of the forms of biological organs and systems of organs rather than observation of its supposed ontogenic recapitulation.
Hypernyms: morphophyly
Coordinate terms: histophyly
blastophyly
cormophyly
one's got to do what one's got to do
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: one's gotta do what one's gotta do
form: a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do, even if his helpmate does not share his passion. Perhaps that's part of the attraction. Maybe a man wouldn't be so feverish about his garden if he had to share it with his partner, […]
ref: 2000, Warren Schultz, A Man's Garden, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, →OCLC:
glosses: A person must do what they feel is necessary or imperative.
diphthongation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diphthongations
Etymology: From diphthong + -ation.
Senses: glosses: diphthongisation
diphthongations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diphthongation
custodier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: custodiers
Etymology: Compare Latin custodiarus.
Senses: examples: text: Cleveland's chest, with his papers and other matters therein contained, had been restored to Mertoun, as the lawful custodier thereof, until the right owner should be in a situation to establish his right to them.
ref: 1822, [Walter Scott], The Pirate. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
glosses: A custodian.
custodiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of custodier
a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of one's got to do what one's got to do.
one's gotta do what one's gotta do
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of one's got to do what one's got to do.
you've got to be in it to win it
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: synonyms: you have to be in it to win it
glosses: In order to win, or succeed at something, one must first compete or try.
anthypnotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antihypnotic.
anthypnotic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthypnotics
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antihypnotic.
anthypnotics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anthypnotic
trochal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trochal
form: most trochal
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τροχός (trokhós, “a wheel”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Resembling a wheel.
Derived terms: trochal band
trochal disk
here to stay
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: We are in a drought of famous influencers, and it may be here to stay. People just aren’t breaking through online the way they used to, becoming household names and garnering real, mainstream fame.
ref: 2024 June 26, Stephanie McNeal, “Influencers Aren’t Getting Famous Like They Used To”, in Glamour:
glosses: Present, and set to remain permanently.
bulchin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bulchins
form: bullkin
Etymology: From Middle English bulchin, from Old English *bulċen, *bulċin, from Proto-Germanic *bulukiną, diminutive of *bulô (“bull”). Cognate with Middle Dutch boelekijn (“bullock; bulchin”). More at bull, -kin.
Senses: examples: text: And better yet than this, a bulchin two years old
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion:
text: Wouldſt thou not haue ſome Bulchin from the herd / To phyſicke thee of this venereall itch?
ref: 1637, Tho[mas] Heywood, “Ivpiter and Io”, in Pleasant Dialogues and Dramma’s, Selected out of Lucian, Erasmus, Textor, Ovid, &c. […], London: […] R. O[ulton] for R. H[earne], and are to be sold by Thomas Slater […], →OCLC, page 170:
glosses: A little bull; a bull calf.
bulchins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bulchin
subdititious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subdititious
form: most subdititious
Etymology: From Latin subdititius, subditicius, from subdere (“to substitute”).
Senses: glosses: Put secretly in the place of something else; of the result of a switcheroo
spank you
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: thank you
Related terms: spank you very much
stoneproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stoneproof
form: most stoneproof
Etymology: From stone + -proof.
Senses: examples: stoneproof windows
glosses: Resistant to being broken by stones.
sciatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From sciatic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: sciatically innervated lower leg muscles
text: sciatically denervated rat
glosses: With, or by means of, sciatica.
patrist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patrists
Senses: glosses: Someone who highly regards the Church Fathers
synonyms: patrologist
glosses: Someone versed in patristics.
patrists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patrist
potecaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potecary
potecary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potecaries
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of apothecary.
solanicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See solanine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkaloid produced by the action of hydrochloric acid on solanidine.
circumincession
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circumincessions
form: circuminsession
Etymology: From circum- + Latin incedere, incessum (“to walk”).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The reciprocal existence in each other of the three persons of the Trinity.
Related terms: incession
perichoresis
circumincessions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circumincession
cuinage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Corrupted from coinage.
Senses: glosses: The stamping of pigs of tin, by the proper officer, with the arms of the duchy of Cornwall.
padnag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: padnags
Etymology: From pad + nag.
Senses: examples: text: That his carriage house contained only a cart and a padnag of a horse, irritated William anew
ref: 1956, Garet Rogers, Lancet:
glosses: An ambling nag (horse).
padnags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of padnag
ceratobranchial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cerato- + branchial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the bone or cartilage below the epibranchial in a branchial arch.
ceratobranchial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ceratobranchials
Etymology: From cerato- + branchial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A ceratobranchial bone or cartilage.
ceratobranchials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ceratobranchial
phthalyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phthalic + -yl.
Senses: glosses: Dated form of phthaloyl.
Derived terms: phthalyl amidase
phthalylsulfathiazole
technical stop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technical stops
Senses: examples: text: The aircraft completed a nine hour flight to Athens, where a technical stop was made for refuelling. A Transit Check was completed and the aircraft departed for Jeddah in less than one hour. The aircraft arrived in Jeddah at about 0840 hours on 3 July.
ref: 1993 June, Presidency of Civil Aviation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, “1.17.8.4 Flight Schedule”, in McDonnell-Douglas DC-8-61, C-GMXQ, accident at King Abdulaziz International Airport, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on 11 July 1991, archived from the original on 14 May 2022:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A stop performed for purposes other than loading or unloading traffic, such as refuelling, maintenance, or repairs.
Synonyms: technical landing
tonguings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tonguing
metajoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metajokes
Etymology: From meta- + joke.
Senses: glosses: A joke whose humour arises from its subversion of the usual conventions of humour.
Related terms: metahumor
metajokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metajoke
flatbill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flatbills
Etymology: From flat + bill.
Senses: glosses: Any of various tropical primarily olive-green flycatchers, having a wide flat bill, members of the genera Ramphotrigon, Tolmomyias, and Rhynchocyclus.
Derived terms: eye-ringed flatbill
flatbills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flatbill
tyrannid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tyrannids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A member of the Tyrannidae; a tyrant flycatcher.
tyrannids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tyrannid
counterwork
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: counterworks
form: counterworking
form: counterworked
form: counterworked
Etymology: From counter- + work.
Senses: examples: text: But Heav'n's great view is one, that that the Whole.
That counterworks each folly and caprice;
ref: 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To work in opposition to; to counteract.
counterwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterworks
Etymology: From counter- + work.
Senses: glosses: counterattack
counterworked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of counterwork
counterworking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of counterwork
counterworks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of counterwork
asteroidian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more asteroidian
form: most asteroidian
Etymology: From translingual Asteroidea + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: These are marine asteroidian limestones forming the slopes and the plateau of Saint-Emilion.
ref: 1990, Bernard Ginestet, Saint-Emilion, page 27:
text: This response to my innocent enough inquiry caused many in his audience to immediately question the relevance of what, beforehand, had appeared to be a significant elucidation of an aspect of asteroidian biology .
ref: 2013, W.J., Jr. Adelman, J.M. Arnold, D.L. Gilbert, Squid as Experimental Animals, page 32:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or relating to the Asteroidea.
examples: text: Urey is opposed to this theory and holds the view that the asteroids are of asteroidian origin.
ref: 1963, Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts - Volume 14, page 341:
text: However, in the end, when the asteroidian security force filed their report, all of the tenants claimed that they had seen nothing.
ref: 2009, Joseth Moore, Asteropia: Book 2 of the Lunar Series, page 203:
text: Quail were often kept as pets, and peacocks are for show and often used as watch-fowl in the enclaves where the wealthy asteroidian denizens lived.
ref: 2021, Bob Freeman, H2LiftShips - Beyond Luna, page 105:
glosses: Of or pertaining to an asteroid.
asteroidian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asteroidians
Etymology: From translingual Asteroidea + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: When considered by contribution to total biomass, the rank order was as follows: Paelopatides gigantea, a holthuroidian; Ophiomusium lymani; Zoroaster fulgens; Echinus affinis; Dyaster insignis, an asteroidian (Table 2) .
ref: 1977, Baseline Report of Environmental Conditions in Deepwater Dumpsite, page 454:
glosses: A starfish; one of the Asteroidea.
examples: text: But you remained conservative, A changeless asteroidian.
ref: 1932, California Poets: An Anthology of 244 Contemporaries, page 706:
text: Whatever else can be said about the world inhabited by Lesabéndio and his fellow asteroidians, this much is certain: their proper names derive from the first sounds they emit, not from a procedure of designation akin to the establishment of technical terms, and the laws governing the waxing and waning of their bodies are unlike those under which the bodies on the surface of the earth fall.
ref: 2011, Peter Fenves, The Messianic Reduction: Walter Benjamin and the Shape of Time, page 230:
text: What gags Flora is that Rod blew the Saturnienne to protect the asteroidians against North American culture , even though that cut him off from one wife, one concubine, and one son.
ref: 2014, E. Hoffmann Price, Operation Longlife, page 157:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: One who is from or lives on an asteroid.
asteroidians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asteroidian
essonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: essonites
Etymology: Named from Ancient Greek ἥσσων (hḗssōn, “inferior”), because not so hard as some minerals it resembles (e.g. hyacinth).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of hessonite (“Cinnamon stone, a variety of garnet”).
essonites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of essonite
dunder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌndə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ʌndə(ɹ)
Etymology: Compare Spanish redundar (“to overflow”).
Senses: examples: text: The use of dunder in the making of rum, answers the purpose of yeast in the fermentation of flour.
ref: 1793, Bryan Edwards, The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies, Dublin: Luke White, Volume II, Book V, Chapter 2, p. 231:
glosses: The lees or dregs of cane juice, used in the distillation of rum.
synonyms: stillage
sour mash
vinasse
vinhaca
glosses: Distillery effluent.
Derived terms: dunderhead
dunderheaded
dunderpate
dunderpated
dunder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌndə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ʌndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: dunders
Etymology: Blend of double + under(score)
Senses: examples: text: Python has a dunder method, __iter__, that defines what the behavior is for looping over an instance.
ref: 2012, Matt Harrison, Treading on Python, volume 1, →ISBN, page 101:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A double underscore, __.
rhemes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːmz/
rhymes: -iːmz
homophone: reams
Senses: glosses: plural of rheme
parovaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parovarium
parovarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpæɹəʊˈvɛəɹi.əm/
ipa: /ˌpæɹoʊˈvɛɹi.əm/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˌpɛɹoʊˈvɛɹi.əm/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm
Forms: form: parovaria
Etymology: From para- + ovarium.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The epoophoron.
Synonyms: epoophoron
organ of Rosenmüller
thave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thaves
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of theave.
thaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thave
obvention
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒbˈvɛnʃən/
Forms: form: obventions
Etymology: From Latin obventio, from obvenire (“to come before or in the way of, to befall”), from ob (see ob-) + venire (“to come”). Compare French obvention.
Senses: examples: text: Tithes and other obventions.
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:
text: Legacies bequeathed by the deaths of princes and great persons, and other casualities and obventions.
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: The act of happening incidentally; that which happens casually; an incidental advantage; an occasional offering.
obventions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obvention
idlehead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: idleheads
Etymology: A compound from idle + head; compare idleheaded.
Senses: examples: text: Wee may therefore conclude vpon their own confession against them that if papists neither haue been nor can be loyal to princes, or louing to their country desiring to bring both vnder the pop, & if their seruice be idolatrous, & their doctrine hereticall, and their practis superstitious as iş formerly demonstrated, howsoeuer idleheads prate of toleration of popery, that neither their religion, nor their audacious boldnes & sawcines is any longer to be tolerated, we may also conclude that the reasons alledged by this resolution in religion are either false or not concludent.
ref: 1606, Matthew Sutcliffe, The Petition Apolojeticall of Lay Papists, page 95:
text: But now St. George must eyther poast away unto the Land of Faeries, and there remaine for ever, with other the Chimeras of an idlehead; or which is worse, bee layde for all eternity in the pit of horrour, with Heretickes and Atheists.
ref: 1631, Peter Heylyn, The Historie of that Most Famous Saint and Souldier of Christ Iesus St George of Cappadochia, page 36:
text: Will my visit disabuse you of that confusion, you idleheads?
ref: 2007, Nickell John Romjue, The Black Box: Darwin, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud—stories, page 196:
text: How else could I show the world I was not a worthless idle-head?
ref: 2014, James Alan Gardner, Ascending:
text: It did ensure, however, that those advance who are serious about dreaming, not just idleheads who can't control their dreams, or can't remember them.
ref: 2020, Terence Kuch, Five O'Clock on the Sun:
glosses: One who is vain and foolish.
idlehead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English idelhed, equivalent to idle + -head.
Senses: glosses: obsolete form of idlehood
parabanic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek παραβαίνω (parabaínō, “to pass over”), from βαίνω (baínō).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The imidazolidinone imidazolidine-2,4,5-trione
Synonyms: oxalyl urea
pyritical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pyrite + -ical.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: pyritic (relating to, resembling, or consisting of pyrites)
trimellic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tri- + mellis (“honey”), genitive of Latin mel.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: trimellitic acid
idlehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From idle + -hood, possibly an alteration of obsolete English idlehead (“idleness”), possibly from Middle English idelhed (“vanity”). Compare also Scots ydilheid (“idleness”), Dutch ijdelheid (“vanity, vainglory”), Middle Low German îdelheit (“idleness”), and German Eitelkeit (“vanity, conceit, vainness, idleness”).
Senses: examples: text: It is but too clearly proved and too sadly illustrated in the experience and lives of many ministers, who lay down, half gladly, half reluctantly, the weapons of the old struggle whenever the shelter of the manse is gained - who allow the old ideals of self - culture and self-discipline to fade away and get utterly lost sight of amid the engrossing cares or drowsy idlehood of professional life.
ref: 1883, The United Presbyterian Magazine, volume 27, page 88:
text: Planned Idlehood
ref: 1960, Catholic World, volume 191, page 197:
text: […] laborers contented with their condition, lest they should grow dissatisfied and refuse to work any longer to support a certain number of their fellow beings is a state of idlehood; […]
ref: 1965, The Broadway Journal, volume 1, page 265:
text: But he didn't even seem to enjoy his idlehood.
ref: 2014, Sandeep Dahiya, Faceless Gods, page 57:
glosses: The state or condition of being idle; a habit of idling; idleness.
Synonyms: idledom
idleness
idleship
Ogun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈəʊɡən/
Forms: form: Ogún
Etymology: Borrowed from Yoruba Ògún.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Yoruba.
glosses: An orisha in the Yoruba religion, the god of war and technology.
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A state of Nigeria in the South West geopolitical zone. Capital and largest city: Abeokuta.
atslip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: atslips
form: atslipping
form: atslipped
form: atslope
form: atslipped
form: atslope
form: atslopen
Etymology: From Middle English atslupen, etslupen, ætslupen, from Old English *ætslūpan (“to slip away”), equivalent to at- + slip. See aslip, aslope.
Senses: glosses: To slip away.
atspring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: atsprings
form: atspringing
form: atsprang
form: atsprung
Etymology: From Middle English atspringen, ætspringen, from Old English ætspringan (“to rush forth, spurt out, spring out”), equivalent to at- + spring. Compare Dutch ontspringen (“to spring, well, outflow”), German entspringen (“to spring from, escape, arise”).
Senses: glosses: To spring forth; emerge; spring into existence; originate.
atstunt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: atstunts
form: atstunting
form: atstunted
form: atstunted
Etymology: From Middle English atstunten, etstunten, ætstunten, from Old English ætstyntan (“to blunt, dull, weaken”), equivalent to at- + stunt or at- + stint. See astint.
Senses: glosses: To bring to an end; put a stop to.
glosses: To stop; stay; remain.
atstut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: atstuts
form: atstutting
form: atstutted
form: atstutted
Etymology: From Middle English atstutten, etstutten, ætstutten (“to tarry”), equivalent to at- + stit.
Senses: glosses: To remain; to stay.
attal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: attals
form: attaling
form: attalling
form: attaled
form: attaled
form: attalled
form: attalled
Etymology: From Middle English atlien, ahtlien, from Old Norse ǽtla (“to intend, think, purpose”). More at ettle.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ettle.
atene
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: atenes
form: atening
form: atened
form: atened
Etymology: From Middle English atenen, ateonen, from Old English *ātēonian, *ātȳnan, *ātīenan, from a- + tēonian (“to injure, irritate, slander”), and tȳnan, tīenan (“to irritate, vex, trouble, insult, revile”), equivalent to a- + teen.
Senses: glosses: To irritate; grill; vex; annoy.
crack-pipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crack-pipe
exit polls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exit poll
honor killings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of honor killing
Joanie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -əʊni
Etymology: From Joan + -ie. Doublet of Ivanka, Jan, Janelle, Janet, Janey, Janine, Jeanette, Jeanie, Jeannette, Jeannine, Jen, Jenna, Jenny, Jessy, Jo, Jody, Juanita, Shanae, Sinead, and Vanna.
Senses: related: word: Joany
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Joan, from French.
Joanie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊni
Forms: form: Joanies
Etymology: Possibly a reference to Joanie Cunningham, a character from the US sitcom Happy Days (1974–1984), set in the 1950s and 1960s. Compare Joan (“a placeholder or conventional name for a younger lower-class woman”).
Senses: examples: text: I mean phones are like mondo cool, because it's like you don't know what to wear until you check it out with at because they want you to show up looking like a joanie, you know?
ref: 1982 October 28, Valley Mom [pseudonym], “Down in the valley, the valley so excellent...”, in Daily Record, volume 83, number 126, Morristown, N.J.: Morristown Daily Record, Inc., →OCLC, page 25:
text: My Mom, who takes night classes in painting and stuff at Valley College and knows about art, except she still wears totally base designer jeans with elastic butts and comes off like a total Joanie, has these other books by Judith Krantz, like Scruples and Princess Daisy.
ref: 1983 February, “Review of Books”, in Art in America, New York, N.Y.: Art In America, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 15:
text: You might want to stop being such a total Joanie and move the pony to the back of your head. I wonder if all those years of wearing the side pony has done brain damage? Maybe that would explain why you still wear it.
ref: 2008, Laura Ross, The Valley Girl Turns 40, New York, N.Y.; Bloomington, I.N.: iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 17:
text: Nothing to report. No mites, no fleas, nothing," said Larry, "But some of the poor Joanies in the main room were scratching their necks like there was a company louse picnic. We baited some double-sticky tape and roach traps, but I doubt they'll catch anything."
ref: 2017, Jeffrey A[lan] Lockwood, Murder on the Fly, Fayetteville, A.R.: Pen-L Publishing, →ISBN, page 18:
related: word: joanie
glosses: A young woman who dresses in an out-of-date and unfashionable manner.
Phaeacian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Phaeacians
form: Phaiakian
Senses: examples: text: But now, ten years later, after his recent shipwreck, he cannot compete as a runner, though he can outthrow the slighter Phaeacians with the heaviest discus.
ref: 2002, Eva Brann, Homeric Moments, page 48:
glosses: A member of a legendary seafaring people fond of feasting and dancing, mentioned by the poet Homer.
Phaeacian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Phaiakian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Phaeacians, the seafaring people.
Phaeacians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Phaeacian
felstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: felstones
Etymology: From German Feldstein, in analogy with English feldspar.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Felsite.
felstones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of felstone
caducary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See caducous.
Senses: examples: text: caducary law
text: caducary legacies
text: caducary possession
text: caducary succession
topics: law
glosses: Relating to escheat, forfeiture, or confiscation.
sepalody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sepaloid + -y.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: petalody
pistillody
staminody
glosses: The metamorphosis of other leaves or other organs into sepals or sepaloid bodies.
genappe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genappes
Etymology: From Genappe, in Belgium.
Senses: examples: text: This number contains a lis of the manufacturers of tinctorial chemicals to whom prizes have been awarded at the Vienna Exhibition. We find no English name in the catalogue. There are receipts for dyeing wool a bright green; for a finish for pack-thread; for a reseda on genappe; a brown on silk; a printing black on cotton yarn; a blue-black on old cotton, velvets, and velveteens; a chamois and rose on old goods with cotton warps, saffranin on a sumach mordant being recommended for the latter; a black on mixed woollen and silk; a dark green on wool; a cheap violet on woollen piece-goods.
ref: 1873 September 26, “[Supplement to the Chemical News. Chemical Notices from Foreign Sources. Reimann’s Färber Zeitung.] No. 31, 1873”, in William Crookes, editor, The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science. (With which is Incorporated the “Chemical Gazette.”) A Journal of Practical Chemistry in All Its Applications to Pharmacy, Arts, and Manufactures, volume XXVIII, number 722, London: Henry Gillman, Boy Court, Ludgate Hill, E.C., →OCLC, page 172, column 1:
glosses: A smooth worsted yarn or cord, used in the manufacture of braid, fringe, etc.
genappe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: genappes
form: genapping
form: genapped
form: genapped
Etymology: From Genappe, in Belgium.
Senses: glosses: To smooth (yarn) by burning off the hairs in a gas flame.
genappes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of genappe
genappes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of genappe
comparation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comparations
Etymology: Latin comparatio. See compare (“to get”) (obsolete sense). Doublet of comparison.
Senses: glosses: A making ready; a provision.
glosses: A comparison.
comparations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comparation
moidore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moidores
form: moydore
Etymology: From Portuguese moeda de ouro, literally "golden coin".
Senses: examples: text: It was a strange collection, like Billy Bones’s hoard for the diversity of coinage, but so much larger and so much more varied that I think I never had more pleasure than in sorting them. English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Georges, and Louises, doubloons and double guineas and moidores and sequins, the pictures of all the kings of Europe for the last hundred years, […]
ref: 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island:
glosses: An old Portuguese gold coin, minted from 1640 to 1732.
moidores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moidore
boramez
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of barometz.
merrimake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: merrimakes
form: merrimaking
form: merrimade
form: merrimade
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of merrymake.
merrimaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of merrimake
homoiothermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: homoeothermal
form: homœothermal
form: homeothermal
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὅμοιος (hómoios, “of like kind, similar”) + English thermal.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: warm-blooded.