cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
obsign
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈsaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: obsigns
form: obsigning
form: obsigned
form: obsigned
Etymology: See obsignate.
Senses: examples: a. 1555, John Bradford, letter to Master Richard Hopkins
He willeth us to eat of the bread […] and drink of that cup all, […] that is, take it as the sacrament of his body and blood […] whereby he doth represent, and to our faith give and obsign unto us, himself wholly, with all the merits and glory of his body and blood.
glosses: To seal; to confirm, as by a seal or stamp.
obsigned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of obsign
obsigning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of obsign
obsigns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of obsign
defensative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more defensative
form: most defensative
Etymology: From Latin defensare, defensatum (“to defend diligently”), intensive of defendere. See defend.
Senses: glosses: Serving to protect or defend; defensive
defensatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of defensative
inconcurring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + concurring.
Senses: examples: text: Hereupon also are grounded the grosse mistakes, in the cure of many diseases; not only from the last medicine, and sympatheticall receits, but amulets, charms, and all incantatory applications; deriving effects not only from inconcurring causes, but things devoid of all efficiencie whatever.
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, published 1650, Book I, Chapter 4, p. 12:
glosses: Not concurring; disagreeing.
pilidia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pilidium
pilidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pilidia
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πῑλίδιον (pīlídion, “little cap”), diminutive of πῖλος (pîlos), probably influenced by other formations in -idium, like miracidium, planidium, and coracidium.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The free-swimming larva of certain proboscis worms, somewhat resembling a deerstalker hat. It has no resemblance to its parent, and the young worm undergoes development in its interior.
wikipedia: Encyclopædia Britannica
Related terms: pileus
pilidial
subhyoidean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + hyoidean.
Senses: examples: text: subhyoidean laryngotomy
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: subhyoid
attitudinarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From attitudinarian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A practising of attitudes; posture-making.
doghole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒɡ.həʊl/
ipa: /ˈdɔɡˌhoʊl/
ipa: /ˈdɑɡˌhoʊl/
Forms: form: dogholes
form: dogholing
form: dogholed
form: dogholed
Etymology: From Middle English doghole; equivalent to dog + hole.
Senses: examples: text: Mostly, these activities are restricted to small tunneling, diggings, and dogholing from which the ore is extracted and sent to small cyanidation plants for gold recovery;
ref: 1992, Minerals Yearbook - Volume 3, page 231:
text: An' doghole that goddamn seam, too.
ref: 2004, Thomas E. Douglass, A Room Forever, page 118:
text: He tried to think of ways to get Curtis to give up dogholing, and for a moment thought of asking Sally to go into Cheylan with him to look at trailers, but remembered all her talk of leaving.
ref: 2014, Breece Pancake, Trilobites & Other Stories:
topics: business
mining
glosses: To work in a doghole mine, especially to manually dig up a vein.
dogholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doghole
dogholes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of doghole
entoplastra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entoplastron
entoplastron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entoplastra
Etymology: From ento- + plastron.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The median plate of the plastron of turtles.
Synonyms: entosternum
vernile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈvɜː(ɹ)naɪl/
/ˈvɜː(ɹ)nɪl/
Forms: form: more vernile
form: most vernile
Etymology: From Latin vernilis (“servile”). See vernacular.
Senses: examples: text: But it is a point very little to the praise of either [the Greeks or the Romans], that no vindictive notice was taken of any possible personalities[.] This has been promoted by the example hourly ringing in their ears of vernile scurrility.
ref: c. 1841, Thomas De Quincey, Libellous Attack by a London Journal:
text: This scandal of Roman society was not, undoubtedly, a pure product, from the vernile scurrility of which we hear so much in Roman writers—other causes conspired; but certainly the fluency which men of rank exhibited in this popular accomplishment of Billingsgate had been at all times sustained by the models of this kind resounding for ever in the streets of Rome, and in the purlieus of great mansions.
ref: 1843, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, page 60:
text: 'Tis that 'twould wean it from the vile and vernile, / Translate it far beyond the precipice[.]
ref: 1900, Julian E Johnstone, Songs of sun and shadow:
glosses: Suiting a slave; servile; obsequious.
sashoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sashoons
Etymology: Uncertain.
Senses: examples: text: His Spurs, Sashoons, Gloves, Seal, Comb and Comb-case, […]
ref: 1701, Francis Bugg, News from New Rome […] :
glosses: A kind of pad worn on the leg under the boot.
sashoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sashoon
aftward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aftward
form: most aftward
Etymology: From aft + -ward.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: by, near, at, or towards, the stern
aftward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From aft + -ward.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: sternward
sternwards
glosses: Toward the stern.
laminiplantar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lamina + Latin planta (“sole of the foot”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most songbirds.
thalamencephalon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thalamencephala
Etymology: From thalamo- + encephalon.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The segment of the brain next in front of the midbrain, including the thalami, pineal gland, and pituitary body.
Synonyms: diencephalon
interbrain
carolitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: carolytic
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: foliated with sculptured leaves and branches
Rechabite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rechabites
Etymology: From Rechab + -ite.
Senses: glosses: Any of the descendants of Rechab through Jonadab or Jehonadab. They belonged to the Kenites who accompanied the children of Israel into the holy land, and dwelt among them.
glosses: One who abstains entirely from wine or all alcohol.
Derived terms: Rechabitism
Rechabites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rechabite
implate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: implates
form: implating
form: implated
form: implated
Etymology: From im- + plate.
Senses: examples: text: to implate a ship with iron
glosses: To cover with plates; to sheathe.
implated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of implate
implates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of implate
implating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of implate
siccation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin siccatio.
Senses: examples: text: Siccation is the drying up of excremental humidity in bodies
ref: 1655, John Wooddall, The Surgeons Mate:
glosses: The act or process of drying.
birse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /bɜː(ɹ)s/
Forms: form: birses
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots birse (“bristle, hair”).
Senses: glosses: bristle
Derived terms: birsy
lick the birse
set up someone's birse
birses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birse
lodesman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lodesmen
form: loadsman
form: lodeman
form: loadman
Etymology: From Middle English lodesman, lodesmon, lodysman (“pilot”, literally “lode's or course's man”), alteration of earlier lodeman, from Old English lādmann (“a leader, guide”), equivalent to lode (“way, course”) + -s- + man. Compare to lodemanage.
Senses: examples: text: River and harbor pilotage, in English maritime affairs, is called loadmanage, from loadsman or lodesman, a kind of pilot established for the safe conduct of ships and vessels in and out of harbors, or up and down navigable rivers.
ref: 2009, Erastus C. Benedict, The American Admiralty:
text: For much of the Middle Ages, ships had only three ranks of seamen: master, lodesman or navigator, and mariner.
ref: 2011, Anne Crawford, Yorkist Lord: John Howard, Duke of Norfolk, c. 1425 -1485:
text: Such has always been the importance of preserving the life and cargo carried by ships that pilots (or 'lodesmen') have been employed for centuries as freelance mariners.
ref: 2014, Neil Jones, Paul Ridgway, Light Through a Lens:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A pilot; navigator.
Derived terms: lodemanage
loadmanage
lodemanship
lodesmanship
lodesmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lodesman
misexpound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misexpounds
form: misexpounding
form: misexpounded
form: misexpounded
Etymology: From mis- + expound.
Senses: glosses: To expound erroneously; to misexplain
misexpounded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misexpound
misexpounding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misexpound
misexpounds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misexpound
overforce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvəfɔɹs/
ipa: /ˌəʊvəfɔːs/
Etymology: From over- + force.
Senses: examples: text: But fail'd with overforce, and whizz'd above his back.
ref: 1822, British Poets, The British Poets, Including Translations, Whittingham, J. Carpenter, page 23:
text: The second part of the pamphlet contains Dr. Cockle's hypothesis respecting the cause of sudden death in this disease. We may say in passing, that we did not find the study of the first part to facilitate in any way the understanding of the second, le believes sudden death is generally caused by syncope in aortic insufficiency, and his theory as to its production is nearly as follows: — The coronary arteries are injected by the systole of the aorta, and during the diastole of the left ventricle. The aortic trunk, through the constant overforce of the ventricle, becomes dilated, loses its elasticity, and generally becomes atheromatous.
ref: 1828, Brian Doyle, Glasgow Medical Journal, Glasgow and West of Scotland Medical Association, Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society of Glasgow, page 230:
text: Thus we may suppose that, in an entirely natural way, the Supreme Overforce, while governing all creatures and all their actions, has developed in certain arthropods the habit of spinning tubes or cylinders as a protection to the body.
ref: 1889, Henry Christopher McCook, American Practitioner and News, Academy of Natural Science of Philadelphia, pages 329–331:
text: But this vast overforce, this unemployed, unused and unusable force of the city will find some outlet, it must, it is in human nature. There is too much of it to decay where it is, and besides it is constantly and liberally replenished.
ref: 1896, Illinois Farmers Institute, Annual Report, Springfield, Ill, page 87:
text: This line of thought lacks balance and is marked by the overforce which often characterizes the arguments of victims, but there is a kernel of truth in it that is well worth thinking about.
ref: 1905, Frank Parsons, Ralph Albertson, Charles Fremont Taylor, The Railways, the Trusts, and the People, C.F. Taylor, page 226:
text: Weaponry and overforce must be restrained as much as possible in control of disorders.
ref: 1969, Field Enterprises Educational Corporation, The 1969 World Book Year Book: The Annual Supplement to the World Book Encyclopedia, Field Enterprises Educational Corporation, page 74:
glosses: Excessive force; violence.
denotable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From denote + -able.
Senses: examples: text: in hot regions, and more spread and digested flowers, a sweet savour may be allowed, denotable from several human expressions, and the practice of the ancients, in putting the dried flowers of the vine into new wine[…]
ref: c. 1683 (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “(please specify the page)”, in [Thomas Tenison], editor, Certain Miscellany Tracts, London: […] Charles Mearn, […], published 1683, →OCLC:
text: JDK9 added support for the diamond operator in anonymous classes if the inferred types are denotable. You cannot use the diamond operator with anonymous classes—even in JDK9—if the inferred types are non-denotable.
ref: 2018, Kishori Sharan, Java Language Features:
glosses: Capable of being denoted or marked.
Derived terms: undenotable
monogrammal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From monogram + -al.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of monogrammic.
retirade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retirades
Etymology: From French retirade. Compare Spanish retirada (“retreat”). See retire.
Senses: topics: fortifications
government
military
politics
war
glosses: A kind of retrenchment, as in the body of a bastion, which may be disputed inch by inch after the defenses are dismantled. It usually consists of two faces which make a reentering angle.
retirades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retirade
indisposedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From indisposed + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Not that we should, in the midst of a sensible indisposedness of heart, fall suddenly into a fashionable devotion; but, that, by holy ejaculations and previous meditation, we should make way for a feeling invocation of our God […]
ref: 1651, Jos[eph] Hall, Susurrium cum Deo. Soliloquies: Or, Holy Self-conferences of the Devout Soul, […], 2nd edition, London: […] Will[iam] Hunt, and are to be sold by George Lathum junior, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The condition or quality of being indisposed.
ticket inspectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ticket inspector
glumpy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: glumpier
form: more glumpy
form: glumpiest
form: most glumpy
Etymology: From glump + -y.
Senses: examples: text: He was glumpy enough when I called.
ref: 1835, Thomas Hook, Gilbert Gurney:
glosses: glum; sullen; sulky
Derived terms: glumpily
glumpiness
intermedial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪntə(ɹ)ˈmiːdi.əl/
rhymes: -iːdiəl
Etymology: From inter- + medial: compare Latin intermedius.
Senses: examples: text: The firſt and principal manner of Dravving is that vvith the pen; the next vvith Crayon, vvhither black, vvhite, red or any of the intermedial colours, upon paper either vvhite or colour'd: […]
ref: 1662, J[ohn] Evelyn, “Of Drawing, and Design prævious to the Art of Chalcography; and of the Use of Pictures in Order to the Education of Children”, in Sculptura: Or The History, and Art of Chalcography and Engraving in Copper. […], London: […] J[ames] C[ottrel] for G. Beedle [i.e., Gabriel Bedell], and T[homas] Collins, […], and J[ohn] Crook […], →OCLC, book I, page 107:
glosses: Placed between; intermediate.
examples: text: Dr. Katia Arfara received her PhD in Art History from Paris I in 2006 with a focus on the intermedial relations between visual and performing arts since the 1960s.
ref: 2010, Sarah Bay-Cheng, Chiel Kattenbelt, Andy Lavender, Mapping Intermediality in Performance, page 283:
topics: art
arts
glosses: That combines several art media.
Derived terms: intermediality
reverendly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more reverendly
form: most reverendly
Etymology: From reverend + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: they abstaine reverendly
ref: 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of reverently.
lick-spigot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lick-spigots
Etymology: From lick + spigot.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he accidens of Alcumy I will ſweare it is, be it but for that experiment of his ſmoaking alone, and which is a ſecret that all Tapſters will curſe mee for blabbing, in his ſkinne there is plaine witchcraft, for doe but rubbe a kanne or quarte pot round about the mouth wyth it, let the cunningeſt lickeſpiggot ſwelt his heart out, the beere ſhal neuer foame or froath in the cupp, whereby to deceyue men of their meaſure, but be as ſetled as if it ſtoode al night.
ref: 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 70:
text: From thence, in a little time, dignified with the office and title of Mr. Churchwarden, he reckons himself as great as the Pope, and measures a foot more in the waist, upon his first entrance into this parochial authority, than he did in seven years before he was chosen for it.¶ His wife must now be called Madam, his sons, young masters, and his daughters, misses, and he that salutes the old lickspiggot with any other title than that of Mr. Churchwarden, runs the hazard of the forfeiture of his good looks, friendship and conversation.
ref: 1703, Edward Ward, The London Spy, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, published 1927, Of Victuallers, page 257:
glosses: A bartender, a tapster.
glosses: A woman who performs fellatio; a fellatrix.
lick-spigots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lick-spigot
pertinate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pertinate
form: most pertinate
Senses: glosses: pertinacious
Derived terms: pertinately
ditroite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ditroites
Etymology: From Ditró + -ite, named after Ditró, a village in Transylvania (now Ditrău, Romania).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An igneous rock composed of orthoclase, elaeolite, and sodalite.
wikipedia: Ditrău
aphidophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aphid + -o- + -phagous.
Senses: examples: text: Some beetles of the family Coccinellidae are aphidophagous.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Feeding on aphids
Related terms: aphidophagy
sea boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea boys
Senses: examples: text: Canst thou, O partial sleep, give then repose
To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude,
And in the calmest and most stillest night,
With all appliances and means to boot,
Deny it to a king?
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], lines 26-30:
glosses: A boy employed on a ship; a child seaman.
sea boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea boy
mesohepar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesohepars
Etymology: From meso- + hepar.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A fold of the peritoneum connecting the liver with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity.
mesohepars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesohepar
meak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːk
Forms: form: meaks
Etymology: From Middle English meeke, probably from Old Norse mækir (“sword”), from Proto-Germanic *mēkijaz. Cognate with Icelandic mækir, Old English mēċe.
Senses: examples: text: A meak for the pease , and to swinge up the brake
ref: 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:
glosses: A hook with a long handle; scythe.
meaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meak
inconsecutiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inconsecutive + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: it is difficult to invent a paralogism, in its gratuitous inconsecutiveness parallel to his own
ref: 1872, John Henry Newman, Discussions and Arguments:
glosses: The state or quality of not being consecutive.
chondromata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chondroma
enchondromata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enchondroma
dumfounder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dumfounders
form: dumfoundering
form: dumfoundered
form: dumfoundered
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dumbfounder.
dumfoundered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dumfounder
dumfoundering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dumfounder
dumfounders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dumfounder
indomable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more indomable
form: most indomable
Etymology: From Latin indomabilis, from in- (“not”) + domabilis (“tamable”). Compare Portuguese indomável.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of indomitable.
frorn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: frorne
Etymology: From Middle English froren, from Old English froren, ġefroren (“frozen”), from Proto-West Germanic *froʀan, from Proto-Germanic *fruzanaz (“frozen”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *freusaną (“to freeze”). Doublet of frore and frozen.
Cognate with Dutch gevroren (“frozen”), German Low German froren (“frozen”), German gefroren (“frozen”).
Senses: examples: text: But consyderyng we be so surely ascertayned of the lacke therof, and that our bloud is there frorne with the cold ayre of Scotlande, there was neuer prynce more vyolently compelled to warre then we be, […]
ref: 1542, The Complaynt of Scotlande, page 197:
text: My heart-blood is nigh well frorn I feel.
ref: 1575, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender:
text: The lake..was soon ‘frorn’, as they say in Suffolk.
ref: 1880, Sharp, Sword of Damocles:
text: On the frorn coast of Inishfree,
And Lal's first bed the plunging sea.
ref: 1896, Munsey's Magazine, volume 14, page 376:
text: […] in drifts,
the frorn forest aches
heaves
grieves and uplifts
its arms with cruel icicles weighted
to the hated
demons for ruth; […]
ref: 1902, William Norman Guthrie, The Old Hemlock and Other Symbols, page 18:
text: Out of the frorn and falling sleep
That such as we so long must keep, […]
ref: 1949, Harriet Monroe, Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, volumes 74-75, page 82:
text: Old Joe grinned. 'You looks like a frorn little calf, girl. […]'
ref: 2013, Kate Worsley, She Rises, page 30:
text: She felt him shiver, his body tremble cold against hers. 'You're getting frorn,' she said. 'We best go indoors.'
ref: 2023, Mary Chamberlain, The Lie:
glosses: Frozen; intensely cold; frosty.
Related terms: freeze
frore
frory
frost
slightful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slightful
form: most slightful
Etymology: From slight + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of sleightful.
galagoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galago
galagos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galago
lashline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lashlines
form: lash line
Etymology: From lash + line.
Senses: topics: cosmetics
lifestyle
glosses: The line of the eyelash.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: A rope for tying pieces of scenery together.
lashlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lashline
the old woman is plucking her goose
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Metaphoric, likening the snowflakes to white feathers.
Senses: glosses: It is snowing.
Related terms: devil's beating his wife
smudgily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more smudgily
form: most smudgily
Etymology: From smudgy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a smudgy manner.
play gooseberry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays gooseberry
form: playing gooseberry
form: played gooseberry
form: played gooseberry
Senses: examples: text: "Well, new experiences are broadening. Come along, and you'll be able to sympathize with all poor souls who have to play gooseberry often.
ref: 1915, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “In the Park”, in Anne of the Island:
text: What do you do at night in cars? — I have never been in cars. Never in a car at night? — Only with my sister's young man. Do you play gooseberry? — No. My sister's young man often takes me and the children for a little drive.
ref: 1930 April 11, The Brunswick and Coburg Gazette, Moonee Ponds, Vic, page 1, column 4:
glosses: To be an unwanted third party accompanying two lovers, to serve as a chaperon.
Synonyms: do gooseberry
Related terms: third wheel
two's company, three's a crowd
founderies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foundery
foundery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: founderies
Etymology: From French fonderie, from fondre. See found (“to cast”), and compare foundry.
Senses: glosses: Dated form of foundry.
green as a gooseberry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Young and inexperienced.
like shit through a goose
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: synonyms: like grease through a goose
qualifier: simile
glosses: Very fast.
gasogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gasogens
Etymology: From gas + -o- + -gen.
Senses: glosses: An apparatus for the generation of gases, or for impregnating a liquid with a gas, or a gas with a volatile liquid.
glosses: A volatile hydrocarbon used as an illuminant or for charging illuminating gas.
gasogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gasogen
triumviry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Thou makest the triumviry, the corner-cap of society,
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
glosses: A triumvirate.
appaumé
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /aˈpəʊ.meɪ/
ipa: /æˈpoʊ.meɪ/
Forms: form: appaumy
form: apaumy
form: appaumée
form: apaumé
form: apaumée
form: appaumee
form: apaumee
Etymology: Borrowed from French appaumé.
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Open and extended so as to show the palm with thumb and fingers at full length.
raw_tags: of a hand
Synonyms: appalmed
butlership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butlerships
Etymology: From Middle English buttlershipe, equivalent to butler + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: A buffle headed sub-chanter having been found guilty of absconsion from his butlership scuddled hastily with colubrine steps into the seclusion of his battish eggery.
ref: 1892 May 26, The W.A. Record, Perth, page 4, column 4:
glosses: The rank, office, or position of a butler.
ridicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: made a ridicle to his aduerſaries
ref: 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of ridicule.
a wild goose never laid a tame egg
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Most things are inherited and predetermined.
demonstrance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demonstrances
Etymology: From Middle English demonstraunce, from Old French demonstrance.
Senses: examples: text: humane reason can make no demonstrance of the preparation of the bread and wine
ref: 1614, John Heighman, A devout exposition of the Holie Masse:
glosses: demonstration; proof
tetraschistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See tetra-, schism.
Senses: examples: text: tetraschistic division
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Characterized by division into four parts.
raw_tags: of cells
traditionarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From traditionary + -ly.
Senses: glosses: traditionally.
erpetology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare French erpétologie.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of herpetology.
schorlous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more schorlous
form: most schorlous
Etymology: From schorl + -ous.
Senses: glosses: schorlaceous; resembling or containing schorl
golden goose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golden geese
Etymology: See kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
Senses: glosses: Something that generates much profit or gives great advantages.
Related terms: cash cow
gravy train
gravy boat
money machine
agriculturism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From agriculture + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The estate to which we allude is located on section 19, Crete Township, and comprises two hundred and thirty-eight acres of well developed land. It is well stocked with domestic animals and farm implements and machinery of the best models, the evidences of progressive agriculturism being everywhere manifest.
ref: 1890, Portrait and Biographical Album of Will County, Illinois:
text: Firstly, Japan is in such a topographical condition and technical restriction as to make it impossible to adopt the use of machinery upon such an extensive scale as is emphasized by Marxist agriculturism.
ref: 1933, The Japan Magazine - Volume 23, page 75:
text: The extent to which an area is urbanized is highly correlated with its degree of industrialization, or inversely with the extent to which it is dependent on agriculture. The inverse relationship between the degree of agriculturism and urbanization has been documented by Davis, Hertz and Golden.
ref: 1972, The Sarawak Museum Journal, page 182:
text: Agriculturism is said to be positively correlated to fertility by 10 studies (Das 1938; Davis 1944, 1946, 1951; Driver 1963; Ghurye 1934; Jain 1939; Krishnanmurthy 1968. Saxena 1965; Sharma 1969; Srinivasan 1967).
ref: 2003, Shakeel Ahmad, Muslim Attitude Towards Family Planning, →ISBN, page 79:
glosses: The practice of agriculture.
examples: text: The sudden uprearing of a genuine bit of aboriginal agriculturism in the midst of the conventionalities of party politics is always interesting.
ref: 1890, William Thomas Stead, The Review of Reviews - Volume 2, page 321:
text: As we examine agriculturism, it is very difficult to separate what actually is myth from what is pure political opportunism or even genuine social concern.
ref: 1972, R. Jones, Community in Crisis: French-Canadian Nationalism in Perspective, →ISBN:
text: Agriculturism and orthodox national socialism remained strictly minority views within the rightist press, but both were nonetheless very 84 important to Japanese politics in the 1930's.
ref: 1983, Gregory James Kasza, Political Regimes and Mass Media Policy in Imperial Japan, 1868-1945:
text: Many of its members, such as Minami Iwao, who advocated a uniquely Japanese "family fascism,” and Wada Hiroo, a disciple of ”agriculturism,” were convinced that only far-reaching reforms could save their country.
ref: 2013, Michael A. Barnhart, Japan Prepares for Total War, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of agriculturalism.
synonyms: word: agriculturalism
plantal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplɑːntəl/
ipa: /ˈplæntəl/
ipa: /ˈplæntəl/
Etymology: From plant + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The most degenerate souls did at last sleep in the bodies of trees, and grew up merely into plantal life.
ref: 1659, Henry More, Immortality of the Soul:
text: To live indeed is common also to plants; but we now investigate the peculiar work of man, so that the consideration about the plantal life must be dismissed.
ref: 1807, Andrónico de Rodas, The paraphrase of an anonymous Greek writer, page 25:
text: This sudden glimpse of the richness of southern vegetation is very delightful to a wanderer from Northern Europe who sees it for the first time, and it forms one of the most striking transitions in the aspect of plantal life […]
ref: 1871, George Chaplin Child, The great architect, page 263:
glosses: Belonging to plants.
examples: text: "That the Plantal faculty of the Soul, whereby she is unitable to this terrestrial Body, is not arbitrarious, but fatal or natural; which union cannot be dissolved unless the bond of Life be loosened, and that vital congruity (which is in the Body, and does necessarily hold the Soul there) be either for a time hindred or utterly destroy'd."
ref: 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Appendix, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 151
glosses: Of the nature of implanting or uniting.
reexhibit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reexhibits
form: reexhibiting
form: reexhibited
form: reexhibited
form: reëxhibit
form: re-exhibit
Etymology: From re- + exhibit.
Senses: glosses: To exhibit again.
reexhibited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reexhibit
reexhibiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reexhibit
reexhibits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reexhibit
secernment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secernments
Etymology: From secern + -ment.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The act or process of secerning (secreting).
glosses: secretion, something secreted
insaneness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From insane + -ness.
Senses: glosses: insanity; madness
osteolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osteolites
Etymology: From osteo- + -lite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A massive impure apatite, or calcium phosphate.
osteolites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of osteolite
regerminate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: regerminates
form: regerminating
form: regerminated
form: regerminated
Etymology: From re- + germinate: compare Latin regerminare.
Senses: glosses: To germinate again.
regerminated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of regerminate
regerminates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of regerminate
regerminating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of regerminate
Aristotelic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: no logician or commentator has hitherto signalized the contrast between the Aristotelic signification of the word , and that which has subsequently prevailed
ref: 1852, William Hamilton, Discussions on Philosophy and Literature, Education and University Reform:
glosses: Aristotelian
spongiolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spongiolites
Etymology: From spongio- + -lite.
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: One of the microsporic siliceous spicules which occur abundantly in the texture of sponges, and are sometimes found fossilized, as in flints.
spongiolites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spongiolite
distributionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: distributionists
Etymology: From distribution + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: A secret council of the distributionists was held that night, with Mrs. Johnson Parker in the chair, to consider of the best means of recovering the ground they had lost in the favour of the parish.
ref: 1836, Charles Dickens, The ladies' societies:
glosses: A distributor.
glosses: Synonym of distributist (“follower of a Catholic economic ideology”).
synonyms: word: distributist
extra: follower of a Catholic economic ideology
distributionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of distributionist
foliature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin foliatura (“foliage”).
Senses: examples: text: They wreathed together a foliature of the fig-tree, and made themselves enwrapments.
ref: 1728, Samuel Shuckford, The Sacred and Profane History of the World:
text: It consisted of the conical cerveillere, superbly inlaid with gold foliature, […]
ref: 1832, The Olio, Or, Museum of Entertainment, page 310:
text: […] inlaid with polished steel, and overlaid with burnished brass, or bronze foliature, or scroll-work.
ref: 1853, John Holland, A Treatise on the Progressive Improvement & Present State of the Manufactures in Metal: Iron and steel, page 191:
glosses: Foliage; leafage.
imprescriptibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare French imprescriptibilité.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being imprescriptible.
stallman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stallmen
Etymology: From stall + -man.
Senses: examples: text: […]the strong fancy which the stallman saw my father had for the book the moment he laid his hands upon it
ref: 1759–1767, [Laurence Sterne], The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume (please specify |volume=I to IX), London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […]:
glosses: A male stallholder, especially one who sells books.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A subcontractor in charge of a stall or working place.
stallmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stallman
concessively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more concessively
form: most concessively
Etymology: From concessive + -ly.
Senses: qualifier: especially lingustics
glosses: By way of concession; in a concessive way.
conquerableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From conquerable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being conquerable.
enhydrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From en- + hydrous.
Senses: examples: text: enhydrous agate
topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having water within; containing fluid drops.
gregal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin gregālis.
Senses: examples: text: Now the Wasp is a winged Insect, gregal or hearding round like a ring, long, having four wings […]
ref: 1658 [a. 1604], Thomas Muffet, “The Theatre of Insects: Or, of lesser living creatures”, in The History of Four-footed Beasts, Serpents, and Insects […], page 921:
text: The old Proverb is very true, Birds of a Feather, will flock together: And so will gregal Beasts too.
ref: 1660, O. Cromwells Thankes to the Lord Generall, Faithfully presented by Hugh Peters In another Conference, page 2:
text: But for this gregal conformity there is, as I have said, a cause and an excuse.
ref: 1873, William Starbuck Mayo, Never Again, page 86:
text: Whereas the turbate group can roughly be said to be irrational and unorganised, the gregal group may be described loosely as irrational yet organised.
ref: 1960, T. T. Paterson, Glasgow Limited: A Case-Study in Industrial War and Peace, page 15:
glosses: Pertaining to, or like, a flock.
loxodromics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From loxodrome + -ics.
Senses: glosses: The art or method (usually hypothetical) of sailing on the loxodrome, on a loxodromic curve.
loxodromics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From loxodrome + -ics.
Senses: glosses: plural of loxodromic
rhizine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhizines
Etymology: Ancient Greek for "root".
Senses: topics: biology
botany
lichenology
natural-sciences
glosses: A rootlike filament or hair growing from the stems of mosses or on lichens; a rhizoid
rhizines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhizine
shiplet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shiplets
Etymology: From ship + -let.
Senses: examples: text: […] and so they go to the sea betwixt two hils, whereof that on the one side lieth out like an arme or cape, and maketh the fashion of an hauenet or peere, whither shiplets sometime doo resort for succour.
ref: 1587, Raphael Holinshed, chapter 1.12, in Chronicles, archived from the original on 12 Sep 2015:
glosses: A little ship.
shiplets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shiplet
telepolariscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telepolariscopes
Etymology: From tele- + polariscope.
Senses: examples: text: CHAPTER XXX THE TELEPOLARISCOPE
ref: 1878, Norman Lockyer, Stargazing:
glosses: A polariscope designed to be attached to a telescope.
telepolariscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telepolariscope
mothery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mothery
form: most mothery
Etymology: From mother + -y.
Senses: glosses: Consisting of, containing, or resembling mother (in vinegar).
Synonyms: caned
Derived terms: motheriness
anachronize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈnækɹənaɪz/
Forms: form: anachronizes
form: anachronizing
form: anachronized
form: anachronized
Etymology: From anachronism + -ize. From New Latin anachronismus, from Ancient Greek ἀναχρονισμός (anakhronismós), from ἀναχρονίζομαι (anakhronízomai, “referring to the wrong time”), from ἀνά (aná, “up against”) + χρονίζω (khronízō, “spending time”), from χρόνος (khrónos, “time”).
Senses: examples: text: The only fair comparison would be between him and that one of his contemporaries who endeavored to anachronize himself, so to speak, and to subject his art, so far as might be, to the laws of classical composition.
ref: 1873, James Russell Lowell, “Shakespeare Once More”, in Among My Books, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, page 198:
glosses: To refer to, or put into, a wrong time period.
Related terms: anachronism
anachronistic
anachronized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of anachronize
anachronizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of anachronize
anachronizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of anachronize
chylaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chylaceous
form: most chylaceous
Etymology: From chyle + -aceous.
Senses: examples: text: chylaceous matter
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Resembling or consisting of chyle.
pashaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pashaws
Senses: glosses: rare spelling of pasha
pashaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pashaw
seleniuret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seleniurets
Etymology: From selenium + -uret.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A selenide (any compound in which selenium serves as an anion with an oxidation number of -2).
seleniurets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seleniuret
trunnioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trunnion + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: the trunnioned cylinder of an oscillating steam engine
text: trunnioned pivot
text: trunnioned yoke
glosses: Provided with trunnions.
seapiece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seapieces
Etymology: From sea + piece.
Senses: examples: text: a landskip, or rather sea-piece, wherein the potentates of the Alliance are figured as their interests correspond with, or affect each other, under the appearance of commanders of ships.
ref: February 4 1709, Richard Steele or Joseph Addison, The Tatler No. 129
glosses: A picture representing a scene at sea; a marine picture.
Synonyms: seascape
seapieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seapiece
cateress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cateresses
Etymology: From cater + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: With her abundance; she, good cateress,
Means her provision only to the good
ref: 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:
english: Comus
translation: Comus
text: After a while the mistress of the house arose, and said to the cateress: " Arise, O my sister, and let us fulfil our debt." The cateress left the saloon, and soon returned leading two black hounds , with chains around their necks.
ref: 1913, Frances Jenkins Olcott, The Arabian Nights, page 33:
text: In the kitchen, partly partitioned by a curtain, the cateress and her helper were busy.
ref: 2015, Joan Williams, Lisa C. Hickman, Remembering: Joan Williams' Uncollected Pieces:
glosses: A woman who caters.
cateresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cateress
ladied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ladied
form: most ladied
Etymology: From lady + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Stroked with a ladied hand.
ref: 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
glosses: ladylike i.e. gentle
glosses: addressed as "lady"
pothecaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pothecary
pothecary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pothecaries
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of apothecary.
driftage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: driftages
Etymology: From drift + -age.
Senses: glosses: Deviation from a ship's course due to leeway.
glosses: Anything that drifts.
salinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more salinous
form: most salinous
Senses: examples: text: We do not easily ascribe their induration to cold; but rather unto salinous spirits and concretive juices.
ref: 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errors:
glosses: saline
brandalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of brand + vandalism.
Senses: examples: text: But in what archaeologists describe as one of the most shameful instances of 'brandalism' seen in Britain, Channel 4 executives stand accused of defiling the oldest hill-chalk carving in Britain.
ref: 2003 May 4, Mark Townsend, “Big Brother's logo 'defiles' White Horse”, in The Observer:
glosses: The encroachment of ads, logos, and other types of corporate branding into public and traditionally non-commercial spaces, or the dissemination of corporate messages through methods or mediums not typically used for marketing purposes.
examples: text: It is, effectively, the opposite of so-called "brandalism" which is where advertisers have no control over how, where and when their branded communication is sabotaged.
For example, billboards in New York for Apple's iPod music player were defaced by one disgruntled customer with the words "iPod's unreplaceable battery lasts only 18 months" after he discovered it would cost more to buy a new battery than to purchase a new iPod.
ref: 2005 February 1, Steve Hemsley, “How to sabotage an ad campaign”, in MediaWeek:
glosses: The deliberate defacement of corporate iconography, generally for purposes of protest, parody, or social commentary.
Synonyms: adbusting
culture jamming
subvertising