cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hobosexual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hobosexuals
Etymology: Formed as hobo + sexual, punning on homosexual; compare hobohemia and metrosexual.
Senses: examples: text: You’re a hobosexual — do you hear me! — a hobosexual! A man who can only get excited by women who are real tramps‼
ref: 1993, David A. Rudnitsky, Men Who Hate Themselves and the Women Who Agree with Them, pages 160–161:
glosses: A person sexually attracted to tramps or hobos.
examples: text: “Your Honor,” the young man said, “I just can’t live with my wife anymore. She’s a hobosexual.”
“Just one moment,” interrupted the judge. “Don’t you mean homosexual?”
“I mean hobosexual. You see, my wife’s a bum lay.”
ref: 2004, Billoo Badhshah, The Unofficial Joke Book of Couples, page 40:
text: “I never knew much about this boy’s father. He came through here, courted me and we got married. Soon afterwards I found out he was a hobosexual.”
“You mean homosexual,” came the correction.
“No, sir, I mean hobosexual. He was just a no-good, passionate bum.”
ref: 2004, Kuldeep Saluja, The Unofficial Joke Book of South Africa, page 48:
text: ‘Smart-ass, know-it-all, arrogant pricks, with their terrorist sympathies, their hobosexual neighbors — ’
‘Hobo'''sexual?’
‘Bum fuckers! Fags!’
ref: 2010, R. Scott Bakker, Neuropath, chapter 12?:
glosses: Punning on bum (as a synonym of hobo).
examples: text: “You mean the hobosexual looking dude? Looks like somebody shook him up in a bag, and then tossed him out?”
Madison giggled. “That’s funny, where did you get hobosexual from?”
“Judging from the looks of him, he surely isn’t meticulous about his looks like a metrosexual.”
ref: 2010, Danita Carter, Murder in the Hamptons, page 277:
antonyms: metrosexual
glosses: A person of an unkempt appearance.
Related terms: hobosexuality
straight pull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: straight pulls
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: Alternative spelling of straight-pull.
repleads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of replead
when as
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whenas.
repleading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of replead
repled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: repleaded
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of replead
repleaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: repled
Senses: qualifier: excepting Scotland
glosses: simple past and past participle of replead
signory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːnjəɹi/
Forms: form: signories
Etymology: From Middle English seignurie, from Anglo-Norman seignurie, Middle French signeurie, signerie et al., later influenced by Italian signoria. Compare seigniory.
Senses: examples: text: Such honour was done in thoſe dayes to men who profeſt the ſtudy of wiſdome and eloquence, not only in their own Country, but in other Lands, that Cities and Siniories heard them gladly, and with great reſpect, if they had ought in publick to admoniſh the State.
ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 3:
glosses: A territory or domain, especially under a feudal lordship.
glosses: Overlordship, dominion.
glosses: A ruling assembly, specifically of various Italian republics; a signoria.
primely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹʌɪmli/
Forms: form: more primely
form: most primely
Etymology: From prime + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: it will be primely to the discouragement of all learning, and the stop of Truth, not only by disexercising and blunting our abilities in what we know already, but by hindring and cropping the discovery that might bee yet further made both in religious and civill Wisdome.
ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica:
glosses: Primarily.
glosses: In a prime manner; very well; extremely; excellently.
scaphium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scaphia
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin scaphium, from Ancient Greek σκάφιον (skáphion).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The carina or keel of papilionaceous flowers.
broid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: broids
form: broiding
form: broided
form: broided
Senses: examples: text: In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
ref: 1611, 1 Timothy, King James Bible:
glosses: Obsolete form of braid.
broided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of broid
broiding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of broid
broids
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of broid
emanatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more emanatively
form: most emanatively
Etymology: From emanative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: By means of emanation.
unhappied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unhappy
hyperoxymuriate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperoxymuriates
Etymology: From hyper- + oxymuriate?
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any perchlorate.
hyperoxymuriates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperoxymuriate
terapin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terapins
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of terrapin.
terapins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terapin
museless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmjuːzləs/
Forms: form: more museless
form: most museless
Etymology: From muse + -less.
Senses: examples: text: it is to be wonder'd how muselesse and unbookish they were, minding nought but the feats of Warre.
ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica:
glosses: Uncultured.
Derived terms: muselessness
copartment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copartments
Senses: examples: text: In a copartment, towards the head, and under the semicircle, of the letter, are his initials, T.N.
ref: 1774-1781, Thomas Warton, History of English Poetry:
glosses: Obsolete form of compartment.
copartments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copartment
ichthin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ichthy- + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A nitrogenous substance resembling vitellin, present in the egg yolk of cartilaginous fishes.
rhizophorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rhizophorous
form: most rhizophorous
Etymology: From rhizo- + -phore + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Bearing roots.
glosses: Of or pertaining to genus Rhizophora of mangroves.
ureameter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ureameters
Etymology: From urea + -meter.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An apparatus for measuring the amount of urea in urine, based on the amount of nitrogen produced in certain reactions.
Related terms: ureametry
ureameters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ureameter
chronographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /krə(ʊ)ˈnɒɡɹəfəɹ/
Forms: form: chronographers
Etymology: From chronography + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The situation of the antient Ryslaland or Russland, may be ascertained by the towns which are mentioned by the chronographers.
ref: 1799, William Tooke, A View of the Russian Empire during the Reign of Catharine II and to the close of the present Century:
ref: 1568, Christopher Watson, The hystories of the most famous and worthy chronographer Polybius:
glosses: One who writes a chronography; a chronologer.
chronographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chronographer
dotary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dote + -ary?
Senses: examples: text: These been for such as make them votarie,
And take them to the mantle and the ring,
And spenden day and night in dotarie,
Hammering their heads, musing on heavenly thing,
ref: 1593, Michael Drayton, The Shepheards Garland VII: The Seventh Eglog:
glosses: A dotard's weakness; dotage.
lipyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: By surface analysis, lip- + -yl; coined by Berzelius.
Senses: examples: text: Oxide of lipyl, though a hypothetical body, is of far more importance than any of the preceding bases.
ref: 1860, George Edward Day, Chemistry in its relations to physiology and medicine:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: glyceryl
wikipedia: Berzelius
towned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From town + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: the continent is of an huge and vnknowen greatnesse , and very well peopled and towned, though savagely
ref: 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Having towns; containing many towns.
sequestres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sequestre
sequestres
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sequestre
demonianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈmoʊni.ənɪzəm/
ipa: /dɪˈməʊnɪənɪzəm/
Etymology: From demonian + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Strictly speaking, the belief in demonianism was distinct from that in witchcraft.
ref: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 458:
glosses: Possession by a demon or demons.
flittiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From flitty + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: […] had we but the same delight in heavenly objects, did we but receive the truth in the love of it, and mingle it with faith in the hearing, this would fix that volatileness and flittiness of our memories, and make every truth as indelible, as it is necessary.
ref: 1692, Bishop Ezekiel Hopkins, An Exposition on the Lord's Prayer:
glosses: The quality of being flitty; unsteadiness.
mundil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mundils
Etymology: See mandil.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mandil (“type of turban”).
mundils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mundil
inscriptible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Capable of being inscribed.
Synonyms: inscribable
predestinator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: predestinators
Etymology: Compare French prédestinateur.
Senses: glosses: One who predestinates, or foreordains.
examples: text: Let all predestinators me produce , Who struggle with eternal bonds in vain
ref: a. 1667, Abraham Cowley, My Fate:
synonyms: predestinarian
glosses: A believer in predestination
predestinators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of predestinator
executorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: executorships
Etymology: From executor + -ship.
Senses: synonyms: executry
glosses: The office or position of an executor.
executorships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of executorship
kneck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knecks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of neck.
knecks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kneck
unvoweled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unvowelled
Etymology: From un- + voweled.
Senses: examples: text: The Law vowelled and unvowelled was so at the first : the vowelled for certainty : the ụnvowelled for expedition in writing
ref: 1609, Hugh Broughton, Principal Positions for Groundes of the Holy Bible:
glosses: Having no vowel sounds or signs.
entreatful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more entreatful
form: most entreatful
form: intreatful
Etymology: From entreat + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: To seeke for succour of her and her Peares, / With humble prayers and intreatfull teares […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Full of entreaty.
ethylin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethylins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several ethyl ethers of glycerol
ethylins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ethylin
unvowelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unvoweled.
ixodicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ixodicides
Etymology: From Ixodida + -icide.
Senses: synonyms: tickicide
glosses: A substance that kills ticks.
ixodicides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ixodicide
arachnicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arachnicides
Etymology: From arachn- + -icide.
Senses: glosses: A substance that kills arachnids.
Related terms: arachnidism
arachnophobia
arachnicides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arachnicide
agonistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From agonistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an agonistic manner
Derived terms: superagonistically
Baunscheidtism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Baunscheidt + -ism, after its founder Carl Baunscheidt (1809–1873), a German mechanic and inventor.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A form of acupuncture with toxic oil, causing inflammation that is alleged to draw the body's "attention" away from the patient's illness, thus effecting a cure.
doorcheek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doorcheeks
Etymology: From door + cheek.
Senses: examples: text: And dippe a bunch of hyſſope in the blould that is at the doore, and ſprinkle the vppertranſome of the doore therwith, and both the doore cheekes: let none of you goe out of the doore of his houſe til morning.
ref: 1609, The Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Lavrence Kellam, […], →OCLC, Exodvs 12:22, page 186:
text: The doorcheck on that doorway was loose and the door always banged behind him making him startle
ref: 2015, Meyer Levin, Frankie & Johnnie:
glosses: The jamb of a door.
doorcheeks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doorcheek
scabicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scabicides
Etymology: From scabies + -cide.
Senses: glosses: A substance that kills mites of the genus Sarcoptes, which cause scabies.
scabicides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scabicide
enubilate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enubilates
form: enubilating
form: enubilated
form: enubilated
Etymology: From Latin ēnūbilātus, past participle of ēnūbilāre (“to enubilate”), from ē- (“out”) + nūbila (“clouds”), from nūbilis (“cloudy”), nūbēs (“cloud”).
Senses: examples: text: Maeterlinck is gradually enubilating himself from those enchanted mists in which first he strayed.
ref: 1903, “Saturday Reviews”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: To clear from mist, clouds, or obscurity.
enubilated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enubilate
enubilating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enubilate
impleasing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more impleasing
form: most impleasing
Etymology: From im- + pleasing.
Senses: examples: text: Impleasing to all, as all to him; straggling thoughts are his content, they make him dreame waking, there's his pleasure.
ref: 1614, Thomas Overbury, Characters:
antonyms: pleasing
glosses: unpleasing; displeasing
unoperculated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + operculated.
Senses: glosses: Without an operculum.
endotheloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more endotheloid
form: most endotheloid
Etymology: From endothelium + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: endotheloid cells/plates
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Like endothelium.
preelection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preelections
form: pre-election
form: preëlection
Etymology: From pre- + election.
Senses: glosses: An election beforehand.
preelection
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-election
form: preëlection
Etymology: From pre- + election.
Senses: examples: text: preelection blues
text: preelection hype
text: preelection polls
synonyms: preelectoral
antonyms: postelection
postelectoral
glosses: Before an election.
preelections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preelection
sublittoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + littoral.
Senses: examples: text: Fortunately, good seaweeding can also be done when the tide is not low, for frequently one encounters piles of drifted seaweeds cast up on the sand from the sublittoral region.
ref: 1966, E. Yale Dawson, Seashore Plants of Southern Califonria, 3rd printing, Berkley: University of California Press, published 1975, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 7:
glosses: Under the shore.
Synonyms: neritic
Hypernyms: marine
coastal
littoral
pelagic
Hyponyms: infralittoral
circumlittoral
subtidal
Coordinate terms: oceanic
bathyal
abyssal
hadal
littoral
pelagic
sublittoral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sublittorals
Etymology: From sub- + littoral.
Senses: glosses: The area below the shore; the sublittoral region.
fitchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: fitchée
form: fitchee
form: fitché
form: fiché
form: fichée
Etymology: From French fiché, past participle of ficher (“to fasten”), Old French fichier (“to pierce”). Compare fish.
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Sharpened to a point; pointed.
morningtide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From morning + -tide.
Senses: examples: text: Bright rose the sun of Gettysburg that morrow morningtide,
And call of trump and roll of drum from height to height replied.
ref: 1908, Edmund Clarence Stedman, In War Time (poem):
text: And in the cold sad light
 Of the early morningtide,
The dear dead girl came back
 And stood by his besidee.
ref: 1898, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Passing (poem):
glosses: Morning time.
overwasted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overwasted
form: most overwasted
Etymology: From over- + wasted.
Senses: examples: text: VVhen in the Tumult, vvith the ſudden Fright, / VVhilſt eu'ry one for Safetie ſought about, / And none regarded to maintaine the Light, / VVhich being ouer-vvaſted, vvas gone out, / It being then the mid time of the Night, / […] / The Queene alone (at leaſt, if any neare) / They vvere her VVomen, almoſt dead vvith feare.
ref: 1630, Michael Drayton, “The Barons Warres. In the Reigne of Edward the Second. The Sixt Canto.”, in Poems: […], London: […] Willi[am] Stansby for Iohn Smethwicke, →OCLC, stanza 73, page 148:
glosses: Wasted or worn out; consumed; spent.
sea king
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea kings
Etymology: Calque of Old Norse sækonungr.
Senses: glosses: A Viking pirate chief.
topics: fiction
human-sciences
literature
media
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
publishing
sciences
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: A ruler of the seas, e.g. Poseidon.
sea kings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea king
baptizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From baptize + -able.
Senses: examples: text: baptizable Infants
ref: 1675, Richard Baxter, More Proofs of Infants Church-Membership […] :
glosses: Alternative form of baptisable.
delightous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more delightous
form: most delightous
Etymology: From Middle English delitous, from Old French delitos.
Senses: glosses: delightful
proplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Forming a mould.
Related terms: proplasm
neuroskeleton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuroskeletons
Etymology: From neuro- + skeleton.
Senses: examples: text: the bones of the neuroskeleton
ref: 1866, Richard Owen, Anatomy of Vertebrates:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The deep-seated parts of the vertebrate skeleton related to the nervous axis and locomotion.
Related terms: neuroskeletal
neuroskeletons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuroskeleton
demeanure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demeanures
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of demeanor.
demeanures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demeanure
faithed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /feɪθd/
ipa: /feɪθt/
rhymes: -eɪθd
Forms: form: more faithed
form: most faithed
Etymology: From faith + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Thou unpossessing bastard, dost thou think, / If I would stand against thee, would the reposal / Of any trust, virtue, or worth in thee / Make thy words faithed?
ref: 1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear, act 2, scene 1:
glosses: Having faith or a faith; honest; sincere.
examples: text: ...Ezra cometh from Babel to reforme matters: as mariages with infideles: and such, fit for be∣ginning a new comon weale: So Malachy speaketh nothing of the Temple, but of maintenance for the Levites, & of strange faithed wiues, and all, for matters fit for a new be∣ginning comon weale...
ref: 1604, Hugh Broughton Hugh Broughton, An aduertisement of corruption in our handling of religion To the Kings Majestie, Of Malachie:
text: to those Jewish faithed brethren QPR fans of which Mike and myself are two, for the year, and myself apologise^([sic]) to anyone whom I have hurt (sinned) during the past year.
ref: 2012 September 16, londonranger, “Very Happy Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur”, in QPR Report Message Board, retrieved 02 Dec 2016:
ref: 2014 December 12, givitawayy, “How do I (24m)tell my strong faithed wife (23f) that I am agnostic?”, in Reddit, retrieved 02 Dec 2016:
text: As a Texan I knew the smell well. It was an aroma not all that unexpected of Southern "Good Ole' Boys", but it didn't square with reports that Carter was a deep-faithed Southern Baptist who taught Sunday School and was a tee-totaler.
ref: 2015 September 6, Dan Rather, “Jimmy Carter is a man the founding fathers would recognize”, in Mashable, retrieved 02 Dec 2016:
glosses: Having faith of a specified quality or type.
naturity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nature + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: This cannot be allowed, except we impute that unto the first cause which we impose not on the second; or what we deny unto nature we impute unto naturity.
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:
glosses: The quality or state of being produced by nature; naturalness
unweeting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unweeting
form: most unweeting
Etymology: See un- (“not”), and weet, wit.
Senses: examples: text: Unweeting Cyparissus with a dart did strike this hart.
ref: 1567, Arthur Golding (translator), Ovid, Metamorphoses, (X, 135)
text: Unweeting have offended
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: Hereof this gentle knight unweeting was,
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of unwitting.
Related terms: unweetingly
numerist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: numerists
Senses: examples: text: the doctrine of the numerist
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Someone who deals in, or is skilled with, numbers.
numerists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of numerist
puckerer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puckerers
Etymology: From pucker + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that puckers.
puckerers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puckerer
water willow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water willows
form: waterwillow
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of aquatic plants of the Americas in the genus Justicia, with long willow-like leaves and spikes of small purplish flowers.
glosses: Any of a group of aquatic plants of the Americas in the genus Justicia, with long willow-like leaves and spikes of small purplish flowers.
Specifically, Justicia americana.
glosses: The flowering plant Decodon verticillatus.
Related terms: Justicia
water willows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water willow
moistful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more moistful
form: most moistful
Etymology: From Middle English moistfull, equivalent to moist + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Full of moisture; moist; moisty.
euchrone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From euchroic + -one.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A blue compound obtained from euchroic acid.
exegetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: hermeneutics
glosses: The science or study of interpretation or exegesis.
Related terms: exegete
exegetic
exegetical
exegetist
resistful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more resistful
form: most resistful
Etymology: From resist + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Putting up much resistance; resistant
digram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪɡɹæm/
Forms: form: digrams
Etymology: From di- + -gram.
Senses: glosses: A digraph (combination of two letters)
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A digraph
glosses: digraph (Taixuanjing symbol with two lines)
digrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of digram
assassinator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assassinators
Etymology: From assassinate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: Philip of Spain had offered a reward of 25,000 crowns, a patent of nobility, and immunity for all past crimes, to the assassinator of the Prince of Orange.
ref: 1858, John M. Neale, A History of the So-called Jansenist Church of Holland, page 116:
glosses: An assassin.
Derived terms: assassinatress
assassinators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assassinator
orthodoxal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more orthodoxal
form: most orthodoxal
Etymology: From orthodox + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Yet if ſuch like practiſes [...] have not exempted both her and her preſent members from being judg'd to be Antichriſtian in all orthodoxal eſteem,
ref: 1642, John Milton, chapter III, in The Reason of Church-Government Urg’d against Prelaty; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 234:
glosses: Archaic form of orthodox.
Derived terms: orthodoxality
orthodoxally
reengrave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reengraves
form: reengraving
form: reengraved
form: reengraved
form: re-engrave
form: reëngrave
Etymology: From re- + engrave.
Senses: glosses: To engrave again.
reengraved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reengrave
reengraves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reengrave
reengraving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reengrave
lycanthropist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lycanthropists
Etymology: From lycanthropy + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of lycanthrope.
synonyms: word: lycanthrope
lycanthropists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lycanthropist
forepromised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fore- + promised.
Senses: examples: text: I am not one that is suddenly and unexpectedly started forth into the world, but that very Messias who from the beginning of the world was foretold and forepromised to mankind.
ref: 1633, Joseph Hall, A paraphrase upon the hard texts of Scripture:
glosses: Promised beforehand.
odontographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From odontography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to odontography.
uncharm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uncharms
form: uncharming
form: uncharmed
form: uncharmed
Etymology: From un- + charm.
Senses: examples: text: she is outwardly / All that bewitches sense, all that entices; / Nor is it in our virtue to uncharm it
ref: 1609–1612, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Captaine”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: To release from a charm, fascination, or secret power; to disenchant.
uncharms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uncharm
webbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of webber
forebodement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forebodements
Etymology: From forebode + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of foreboding.
glosses: The thing foreboded.
forebodements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forebodement
heraldically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more heraldically
form: most heraldically
Etymology: From heraldic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a heraldic manner; according to heraldry.
hoggishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoggishnesses
Etymology: From hoggish + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: hoggism
glosses: The quality of being hoggish.
inefficaciousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inefficacious + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: ineffectiveness
inefficacy
glosses: Lack of efficacy.
infallibilist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infallibilists
Senses: glosses: One who accepts infallibilism (any sense).
infallibilists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infallibilist
mispunctuate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mispunctuates
form: mispunctuating
form: mispunctuated
form: mispunctuated
Etymology: From mis- + punctuate.
Senses: glosses: To punctuate incorrectly.
Related terms: mispunctuation
mispunctuated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mispunctuate
mispunctuates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mispunctuate
mispunctuating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mispunctuate
obscurement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obscurements
Etymology: From obscure + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: Now bolder fires appear, / And o'er the palpable obscurement sport.
ref: a. 1702, John Pomfret, Poems upon Several Occasions:
glosses: The act of obscuring, or the state of being obscured.
obscurements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obscurement
unfrequency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unfrequent + -cy.
Senses: examples: text: The unfrequency of the exercising boyes in versions and translations, is also a great error: for this will be found a better mean to inure them to Latine than either grammaires, lessons, or confabulations.
ref: 1761, Gilbert Burnet, Thoughts on Education, London: D. Wilson, page 44
text: These circumstances, I mean the constant habit of authority, and the unfrequency of elections, have tended very much to draw the House of Commons towards the character of a standing Senate.
ref: 1770, Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents, London: J. Dodsley, page 48:
text: I was three weeks in London, and saw her (for London) very often. I had every attention from the Frasers that could be reasonably expected. I dare say I was not reasonable in carrying with me hopes of an intercourse at all like that of Mansfield. It was her manner, however, rather than any unfrequency of meeting.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XIII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 238–239:
text: No demand had that day been made upon the hospitality of the Hand and Bottle; and the landlord was just then murmuring at the unfrequency of employment.
ref: 1828, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter IV, in Fanshawe:
glosses: Obsolete form of infrequency.
thecodont
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Ancient Greek θήκη (thḗkē, “case, chest”) + -odont.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having the teeth enclosed in sockets in the alveoli of the jaws.
Related terms: pleurodont
acrodont
thecodont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thecodonts
Etymology: Ancient Greek θήκη (thḗkē, “case, chest”) + -odont.
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Any of the Thecodontia (a former group of archosaurs).
thecodonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thecodont
georama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: georamas
Etymology: From geo- + -rama.
Senses: glosses: A hollow globe with a map of the world on its inner surface, so as to be visible from inside.
georamas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of georama
ectolecithal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ecto- + lecithal.
Senses: examples: text: ectolecithal ova
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the food yolk, at the commencement of segmentation, in a peripheral position, and the cleavage process confined to the centre of the egg.
convexoconvex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more convexoconvex
form: most convexoconvex
form: convexo-convex
Etymology: From convex + -o- + convex.
Senses: examples: text: convexoconvex form
text: convexoconvex lens
text: convexoconvex surface
glosses: convex on both sides
Related terms: concavo-convex
convexoconcave
concavoconcave
effluvial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: effluvial blood
text: effluvial explanation
glosses: Of or pertaining to effluvia.
indemonstrability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being indemonstrable; impossibility to demonstrate.
semicolumn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semicolumns
Etymology: From semi- + column.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A half column; a column bisected longitudinally, or along its axis.
topics: architecture
glosses: A lesene.
Related terms: semicolumnar
semicolumns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semicolumn
gaysome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: gā'səm
ipa: /ˈɡeɪsəm/
rhymes: -eɪsəm
Forms: form: more gaysome
form: most gaysome
Etymology: From gay + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Her buds of gaysome youth
ref: 1610, “The Life and Death of King Edmund, surnamed Ironside”, in Richard Niccols, editor, The Mirror for Magistrates:
text: The very emperor his throne did grace to-day, Why, never was a crowd in such a gaysome mood.
ref: 1900, Rixford Joseph Lincoln, Poems and Short Stories:
text: Minerva suspected he'd been flirting with her on the trip through the Falls, suspected she'd been flirting back a bit — but only the way she did when there was a barn-raising or a baptism, and everyone was feeling gaysome.
ref: 2003, Evan Hunter, The Chisholms, page 60:
text: “I never cared about the Union. Nor the South, neither, if you want to know the truth of it. I just wanted to get off the farm, and I had me a gaysome time of it. [...]”
ref: 2015, Sandra Dallas, A Quilt for Christmas:
glosses: Characterised or marked by gaiety; cheerful; gladsome.
Derived terms: gaysomeness
emulousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From emulous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being emulous.
marrubium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marrubiums
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Marrubium of bitter aromatic plants; horehound.
marrubiums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marrubium
lithotint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithotints
Etymology: From litho- + tint.
Senses: glosses: A kind of lithography by which the effect of a tinted drawing is produced, as if made with India ink.
glosses: A picture produced by this process.
lithotints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lithotint
irritatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more irritatory
form: most irritatory
Etymology: From irritate + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: For nothing hinders Wounds from cicatrising; more than concourse of Humor to the diseaſed Part ; and keeping things irritatory about the Orifice of the Wound
ref: 1659, John Hales, Golden Remains of the Ever Memorable Mr. John Hales:
glosses: Producing irritation.
thyrotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thyrotomy
thyrotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thyrotomies
Etymology: From thyro- + -tomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: An incision into the thyroid cartilage.
upsidown
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of upside down.
eyestring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eyestrings
form: eye-string
Etymology: From eye + string.
Senses: examples: text: Or euer sleepe his eye-strings did vntye
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “The Cave of Mammon”, in The Faerie Queene, Book 2, Canto VII:
text: I would have broke mine eyestrings, cracked them, but / To look upon him,
ref: a. 1611, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, act 1, scene 4:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of the fibres of the eye, such as a tendon, nerve or muscle.
eyestrings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eyestring
reyn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reyns
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of rain.
glosses: Obsolete form of rein.
reyns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reyn
entomologize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: entomologizes
form: entomologizing
form: entomologized
form: entomologized
form: entomologise
Etymology: From entomology + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: This is our favourite spot for entomologizing, when the sun outside altogether forbids the least exertion.
ref: 1871, Charles Kingsley, “A Letter from a West Indian Cottage Ornée”, in At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies. […], volume I, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 163:
glosses: To collect specimens in the study of entomology.
entomologized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of entomologize
entomologizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of entomologize
entomologizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of entomologize
beseechment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beseechments
Etymology: From beseech + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: Which beseechment denotes not only their Gracious Condescention , or meer , desire to us , but loudly speaks the absolute necessity of our appointment
ref: a. 1680, Thomas Goodwin, The Work of the Holy Ghost in Our Salvation:
text: ‘Ola,’ Michael said, his knees bent and his hands touched together in beseechment. He looked like he was begging for his life.
ref: 2023, Yomi Adegoke, The List, 4th Estate, page 317:
glosses: The act of beseeching; imploration.
beseechments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beseechment
heterocercy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: topics: biology
ichthyology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: heterocercality
hookedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hooked + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: crookedness
glosses: The condition of being bent like a hook; incurvation.
mercenarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mercenarians
Senses: glosses: A mercenary.
mercenarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mercenarian
unitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: the first principle of a code for the right ruling of humanity in its state of multitude, is to be found in humanity in its state of unitude
ref: 1851, Herbert Spencer, Social Statics:
glosses: unity; togetherness
ettling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ettlings
Etymology: From Middle English etlyng, atlyng, equivalent to ettle + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of intending; intention; purpose; endeavour.
ettling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English etlyng, atlyng, equivalent to ettle + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ettle
ettling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ettlings
Etymology: Equivalent to ettle (“to earn”) + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Earnings; wages.
bull terrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bull terriers
form: bull-terrier
form: bullterrier
Senses: glosses: A medium-sized dog of a breed that is a cross between bulldog and terrier.
Derived terms: pit bull terrier
Staffordshire bull terrier
bull terriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bull terrier
unlocated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + located.
Senses: examples: his unlocated shirt
glosses: That has not been located; the location of which is unknown.
examples: unlocated lands
glosses: Not surveyed, or designated by limits or boundaries, as appropriated to some individual or company.
unlines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unline
unlining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unline
underliner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underliners
Etymology: From underline + -er.
Senses: examples: students who are habitual underliners
glosses: One who underlines.
underliner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underliners
Etymology: From under- + liner.
Senses: glosses: A liner or lining that goes underneath.
underliners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underliner
dewworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dewworms
Etymology: From dew + worm.
Senses: glosses: The earthworm.
dewworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dewworm
dispensatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From dispensative + -ly.
Senses: examples: c. 1630?, Henry Wotton, letter to the King
First, for the point of Conscience, I can now hold my place Canonically, which I held before but dispensatively
glosses: By dispensation.
excommunicant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: excommunicants
Senses: glosses: Someone who has been excommunicated.
excommunicants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of excommunicant
mintmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mintmasters
form: mint master
form: mint-master
Etymology: From mint + master.
Senses: examples: text: The Mintmaster, and Goldsmith, in their Mixture of Metals, either of diuerse kindes, or diuerse values: how are they, or may they, exactly be directed, and meruailously pleasured, if Arithmetike be their guide?
ref: 1570, John Dee, in H. Billingsley (trans.) Euclid, Elements of Geometry, Preface
glosses: Synonym of moneyer, the superintendant of a mint, particularly (historical) one responsible for coinage.
synonyms: word: moneyer
extra: the superintendant of a mint, particularly (historical) one responsible for coinage
glosses: Synonym of master of the mint, the national superintendant of all mints.
synonyms: word: master of the mint
extra: the national superintendant of all mints
glosses: Synonym of neologist, a person who coins new words or expressions.
synonyms: word: neologist
extra: a person who coins new words or expressions
Related terms: master
master of the mint
Master of the Mint
mint
mintkeeper
mint keeper
mint master
warden of the mint
Warden of the Mint
mintmasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mintmaster
lunulet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lunulets
Etymology: From lunule + -et.
Senses: examples: text: the lunulet on the wings of many insects
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A small crescent-shaped spot, found on some animals.
lunulets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lunulet
octoradiated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From octo- + radiated.
Senses: glosses: Having eight rays.
silkness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From silk + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: your silknesse Clearly mistakes Mecænas and his house
ref: 1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: The imperious duchess had the eyes of a dove, and the mouth of a child; and the hair had that soft glossy silkness which I fancy usually belongs to a gentle and sensitive temperament.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Chapter XXVI. Lady Marchmont to Sir Jasper Meredith.”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 237:
glosses: silkiness
unflesh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unfleshes
form: unfleshing
form: unfleshed
form: unfleshed
Etymology: From un- + flesh.
Senses: examples: text: Skeleton of unfleshed humanity.
ref: 1827, William Wordsworth, Address to Kilchurn Castle, upon Loch Awe:
glosses: To strip of flesh.
To reduce to a skeleton.
glosses: To strip of flesh.
To remove or consume the fleshy part of.
unfleshes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unflesh
unfleshing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unflesh
exemplifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exemplifiable
form: most exemplifiable
Etymology: From exemplify + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be exemplified.
Derived terms: unexemplifiable
imitancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin imitans, present participle of imitare.
Senses: examples: text: Or, the servile imitancy, and yet also a nobler relationship and mysterious union to one another which lies in such imitancy, of Mankind might be illustrated under the different figure (itself nowise original) of a Flock of Sheep.
ref: 1832, Thomas Carlyle, Boswell's Life of Johnson:
glosses: Tendency to imitation.