cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
assemblaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assemblaunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of assemblance.
avengeaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of avengeance.
bobaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of bobance.
chevisaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chevisaunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of chevisance.
chauncellor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chauncellors
Senses: examples: text: We have in the Wiſedome and Dexteritie of, our right truſty and wellbeloved Counſellor, Thomas Lord Elleſmere, and for certen other eſpeciall Cauſes Us moving, have given and graunted unto the ſaid Thomas Lord Elleſmere the Office of our Lord Chauncellor of England, and given Aucthority to the ſaid Lord Elleſmere to heare examyne and determyne Cauſes Matters and Suytes as ſhall happen to bee, as well in our Chauncery as in our Starchamber, like as the Chauncellor of England or Keeper of the Greate Seale of England, [...]
ref: 1603, Thomas Rymer, Robert Sanderson, “De Liberatura pro Domino Cancellario Angliæ”, in Fœdera, Conventiones, Literæ, et Cujuscunque Generis Acta Publica, inter Regis Angliæ, […], 2nd edition, book XVI, London: Per J[acob] Tonson, published 1727, →OCLC, page 541, column 1:
glosses: Obsolete form of chancellor.
cognizaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cognizaunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of cognizance.
complaisaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of complaisance.
countenaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countenaunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of countenance.
countenaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: countenaunces
form: countenauncing
form: countenaunced
form: countenaunced
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of countenance.
Chicago-style hot dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chicago-style hot dogs
Senses: examples: text: Chicago has a major influence on flavored foods of the Midwest. It’s the home of deep dish-style pizza and the Italian beef sandwich. It’s also the home of the famous frank known as the Chicago-style hot dog. Based on a Vienna all-beef frank, this distinguished dog is typically steamed and served in a warm poppy seed bun topped with mustard, sweet pickle relish, chopped onion, tomato wedges or slices, sport peppers, and a dill pickle spear, then finished off with a dash of celery salt
ref: 2007, Becky Mercuri, The Great American Hot Dog Book: Recipes and Side Dishes from Across America, Gibbs Smith:
glosses: A beef hot dog served with mustard, onion, relish, peppers, tomato, and a pickle on a poppy seed bun.
Related terms: Chicago-style relish
distaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more distaunt
form: most distaunt
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of distant.
Chicago dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chicago dogs
Senses: glosses: A Chicago-style hot dog
Chicago dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chicago dog
dystaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dystaunt
form: most dystaunt
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of distant.
dystant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dystant
form: most dystant
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of distant.
Chicago-style hot dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chicago-style hot dog
assistaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assistaunts
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of assistant.
defendaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: defendaunts
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of defendant.
complainaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: complainaunts
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of complainant.
accomptaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accomptaunts
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of accomptant.
constauntly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more constauntly
form: most constauntly
Etymology: From constaunt + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of constantly.
displeasaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more displeasaunt
form: most displeasaunt
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of displeasant.
fragraunt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fragraunt
form: most fragraunt
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of fragrant.
merchaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merchaunts
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of merchant.
merchaundise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merchaundises
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of merchandise.
merchaundize
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merchaundizes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of merchandise.
passaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of passant.
pleasauntly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pleasauntly
form: most pleasauntly
Etymology: From pleasaunt + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of pleasantly.
servaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: servaunts
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of servant.
servaunts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of servaunt
tenaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenaunts
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of tenant.
tennaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tennaunts
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of tenant.
resiaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resiaunts
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of resiant.
semblaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semblaunts
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of semblant.
obeisaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more obeisaunt
form: most obeisaunt
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of obeisant.
obeysant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more obeysant
form: most obeysant
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of obeisant.
obeysaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more obeysaunt
form: most obeysaunt
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of obeisant.
variaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more variaunt
form: most variaunt
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of variant.
warraunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warraunts
Senses: examples: text: And also be in enactid by the auctorite aforseid that no manꝰ [man's] clerke or clerkes or other parsone or parsones do wryte or make any maner of wryting warraunt or warrauntes, upon any maner gyfte or graunte made by the Kynges Highnes or by any other his Gracys offycers as aforsaide, […]
ref: 1535–1536, “Chapter XI. An Acte Conc̉nynge Clerkes of the Signet and Privie Seale. [27 Henry VIII., c. 11]”, in The Statutes, revised edition, volumes I (Henry III. to James II. A.D. 1235–6 – 1685), London: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, printers to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, published 1870, →OCLC, page 458:
text: A Warraunt to Sir Edmond Peckham Knight, for twenty Pounds to be delivered to Fraunces Pitche, being ſent with Lettres to the Quene's Ambaſſador reſydent with the Frenche King.
ref: 1553 September 24, “State Papers in the Reign of Queen Mary”, in Samuel Haynes, editor, A Collection of State Papers, Relating to Affairs in the Reigns of King Henry VIII. King Edward VI. Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth, from the Year 1542 to 1570. […], London: Printed by William Bowyer, published 1740, →OCLC, page 187:
glosses: Obsolete form of warrant.
warraunt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: warraunts
form: warraunting
form: warraunted
form: warraunted
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of warrant.
kohanim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kohen
cohanim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cohen
lieutenaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lieutenaunts
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of lieutenant.
inchaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inchaunts
form: inchaunting
form: inchaunted
form: inchaunted
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of enchant.
enchaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enchaunts
form: enchaunting
form: enchaunted
form: enchaunted
Senses: examples: text: Enchaunt me with your spells of art, / And draw me homeward to your heart: / Till weariness and things unkind / Seem but a vain and passing wind: […]
ref: 1890, Lionel Johnson, “Oxford Nights”, in Poems, London: Elkin Mathews; Boston, Mass: Copeland & Day, published 1895, page 87:
glosses: Obsolete form of enchant.
abundaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more abundaunt
form: most abundaunt
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of abundant.
habundaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more habundaunt
form: most habundaunt
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of abundant.
adamaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more adamaunt
form: most adamaunt
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of adamant.
Stryker
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Strykers
Etymology: * (surname):
* (gurney): Genericization of a trademark. From the name of the Stryker Corporation, which manufactured several gurneys in this style. From the name of the founder of the company, Homer Stryker.
* (armoured vehicle): Originating from 2002, named for two Americans who posthumously received the Medal of Honor: PFC Stuart S. Stryker, who died in World War II, and SP4 Robert F. Stryker, who died in the Vietnam War.
Senses: glosses: A surname
Derived terms: stryker
Strykers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Stryker
enstaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of instance.
Isaack
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A rare spelling variant of Isaac.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
pregnaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pregnaunt
form: most pregnaunt
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of pregnant.
drier than a dead dingo's donger
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of dry as a dead dingo's donger: more dry as a dead dingo's donger
bezaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bezaunts
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of bezant.
æquiponderant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of equiponderant.
journall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more journall
form: most journall
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of journal.
journall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: journalls
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of journal.
appurtenaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more appurtenaunt
form: most appurtenaunt
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of appurtenant.
appurtenaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: appurtenaunts
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of appurtenant.
arraunt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more arraunt
form: most arraunt
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of arrant.
erraunt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more erraunt
form: most erraunt
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of errant.
attendaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more attendaunt
form: most attendaunt
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of attendant.
attendaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attendaunts
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of attendant.
concordaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more concordaunt
form: most concordaunt
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of concordant.
conversaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more conversaunt
form: most conversaunt
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of conversant.
covenaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: covenaunts
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of covenant.
covenaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: covenaunts
form: covenaunting
form: covenaunted
form: covenaunted
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of covenant.
disadvauntage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disadvauntages
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of disadvantage.
discordaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more discordaunt
form: most discordaunt
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of discordant.
dormaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of dormant.
encantation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encantations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of incantation.
enchauntress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enchauntresses
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of enchantress.
gallaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gallaunt
form: most gallaunt
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of gallant.
gallaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gallaunts
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of gallant.
giaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of giant.
giaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giaunts
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of giant.
inconstaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inconstaunt
form: most inconstaunt
Etymology: From in- + constaunt.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of inconstant.
infaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infaunts
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of infant.
instaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more instaunt
form: most instaunt
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of instant.
Derived terms: instauntly
instauntly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From instaunt + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of instantly.
enstantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of instantly.
instantlie
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of instantly.
miscreaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more miscreaunt
form: most miscreaunt
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of miscreant.
miscreaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miscreaunts
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of miscreant.
pageaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pageaunts
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of pageant.
pendaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pendaunts
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of pendant.
perseveraunt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more perseveraunt
form: most perseveraunt
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of perseverant.
quadraunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadraunts
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of quadrant.
rampaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rampaunt
form: most rampaunt
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of rampant.
remnaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remnaunts
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of remnant.
tyraunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tyraunts
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of tyrant.
valiaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more valiaunt
form: most valiaunt
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of valiant.
vauntage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vauntages
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of vantage.
glistring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more glistring
form: most glistring
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of glistering.
fuzzies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fuzzy
inferiourity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of inferiority.
superiourity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of superiority.
strophium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strophiums
Etymology: From Latin strophium, from Ancient Greek στρόφιον (stróphion).
Senses: synonyms: breaststrap
breastband
glosses: A band worn around the breasts, serving as a form of bra in ancient times.
makgeolli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: makkoli
Etymology: From Korean 막걸리 (makgeolli).
Senses: glosses: A traditional alcoholic beverage in Korea, made of rice.
tetrathecal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tetra- + thecal.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having four thecae.
Turanian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Touranian
Etymology: From Turan + -ian. Use picked up in the mid 1800s, peaking in the late 1800s before dropping off in the mid 1900s.
Senses: examples: text: The first written book which has come down to us in the Japanese, or indeed in any Turanian tongue, is the Kojiki or “Records of Ancient Matters,” which was completed A.D. 712.
ref: 1899, William George Aston, A History of Japanese Literature, page 18:
glosses: Of or pertaining to Turan.
examples: text: The Esthonians of Russia, who, like the Magyars, belong to the great Turanian family of mankind.
ref: 1900, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 3, page 278:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Turanians.
Turanian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Turanians
form: Touranian
Etymology: From Turan + -ian. Use picked up in the mid 1800s, peaking in the late 1800s before dropping off in the mid 1900s.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
qualifier: racial theories
glosses: A member of any of the Asian peoples who speak Uralic or Altaic (or Turan) languages.
Turanian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Touranian
Etymology: From Turan + -ian. Use picked up in the mid 1800s, peaking in the late 1800s before dropping off in the mid 1900s.
Senses: glosses: A proposed language family (now generally rejected) encompassing the Uralic and Altaic languages; Ural-Altaic.
Turanians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Turanian
briefman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: briefmen
Etymology: From brief + -man.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Someone who makes a brief.
synonyms: copyist
glosses: A copier of a manuscript, especially the Bible.
briefmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of briefman
committable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more committable
form: most committable
form: committible
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English committable. By surface analysis, commit + -able.
Senses: examples: text: committable patient
glosses: Capable of being committed.
examples: text: committable message
text: committable sub-transaction
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Able to be committed as a transaction; able to be implemented as a whole or rolled back as a whole, so that no partial implementation can occur.
Derived terms: committability
uncommittable
equirotal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From equi- + rotal.
Senses: glosses: Having wheels of the same size or diameter; having equal rotation.
piledrive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: piledrives
form: piledriving
form: piledrove
form: piledriven
Etymology: From pile + drive.
Senses: examples: text: So we would take a twenty-five-ton — or maybe it was twelve and a half, I don't recall — airhammer and piledrive that sonofabitch into place.
ref: 1993, Archie Green, Wobblies, pile butts, and other heroes: laborlore explorations, page 372:
text: Piledrive a secondary cutoff wall, cover it with a fifty-foot core of impervious fill, then replace the dredged material in a gentler slope; […]
ref: 1997, Ivan Doig, Bucking the Sun: A Novel, page 389:
text: Wang is inspired by remembering an improvised piledriver he had managed to rig together when he had helped blow up a bridge during the Korean War; he then uses the same technique to piledrive the foundations for the Nanjing bridge.
ref: 2004, Rana Mitter, A bitter revolution: China's struggle with the modern world, page 236:
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: To use a piledriver on.
examples: text: "Any wrestler who will piledrive Lawler and injure him like he did me gets five thousand dollars from me!"
ref: 2002, Jerry Lawler, Doug Asheville, It's Good to Be the King...Sometimes, page 199:
text: Anyway, back in the ring, Jericho works on the cut, but Shawn fights off both guys and tries to piledrive Jericho on the grating. Jericho reverses as the match kind of drifts along without a purpose.
ref: 2004, Scott Keith, Wrestling's One Ring Circus, page 114:
text: As a tribute to the burgeoning popularity of hardcore wrestling, Jerry agreed to piledrive someone through a wooden table to the concrete below.
ref: 2006, Brian Fritz, Christopher Murray, Between the Ropes: Wrestling's Greatest Triumphs and Failures, page 70:
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: To use the piledriver move.
examples: text: So I switched into doggie style, which gives me my piledriving ability, but after a while my knee began to hurt ... I can pile-drive forever, and if I don't go off, what the hell do I care?
ref: 1993, Robert J. Stoller, Porn: Myths for the Twentieth Century, page 50:
text: When she thinks of having him inside her, her pussy grips and pulses like the mouth of a child that hasn't been fed. ... What begins as a languid glide accelerates into the stomping/pounding/piledriving frenzy of a mosh pit.
ref: 1996, Maxim Jakubowski, The Mammoth Book of International Erotica, page 570:
text: He proceeded to piledrive his cock down into me with long, deep strokes, all the time reminding me who was in charge […]
ref: Dance of the Ravishers (page 44)
text: “Ohh!” she squealed as Mark's hips continued to piledrive his prick into her rectum, which now had a loose-floating, rubbery-feeling area involved with the plunging cock-head.
ref: 2006, Rod Waleman, The Stepdaughters, page 128:
topics: lifestyle
sex
sexuality
glosses: To make deep and rapid penetration in the fashion of a piledriver.
Related terms: piledriver
piledriven
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of piledrive
piledrove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of piledrive
piledriving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪvɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: Here the essential elements of the piledriving machine are present: a pair of leads, a ram moving between them
ref: 1913, Engineering news-record, volume 70:
text: So I switched into doggie style, which gives me my piledriving ability, but after a while my knee began to hurt ... I can pile-drive forever, and if I don't go off, what the hell do I care?
ref: 1993, Robert J. Stoller, Porn: Myths for the Twentieth Century, page 50:
glosses: present participle and gerund of piledrive
piledriving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪvɪŋ
Senses: glosses: The action of driving piles into the ground with a piledriver.
piledriving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪvɪŋ
Forms: form: more piledriving
form: most piledriving
Senses: examples: text: The Nazareth specialty seems to be pile-driving cover versions of subdued folkie fare like Tim Rose's "Morning Dew," Joni Mitchell's "This Flight Tonight," Bob Dylan's "The Ballad Of Hollis Brown" (which they worked into a nine-minute metallic frenzy), and, of course, "Love Hurts."
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 238:
text: The remainder of the set wasn't in cruise control either. "Julius" was infectuous, filled to the brim with kinetic energy, and "The Horse/Silent In The Morning" not only contained an inflective tone, but was just the right thing to catch my breath. I'm glad I did, as the quartet followed with a piledriving "Reba" whose big jam contained a wealth of interplay and multi-colored passages.
ref: 1994 November 2, John J. Wood, “Another Halloween review”, in rec.music.phish (Usenet):
text: Screaming slide guitar, great songs and tunes, a piledriving rhythm section, superb melodeon and violin.
ref: 2000 November 27, Jon, “LJE Live at Cropredy CD”, in uk.music.folk (Usenet):
glosses: Forceful, walloping, hard-hitting
bidigitate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + digitate.
Senses: glosses: Having two fingers or finger-like projections.
ignitible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ignite + -ible.
Senses: synonyms: ignitable
glosses: Capable of being ignited.
Derived terms: nonignitible
unignitible
inerrableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inerrable + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: And so in that they may define dogmatically, not from any opinion of their own universal inerrableness, but from a duly grounded persuasion that for this time they are in the right
ref: 1656, Henry Hammond, A Parænesis, or Seasonable Exhortatory to All True Sons of the Church of England:
glosses: Exemption from error; infallibility.
intermural
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪntɚˈmjuːɹəl/
Forms: form: intermurals
Etymology: From Latin intermūrālis. By surface analysis, inter- + mural.
Senses: examples: text: The fellows worked hard in the Intermurals under Joe Jackson's leadership, but the loss of some good men at the wrong time hurt. The Club ended the year in third place.
ref: 1944, The Utah Juniper, page 8:
text: They were then very surprised when they found out that, as students at a school for the deaf, they were not able to play in the prefectural intermurals against other schools.
ref: 2006, Karen Nakamura, Deaf in Japan: Signing and the Politics of Identity, page 67:
text: Intermurals and club sports are also a big part of campus life.
ref: 2011, Marshal Yong, Steve Krakauer, Syracuse University 2012:
text: Intermurals, or competition between teams from different facilities, occur when schedules are developed that enable participants to engage peers outside of the local playground or center.
ref: 2011, Jay Shivers, Programming Recreational Services, page 251:
glosses: A (usually sport) competition between teams from separate organizations.
examples: text: Theoretically each team is supposed to fight as hard as possible for its side in the congressional intermurals .
ref: 1967, Marjorie Ewing Aghassi, Little Legislatures, page 375:
text: In addition to these intermurals, a girls' basketball program teaches the fundamentals of the sport.
ref: 1990, Drug Information & Strategy Clearinghouse (U.S.), United States. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development. Office for Drug-Free Neighborhoods, Home front:
text: As you know, we have had some ongoing intermurals relative to Radio Marti and TV Marti, and there has been a vanguard of opposition in the minority because we have had to put this to a vote in both Houses from time to time.
ref: 1994, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies, Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations, Fiscal Year 1995, 103d Congress, Second Session, H.R. 4603, page 787:
text: Second , you have to understand, again, the point I tried to make was that it creates intermurals that ultimately are bad for the system .
ref: 1996, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Financial Services. Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Securities, and Government Sponsored Enterprises, Oversight Hearing on the Federal Home Loan Bank System, page 69:
glosses: A competition between teams from within the same organization.
examples: text: The back wall of the workshop was taken up by a glass door, and behind it lay a small stone-paved garden, one of the tiny and fortuitous intermurals whose charm is London's secret.
ref: 1993, Janina Kościałkowska, Beech Boat, page 41:
glosses: An intermural yard; a walled garden.
Related terms: word: intermure
multiflue
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + flue.
Senses: examples: text: a multiflue boiler
text: multiflue pipe
text: multiflue coupling
text: multiflue stack
glosses: Having many flues.
Whigling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Whiglings
Etymology: From Whig + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: It certainly not wise or liberal[…]to abuse the Whigs and Whiglings as coarsely as Mr. Odger did
ref: 1870 February 19, The Spectator:
glosses: A petty or inferior Whig.
Whiglings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Whigling
impearl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)l
Forms: form: impearls
form: impearling
form: impearled
form: impearled
Etymology: From im- + pearl.
Senses: examples: text: Virgins of equall birth, [...] / Shall draw thy picture, and record thy life; / One ſhall enſphere thine eyes, another ſhall / Impearl thy teeth[,] a third thy white and ſmall / Hand ſhall beſnow, a fourth incarnadine / Thy roſie cheek, [...]
ref: 1640 (first publication), Thomas Carew, “Obsequies to the Lady Anne Hay”, in Poems, with a Maske, […], 3rd edition, London: […] H[umphrey] M[oseley] and are to be sold by J[ohn] Martin, […], published 1651, →OCLC, page 91:
text: Or Starrs of Morning, Dew-Drops, which the Sun / Impearls on every leaf and every flouer.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book CXLII”, 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, lines 743–744:
glosses: To form into pearls, or make pearly.
examples: text: The Devvs of the Morning impearl every Thorn, and ſcatter Diamonds on the verdant Mantle of the Earth.
ref: 1722 October 21 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Alexander Pope, “To the Same [Letter to the Honourable Robert Digby, from Mr. Pope]”, in Mr Pope’s Literary Correspondence for Thirty Years; from 1704 to 1734. […], volume I, London: […] E[dmund] Curll, […], published 1735, →OCLC, page 142:
text: Then I, long tried / By natural ills, received the comfort fast, / While budding at thy sight, my pilgrim's staff / Gave out green leaves with morning dews impearled.
ref: 1850, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Future and Past”, in Poems. […], new edition, volume I, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 362:
text: On life's long round by chance I found / A dell impearled with dew, / Where hyacinths, gushing from the ground, / Lent to the earth heaven's native hue / Of holy blue.
ref: 1889, Mathilde Blind, “[Love in Exile. Song X.] ‘On Life’s Long Round’.”, in The Ascent of Man, London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, stanza 1, page 177:
glosses: To decorate as if with pearls.
impearled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of impearl
impearling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of impearl
impearls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of impearl
piledrives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of piledrive
descendingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From descending + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: arrange the data descendingly
glosses: In a descending manner or order.
reclaimless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reclaimless
form: most reclaimless
Etymology: From reclaim + -less.
Senses: examples: text: a reclaimless liar
glosses: That can not be cured or improved; irremediable; pathological
subpericardial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + pericardial.
Senses: examples: text: subpericardial fat
text: subpericardial plexus
text: subpericardial tissue
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated under the pericardium.
planometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From plano- + -metry.
Senses: glosses: The measurement or construction of a plane surface.
Related terms: planometer
planimetry
postdiluvian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -uːviən
Forms: form: more postdiluvian
form: most postdiluvian
Etymology: From post- + diluvian.
Senses: glosses: postdiluvial
postdiluvian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːviən
Forms: form: postdiluvians
Etymology: From post- + diluvian.
Senses: glosses: One who lived after the Biblical Flood.
postdiluvians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postdiluvian
binervate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + nerve (“a leaf vein”) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: The binervate wings of this species are elongated and nearly transparent.
text: (Hookeria laete-virens): stem procumbent, subpinnate; leaves suddenly acuminate, ovate, or ovate-oblong, with a thickened margin, sharply toothed, binervate.
ref: 1863, Miles Joseph Berkeley, Handbook of British Mosses, London: Lovell Reeve & Co., page 68:
text: (Pilotrichella welwitschii): ...the ramuline leaves are spathulate from a contracted base, obsoletely binervate, more longly acuminate, with upper margins involute and serrulate.
(Erythrodontium bicolor): Ramuline leaves, appressed when dry, erecto-patent when wet, 0.85 mm. long by 0.375 mm. wide, from a broad cordate base elliptic-ovate acuminate, slightly hollowed, shortly binervate, with margins erect or slightly recurved, minutely serrulate above middle...
ref: 1901, Antony Gepp, “Mosses”, in Catalogue of the African Plants Collected by Dr. Friedrich Welwitsch in 1853–61, volume II, Part II: Cryptogamia, London: British Museum (Natural History), Department of Botany, pages 292, 298:
text: ...seedlings with two binervate cotyledons.
ref: 1987, Excerpta botanica, Sectio A: Taxonomica et chorologica, volume 48, number 7, Stuttgart, New York: Gustav Fischer Verlag, page 124:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of leaves, wings, etc. having only two nerves or ribs.
avoyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: avoyers
Etymology: Borrowed from French avoyer; see also avoué, avouer.
Senses: examples: text: the avoyer of Bern
text: the avoyer of Lucerne
text: The avoyer in office presided both in the council and senate, in each of which he had no regular, but only a casting vote: the great seal of the republic was in his custody; and a provincial jurisdiction was annexed to his station.
ref: 1800, Joseph Planta, The History of the Helvetic Confederacy, Volume 2, page 257:
text: 1809, Unnamed translator, Lazzaro Spallanzani, Travels in the Two Sicilies and Some Parts of the Apennines, in John Pinkerton, A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World, Volume 5, page 717,
The reigning avoyer, with a ſceptre in his hand, pronounces an harangue; then delivering up the ſceptre and ſeals, reſigns his dignity, and receives the thanks of the aſſembly, by the mouth of the attorney-general, for his zeal and attention during the year of his government.
glosses: A chief magistrate of various free imperial cities or cantons of Switzerland.
avoyers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of avoyer
leavenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leavenous
form: most leavenous
Etymology: From leaven + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Containing leaven.
examples: text: For our Religion where was there a more ignorant, profane, and vitious clergy, learned in nothing but the antiquitie of thir pride, thir covetouſnesſs and ſuperſtition; whoſe unſincere and levenous Doctrine corrupting the people, firſt taught them looſneſs, then bondage
ref: 1649, J[ohn] Milton, chapter IX, in ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC, pages 79–80:
glosses: Inducing change, especially a corrupting or vitiating change.
intransmutable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more intransmutable
form: most intransmutable
Etymology: From in- + transmutable.
Senses: glosses: Not capable of being transmuted, or changed into another substance.
ostensibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being ostensible.
tearpit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tearpits
Etymology: From tear + pit.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: lachrymal sinus
lacrimal sinus
larmier
glosses: A preorbital gland (of many species of deer, antelopes or similar animals)
tearpits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tearpit
brush wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brush wheels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of brushwheel
brush wheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brush wheel
staffish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more staffish
form: most staffish
Senses: examples: text: [A] witte in youth, that is not ouer dulle, heauie, knottie and lumpiſhe, but hard, rough, and though ſomwhat ſtaffiſhe, […] ſuch a witte I ſay, if it be, at the firſt well handled by the mother, and rightlie ſmothed and wrought as it ſhould, not ouerwhartlie, and against the wood, by the ſcholemaſter, both for learning, and hole courſe of liuing, proueth alwaies the beſt.
ref: a. 1569 (date written), Roger Ascham, “The First Booke for the Youth [Teachyng the Brynging vp of Youth]”, in Margaret Ascham, editor, The Scholemaster: Or Plaine and Perfite Way of Teaching Children, to Vnderstand, Write, and Speake, the Latin Tong, […], London: […] John Daye, […], published 1570, →OCLC, folios 5, verso – 6, recto:
glosses: stiff; harsh
filander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filanders
Senses: examples: text: obstinate disease of the filander or back-worm
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A small intestinal worm.
filander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filanders
Etymology: Altered spelling of philander.
Senses: glosses: A pademelon (Thylogale spp.).
tiddliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of tiddly: most tiddly
tiddlies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tiddly
tiddlier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of tiddly: more tiddly
intervertebrally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intervertebral + -ly.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Between the vertebrae.
goutiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goutinesses
Etymology: From gouty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being gouty; gout.
homeoprophylaxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From homeo- + prophylaxis.
Senses: glosses: The use of homeopathy to prevent disease.
homeopathically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: homoeopathically
form: homœopathically
Etymology: From homeopathic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of homeopathy.
Related terms: naturopathically
besmearer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: besmearers
Etymology: From besmear + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who besmears.
besmearers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of besmearer
lavisher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lavishers
Etymology: From lavish + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who lavishes.
lavisher
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lavish + -er.
Senses: glosses: comparative form of lavish: more lavish
lavishers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lavisher
phalangite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfæləndʒaɪt/
Forms: form: phalangites
Etymology: Ultimately from Ancient Greek φαλαγγίτης (phalangítēs), equivalent to phalanx + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A soldier belonging to a phalanx.
glosses: Specifically, a pikeman fighting in a Macedonian phalanx, armed with a two-handed pike and using a smaller shield than the hoplite's aspis.
phalangites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phalangite
roundaboutness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From roundabout + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being roundabout.
classification societies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of classification society
classification society
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: classification societies
Senses: glosses: A non-governmental organization that establishes and maintains technical standards for the construction and operation of ships and offshore structures.
fozy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fozy
form: most fozy
Senses: examples: text: He maun be a saft sap, wi' a head nae better than a fozy frosted turnip—it wad hae ta'en a hantle o' them to scaur Andrew Fairservice out o' his tale.
ref: 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter I, in Rob Roy. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 16:
text: In years when grain was raw and light,
So fozy it would scarcely dight,
I look'd around me, left and right,
⁠As sharp's a razor,
Till I got some unskilful wight
⁠To buy by measure.
ref: 1847, Scoundrel Will's advice to his sons:
text: Just a plain, stout, fozy, sappy burrow-man, keeping a gospel shop, with scarcely so much of a man's parts as will let him fend a blow in the face.
ref: c. 1900, Neil Munro, John Splendid:
glosses: spongy; soft; fat and puffy
Derived terms: foziness
vagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vagous
form: most vagous
Etymology: Latin vagus. See vague.
Senses: examples: text: But such as were born and begot of a single Woman, through a vagous Lust, […]
ref: 1726, John Ayliffe, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: […] who dared to examine their Ways by the Law and by the Testimony when the Reformation of an apparent Error was censur'd as a Practice Heretical and damnable, and all under Pretence of a vagous and uncertain Infallibility […]
ref: 1722, Luke Milbourne, A Legacy to the Church of England:
text: For tho' They discountenance a Vagous Ministry; I presume they only mean in those Parts of the World, where the People are Christianized and Churches gathered.
ref: 1841(?), The American Quarterly Register, volumes 13-14, page 47
glosses: Wandering; unsettled.
ophiophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ophio- (“snake”) + -phagous (“eating”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Feeding on snakes.
superbradyons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superbradyon
letches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of letch
bipetalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + petalous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having two petals.
objectable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more objectable
form: most objectable
Etymology: From object + -able.
Senses: examples: text: It is as objectable against all those things which either native beauty or art affords.
ref: 1656, Discourse of Artificial Handsomeness, attributed to Jeremy Taylor, page 145 (quoted in Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language and The Century Dictionary)
text: Whether any thing truly objectable against any Bishop or Minister of England (as scandalously weak, wicked and unworthy) may not with as much more truth be objected against their severest enemies.
ref: 1659, John Gauden, Ecclesiae Anglicanae Suspiria. The Tears, Sighs, Complaints, and Prayers of the Church of England, Book I, chapter XIV, page 128:
text: The Commission granted to Kidd had nothing in it objectable in point of Law, [...]
ref: 1735, History of England, volume 3, page 205:
glosses: Capable of being put forward as an objection.
examples: text: Here we use the position of each region inside the image, its size, structure and adjacency relations to the other prominent regions or to the background. First we apply a so-called preprocessing step, in which we separate objectable images from non-objectable ones with the meaning of whether or not the given image contains prominent regions.
ref: 2006, Aurélio Campilho, Mohamed Kamel, Image Analysis and Recognition: Third International Conference, →ISBN:
glosses: Capable of being made into or treated as an object (especially by a computer program or programming language).
examples: text: Nothing surely which they did, was more objectable than their Proceedings against Magdalen College[.]
ref: 1701, The Whigs. Thirty Two Queries, and as Many of the Tories in Answer to Them. With a Speech Made at the General Quarter-sessions Held for the County of [Gloucester]. As Also Another Learned Speech Made at the Town-Hall of [Reading]. To which is Added, a Copy of a Late Printed Paper, Pretended to be a Vindication of the Earl of Rochester, page 31:
glosses: Misconstruction of objectionable.
Whitmonday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Whitmondays
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Whit Monday.
Whitmondays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Whitmonday
spurner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spurners
Etymology: From spurn + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who spurns.
spurners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spurner
hardbake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hardbakes
Etymology: From hard + bake.
Senses: examples: text: a washerwoman, who exposes hard-bake for sale in her parlor-window
ref: 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 27, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:
text: They both had a taste for painting theatrical characters; for hard bake and raspberry tarts; for sliding and skating in the Regent's Park and the Serpentine, when the weather permitted; for going to the play, whither they were often conducted, by Mr. Osborne's orders, by Rowson, Master George's appointed body-servant, with whom they sat in great comfort in the pit.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: Harmless improving books were provided for the crew to read, and vanilla ices, sugar-plums, hardbake and raspberry jam were served out every day with a liberal hand.
ref: 1908, William Schwenck Gilbert, The Pinafore Picture Book, Chapter 1:
glosses: A hard confection made of boiled brown sugar or molasses with almonds, flavoured with orange or lemon juice, similar to a nougat.
hardbakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hardbake
oleone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oleum + -one.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An oily liquid obtained by distillation of calcium oleate, and probably consisting of the ketone of oleic acid.
hemispheroid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hemi- + spheroid.
Senses: synonyms: hemispheroidal
glosses: Having a roughly hemispheric shape
hemispheroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemispheroids
Etymology: From hemi- + spheroid.
Senses: glosses: A half of a spheroid.
hemispheroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemispheroid
galloway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galloways
Etymology: Etymology tree
Scottish Gaelic Gall-Ghàidhealaibhbor.
English Galloway
English galloway
From Galloway, Scotland, where they were bred.
Senses: examples: text: but if you have no mercy upon them, yet ſpare your ſelfe, leſt you bejade the good Galloway, your owne opiniaſter Wit,
ref: 1641, John Milton, Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 164:
text: ‘Don't you remember a famous trotting galloway I had, two years ago, that I bought at Tattersall's, that would go fifteen miles within the hour?’
ref: 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 173:
synonyms: cuddy
gallowa
garron
garran
pony
glosses: A kind of small horse originally bred in Galloway, Scotland.
Derived terms: gallowa
Related terms: Gallowa
galloways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galloway