cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sweetwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweetwoods
Etymology: From sweet + wood.
Senses: glosses: The true laurel (Laurus nobilis).
glosses: The timber of the Jamaican tree Oreodaphne leucoxylon, or of various related trees.
glosses: Ocotea floribunda and Ocotea leucoxylon
glosses: Licaria triandra
glosses: Nectandra coriacea
glosses: Sideroxylon salicifolium
sweetwoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sweetwood
sirkeer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sirkeers
Senses: synonyms: sirkeer cuckoo
glosses: Any of several species of Asiatic cuckoos of the genus Taccocua.
sirkeers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sirkeer
dermostoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dermostosis
dermostosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dermostoses
Etymology: From derm- + ostosis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: ossification of the dermis
sheep-faced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sheep-faced
form: most sheep-faced
Senses: glosses: bashful; sheepish
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see having the face of a sheep.
plessimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plessimeters
Senses: glosses: Dated form of pleximeter.
plessimeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plessimeter
santalum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: santalums
Etymology: From Medieval Latin sandalum, santalum. See sandal.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Santalum of trees with entire opposite leaves and small apetalous flowers.
Related terms: santal
santalol
santyl
santalums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of santalum
intercur
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: intercurs
form: intercurring
form: intercurred
form: intercurred
Etymology: From Latin intercurrere. See intercourse.
Senses: examples: text: […]so that there intercur no sin in the acting[…]
ref: 1612–1620, [Miguel de Cervantes], translated by Thomas Shelton, The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] William Stansby, for Ed[ward] Blount and W. Barret, →OCLC:
glosses: To intervene; to come or occur in the meantime.
intercurred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of intercur
intercurring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of intercur
intercurs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of intercur
prodition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəʊˈdɪʃən/
ipa: /pɹoʊˈdɪʃən/
Forms: form: proditions
Etymology: From Latin proditio, from prodere (“to give forth, betray”). Compare Old French prodition.
Senses: glosses: Disclosure.
examples: text: the ruin of the country, and the prodition of their captains
ref: 19 June 1535, unknown, a letter:
glosses: Treachery; treason.
Related terms: proditor
proditorious
proditory
proditions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prodition
postnares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postnaris
postnaris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postnares
Etymology: From post- + naris.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A posterior naris.
Melanochroi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Thomas Henry Huxley; see melanochroic.
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A division of the human population, consisting of the darker-skinned among the white races.
Related terms: Xanthochroi
pseudopodial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudopod + -ial or pseudopodia + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a pseudopod or to pseudopodia.
ersh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ershes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of earsh.
ershes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ersh
sannop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sannops
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of sannup.
sannops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sannop
pleonast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pleonasts
Senses: examples: text: the mellifluous pleonast had done oiling his paradox with fresh polysyllables
ref: 1863, Charles Reade, Hard Cash:
glosses: One who is addicted to pleonasm, or redundancy in speech or writing.
pleonasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pleonast
Sciot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Sciot
form: most Sciot
form: Chiot
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Greek island of Scio (now Chios).
Sciot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sciots
form: Chiot
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Scio; a Chiot
Sciots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sciot
plenarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more plenarily
form: most plenarily
Etymology: From plenary + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a plenary manner.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: In the most complete limiting case.
dispurvey
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /dɪspə(ɹ)ˈveɪ/
Forms: form: dispurveys
form: dispurveying
form: dispurveyed
form: dispurveyed
Etymology: From dis- + purvey: compare Old French desporveoir, French dépourvoir.
Senses: examples: text: They diſpuruey their veſtry of ſuch Treaſure / As they may ſpare, the vvork now being ended / Demand their ſums againe: but out of meaſure / At their requeſt the Monarch ſeemes offended, / And ſaies he meanes to pay them at his pleaſure: […]
ref: 1609, Tho[mas] Heywood, “Canto. 6.”, in Troia Britanica: Or, Great Britaines Troy. […], London: […] W[illiam] Iaggard, →OCLC, stanza 90, page 133:
glosses: To strip of provisions; to disfurnish.
dispurvey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dɪspə(ɹ)ˈveɪ/
Etymology: From dis- + purvey: compare Old French desporveoir, French dépourvoir.
Senses: glosses: dispurveyance
dispurveyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dispurvey
dispurveying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dispurvey
dispurveys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dispurvey
fausen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɔːzən/
Forms: form: fausens
Etymology: Compare Welsh llysowen (“eel”).
Senses: examples: text: The wave-sprung entrails, about which fausens and other fish
Did shoal,
ref: [1611?], Homer, “Book XXI”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:
glosses: A young eel.
fausens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fausen
empight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From em- + pight (“pitched, fixed”).
Senses: examples: text: The wicked steele stayd not till it did light
In his left thigh, and deepely did it thrill;
Exceeding griefe that wound in him empight
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: fixed; settled, placed or fastened
calistheneum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare calisthenics.
Senses: glosses: A gym, especially one for light physical exercise by women and children.
consignified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of consignify
consignifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of consignify
consignify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: consignifies
form: consignifying
form: consignified
form: consignified
Etymology: From con- + signify.
Senses: examples: text: spirits are angels, that is to say messengers: all which words do consignify locality; and locality is dimension; and whatsoever hath dimension, is body, be it never so subtile.
ref: 1640, Thomas Hobbbes, The Elements of Law:
text: The cipher […] only serves to connote and consignify, and to change the value or the figures.
ref: 1786, John Horne Tooke, Epea Pteroenta: or The Diversions of Purley, Part 1:
glosses: To signify or denote in combination with something else; to have a meaning when combined with something else.
Derived terms: consignification
consignifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of consignify
postoblongata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From post- + oblongata.
Senses: examples: text: postoblongata optic nerve
ref: 1893, Burt Green Wilder, Physiology Practicums:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The posterior part of the medulla oblongata.
clamper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clampers
Etymology: From clamp + -er.
Senses: examples: text: If you park your car in a no-parking zone, watch out for clampers.
glosses: One who, or that which, clamps.
examples: 1853-1855, Elisha Kane, Arctic Explorations: the Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin
Both divisions are provided with clampers, to steady them and their sledges on the irregular ice-surfaces […]
synonyms: crampon
creeper
glosses: An attachment with sharp metal prongs, attached to a boot or shoe to enable the wearer to walk securely upon ice.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A circuit that restricts the amplitude of a waveform.
clampers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clamper
clampers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of clamper
appulsion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: appulsions
Etymology: From the Latin appulsiō, from appellō (“I drive or move to”, “I land or put ashore”).
Senses: glosses: A driving or striking against; an appulse.
appulsions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of appulsion
tablement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tablements
Etymology: From Middle English tablement, from Anglo-Norman tablement; equivalent to table + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: When we had fetched therefore a circuit about, we ſat us downe upon the tablements on the South ſide of the temple, nere unto the chappell of Tellus, that is to ſay, the Earth, where we beheld the waters of the Fountain Caſtilius, and the temple of the Muſes, with admiration, […]
ref: 1603, Plutarch, “Why the Prophetesse Pythia Giveth No Answers Now from the Oracle in Verse or Meeter”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, page 1196:
topics: architecture
glosses: A table.
tablements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tablement
sheartail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheartails
Etymology: From shear + tail.
Senses: glosses: The common tern, Sterna hirundo.
glosses: A hummingbird of any of several species of the genus Thaumastura, having a long forked tail.
Derived terms: Lucifer sheartail
Peruvian sheartail
sheartails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sheartail
alloo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: alloos
form: allooing
form: allooed
form: allooed
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of allow.
allooing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of alloo
allooed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of alloo
preceptial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more preceptial
form: most preceptial
Etymology: From precept + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: […] for, brother, men
Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief
Which they themselves not feel; but, tasting it,
Their counsel turns to passion, which before
Would give preceptial medicine to rage […]
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
glosses: preceptive
disobligation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disobligations
Etymology: From dis- + obligation.
Senses: glosses: The act of disobliging.
examples: text: [they] were in truth more offended and incensed with the disgrace and disobligation to the one , than they were pleased with the preferment of the other
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641, Oxford: The Theater:
glosses: A disobliging act; an offence.
examples: text: However the laws were established , yet according as they go off , or go less , or fall into desuetude or disobligation , so the band of conscience grows less , till it be quite eased by abrogation
ref: 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in All Her General Measures; […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] James Flesher, for Richard Royston […], →OCLC:
glosses: Release from obligation.
disobligations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disobligation
anacrotism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈnæk.ɹəˌtɪz.əm/
Etymology: From ana- (“again”) + Ancient Greek κρότος (krótos, “striking”) + -ism.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A secondary notch in the pulse curve, obtained in a sphygmographic tracing, possibly indicative of an abnormal pulse due to heart or arterial issues.
Related terms: anacrotic
dicrotism
petromyzont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petromyzonts
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the family Petromyzontidae of northern lampreys.
petromyzonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petromyzont
puttyroot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puttyroots
form: putty-root
Etymology: From putty + root. First use appears c. 1822 in the writings of the botanist Amos Eaton.
Senses: synonyms: Adam and Eve
glosses: An American orchid (Aplectrum hyemale) whose slender rootstock produces a solid corm filled with glutinous matter.
wikipedia: Amos Eaton
puttyroots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puttyroot
draffish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more draffish
form: most draffish
Etymology: From draff + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Why then prefer ye your draffish ceremonies To the Gospel preaching?
ref: 1538, John Bale, Three Laws:
glosses: worthless; draffy
strumatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more strumatic
form: most strumatic
Senses: synonyms: word: strumous
glosses: scrofulous
ninebark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ninebarks
Etymology: From nine + bark, because the bark separates into many thin layers.
Senses: glosses: Any flowering plant of the genus Physocarpus.
ninebarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ninebark
omphalopsychite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɒmfələˈsaɪkaɪt/
Forms: form: omphalopsychites
Etymology: Borrowed from Byzantine Greek ὀμφαλοψυχίτης (omphalopsukhítēs), from ὀμφαλός (omphalós, “navel”) + ψυχή (psukhḗ, “soul”) + -ίτης (-ítēs, “-ite”), i.e. “one with his soul in his navel”, referring to the practice by some Hesychasts of gazing on the navel as a means to concentrate during meditation. By surface analysis, omphalo- + psych- + -ite.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: A Hesychast.
Derived terms: omphalopsychic
Omphalopsychites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Omphalopsychite
comatulid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comatulids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any crinoid of the genus Antedon or allied genera in order Comatulida; a feather star.
comatulids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comatulid
tricrotism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The condition of the arterial pulse in which there is a triple beat, so that the pulse curve shows two secondary crests in addition to the primary one.
Coordinate terms: monocrotism
dicrotism
polycrotism
Derived terms: tricrotic
Harderian gland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Harderian glands
Etymology: From Harder + -ian, since first described in 1694 by Swiss anatomist Johann Jacob Harder (1656–1711).
Senses: glosses: A gland found within the eye's orbit in vertebrates that possess a nictitating membrane.
supplial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈplaɪəl/
rhymes: -aɪəl
Etymology: From supply + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The supplial of a preposition.
ref: 1877, Fitzedward Hall, On English Adjectives in -able, with Special Reference to Reliable:
glosses: The act of supplying; a supply.
Peorias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Peoria
servomechanistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to servomechanisms.
servomechanical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to servomechanisms.
Related terms: servomechanically
simulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more simulatory
form: most simulatory
Senses: examples: text: Jehoram wisely suspects this flight of the Syrians, to be but simulatory and politic; only to draw Israel out of their city, for the spoil of both
ref: 1612–1626, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volume (please specify |volume=II, V, or VI), London, →OCLC:
glosses: simulated, or capable of being simulated
examples: text: simulatory model
text: simulatory transformations
glosses: Acting as a simulation
bowned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bowne
disappearable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disappearable
form: most disappearable
Etymology: From disappear + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Rabbits are magically disappearable.
glosses: That can be disappeared.
disappearable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disappearables
Etymology: From disappear + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Be prepared to give a discount for special reasons. Watch your merchandise carefully since light fingers sometimes make salables into disappearables.
ref: 1974, Sylvia O'Neill Dorn, The insider's guide to antiques, art, and collectibles:
glosses: Something that can disappear.
serve up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: serves up
form: serving up
form: served up
form: served up
Senses: examples: text: She serves up pizza at nights.
text: let these remain upon a slow fire until they are well set, then break over them seven or eight eggs, as for poaching, and add salt and pepper; cook gently until the yolks are set, but not hard, brown with a salamander, and serve up.
ref: 1842, Gibbons Merle, John Reitch, The Domestic Dictionary and Housekeeper's Manual, page 87:
glosses: To present (food or drink) to those who will consume it; to serve.
examples: text: The cloud storage provider serves up server space.
text: Kyle serves up heroin in northside.
text: I have a plan to serve up revenge on those who wronged me.
text: Mr. Perry is going to serve up an improvement plan that comes from the suits upstairs.
text: Run hg serve inside a repository, and in under a second it will bring up a specialized HTTP server; this will accept connections from any client, and serve up data for that repository until you terminate it.
ref: 2009, Bryan O'Sullivan, Mercurial: The Definitive Guide, →ISBN, page 85:
text: It's inevitable that anything that provides us with such incredible amounts of pleasure and satisfaction is bound to serve up an equal amount of stress.
ref: 2005, Nicole Beland, Girls Seek Bliss: Zen and the Art of Modern Life Maintenance:
glosses: To provide; deliver; inflict; impose.
examples: text: He thought he was about to score, but he served it up to the other team.
text: West served up another fungo pass which Ulrichs flagrantly stole from Minisi on the 4.
ref: 1946 September 13, Lee A Gould, “Princeton 17, Pennsylvania 14”, in Princeton Alumni Weekly, volume 47:
text: Livan Hernandez each allowed a major league-high 34 home runs; they were among the 605 different pitchers who served up long balls in 2007.
ref: 2007, Bryan Tsao, Carolina Bolado, Joe Distelheim, The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2008, →ISBN, page 172:
text: Messi was caught in possession by Frank Lampard, who released Ramires, and the reliable Brazilian served up the perfect cross for Drogba to sweep a left-footed finish past Barcelona goalkeeper Victor Valdes.
ref: 2012 April 18, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 1-0 Barcelona”, in BBC Sport:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To pitch, throw, serve, or kick a ball to an opponent so that it is easily hit or intercepted.
claye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of clay.
cleargie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It happened therefore in a rogation weeke that the cleargie going in solemn procession a controversie fell between them about certaine walkes and limits which the one side claimed and the other denied.
ref: 1898, Gleeson White, Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of clergy.
climateric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: It was impossible but that the vast mass must have been subjected to climateric influences; ruptures must surely have taken place at some points.
ref: 1899, Mrs. Cashel Hoey, An Antarctic Mystery:
text: That is, they were dispersed very widely, sent into the various and remote parts of the earth; and their nationality received its being from the latitudes to which the divinely appointed wave of dispersion bore them; and their subsequent racial character was to borrow its tone and color from climateric influences.
ref: 1883, George W. Williams, History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1:
text: He whose laws are everywhere incessantly self executing needs not to select and group and reserve his friends or foes for any climateric catastrophe.
ref: 1880, William Rounseville Alger, The Destiny of the Soul:
glosses: Obsolete form of climacteric.
coarb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coarbs
form: comarb
form: comharb
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish comharba.
Senses: examples: text: These abbots were sometimes bishops; but whether they were bishops or of lower rank in the ministry, their authority was inherent in their office of coarb.
ref: 1920, H. J. Lawlor, St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh:
glosses: The successor to the founder of a religious institution.
glosses: The head of one of the families composing an old Irish sept.
Derived terms: coarbship
coccoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more coccoid
form: most coccoid
Etymology: From coccus + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: ( C ) Field emission SEM image of a coccoid bacterium on a 0.02-µm Anopore filter viewed at a magnification of ×150,000 in the decontaminated ice melt.
ref: 1999 December 10, “Microorganisms in the Accreted Ice of Lake Vostok, Antarctica”, in Science, volume 286, number 5447, →DOI, pages 2144–2147:
glosses: spherical, shaped like a coccus
coccoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coccoids
Etymology: From coccus + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Something with a coccoid shape.
pre-excellency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + excellency.
Senses: examples: text: Miserable man with all his wit cannot in effect goe beyond it: he is embraced, and engaged, and as other creatures of his ranke are, he is subjected in like bondes, and without any prerogative or essential pre-excellencie [translating praeexcellence], what ever Privilege he assume unto himselfe, he is of very meane condition.
ref: , II.12
glosses: Pre-eminent superiority; pre-excellence.
cocoyam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cocoyams
Etymology: From coco + yam, because old cocoyam was planted in coconut groves and resembled yams. New cocoyam was so named because it resembled old cocoyam.
Senses: examples: text: Ampesi, intensely flavored stews or soups, are eaten with fufu, a firm, starchy dumpling made from plantains or cocoyam.
ref: 2007 March 30, “Street Level”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: New cocoyam: Xanthosoma, particularly Xanthosoma sagittifolium, or the edible root of that plant; malanga.
glosses: Old cocoyam: Colocasia esculenta; taro.
Synonyms: word: yautia
word: new cocoyam
word: otoe
word: otoy
word: macabo
word: malanga
word: quequisque
word: taro
word: dasheen
sense: to be sorted
word: tanier
sense: to be sorted
word: tannia
sense: to be sorted
word: tannier
sense: to be sorted
word: taioba
codirect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: codirects
form: codirecting
form: codirected
form: codirected
form: co-direct
Etymology: From co- + direct.
Senses: examples: text: Jones insists he had no warning but does remember Bussert saying at some point, "I think you want to codirect this show."
ref: 1999 October 1, Lewis Lazare, “Dumped/Jumped/Bumped/Bottom Lines”, in Chicago Reader:
text: On the same visit to Oberlin he volunteered to codirect a school production of Tartuffe, in which he also played a bit part that turned out to be fateful.
ref: 2005 May 6, Jeffrey Felshman, “A Neo-Futurist Never Looks Back”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: To direct (an artistic work) with another person.
Related terms: codirection
codirector
coelenteron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coelenterons
form: coelentera
Senses: examples: text: Because dissolved oxygen in the water column is continuous with water in the coelenteron, it may lead to increased oxygen concentration within the coral.
ref: 1999 February 5, I. Fagoonee et al., “The Dynamics of Zooxanthellae Populations: A Long-Term Study in the Field”, in Science, volume 283, number 5403, →DOI, pages 843–845:
glosses: The body cavity of a coelenterate.
coine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coines
Senses: examples: text: XXVII And greedy Avarice by him did ride, 235 Upon a Camell[*] loaden all with gold; Two iron coffers hong on either side, With precious mettall full as they might hold; And in his lap an heape of coine he told; For of his wicked pelfe his God he made, 240 And unto hell him selfe for money sold; Accursed usurie was all his trade, And right and wrong ylike in equall ballaunce waide.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, published 1921:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of coin.
combustibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more combustibly
form: most combustibly
Etymology: From combustible + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: So it's not surprising that Terry McCabe's theatrically assured, combustibly comic staging is superior to Borealis Theatre's revival two months ago.
ref: 2003 November 28, Lawrence Bommer, “The Play's the Thing”, in Chicago Reader:
text: All at once holding his sides, he found a little breath and cried combustibly: "A can-can!"
ref: 1913, Owen Johnson, Murder in Any Degree:
glosses: in a combustible manner
commentatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more commentatory
form: most commentatory
Senses: examples: text: It is a thoughtless scattering of acceptable words and is as unlike the review conceived as a portrait as is the hostile kind of commentatory review which I have been discussing.
ref: 1921, Robert Lynd, The Art of Letters:
text: The latter has a commentatory letter to this end, from Gen. Jackson, dated the 19th of March, which denotes an interest on this topic that argues favorably of his views of moral things. "
ref: 1851, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers:
glosses: of or relating to a commentary
cocoyams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cocoyam
cocounsels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cocounsel
Meccawee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Meccawees
Senses: glosses: Meccan (native or inhabitant of Mecca)
Meccawees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Meccawee
preemptioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preemptioners
Etymology: From preemption + -er.
Senses: examples: text: A title under a preemption claim ,writing to pay to the preemptioner a sum of Held, better than one claimed through a New money as a part of the price for which the Madrid certificate
ref: 1867, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Digest of the Reports of the United States Courts and Acts of Congress:
glosses: One who holds a prior right to purchase certain public land.
preemptioners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preemptioner
titanotherium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: titanotheriums
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Τιτάν (Titán, “Titan”) + translingual -therium.
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of brontotheriid.
synonyms: word: brontotheriid
titanotheriums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of titanotherium
erogation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erogations
Etymology: From Latin erogatio.
Senses: examples: text: Albeit some think such manner of erogation not to be worthy the name of Liberality
ref: 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →OCLC:
glosses: The act of giving out or bestowing.
Related terms: erogate
erogations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of erogation
sanguified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sanguify
sanguifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sanguify
sanguify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sanguifies
form: sanguifying
form: sanguified
form: sanguified
Etymology: From sangui- + -fy, from Latin sanguis (“blood”). Compare French sanguifier.
Senses: glosses: To produce blood (from).
sanguifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sanguify
phyllodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phyllody
phyllody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phyllodies
Etymology: See phyllodium.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: phyllomorphy
glosses: The abnormal development of floral parts into leafy structures.
program guides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of program guide
pulvinic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulvinic acids
Etymology: Anagram of vulpinic acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid obtained by the decomposition of vulpic acid.
potabilization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The purifying of water to make it safe to drink.
orewood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orewoods
Senses: examples: text: The Soile for the moſt part is lifted vp into many hilles, parted aſunder vvith narrovv and ſhort vallies, and a ſhallovv earth doth couer their out-ſide, vvhich by a Sea-vveede called Orevvood, and a certaine kinde of fruitfull Sea-ſand, they make ſo ranke and batten, as is vncredible.
ref: 1627, John Speed, “Cornwall”, in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland Described and Abridged. […], London: […] Georg Humble […], →OCLC, signature [D6], verso, paragraph 3:
glosses: Obsolete form of oarweed.
orewoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orewood
plagihedral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plagihedral
form: most plagihedral
Etymology: Ancient Greek [Term?] oblique + base, seat.
Senses: topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having an oblique spiral arrangement of planes, as in levogyrate and dextrogyrate crystals.
entheastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more entheastic
form: most entheastic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐνθεαστικός (entheastikós, “inspired”), from ἔνθεος (éntheos).
Senses: glosses: Of godlike energy; inspired.
Derived terms: entheastically
Related terms: entheal
enthusiastic
pompholyx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pompholix
Etymology: From Latin pompholyx, from Ancient Greek πομφόλυξ (pomphólux, “a bubble; the slag on the surface of smelted ore”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: dyshidrosis
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: impure zinc oxide
Derived terms: cheiropompholyx
podopompholyx
gymnodont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gymnodonts
Etymology: From gymno- + -odont.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of a former family of plectognath fishes (Gymnodontes), having the teeth and jaws consolidated into one or two bony plates on each jaw.
gymnodonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gymnodont
text hand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: text hands
Senses: examples: text: write in text hand
glosses: A style of large handwriting, often in uppercase letters, formerly used for the text of a book, contrasting with the smaller hand used for the notes.
Coordinate terms: large hand
small hand
text hands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of text hand
Weaver
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwivɚ/
Etymology: See weaver.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as an occupation for a weaver.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Calhoun County, Alabama.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Yavapai County, Arizona.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Grant County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An abandoned settlement in Douglas County, Kansas, a victim of frequent flooding.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Wabasha County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Randolph County, West Virginia.
glosses: A river in Cheshire, England.
Derived terms: Sutton Weaver
Weaverville
oak fern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oak ferns
form: oakfern
Senses: glosses: A fern of genus Gymnocarpium (syn. Thelypteris) which grows on trees, especially Gymnocarpium dryopteris.
glosses: A bat's wing fern (Histiopteris incisa)
examples: text: Why say we, that […] to know the vertue of Reubarb, qualitie of Oak ferne, and operation of Polipodie, is only peculiar unto man?
ref: , II.12
glosses: Synonym of common polypody (Polypodium vulgare), a fern formerly thought to have medicinal properties when found growing on an oak.
synonyms: word: common polypody
extra: (Polypodium vulgare), a fern formerly thought to have medicinal properties when found growing on an oak
hippophagism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hippophage + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: In Germany, he [Satan] has a horse's and not a cloven foot, because the horse was a frequent pagan sacrifice, and therefore associated with devil-worship under the new dispensation. Hence the horror of hippophagism which some French gastronomes are striving to overcome.
ref: 1870, James Russell Lowell, “Witchcraft”, in Among My Books, Boston, Mass.: Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, pages 109–110:
glosses: The eating of horsemeat.
stuckle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stuckles
Etymology: From stook.
Senses: examples: text: stuckles of corn
glosses: A number of sheaves set together in the field; a stook.
stuckles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stuckle
hockamore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From German Hochheimer (“from Hochheim”), a Hobson-Jobson from the name of the German town of Hochheim am Main.
Senses: examples: text: Restor'd the fainting high and mighty / With brandy-wine and aqua-vitae; / And made 'em stoutly overcome / With bachrach, hockamore, and mum;
ref: c. 1660–1680, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part III, canto III:
glosses: A Rhenish white wine.
Derived terms: hock
roundtripping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of roundtrip
roundtripped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of roundtrip
rysimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rysimeters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rhysimeter.
rysimeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rysimeter
scrophulariaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Scrophulariaceae + -ous
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the family Scrophulariaceae of figworts.
chromoleucite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromoleucites
Etymology: From chromo- + leucite.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A chromoplastid.
chromoleucites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chromoleucite
courtsey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: courtseys
Senses: examples: text: Addio!" and with a mocking courtsey she left the room, and going to her chamber wrote to Bessie that she was coming home immediately.
ref: 1888, Mary J. Holmes, Bessie's Fortune:
text: Lady Elizabeth as usual passed by without a contribution, but made a formal courtsey to the elder at the plate, and sailed up the aisle.
ref: 1874, Edward Bannerman Ramsay, Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character:
text: Clam jumped up, and crossing her hands on her breast dropped a brisk little courtsey to her benefactor.
ref: 1856, Susan Warner, Hills of the Shatemuc:
glosses: Archaic spelling of curtsey.
crackt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: If a man can prove that his upper story is crackt, he can wallop his wife to his heart's content; and if anybody interferes, he can popp him off with a six shooter, and the law will stand to his back.
ref: 1870, Various, Punchinello, Vol. 2, No. 27, October 1, 1870:
text: 4 He liues, (quoth he) and boasteth of the fact, Ne yet hath any knight his courage crackt. 6 Where may that treachour then (said he) be found, Or by what meanes may I his footing tract?
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: His wife (having invented a present shift) laughed on her husband, saying: What marchant I pray you have you brought home hither, to fetch away my tub for five pence, for which I poore woman that sit all day alone in my house have beene proffered so often seaven: her husband being well apayed of her words demanded what he was that had bought the tub: Looke (quoth she) he is gone under, to see where it be sound or no: then her lover which was under the tub, began to stirre and rustle himselfe, and because his words might agree to the words of the woman, he sayd: Dame will you have me tell the truth, this tub is rotten and crackt as me seemeth on every side.
ref: 1566, William Adlington, The Golden Asse:
glosses: simple past and past participle of crack
suprailia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suprailium
suprailium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪliəm
Forms: form: suprailia
Etymology: From supra- + ilium.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The cartilaginous cap at the sacral end of the ilium in humans, and some animals.
Derived terms: suprailiac
cumulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: On the two albums he's made with his Electro-Acoustic Ensemble, Toward the Margins and the new Drawn Inward (both just released, strangely, on ECM), Parker, Guy, Lytton, and violinist Phil Wachsmann improvise cumulous swirls of sound that get processed by electronicists Lawrence Casserley, Walter Prati, and Marco Vecchi and then folded back into the din--yet the saxist's grainy, concentrated melodic tendrils and patiently etched arcs are immediately recognizable.
ref: 2000 April 7, Peter Margasak, “Evan Parker & Ned Rothenberg”, in Chicago Reader:
text: The opportunity offered in the film-like cirrus clouds, which so frequently lie as the background to the more positive forms of the cumulous, for securing the oppositional feeling, is one frequently adopted by sky painters.
ref: 1903, Henry Rankin Poore, Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures:
text: Far off on the horizon the cumulous clouds lay with level under-ridges, their upper outlines softly heaped in pearly lights and shades of dun and gray.
ref: 1899, Lily Dougall, The Mormon Prophet:
text: Along its eastern margin rises the mighty Sierra, miles in height, reposing like a smooth, cumulous cloud in the sunny sky, and so gloriously colored, and so luminous, it seems to be not clothed with light, but wholly composed of it, like the wall of some celestial city.
ref: 1894, John Muir, The Mountains of California:
synonyms: cumular
glosses: Of or relating to a cumulus cloud.
auldest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: And, in the third place (for I'll speak the truth and shame the deil) as I could not thole the gibes and idle tongues of a wheen fools that, for their diversion, would be asking me, "How the wife and bairns were; and if I had sent my auldest laddie to the school yet?"
ref: 1895, D. M. Moir, The Life of Mansie Wauch:
text: Greed is envy's auldest brither: scraggy wark they mak thegither.
ref: 1868, Alexander Hislop, The Proverbs of Scotland:
glosses: superlative form of auld: most auld
ejectives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /iˈd͡ʒɛktɪvz/
rhymes: -ɛktɪvz
Senses: glosses: plural of ejective
mixmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mixmasters
Etymology: From mix + master.
Senses: examples: text: And though self-styled Scratch protege Fraser, who will also be on hand for this concert, is competent, he isn't half the mixmaster Perry once was.
ref: 1997 November 7, John Corbett, “Lee "Scratch" Perry”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An expert disk jockey.
examples: text: Iowa Department of Transportation plans to close parts of the west mixmaster near Des Moines as well as portions of Iowa Highway 5 on Tuesday, according to a news release from the organization.
ref: 2019 June 11, “Iowa DOT: Portions of west mixmaster near Des Moines, Iowa Highway 5 to close during Tuesday rush hour”, in Des Moines Register:
glosses: A complex freeway interchange.
minerogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The transition from ombrogenic to minerogenic peat takes place at 155 cm (13 ), but nonatmospheric sources of Pb are not important to the Pb inventory of the minerogenic peats, which extend from 155 to 645 cm.
ref: 1998 September 11, W. Shotyk et al., “History of Atmospheric Lead Deposition Since 12,370 14C yr BP from a Peat Bog, Jura Mountains, Switzerland”, in Science, volume 281, number 5383, →DOI, pages 1635–1640:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: formed by minerogenesis
miogeoclinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From miogeocline + -al.
Senses: examples: text: 84, 3489 (1973)] showed that the initial 87 Sr/ 86 Sr = 0.706 contour in the Sierran batholith approximates the western limit of Paleozoic miogeoclinal sediments (Fig. 1 ).
ref: 2000 September 15, Cin-Ty Lee et al., “Osmium Isotopic Evidence for Mesozoic Removal of Lithospheric Mantle Beneath the Sierra Nevada, California”, in Science, volume 289, number 5486, →DOI, pages 1912–1916:
glosses: of or relating to a miogeocline
momentaneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin mōmentāneus. Compare French momentané. Doublet of momentane.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to a grammatical aspect relating to an action that takes place at a specific point in time.
examples: text: Lightning is a great flame, very bright, extending every way to a great distance, suddenly darting upwards, there ending, so that it is only momentaneous.
ref: 1827, John Claridge, The Shepherd of Banbury's Rules to Judge of the Changes of the Weather, Grounded on Forty Years' Experience:
glosses: momentary
Derived terms: momentaneously
momentaneousness
monochromaticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɑnoʊkɹɑməˈtɪsɪti/
ipa: /ˌmɒnə(ʊ)kɹɒməˈtɪsɪti/
rhymes: -ɪsɪti
Etymology: From monochromatic + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The achievable frequency stability is proportional to the monochromaticity (or Q) of the absorption, so optical clocks promise better standards.
ref: 2001 November 23, Patrick Gill, “ATOMIC CLOCKS: Raising the Standards”, in Science, volume 294, number 5547, →DOI, pages 1666–1668:
glosses: the degree to which something is monochromatic
monomineralic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + mineralic.
Senses: examples: text: The almost monomineralic product results from buffering of sulfide concentrations at low values by sphalerite precipitation.
ref: 2000 December 1, Matthias Labrenz et al., “Formation of Sphalerite (ZnS) Deposits in Natural Biofilms of Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria”, in Science, volume 290, number 5497, →DOI, pages 1744–1747:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: composed of a single mineral
cheirosophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chirosophy.
Related terms: cheirosophic
cheirosophical
cheirosophist
suckstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suckstones
Etymology: From suck + stone.
Senses: examples: text: [H]is Admirall-gally was in her course staied by that little fish, the Latines call Remora, and the English a Sucke-stone, whose property is, to stay any ship he can fasten himselfe unto.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: A remora.
suckstones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suckstone
monosomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From monosome + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The Sou variants, which appear on the background of nongrowing cells plated on sorbose as a sole source of carbon, are monosomic for chromosome 5; furthermore, either homolog can be lost under these conditions (13 ).
ref: 2000 July 14, B. B. Magee, P. T. Magee, “Induction of Mating in Candida albicans by Construction of MTLa and MTLalpha Strains”, in Science, volume 289, number 5477, →DOI, pages 310–313:
glosses: Relating to a monosome
monosomic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monosomics
Etymology: From monosome + -ic.
Senses: glosses: An individual that possesses a monosome
pourcontrell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pourcuttle