cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
overbaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overbake
overbaked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overbake
scrawlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scrawling
scrawnily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more scrawnily
form: most scrawnily
Etymology: From scrawny + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a scrawny manner.
stormwaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stormwater
trapshooter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trapshooters
Etymology: From trap + shooter.
Senses: glosses: A participant in the sport of trapshooting.
trapshooters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trapshooter
roadworn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more roadworn
form: most roadworn
Etymology: From road + worn.
Senses: examples: text: Now that they were close, Lirith could see the vehicles were more than a little roadworn: wood cracked, gilt peeled, and dust flecked sun-faded paint.
ref: 2001, Mark Anthony, The Dark Remains, Bantam Spectra, →ISBN, page 10:
text: When he was just beyond the house Kwan Moh Kia dropped down between the shafts, on that March afternoon in 1906, when his aorta exploded like a roadworn tyre.
ref: 2003, James Francis Warren, Rickshaw Coolie: A People's History of Singapore, 1880-1940, Singapore University Press, →ISBN, page 275:
text: He looked roadworn and weary, but intact and as robust as I remembered him, considering his injury.
ref: 2011, Elizabeth C. Bunce, Liar's Moon, Arthur A. Levine Books, →ISBN, page 192:
glosses: Worn out by long travel on roads, or (figurative) in a damaged or depleted state due to constant or prolonged usage or exertion.
Related terms: wayworn
unmeet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmeet
form: most unmeet
Etymology: From Middle English unmete, vnmete, unimete, from Old English unġemǣte, unmǣte (“immense, enormous; unsuitable”), equivalent to un- + meet (“fit, right”).
Senses: examples: text: I haue (purpoſelie) omitted and left out ſome fond & friuolous Ieſtures, digreſſing (and in my poore opinion) farre vnmeete for the matter[…].
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), R[ichard] I[ones], “[https://books.google.com/books?id=0HFGOmnsvAMC&pg=PP13 To the Gentlemen Readers […] ]”, in Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN:
text: […] O, my father! / Prove you that any man with me convers'd / At hours unmeet, or that I yesternight / Maintain'd the change of words with any creature, / Refuse me, hate me, torture me to death.
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 IV, scene i]:
text: Ferdinand himself gazed on her a moment astonished; then with animated courtesy hastily raised her, and playfully chid the movement as unmeet from a hostess to her guests.
ref: 1851, Grace Aguilar, The Vale of Cedars:
text: Where shall we keep the holiday, / And duly greet the entering May? / Too strait and low our cottage doors, / And all unmeet our carpet floors; […]
ref: 1867, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “May-Day”, in May-Day and Other Pieces, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, pages 14–15:
text: I cast my flowers away,
Blossoms unmeet for you!
ref: 1900, Ernest Dowson, Amor Umbratilis:
text: There were many hideous histories the colonel could have told you of, unmeet to be set down, and he was familiar with this talk of pelvic anomalies which were congenital.
ref: 1915, James Branch Cabell, The Rivet in Grandfather’s Neck:
glosses: Not meet or proper.
Derived terms: unmeetly
unmeetness
unmeet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unmeets
form: unmeeting
form: unmet
form: unmet
Etymology: From un- + meet.
Senses: examples: text: Tell him […] that I wish I could unmeet him because he’s on my brain so much it makes me feel crazy.
ref: 2008, Paula Chase, “Good Boys vs. Bad Boys”, in Who You Wit’? (A Del Rio Bay Novel), New York, N.Y.: Dafina Books, →ISBN:
text: But if I could unmeet him somehow, make all this unhappen, I would.
ref: 2008, Jeri Smith-Ready, “I Forgot to Remember to Forget”, in Wicked Game, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN:
text: I wish I could unmeet you, unread you, unknow you, unarrange my life around you.
ref: 2010, Seth King, chapter 10, in Honesty, [North Charleston, S.C.]: [CreateSpace], →ISBN, page 154:
text: I wish I could unmeet you / Just so we can meet again.
ref: 2013 July 29, Alexandra Mikah, “Nice To Un-Meet You”, in Lies and Other Minor Tragedies: Poems, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, published 2015, →ISBN:
text: I wish I could roll back time so I could unmeet him, unsleep with him, unknow him, unlove him.
ref: 2014, Kristina Lloyd, “Part 5”, in Undone, London: Black Lace, Ebury Publishing, →ISBN, page 276:
text: I wish I could unmeet people and maybe I wouldn’t be the way I am.
ref: 2017, Kayde Langer, Good Morning Sunshine, [Morrisville, N.C.]: [Lulu.com], →ISBN, page 137:
text: I would have given all of this up if I could have gone back and done things different. If I could unmeet Shawn, be someone different, and start over.
ref: 2018, Jamie McGuire, From Here to You, New York, N.Y.: Forever, Grand Central Publishing, published 2019, →ISBN:
text: I wish you were never part of my lesson. I wish I could unmeet you.
ref: 2021, Madiha Saleem, Insha SIddiqui, “I Wish I Could Unmeet You”, in Beaaz-E-Jazbaat, Rourkela, Odisha: Unvoiced Heart, →ISBN, page 15:
glosses: To undo the process of meeting.
roadworker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roadworkers
Etymology: From road + worker.
Senses: glosses: A worker who carries out road construction or maintenance.
Related terms: roadwork
roadworkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roadworker
agapanthus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agapanthuses
form: agapanthi
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Agapanthus, from Ancient Greek ἀγάπη (agápē, “love, affection”) + ἄνθος (ánthos, “flower”)
Senses: examples: text: Agapanthi and hydrangeas bloom on brown-stone front steps, and an occasional elm wears majestically its century of age, and extends its kindly and dignified protection to the emerald-turfed croquet ground nestling at its feet.
ref: 1881, Christabel Goldsmith [pseudonym; Fannie N. Smith], “The Transcendentalist”, in Peace Pelican, Spinster. A Love Story., New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] W[ashington] Carleton & Co.; London: S[ampson] Low, Son & Co., →OCLC, page 25:
text: Even the succulent blue lilies—a variety of the agapanthus which is so familiar to us in English greenhouses—hung their long trumpet-shaped flowers and looked oppressed and miserable, beneath the burning breath of the hot wind which had been blowing for hours like the draught from a volcano.
ref: 1887, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “John has an Adventure”, in Jess, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 1:
text: Here in their season grow the blue agapanthus, the wild watsonia, and the red-hot poker, and now and then it happens that one may glimpse an arum in a dell.
ref: 1948, Alan Paton, chapter 3, in Cry, the Beloved Country, New York: Scribner, page 11:
text: Seferis, who was just back from Africa after years abroad, seemed to gaze at us between the agapanthi and jacarandas.
ref: 1995, Odysseas Elytis, translated by Olga Broumas and T. Begley, “Chronicle of a Decade”, in Open Papers: Selected Essays, Port Townsend, Wash.: Copper Canyon Press, →ISBN, page 117:
text: Peregrina chatted with animation about the flowers she would sow around it, azaleas, lilies, agapanthi, and the vegetables she could plant in the open spaces, and enough garlic to make the earth smell like broth.
ref: 1997, Katherine Vaz, part IV, in Mariana, London: Flamingo, HarperCollinsPublishers, →ISBN, page 272:
glosses: Any member of the genus Agapanthus of flowering plants.
Hyponyms: sense: genus Agapanthus
english: some species
translation: some species
word: African lily
sense: genus Agapanthus
english: some species
translation: some species
word: lily of the Nile
lily of the Nile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lilies of the Nile
Senses: synonyms: common agapanthus
blue lily
African lily
glosses: Agapanthus praecox, a plant species in the family Alliaceae.
synonyms: arum lily
calla lily
glosses: Zantedeschia aethiopica, a plant species in the family Araceae.
echium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɛkiəm/
Forms: form: echiums
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Echium.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any member of the genus Echium of flowering plants.
echiums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of echium
fretworked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fretwork + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: I own three or four low, fretworked Chinese tables of various heights that I found at flea markets; the top of each is about the size of a standard box of tissues or a little serving tray.
ref: 2007 April 19, Mitchell Owens, “Room to Improve”, in New York Times:
glosses: Adorned with fretwork.
ganglioneuroma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ganglioneuromas
form: ganglioneuromata
Senses: glosses: A tumour of the sympathetic nerve fibres arising from neural crest cells.
ganglioneuromas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ganglioneuroma
ganglioneuromata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ganglioneuroma
ideations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ideation
neurochemistries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurochemistry
neuroprosthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + prosthetic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to neuroprosthetics.
Derived terms: electroneuroprosthetic
neuroprosthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuroprosthetics
Etymology: From neuro- + prosthetic.
Senses: glosses: A neuroprosthesis.
paperbush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From paper + bush.
Senses: glosses: A bush in the family Thymelaeaceae, found in China and Japan, whose bark can be used to make paper.
postmarital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + marital.
Senses: glosses: After marriage.
Derived terms: postmaritally
postmaritally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From postmarital + -ly.
Senses: glosses: After marriage.
premaritally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From premarital + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Before marriage.
ambilocal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ambi- + local.
Senses: examples: text: Village exogamy was preferred but residence was ambilocal so neither the household nor the village formed any kind of definable kin group.
ref: 1984, Herbert A. Applebaum, Work in non-market and transitional societies:
glosses: bilocal
ambilocality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: bilocality
bilocality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being bilocal.
prehearing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + hearing.
Senses: glosses: Before a legal hearing.
posthearing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + hearing.
Senses: glosses: After a legal hearing.
preloved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-loved
Etymology: From pre- + loved.
Senses: examples: text: Providing low rates for preloved cars available for hire near airports and cheaper downtown hotels
ref: 1998, Peter Weill, Marianne Broadbent, Leveraging the new infrastructure:
text: When you buy an older, or preloved home, make sure to put an inspection contingency in your contract.
ref: 2004, Alan Perlis, Beth Bradley, The Unofficial Guide to Buying a Home:
text: Located at the back of this most genteel Upper East Side charity shop, past the alligator bags, upholstered sofas and preloved tuxedos, the designer room is a shoe-box-size repository for the choicest women’s wear, culled from the thousands of items donated every week, and sold at prices slightly higher than the average thrift outlet but still lower than most vintage stores.
ref: 2007 April 19, Zarah Crawford, “After Lunching, the Ladies Go Shopping”, in New York Times:
text: With its half-dozen rough preloved tables, gentle jazz and ebullient Venetian owner, Xemei is a slice of Venice on the side of Montjuïc hill.
ref: 2008, Damien Simonis, Barcelona:
synonyms: pre-owned
secondhand
glosses: Used; previously owned by somebody else.
unspoil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unspoils
form: unspoiling
form: unspoiled
form: unspoiled
form: unspoilt
form: unspoilt
Etymology: From un- + spoil.
Senses: examples: text: The week before, watching her work, Logerwell had called out to her, "I can tell you right now, if you mollycoddle a horse he'll turn out spoilt, and I've had to unspoil plenty of horses that've been girl-broke. […]
ref: 2007, Molly Gloss, The Hearts of Horses, Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN:
text: A few negative people can ruin an entire office environment, which shows you how powerful negativity is. It is so bad, even positive workers can't “unspoil” it.
ref: 2007, Donald Trump, Bill Zanker, Think Big: Make It Happen in Business and Life, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 155:
text: As John grew into a toddler he was quite spoilt, so I took the serious responsibility of unspoiling him.
ref: 2011, Jane Douch, From Pamela Jane with Some Honor, Strategic Book Group, →ISBN, page 32:
glosses: To make less spoiled.
shoeboxlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shoeboxlike
form: most shoeboxlike
Etymology: From shoebox + -like.
Senses: examples: text: People may store their pictures as ongoing collections in shoeboxlike containers, or they may order them carefully in albums...
ref: 2007, José van Dijck, Mediated memories in the digital age:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a shoebox.
unspoiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unspoil
pseudosibling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudosiblings
Etymology: From pseudo- + sibling.
Senses: examples: text: […] the girls were older than average when they entered the family and thus did not develop the usual pseudosibling relationship […]
ref: 1982, David P. Barash, Sociobiology and behavior:
text: With multiple stepparents, stepsiblings, half siblings and pseudosiblings, it’s a whole new type of family, and with it comes the challenge to design a home where everyone feels welcome.
ref: 2007 April 19, Kate Murphy, “Stepfamilies Try to Stretch Their Space”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who is not a sibling but has a relationship of that kind.
pseudosiblings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudosibling
suitemate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suitemates
Etymology: From suite + -mate.
Senses: examples: text: Gary Lee had to flee the dorms because he was brutally harassed by his suitemates.
ref: 1977 December 10, Mark N. Silber, “Gays On Campus ― One Story”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 23, page 15:
text: On Tuesday evening CNN had found two suitemates who recounted some of the most chilling details about the gunman, Cho Seung-Hui, including that he had an imaginary girlfriend named Jelly.
ref: 2007 April 19, Alessandra Stanley, “Amid Chaos, One Notably Restrained Voice”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who shares the same suite.
suitemates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suitemate
broochlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more broochlike
form: most broochlike
Etymology: From brooch + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Craft and detail are even more dominant in the recent, broochlike pieces.
ref: 2007 April 20, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a brooch.
citycentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more citycentric
form: most citycentric
Etymology: From city + -centric.
Senses: examples: text: That citycentric view has not always gone over well outside New York.
ref: 2007 April 20, Ray Rivera, “At Power Lunch, Mayor Presents Wish List, in a Handy Wallet Size”, in New York Times:
text: While he may not agree with the design aesthetic, Mr. King's essay smacks of a citycentric view that suggests that authentic experiences are impossible in the suburbs.
ref: 2008 April, Dwell, volume 8, number 5, page 39:
glosses: Focusing on a city.
conguero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: congueros
Senses: glosses: A musician who plays the conga drum.
congueros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conguero
evolutionlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more evolutionlike
form: most evolutionlike
Etymology: From evolution + -like.
Senses: examples: text: When she moves from anthropological classification to fantasy, her figures adapt, evolutionlike, to the tasks at hand.
ref: 2007 April 20, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of evolution.
antifarmer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antifarmer
form: most antifarmer
Etymology: From anti- + farmer.
Senses: glosses: Opposing farmers.
harbourscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harbourscapes
Etymology: From harbour + -scape.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of harborscape.
harbourscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harbourscape
sandscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sandscapes
Etymology: From sand + -scape.
Senses: glosses: A landscape dominated by sand.
sandscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sandscape
harborscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harborscapes
form: harbourscape
Etymology: From harbor + -scape.
Senses: examples: text: Displayed among all three floors of the Yale center’s public exhibition galleries, “Legacy,” organized in association with the academy, presents every aspect of Mellon’s collecting activities in the field, from an iconic, light-steeped harborscape by J. M. W. Turner, “Dort, or Dordrecht, the Dort Packet-boat From Rotterdam Becalmed” (1818), to a manuscript map from 1587 that shows the route of Sir Francis Drake’s circumnavigation of the globe a decade earlier.
ref: 2007 April 20, Grace Glueck, “An Anglophilic Yankee Aristocrat and His Finds Across the Pond”, in New York Times:
glosses: A landscape dominated by a harbor.
harborscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harborscape
nonacting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + acting.
Senses: glosses: Not acting.
examples: text: Like his Nixon, Mr. Langella is an agile interviewee, taking the conversation toward anything but the specifics of his nonacting life.
ref: 2007 April 20, Campbell Robertson, “Seeking the Nixon Behind the Caricature”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to acting.
singings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of singing
dissectible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dissectable.
extrarational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more extrarational
form: most extrarational
Etymology: From extra- + rational.
Senses: examples: text: Imagination is an extrarational function of the brain.
text: But a rational faith in such an utter inconceivability is out of the question, and an extra-rational and mere dogmatic faith, in such an idea, can not generally, if ever, be kept free from superstition, and hence, from a greater or less degree of mental degradation and slavery.
ref: 1852, William Fishbough, The Macrocosm and Microcosm; Or the Universe Without and the Universe Within:
text: No ethical norms, principles, precepts or theories can be referred solely to the transcendental side of theistic doctrine; for that would involve either crude anthropomorphism or the elevation of the ethical concepts into an extrarational sphere; a proceeding which would deprive them of human interest and ultimately weaken their obligation.
ref: 1916, Hugh Northcote, Christianity and Sex Problems, page 331:
text: The importance of leadership, including its extrarational policymaking functions, is even now recognized in the more contemplative literature on social affairs and in much of the action-oriented literature on administration and management.
ref: 1983, Yehezkel Dror, Public Policy Making Reexamined, page 150:
glosses: Above or beyond the rational.
hiccuplike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hiccuplike
form: most hiccuplike
Etymology: From hiccup + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Later, raising her arms overhead like a gymnast, Ms. Olson sprints across the stage, only to chicken out, performing a barely perceptible, hiccuplike jump.
ref: 2007 April 21, Gia Kourlas, “Worldly Lights and Darks Versus Childhood Ups and Downs”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a hiccup.
mopiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mopy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: And if his briskness in Chopin’s famous Funeral March restored dignity to the usual mopiness, much of the rest of the concert hung somewhere between a deeply musical evening and a day at the races.
ref: 2007 April 21, Bernard Holland, “A Speedy Spanning of Repertory, From Albéniz to Bach”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being mopey.
nongoal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + goal.
Senses: examples: a nongoal state
glosses: Not of or pertaining to a goal.
nongoal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nongoals
Etymology: From non- + goal.
Senses: examples: text: A disputed goal by the Sabres in Game 3, and a disputed nongoal by the Islanders in Game 4, began a kind of bad luck theme.
ref: 2007 April 21, Matt Higgins, “Isles’ Late Comeback Falls Short, and Sabres Advance”, in New York Times:
text: When you think it is important to state what the study will not achieve, add a brief description of nongoals. Nongoals help everyone understand what the team is not after.
ref: 2012, Tomer Sharon, It's Our Research, page 78:
glosses: That which is not a goal (in various senses).
nongoals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nongoal
oversweeten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: oversweetens
form: oversweetening
form: oversweetened
form: oversweetened
Etymology: From over- + sweeten.
Senses: examples: text: I could barely eat the oversweetened processed foods.
glosses: To make too sweet.
oversweetens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of oversweeten
oversweetening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oversweeten
movent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: It was concluded even now, that to make a moveable to move; the movent vertue must be increased in proportion to the velocity wherewith it is to move.
ref: 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Dialogue 2:
glosses: Moving; that moves; that is being moved.
movent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: movents
Senses: examples: text: I define force to be the Impetus or Quickness of Motion multiplyed either into it self, or into the Magnitude of the Movent, by means wherof the said Movent works more or less upon the Body that resists it.
ref: 1656, Thomas Hobbes, Elements of Philosophy, 3.15.155:
glosses: Anything that is moved or that moves, or that gives motion; mover.
topics: law
glosses: Alternative form of movant.
monkshoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monkshood
hexadeuterated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hexa- + deuterated.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Deuterated with six atoms of deuterium per molecule.
bannerless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From banner + -less.
Senses: examples: bannerless troops
glosses: Without a banner.
whinstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whinstones
Etymology: Possibly corrupted from quern stone, i.e. stone suitable for making querns; or else, from whin + stone.
Senses: glosses: A stone used to crush whin for use as winter feed for cattle.
examples: text: ‘A rough fellow, rather, Mrs. Dean. Is not that his character?‘ ‘Rough as a saw-edge, and hard as whinstone! The less you meddle with him the better.’
ref: 1847, Emily Brontë, chapter IV, in Wuthering Heights:
synonyms: whin
qualifier: quarrying industry
glosses: Any hard dark-coloured rock.
whinstones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whinstone
superrational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æʃənəl
Forms: form: more superrational
form: most superrational
Etymology: From super- + rational.
Senses: examples: text: Imagination is a superrational function of the brain.
glosses: Above or beyond the rational.
glosses: Relating to superrationality.
whitewasher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whitewashers
Etymology: From whitewash + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, whitewashes.
whitewashers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whitewasher
margarite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: margarites
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μαργαρίτης (margarítēs, “a pearl”). Doublet of Margaret (and various forms, q.v.), margarita, Margherita, and marguerite.
Senses: glosses: pearl
Related terms: margarine
margarite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: margarites
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μαργαρίτης (margarítēs, “a pearl”) + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A calcium-rich member of the mica group of phyllosilicates, forming white to pinkish or yellowish-gray masses or thin laminae.
margarites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of margarite
untaxing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untaxing
form: most untaxing
Etymology: From un- + taxing.
Senses: glosses: Not taxing.
Synonyms: unchallenging
misemploy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misemploys
form: misemploying
form: misemployed
form: misemployed
Etymology: From mis- + employ.
Senses: glosses: To employ incorrectly; to misuse.
misemploys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misemploy
misemployed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misemploy
misemploying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misemploy
housekeep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: housekeeps
form: housekeeping
form: housekept
form: housekept
Etymology: Back-formation from housekeeping.
Senses: examples: text: I would go to school, and practise, and housekeep, and club; all in their proper proportions⁠——
ref: 1904, Carolyn Wells, “The Decision”, in Patty at Home, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, page 24:
text: "I knew our week at this hotel was out to-morrow," she continued, "and we've about used up this place, anyway, and the new village that I've b'en to is the prettiest place we've seen yet; it's got an up-and-down hill to it, just like home, and the house I've partly rented is opposite a fair green, where there's a market every week, and Wednesday's the day; and we'll save money, for I shan't cost you so much when we can housekeep."
ref: 1901, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Penelope's Irish Experiences:
glosses: To carry out the domestic duties of housekeeping.
examples: text: The clock burst which enables the supervisor to housekeep the console input and output and to change program status is currently set to 200 ms.
ref: 1965, P. A. Crisman, The compatible time-sharing system: a programmer's guide, page 14:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To perform the general tasks of housekeeping.
housekeep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: housekeeps
Etymology: Back-formation from housekeeping.
Senses: examples: text: The housekeep was back rather quickly with a tray, which held a flagon of ale and a pewter cup as well as bread and cheese.
ref: 1993, Sharon Green, Flame of Fury, page 153:
text: Something clearly went wrong, for in the accounts for 1624, against the record of £50 paid to Jenninges the Housekeep at Theobalds for the setting of those Trees wch my Lord sent the king', Sackville Crowe has written in the margin that "This my Lord would not have comaunded againe though it were for the [king's] use'.
ref: 2014, Jennifer Potter, Strange Blooms: The Curious Lives and Adventures of the John Tradescants:
text: 'Clumsy, stupid girl!'
'Here, there's no call for that,' the house-keep protested. 'She's only trying to help.'
ref: 2016, Rowena Cory Daniells, King Breaker:
topics: fantasy
glosses: The person in charge of a house; a housekeeper or innkeeper.
housekeeps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of housekeep
housekept
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of housekeep
railway time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The disparate time zones of Britain were unified under 'railway time' - as Dickens famously observed in Dombey: 'It was if the sun itself had given in.'
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 15:
glosses: A standardized time arrangement formerly used by railways to overcome the confusion caused by varying local times at different stations.
nonspace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonspaces
Etymology: From non- + space.
Senses: examples: text: Today, the elevator cars of skyscrapers themselves have become the most intimidating nonspaces of the American metropolis.
ref: 1986, Norbert Messler, The art deco skyscraper in New York:
glosses: That which is not a social or physical space, or lacks the traditional attributes of spaces.
examples: text: For instance, spaces in a filename shipped from a DOS client are not translated to nonspace characters...
ref: 2006, Mark Lutz, Programming Python, Volume 10:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A text character that is not a space (or not whitespace).
nonspaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonspace
alligator apple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alligator apples
Etymology: From the fact that American alligators sometimes eat the fruit.
Senses: synonyms: pond apple
swamp apple
corkwood
bobwood
monkey apple
glosses: A tropical fruit tree, of species Annona glabra, that grows in swamps in the tropical Americas and West Africa.
glosses: Fruit of Annona glabra, oblong to spherical and roughly apple-sized.
ephemeris time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A former standard astronomical time scale intended to overcome the drawbacks of irregularly fluctuating mean solar time, superseded in the 1970s.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A modern relativistic-coordinate time scale.
nine-ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Nine colored balls are used, in addition to the cue ball.
Senses: glosses: A form of pool in which players must hit with the cue ball the object ball with the lowest numerical value, but may legally pot any ball apart from the white; whichever player pots the nine ball wins the game.
Coordinate terms: eight-ball
shrubless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From shrub + -less.
Senses: examples: text: shrubless crags within the mist
ref: 1816, Lord Byron, The Prisoner of Chillon:
glosses: Without shrubs.
midibus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midibuses
Etymology: From mid- + minibus.
Senses: glosses: A single-decker bus, generally smaller than a traditional bus but larger than a minibus.
midibuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midibus
worshipless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From worship + -less.
Senses: examples: text: How long by tyrants shall thy land be trod! / How long thy temple worshipless, Oh God!
ref: 1815, George Gordon Byron, Hebrew Melodies:
glosses: Devoid of religious worship.
overproud
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overproud
form: most overproud
Etymology: From over- + proud.
Senses: glosses: Excessively proud.
intermaxillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪləɹi
-æksɪlɛəɹi
Etymology: From inter- + maxillary.
Senses: glosses: Between the maxillae.
intermaxillary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪləɹi
-æksɪlɛəɹi
Forms: form: intermaxillaries
Etymology: From inter- + maxillary.
Senses: glosses: An intermaxilla or premaxilla.
unmasker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unmaskers
Etymology: From unmask + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who unmasks.
unmaskers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unmasker
carnivory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑːˈnɪvəɹi/
rhymes: -ɪvəɹi
Etymology: From carnivore + -y.
Senses: examples: text: But if the natural carnivory of other species counts for something, why not the natural carnivory of Homo sapiens […]?
ref: 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 571:
glosses: The eating of meat; carnivorousness.
Derived terms: mesocarnivory
Related terms: carnivore
carnivorism
carnivorous
carnivorousness
resignment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resignments
Etymology: From resign + -ment.
Senses: glosses: resignation
resignments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resignment
unproclaimed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + proclaimed.
Senses: glosses: Not proclaimed; unannounced.
unreverent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unreverent
form: most unreverent
Etymology: From un- + reverent.
Senses: examples: text: As priest unreverent,
Streyght to the sacrament
He made his hawke to fly,
With hogeous showte and cry.
ref: c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 63, lines 45–48:
text: See not your bride in these unreverent robes:
Go to my chamber, put on clothes of mine.
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
glosses: Not reverent.
Synonyms: irreverent
caretake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: caretakes
form: caretaking
form: caretook
form: caretaken
Etymology: From care + take, as a back-formation from caretaker or caretaking.
Senses: examples: text: "Webster wants me to caretake his place while they're away."
ref: 1936, F.J. Thwaites, The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards Publishing, published 1940, page 100:
glosses: To look after as a caretaker.
caretakes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of caretake
caretook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of caretake
caretaken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of caretake
outbreeds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outbreed
outbreeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outbreed
outbred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outbreed
silvopastoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From silva + -o- + pastoral.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to silvopasture.
citole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: citoles
Etymology: Probably a French diminutive form of Latin cithara, and not from Latin cista (“a box”).
Senses: glosses: An archaic musical instrument whose exact form is uncertain, generally shown with four strings
Related terms: citoler
citoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of citole
tarantass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /taɹənˈtas/
Forms: form: tarantasses
form: tarantas
Etymology: From Russian таранта́с (tarantás).
Senses: examples: text: Three kinds of conveyances are available: the telega, or cart without springs, which has to be changed at every station, and for which a charge of about 8d. is made at every stage; the kibitka, or cart (in winter a sledge) with a hood; and the tarantas, a kind of carriage on wooden springs, which admits of the traveller lying down full length, and which can be made very comfortable at night.
ref: 1868, “Route 25: London to Pekin […] ”, in Handbook for Travellers in Russia, Poland, and Finland, 2nd edition, London: John Murray, page 329:
text: From Samarkand, using that peculiarly Russian means of transport, the springless, horse-drawn tarantass, Curzon reached Tashkent by the post road in thirty uncomfortable hours.
ref: 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 396:
glosses: A low horse-drawn carriage without springs used in Russia, capable of having its wheels replaced with runners during the winter.
tarantasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tarantass
ad verbum
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ad verbum (“to the word”).
Senses: glosses: On a word-by-word basis, without rephrasing; word for word; verbatim.
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intwine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: intwines
form: intwining
form: intwined
form: intwined
Etymology: From in- + twine (verb).
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of entwine.
intwines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of intwine
intwined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of intwine
intwining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of intwine
inuksuk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inuksuks
form: inuksuit
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of inukshuk.
inuksuks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inuksuk
firmamental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛntəl
Etymology: From firmament + -al (“of, pertaining to”, suffix forming an adjective).
Senses: examples: text: But there were certain early winter days in Casterbridge—days of firmamental exhaustion which followed angry south-westerly tempests—when, if the sun shone, the air was like velvet.
ref: 1886, Thomas Hardy, chapter XX, in The Mayor of Casterbridge:
glosses: Of, belonging to, or relating to the firmament or heavens; celestial.
glosses: Of, belonging to, or relating to support or strengthening.
institutor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: institutors
form: institutour
Etymology: From Latin īnstitūtor. Compare French instituteur. By surface analysis, institute + -or.
Senses: examples: text: institutors of civil policy
glosses: One who institutes something.
examples: text: The two great aims which every institutor of youth should mainly and intentionally drive at
ref: 1683, William Walker, “Preface”, in English examples of the Latin syntaxis […] :
glosses: One who educates; an instructor.
glosses: A presbyter appointed by the bishop to institute a rector or assistant minister over a parish church.
institutors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of institutor
chalcedonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chalcedony + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to chalcedony.
Chalcedonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkæl.sɪˈdəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌkæl.səˈdoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Etymology: From Chalcedon + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the Council of Chalcedon (451 AD).
glosses: Accepting the Christological definition dogmatized at Chalcedon.
Chalcedonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkæl.sɪˈdəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌkæl.səˈdoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Chalcedonians
Etymology: From Chalcedon + -ian.
Senses: glosses: One who accepts the definition given at the Council of Chalcedon of how the divine and human relate in the person of Jesus Christ.
Derived terms: Chalcedonianism
Related terms: Monophysite
Chalcedonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chalcedonian
osnaburg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osnaburgs
Etymology: From Osnaburg, the former English name of the German city of Osnabrück (from which it may have been first imported into English-speaking countries).
Senses: examples: text: [I]f he attended those solemn meetings at which the price of freight or the quality of Osnaburghs was discussed, he turned the venerable persons of the old merchants and grocers into ridicule […].
ref: 1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview, published 2004, page 258:
glosses: A plain, coarse textile fabric made from flax, tow or jute yarns.
osnaburg
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more osnaburg
form: most osnaburg
Etymology: From Osnaburg, the former English name of the German city of Osnabrück (from which it may have been first imported into English-speaking countries).
Senses: examples: text: So that winter morning, I put on my osnaburg shirt and pants.
ref: 2019, Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer, Penguin Books (2020), pages 11–12:
glosses: Designating or made from this fabric.
osnaburgs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of osnaburg
untiled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + tiled.
Senses: glosses: Not tiled.
shoeblack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoeblacks
Etymology: From shoe + black.
Senses: glosses: One who cleans and polishes shoes (and boots) as an occupation.
Synonyms: sense: cleaner of shoes and boots
word: bootblack
sense: cleaner of shoes and boots
word: boots
sense: cleaner of shoes and boots
word: shoeshine boy
sense: cleaner of shoes and boots
word: shoeshine girl
sense: cleaner of shoes and boots
word: shoeshiner
Derived terms: word: shoeblackplant
taxonomic: Hibiscus rosa-sinensis
word: shoeblack plant (shoeblackplant
shoeblacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoeblack
diamondiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more diamondiferous
form: most diamondiferous
Etymology: From diamond + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: examples: diamondiferous sand
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Yielding diamond.
Synonyms: diamantiferous
shitass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shitasses
Senses: examples: text: As she was leaving Bernice said to her, “Lucille, I'm sorry my son was such a shitass.”
ref: 2000, Dorothy Hagan, The Edge of the Grace Period, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 274:
glosses: Alternative form of shit ass.
examples: text: “Hey, shitass, wake up,” said Hooter, then gave the kid's shoulder a shake.
ref: 1997, Mick Duckworth, Voodoo Island, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 107:
text: “Hey, shitass, you studying the crowd charts?”
ref: 2001 April 9, Robert W. Witt, Breakfast at Noon, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 100:
text: Hey shitass................who would fire the swift-boat liars?
ref: 2005 January 30, Johnny Lately, “Re: Rather Truthful”, in alt.california (Usenet):
glosses: a disrespectful term of address
femspeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fem + -speak.
Senses: examples: text: The aim of this jargon-sodden Femspeak is to set up a myth of women artists as a hated underclass, which they were not in 1975 and are not today; in such a scheme, vagina hatred is imputed to men as automatically as penis envy once was to women.
ref: 1980 December 15, Robert Hughes, “An Obsessive Feminist Pantheon”, in Time:
text: The Bergers assert that “the family is a problem”, and note that the concept of 'gender roles' is merely “femspeak” – a technique for arguing that the assignment of roles within the family is arbitrary and that it can/should be changed, so as to advance women's welfare (p 64).
ref: 2005, Ann Oakley, The Ann Oakley Reader: Gender, Women and Social Science, The Policy Press, →ISBN, page 44:
text: According to Warren Farrell, an Orwellian “lace curtain” of governing “femspeak” is virtually indistinguishable from the propaganda machinery of tyranny states.
ref: 2007, Robert Menzies, “Virtual Backlash: Representations of Men's 'Rights' and Feminist 'Wrongs' in Cyberspace”, in Susan B. Boyd, Dorothy E. Chunn, Hester Lessard, editors, Reaction and Resistance: Feminism, Law, and Social Change, UBC Press, →ISBN, page 83:
glosses: The characteristic jargon of feminists and feminist discourse.
shit ass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shit asses
form: shitass
form: shit-ass
Etymology: From shit + ass.
Senses: glosses: A jerk; a mean, contemptible or obnoxious person.
Synonyms: asshole
arsehole
bastard
prick
shithead
vairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vair
retwist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: retwists
form: retwisting
form: retwisted
form: retwisted
Etymology: From re- + twist.
Senses: examples: text: "Pshaw!—there, all's right again—but you must pay me for my trouble." So saying, he retwisted the note, kissed the bearer, and walked off with a careless composure.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXXIV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 278:
glosses: To twist again or anew.
retwists
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retwist
retwisting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retwist
retwisted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retwist
expectance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expectances
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of expectancy.
scyphozoans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scyphozoan
jizzum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jizzums
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of jism.
sesquioxidize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sesquioxidizes
form: sesquioxidizing
form: sesquioxidized
form: sesquioxidized
Etymology: From sesquioxide + -ize or sesqui- + oxidize.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To convert to a sesquioxide.
Related terms: sesquioxidation
sesquioxidizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sesquioxidize
sesquioxidizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sesquioxidize
sesquioxidized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sesquioxidize
nonpeptides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonpeptide
sesquioxidation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sesqui- + oxidation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The act or process of sesquioxidizing.