cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tibiotarsal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)səl
Etymology: From tibio- + tarsal.
Senses: examples: text: the tibiotarsal articulation
text: tibiotarsal angle
text: tibiotarsal joint
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to both the tibia and the tarsus.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the tibiotarsus.
chantresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chantress
priestdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: priestdoms
Etymology: From priest + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: "They demolished," he says,"by the Word of God, the priestdom of the Pope and his lofty elevation."
ref: 1863, “Merle D'Aubigné's History of the Reformation in Europe in the Time of Calvin,”, in The Christian Observer, page 298:
text: The Spaniards have become callous by the long rule of despotism, and especially of priestdom.
ref: 1875 January 16, “Editor's Table”, in Appleton's Journal, volume 13, page 86:
text: The first step must be: "The removal of the important issue of the schools from the dark chambers of the state parliaments, especially from the Prussian bastion of Junkerdom and priestdom, into the bright light and the freer atmosphere of the Reichstag." [translation of SPD Protokoll über die Verhandlunge des Parteitags 1906]
ref: 1977, Ian C. Wilson, “Education and Politics: The Education Policy of the German Social Democratic Party, 1906-1922”, in Oxford Review of Education, volume 3, number 1, page 43:
text: Both Vivekandanda and Gandhi were witness to the hierarchical, rigid and decadent social system, a religiosity dominated by priestdom causing fragmentation of society into pieces and the subordination of women by men.
ref: 2001, P. C. Joshi, “In the Lap of the Himalaya: Gandhi's Visit to Uttarakhand”, in Economic and Political Weekly, volume 36, number 34, India, page 3304:
glosses: Political rule or sweeping social control exercised by a class of priests; a ruling class of priests.
examples: text: The Social Democracy will not recede; it will pursue it course and accomplish its design, even though all priestdom should rise against it, like a cloud of locusts thick enough to darken the sun.
ref: 1886, Thomas Edwin Brown, Studies in Modern Socialism and Labor Problems, page 202:
text: [A] population unit somewhat larger than a nuclear family used these tombs. If it were twice as large and consisted of ten individuals, it might be identified as an extended family or perhaps a fraternal organization such as a priestdom or warrior elite.
ref: 1992, Jeffrey S. Soles, “The Prepalatial Cemeteries at Mochlos and Gournia and the House Tombs of Bronze Age Crete”, in Hesperia Supplements, volume 24, India, page 253:
glosses: Priests collectively or priests of a particular religious group or affiliation collectively.
locky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒki
homophone: Loki
Forms: form: more locky
form: most locky
Etymology: From lock + -y.
Senses: examples: text: locky hair
text: locky mane
glosses: Having locks or tufts.
Derived terms: lockiness
Related terms: locky D
indiretin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A dark brown resinous substance obtained from indican.
Related terms: retinic
subreader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subreaders
Etymology: From sub- + reader.
Senses: examples: text: When his lordship was reader, he made him his subreader, which shewed him to the society, and to men of his profession
ref: 1819, Roger North, The Life of the Right Honourable Francis North:
topics: law
glosses: An under reader in the inns of court, who reads the texts of law the reader is to discourse upon.
subreaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subreader
chameleonized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chameleonize
chameleonizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chameleonize
chameleonizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chameleonize
gnomonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈnəʊmənɪst/
Forms: form: gnomonists
Senses: examples: text: enable the Gnomonist to make Accurate Dials
ref: 1688, Robert Doyle, A Disquisition about the Final Causes of Natural Things:
text: There exist other procedures, current among astronomers and mariners, which require instruments not usually available to the gnomonists;
ref: 2012, René R.J. Rohr, Sundials: History, Theory, and Practice:
glosses: One skilled in gnomonics; a person who makes sundials.
gnomonists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gnomonist
anaglyptographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anaglyptography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to anaglyptography.
anaglyptography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀνάγλυπτος (anágluptos, “embossed”) + -γραφία (-graphía, “writing, drawing”)
Senses: glosses: The art of copying works in relief, or of engraving as to give the subject an embossed or raised appearance; used in representing coins, bas reliefs, maps etc.
Related terms: anaglyph
anaglyphic
anaglyptic
anaglyptographic
ornithichnite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ornithichnites
Etymology: From ornith- + ichnite.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Lyell next visited the red and green shales of Cabotville, north of Springfield in Massachusetts, where some of the best Ornithichnites have been procured, chiefly in the green shale.
ref: 1834 October 24, Charles Lyell, “On the fossil foot-prints of birds”, in The American Journal of Science, volume 45, page 395:
text: Mr. Hitchcock has nowhere maintained the existence of an ornithichnite in the graywacke of Hudson valley.
ref: 1839 January 24, T.A. Conrad, “Notes on American geology”, in The American Journal of Science and Arts, volume 35, page 246:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A fossilised footprint left by a bird.
ornithichnites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ornithichnite
antiphlogistian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiphlogistians
Etymology: From anti- + phlogistian.
Senses: examples: text: Antiphlogistians might argue that when a metallic calx was revived in inflammable air, air joined dephlogisticated air in the calx, the metal resuming its form and qualities without addition.
ref: 2004, Robert E Schofield, The Enlightened Joseph Priestley, Pennsylvania State University, published 2004, page 182:
glosses: Someone who opposes phlogiston theory.
antiphlogistian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + phlogistian.
Senses: examples: text: The other objections which Mr. Kirwan makes againſt the antiphlogiſtian doctrine, and which he deduces from the precipitation of the metals by each other, are not more difficult to be explained upon the principles I have laid down; […]
ref: 1789, Richard Kirwan, Antoine Lavoisier, “Note of Mr. Lavoisier, upon the Precipitation of the Metals by each other”, in An Essay on Phlogiston and the Constitution of Acids, Second English edition, page 257:
glosses: Opposed to phlogiston theory.
Synonyms: antiphlogistic
antiphlogistians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiphlogistian
fructuation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fructuations
Senses: qualifier: literal or figurative
glosses: produce; fruit
henchboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: henchboys
form: hinchboy
Etymology: Blend of henchman + boy.
Senses: examples: text: ... There, when in Solemn State he pleas'd to ride, Poor Scepter'd slaves ran Henchboys by his side: [...]
ref: 1710, John Oldham, The Works of Mr. John Oldham: Together with His Remains:
text: The smiths exhibited a mounted horseman with head-piece and axe; the carpenters, a group of boys, bearing wands surmounted with bunches of flowers, like that borne by the lord mayor of London's henchboy, in Charles I's time, as shewn in the frontispiece to the first part of my "Lord Mayors' Pageants;" …
ref: 1846, Percy Society - Volume 19
glosses: A follower; footman; page; a servant.
examples: text: So seeing him looking all quiet and bookish, Power goes up to him accompanied by a few henchboys and says: `'Can you handle yourself, Dwyer? Are you any good at boxing?'
ref: 1991, Gretta Curran Browne, Fire On The Hill:
text: “[...] 'Yeah, you fix it up for us, Elsa,” said one of his henchboys.
ref: 2008, Jacqueline Wilson, The Bed and Breakfast Star:
text: Suitably stimulated, Superfag turns on his platforms and dances off through the empty hallways, his henchboys behind.
ref: 2009, Tony Fletcher, Hedonism:
text: He growled at two of his mick henchboys, who pinned poor Austin's face to the wall.
ref: 2014, Paul Monette, Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story:
text: Patiently awaiting his opportunity until he can pounce like a predator, the henchboy again tugs out the jukebox lead just as the Guv'nor has returned to his place behind the counter.
ref: 2015, Richard O. Smith, The Unbeatables:
text: Tenida, like Ghanada, is also surrounded by three henchboys, and acts out his particular form of hyperabsurdity.
ref: 2016, Boria Majumdar, Feluda @ 50:
glosses: A young henchman
henchboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of henchboy
gigantical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gigantical
form: most gigantical
Senses: examples: text: these gigantical Cyclops will transcend spheres
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of gigantic.
dandyling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dandylings
Etymology: From dandy + -ling.
Senses: glosses: A little or insignificant dandy; a contemptible fop.
dandylings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dandyling
phellogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phellogens
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φελλός (phellós, “cork”) + -gen.
Senses: examples: text: We distinguish between primary bark (originating from primary meristems - protoderm, ground meristem and procambium) and secondary bark (originating from secondary meristems - the vascular cambium, the phellogen, and dilatation meristem).
ref: 2007, Keith Roberts, Handbook of Plant Science, volume 1, page 154:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: cork cambium
glosses: The tissue of young cells that produces the phellem.
Derived terms: phellogenetic
phellogenic
phellogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phellogen
tonsilotome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tonsilotomes
Etymology: From tonsil + -o- + -tome.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
hypernyms: guillotine
glosses: An instrument for removing the tonsils.
tonsilotomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tonsilotome
irremovability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + removability.
Senses: glosses: the quality or state of being irremovable
tonsillotome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tonsillotomes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tonsilotome.
tonsillotomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tonsillotome
pistillaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pistil + -aceous.
Senses: examples: text: This is the nectarium pistiliaceum, or pistillaceous nectary.
ref: 1804, Benjamin Smith Barton, Elements of Botany:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to a pistil.
subcelestial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + celestial.
Senses: examples: text: subcelestial glories
text: subcelestial realm
text: subcelestial vault
text: [H]e [an apostle] vvas (as S. Cyril calleth him) an Oecumenical Judge, and an Inſtructor of all the Subceleſtiall VVorld.
ref: a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “[The II. [Supposition] that Saint Peter’s Primacy with its Rights and Prerogatives was Not Personal but Derivable to his Successours]”, in J[ohn] Tillotson, editor, A Treatise of the Pope’s Supremacy. […], London: […] Miles Flesher, for Brabazon Aylmer, […], published 1680, →OCLC, page 114:
glosses: Beneath the heavens, i.e. on Earth.
tonsillitides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tonsillitis
larget
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlɑː(ɹ)d͡ʒɪt/
Forms: form: largets
Etymology: Compare French larget.
Senses: glosses: A short piece of bar iron for rolling into a sheet; a small billet.
largets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of larget
creviced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more creviced
form: most creviced
Etymology: From crevice + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: a creviced structure for storing ears of corn
text: trickling through the crevic'd rock
ref: a. 1773, John Cunningham, "Morning", Day, a Pastoral:
glosses: Having a crevice or crevices.
Derived terms: uncreviced
nonjuggling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + juggling.
Senses: examples: text: The reason why this two-hour show can be found on Broadway rather than at the circus apparently has to do with the Karamazovs' somewhat romanticized conception of their nonjuggling talents.
ref: 1983, New York theatre critics' reviews: Volume 44:
glosses: Not relating to juggling.
misform
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misforms
form: misforming
form: misformed
form: misformed
Etymology: From mis- + form.
Senses: examples: text: misformed house
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To form badly or wrongly.
misformed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misform
misforming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misform
misforms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misform
fissiparities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fissiparity
fissiparity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fissiparities
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The quality of being fissiparous.
nonjudicially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From non- + judicially or nonjudicial + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: the establishment of new types of community agencies for dealing nonjudicially with delinquent youth
ref: 1972, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary, Hearings:
glosses: In a way that is not judicial.
bloggage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From blog + -age.
Senses: examples: text: Back to the bloggage!
ref: 2005, Jonathan N. Calise, From the Mind of a Pez Dispenser, page 97:
text: Sorry about my lack of bloggage. Since the last treatment I have been dealing with multiple, persistent side effects which lifted as of this afternoon.
ref: 2010, Robin Waites, George's Journey, page 82:
glosses: Blogging.
myodynamometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myodynamometers
Etymology: From myo- + dynamometer.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for measuring muscular strength.
myodynamometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myodynamometer
undull
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undull
form: most undull
Etymology: From Middle English undull, equivalent to un- (“not”) + dull.
Senses: glosses: Not dull; sharp.
undull
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undulls
form: undulling
form: undulled
form: undulled
Etymology: From un- + dull.
Senses: examples: text: It is a most musicall Modulator of all Intelligibles by her inventive Variations, undulling their Grossenesse, and subliming it into more refined Acceptablenesse to our own, or others understandings.
ref: 1654, Richard Whitlock, Zootomia; Or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English:
glosses: To make less dull (various senses).
undulling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undull
undulls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undull
frigerate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: frigerates
form: frigerating
form: frigerated
form: frigerated
Etymology: First attested in 1656; borrowed from Latin frīgerātus, perfect passive participle of frīgerō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from frigus (“cold”).
Senses: examples: text: Miss Leeson by no means deserves the phillipic you have so unmercifully bestowed upon her, for she has seriously and peremptorily refused the honourable asylum I again, in your presence, offer her; and I am persuaded, when you have suffered your temper to frigerate, you will be as eager to apologize as you have been to condemn.
ref: 1814, Ann of Swansea, Conviction; or, She is innocent!, page 35:
text: The river-water, which is drunk here, is impure, until after filtration, or precipitation by alum; and luke-warm, unless frigerated in porous-jars.
ref: 1824, Henry Cogswell Knight, Letters from the South and West, page 130:
text: Lecture fifth and sixth will embrace a longitudinal procreative digest, for consolidating immateriality in frigerated solution.
ref: 1849, William Valentine, A Budget of Wit and Humour, page 136:
text: Further, I am aware that chloride of calcium has been exposed in a frigerating chamber to absorb moisture from the air therein; […]
ref: 1891, The Federal Reporter, volume 46, page 771:
glosses: To make cool.
Related terms: refrigerate
frigerated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of frigerate
frigerates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of frigerate
frigerating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of frigerate
overcold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overcold
form: most overcold
Etymology: From Middle English overcold, equivalent to over- + cold.
Senses: examples: text: application of over-cold Medicaments
ref: 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], →OCLC:
text: The Medical Journal, alluding to the subject, expresses the opinion that nearly one-half of all cases of Consumption are produced by unnecessary exposure, by breathing the impure air of badly or imperfectly ventilated and crowded public buildings, or by sleeping in overheated or overcold apartments, also badly ventilated. This is no doubt true. It should also have added two more causes in this country — wearing tight corsets and thin shoes.
ref: 1867, John C. Gunn, Gunn's New Family Physician, Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin, page 713:
text: In the human mind both attraction and repulsion play; and here also, as in outward nature, the attraction is the stronger force. We are, however, not to forget that we here use the words in a figurative sense. We are availing ourselves of that correspondence between the world without and the world within, which is one of the strongest evidences that all things arose from a Divine Mind, in whose likeness we are created. By that correspondence alone is language possible, to be a means of intercommunication of man with man, and an important instrument for developing as well as for expressing thought. In this figurative sense of the words “drawing” and “driving,” we say that the child is drawn toward what is bright in color, sweet in taste, harmonious in sound, comfortable and pleasant to the sense of touch, and driven from the dull and dirty, the bitter and nauseous, the ill-odored, the harsh and discordant, the rough and prickly, the overhot or overcold.
ref: 1883, The Independent 1883-08-30: Volume 35, Issue 1813, Open Court Publishing Company, page 7:
text: “No,” he said, as Maida came into the overwarm living room which had just received Harter from the overcold early winter night, ‘I didn’t make good out there. But that was because I hit the place too late. All the making good was done by the first comers. That’s the way everywhere. Now I’ve been kind of looking over the field—in my mind, you know—on the drive back from Oklahoma. And there’s only just one corner of the United States left where the money is still flowing as fast as ever it did. California and the Klondike and the oil country and the rest of them have been exploited till the newcomer hasn’t a ghost of a show. But Florida is left. Why, I was talking to a chap here in Beemis who was just back from there. He told me ——”
ref: 1925, The Saturday Evening Post, G. Graham, page 6:
glosses: Excessively cold.
distrails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of distrail
lickpennies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lickpenny
lickpenny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lickpennies
Etymology: From lick + penny.
Senses: examples: text: For well London Lykke-peny for ones and eye, / For lake of money I may not spede.
ref: 15th century, anonymous author, London Lickpenny:
text: […] at Smyrna, you talked of a lawsuit—law is a lickpenny, Mr Tyrrel—no counsellor like the pound in purse.
ref: 1823, Sir Walter Scott, Saint Ronan's Well:
glosses: Something that devours or absorbs lots of money; something expensive.
examples: text: The Scotsmen, being lickpennies by nature, rode off without paying their bill!
ref: 2014, Gavin Wood, The Fate of the Jacobite Grenadiers:
glosses: A miserly person.
Related terms: english: An entity which consumes time or resources
translation: An entity which consumes time or resources
word: black hole
word: money pit
lickpenny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lickpenny
form: most lickpenny
Etymology: From lick + penny.
Senses: examples: text: His pouch was now all void and empty, his future years were like to be sour, thoughty, and woe-begone, and himself a cumberworld, unsicker of his scarce and slender livelihood in lickpenny London, forced to beg, steal, or starve, and gaping after honest death.
ref: 1894, James Hamilton Wylie, History of England under Henry the Fourth, volume 2, pages 22–23:
glosses: Expensive.
Synonyms: expensive
skeletonizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skeletonizers
Etymology: From skeletonize + -er.
Senses: glosses: Any of various moths whose larvae eat the parenchyma of leaves, leaving only the skeleton (the veins) behind.
Derived terms: almond-tree leaf skeletonizer moth
apple-and-thorn skeletonizer
apple leaf skeletonizer
birch skeletonizer
blackberry skeletonizer
fig-tree skeletonizer moth
grapeleaf skeletonizer
maple trumpet skeletonizer moth
oak leaf skeletonizer
oak skeletonizer
oak-ribber skeletonizer
skullcap skeletonizer moth
western grapeleaf skeletonizer
skeletonizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skeletonizer
good now
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Good now, some excellent fortune! Let mee
be married to three Kings in a forenoone, and Widdow them[…]
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: Well, good now, Mr. Jenkins have you seen Tim?
ref: 1748, Samuel Foote, The Knights:
glosses: An exclamation of wonder, surprise, or pleading.
parenchymas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parenchyma
parenchymata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parenchyma
dispope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dispopes
form: dispoping
form: dispoped
form: dispoped
Etymology: From dis- + pope.
Senses: examples: text: Tut, tut, I have absolved thee: dost thou scorn me, / Because I had my Canterbury pallium / From one whom they dispoped?
ref: 1877, Alfred Tennyson, Harold: A Drama, London: Henry S. King & Co., →OCLC, Act III, scene i, page 76:
synonyms: unpope
glosses: To reject or eject as a pope; to depose from popedom.
dispoped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dispope
dispopes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dispope
dispoping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dispope
swingtree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swingtrees
Etymology: From swing + tree.
Senses: examples: text: In this mode of yoking, the horses work in unicorn-team, the middle horse pulling by the soam- chain, instead of the swingtree
ref: 1858, James Slight, Robert Scott Burn, The Book of Farm Implements and Machines:
glosses: The bar of a carriage to which the traces are fastened.
Synonyms: draft-bar
singletree
swingletree
whiffletree
whippletree
swingtrees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swingtree
selectedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From selected + -ly.
Senses: glosses: selectively; involving special selection
Greek calends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Greek kalends
Etymology: Calque of Latin ad kalendās Graecās; unlike the Roman calendar, the Greek calendar had no calends.
Senses: examples: text: Blockheads, friends of my heart and liver, cousins of my tripe, are you ignorant that this symposium is as authentic as any of those tales of the Greek Calends, which you swallow and digest so easily, [...]?
ref: 1923, [François Béroalde de Verville], “Origin of the Decretals”, in Arthur Machen, transl., Fantastic Tales or The Way to Attain—a Book Full of Pantagruelism Now Done for the First Time in English, Carbonnek [i.e., London]: Privately printed, →OCLC, page 98:
text: My book with Professor [John Ronald Reuel] Tolkien – any book in collaboration with that great but dilatory and unmethodical man – is dated, I fear, to appear on the Greek Kalends!
ref: 1950 January 12, C[live] S[taples] Lewis, “Letters: 1950 [To Sister Penelope CSMV (BOD)]”, in Walter Hooper, editor, The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis, volumes III (Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963), New York, N.Y.: HarperSanFrancisco, HarperCollins, →ISBN, pages 5–6:
glosses: A time that never occurs; never; when pigs fly.
computistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From computistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In terms of computation.
rethicken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rethickens
form: rethickening
form: rethickened
form: rethickened
Etymology: From re- + thicken.
Senses: glosses: To thicken again.
rethickens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rethicken
rethickening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rethicken
rethickened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rethicken
dehuller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dehullers
Etymology: From dehull + -er.
Senses: examples: a rice dehuller
glosses: A machine that removes hulls.
dehullers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dehuller
postliminiary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the right of postliminium.
Related terms: postliminary
redented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more redented
form: most redented
Etymology: From Old French redent. See redan.
Senses: examples: text: redented corner
text: redented line
text: redented tomb
text: redented stupa
topics: architecture
glosses: Shaped like the teeth of a saw; serrated.
go potty
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes potty
form: going potty
form: went potty
form: gone potty
Etymology: From use of potty as a diminutive form of chamber pot.
Senses: examples: text: I have to go potty!
text: I simply came outside to go potty, and found myself abandoned, having to rely totally on my primal urges! ... Like the sudden urge to go potty again.
ref: 2000 October 4, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic):
glosses: To go and use the potty: to leave in order to urinate or defecate.
Synonyms: use the toilet
defecate
and Thesaurus:urinate
go potty
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes potty
form: going potty
form: went potty
form: gone potty
Etymology: From British use of potty as slang for insane, probably under influence from petty.
Senses: examples: text: 'That was the worst thing,' says Adrian. 'My mother just went potty. She said he was going to rot in hell for that.
ref: 2008 May 31, Elizabeth Day, Graham Keeley, “My father, RD Laing: 'he solved other people's problems - but not his own'”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: flip one's wig
word: flip out
word: freak out
word: get one's freak on
word: go ballistic
word: go bananas
word: go berserk
word: go bonkers
word: go crazy
word: go HAM
word: go H.A.M.
word: go ham
word: go mad
word: go nuts
word: go potty
word: lose it
word: lose one's marbles
word: lose one's mind
word: run amok
word: take leave of one's senses
glosses: To go crazy: to become insane.
thunder pot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thunder pots
Senses: glosses: A chamber pot.
paralogies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paralogy
nitriaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nitriary
nitriary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nitriaries
Etymology: From nitre and -ary.
Senses: glosses: An artificial bed of animal matter for the manufacture of nitre by nitrification.
placeful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: placefuls
Etymology: From place + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: it was one of the porches about the theatre, in the which there was a certain placeful of seats for men to sit in.
ref: 1898, Nikolaus Delius, Shakespere's werke - Volume 2:
text: I'd struck a kind of a queer outfit, a placeful of "home-guards" (fellers that'd never been out of that county, pets), and any stranger that drifted in was bound to get it in the neck while there
ref: 1930, Will James, Lone cowboy: my life story, page 299:
text: But in the whole placeful there's little that's graceful
ref: 1961, Alison Adburgham, A Punch History of Manners and Modes: 1841-1940, page 137:
text: ...into studios, always a new floor to lay in the little barn, always work and a whole placeful of people needing me to be there.
ref: 1982, Kate Millett, Going to Iran, page 32:
text: In the metaphor of the labyrinth as a placeful Of dangers Dunn Consciously shows the limits of the dream of the pure painting.
ref: 2005, Richard Dunn, Ingrid Mössinger, Anne Marie Freybourg, Richard Dunn: Manifold - Paintings and Photography, page 28:
text: The third restoration project in the Medina of Marrakesh, a placeful of evocative, unique corners, partly...
ref: 2010, Graziella Leyla Ciagà, Maria Teresa Feraboli, Luigi Ferrario, page 216:
glosses: The quantity that a place contains.
beshawled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From be- + shawled.
Senses: examples: text: In front a continuous stream of hansoms and four-wheelers were rattling up, discharging their cargoes of shirt-fronted men and be-shawled, be-diamonded women.
ref: 1890 February, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “In Quest of a Solution”, in The Sign of Four (Standard Library), London: Spencer Blackett […], →OCLC, page 41:
glosses: Wearing a shawl.
hebdomadally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hebdomadal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Behold the whole huge earth sent to me hebdomadally in a brownpaper wrapper!
ref: 1848, [James Russell Lowell], “(please specify the page)”, in Homer Wilbur [pseudonym], editor, Melibœus-Hipponax. The Biglow Papers, […], Cambridge, Mass.: George Nichols, →OCLC:
glosses: In periods of seven days; weekly.
recurvous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more recurvous
form: most recurvous
Etymology: From Latin recurvus, from re- (“re”) + curvus (“curved”).
Senses: examples: text: I have observed long recurvous Tails, longer than their whole Body.
ref: 1713, W[illiam] Derham, Physico-Theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation. […], London: […] W[illiam] Innys, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: recurvate
glosses: recurved
podo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: pod-
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πούς (poús).
Senses: synonyms: pedo-
glosses: Pertaining to a foot or a footlike part.
podule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒdjuːl/
ipa: /ˈpɒd͡ʒuːl/
ipa: /ˈpɑd͡ʒul/
rhymes: -ɒdjuːl
rhymes: -ɒdʒuːl
Forms: form: podules
Etymology: Blend of pod + module
Senses: examples: text: The podules Acorn plans to release include network cards (for Econet and Ethernet), ROM cards containing application software, a MIDI (musical instrument digital interface) sound card, an extended I/O card, […]
ref: 1987, Byte, volume 12, numbers 10-11, page 126:
text: The Archimedes version of the Chromalock is a plug-in podule.
ref: 1989, Science Software, volume 5, page 231:
text: Acorn's Springboard is a PC card with an Arm chip, either 1Mbyte or 4Mbyte of ram and a 32-bit podule bus. The result is a simple and cheap multiprocessor system on a PC base[…]
ref: 1990, Electronics World + Wireless World:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An expansion mechanism for ARM-based computer systems, generally a Eurocard-compatible printed circuit board that plugs into a backplane inside the machine.
podules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of podule
teleshow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teleshows
Etymology: From tele- + show.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: a television show.
teleshows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teleshow
teleshopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teleshoppers
Etymology: From tele- + shopper.
Senses: glosses: One who engages in home shopping via television.
Related terms: teleshopping
teleshoppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teleshopper
gesling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geslings
Senses: examples: "This here's t'furst year uz geese's hed geslins sin we gate em."
glosses: A gosling.
geslings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gesling
spiritualization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spiritualizations
form: spiritualisation
Etymology: From spiritual + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The act of spiritualizing.
examples: text: On some occasions, spiritualization is indelibly connected to mind, and is seen to be “the progress of consciousness.”
ref: 2012, Zachary Simpson, Life as Art:
glosses: The state of being spiritualized.
spiritualizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spiritualization
wieldless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wieldless
form: most wieldless
Etymology: From wield + -less.
Senses: examples: text: with the weight of his owne weeldlesse might / He falleth nigh to ground, and scarse recovereth flight.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Not to be wielded; unmanageable; unwieldy.
disheart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dishearts
form: dishearting
form: dishearted
form: dishearted
Etymology: From dis- + heart.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of dishearten.
dishearted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disheart
dishearting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disheart
provocatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more provocatory
form: most provocatory
Etymology: From Late Latin provocatorius, from Latin provoco.
Senses: examples: text: provocatory actions
text: provocatory conduct
text: provocatory policy
glosses: provocative
thysanurous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Thysanura + -ous
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Thysanura (now Zygentoma), an order of insects with three long caudal filaments.
inflammableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inflammable + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: For , they ascribe to salt , tastes , and the power of coagulation ; to sulphur , as well odours as inflammableness ; and some of them ascribe to mercury , colours ; as all of them do effumability
ref: 1661, Robert Boyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-physical Doubts & Paradoxes, […], London: […] J. Cadwell for J. Crooke, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The quality of being inflammable; inflammability.
bed bugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bed bug
dubitably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dubitably
form: most dubitably
Etymology: From dubitable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Even though a claim to know may be asserted dubitably and still be counted as a scientific claim, the imagined end of the enterprise of science remains (at least in its still predominant self-understanding) certain knowledge.
ref: 1989, Lawrence E. Hazelrigg, Social Science and the Challenge of Relativism, volume 2, page 123:
antonyms: indubitably
glosses: doubtfully
manifestible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more manifestible
form: most manifestible
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of manifestable.
byssiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈsɪfəɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs
Etymology: From byssus + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Bearing a byssus or tuft.
brawlingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From brawling + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: brawlingly rude and vulgar
glosses: In a brawling manner; aggressively.
scoparin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scoparius + -in.
Senses: examples: text: Scoparin […] is used — chiefly as a constituent of scoparius — for its diuretic action in certain forms of dropsy.
ref: 1895, Henry Martyn Bracken, Outlines of Materia Medica and Pharmacology, page 255:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A yellow flavonoid gelatinous or crystalline substance found in broom (Cytisus scoparius).
Synonyms: scoparoside
unqueen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unqueens
form: unqueening
form: unqueened
form: unqueened
Etymology: From un- + queen.
Senses: examples: text: When I am dead, good Wench, / Let me be vs’d with Honor; ſtrew me ouer / With Maiden Flowers, that all the world may know / I was a chaſte Wife, to my Graue: Embalme me, / Then lay me forth (although vnqueen’d) yet like / A Queene, and Daughter to a King enterre me.
ref: 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], page 226, column 2:
glosses: To divest of the rank or authority of queen.
topics: agriculture
beekeeping
business
lifestyle
glosses: to remove the queen bee
Coordinate terms: unking
unqueened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unqueen
unqueening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unqueen
unqueens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unqueen
drein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dreins
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of drain.
drein
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dreins
form: dreining
form: dreined
form: dreined
Senses: examples: text: At leaſt, I'm ſure I can fiſh it out of her. She's the very Sluce to her Lady's Secrets;—'Tis but ſetting her Mill agoing, and I can drein her of 'em all.
ref: 1693, Will[iam] Congreve, The Old Batchelour, a Comedy. […], London: […] Peter Buck, […], →OCLC, Act V, scene i, page 45:
glosses: Obsolete form of drain.
dreined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of drein
dreining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of drein
dreins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of drein
heterogangliate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hetero- + gangliate.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having the ganglia of the nervous system arranged in an asymmetrical manner; said of certain invertebrate animals such as the cuttlefish
Related terms: homogangliate
infrabranchial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From infra- + branchial.
Senses: examples: text: infrabranchial cavity
text: infrabranchial chamber
text: infrabranchial sinus
text: infrabranchial space
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Below the gills
nutritively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nutritive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Concerning, or in terms of, nutrition.
Synonyms: nutritionally
electrogilding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + gilding.
Senses: glosses: Gilding by means of electricity; electroplating with gold.
intermeddlesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more intermeddlesome
form: most intermeddlesome
Etymology: From intermeddle + -some.
Senses: synonyms: meddlesome
meddling
kibitzing
glosses: Inclined or disposed to intermeddle.
Derived terms: intermeddlesomeness
unbowel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unbowels
form: unboweling
form: unbowelling
form: unboweled
form: unboweled
form: unbowelled
form: unbowelled
Etymology: From un- + bowel.
Senses: examples: text: they ransacke all the corners of the shippe, vnbowel her inmost celles
ref: 1600, John King, Lectures upon Jonas, delivered at Yorke:
glosses: To deprive of the entrails; to disembowel.
unbowelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unbowel
unbowelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unbowel
unbowels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unbowel
eldning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eldnyng
form: elduring
form: eldling
Etymology: From Middle English elning, elnung, from Old English ellnung, elnung (“encouragement, comfort, consolation, emulation, hot emulation, zeal, envy”), from elnian (“to emulate, endeavor to be equal, be zealous, strive with zeal after another, make strong, strengthen, comfort oneself, gain strength”) (compare Old English ellen (“zeal, strength, power, vigor, valor, courage, fortitude, strife, contention”)), equivalent to elne + -ing. Cognate with Scots eldning (“jealousy”).
Senses: glosses: Envy; jealousy; suspicion.
elne
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: elnes
form: elning
form: elned
form: elned
Etymology: From Middle English elnen, from Old English elnian (“to emulate, endeavor to be equal, be zealous, strive with zeal after another, make strong, strengthen, comfort oneself, gain strength”), from Proto-West Germanic *alljanōn, from Proto-Germanic *aljanōną (“to strengthen, encourage”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“to grow, nourish”). Cognate with Old High German ellinōn (“to emulate, strive”), Icelandic elna (“to grow stronger”), Gothic 𐌰𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽𐍉𐌽 (aljanōn, “to emulate”). See ellen.
Senses: glosses: To strengthen; hearten; comfort; encourage.
Derived terms: eldning
elning
elne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English elne, ellen, from Old English ellen (“zeal, strength, power, vigor, valor, courage, fortitude, strife, contention”). More at ellen.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ellen.
elning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English elning, elnung, from Old English elnung (“encouragement, comfort, consolation, emulation, hot emulation, zeal, envy”), equivalent to elne + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Comfort; grace.
Related terms: eldning
burglarer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burglarers
Senses: glosses: A burglar.
burglarers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burglarer
dermestoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Dermestes + -oid
Senses: examples: text: The carpet-beetle, which is commonly, but with no good reason, called the buffalo-moth, is a dermestoid beetle.
ref: April 1887, Popular Science Monthly:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: dermestic
glosses: Pertaining to or resembling the genus Dermestes.
helpee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helpees
Etymology: From help + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who is helped.
Related terms: helper
helpees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of helpee
helpingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more helpingly
form: most helpingly
Etymology: From helping + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a way that helps.
Synonyms: helpfully
horntail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horntails
Etymology: From horn + tail.
Senses: glosses: The wood wasp.
horntails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horntail
hygienism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hygiene + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The new hygienism beginning in the 1890s, on the other hand, dealt with the most private and intimate: clothing, the bedroom, personal cleanliness.
ref: 2005, Miriam R. Levin, Cultures of Control, page 96:
glosses: The practice of hygiene.
inclemently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inclemently
form: most inclemently
Etymology: From inclement + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an inclement manner.
inorganity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪnɔː(ɹ)ˈɡænɪti/
Etymology: From inorgan(ic) + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: the inorganity of the soul
ref: 1642, [Thomas Browne], “(please specify the page)”, in Religio Medici, London: […] Andrew Crooke, →OCLC:
glosses: The quality of being inorganic.
microphonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From microphone + -ics or micro- + phonics.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The phenomenon where certain components in electronic devices transform mechanical vibrations into an unwanted electrical signal.
glosses: The science of amplifying sound, or of microphones generally.
Synonyms: sense: translation of vibrations into electrical signal
word: microphony
overpassionate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overpassionate
form: most overpassionate
Etymology: From over- + passionate.
Senses: glosses: Excessively passionate.
Derived terms: overpassionately
phototypy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The art or process of producing phototypes.
rebiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rebite
rebiting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rebitings
Senses: examples: text: The fact is that a considerable number of Rembrandt's original coppers are still in material existence, though the greater part of them have been so much deteriorated by wear, and so injured by retouchings and rebitings, as to be artistically valueless.
ref: 1886, Philip Gilbert Hamerton, Etchings & Etchers:
glosses: The process of deepening worn lines in an etched plate by submitting it to the action of acid again.
rebitings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rebiting