cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
foreshape
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foreshapes
form: foreshaping
form: foreshaped
form: foreshaped
Etymology: From fore- + shape.
Senses: examples: text: Thought forecasts and foreshapes experiment, and traces out the consequences as they arise, comparing them with the sharp directness of its expectations.
ref: 1867, The British controversialist and literary magazine, page 403:
text: What the self is to become thereby ceases to be a fate that haunts it or lies ambuscaded in its circumstances, for the self can foreshape its own career and reality.
ref: 1998, J. Melvin Woody, Freedom's Embrace - Page 79:
text: Thou canst foreshape thy word; The poet is not lord […]
ref: 2002, Bridget Boardman, Poems of Francis Thompson - Page 80:
glosses: To shape or mould beforehand; prepare in advance.
foreshape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fore- + shape.
Senses: examples: text: [...] wherein this component means is in the form of a module, structurally comprises the forward nose portion of said weapon, and has a lenticular cross section with a foreshape conforming to a Sears-Haack half-body profile of least drag in width and thickness, [...]
ref: 1982, Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office: Patents, volume 1018, number 1, page 158:
glosses: A forward or projecting form, piece, or shape.
surprisement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From surprise + -ment.
Senses: glosses: Action of surprising.
qabalistical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more qabalistical
form: most qabalistical
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cabalistic.
cabalistical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cabalistical
form: most cabalistical
Etymology: From cabalistic + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Not that the gift of decyphering written characters – a gift among the commonalty of that day considered little less cabalistical than the art of inditing – could, in strict justice, have been laid to the charge of either disciple of the sea […].
ref: 1835, Edgar Allan Poe, King Pest:
glosses: Cabalistic.
Czechic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Czechic
form: most Czechic
Etymology: From Czech + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Czech
qabalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qabalists
Etymology: From qabal + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cabalist or Alternative form of kabbalist.
cystitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cystitis + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to cystitis.
qabalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of qabalist
cytocompatibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytocompatibilities
Etymology: From cyto- + compatibility.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The property of not being harmful to a cell; cytological compatibility.
Related terms: biocompatibility
advaunces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of advaunce
advaunces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of advaunce
abundaunces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abundaunce
acquaintaunces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acquaintaunce
cynophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cynophobic
form: most cynophobic
Etymology: From cyno- + -phobic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to cynophobia, having an irrational fear or hatred / dislike of dogs or other canines.
Synonyms: canophobic
Related terms: canophile
canophilia
canophilist
canophobe
canophobia
cynophile
cynophilia
cynophobe
cynophobia
sinophobia
Sinophobia
sinophobic
Sinophobic
admittaunces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of admittaunce
assistaunces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assistaunce
cyphering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cypher
cyphering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cypherings
Senses: examples: text: That knows the law, and writes you six fair hands,
Is a fine clerk, and has his cyphering perfect.
ref: 1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist, act I, scene 1L:
glosses: Skill in arithmetic.
cyphered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cypher
cylindricities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cylindricity
advauncing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of advaunce
advaunced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of advaunce
cycloxygenases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cycloxygenase; Alternative form of cyclooxygenases.
czarowitz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: czarowitzes
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of tsarevich.
nexūs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A structured society consists in the patterned intertwining of various nexūs with markedly diverse defining characteristics.
ref: 1978, Alfred North Whitehead, edited by David Ray Griffin and Donald W. Sherburne, Process and Reality, page 103:
text: For Brandom, social practices are then nexūs of implicit, discursive, norms (assessable as commitments with practical relations to contextual circumstances and consequences).
ref: 2013 January, Brian W. Dunst, Embodying Social Practice: Dynamically Co-Constituting Social Agency, dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Digital Commons @ University of South Florida, page 171:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: plural of nexus
ictūs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:ictūs.
glosses: plural of ictus
inforcement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inforcements
Etymology: From inforce + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: [M]en lyued ſimplye and innocentlye without inforcement of lawes, without quarellinge Judges and libelles, contente onely to ſatiſfie nature, without further vexation for knowledge of thinges to come.
ref: 1555, Peter Martyr of Angleria [i.e., Peter Martyr d’Anghiera], “The Seconde Booke of the Fyrste Decade to Ascanius Phorcia [i.e., Ascanio Sforza], Vicounte Cardinall. &c.”, in Rycharde Eden [i.e., Richard Eden], transl., The Decades of the Newe Worlde or West India, […], London: […] [Rycharde Jug for] Guilhelmi Powell, →OCLC, 1st decade, folio 8, recto:
glosses: Archaic form of enforcement.
enfancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of infancy.
encise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of incise.
encur
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: encurs
form: encurring
form: encurred
form: encurred
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of incur.
endenture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endentures
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of indenture.
endenture
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: endentures
form: endenturing
form: endentured
form: endentured
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of indenture.
enterchangeably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more enterchangeably
form: most enterchangeably
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of interchangeably.
rillet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rĭʹlĭt
ipa: /ˈɹɪlɪt/
Forms: form: rillets
form: ryllet
Etymology: From rill (“brook, rivulet, small stream”) + either -et or -let.
Senses: examples: text: From the green rivage many a fall / Of diamond rillets musical, […]
ref: 1830 June, Alfred Tennyson, “Recollections of the Arabian Nights”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, part V, page 25:
text: First, a pearly white, unrelieved, then a trace of faint darkness here and there, and finally, the fine neatly printed equations in black, with an occasional red hairline that wavered through the darker forest like a staggering rillet.
ref: 1953, Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation (1971 Panther Books publication), part II: “Search by the Foundation”, chapter 8: ‘Seldon’s Plan’, page 86, ¶ 1
glosses: A little rill.
ryllet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ryllettys
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of rillet.
ryllettys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ryllet (an obsolete spelling of rillet).
rillets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rillet
baby grands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baby grand
entr'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of entre
hæmorrhoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hæmorrhoidal
form: most hæmorrhoidal
Etymology: From hæmorrhoid + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Fallopius condems its Uſe in People who have any venereal Complaints, and others declare againſt it for People ſubject to the hæmorrhoidal Diſcharges.
ref: 1751, John Hill, chapter XVII, in A History of the Materia Medica, page 661:
glosses: Dated form of hemorrhoidal.
administr'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Such are the Opinions of Authors in Regard to this Root :Upon the whole it may be obſerved, that there is no Medicine capable of doing good, but it may alſo, improperly adminiſtr’d, do harm ; and that the more, as it is able to do the more good.
ref: 1751, John Hill, chapter XVII, in A History of the Materia Medica, page 661:
glosses: simple past and past participle of administre
querk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɜːk/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k
homophone: quirk
Forms: form: querks
form: querking
form: querked
form: querked
form: quirk
Etymology: From Middle English querken (also as querkenen), from Old Norse kvirkja (“to strangle”), from Proto-Germanic *kwirkijaną, from Proto-Germanic *kwerkō (“gullet, throat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷergʷ-, *gʷerkʷ-, *gʷerw- (“throat, neck”). Cognate with Old Frisian querka ("to strangle"; > North Frisian querke, quirke (“to querk”)), Danish kværke (“to throttle, strangle, suffocate”), Icelandic kyrkja, kvirkja (“to throttle, strangle”), Middle Low German querken (“to strangle”), Middle Low German querke, quarke (“throat, gullet”), Old High German querka, querkela (“throat, gullet”), Latin gurguliō (“throat”). More at gurgle.
Senses: glosses: To throttle; choke; stifle; suffocate.
glosses: To grunt, croak, squeal; to moan, complain; to sigh, huff; to emit a breath forcibly, as after great exertion.
glosses: To die.
Related terms: querken
querken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɜːkɪn/
ipa: /ˈkwɝkɪn/
Forms: form: querkens
form: querkening
form: querkened
form: querkened
form: quirken
Etymology: From Middle English querkenen, equivalent to querk + -en.
Senses: glosses: To querk.
glosses: To grunt; moan.
querking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of querk
querl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: querls
form: querling
form: querled
form: querled
form: quirl
Etymology: From a dialectal variant of twirl, possibly representing a blend of twirl + curl. Cognate with German querlen (“to twirl”).
Senses: examples: to querl a cord, thread, or rope
glosses: To twirl; turn or wind around; coil.
querl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: querls
form: quirl
Etymology: From a dialectal variant of twirl, possibly representing a blend of twirl + curl. Cognate with German querlen (“to twirl”).
Senses: glosses: A twist; curl.
centr'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of centre
valourous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more valourous
form: most valourous
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of valorous.
nonpneumococcal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + pneumococcal.
Senses: glosses: Not pneumococcal.
nonmeningitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + meningitic.
Senses: glosses: Not meningitic.
fraccing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I have also heard from geologists who say they spell it fraccing, and one who says it's fracting with a silent t.
ref: 2009 June 25, Ed Quillen, “Fracking, fracing or fraccing?”, in High Country News, Paonia, CO:
text: Fraccing is the process of creating cracks in underground coal seams to increase the flow and recovery of gas or oil out of a well.
ref: 2012, Queensland Government, “Hydraulic fracturing (fraccing) in CSG wells”, in Department of Environmental and Resource Management, archived from the original on 01 Apr 2011:
text: Moreover, the industry has a great deal of experience with fraccing. More than a million wells have been fracced in the United States since the first frac job six decades ago.
ref: 2012 January 3, Ralph Benko, “Daniel Yergin's The Quest”, in Forbes:
text: Fraccing fluids contain proppants that forced into the natural fractures of fissures of the rock under pressure.
ref: 2014, Alireza Bahadori, Natural Gas Processing: Technology and Engineering Design (Technology and Engineering), Gulf Professional Publishing, →ISBN:
qualifier: oil industry
glosses: Alternative spelling of fracking.
whip out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: whips out
form: whipping out
form: whipped out
form: whipped out
Senses: examples: text: He suddenly whipped out his gun and pointed it at his doctor.
text: I whipped out my wallet and laid a five-pound note on the bar.
synonyms: pull out
glosses: To pull something out with a sudden jerk.
examples: text: You need the report by this afternoon? No problem! I will whip one out for you in 10 minutes.
glosses: To complete or produce rapidly.
octatonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From octa- + tonic.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Containing eight notes.
Derived terms: octatonic scale
advauntage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: advauntages
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of advantage.
statick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of static.
altiloquence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Pompous language; lofty speech.
angelick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more angelick
form: most angelick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of angelic.
antientry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of ancientry.
erratick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more erratick
form: most erratick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of erratic.
apologetick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more apologetick
form: most apologetick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of apologetic.
Seran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A frazione in Quart, Aosta Valley autonomous region, Italy.
glosses: Alternative form of Seram (“Indonesian island”).
Sayan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Sayan Samoyedic
glosses: Of or relating to the Sayan Mountains.
Sayan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Bengali সায়ন (śaẏon).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Sanskrit.
sun cream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sun creams
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of suncream.
sun deck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sun decks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sundeck.
sun hat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sun hats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sunhat.
sun lamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sun lamps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sunlamp.
life savings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: She spent her life savings on a new car.
glosses: A large sum of money one has saved over a considerable number of years.
public service announcement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: public service announcements
form: public-service announcement
Senses: examples: text: A public service announcement followed me home the other day
 I paid it never mind, go away
ref: 2003, R.E.M., “Bad Day”, in In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988–2003:
topics: broadcasting
media
synonyms: word: PSA
glosses: An advertisement intended to serve the public interest by raising awareness of an issue, affecting public attitudes and potentially stimulating action.
misanalysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misanalyses
Etymology: From mis- + analysis.
Senses: glosses: Incorrect analysis.
Related terms: misanalyse
misanalyze
misanalyses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misanalyse
misanalyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misanalysis
misanalyse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misanalyses
form: misanalysing
form: misanalysed
form: misanalysed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of misanalyze.
misanalysed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misanalyse
misanalysing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misanalyse
coindex
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coindexes
form: coindexing
form: coindexed
form: coindexed
Etymology: From co- + index.
Senses: examples: text: In other words, if a coindexed pronoun is outside of the c-command domain of a QNP, coindexing between the two will be semantically vacuous.
ref: 2005, Daniel Büring, Binding theory, page 91:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To index together; to mark (words in a phrase) as referring to the same thing.
Related terms: coindexable
coindexation
coindexed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coindex
coindexing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coindex
coindexes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coindex
piss in someone's Cheerios
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pisses in someone's Cheerios
form: pissing in someone's Cheerios
form: pissed in someone's Cheerios
form: pissed in someone's Cheerios
form: pee in someone's Cheerios
form: pee on someone's Cheerios
form: piss on someone's Cheerios
Senses: examples: text: “Dayum, young blood, who done pissed in your Cheerios?” a voice called out from a big-body Mercedes-Benz S500 that pulled up as Jordan almost reached the corner of his block.
ref: 2010, Amaleka McCall, Price of Fame:
text: It proved the thing was mortal, not some supernatural entity set on pissing in their Cheerios the rest of their days. That alone gave Riggins something he hadn't felt in a while. Hope.
ref: 2010, Anthony E. Zuiker, Dark Origins: Level 26: Book One:
glosses: Synonym of piss in someone's cornflakes.
synonyms: word: piss in someone's cornflakes
exclusionarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more exclusionarily
form: most exclusionarily
Etymology: From exclusionary + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an exclusionary manner; so as to exclude.
unaidable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unaidable
form: most unaidable
Etymology: From un- + aidable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be aided.
uncircumstantial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + circumstantial.
Senses: glosses: Not circumstantial.
unembarrassment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + embarrassment.
Senses: glosses: Lack of embarrassment.
unguestlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unguestlike
form: most unguestlike
Etymology: From un- + guestlike.
Senses: glosses: Not guestlike; in a manner not becoming to a guest.
gourmandizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gourmandizers
Etymology: From gourmandize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: It was quite amusing, too, to see with what earnestness they disclaimed all cannibal propensities on their own part, while they denounced their enemies—the Typees—as inveterate gourmandizers of human flesh[…]
ref: 1846, Herman Melville, Typee:
glosses: One who gourmandizes.
gourmandizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gourmandizer
gourmandising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gourmandise
gourmandised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gourmandise
unfitnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unfitness
unfirmness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unfirm + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unfirm.
unfirm
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfirm
form: most unfirm
Etymology: From un- + firm.
Senses: glosses: Not firm; not strong or stable; feeble; infirm.
unhat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unhats
form: unhatting
form: unhatted
form: unhatted
Etymology: From un- + hat.
Senses: examples: text: My hat clapped on a deal faster than it had come off, for you must know we unhatted in those days with a grand, slow bow.
ref: 1902, Agnes Christina Laut, Heralds of Empire:
glosses: To take off the hat of; to remove one's hat, especially as a mark of respect.
unhats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unhat
unhatting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unhat
unhatting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unhattings
Senses: examples: text: Such extreme instances yield verifications, if there need any, of the conclusion that the mutual bows, and courtesies, and unhattings, among ourselves, are remnants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive.
ref: 1878, Popular Science, volume 13, number 9, page 162:
glosses: The removal of one's hat.
Nerys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh, probably derived from Old Welsh Generys (literally “white lady”).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Welsh.
yeron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of iron.
Yola
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from Yola yola (“old”).
Senses: synonyms: Forth and Bargy
glosses: An extinct West Germanic language formerly spoken in Wexford, Ireland.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Yola terms
yol ⁠
Yola
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The largest city and state capital of Adamawa State, Nigeria.
Derived terms: Yola North
Yola South
Yola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Jola.
Yomut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yomuts
form: Yomut
form: Yomud
Senses: glosses: A member of a particular Turkmen tribe.
unforeskinned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + foreskinned.
Senses: glosses: Not foreskinned; deprived of the foreskin; circumcised.
foreskinned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From foreskin + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Jews, in spite of centuries of circumcision, are born foreskinned like the men of other races.
ref: 1927, Clement Wood, The Outline of Man's Knowledge: The Story of History, Science, Literature, Art, Religion, Philosophy, Lewis Copeland Company, page 285:
text: To the European eye, an uncircumcised man is natural and beautiful, so now that your magazine is widely read in Europe make your sisters on the other side of the Atlantic a little happier and feature more foreskinned men.
ref: 1973, B. Braun, letter to the editor, Playgirl, Volume 3, Issue 1, page 41
text: Referring to this method, therefore, God consecrates this covenant by blood, and with plain words He adds an explanation, 'And the foreskinned male, the flesh of whose foreskin has not been circumcised, that soul will be blotted out from his people.'
ref: 2001, Peter A. Lillback, The Binding of God: Calvin's Role in the Development of Covenant Theology, Baker Academic, →ISBN, page 119:
glosses: Having a foreskin; not circumcised.
Derived terms: unforeskinned
foreskinned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From foreskin + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of foreskin.
of a surety
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: And whẽ Peter was come to hym ſilfe / he ſayde: nowe I knowe off a ſurety / that the lorde hath ſent his angell […]
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts xij:[11], folio clxxij, recto:
text: Of a surety, little Harry, we must speedily resume our studies.
ref: 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], chapter LI, in Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC, page 235:
text: In this bout I did but measure myself with him. But thereby know I of a surety that when I put forth my might he will not be able to withstand me; and all ye shall shortly behold how, as one shattereth a stalk of angelica, I will break and shatter the limbs of this Goldry Bluszco.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, pages 23–24:
glosses: For certain.
unibranchiate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + branchiate.
Senses: examples: text: Some molluscs are unibranchiate.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having only one gill.
unheired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: unaired
Etymology: From un- + heir + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: to leave him utterly unheired
ref: [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:
text: Though Joanna and Andreas had consummated their marriage, it would have been ridiculous for a queen to remain unmarried and unheired. Joanna aimed to put herself back on the royal marriage market.
ref: 2018, Tristan Palmgren, Quietus:
glosses: without an heir; heirless.
unpermissiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unpermissive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unpermissive.
Nishiyama
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
unsafety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + safety.
Senses: examples: text: [When] private men begin once to presume to give law to themselves, and to right their own wrongs, no man can foresee the dangers and inconveniences that may arise and multiply thereupon. It may cause sudden storms in Court, to the disturbance of his Majesty, and unsafety of his person.
ref: 1613, Francis Bacon, “A.D. 1613, July–December. Ætat. 53. The Charge of Sir Francis Bacon, Knight, His Majesty’s Attorney-General, Touching Duels; […].”, in James Spedding, editor, The Works of Francis Bacon, […]: The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon […], volume IV, London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, published 1858, →OCLC, page 400:
text: This sense of unsafety and instability is at the heart of the books.
ref: 2013, John Lancaster, “When did you get hooked?”, in London Review of Books, volume 35, number 7:
glosses: Lack of safety; insecurity.
unsafety
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unsafeties
form: unsafetying
form: unsafetied
form: unsafetied
Etymology: From un- + safety.
Senses: examples: text: Nathan had been lying; he'd never unsafetied the rifle.
ref: 2010, A Lincoln Rhyme eBook Boxed Set: Coffin Dancer, The Empty Chair, The Stone Monkey, page 622:
glosses: To remove the safety on a device, such as a weapon.
unseconded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈsɛkəndɪd/
Etymology: From un- + seconded.
Senses: examples: text: The motion went unseconded.
glosses: Not seconded; not supported, aided, or assisted.
examples: text: strange and unseconded shapes of worms
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Not exemplified a second time.
unthinker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unthinkers
Etymology: From un- + thinker.
Senses: synonyms: nonthinker
glosses: Someone who does not think, or does not think wisely.
unthinkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unthinker
untune
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: untunes
form: untuning
form: untuned
form: untuned
Etymology: From un- + tune.
Senses: examples: text: How could communities, […] / Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels, / But by degree, stand in authentic place? / Take but degree away, untune that string, / And, hark, what discord follows!
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
text: The Trumpet ſhall be heard on high, / The Dead ſhall live, the Living die, / And Muſick ſhall untune the Sky.
ref: (please specify the title), John Dryden, “A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day, 1687. […]”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: […] do we not see in most collections that much time disunites, untunes, blackens, and by degrees destroys even the best preserved pictures.
ref: 1753, William Hogarth, The Analysis of Beauty, London, Chapter 14, p. 119, footnote:
text: 1800, Thomas Jefferson, letter dated 4 July, 1800, in Henry S. Randall, The Life of Thomas Jefferson, New York: Derby & Jackson, 1858, Volume 2, Chapter 11, p. 565,
Our forte-piano arrived a day or two after you left us. It has been exposed to a great deal of rain, but being well covered was only much untuned.
text: The events of the last two or three years, with their record of discontent and rioting among colonial peoples, even more, perhaps, the series of official reports inquiring into the causes of these events, have untuned that old rhapsody in red, white and blue, to which our imperialists delighted to listen, and in whose magic melodies they thought they heard the beat of progress towards social liberty and welfare.
ref: 1940, Leonard Barnes, “The Uprising of Indian and Colonial Peoples”, in Where Stands Democracy?, London: Macmillan, page 63:
glosses: To cause (something) to be out of tune; to make incapable of harmony, or of harmonious action.
Synonyms: detune
distune
untuning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of untune
untunes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of untune
unsympathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + sympathy.
Senses: glosses: Lack of sympathy.
unsympathizingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unsympathizingly
form: most unsympathizingly
Etymology: From unsympathizing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: No Northern forest, rude and gloomy with pines, stood stiffly and unsympathizingly watching the graceful water, but cheerful groves and delicate coppices opened in vistas where level sunlight streamed, and barred the river with light, between belts of lightsome shadow.
ref: 1862, Theodore Winthrop, Life in the Open Air: And Other Papers, page 63:
glosses: Without sympathizing; unsympathetically.
untemperate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untemperate
form: most untemperate
Etymology: From un- + temperate.
Senses: examples: text: Why give you peace to this untemperate beast
 That hath so long transgress'd you?
ref: c. 1608–1611, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Maid’s Tragedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act V, scene i:
glosses: Obsolete form of intemperate.
untemperately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more untemperately
form: most untemperately
Etymology: From untemperate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of intemperately.
untelevisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untelevisable
form: most untelevisable
Etymology: From un- + televisable.
Senses: examples: text: Now that TV has replaced movies as the mass entertainment medium, Hollywood has responded with untelevisable sex — not Doris Day, twin-bed sex, but moaning, thrashing, rolling-around-naked sex[…]
ref: 1969, Harper's Bazaar, volume 102:
text: It soon became apparent, though, that the Shetland way of life was untelevisable, because the glibness and publicity that television brings instantly efface it.
ref: 1973, The Listener, volume 91:
text: We were very cognizant that a horrendously large part of this whole audience would be viewers on television, and so it would be foolish, I thought, to create a set that was untelevisable.
ref: 1979, Sidney Kraus, Jimmy Carter, Gerald R. Ford, The Great Debates: Carter vs. Ford, 1976:
glosses: Not televisable; unsuitable for television.
unsuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unsuits
Etymology: From un- + suit.
Senses: examples: text: unsuits, knitted or crocheted, of man-made fibres, children's wear
ref: 1971, Hong Kong Trade Statistics, page 9:
text: Made of a special cotton fabric and available in men's and women's styles, the unsuit, at a price of $35 and up, is already making its mark.
ref: 1985, Cancer News - Volumes 39-43, page 3:
text: Do not wear loose-knit bathing suits or "unsuits" that let the ultraviolet rays through the suit's material.
ref: 1988, Janice McCall Failes, Frank W. Cawood, Encyclopedia of Natural Health Secrets and Cures, page 160:
glosses: A swimsuit made of cloth that allows through UVB rays so that the wearer can tan through the suit.
examples: text: The years around 1669-1671 show a better than average share of withdrawals and unsuits.
ref: 1978, Alexander Clarence Flick, New York History: Quarterly Journal of the New York State, page 291.:
glosses: A legal suit that is dismissed by the judge.
unsuiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unsuit
unsuits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unsuit
unsuggestively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unsuggestively
form: most unsuggestively
Etymology: From unsuggestive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner that is not suggestive.
unsuggestiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unsuggestive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unsuggestive.
unacquittable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unacquittable
form: most unacquittable
Etymology: From un- + acquit + -able.
Senses: examples: text: I owe them an unacquittable debt.
glosses: That cannot be acquitted.
unacquaintance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + acquaintance.
Senses: examples: text: The first organs which Gall excogitated, he placed in the region of the sinus; and it is manifest he was then in happy unacquaintance with everything connected with that obnoxious cavity.
ref: 1859–1860, William Hamilton, edited by H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:
glosses: The state or condition of being unacquainted; unfamiliarity with something.
unbeing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈbiːɪŋ/
Forms: form: unbeings
Etymology: From Middle English unbeing, equivalent to un- + being.
Senses: examples: text: What we fear most is not death itself but the prospect of not being, or rather of unbeing, a state where we altogether cease to exist. The idea of unbeing is so alien to us that we find it almost impossible to conceive.
ref: 1997, Migene González-Wippler, What happens after death, page 3:
glosses: Nonexistence.
examples: text: The house is pale as though its life-blood were sucked and the Cabots reduced to unbeings.
ref: 1987, Hari Mohan Prasad, The Dramatic Art of Eugene O'Neill, page 23:
glosses: A nonbeing; an entity of no existence or significance.
unbeing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈbiːɪŋ/
Etymology: From Middle English unbeing, equivalent to un- + being.
Senses: examples: text: Beings yet unbeing
ref: c. 1670s (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “(please specify the section)”, in John Jeffery, editor, Christian Morals, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] [A]t the University-Press, for Cornelius Crownfield printer to the University; and are to be sold by Mr. Knapton […]; and Mr. [John] Morphew […], published 1716, →OCLC:
glosses: Not in existence, nonexistent.
unalmsed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + alms + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: He sat among his bags, and, with a look Which hell might be ashamed of, drove the poor Away unalmsed.
ref: 1827, Robert Pollok, The Course of Time:
glosses: Not having received alms.
unbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unbeds
form: unbedding
form: unbedded
form: unbedded
Etymology: From un- + bed.
Senses: examples: text: Eels unbed themselves and stir at the noise of thunder.
ref: 1653, Iz[aak] Wa[lton], The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, […], London: […] T. Maxey for Rich[ard] Marriot, […], →OCLC; reprinted as The Compleat Angler (Homo Ludens; 6), Nieuwkoop, South Holland, Netherlands: Miland Publishers, 1969, →ISBN:
glosses: To raise or rouse from bed.
unbeds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unbed
unbedded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unbed
unbedded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The dress implies that the Queen is a virgin, but also a perpetually unbedded bride.
ref: 2006, J. B. Lethbridge, Edmund Spenser: New and Renewed Directions, page 240:
glosses: Not bedded.
unbedding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unbed
undergrove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undergroves
Etymology: From under- + grove.
Senses: examples: text: I sat within an undergrove
Of tallest hollies, tall and green;
A fairer bower was never seen.
ref: 1815, William Wordsworth, A whirl-blast:
glosses: A grove of shrubs or low trees under taller ones.
undergrowths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undergrowth
undergown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undergowns
Etymology: From under- + gown.
Senses: examples: text: an undergown and kirtle of pale sea-green silk
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: A gown worn under another, or under some other article of dress.
undergowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undergown
undergroves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undergrove
Dost
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dosts
Etymology: Borrowed from German Dost (“wild thyme”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
unquieted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unquiet
underbranch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underbranches
Etymology: From under- + branch.
Senses: glosses: A lower branch.
examples: text: under-branches ere can bee
Of worth and value as the tree
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A twig or branchlet.
underbranches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underbranch
underminister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underministers
Etymology: From under- + minister.
Senses: glosses: A minister who is subordinate to another.
underministers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underminister
nonsubordinates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonsubordinate
nuevo sol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nuevo sols
form: nuevos soles
Senses: glosses: The currency of Peru (symbol PEN; currency sign S/).
pistle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪsl̩/
ipa: /ˈpɪs(ə)l/
rhymes: -ɪsəl
Forms: form: pistles
Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English pistel, pistle (“letter; epistle”) [and other forms], from Old English pistol (“letter, epistle”), an aphetic form of epistol, epistola, from Latin epistola (“letter, epistle; literary work in letter form”): see further at epistle.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Cognates
Scots pistil, pistle
Senses: examples: text: when they were departed / they cam to Antioche and gaddred the multitude togedder and delivered the piſtle.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts xv:[30], folio clxxvij, verso:
glosses: Synonym of epistle.
synonyms: word: epistle
glosses: A story conveyed verbally.
pistle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪsl̩/
ipa: /ˈpɪs(ə)l/
rhymes: -ɪsəl
Forms: form: pistles
form: pistling
form: pistled
form: pistled
Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English pistel, pistle (“letter; epistle”) [and other forms], from Old English pistol (“letter, epistle”), an aphetic form of epistol, epistola, from Latin epistola (“letter, epistle; literary work in letter form”): see further at epistle.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Cognates
Scots pistil, pistle
Senses: glosses: To write about (someone or something) in, or in the form of, a letter.
pistles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pistle
underboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underboards
Etymology: From under- + board.
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A board that lies beneath something.
Related terms: subfloor
underlayment
underboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underboard
underofficer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underofficers
Etymology: From under- + officer.
Senses: glosses: A subordinate officer.
glosses: student officer
currency sign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: currency signs
Senses: glosses: Any graphic symbol used as a shorthand for a currency's name, especially in reference to amounts of money.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: text encoding
glosses: A specific graphic symbol (¤) which replaced the dollar sign ($) in some international text encoding systems, starting with ISO 646.
Synonyms: alt: ¤
word: louse
word: sputnik
word: currency symbol
word: currency placeholder
Related terms: currency code
underofficers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underofficer
underletter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underletters
Etymology: From underlet + -er.
Senses: topics: law
property
synonyms: word: sublessor
word: underlessor
word: sublandlord
word: underlandlord
word: subletter
word: subleaser
word: underleaser
word: head tenant
english: as tenant
translation: as tenant
word: superior tenant
word: sublessor
glosses: Synonym of sublessor.
underletters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underletter
underleaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underleaves
Etymology: From under- + leaf.
Senses: glosses: A lower leaf on a plant.
glosses: A prolific kind of cider apple.
underleaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underleaf
undertakable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From undertake + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being undertaken; practicable.
undertenants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undertenant
undertenancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undertenancies
Etymology: From under- + tenancy.
Senses: topics: law
property
synonyms: word: sublease
word: underlease
word: subtenancy
word: subletting
word: underletting
word: sublet
word: underlet
word: sublease
glosses: Synonym of sublease.
undertenancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undertenancy
underprize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underprizes
form: underprizing
form: underprized
form: underprized
Etymology: From under- + prize.
Senses: examples: text: […] Yet look, how far / The substance of my praise doth wrong this shadow / In underprizing it, so far this shadow / Doth limp behind the substance.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: […] euery man ouer-ualuing his owne worth, would be a Commander: euery man vnder prizing anothers value, denied to be commanded.
ref: 1625, “English Plantations, Discoveries, Acts, and Occurrents, in Virginia and Summer Ilands since the Yeere 1606 till 1624”, in Samuel Purchas, editor, Purchas His Pilgrimes, Part 4 in Five Bookes, London: Henry Fetherstone, Chapter 6, Section 4, p. 1756:
text: Teach me to underprize this life, and I / Shall finde my loſſe the eaſier, vvhen I dye; […]
ref: 1631, Fra[ncis] Quarles, “Sect[ion] 23. Meditat[ion] 23.”, in The Historie of Samson, London: […] M[iles] F[lesher] for Iohn Marriott, […], →OCLC, page 142:
text: No: it would never do to underprize this proof of good will or to read in Liane’s warning any spirit but one of the most earnest anxiety.
ref: 1923, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter 14, in The Lone Wolf Returns, New York: Grosset & Dunlap:
text: I underprized your far-out, blathering genius.
ref: 1996, Seamus Heaney, “An Invocation”, in The Spirit Level, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 32:
glosses: To undervalue; to underestimate.
underprizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underprize
underprizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underprize
underprized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underprize
nonderivatized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + derivatized.
Senses: glosses: Not derivatized.
undersongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undersong
underscrupulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underscrupulous
form: most underscrupulous
Etymology: From under- + scrupulous.
Senses: examples: text: […] like most of the overpaid and underscrupulous bastards Arthur knew in advertising, […]
ref: 1984, Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), page 40:
glosses: Insufficiently scrupulous.
underhonest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underhonest
form: most underhonest
Etymology: From under- + honest.
Senses: examples: text: […] we think him over-proud
And under-honest,
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
text: Clinical research is never perfect so there is no need to pretend otherwise. Avoid being underhonest. Acknowledge the little errors.
ref: 1998, Warren S. Browner, chapter 4, in Publishing and Presenting Clinical Research, Baltimore: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, page 39:
glosses: Not entirely honest.
underholing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underhole