cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sennachy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sennachies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of seannachie.
uncolted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + colt + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Thou liest, thou art not colted, thou art / uncolted. / I prithee good Prince Hal, help me to my / horse, good king's son.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], line 38:
glosses: unhorsed
scrupulize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scrupulizes
form: scrupulizing
form: scrupulized
form: scrupulized
Senses: examples: text: Articles that eyther are of may be ſo scrupulized
ref: 1625, Richard Montagu, Appello Caesarem: a just Appeale from two unjust Informers:
glosses: To perplex with scruples; to regard with scruples.
scrupulized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scrupulize
scrupulizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scrupulize
scrupulizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scrupulize
sermoneer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sermoneers
Etymology: From sermon + -eer?
Senses: examples: text: you leave For sermoneers
ref: a. 1638 (date written), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Under-woods. Consisting of Divers Poems. (please specify the poem)”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640, →OCLC:
glosses: A sermonizer.
sermoneers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sermoneer
pseudostoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudostomata
Etymology: From pseudo- + stoma.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A group of cells resembling a stoma, but without any true aperture among them.
pseudostomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudostoma
pluralizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pluralizers
Etymology: From pluralize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: In verbs, where it occupies suffix position 5, its occurrence as pluralizer of a third person expressed by a prefix is highly restricted; cf. 5.451. Instead, in verbs, it seems on the way to becoming a person marker (rather than a mere pluralizer) for the second person plural exclusive;
ref: 1973, Hans Cristoph Wolfart, Plains Cree, page 49:
text: The pluralizer is most frequently used with animate nouns, but this is not always the case, e.g. Nigerian PE 'dè nyám dḝm ' 'the yams'.
ref: 2000, John Holm, An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles, page 215:
text: The evidence in chapter 15 suggests that the suffix -z is the unmarked pluralizer; yet , of our six verbs , only two take it .
ref: 2022, Rudolf P.G. De Rijk, Standard Basque: A Progressive Grammar, page 118:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A syntactic marker that indicates something is plural; a plural marker.
examples: text: It is after all Freud—with his confusing picture of inversion's genealogy in the first few pages of the Three Essays, especially in footnotes added in 1910, 1915, and 1920—who can be considered the first pluralizer of homosexuality.
ref: 2009, Leo Bersani, Homos, page 104:
text: Such images, uncannily assimilating TV to the numinous, to angelic visitations, or even to death itself, graphically demonstrate the TV functions in postmodernism not just as one pluralizer among others, but as the figure of ontological plurality itself.
ref: 2012, Brian McHale, Constructing Postmodernism, page 131:
text: Pluralism is both a process and an intentional mid-point that will involve a multilevel process of public debate on matters of morals, the place of religion in public discourse, and a continual reworking of both the content of liberal values and the methods by which they might be put into practice. This is the distinction between the pluralist and the pluralizer.
ref: 2014, Peter Admirand, Loss and Hope, page 168:
text: Rather than a philosopher or a pluralizer, I may be more of an empiricist, insofar as my aim is not to rediscover the eternal or the universal, but to find the conditions under which something new is produced (creativeness) .
ref: 2016, Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts, page 128:
glosses: Someone or something that highlights or embodies plurality, diversity, or multiple perspectives; an agent or proponent of pluralism.
pluralizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pluralizer
surceasance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: surceasance of war
ref: 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, 5th book, page 689:
glosses: cessation; halting
May-day sweep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /meɪ deɪ swiːp/
ipa: /meɪ deɪ swip/
Forms: form: May-day sweeps
form: May Day sweep
Etymology: From May Day (“workers' spring holiday”) + sweep (“ellipsis of chimney sweep”).
Senses: examples: text: The common herd of mortals invent excuses : they shuffle like a May-day sweep, and lie like the prospectus of a new Magazine.
ref: 1823, New Monthly Magazine, volume 8, page 355:
text: […] preceded by a drum and fife, and followed by the successful marksman, who, dressed out with flowers and ribands as fantastically as a May-day sweep in England, expressed his joy by dancing and pirouetting amidst his friends, who congratulated and cheered him.
ref: 1829, W. Brockedon, The Passes of the Alps, printed in The London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, page 345 http://books.google.com/books?id=hSMAAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22May%20Day%20sweep%22&pg=PA344#v=onepage&q=%22May%20Day%20sweep%22&f=false
text: Thanks to certain alchemic pens, which have touched even garbage to gold-paper, murder has been as fine, and withal as jocund among us, as a May-day sweep.
ref: 1843, Punch, volume 5, page 158:
text: Brown and Emily Bustleton are whirling round as light as two pigeons over a dove-cot; Tozer, with that wicked whisking little Jones, spins along as merrily as a May-day sweep; Miss Joy is The partner of the happy Fred.
ref: 1847, Littell's Living Age, volume 12, page 296:
text: […] but anything would have been better than sitting at table with a thing only fit for a May-day sweep on one's head.
ref: 1876, Lady Barker, The Kafir at Home, printed in The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, volume 23 (87?), page 221 http://books.google.com/books?id=YbkmAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22May%20Day%20sweep%22&pg=PP15#v=onepage&q=%22May%20Day%20sweep%22&f=false
qualifier: largely historical
glosses: One of the sweeps (chimney sweeps), clad in bright clothes and garlands and carrying a blackened broom, in a May Day parade.
May Day sweep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: May Day sweeps
Senses: examples: text: But to a child's vision at least those May Day sweeps did much to brighten the city dullness, and year by year I watched for them eagerly from the window.
ref: 1925, Anne Carroll Moore, The three owls: a book about children's books, their authors, artists and critics, volume 1, page 305:
glosses: Alternative form of May-day sweep.
May-day sweeps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of May-day sweep
May Day sweeps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of May Day sweep
begarlanded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From be- + garland + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Decorated with garlands.
blanketly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From blanket + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: That foul culpability went unaddressed by John Paul II. Not so much glossed over as blanketly ignored.
ref: 2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 161:
text: to blanketly apply a rule
glosses: In a blanket manner: in a manner that covers or encompasses all of the things under consideration (sometimes despite differences among the various things).
at table
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: sitting at table with a servant
text: […] but anything would have been better than sitting at table with a thing only fit for a May-day sweep on one's head.
ref: 1876, Lady Barker, The Kafir at Home, printed in The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, volume 23 (87?), page 221 http://books.google.com/books?id=YbkmAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22May%20Day%20sweep%22&pg=PP15#v=onepage&q=%22May%20Day%20sweep%22&f=false
text: But she managed not to cry for she knew that would not do at table.
ref: 1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 92:
glosses: Eating a meal at a table, especially with others.
examples: ref: 1922, C. Herman Senn, M.B.E., F.R.H.S., editor, The Art of the Table; including How to Wait at Table, How to Fold Napkins, and How to Carve:
glosses: Preparing and serving the table for a meal, usually formal.
Related terms: seat at the table
FCI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Federal Correctional Institutions.
examples: text: Social assistance payments are being digitized for the first time under Angola’s first poverty-targeted cash transfer project, Kwenda, which started in May 2020 as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Through the Government-to-Person (G2P) Payments initiative, the World Bank’s Finance, Competitiveness & Innovation Global Practice, or FCI, and the Social Protection and Jobs engagements in Angola have come together to advance the agenda on payments digitization.
ref: 2022 March 15, “Government-to-Person (G2P) Payments: How is Angola Reaching the Poor and Vulnerable During COVID-19?”, in World Bank, United States, archived from the original on 06 Sep 2025:
glosses: Initialism of Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation.
FPC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FPCs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of federal prison camp.
glosses: Initialism of flexible printed circuit.
hijabista
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hijabistas
Etymology: Blend of hijab + fashionista.
Senses: examples: text: With the rise of Muslim fashion blogs, hijabistas asserting their tastes, and Muslim women designers making their mark, Muslimahs nowadays have more fashion and style choices than ever before.
ref: 2011, Adline A. Ghani, "Asian Muslim Women's Fashions of the Past", Aquila, May/June 2011
glosses: A Muslim woman or girl who dresses stylishly while conforming to the Islamic modesty code (hijab).
hijabistas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hijabista
fatshionista
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fatshionistas
Etymology: Blend of fat + fashionista.
Senses: examples: text: If fatshionistas are willing to pay for luxury goods, why won't the industry make them for them? It's not like those companies are rolling in it right now.
ref: 2009 June 25, Amy Odell, “‘Fat-shionistas’ Band Together for Full-Figured Fashion Week”, in New York Magazine:
glosses: An overweight person interested in fashion; a plus-size fashionista.
fatshionistas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fatshionista
war hammers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of war hammer
plus-size
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of plus size.
war graves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of war grave
war cemeteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of war cemetery
veterinary technicians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of veterinary technician
vector sums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vector sum
vacant lots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vacant lot
upblown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of upblow
upblows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upblow
upblowing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more upblowing
form: most upblowing
Etymology: From upblow + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: […] the ever-changing panorama of the seasons, with the green spring, yellow summer, and the purple autumn, always rejoicing in the vales; and the white winter always, if not only, frosting the loftiest summits above them, cooling the down-flowing waters, and the upblowing winds, and imaging to the pure below the still greater purity of the regions to which they point: […]
ref: 1864, The Evangelical Quarterly Review, volumes 15-16, page 52:
glosses: Blowing in an upward direction
upblowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From upblow + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upblow
upblowing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upblowings
Etymology: From upblow + -ing or up- + blowing.
Senses: glosses: An act or instance of blowing up
assisted reproductive technology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assisted reproductive technologies
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any technological means of inducing pregnancy, for example by artificial insemination.
coridine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corindine
Etymology: From Latin cortium (“leather”), referring to its odour.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A colourless or yellow oil (C₁₀H₁₅N) found in coal tar, Dippel's oil, tobacco smoke, etc., regarded as an organic base homologous with pyridine.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a series of metameric compounds of which coridine is a type.
algarovilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Agglutinated seeds and husks of various leguminous trees (such as Chloroleucon mangense), formerly used for tanning leather and as a dye.
glosses: Alternative form of algarobilla.
microbian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From microbe + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: the microbian theory
text: a microbian body
text: a microbian disease
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, or caused by, microbes; microbial.
arrowsmiths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arrowsmith
nonelliptically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From non- + elliptically.
Senses: glosses: In a way that is not elliptical; without ellipsis.
cony-catching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coney-catching
form: conicatching
form: cunny-catching
Senses: examples: text: Come, you are so full of conicatching.
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: I doe beware and keepe my selfe from such treasons, and cunny-catching in mine owne bosome, not by an unquiet, and tumultuary curiosity, but rather by a diversion and resolution.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter VIII, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: Deception, trickery.
cunny-catching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cony-catching.
fragilization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fragilizations
Etymology: From fragile + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: Taylor locates religious metaphorphosis^([sic]) in the nova effect, triggered, somewhat paradoxically, by the secular and naturalistic fragilizations of religion.
ref: 2010, Michael S. Hogue, The Promise of Religious Naturalism, page 15:
text: Brittle radial hydrides that are perpendicular to the main (hoop) stress contribute to cladding fragilization, although clad rupture caused by radial hydrides during the quenching phase of a RIA has never been reported.
ref: 2010, Dan Gabriel Cacuci, Handbook of Nuclear Engineering: Volume 2, page 1609:
glosses: The act or process of making fragile.
fragilizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fragilization
muscallonge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muscallonges
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of muskellunge.
Slavism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslɑːvɪzm/
Forms: form: Slavisms
form: Sclavism
Etymology: From Slav + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A linguistic feature of one or more Slavic languages, especially a Slavic idiom or phrasing that appears in a non-Slavic language.
glosses: An attitude, custom, or other feature that is characteristically Slavic.
glosses: Esteem for and emulation of Slavic culture and politics.
Derived terms: Church Slavism
Related terms: pan-Slavism
perichaetia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perichaetium
perichaetium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perichaetia
Etymology: From peri- (“around”) + χαίτη (khaítē, “flowing hair, foliage”) + -ium (“structure”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: perichaeth
Derived terms: perichaetous
disthene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disthenes
Etymology: Ancient Greek twice + force: compare French disthène. So called in allusion to its unequal hardness in two different directions, or from its positive and negative electric properties.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Kyanite.
disthenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disthene
antalgic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antalgic
form: most antalgic
Etymology: From anti- + Ancient Greek ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”) + -ic. Compare French antalgique.
Senses: examples: text: The supine patient's head rests on a pillow supporting the flexed antalgic position
ref: 2007, Craig Liebenson, Rehabilitation of the Spine:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: alleviating pain
antalgic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antalgics
Etymology: From anti- + Ancient Greek ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”) + -ic. Compare French antalgique.
Senses: examples: text: Degree of patient satisfaction was noted, as were need of antalgics and duration of treatment with antalgics or anti-inflammatory agents
ref: 2017, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: Any medicine to alleviate pain; an anodyne.
antalgics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antalgic
epiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊtɪk
-ɒtɪk
Forms: form: epiotics
Etymology: From epi- + otic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The upper and outer element of periotic bone, in humans forming a part of the temporal bone.
Coordinate terms: opisthotic
prootic
epiotics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epiotic
flox silk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of floss silk.
SYLK
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Clipping of symbolic link.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A simple text file format for exchanging spreadsheet data.
ununifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ununifiable
form: most ununifiable
Etymology: From un- + unifiable.
Senses: examples: text: The word 'dilemma,' however, does not accurately convey what James was (or this book has been) describing, for, strictly, a dilemma constitutes a rigid fixing of two separated and ununifiable points, as the two points of a bull's horns are wont to be[…]
ref: 1981, Horace Standish Thayer, Meaning and action: a critical history of pragmatism, page 419:
antonyms: indivisible
unifiable
glosses: Impossible to unify.
truffle hogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of truffle hog
unharbour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unharbours
form: unharbouring
form: unharboured
form: unharboured
form: unharbor
Etymology: From un- + harbour.
Senses: glosses: To drive from harbour or shelter.
unharboured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unharbour
unharboured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + harboured.
Senses: examples: text: And like a quiver'd nymph with arrowes keene
May trace huge forreſts, and unharbour'd heaths
ref: 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC, page 15:
english: Comus
translation: Comus
glosses: Offering no harbour or shelter.
unharbouring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unharbour
unharbours
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unharbour
love-handled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more love-handled
form: most love-handled
Senses: examples: text: "She said you were handsome when you were sixteen. She hasn't seen you now you're old and gray and love-handled."
ref: 2002, Sabine Durrant, Having it and Eating It, Riverhead Books, →ISBN, page 21:
glosses: Having love handles.
third penny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: third pennies
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A third part of the profits of fines and penalties imposed at the county court, which was among the perquisites enjoyed by the earl.
piperic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid, derived from piperine, that is an intermediate in the synthesis of other compounds such as piperonal.
Derived terms: piperate
paeonine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Paeonia + -ine, as the compound is obtained from Paeonia officinalis.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An artificial red nitrogenous dyestuff.
Synonyms: red coralline
elogist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elogists
Etymology: French élogiste.
Senses: glosses: someone who pronounces an eloge.
elogists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elogist
sorrance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sorrances
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of sorance.
sorrances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sorrance
phyllous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phyllo- + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: The sepals, petals, stamens, and pistils are phyllous organs.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: homologous with a leaf
glosses: Resembling a leaf
Derived terms: sense: Some may be derived from prefix -phyllous. It's all Greek to English Wiktionary really
word: anisophyllous
sense: Some may be derived from prefix -phyllous. It's all Greek to English Wiktionary really
word: endophyllous
sense: Some may be derived from prefix -phyllous. It's all Greek to English Wiktionary really
word: gamophyllous
sense: Some may be derived from prefix -phyllous. It's all Greek to English Wiktionary really
word: macrophyllous
sense: Some may be derived from prefix -phyllous. It's all Greek to English Wiktionary really
word: microphyllous
sense: Some may be derived from prefix -phyllous. It's all Greek to English Wiktionary really
word: stenophyllous
sense: Some may be derived from prefix -phyllous. It's all Greek to English Wiktionary really
word: symphyllous
sense: Some may be derived from prefix -phyllous. It's all Greek to English Wiktionary really
word: tetraphyllous
sense: Some may be derived from prefix -phyllous. It's all Greek to English Wiktionary really
word: triphyllous
sense: Some may be derived from prefix -phyllous. It's all Greek to English Wiktionary really
word: xiphophyllous
transmission lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transmission line
databook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: databooks
Etymology: From data + book.
Senses: glosses: A handbook containing data or statistics.
databooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of databook
databox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: databoxes
Etymology: From data + box.
Senses: examples: text: There is also a 'databox' of key economic statistics and a list of government ministers.
ref: 1991, Helen Cordell, Laos:
text: Arranged by country, these articles are accompanied by databoxes and the listings themselves.
ref: 2001, Cable and satellite yearbook:
text: Storytelling helps the audience visualize – it uses photos, video, infographs, databoxes, timelines, slideshows, […]
ref: 2011, Tony Silvia, Terry Anzur, Power Performance, page 50:
glosses: A sidebox within a book or article, containing illustrative data.
databoxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of databox
missing white woman syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by American journalist, television newscaster and author Gwen Ifill.
Senses: examples: text: The Petito case, which is still unfolding (her fiancé, with whom she’d been travelling, is believed to be in hiding) seemed like another instance of what the late journalist Gwen Ifill famously described as “missing white woman syndrome”: a hunger for stories about victims who look like Petito, to the exclusion of all others.
ref: [2021 October 8, Helen Rosner, “The Long American History of “Missing White Woman Syndrome””, in The New Yorker, →ISSN:
glosses: The disproportionate media coverage of a missing person or similar case involving a young, white, upper-middle-class woman, contrasted with lesser coverage of males, non-white ethnicities, etc.
Synonyms: missing white girl syndrome
brocatel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brocatels
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of brocatelle
brocatels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brocatel
gephyrean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Gephyrea + -an.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Belonging to the class Gephyrea of worms.
gephyrean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gephyreans
Etymology: From Gephyrea + -an.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the Gephyrea.
gephyreans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gephyrean
ay me
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From Middle French aymi.
Senses: examples: text: Ay me, it is my husband.
ref: c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: Ay-me, to whom did I reserve, to discover that singular and loving affection, which in my soule I bare unto him?
ref: , II. 8
text: Ay me! they little know / How dearly I abide that boast so vain[…].
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book LXXXIX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 76-77:
glosses: Expressing grief, sorrow etc.
overveils
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overveil
overveiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overveil
overveiled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overveil
pellagrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pellagrins
Senses: examples: text: The extent of the ravages of this affection may be estimated from the facts, that of 500 patients in the Milan Lunatic Asylum in 1827, one third were pellagrins […]
ref: 1871, Chambers's Encyclopædia:
text: In two patients the course was complicated by cerebral embolism with hemiplegia; one of these, the pellagrin, died and at necropsy the heart was markedly enlarged […]
ref: 1972, D. J. M. Vorster, The human biology of environmental change:
glosses: One who is afflicted with pellagra.
pellagrins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pellagrin
pellagras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pellagra
shepherdia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shepherdias
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: buffaloberry
bullberry
glosses: Any of the genus Shepherdia of shrubs.
shepherdias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shepherdia
coryphodont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coryphodonts
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Any of the genus †Coryphodon of the world's first group of large browsing mammals.
coryphodonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coryphodont
subtilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subtility
draintrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: draintraps
Etymology: From drain + trap.
Senses: glosses: A bend, sag, or other device in a waste pipe arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents the escape of noxious gases, but permits the flow of liquids.
Synonyms: trap
Hyponyms: U-bend
draintraps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of draintrap
palmary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more palmary
form: most palmary
Etymology: From Latin palmarius, palmaris (“belonging to palms, deserving the palm or prize”). Cognate to Spanish palmario.
Senses: glosses: Worthy of the palm; preeminent; superior.
glosses: Principal; chief.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Palmar.
clinographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From clino- + -graphic.
Senses: examples: text: If it is desired to construct an accurate clinographic projection from an othographic projection of a specimen, detailed directions may be found in Dana's Textbook of Mineralogy.
ref: 1938, Eleanora Frances Bliss Knopf, Earl Ingerson, Structural Petrology, page 225:
glosses: Relating to a mode of projection in drawing in which the rays of light are supposed to fall obliquely on the plane of projection.
examples: text: clinographic analysis
text: The terminology of clinographic curves is somewhat confusing. Strictly speaking, if the hypsographic curve shows the distribution of height of a given area, the clinographic curve should show the distribution of slope in a given area·
ref: 2004, Michael Bishop, John F. Shroder, Geographic Information Science and Mountain Geomorphology, page 116:
text: The clinographic curves reveal the breaks in slope and sudden changes in the relief of the area and they also present the general trend of the surface.
ref: 2005, Md Babar, Hydrogeomorphology: Fundamentals, Applications and Techniques, page 133:
glosses: Pertaining to the display or analysis of slope or incline.
fardage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French fardage. See fardel.
Senses: examples: text: The next morning at sun rising, Cortez departed with his Army in good order, and in the midst of them went the Fardage and Artillerie
ref: 1648, Thomas Gage, A New Survey of the West-Indies:
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: dunnage
glosses: Scrap material, used to fill space and/or prevent goods from moving about during transport
creeple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹiːpəl/
Forms: form: creeples
Senses: examples: text: Thou knowest how lame a creeple this world is.
ref: 1611, John Donne, An Anatomie of the World:
glosses: Obsolete form of cripple.
creeple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹiːpəl/
Forms: form: creeples
Etymology: From creep + -le.
Senses: examples: text: There is one creeping beast, or long creeple (as the name is in Devonshire), that hath a rattle at his tail that doth discover his age.
ref: 1632, Thomas Morton, New English Canaan:
glosses: A creeping creature; a reptile.
creeples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creeple
throw-crook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: throw-crooks
Senses: examples: text: two persons are engaged in the making of one rope with the throw-crook; whereas, with the spinner, four persons are only required to make three ropes
ref: 1851, Henry Stephens, The Book of the Farm:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
synonyms: throw hook
glosses: A tool for twisting ropes out of straw.
throw-crooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of throw-crook
racemous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Compare French racémeux.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of racemose.
depectible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more depectible
form: most depectible
Etymology: From Latin depectere (“to comb off”), from de- + pectere (“to comb”).
Senses: glosses: tough; thick; capable of extension
antiae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈænti.aɪ/
/ˈænti.i/
Forms: form: antia
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin antiae (“forelock”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: The frontal points.
coadventure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coadventures
Etymology: From co- + adventure.
Senses: glosses: A joint venture or partnership.
coadventures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coadventure
palpifer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palpifers
Etymology: From palpus + -fer.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of palpiger.
palpifers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palpifer
misstay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misstays
form: misstaying
form: misstayed
form: misstayed
Etymology: From mis- + stay.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To become caught in irons when changing tack.
misstayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misstay
misstaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misstay
misstays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misstay
heterogonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heterogonous
form: most heterogonous
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Characterized by heterogony.
examples: text: The Chermes not only pass through a heterogonism in five sparate generations, but one and the same species can live in related rows by the temporary suppression of the true heterogonous circles.
ref: 1917, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh - Volume 37:
glosses: Having offspring that are dissimilar to their parents.
examples: text: What underpins this is a complex, heterogonous, and to Freud, timeless, field of unconscious traces, drives, instincts, processes or, relatedly, Id.
ref: 2016, Paul Cammell, Reinterpreting the Borderline, page 98:
glosses: Having multiple origins.
glosses: Misspelling of heterogenous.
Related terms: heterogonously
tendosynovitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tendosynovium + -itis or tendo- + synovitis.
Senses: glosses: rare spelling of tenosynovitis
pygal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pygo- + -al.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated in the region of the rump, or posterior end of the backbone; applied especially to the posterior median plates in the carapace of chelonians.
pygal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pygals
Etymology: From pygo- + -al.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The posterior median or supracaudal plate of a chelonian carapace.
diacatholicon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diacatholicons
Etymology: From dia- + catholicon.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A universal remedy; a certain purgative electuary.
diacatholicons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diacatholicon
susurringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more susurringly
form: most susurringly
Etymology: From susurring + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of a whisper.
chapeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chape + -less.
Senses: examples: text: an old rusty sword ta'en out of the town / armoury, with a broken hilt, and chapeless;
ref: c. 1590–1592, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, act 3, scene 2, lines 46–47:
glosses: Without a chape.
beer-bellied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beer-bellied
form: most beer-bellied
Senses: examples: text: It is a completely unnatural act to see a bunch of beer-bellied Teamster film technicians sitting around while you're supposed to be madly in love with somebody, in bed, romping around or taking your clothes off.
ref: 1996 August 20, “Cher: The Advocate Interview by Chastity Bono”, in The Advocate:
glosses: Having a beer belly.
kakodyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of cacodyl.
iceblocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iceblock
dicacodyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dɪkəˈkəʊdɪl/
Etymology: From di- + cacodyl.
Senses: glosses: cacodyl
alkarsine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: cacodyl
alkarsin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: cacodyl
Derived terms: alkargen
tetramethyldiarsine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: cacodyl
iceblinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iceblink
Monarchian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Monarchians
Etymology: From monarch + -ian.
Senses: glosses: One of an early Christian sect that rejected the doctrine of the Trinity.
Synonyms: Patripassian
Monarchians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Monarchian
taked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take
Patripassianism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: patripassianism
Etymology: From Patripassian + -ism.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: Synonym of Monarchianism.
synonyms: word: Monarchianism
Monarchianism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Monarchian + -ism.
Senses: topics: Christianity
synonyms: Patripassianism
glosses: The beliefs of the Monarchians.
Patripassian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Patripassians
form: patripassian
form: Patropassian
form: patropassian
Etymology: From Latin patripassianus, from pater (“father”) + passiō (“suffering”) + -ānus.
Senses: glosses: A believer in Patripassianism.
Synonyms: modalist
modalistic monarchian
modalistic monarchist
modal monarchian
modal monarchist
monarchian
monarchist
Oneness Pentecostal
Sabellian
theopaschite
Derived terms: Patripassianism
Patripassian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: patripassian
form: Patropassian
form: patropassian
Etymology: From Latin patripassianus, from pater (“father”) + passiō (“suffering”) + -ānus.
Senses: glosses: Believing in Patripassianism.
Derived terms: Patripassianist
Patripassians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Patripassian
Percheron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Percherons
Etymology: From French.
Senses: glosses: A draught horse of a large, strong, usually dapple-grey breed originating in Perche, a former district of France.
Percherons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Percheron
ironmine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ironmines
Etymology: From iron + mine.
Senses: examples: text: 1716. Do you work any ironmine? — I work a little; not much; I work a little mine with the coals that I am working in Glamorganshire. 1717. Your workings of ironmine are unimportant? — Yes; I have no ironmines ; I have ironmines in my coal works which I have leased, and can work to a large extent in different works.
ref: 1857, Thomas Powell, questioned by the Committee on Rating of Mines, Report from the Select Committee on Rating of Mines, page 104:
text: On the Discovery of an Ancient Ironmine in Cliviger, and Some Further Remarks on the Remains of Old Bloomaries in the Neighbourhood of Todmorden
ref: 1879, John Aitken, On the Discovery of an Ancient Ironmine in Cliviger, and Some Further Remarks on the Remains of Old Bloomaries in the Neighbourhood of Todmorden, page 1:
text: There were three special attractions — an ironmine, an ostrich (which eats brass and iron to help its digestion !), and a leopard, the latter a compliment to the Lord Mayor, whose arms bore three leopards' heads, and whose crest was a leopard.
ref: 1889, Theophilus Noble, chapter 6, in A Brief History of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers, page 35:
glosses: Alternative spelling of iron mine.
ironmines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ironmine
iron mine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iron mines
form: ironmine
Senses: glosses: A mine from which iron ore or ferriferous minerals are mined.
iron mines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iron mine
parablast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parablasts
Etymology: From para- + -blast.
Senses: examples: text: The study of the relations of the' wall in the chick induced him to think that the elements of the white yolk he came parablast cells; moreover, the study of the hen's ovary led him to the conclusion that the white yolk was developed from the granulosa cells, and that these cells arise from leucocytes.
ref: 1897, Charles Sedgwick Minot, Human Embryology:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A portion of the mesoblast (of peripheral origin) of the developing embryo, whose cells are involved in the formation of the first blood and blood vessels.
Derived terms: parablastic
parablasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parablast
statocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of statocracy
statocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: statocracies
Etymology: From state + -cracy
Senses: examples: text: Do they not see that if in theocracy they lose man , in their statocracy they lose God
ref: 1861, Orestes Brownson, “Pope and EMperor”, in Brownson's Quarterly Review:
glosses: government by the state, or by political power in distinction from ecclesiastical power
Leydig cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Leydig cells
Etymology: Named for German anatomist Franz Leydig.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of the interstitial cells, located next to the seminiferous tubules inside the testicle, that produce testosterone.
wikipedia: Franz Leydig
Related terms: aleydigism
statocratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more statocratic
form: most statocratic
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to statocracy, or government by the state.
patria potestas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin patria potestās.
Senses: examples: text: It was a condition of the patria potestas that the child should be born in marriage.
ref: 1870, William George Smith (ed.), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, 3rd American ed., page 742
text: The Roman Vestals appear to have been under the patria potestas of the king, and, in repubmlican times, of the Pontifex Maximus, who succeeded to some of the king's functions. But if they were under the patria potestas of the king, they must have been either his wives or daughters.
ref: 1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 228:
glosses: The legal power and rights of a Roman father over his children and descendants by virtue of his paternity.
wesil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wesils
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of weasel.
wesils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wesil
peristeria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peristerias
Etymology: From the genus name, itself from περιστερά (peristerá, “pigeon”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Peristeria of orchidaceous plants.
peristerias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peristeria
Leydig cells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Leydig cell
confated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From con- + fated.
Senses: examples: text: a ſick man is fated to recover , it is confated that he shall send for a physician
ref: 1763, Abraham Tucker, Free Will, Foreknowledge, and Fate:
glosses: Fated or decreed with something else.
histohaematin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: histohaematins
form: histohematin
Etymology: From histo- + haematin.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: One of a class of respiratory pigments, widely distributed in the animal kingdom, capable of ready oxidation and reduction.
histohaematins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of histohaematin
disbend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disbends
form: disbending
form: disbent
form: disbent
Etymology: From dis- + bend.
Senses: examples: text: Is it that God euen then, would hautie thoughts disbend?
ref: 1613, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling, An Elegie on the Death of Prince Henrie:
text: You allegate the ſenseſ
Diſbending cominous defects,
In your abſurd pretence
ref: a. 1645, William Lithgow, Rare Adventures and Paineful Peregrinations:
text: Let not your zeale disbend, proove faithfull in your places
ref: 1635, David Lindsay, An eclog on the death of Patricke Forbes:
glosses: To unbend (figurative senses)
disbending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disbend
disbends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disbend
disbent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disbend
sclerogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sclero- + -gen.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The hard matter of some cells in wood, such as the walnut shell.
Related terms: sclerogenic
sclerogenous
ophiurid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of ophiuroid.
ophiurid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ophiurids
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of ophiuroid.
ophiurids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ophiurid
superordination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superordinations
Etymology: From super- + ordination: compare Latin superordinatio.
Senses: examples: text: that the infant church might not be orphan an hour , lest satan should assault the breach of such a vacancy , to the disadvantage of religion . Such a super-ordination in such cases was canonicalñ it being a tradition
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: The ordination of a person to fill a station already occupied; especially, the ordination by an ecclesiastical official, during his lifetime, of his successor.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The relation of a universal proposition to a particular proposition in the same terms.
Related terms: superordinate
superordinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superordination