cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
faciend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faciends
Etymology: From neuter of Latin faciendus, gerundive of facere (“to do”).
Senses: examples: text: The same process may be applied to the faciends with similar conclusions.
ref: 1881, American Journal of Mathematics, volume 4, page 113:
text: In the case of binomial, or multinomial multenions, the facient or the faciend or both being composed, the law of combination of the facter must be definitely assigned also […]
ref: 1895, James Byrnie Shaw, Mathematics, the Science of Algorithms, page 10:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The multiplicand.
Related terms: facient
fadedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈfeɪdɪdli/
Forms: form: more fadedly
form: most fadedly
Etymology: From faded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: a dull room fadedly furnished
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 51, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: In a faded manner.
familiary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more familiary
form: most familiary
Etymology: From Latin familiaris. See familiar.
Senses: examples: text: Yet it pleas'd God to make him see all the tyrrany of Rome, by discovering this which they exercis'd over divorce; and to make him the beginner of a reformation to this whole Kingdom by first asserting into his familiary power the right of just divorce.
ref: 1645, John Milton, The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce:
text: The familiary or hereditary variety of chronic progressive bulbar paralysis is of comparatively recent recognition.
ref: 1900, Joseph Collins, The Treatment of Diseases of the Nervous System, page 302:
text: In many of these cases the disease appeared in familiary form, affecting three to five members of the family, at ages varying from 13 to 20 years.
ref: 1909, Saint Elizabeths Hospital (Washington, D.C.), Bulletin - Saint Elizabeths Hospital - Issues 1-5, page 97:
text: Because of their doctrine and practice respectively their roots in familiary bonds the Alevi are not problematic in social life or in legal respect.
ref: 1999, European Consortium for Church-State Research, New religious movements and the law in the European Union, page 72:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a family or household; domestic.
examples: text: Not to mention the dire effects in somewhat later years of drunkenness in the parent—which expresses itself in the child as it grows up, in the form of epilepsy, idiocy, mania and dipsomania (habitual drunkenness) —it is familiary to us medical practitioners that the children of drunkards are prone to hydrocephalus (water on the brain), convulsions, and a whole tribe of diseases of a low type, showing general degeneracy and a predisposition to brain mischief.
ref: 1880, J. Edwin Danelson, Dr. Danelson's Counselor with Recipes, page 222:
text: I am fairly familiary with the political complexion of the municipal assembly .
ref: 1892, New York (State). Legislature. Assembly, Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York:
text: This question may have a strange sound in these days when the ears of men and women are filled with another and more familiary cry — the cry for rights, the cry for increased opportunities, the cry for more and ever more power — political, social, and economic.
ref: 1911, Report of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution:
glosses: Misspelling of familiar.
familiary
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more familiary
form: most familiary
Etymology: From Latin familiaris. See familiar.
Senses: examples: text: These were almost all written in Latin, which appears to have been almost a second tongue, used familiary in conversation, and still more familiary in composition.
ref: 1839, Francis Bisset Hawkins, Germany, page 112:
text: In this mansion the front room on the first floor was "the office," in which, as I recollect it, my grandfather might generally be found seated in quiet dignity, reading or conversing with a visitor, who had come in familiary to see him and have a friendly chat.
ref: 1888, Maunsell Van Rensselaer, Annals of the Van Rensselaers in the United States, page 59:
text: One of the most successful business men of Harrisburg among the colored people is C. W. Strothers, familiary known as Colonel.
ref: 1910, Industrial and Material Growth of the Negroes of Pennsylvania, page 85:
text: In 1938, the Federal National Mortgage Association ( familiary known as Fannie Ma ) was created to fill this gap in the housing credit market.
ref: 1974, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency. Subcommittee on Housing, Housing and Community Development Legislation--1973, page 1945:
text: Main Bangl verbs are often pretty regular but the learner must, unlike English, be aware of the status of the subjects, as in whether the subject is referred formally or familiary or very familiary (which can also be used to derogate as well) though person or numbers do not impact on the verbs.
ref: 2011, Munayem Mayenin, Baanglara My Bangla Tutor, page 161:
glosses: Misspelling of familiarly.
farmery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: farmeries
Etymology: From farm + -ery.
Senses: synonyms: homestead
glosses: The premises of a farm
fenceful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fenceful
form: most fenceful
Etymology: From fence + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: But of all the modern Historians there is not anyone has writ with a greater observance of the fenceful Character, than Mariana in his History of Spain.
ref: 1680, J Davies, Instructions for History:
text: And first the Skill, of useful Arts inspir'd; Taught Artists first the carving Tool to wield, Chariots with Brass to arm, and form the fenceful shield:
ref: 1753, William Congreve, Homer's Hymn to Venus:
text: When the Athenian birds explored their way To the blest climes that know no winter's day, One hapless twitt'rer, who disdain'd the rest, Outbraved the rigours in the fenceful nest :
ref: 1914, Henry George Bohn, The Epigrams of Martial: Translated Into English Prose.:
glosses: Affording defense; defensive.
fenceful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fencefuls
Etymology: From fence + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Yes, they were as dry and inflammable as one would expect; I had only to drop a match among them and the whole fenceful would flare up — and perhaps half the Riverina as well.
ref: 1968, The Countryman:
text: It was like a bitch alleycat in estrus strutting high-tailed past a fenceful of toms.
ref: 2001, Francis DiPietro, Holland and Bonni, page 180:
text: That fenceful of men and boys stood there like posts, waiting and speaking in whispers.
ref: 2012, John Milton Oskison, Lionel Larrä, Tales of the Old Indian Territory and Essays on the Indian Condition:
glosses: As many as make up or line a fence.
feodal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more feodal
form: most feodal
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of feudal.
fissilingual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪ.sɪˈlɪŋɡwəl/
rhymes: -ɪŋɡwəl
Forms: form: more fissilingual
form: most fissilingual
Etymology: From Latin fissus (p.p. of findere (“to split”)) + lingual.
Senses: examples: text: fissilingual lizard
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: fork-tongued
glosses: Having a forked tongue.
flaminical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: flaminical college
text: flaminical couple
text: flaminical taboo
text: the unclouded serenity of Christian religion , with the dark overcasting of superstitious copes and flaminical vestures
ref: 1642 (indicated as 1641), John Milton, The Reason of Church-governement Urg’d against Prelaty […], London: […] E[dward] G[riffin] for Iohn Rothwell, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Pertaining to a flamen.
flanched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From flanch + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Gules, flanched ermine, on a chief azure three suns in splendour or.
ref: 1884, William Harvey, The Visitations of Bedfordshire: Annis Domini 1566, 1582, and 1634, page 99:
text: Fig. 58, Or, flanched gules.
ref: 1898, Edward Singleton Holden, A Primer of Heraldry for Americans, page 127:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Having flanches (often of a specified tincture).
examples: text: [...] improve this by giving the pipe or tube a flanched socket, which will be capable of receiving any of the rods commonly in use, whereby the brush may be put up the chimney, and these flanched sockets may be made[…]
ref: 1808, The Repertory of Arts, Manufactures, and Agriculture. Consisting of Original Communications, Specifications of Patent Inventions, Practical and Interesting Papers, Selected from the Philosophical Transactions and Scientific Journals of All Nations ..., page 92:
text: And I secure covers to my jointed hoops by rivets or screws, to keep the dirt from the grooved flanched hoops. Or I fix to the naves of the wheels hoops made of iron, brass, or any other proper metal, with three or more necked[…]
ref: 1811, The Repertory of Arts and Manufactures, page 24:
text: Farey says of the rails the "bars are flanched, 3 ft. long, weigh 38 lb., and are spiked down on to blocks of stone, of about 1½ cubic feet each, by means of an oak plug, inserted into a hole drilled in the stone."
ref: 1939 July, Charles E. Lee, “Swannington: One-Time Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 5:
glosses: Flanged.
fluoroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluoroids
Etymology: From fluor + -oid. The shape is a common form of fluorite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A tetrahexahedron.
foraminated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin foraminatus.
Senses: glosses: Having a small opening, or foramina.
forcibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From forcible + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being forcible.
formidableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From formidable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being formidable.
foxship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fox + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: Hadst thou foxship to banish him that struck more blows for Rome than thou hast spoken words.
ref: c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
text: "[…] 'Are we not Wasawahili?' men who obtain their ends by foxship?"
ref: 2011, William Cunningham Bissell, Urban design, chaos, and colonial power in Zanzibar:
glosses: The character or qualities of a fox; foxiness; craftiness; cunning.
examples: text: The dingo, however, does not possess the cunning of his foxship; and, unlike the latter, he "gives himself away" by heralding his coming by a peculiar howl, the authorship of which it is impossible to mistake.
ref: 1880, The Californian:
text: I caught a fleeting far-away glimpse of the quarry as he loped across an open field just before re-entering the big swamp-I thought a few things that were anything but complimentary to his foxship, and throwing myself on the ground, […]
ref: 1904, Field and Stream:
qualifier: Used as a mock title
glosses: The fox.
francolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: francolites
Etymology: Named for type locality Wheal Franco (a former copper mine in Tavistock, in Devon, England) + -lite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of lewistonite.
synonyms: word: lewistonite
wikipedia: Devon
Tavistock
freshmanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From freshman + -ship.
Senses: synonyms: freshmanhood
glosses: The state of being a freshman.
frolicful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more frolicful
form: most frolicful
Etymology: From frolic + -ful.
Senses: glosses: frolicsome
frondous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more frondous
form: most frondous
Etymology: From frond + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: frondose
furniment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: furniments
Etymology: Borrowed from French fourniment.
Senses: examples: text: they spyde with speedie whirling pace, / One in a charet of straunge furniment / Towards them driving, like a storme out sent.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Accoutrements, fittings.
furthersome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more furthersome
form: most furthersome
Etymology: From further + -some.
Senses: examples: text: you will find it a most handy and every way furthersome , blessed and felicitous world
ref: 1851, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
antonyms: hindersome
thwartful
glosses: Tending to further, advance, or promote; helpful; advantageous.
Derived terms: unfurthersome
fuscine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfʌsin/
/-ɪn/
Etymology: From fusc(us) + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A dark-colored substance obtained from empyreumatic animal oil.
gauntly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gauntly
form: most gauntly
Etymology: From gaunt + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: gauntly beautiful
text: striding gauntly
text: gauntly fabulous
glosses: In a gaunt manner.
geomalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: geotropism
Related terms: geomalic
girkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: girkins
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of gherkin.
grammatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more grammatic
form: most grammatic
Etymology: From Latin grammaticus. Compare Old English grammatiċ.
Piecewise doublet of grammar and its many doublets.
Senses: glosses: grammatical
Derived terms: grammaticaster
grammaticise
grammaticism
grammaticity
grammaticize
ungrammatic
granitiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From granite + -form.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
synonyms: granitelike
glosses: Resembling granite in structure or shape.
graphoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graphoscopes
form: graphiscope
Etymology: From grapho- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: An optical instrument, invented in the 19th century, for magnifying, usually having one magnifying glass.
groundage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: groundages
Etymology: From ground + -age.
Senses: examples: text: For every vessel with salt fish, for groundage eight pence per day
ref: 1826, Joseph Chitty, A Treatise on the Game Laws, and on Fisheries:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A local tax paid by a ship for the ground or space it occupies while in port.
guerdonless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more guerdonless
form: most guerdonless
Etymology: From guerdon + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without reward or guerdon.
guirland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guirlands
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of garland.
gymnocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gymnocytes
Etymology: From gymno- + -cyte.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A cytode without a proper cell wall, but with a nucleus.
gypsiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more gypsiferous
form: most gypsiferous
Etymology: From gypsum + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: glosses: Containing gypsum
Related terms: hypergypsic
petrogypsic
hagiarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈheɪdʒiˌɑː(ɹ)ki/
/ˈhædʒiˌɑː(ɹ)ki/
Forms: form: hagiarchies
Etymology: From hagio- + -archy.
Senses: examples: text: St. Benedict and the Seraphic St. Francis, personages of the highest order in the hagiarchy, found it necessary to prescribe for themselves a roll among the briars
ref: 1826, Robert Southey, Letters to Charles Butler, Esq.:
glosses: A government run by holy or religious people.
harnesser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harnessers
Etymology: From harness + -er.
Senses: examples: text: He is the harnesser of energy, the leader and organizer, the creator of order.
ref: 2013, Robert N. Rapoport, Mid-Career Development: Research perspectives on a developmental community for senior administrators, page 235:
glosses: One who harnesses.
hayrake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hayrakes
Etymology: From hay + rake.
Senses: glosses: A rake for collecting hay
a hand-held one
glosses: A rake for collecting hay
a large rake drawn by a horse or horses.
glosses: A rake for collecting hay
a large rake dragged by a tractor
Coordinate terms: baler
tedder
hayrake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hayrakes
form: hayraking
form: hayraked
form: hayraked
Etymology: From hay + rake.
Senses: glosses: To collect hay with a rake of this kind.
heartseed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heartseeds
Etymology: From heart + seed.
Senses: examples: text: The common Heartseed (C. Halicacabum), sometimes called also Winter cherry, or Heart-pea, is a widely distributed plant, found in all tropical countries.
ref: 1866, John Lindley, Thomas Moore, The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom, page 222:
hyponyms: love in a puff
balloon vine
glosses: Any plant of the genus Cardiospermum, climbing plants with round seeds marked with a spot like a heart.
heavenly-minded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heavenly-minded
form: most heavenly-minded
form: heavenlyminded
Etymology: From heavenly + minded.
Senses: examples: text: Make them devout in their daily life, zealous, grave, heavenly-minded; not secular, not frivolous, but true pastors, in feeding, in watching, in praying.
ref: 1879, John Armstrong, The Pastor in his Closet, Thursday:
glosses: Devout; heavenly; pious; of pure mind.
Derived terms: heavenly-mindedness
heptastich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heptastichs
Etymology: From hepta- + stich.
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A seven-lined or seven-versed poem.
herbarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɜːˈbɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /(h)ɝˈbɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: herbarians
Etymology: From herb + -arian.
Senses: glosses: A herbalist.
hexangular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hex- + angular.
Senses: glosses: hexagonal
Synonyms: sexangular
Derived terms: hexangularly
hornwrack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hornwracks
Etymology: From horn + wrack.
Senses: examples: text: For the time being the tide was […] burying the hornwracks, which were easily mistaken for seaweed but which really were tiny bryozoans, or moss animals.
ref: 2023, H. Gareth Gavin, Never Was, Cipher Press, page 30:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A bryozoan of the genus Flustra, especially species Flustra foliacea.
horsepond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horseponds
Etymology: From horse + pond.
Senses: glosses: A pond, or part of a river, for watering and cleaning horses.
hydro-electric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hydroelectric.
hypostasize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hypostasizes
form: hypostasizing
form: hypostasized
form: hypostasized
Senses: examples: text: The pressed Newtonians […] refused to hypostasize the law of gravitation into an ether.
ref: 1809, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Friend:
glosses: To hypostatize.
idiosyncratical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more idiosyncratical
form: most idiosyncratical
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of idiosyncratic.
idolatrize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: idolatrizes
form: idolatrizing
form: idolatrized
form: idolatrized
form: idolatrise
Senses: glosses: To make an idol of; to idolize.
glosses: To worship idols; to pay idolatrous worship.
illuminary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪˈlumɪnɛɹi/
Forms: form: more illuminary
form: most illuminary
Senses: glosses: illuminative
illuminary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪˈlumɪnɛɹi/
Forms: form: illuminaries
Senses: glosses: A luminary
imband
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪmˈbænd/
Forms: form: imbands
form: imbanding
form: imbanded
form: imbanded
Etymology: From im- + band.
Senses: examples: text: Beneath full sails imbanded nations rise.
ref: 1807, Joel Barlow, The Columbiad:
glosses: To form into a band or bands
imbargo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imbargos
form: imbargoes
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of embargo.
imbargo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: imbargoes
form: imbargoing
form: imbargoed
form: imbargoed
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of embargo.
imbase
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪmˈbeɪs/
Forms: form: imbases
form: imbasing
form: imbased
form: imbased
Senses: examples: text: by ambitiously heaping up the conceits and authorities of other men, increase much in the bulk, but do as much imbase in true value
ref: 1659, John Hales, Golden Remains of the Ever Memorable Mr. John Hales:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of embase (“to lower”).
imbastardize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: imbastardizes
form: imbastardizing
form: imbastardized
form: imbastardized
Senses: examples: text: But now with a beſotted and degenerate baſeneſs of ſpirit, except ſome few, [...], the reſt imbaſtardiz'd from the ancient nobleneſs of thir Anceſtors, are ready to fall flatt and give adoration to the Image and memory of this Man
ref: 1649, J[ohn] Milton, “Preface”, in ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC, page n15:
glosses: To bastardize; to debase.
imblazon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: imblazons
form: imblazoning
form: imblazoned
form: imblazoned
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of emblazon.
Impeyan pheasant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Impeyan pheasants
Etymology: After English natural historian Lady Mary Impey, who established a menagerie in Calcutta. Named in 1790 by ornithologist John Latham, who described the species from a preserved corpse from the menagerie.
Senses: examples: text: The Impeyan pheasant is an example in point : adapted for regions where the temperature is at the most only moderate, and often at a low degree, this noble bird soon dies when taken from its alpine home into the burning lowlands of India; and hence arises one of the difficulties in the way of our obtaining living specimens in Europe.
ref: 1836 August 27, The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, volume 5, page 330:
text: Fig. 13.3.[…]Impeyan pheasants (Lophophorus impejanus)(c) bow low before the hen, then peck vigorously.
ref: 2003, Mary Jane West-Eberhard, Developmental Plasticity and Evolution, Oxford University Press, page 245:
text: One of the most beautiful species is the Impeyan pheasant, Nepal's national bird. Nepalis call it the danphe, and it is also known as the Himalayan monal.
ref: 2009, Ann Heinrichs, Mount Everest, Marshall Cavendish, page 36:
glosses: A species of pheasant, Lophophorus impejanus.
wikipedia: John Latham (ornithologist)
Mary Impey
Synonyms: sense: Lophophorus impejanus
word: Himalayan monal
sense: Lophophorus impejanus
word: Impeyan monal
Hypernyms: monal
improportionate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more improportionate
form: most improportionate
Etymology: From im- + proportionate.
Senses: examples: text: an improportionate action
glosses: Not proportionate.
improvidentially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more improvidentially
form: most improvidentially
Etymology: From improvidential + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: enter something improvidentially
text: improvidentially married
glosses: improvidently; not providentially
incremation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incremations
Senses: glosses: cremation.
indentment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indentments
Etymology: From indent + -ment.
Senses: glosses: indenture or indentation
indeprivable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more indeprivable
form: most indeprivable
Etymology: From in- + deprivable.
Senses: examples: text: [P]erhaps Birth may be really the sole indeprivable Good, I can think of nothing else which one cannot lose by Folly or by Accident—Virtue excluded, and that is a Quality that Italians do not trouble themselves to think of.
ref: 1786 September 3, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana:
glosses: That one cannot be deprived of; inalienable.
indistinctible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more indistinctible
form: most indistinctible
Senses: examples: text: A favourite old romance is founded on the indistinctible likeness of two of Charlemagne's knights
ref: 1774-1781, Thomas Warton, History of English Poetry:
glosses: indistinguishable
indivisibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From indivisible + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he radiant beames of the VVord of God, […] is the perception (by this dazling light) of vvhat great dignity and excellence our humane nature may novv ovvn; in vvhich the intire Trinity doth reſide, the Son of God in Perſon, the holy Ghoſt or Spirit of God, by Character and impreſſion, and conſequently God the Father by the indiviſibleneſs of his eſſence from their preſences; […]
ref: 1648, Walter Montagu, “The Second Treatise. The Reparation of Humane Nature. §. II. How Even Mans Infirmities may Afford Him Gloryes, and consequently, Motives to Joy and Correspondence with the Grace of Christ Incarnate.”, in Miscellanea Spiritualia: Or, Devout Essaies, London: […] W[illiam] Lee, D[aniel] Pakeman, and G[abriel] Bedell, […], →OCLC, page 19:
glosses: The state of being indivisible; indivisibility.
indorsee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indorsees
Etymology: From indorse + -ee.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The person to whom a note or bill is indorsed, or assigned by indorsement.
Related terms: endorsee
inexhalable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inexhalable
form: most inexhalable
Etymology: From in- + exhalable.
Senses: examples: text: the heat can bring the inexhalable parts into consistence
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Incapable of being exhaled.
inexpertness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inexpertnesses
Etymology: From inexpert + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Lack of expertise or skill.
inquisible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inquisible
form: most inquisible
Senses: examples: text: If body cannot be seen, death inquisible before justices of oyer and terminer, or peace
ref: 1736, Matthew Hale, Historia Placitorum Coronæ:
glosses: Admitting judicial inquiry.
integumentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From integument + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of covering with integuments; the state or manner of being thus covered.
interfascicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + fascicular.
Senses: examples: text: interfascicular spaces of connective tissue
text: interfascicular cells
text: interfascicular tissue
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Between fascicles or bundles.
interstition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interstitions
Etymology: From Latin interstitiō, or by confusion with interstitium.
Senses: glosses: An interstice or interstitium; an interstitial space.
inthrone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inthrones
form: inthroning
form: inthroned
form: inthroned
Etymology: From in- + throne.
Senses: examples: text: THE INTHRONIZATION. The King ascended the Theatre, accompanied by the two Bishops his Supporters, the Great Officers of State, the Lords carrying the Swords, and the Lords who had borne Their Majesties' Regalia, and was Inthroned by the Archbishops, Bishops, and the other Peers, who then stood about the steps of the Throne.
ref: 1937 November 10, “Ceremonial of the Coronation of Their Majesties [King George VI and his wife Elizabeth, Westminster Abbey, London, 12 May 1937]”, in The London Gazette (Supplement), number 34453, page 7031 at 7056:
glosses: Archaic form of enthrone.
Derived terms: reinthrone
Related terms: inthronization
inthronize
irrelievable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more irrelievable
form: most irrelievable
Etymology: From ir- + relievable.
Senses: glosses: unrelievable
irremittable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more irremittable
form: most irremittable
Etymology: From in- + remit + -able.
Senses: examples: text: the fin against the Holie - Ghost , which they call irremittable or unto death
ref: 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:
glosses: not capable of being remitted; irremissible
irreparableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From irreparable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being irreparable; irreparability.
isolatedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more isolatedly
form: most isolatedly
Etymology: From isolated + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […] how could he fail to acknowledge the existence of that all-controlling and all-permeating wonderfulness, which, when imperfectly and isolatedly recognized by the generality, is so significantly denominated The Finger of God?
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
glosses: In an isolated manner.
janty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more janty
form: most janty
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of jaunty.
Derived terms: jantily
jantiness
jargonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jargonists
Etymology: From jargon + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Nothing in the language of those jargonists at whom Mr . Gosport laughed, nothing in the language of Sir Sedley Clarendel, approaches this new Euphuism
ref: 1843, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Madame D'Arblay”, in Edinburgh Review:
glosses: Someone who overuses jargon; one who uses cant or slang.
Synonyms: jargonaut
jargoneer
jargoner
Derived terms: jargonistic
jaspachate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jaspachates
Senses: glosses: agate jasper
javel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒævəl/
Forms: form: javels
Senses: examples: text: But the right gentle mind would bite his lip,
To hear the javel: so good men to nip
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds Tale.”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A vagabond.
jessant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɛsənt/
Etymology: From Old French gesant. Doublet of jacent.
Senses: examples: text: That night she finds a locket on her pillow. Gold, in the shape of a heart, Cupids jessant round the perimeter.
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 61:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Describing a charge which appears over, or covers, another charge as well as the field.
Derived terms: jessant-de-lis
Related terms: naissant
issuant
joculary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more joculary
form: most joculary
Etymology: From Latin jocularius. Compare jocular.
Senses: examples: text: With arts voluptuary I couple practices joculary
ref: 1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC:
glosses: jocular; jocose; joking
joculatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more joculatory
form: most joculatory
Etymology: Latin joculatorius.
Senses: examples: text: let me now answer your facetious Letter (of 10 August) with a joculatory line or two
ref: 1654, G. G., letter to Thomas Blount:
glosses: funny; witty
jolliment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From jolly + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: Matter of mirth enough, though there were none, She could devise, and thousand ways invent To feed her foolish humour, and vain jolliment.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book), Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 3:
glosses: jollity; cheer
jostlement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From jostle + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: Towards Soho, therefore, Mr. Stryver shouldered his way from the Temple, while the bloom of the Long Vacation's infancy was still upon it. Anybody who had seen him projecting himself into Soho while he was yet on Saint Dunstan's side of Temple Bar, bursting in his full-blown way along the pavement, to the jostlement of all weaker people, might have seen how safe and strong he was.
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, “The Fellow of Delicacy”, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
text: The Niigata of the Government, with its signs of progress in a western direction, is quite unattractive-looking as compared with the genuine Japanese Niigata, which is the neatest, cleanest, and most comfortable-looking town I have yet seen, and altogether free from the jostlement of a foreign settlement. It is renowned for the beautiful tea-houses, which attract visitors from distant places, and for the excellence of the theatres, and is the centre of the recreation and pleasure of a large district.
ref: 1880, Isabella Bishop, Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, letter XVI:
glosses: crowding or bustle.
jowler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jowlers
Etymology: From jowl + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Never saw I bloodthirsty fierceness better depicted than in the muzzles o ' thae ferocious Jowlers
ref: (Can we date this quote?), John Wilson (Scottish writer), “Noctes Ambrosianae”, in Blackwood's Magazine:
glosses: A dog with large jowls, such as the beagle.
Judaist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒuːˌdeɪ.ɪst/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒuːdeɪ.ɪst/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒuːdi.ɪst/
Forms: form: Judaists
Etymology: From Juda(ism) + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: All Judaists — those who practice the religion, Judaism — are Jews, but not all Jews are Judaists.
ref: 2000, Jacob Neusner, chapter 1, in The Blackwell Companion to Judaism, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 5:
synonyms: Jew
antonyms: gentile
goy
hypernyms: Abrahamist
Judeo-Christian
monotheist
glosses: One who believes and practices Judaism.
judicable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒuːdɪkəbəl/
Forms: form: more judicable
form: most judicable
Etymology: From Latin iūdicābilis. See judge.
Senses: examples: text: Pride is soon discernable, but not easily judicable.
ref: 1651–1653, Jer[emy] Taylor, ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC:
topics: law
glosses: Able to be judged; capable of being tried or decided upon, especially in a legal case.
Derived terms: injudicable
justiceship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: justiceships
Etymology: From justice + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: her Majesty hath also commaunded that Sir Thomas Norreis shall leave the chardg of the Justiceshippe
ref: 1597, Acts of the Privy Council of England:
glosses: The office or dignity of a justice.
kercher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɜː(ɹ)t͡ʃə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: kerchers
Etymology: From Middle English kevercher, kercher, from Old French cuevrechier.
Senses: examples: text: He had a kercher wreathed aboute his heed: […]
ref: 1530 July 28 (Gregorian calendar), Iohan Palsgraue [i.e., John Palsgrave], “The Table of Verbes”, in Lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse⸝ […], [London]: […] [Richard Pynson] fynnysshed by Iohan Haukyns, →OCLC, 3rd boke, folio ccccxi, recto, column 2; reprinted Geneva: Slatkine Reprints, October 1972, →OCLC:
text: 1838, The Metropolitan Magazine - Volume 22, "The Furlough"
Her hair , once black , was now confined under a kercher
synonyms: kerchief
glosses: A bandana.
Derived terms: kerchered
neckercher
kerchered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From kercher + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: […]his kercher'd head[…]
ref: 1610, Giles Fletcher, Christ's Victorie and Triumph, in Heaven, in Earth, over and after Death:
glosses: Covered, or bound round, with a kercher.
kirumbo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kirumbos
Senses: glosses: A bird of Madagascar, the cuckoo-roller, Leptosomus discolor.
kissing-crust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From kissing + crust.
Senses: examples: text: how he would recommend this slice of white bread, or that piece of kissing crust, to a tender juvenile, advising them all to have a care of cracking their teeth
ref: 1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:
text: he cuts a massy fragment from the rich curly kissing-crust, that hangs like a fretted cornice from the upper half of the loaf[…]
ref: 1840, William Howitt, The Rural Life of England:
glosses: The portion of the upper crust of a loaf which has touched another loaf in baking.
knuff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nʌf/
rhymes: -ʌf
homophone: 'nuff
Forms: form: knuffs
form: gnuff
Etymology: Compare Old English cnof (“a churl”).
Senses: examples: text: The country knuffs, Hob, Dick, and Hick, with clubs and clouted shoon
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Unknown, (Please provide the book title or journal name); quoted in Mary Anne Martha Hoppus, “The Rebellions of the Poor Commons”, in Landholding in England, London: A. C. Fifield, 1908, page 90:
synonyms: word: bumpkin
word: yokel
word: bogger
word: bogtrotter
word: boor
word: bucolic
word: bydlo
word: culchie
word: carl
word: churl
word: corncob
word: cornhusker
word: country bumpkin
word: country cousin
word: clodhopper
word: dubbo
word: joskin
word: hayseed
word: hillbilly
word: hick
word: hob
word: hobnail
word: hog-rubber
word: honyock
word: hunk
word: lob
word: promdi
word: provincial
word: redneck
word: rube
word: rustic
word: woolly back
word: yokel
glosses: A lout, rogue or rustic person.
laccin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare French laccine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A yellow amorphous substance obtained from lac.
lackadaisy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lackadaisy
form: most lackadaisy
Etymology: Alteration of lack-a-day or alack-the-day.
Senses: glosses: Lackadaisical.
lackadaisy
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Alteration of lack-a-day or alack-the-day.
Senses: glosses: Lackaday.
lactary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæktəɹi/
homophone: lactory
rhymes: -æktəɹi
Forms: form: more lactary
form: most lactary
Etymology: From Latin lactārius.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lactory.
lactary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæktəɹi/
homophone: lactory
rhymes: -æktəɹi
Forms: form: lactaries
Etymology: From Latin lactārius.
Senses: examples: text: The same may be said of the ‘long-horns’ and of the ‘Alderneys;’ for the former, though fattened for the market, and yielding a large supply of butter and cheese, are not kept to any great extent in the ‘lactaries,’ or milk establishments; […]
ref: 1841 July, “A Day at a London Dairy”, in The Penny Magazine […], volume 10, page 300:
text: The quantity of butter made here is, for an obvious reason small; and rarely exceeds 100 lbs. per week. […] Such is one of the London Lactaries:—there are many of them, some of larger, several of equal, and a few of interior extent.
ref: 1841 December 22, J. R., “London Lactaries”, in New England Farmer, and Horticultural Register, volume 20, number 25, page 197:
text: At Laycock’s “lactary,” at Islington, which is one of the best, their food is composed of brewers’ grains, mangel wurtzel, ruta baga, and hay; […]
ref: 1842, Robert M. Hartley, An Historical, Scientific and Practical Essay on Milk […], page 285:
glosses: A dairyhouse.
lanseh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lansehs
Senses: glosses: Dated form of langsat.
wikipedia: Edward Balfour
laryngismus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /læɹɪnˈd͡ʒɪzməs/
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin laryngismus, from the Ancient Greek λαρυγγισμός (larungismós, “a croaking”), from λάρυγξ (lárunx), whence also larynx. By surface analysis, laryng- + -ismus.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: laryngospasm.
Related terms: laryngismal
lazyback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lazybacks
Etymology: From lazy + back.
Senses: examples: text: After we got them stopped, we asked them to get out of the car, which they did. Carroll referred to me, and called me by the name of 'Fred,' just as soon as I got up to him. Raised up the back part of the roadster; didn't find any liquor there; then raised up the cushion; then I struck at the lazyback of the seat and it was hard. I then started to open it up, and I did tear the cushion some, and Carroll said, 'Don't tear the cushion; we have only got six cases in there;' and I took out two bottles and found out it was liquor
ref: 1925, Fred Cronenwett, Carroll v. United States (267 U.S. 132)/Opinion of the Court:
synonyms: backrest
glosses: A support for the back, attached to the seat of a vehicle.
lepered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From leper + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of leper
lepered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From leper + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of leprous.
synonyms: word: leprous
lichwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lich + wort.
Senses: synonyms: eastern pellitory-of-the-wall
pellitory-of-the-wall
wall pellitory
glosses: The herb Parietaria officinalis.
lightroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: lītʹro͞om
Forms: form: lightrooms
form: light-room
Etymology: From light (noun) + room (noun).
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A small room from which the magazine of a naval vessel is lighted, being separated from the magazine by heavy glass windows.
synonyms: lamp room
glosses: The room at the top of a lighthouse containing the lighting apparatus.
likehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: likehoods
Senses: glosses: likelihood
livelihed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: livelihead
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of livelihood.
logicalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From logical + -ness.
Senses: antonyms: illogicalness
glosses: The quality of being logical.
loosish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluːsɪʃ/
Forms: form: more loosish
form: most loosish
Etymology: From loose + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat loose.
luctation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lʌkˈteɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: luctations
Etymology: From Latin luctātiō, from luctor (“to wrestle, strive”).
Senses: examples: text: a. 1658, Anthony Farindon, a sermon
thoſe duties which require the luctation of the Mind
glosses: Effort to overcome in contest; struggle; endeavour.
mariput
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mariputs
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A species of civet; Ictonyx striatus.
Synonyms: sense: Ictonyx striatus
word: zorille
sense: Ictonyx striatus
word: zoril
sense: Ictonyx striatus
word: zorilla
sense: Ictonyx striatus
word: striped polecat
sense: Ictonyx striatus
word: African polecat
sense: Ictonyx striatus
word: Cape polecat
sense: Ictonyx striatus
word: African skunk
sense: Ictonyx striatus
word: striped weasel
martialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From martial + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: You, a poet, will understand when I say that the same relationship which exists between bourgeois art and art exists between militarism and martialism.
ref: 1971, Paul van Ostaijen, Patriotism, Inc., and Other Tales, page 121:
text: This perspective differed radically from the core values of realist writers; in this sense, it is suggested that realism should be regarded in aspects as the antithesis of martialism, and not (as many writers of international theory seem to hold) as its corollary.
ref: 2005, Karma Nabulsi, Traditions of War: Occupation, Resistance and The Law, page 82:
text: Malay war memory thus emerged with a similar form to that of Indian war memory, in the sense that memories of martialism are seen as expressions of nationalism.
ref: 2012, Karl Hack, Kevin Blackburn, War Memory and the Making of Modern Malaysia and Singapore, page 241:
glosses: The quality of being warlike; exercises suitable for war.
examples: text: Interactive confusion and misunderstanding often result from failure to distinguish the different aspects of Zen and martialism as they actually operate in various mixtures.
ref: 2005, Thomas Cleary, The Japanese Art of War: Understanding the Culture of Strategy, page 125:
text: In particular, one military academy that trains officers emphasizes the Hwarang spirit along with Sangmujeongsin (martialism) to its students.
ref: 2019, Fan Hong, Gwang Ok, Martial Arts in Asia: History, Culture and Politics:
text: Martialism, it was truly a grand path. It encompassed everything.
ref: 2020, Si Chen, Chaos Ancestral God:
glosses: A spiritual philosophy associated with some martial arts that involves finding one's inner balance, transcending physical combat, and the ability to become one with the opponent.