cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
subvertible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subvertible
form: most subvertible
Etymology: From subvert + -ible.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of subvertable.
bushelage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bushelages
Etymology: From bushel + -age.
Senses: examples: text: Vessels entered of the port of Portsmoutir pay the bushelage only .
ref: 1835, Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, The Corporations of England and Wales, page 133:
text: Bushelage consisted of a bushel taken from each cargo of dry goods, chiefly coal, salt, malt, barley, and wheat; though half a bushel of "peasen" appears to have sufficed.
ref: 1877, Plymouth athenaeum, Annual report and transactions - Volume 6, page 316:
text: Bushelage dues on landing at the village of Flushing, payable to Lord Clifton
ref: 1969, Irish University Press Series of British Parliamentary Papers, page 152:
glosses: A duty payable on goods by the bushel.
examples: text: I think you will agree that the present wheat bushelage can not on the average year be greatly increased by just sowing more acres on the same old areas in the same old way or even in the same districts unless a great change is introduced .
ref: 1917 July 20, Science, volume 46, number 1177, page 50:
text: But largely as a result of the unilluminating statements of the Board in exaggerating bushelage and ignoring quality, March corn fell from the high of August 10, $ 1.21½, on the Chicago Board of Trade, to .35⅞ on December 30.
ref: 1928, Farm Life and Agricultural Epitomist - Volume 47, Issue 7, page 11:
text: But there would need to be, if the present supply is reduced, there would need to be some maximum bushelage.
ref: 1956, United States. Congress. Senate, Price-support Program: Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, page 2018:
text: The favorable results for the year were to a large degree related to the company's ability to replace lost income through added bushelage.
ref: 1962, Illinois Agricultural Association, Progress Report, page 92:
glosses: A quantity of bushels.
bushelages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bushelage
larderer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: larderers
Etymology: From Middle English larderer, larderere, equivalent to larder + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone in charge of a larder.
larderers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of larderer
infirmative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more infirmative
form: most infirmative
Etymology: Compare French infirmatif.
Senses: glosses: Tending to weaken, annul, or make void.
amovability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From amove + -ability.
Senses: examples: July 12 1816, Thomas Jefferson, letter to Samuel Kerchival
let us retain amovability on the concurrence of the executive and legislative branches , and nomination by the executive alone
glosses: Liability to be removed or dismissed from office.
virulented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From virulent + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Made virulent; poisoned.
resultive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From result + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: a resultive firmness ariseth from their complication
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: resultant; resulting
apyrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + pyro- + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: The Lumincus [sic] Lamp of Progression, whose sciatherical shadows falling upon earthly matter, not promoting sciolism, or Siccity, may it illumine humanity as it tardigradely floats from matter's aquius wastes, to minds majestic and apyrous climes.
ref: 1875, Marietta Holley, My Opinions and Betsey Bobbet's, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, page 172:
glosses: Not combustible; capable of tolerating great heat without alteration of form or properties.
unregeneration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + regeneration.
Senses: glosses: unregeneracy
schizogeny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From schizo- + -geny.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Creation of cavities by separating out existing cells.
Related terms: lysigeny
lysigeny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Creation of cavities by lysis.
Related terms: schizogeny
kiss someone's ass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kisses someone's ass
form: kissing someone's ass
form: kissed someone's ass
form: kissed someone's ass
Etymology: Said because the ass is considered vulgar and being willing to kiss another's is considered a sign of submission and patronage.
Senses: glosses: To flatter someone (especially a superior) in an obsequious manner, and to support their every opinion to gain their favor.
Related terms: kiss ass
asskisser
asslicker
brownnose
kiss someone's ring
lick someone's ass
suck up
schizogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From schizo- + -genesis.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of schizogeny.
lysigenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Related to or formed by lysigeny.
Derived terms: lysigenously
asskisser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæskɪsɚ/
Forms: form: asskissers
Etymology: From ass + kisser.
Senses: glosses: Someone who kisses ass; a sycophantic individual.
Synonyms: asslicker
sycophant
suckup
Related terms: kikesucker
asskissers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asskisser
asslicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asslickers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ass-licker.
asslickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asslicker
itinerantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more itinerantly
form: most itinerantly
Etymology: From itinerant + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an itinerant manner; nomadically.
tingid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the family Tingidae of lace bugs.
tingid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tingids
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the family Tingidae of lace bugs.
tingids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tingid
kissass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kissasses
Etymology: From kiss + ass.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kiss-ass.
kissasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kissass
buttkisser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buttkissers
Etymology: From butt + kisser.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of kiss-ass.
synonyms: word: kiss-ass
buttkissers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buttkisser
have I got news for you
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: You think your neighbours are noisy? Well, have I got news for you: I've been living next door to a nightclub for six years.
qualifier: rhetorical
glosses: Used to announce a fact of which the addressee was, or appeared to be, ignorant.
rawish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From raw + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The ravviſh danke of clumzie vvinter ramps / The fluent ſummers vaine: and drizling ſleete / Chilleth the vvan bleak cheek of the numd earth, / VVhilſt ſnarling guſts nibble the iuyceles leaues, / From the nak't ſhuddring branch; […]
ref: 1600 or 1601 (date written), I. M. [i.e., John Marston], “The Prologue”, in Antonios Reuenge. The Second Part. […], London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, and are to be soulde [by Matthew Lownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, signature A2, recto:
glosses: Somewhat raw.
noyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noyls
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of noil.
noyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noyl
wolf hook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wolf hooks
Etymology: From wolf + hook, called so because the original tool was used in the hunting of wolves.
Senses: glosses: A thunderbolt drawn as a straight-edged runic s with a horizontal bar in the middle and the ends angled at 90 degrees centerwise, now especially when used as a Nazi symbol.
glosses: A kind of trap used to catch wolves, consisting of an upper part resembling a crescent moon, meant to be fastened between tree branches, and a lower part (connected by a chain) in the form of a double hook, meant to be covered with meat and swallowed by a wolf.
glosses: A kind of modern-day assault rifle handle in a similar shape.
Synonyms: wolf's hook
wolfsangel
olivite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From olive + -ite.
Senses: glosses: olivin
examples: text: The "olivite rubber" is claimed to show a lower coefficient of friction on its wetted surface than on any oiled babbitted surface . Therefore an "olivite" rubber bearing lubricated by water offers less frictional resistance than the metal bearing lubricated by grease and oil.
ref: 1923, “Rubber Surfaced Bearings for Propellor Shafts of Small Craft”, in Rubber Journal, volume 66, page 7:
text: The secret of the cutless bearing is in its inner surface of grooved olivite rubber.
ref: 1923 November, Marine Engineering Log, volume 28:
text: Wood, various kinds of rubber, "olivite," and mastic have been employed in contact with the liquors.
ref: 1928, G.L. Oldright, H.E. Keyes, Virgil Miller, W.A. Sloan, “Precipitation of Lead And Copper from Solution on Sponge Iron”, in Bulletin of the U.S. Department of Commerce, number 281, page 56:
glosses: A tough rubber compound that becomes very slippery when wet.
wolf hooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wolf hook
stem node
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stem nodes
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of leaf node.
nemalite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nemalites
Etymology: From Ancient Greek νῆμα (nêma, “thread”) + -lite.
Senses: examples: text: In the mineral kingdom [Magnesium] is found in a native state, combined with water, though this is not a common mineral. The siliceous hydrate, or nemalite, is still rarer. The carbonate is far more common;[…].
ref: 1845 September, “My Cabinet”, in Charlotte Elizabeth, editor, The Christian Lady's Magazine, volume 24, page 264:
text: The specimens examined by me had the ordinary external characters of nemalite, consisting of adhering fibres of a fine silky lustre, and white colour, with a shade of yellow and partial slight blue or green tinge.
ref: 1846 October, Arthur Connell, “Analysis of the American Mineral Nemalite”, in Robert Jameson, editor, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and the Arts, volume 41, number 82, Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, page 388:
text: Several thousand specimens have been quarried from the serpentine and trap Ridges in New Jersey, under the direction of Professor Leeds of the Stevens Institute. They consist of nemalites, occurring in translucent masses made up of long, silky fibers;[…].
ref: 1874 October 17, “New Jersey Minerals”, in Scientific American, volume 31, number 16 (new series), New York: Munn, page 244:
text: As nemalite and chrysotile are usually found under similar conditions—in the form of veins traversing serpentine—it seems not unnatural that the two allied magnesian fibrous minerals should co-exist intimately mixed in the same vein,[…].
ref: 1897 May, F. R. Mallet, “On Nemalite from Afghánistán”, in The Mineralogical Magazine and Journal of the Mineralogical Society, volume 11, number 52, London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, page 213:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A variety of brucite, occurring in slender fibers which are elastic and easily separated, having a color of white with a shade of yellow and a highly silky luster.
wolfsangel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wolfsangels
Etymology: From German Wolfsangel (literally “wolf hook”).
Senses: glosses: A wolf hook.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A Z-shaped symbol, reminiscent of the Germanic wolf hook hunting device
Synonyms: sense: heraldry, symbology
word: cramp
sense: heraldry, symbology
word: crampon
Related terms: sense: heraldry, symbology
word: bolt
sense: heraldry, symbology
word: lightning bolt
sense: heraldry, symbology
word: N
sense: heraldry, symbology
word: thunderbolt
sense: heraldry, symbology
word: Z
sense: heraldry, symbology
word: ϟ
sense: heraldry, symbology
word: ᴎ
fraudful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fraudful
form: most fraudful
Etymology: From Middle English fraudful, equivalent to fraud + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: From this curſt hour, the fraudful dame / Of ſacred Truth uſurps the name, / And, vvith a vile, perfidious mind, / Roams far and near, to chat mankind; / Falſe ſighs ſuborns, and artful tears, / And ſtarts vvith vain pretended fears; […]
ref: a. 1722 (date written), Matthew Prior, “Husband and Wife”, in The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior […], volume II, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan, […], published 1779, →OCLC, pages 169–170:
text: [C]hildren, ſervants, are falſe, fraudful, foul, if the miſanthropic man, who is father and maſter, lets fall among them, in his outbreaks of paſſion, his opinion that they are ſo.
ref: 1860, Isaac Taylor, “Essay I. Ultimate Civilization.”, in Ultimate Civilization and Other Essays, London: Bell and Daldy […], →OCLC, part I, section IV, page 37:
synonyms: deceitful
glosses: fraudulent.
Derived terms: fraudfully
fraudfulness
wolfsangels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wolfsangel
overexquisite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overexquisite
form: most overexquisite
Etymology: From over- + exquisite.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Be not overexquisite/To cast the fashion of uncertain evils.'"
ref: 1818-1819, Leonard Merrick, To Tell You the Truth, Hodder & Stoughton, pages 249-250:
text: Nevertheless, in times like these it does not do to be overexquisite in emphasizing defects of system or crudities of theology.
ref: 1890, The Chicago Sunday Tribune, Harper & Brothers, page 34:
text: If his humour does not often compel to Olympian laughter, it is, on the other hand, never studied nor overexquisite, nor strained for effect.
ref: 1902, The Office, London, Punch Volume- CXXII, Hodder & Stoughton, page 294:
glosses: Excessively exquisite; too exact or careful.
Derived terms: overexquisitely
leaf node
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaf nodes
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: One of the spots upon a stem where buds and intercalary meristems occur, usually marking the end of a season's growth.
topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A node, in a tree, that has no children.
Related terms: internode
Proto-Albanian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From proto- + Albanian.
Senses: glosses: The hypothetical proto-language that is the progenitor of modern day Albanian.
unspike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unspikes
Etymology: From un- + spike.
Senses: examples: text: This included an unspike oxygen uptake of mixed liquor, and a mixed liquor sample spiked with 10% by volume primary effluent.
ref: 1980, John M Bell, Proceedings: Purdue University Industrial Waste Conference, page 769:
text: The sonogram and the cardiogram chart reflect the forward push of the heart shoving the blood through the veins: the unspike.
ref: 2013, Richard H. Palmquist, Einstein, Money and Contentment, page 55:
text: Compared to the case of simple homotopies, in a (non-simple) homotopy, we remove the hypothesis that the curves are simple and we allow two new moves, spikes and unspikes, leveraging this non-simplicity.
ref: 2019, Therese Biedl, Erin Wolf Chambers, David Eppstein, Arnaud De Mesmay, Tim Ophelders, “Homotopy Height, Grid-Major Height and Graph-Drawing Height”, in Daniel Archambault, Csaba D. Tóth, editor, Graph Drawing and Network Visualization, page 476:
glosses: An instance of unspiking (any sense).
unspikes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unspike
unspiking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unspike
outbowl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outbowls
form: outbowling
form: outbowled
form: outbowled
Etymology: From out- + bowl.
Senses: examples: text: 1948, Robert Lewis Taylor, Robert Lewis Taylor, Doctor, lawyer, merchant, chief
Mike thinks he can outbowl Joe and Emanuel, Emanuel thinks he can outbowl Mike and Joe
text: My little brother gets upset when I outbowl him.
glosses: To beat at bowling.
verbarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌvɜːˈbɛəɹi.əm/
ipa: /ˌvɝˈbɛɹi.əm/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm
Etymology: From Latin verbum (“word”) + -arium.
Senses: examples: text: We have played Verbarium with great pleasure, dividing the company into two sections or sides.
ref: 1889, 'anonymous subscriber', “Indoor Games”, in The Christian Union, volume 40, page 311:
text: […] next she would play euchre twenty minutes; next it would be a game of verbarium, and so on all the day long—twenty minutes to each fleeting interest, with twenty minutes of billiards sandwiched between every two of them.
ref: c. 1908, Mark Twain, Dorothy Quick - Her April Fool's Anecdote:
glosses: A word game in which the players are given a set of letters and must form as many words as possible from subsets of those letters.
outbowls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outbowl
outbowling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outbowl
outbowled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outbowl
wincer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wincers
Etymology: From wince + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who winces.
wincers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wincer
laquay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laquays
Senses: examples: text: I bound my laquay Tho. Headly apprentice to a carpenter, giving with him five pounds and new cloathing
ref: 1654 May 15 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for May 5 1654]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of lackey.
laquays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laquay
bunchiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English bunchines, equivalent to bunchy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or condition of being bunchy.
purgatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more purgatively
form: most purgatively
Etymology: From purgative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a purgative manner; so as to purge.
exsudation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exsudations
Senses: examples: text: That the sweat of a man's brows, and the exsudations of a man's brains, are as much a man's own property, as the breeches upon his backside;
ref: 1761, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman:
glosses: Alternative form of exudation.
exsudations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exsudation
phonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ) + -al.
Senses: examples: text: a phonal sound
glosses: Of, relating to, or produced by, the voice.
excretive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From excrete + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: in their excretive faculty in evacuating the excrementicious humours
ref: 1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions:
synonyms: excretory
glosses: Having the power of excreting, or promoting excretion.
gasoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gasoscopes
Etymology: From gas + -o- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: An apparatus for detecting the presence of dangerous gas, for example in a mine or in a house.
gasoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gasoscope
Kendrick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkɛn.dɹɪk/
Forms: form: Kindrick
form: MacKendrick
form: McKendrick
form: MacHendrie
Etymology: Epenthesized variant of Kenrick.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: Alternative form of Enright.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Marion County, Florida, named after William H. Kendrick.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A minor city in Latah County, Idaho.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A small town in Lincoln County, Oklahoma.
Derived terms: Kendrick Extrication Device
botryoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒt.ɹiˌɔɪd/
ipa: /ˈbɑt.ɹiˌɔɪd/
Forms: form: botryoids
Etymology: Ancient Greek βότρυς (bótrus, “cluster of grapes”) + -oid
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A determinate inflorescence, similar to a raceme, taking the form of flowers arranged alongside an axis.
Related terms: grapelike
staphylo-
botryoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒt.ɹiˌɔɪd/
ipa: /ˈbɑt.ɹiˌɔɪd/
Forms: form: more botryoid
form: most botryoid
Etymology: Ancient Greek βότρυς (bótrus, “cluster of grapes”) + -oid
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of botryoidal.
dential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to dentine.
butt-chin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butt-chins
Senses: examples: text: Still looking lost and confused, Clive scratched his butt-chin, looked me in the eye with both pupils constricted, and full of uncertainty, he stammered as he fired yet another question.
ref: 2011, C. Lazarus, Father on the Loose!:
text: And I told him everything; his perfect teeth glistened, a dimple flattered his flawless butt-chin.
ref: 2006, Carol Weston, Melanie in Manhattan, page 261:
text: He bent down slowly and got so close to my face, I could see the lines in his glossy, unchapped lips and the stubbled hairs in the crack of his butt-chin.
page 123
ref: 2004, Justin Hocking, Jeffrey Knutson, Jared Jacang Maher, Life and Limb: Skateboarders Write from the Deep End page 107
text: He had a chin on him, a butt-chin, with a dimple in it.
ref: 1995, John Sandford, Night Prey:
glosses: Alternative form of butt chin.
butt-chins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butt-chin
nitrocarbol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nitro- + carbon + -ol.
Senses: glosses: nitromethane
hypocritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypocritic
form: most hypocritic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὑποκριτικός (hupokritikós).
Senses: examples: text: Let others screw their hypocrite face
ref: a. 1745, On a Lady who p---t at the tragedy of Cato […] , Jonathan Swift:
glosses: Synonym of hypocritical.
synonyms: word: hypocritical
Synonyms: hypocritical
hypocritic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypocritics
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὑποκριτικός (hupokritikós).
Senses: glosses: A hypocrite.
hypogynous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a flower, having a superior ovary, attached directly to the receptacle like other floral parts.
Derived terms: semihypogynous
tetraxile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tetra- + axile.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: tetraxonal (having four branches diverging at right angles).
raw_tags: said of certain spicules of sponges
monamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monamides
Etymology: From mono- + amide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: (archaic) Alternative spelling of monoamide.
monamides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monamide
monoamides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monoamide
immethodically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more immethodically
form: most immethodically
Etymology: From immethodical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: unmethodically.
waistcoating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waistcoatings
Etymology: From waistcoat + -ing.
Senses: glosses: A fabric designed for waistcoats, often with a multicoloured pattern of different yarns.
waistcoatings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waistcoating
unriddler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unriddlers
Etymology: From unriddle + -er.
Senses: examples: a. 1657 Richard Lovelace, to my dear friend Mr. E.R
The diamond , from ' midst the humbler stones,
Sparkling , shoots forth the price of nations.
Ye safe unriddlers of the stars, pray tell,
By what name shall I stamp my miracle?
glosses: One who unriddles; a solver of puzzles.
unriddlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unriddler
eleemosynarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more eleemosynarily
form: most eleemosynarily
Etymology: From eleemosynary + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an eleemosynary manner; out of charity; charitably.
unconcerning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unconcerning
form: most unconcerning
Etymology: From un- + concerning.
Senses: examples: text: I will not, therefore, busy myself about "the unconcerning parts of knowledge; but be contented, like a reader of plain sense, without politeness;" […]
ref: 1722 (date written), Richard Steele, “468. To Mr. [William] Congreve”, in John Nichols, editor, The Epistolary Correspondence of Sir Richard Steele; including His Familiar Letters to His Wife and Daughters; […], volume II, London: […] John Nichols and Son, […]; and sold by Messrs. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], published 1809, →OCLC, page 610:
glosses: Not affecting or interesting; insignificant.
glosses: Not concerning.
almagests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of almagest
desier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desiers
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of desire.
desier
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: desiers
form: desiering
form: desiered
form: desiered
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of desire.
levulosan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: levulosans
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An unfermentable carbohydrate obtained by gently heating levulose.
levulosans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of levulosan
reproacht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reproach
legateship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: legateships
Etymology: From legate + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The office or authority of a legate.
legateships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of legateship
biquadratics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biquadratic
admier
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: admiers
form: admiering
form: admiered
form: admiered
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of admire.
bicrystals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bicrystal
herbarist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: herbarists
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of herbalist.
herbarists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of herbarist
polary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈpoʊləɹi/
Etymology: From pole + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: And if the whole earth were violently removed, yet would it not forego its primitive points, nor pitch in the east or west, but return unto its polary position again.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: poleward
polewards
glosses: Tending towards a pole.
Derived terms: impolarily
polarily
Related terms: polar
polarity
impanator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impanators
Etymology: From Latin [Term?].
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: One who holds the doctrine of impanation.
impanators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impanator
extraforaneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + Latin foris (“door”) + -aneous.
Senses: examples: text: My dear friend, fine weather, and a variety of extraforaneous occupations, (search Johnson's dictionary for the word, and if not found there, insert it—for it saves a deal of circumlocution, and is very lawfully compounded) make it diffcult[…]for me to find opportunities for writing. My morning is engrossed by the garden;[…]
ref: 1781 April 2, William Cowper, Letter LXXIV to the Rev. William Unwin:
text: A compendious description of our native plants, sufficiently full to enable the young botanist to determine the species that might come in his way, and at the same time neither too bulky for extraforaneous use, nor too expensive, has also been greatly desired.
ref: 1835, W. McGillivray, “Preface”, in William Withering, A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants, 3rd edition, page v:
text: Nearly all the valuable pigeons bred in this city and vicinity are kept in inclosures of some kind—rarely, if ever, being allowed to fly abroad; though, in a country place, in good weather, and under some watchful eye, it could not be otherwise than promotive of their health and vigor to allow them frequent extraforaneous exercise.
ref: 1874 June, "Editors", “Questions and Answers”, in Pet-Stock, Pigeon and Poultry Bulletin, volume 5, page 52:
text: It is not an extra[-]foraneous affair like most of the great anniversary dances of the northern tribes, but is held in a large assembly-hall.
ref: 1877, Stephen Powers, Tribes of California (Contributions to North American Ethnology), volume 3, page 105:
text: It is commonly supposed, for instance, when cows are once housed[…]that they at once and permanently fall off in yield of milk. If this were a fact,[…]it would go far to explain[…]the practice[…]of keeping cows extra-foraneous until the storms of winter begin to whirl about their heads.
ref: 1889, J. P. Sheldon, “The Care of Dairy Cows in Autumn”, in Journal of the Bath and West of England Society and Southern Counties Association for the encouragement of Agriculture (Third Series), volume 20, page 353:
glosses: Outdoor.
Related terms: circumforaneous
oreographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oreo- + -graphy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of orographic (“connected to orography (the scientific study of mountains)”).
transferrible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of transferable.
mosaically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more mosaically
form: most mosaically
Etymology: From mosaic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: mosaically arranged higher sections of the cerebrum will become complicated
ref: 1968, Brain Reflexes:
glosses: In the manner of a mosaic; taking a mosaic-like form.
disappointer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disappointers
Etymology: From disappoint + -er.
Senses: examples: text: 1671, Robert McWard, The Case of the Accommodation Lately Proposed by the Bishop of Dumblane, Letter 1, Post-Script, p. 102,
Oh when shall the loud and harsh noises of our debates be turned to the sweeter sound of united prayers for this blessed peace […] and if we be real supplicants for it, we would bewar of being the disappointers of our own desires, and of obstructing the blessing we pray for,
text: 1846, William Makepeace Thackeray (as M. A. Titmarsh), Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo, London: Chapman and Hall, Chapter , pp. 234-235,
You make a sack, of calico or linen, big enough for the body, appended to which is a closed chimney of muslin, stretched out by cane-hoops, and fastened up to a beam, or against the wall. You keep a sharp eye to look out that no flea or bug is on the look out, and when assured of this, you pop into the bag, tightly closing the orifice after you. This admirable bug disappointer I tried at Ramleh, and had the only undisturbed night’s rest I enjoyed in the east.
text: She had not been one of those Iranians who viewed America as the Promised Land. To her and her university friends, the U.S. was the great disappointer—the democracy that had, to their mystification, worked to shore up the monarchy back when the Shah was in trouble.
ref: 2006, Anne Tyler, chapter 6, in Digging to America, New York: Knopf, page 159:
glosses: One who or that which disappoints (all senses).
disappointers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disappointer
displeaser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: displeasers
Etymology: From displease + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who displeases.
displeasers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of displeaser
decalog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decalogs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Decalogue.
decalogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decalog
trirectangular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + rectangular.
Senses: glosses: Having three right angles.
baggagemaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baggagemasters
Etymology: From baggage + master.
Senses: glosses: A person in charge of the baggage at a railway station.
baggagemasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baggagemaster
Havanese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Havanese
form: most Havanese
Etymology: From Havana + -ese.
Senses: synonyms: Havanan
glosses: Of or pertaining to Havana, in Cuba.
Havanese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Havana + -ese.
Senses: synonyms: Havanan
glosses: The natives or inhabitants of Havana in Cuba.
Havaneses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Havanese
Ottawas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ottawa
pluviometrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pluviometric
Etymology: Compare French pluviométrique.
Senses: examples: text: pluviometrical measurements
glosses: Of or pertaining to a pluviometer.
inquilines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inquiline
reingratiate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reingratiates
form: reingratiating
form: reingratiated
form: reingratiated
Etymology: From re- + ingratiate.
Senses: examples: text: The Queen and Assaphcawn having notice of his intent, but fearing his force, and that (if he were admitted any private discourse with Jangheer ) probably he would reingratiate himself
ref: 1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels into Africa and Asia the Great:
glosses: To ingratiate again.
reingratiated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reingratiate
reingratiates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reingratiate
reingratiating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reingratiate
wreckmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wreckmasters
Etymology: From wreck + master.
Senses: glosses: Someone appointed to take charge of any goods and debris arriving on to the shore after a shipwreck.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Someone in charge of a wreck train
wreckmasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wreckmaster
coinstantaneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + instantaneous.
Senses: examples: text: In the case of the prawn-like crabs, their movements were as coinstantaneous as in a regiment of soldiers
ref: 1840, Charles Darwin, Journal of Researches Into the Geology and Natural History:
glosses: Happening at the same instant; simultaneous.
Derived terms: coinstantaneously
coinstantaneousness
anserated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Perhaps related to serrated because the ends are often also parted (to terminate in two animal heads, as with a cross gringolée).
Senses: examples: text: an anserated cross
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Having the extremities terminate in the heads of eagles, lions, etc.
Related terms: gringolée
notorhizal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From noto- + rhizal.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the radicle of the embryo lying against the back of one of the cotyledons; incumbent.
politicist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: politicists
Etymology: From politic + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A writer about politics
glosses: A political scientist
politicists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of politicist
requicken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /riːˈkwɪkən/
Forms: form: requickens
form: requickening
form: requickened
form: requickened
Etymology: From re- + quicken.
Senses: examples: text: Requickened what in flesh was fatigate.
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 II, scene ii]:
glosses: To quicken anew; to reanimate or give new life to.
requickened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of requicken
requickening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of requicken
requickens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of requicken
hudge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌdʒ
Forms: form: hudges
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A bucket for hoisting coal or ore.
hudge
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʌdʒ
Senses: examples: text: 1598, William Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost, London: Cutbert Burby, [Act I, Scene 1],
the hudge armie of the worldes desires
text: O hudge madness!
ref: 1689, William Jameson, chapter 4, in Verus Patroclus, Edinburgh, page 172:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of huge.
hudges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hudge
kickshoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kickshoes
Senses: examples: text: Nor shall we then need the Monsieurs of Paris to take our hopeful youth into their slight and prodigal custodies, and send them over back again transformed into mimicks, apes and kicshoes.
ref: 1644, Milton, Of Education:
ref: 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], chapter 2, in The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 3, section 2:
glosses: Obsolete form of kickshaw.
kickshoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kickshoe
inequidistant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + equidistant.
Senses: glosses: Not equidistant.
outfling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outflings
form: outflinging
form: outflung
form: outflung
Etymology: From out- + fling.
Senses: glosses: To fling outward.
outfling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outflings
Etymology: From out- + fling.
Senses: glosses: A sharp retort or gibe.
outflinging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪŋɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outfling
outflinging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪŋɪŋ
Forms: form: outflingings
Senses: glosses: A flinging outward.
outflings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outfling
geophagist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geophagists
Etymology: From geo- + -phagist.
Senses: examples: text: Should chance so determine, it is finally transferred to the human alimentary canal, either in muddy drinking-water, or in the mud or dirt adhering to the hands or the food dishes of the agriculturist, the brick-maker, or other operative engaged in handling the soil; or, it may be, in earth deliberately eaten by the geophagist and children.
ref: 1919, Patrick Manson, Tropical Diseases, Chapter 45:
glosses: One who eats earth or earthlike substances.
Related terms: geophagia
geophagism
pica
geophagists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geophagist
fether
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fethers
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of feather.
Ptolemaist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ptolemaists
Senses: glosses: Someone who accepts the astronomical system of Ptolemy.
Ptolemaists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ptolemaist
workship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From work + -ship.
Senses: glosses: workmanship
thiocarbonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thiocarbonates
Etymology: From thio- + carbonate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any anion formally derived from a carbonate by replacing one or more oxygen atoms with sulfur; any salt containing such an anion
Synonyms: sulfocarbonate
thiocarbonates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thiocarbonate
patriarchship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patriarchships
Etymology: From patriarch + -ship.
Senses: glosses: Office of a patriarch.
asseverative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more asseverative
form: most asseverative
Etymology: From asseverate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Characterized by asseveration; asserting positively.
examples: text: Further, it is strongly possible that the emphatic or asseverative lamed is etymologically distinct from the preposition, though the Masoretes do not distinguish the two.
ref: 1990, Bruce K. Waltke, Michael Patrick O'Connor, An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax, page 211:
text: A prosthetic 'aleph was added in Hebrew […] and this gave a graphemic distinction between the negative and the asseverative, but the asseverative nevertheless eventually disappeared in Hebrew and other Canaanite dialects.
ref: 2013, William M. Schniedewind, A Social History of Hebrew:, page 152:
text: Delimiting the forms which belong to the asseverative paradigm can be achieved only for some of the forms based on morphological criteria alone.
ref: 2018, Eran Cohen, The Modal System of Old Babylonian:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Serving to emphasize the certainty or truth of a statement.
Derived terms: asseveratively
asseverative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asseveratives
Etymology: From asseverate + -ive.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A linguistic structure that serves to emphasize the certainty or truth of a statement.
reimburser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reimbursers
Etymology: From reimburse + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who reimburses.
reimbursers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reimburser
balistraria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbælɪˈstɹɛəɹi.ə/
ipa: /ˌbæləˈstɹɛɹi.ə/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.ə
Forms: form: balistrarias
form: balistrariae
Etymology: From balister (“crossbow”), from Old French balestre, ultimately from Latin balaustium, Ancient Greek βαλαύστιον (balaústion). See also arbalister (“crossbowman”).
Senses: glosses: arrowslit (a narrow opening through which arrows can be fired).
balistrarias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balistraria
gived
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Overheard in Cornwall: 'Oh, ess, diden' ee know I gived up keepin' ducks? They wus allus comin' 'ome lost'.
ref: 1951, John William Robertson Scott, The Countryman (page 64)
glosses: simple past and past participle of give
Know-Nothing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Know-Nothings
Etymology: Party members claimed to know nothing about the party when questioned.
Senses: examples: text: The legacy of the Know-Nothings lived beyond its life as an organization. The seeds of bigotry, fear and hatred bore fruit again in the years after the Civil War.[…]
The First World War led to another outbreak of nativism. A new group, adopting the program of the Know-Nothings and the name of the Ku Klux Klan, came into being, denouncing everything its members disliked—Negroes, Catholics, Jews, evolutionists, religious liberals, internationalists, pacifists—in the name of true Americanism and of “Nordic superiority.”
ref: 1964, John F. Kennedy, “Immigration Policy”, in A Nation of Immigrants, Revised and Enlarged edition, Harper & Row, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 71:
glosses: A member of a secret antiforeigner political organization in the nineteenth-century United States.
Derived terms: Know-Nothingism
arrowslit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arrowslits
Etymology: From arrow + slit.
Senses: examples: text: When they met in the church tower the gaps in their fragmentary conversation were filled up. […] They sat talking for hours on the dusty, twig-littered floor, one or other of them getting up from time to time to cast a glance through the arrowslits and make sure that no one was coming.
ref: 1949, George Orwell, chapter 3, in Nineteen Eighty-Four:
related: word: arrow slit
synonyms: arrow-hole
loophole
balistraria
glosses: A slit, as in a castle wall, through which arrows can be fired.
arrowslits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arrowslit
keyseat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keyseats
Etymology: From key + seat.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: keyway
glosses: A bed or groove to receive a key which prevents one mechanical part from turning on another; especially, one with blind ends and a press-fit, such as one that seats a Woodruff key.
keyseat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keyseats
form: keyseating
form: keyseated
form: keyseated
Etymology: From key + seat.
Senses: glosses: To form a keyseat, as by cutting.
Related terms: keyseater
keyseated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of keyseat
keyseating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of keyseat
keyseats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of keyseat
affrighten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əˈfɹaɪtən/
Forms: form: affrightens
form: affrightening
form: affrightened
form: affrightened
Etymology: From a- + fright + -en.
Senses: examples: text: Fit tales […] to affrighten babes.
ref: 1794, Robert Southey, Frederic:
text: He clung affrightened to his master's knee:
ref: 1810, George Crabbe, The Borough:
glosses: To frighten.
affrightening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of affrighten
affrightens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of affrighten
dispraiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dispraisers
Etymology: From dispraise + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who blames or criticises.
dispraisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dispraiser