cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
anemographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anemograph
dobchick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dobchicks
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of dabchick.
dobchicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dobchick
rimosely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rimosely
form: most rimosely
Etymology: From rimose + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a rimose manner.
strychnic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: strychnic compounds
text: strychnic poisoning
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to strychnine.
Derived terms: strychnic acid
floutingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more floutingly
form: most floutingly
Etymology: From flouting + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: to treat a lover floutingly
glosses: With flouting; insultingly.
Waldensian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Waldensian
form: most Waldensian
form: Valdensian
Etymology: From Waldens(es) + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: A spin-off of the Waldensian sect began in 1207 when Durand of Huesca, an early follow of Waldo, converted to Catholicism.
ref: 2010, Michael C Thomsett, The Inquisition, page 16:
text: Valdensian communities took to the mountains of Savoy, and would defy the authorities in the best Burgundian manner for centuries.
ref: 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 126:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Waldenses.
Derived terms: Waldensian Evangelical Church
Union of Methodist and Waldensian Churche
Waldensian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Waldensians
form: Valdensian
Etymology: From Waldens(es) + -ian.
Senses: glosses: One who holds the doctrines of the Waldenses (a pre-Protestant church founded by Peter Waldo).
Waldensians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Waldensian
hastings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈheɪstɪŋz/
Forms: form: hasting
Etymology: From haste.
Senses: examples: text: The large white and green Hastings are tender , and not to be set till the cold is over , and then not very thick , for they spread much and mount high , and therefore require the help of tall Sticks
ref: 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:
glosses: Early fruit or vegetables, especially peas.
hastings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈheɪstɪŋz/
Etymology: From haste.
Senses: glosses: plural of hasting
Derived terms: green hastings
locustella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: locustellas
Etymology: New Latin, from Latin locusta a locust.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A bird, the European cricket warbler.
locustellas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of locustella
fourrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fourriers
Etymology: Borrowed from French fourrier, from Old French forre. See forage (noun).
Senses: glosses: A harbinger (someone who provides lodgings).
fourriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fourrier
insociate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more insociate
form: most insociate
Etymology: From in- + sociate.
Senses: examples: text: the insociate virgin life
ref: 1610, Ben Jonson, The Speeches at Prince Henry's Barriers:
glosses: unaccompanied; solo.
subglobose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + globose.
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Somewhat globose.
oxaline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: glyoxaline
overgird
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From over- + gird.
Senses: examples: text: The left maenad on A and B of the Oxford cup wears the same overgird Doric peplos of Smithsonian, side B and one attributed to the Painter of Athens.
ref: 1996, Shirley Jean Schwarz, Greek vases in the National Museum of Natural History, page 5:
glosses: Encircling.
overgird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overgirds
Etymology: From over- + gird.
Senses: examples: text: And finally, as an overgird to the whole piece, we need to establish policies that are clear to each employee in the Department of Energy and contractors that indicate, first of all, that program implementation and development happens through the Federal arm and not through contractor hand and mind.
ref: 1993, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, DOE Contract Management, page 93:
glosses: Something that encompasses and binds together; an encapsulation.
overgirded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overgird
overgirding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overgird
rhythmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪðəmə(ɹ)/
/ˈɹɪðmə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: rhythmers
Etymology: From rhythm + -er.
Senses: examples: text: one now scarce counted a rhythmer, formerly admitted for a poet
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: One who writes in rhythm, especially in poetic rhythm or meter.
glosses: Someone who provides rhythm
rhythmers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhythmer
numps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: numpses
form: nump
Etymology: Compare numb.
Senses: examples: text: These are villainous engines indeed; but take heart, Numps! here is not a word of the stocks; and you need never stand in awe of any more honourable correction.
ref: 1673, Samuel Parker, A Reproof to the Rehearsal Transprosed:
text: "You're a dizzard!" I retorted. "And a noodle and a jolt-head; you're a jobbernowl and a doodle, a maundering mooncalf and a blockheaded numps, a gaby and a loon; you're a Hatter!" I shrieked the last epithet.
ref: 1902, John Kendrick Bangs, chapter 10, in Olympian Nights:
glosses: A fool; a blockhead.
numpses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of numps
disadvantageable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disadvantageable
form: most disadvantageable
Etymology: From disadvantage + -able.
Senses: examples: text: For haſty Selling is commonly as Diſaduantageable as Intereſt.
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Expence”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, pages 165–166:
glosses: injurious; disadvantageous.
Norroy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Norroys
Etymology: From Old French norht, north, nort (“north”) + roi (“king”), Anglo-Norman roy (“king”).
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: The most northern of the English kings-of-arms, whose jurisdiction lay north of the Trent. Since 1943, the jurisdiction is Norroy and Ulster.
Norroy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A commune in the Vosges department in Grand Est in northeastern France.
Norroys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Norroy
hydrogenide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrogenides
Etymology: From hydrogen + -ide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydride.
hydrogenides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrogenide
forehoof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forehoofs
form: forehooves
Etymology: From fore- + hoof.
Senses: examples: text: One of the wildly dancing horse's forehooves slammed into his shoulder, nearly dislocating it, and driving the breath out of his lungs.
ref: 2010, Alice Borchardt, The Raven Warrior: Tales Of Guinevere:
glosses: A front hoof.
forehoofs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forehoof
forehooves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forehoof
spindom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spin + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: I would LOVE to learn how to spin, congrats on taking the first step towards spindom!!!
ref: 2007, Spindles Etc. « The Knerdy Knitter
glosses: The realm, territory, or sphere of spinning.
examples: text: He was curmudgeonly about the level of spin that journalists were putting on Verdi 'celebrations' during his lifetime; the present levels of spindom would have him gnawing the woodwork.
ref: 2001, George Henry Hubert Lascelles Harewood (Earl of), Opera
text: Wal-Mart is driving could-have-been-Pulizer-prizewinning newshounds to a life of inglorious spindom.
ref: 2006, No: It's all Sam's fault
glosses: The realm, territory, or sphere of political spin.
fortin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fortins
Etymology: Borrowed from French fortin. See fort.
Senses: glosses: A small fort; a fortlet.
fortins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fortin
Wormian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Wormian
form: most Wormian
form: wormian
Etymology: From Worm + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Wormian ossicles
glosses: Of or pertaining to Ole Worm (Olaus Wormius, 1588–1655), Danish physician and antiquary.
wikipedia: Worm (surname)
Derived terms: Wormian bone
ammonitiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæmənaɪˈtɪfəɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more ammonitiferous
form: most ammonitiferous
Etymology: From ammonite + -iferous.
Senses: examples: text: ammonitiferous limestone
text: ammonitiferous bedrock
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Containing fossil ammonites.
prefigurement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prefigurements
Etymology: From prefigure + -ment.
Senses: synonyms: symbolism
glosses: The act of prefiguring.
examples: text: Surely there was here, in his pious, ever-labouring, subtle mind, a precious truth, or prefigurement of truth ; and yet a fatal delusion withal.
ref: 1851, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling:
synonyms: hint
symbol
type
glosses: Something that prefigures.
Synonyms: adumbration
foreshadowing
prefiguration
prefigurements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prefigurement
tuberculization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tuberculizations
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The development of tubercles
glosses: the condition of one who is affected with tubercles.
swallowfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swallowfish
Etymology: From swallow + fish.
Senses: glosses: A tub gurnard or sapphirine gurnard (Chelidonichthys lucerna).
scissible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scissible
form: most scissible
Etymology: From Latin scindere, scissum.
Senses: examples: text: The differences of impressible and not impressible, figurable and not figurable, mouldable and not mouldable, scissible and not scissible, and many other passions of matter, are plebeian notions, applied unto the instruments and uses which men ordinarily practice .
ref: 1620, Francis Bacon, Natural History:
text: The herein described article comprising a rolled-up sheet of thin soft material coated with an adhesive substance, stiffening strips of scissible material secured to opposite ends of the sheet , a plurality of suspension loops secured to one end of the sheet. and a wrapper of scissible material inclosing the body o fhte sheet with the suspension loops projecting therefrom andd serving to indicate the lines upon which the article can be severed into a plurality of individual fly catchers, weach including a portion of the sheet, one of the suspension loops, and a section of the wrapper.
ref: 1917 October 9, Otto Braedt, “1242648: Fly-Catcher”, in Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office:
glosses: Capable of being cut by a sharp instrument.
examples: text: The former need the presence of either a free α-NH₂ or a α-COOH group adjacent to scissible bond, whereas the latter cleaves peptide bonds of the polypeptide chain distant to the termini.
ref: 1988, A. Asghar, A. R. Bhatti, “Endogenous Proteolytic Enzymes”, in Advances in Food Research, volume 31, page 345:
text: This latter Ca²⁺ site, of unknown location, is influenced by Asp residues at P3(D¹⁶⁷0 and P3' (D¹⁷²) of the scissible activation peptide bond of PC
ref: 1996, Thrombosis and Haemostasis:
text: It indicates that energy requirements for elastolysis by elastases are similar to most enzyme-catalyzed reactions, suggesting that scissible peptide bonds in elastin are accessible to these elastases.
ref: 2007, Current Topics in Developmental Biology - Volume 79, page 111:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: That can be severed or broken (often by a specific enzyme or catalyst).
raw_tags: of a bond
Related terms: scissors
electrizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrizers
Etymology: From electrize + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that electrizes; an electrifier
electrizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrizer
synonymal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more synonymal
form: most synonymal
Etymology: From synonym + -al.
Senses: glosses: synonymous
alleviatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alleviative
alleviable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alleviable
form: most alleviable
Senses: glosses: Capable of being alleviated.
unalleviable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unalleviable
form: most unalleviable
Etymology: From un- + alleviable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be alleviated.
appendicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: appendicles
Etymology: From Latin appendicula, diminutive of appendix.
Senses: glosses: A small appendage.
appendicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of appendicle
fluoborate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluoborates
Etymology: Compare French fluoborate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt of fluoboric acid; a fluoboride.
Related terms: tetrafluoroborate
fluoborates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluoborate
glandiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Etymology: From Latin glandifer, from glans, glandis (“acorn”) + ferre (“to bear”). Compare French glandifère.
Senses: glosses: Bearing acorns or other similar nuts.
stayless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stayless
form: most stayless
Etymology: From stay + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without stays (the item of clothing).
glosses: Without stays (nautical)
glosses: Without stays (e.g. on a boiler)
examples: 1559, William Baldwin (attributed) " […] Richard Neuill of Earle of Warwicke […] ", in The Mirror for Magistrates
Among the heauy heape of happy knightes,
Whome fortune stald vpon her staylesse stage
glosses: Without stop or delay.
epidotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more epidotic
form: most epidotic
Etymology: From epidote + -ic.
Senses: examples: an epidotic granite
glosses: Related to, resembling, or containing epidote.
strengthner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strengthners
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of strengthener.
strengthners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strengthner
indulgential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: 'Tis but getting some of those rusty pieces, which Pope Sixtus the Fifth found once under the rubbish of an old wall, then presently you are fitted with rare indulgential priveleges.
ref: 1674, Daniel Brevint, Saul and Samuel at Endor:
glosses: Relating to the indulgences of the Roman Catholic church.
gyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡaɪl/
rhymes: -aɪl
Forms: form: gyles
form: guile
Etymology: From Dutch gijl, from gijlen (“to ferment”).
Senses: examples: text: Perkins told me Yesterday that his Guile of Beer had a Summer-head on't, like as one sees in the last Weeks of Brewing in a forward Spring:—The Phænomenon surprized him I find.
ref: 1790 October 7, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana:
glosses: The amount of beer brewed at a time.
glosses: Fermented wort used for making vinegar.
Derived terms: gyle tan
parti-gyle
extravagantness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From extravagant + -ness.
Senses: glosses: extravagance
descensive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more descensive
form: most descensive
Senses: examples: text: the descensive Motion describing the Parabola
ref: 1735, Isaac Barrow, Geometrical Lectures:
glosses: Tending to descend or move downward; descending.
artiodactyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: artiodactyles
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of artiodactyl.
artiodactyles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of artiodactyle
regreet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiːɡɹiːt/
ipa: /ɹiːˈɡɹiːt/
Forms: form: regreets
Etymology: First attested in 1586; from re- + greet.
Senses: examples: text: Vnyoke this ſeyſure, and this kinde regreete?
ref: c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
text: Madam, there is a-lighted at your gate
 A yong Venetian, one that comes before
 To ſignifie th'approaching of his lord;
 From whom he bringeth ſenſible regreets;
 […]
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ix], page 172:
glosses: A return or exchange of salutations.
regreet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiːɡɹiːt/
ipa: /ɹiːˈɡɹiːt/
Forms: form: regreets
form: regreeting
form: regreeted
form: regreeted
Etymology: First attested in 1586; from re- + greet.
Senses: examples: text: Nor never look upon each other's face;
 Nor never write, regreet, nor reconcile
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act 1, scene 3]:
glosses: To greet again; to return a greeting to (someone).
regreets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regreet
regreets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of regreet
minnies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minny
minny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪni/
homophone: mini
homophone: Minnie
Forms: form: minnies
Senses: examples: text: All I know is, it doesn't seem strange in the turkeys, and same way I've seen rock-fish move like soldiers on a school of minnies; but for the plovers to do the like seemed all out of place, somehow[…]
ref: 1901, Charles Conrad Abbott, A naturalist's rambles about home:
glosses: A minnow.
creatureship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From creature + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being a creature.
embraid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: embraids
form: embraiding
form: embraided
form: embraided
Etymology: From em- + braid.
Senses: examples: text: embraided hair
text: embraided locks
glosses: To braid up, to plait.
examples: text: Minutius , who embraided him with cowardice
ref: 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →OCLC:
synonyms: upbraid
glosses: To tell off; to reprimand
embraided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of embraid
embraiding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of embraid
embraids
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of embraid
rhamphothecae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhamphotheca
unpastored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + pastor + -ed.
Senses: examples: an unpastored church
glosses: Without a pastor.
theologer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theologers
Etymology: From the stem of Latin theologus or English theology + -er; see -loger.
Senses: examples: text: it be concluded generally by theologers, that there is a natural justice and sanctity in the Deity
ref: 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A theologian.
theologers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of theologer
betitle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: betitles
form: betitling
form: betitled
form: betitled
Etymology: From be- + title.
Senses: examples: text: But for men, on this principle, to betitle themselves that they are the only men to rule kingdoms, govern nations, and give laws to people, and determine of property and liberty and everything else, upon such a pretension as this is: truly they had need to give clear manifestations of Gods presence with them before wise men will receive or submit to their conclusions!
ref: 1654 Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches, with Elucidations, ed. Thomas Carlyle, 3 vol., 1845
text: He struck a match. It flickered uncertainly, but it served to light up his haggard face and the solemn, betitled iron boxes lining the walls. He laughed.
ref: 1913, I. A. R. Wylie, The Little Partner:
glosses: To provided with a title; to entitle.
betitled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of betitle
betitles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of betitle
betitling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of betitle
ferroprussiate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferroprussiates
Etymology: From ferro- + prussiate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: ferrocyanide
ferroprussiates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ferroprussiate
preverbally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From preverbal + -ly.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Before a verb.
glosses: Before learning the ability to communicate by means of words.
postverbal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + verbal.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Occurring after a verb.
Derived terms: postverbally
winrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winrows
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of windrow.
winrows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of winrow
patriotical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more patriotical
form: most patriotical
Etymology: From patriot + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of patriotic.
imbalm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: imbalms
form: imbalming
form: imbalmed
form: imbalmed
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of embalm.
Derived terms: imbalmer
imbalmed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of imbalm
imbalming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of imbalm
imbalms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of imbalm
postverbally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From postverbal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The word "never" rarely occurs postverbally.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: After a verb.
metallorganic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of metalorganic.
metallorganic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metallorganics
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of metalorganic.
metallorganics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metallorganic
metapode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metapodes
Etymology: From New Latin metapodium, from Ancient Greek μετα- (meta-) + πούς (poús). By surface analysis, meta- + -pode.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The posterior division of the foot in the Gastropoda and Pteropoda.
Related terms: mesopodium
metapodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metapode
primateship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primateships
Etymology: From primate + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The office, dignity, or position of a primate (church officer).
Synonyms: primacy
primateships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of primateship
tetty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɛti/
Forms: form: tetties
Senses: examples: text: Hardly had he stooped to pick up his pipe when a great black and white hound crashed through the hedge and ran over his tetties and sun-dried shallots, followed by three more hounds, and after them a couple, and then his garden was filled with them.
ref: 1927, Henry William Williamson, Tarka the Otter, Chapter 19:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of tatty (“potato”).
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of titty (“breast”).
symbolizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: symbolizers
Etymology: From symbolize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, symbolizes.
symbolizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of symbolizer
purposedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈpɜː(ɹ)pəsɪdli/
Forms: form: more purposedly
form: most purposedly
Etymology: From purposed + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: a poem composed purposedly of the Trojan war
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
synonyms: purposely
glosses: According to purpose or design; on purpose
eschalot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eschalots
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of shallot.
eschalots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eschalot
munjistin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit मंजिष्ठा (maṃjiṣṭhā, “Indian madder”) + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A reddish-orange dye resembling alizarin, found in the root of Indian madder, a species of madder from around the Himalayas, Rubia manjith (formerly Rubia munjista).
liableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From liable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being liable; liability.
henroost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: henroosts
Etymology: From hen + roost.
Senses: glosses: A place used by hens for roosting.
henroosts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of henroost
tumultuariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tumultuary + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being tumultuary.
clearance holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clearance hole
radiophonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒnɪks
Senses: glosses: radiophonic sounds and music, or the techniques used to produce them
lepismoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Lepisma + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Like or pertaining to the genus Lepisma, of wingless insects including Lepisma saccharinum (silverfish).
creosote bush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creosote bushes
Etymology: Named for its smell, which resembles that of creosote.
Senses: synonyms: creosote
greasewood
chaparral
glosses: A common North American desert shrub used as a medicinal herb, Larrea tridentata.
lutarious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lutarious
form: most lutarious
Etymology: From Latin lutarius, from lutum (“mud”).
Senses: examples: text: A SCALY TORTOISE SHELL. It seems to be of the Lutarious kind
ref: 1681, Nehemiah Grew, Musæum Regalis Societatis. Or A Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and Preserved at Gresham Colledge. […], London: […] W. Rawlins, for the author, →OCLC:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or like mud; living in mud.
decitizenize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈsɪtɪzənaɪz/
Forms: form: decitizenizes
form: decitizenizing
form: decitizenized
form: decitizenized
Etymology: From de- + citizen + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: We have no law — as the French have — to decitizenize a citizen.
ref: 1863, Edward Bates, On Citizenship:
glosses: To strip of citizenship.
decitizenized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decitizenize
decitizenizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decitizenize
decitizenizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decitizenize
bespice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bespices
form: bespicing
form: bespiced
form: bespiced
Etymology: From be- + spice.
Senses: examples: text: Ay, and thou, / His cupbearer […] / mightst bespice a cup / To give mine enemy a lasting wink; / Which draught to me were cordial.
ref: c. 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, act 1, scene 2, lines 312–318:
glosses: To season with spice, or with some spicy drug.
bespiced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bespice
bespicing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bespice
ostraciont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ostracionts
Senses: glosses: A fish of Ostracion.
ostracionts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ostraciont
dispossessor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dispossessors
Etymology: From dispossess + -or.
Senses: examples: text: the Heirs (blessed be God) are yet surviving, and likely to outlive all Heirs of their dispossessors
ref: 1661, Abraham Cowley, A Discourse by Way of Vision Concerning the Government of Oliver Cromwell:
text: Europeans take possession of Native Aerican lands, to be sure, but at the same time, Native Americans take supernatural possession of their dispossessors.
ref: 2000, Renée L. Bergland, The National Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American Subjects, →ISBN, page 3:
glosses: One who dispossesses.
dispossessors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dispossessor
anamniotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From an- + amniotic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Lacking, or not developing, an amnion.
inconceptible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inconceptible
form: most inconceptible
Etymology: From in- + conceptible.
Senses: examples: text: It is inconceptible how any such man, that hath stood the shock of an eternal duration without corruption, should after be corrupted.
ref: 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind:
text: inconceptible goods of Heaven
ref: 1660, James Mumford, A Remembrance For The Living To Pray For The Dead:
glosses: inconceivable
possessours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of possessour
oedematous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oedematous
form: most oedematous
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of edematous.
Derived terms: antioedematous
ghetto birds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghetto bird
home invasion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: home invasions
Senses: topics: criminology
human-sciences
law
sciences
glosses: An assault on the possessor(s) of a household committed by an intruder by using forced entry or otherwise having unauthorized presence in the household.
Related terms: home invader
heatseeker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heatseekers
Etymology: From heat + seeker.
Senses: glosses: A heat-seeking missile.
semi-smiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semi-smile
High Commission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: High Commissions
Senses: glosses: The embassy of a Commonwealth country in another Commonwealth country.
Related terms: high commissioner
the genie is out of the bottle
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: the genie's out of the bottle
Senses: examples: text: It's been widely rumored the network was planning to cancel the show, but now the genie is out of the bottle and fans are furious.
text: This early flawed statement was rapidly updated with entirely accurate information, but it was too late - the genie was out of the bottle.
ref: 2021 November 17, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Salisbury: a media own goal”, in RAIL, number 944, page 3:
synonyms: the cat is out of the bag
glosses: Information has been released that will have ongoing consequences.
examples: text: I don't think there's any hope of repealing this city's silly parking bylaw. The genie is out of the bottle, sadly.
text: “The foundations of the concerns about digital platforms were developing during the Obama years […]” said Chris Lewis, the president of the consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge. “The genie is out of the bottle and the issues the public needs resolved are piling up without resolution.”
ref: 2020 November 10, Cecilia Kang, David McCabe, Jack Nicas, “Biden Is Expected to Keep Scrutiny of Tech Front and Center”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 07 Jan 2021:
glosses: Something has been brought into reality that cannot be eliminated or undone.
Related terms: can of worms
kettle of fish
Pandora's box
put the genie back in the bottle
what's done is done
ant sand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An ant-killing powder in granulated form.
hot karl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hot carl.
co-sleeping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From co- + sleeping.
Senses: glosses: The practice in which babies and young children sleep with one or both parents.
Related terms: co-bed
magicalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From magical + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: "So how long are we stuck like this?" "No more than an hour unless you want to stay that way. It should be under an hour. Nanase will probably change back first, given all her magicalness."
ref: 2014 October 17, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive - EGS:NP (webcomic), Comic for Friday, Oct 17, 2014:
glosses: The condition or quality of being magical.
lorication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lorications
Etymology: Latin loricatio.
Senses: glosses: The act of loricating (coating metal pipes etc.).
glosses: The protecting substance thus put on.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A covering of scales, plates, or similar.
lorications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lorication
langued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French langue (“tongue”). See language.
Senses: examples: text: […] Armed, as heralds cant, and langued, / Or, as the vulgar say, sharp-fanged; […]
ref: 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part 1, canto 2:
text: lions […] represented as armed and langued gules
ref: 1866, John Edwin Cussans, The Grammar of Heraldry:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
synonyms: tongued
glosses: Having the tongue visible.
grundsel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of groundsel.
prelector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prelectors
form: prælector
form: praelector
Etymology: From Latin praelēctor.
Senses: examples: text: […] it is ſufficient for me, that their ſo famous a Prælectour, doth teach that by Artes Magicke, the ſame workes are done, which are done by the gift of working miracles. […] Thus this famous Prelectour, by which it is euident, that howſoeuer the Spaniſh; and Papall Emperour, haue drawne them into their ſubiection, they haue not done the ſame by the power of miracles and integritie of life, but only by dint of ſword; […]
ref: 1616, Richard Sheldon, A Survey of the Miracles of the Church of Rome, prouing them to be Antichristian. […], London: […] Edward Griffin for Nathaniel Butter, pages 38 (A Second Prelude Shewing Briefely that miracles are not certaine tokens of a true Religion) and 178 (Wherein is examined Mʳ. Floods fifth Reason):
glosses: Someone who reads lectures or discourses; a lecturer.
Related terms: prelect
prelectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prelector
ghostfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghostfishes
form: ghostfish
Etymology: From ghost + fish, from its pale colour.
Senses: glosses: The wrymouth, Cryptacanthodes maculatus.
ghostfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghostfish
inauration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare French inauration.
Senses: synonyms: gilding
glosses: The act or process of gilding or covering with gold.
isomeride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isomerides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An isomer.
isomerides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isomeride
fleerer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fleerers
Etymology: From fleer + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Democritus, thou ancient fleerer, / How I miss thy laugh
ref: c. 1615–1616, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher, “The Nice Valour, or, The Passionate Mad-man”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: Someone who fleers; a grinner or smirker
fleerers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fleerer
Homologoumena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From New Latin homologūmena, from Ancient Greek ὁμολογούμενα (homologoúmena, literally “things agreed upon”), neuter plural form of the present mediopassive participle of ὁμολογέω (homologéō, “to agree with”).
Senses: topics: Christianity
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The books of the New Testament which were acknowledged as canonical by the early church, as opposed to Antilegomena.
galactophorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From galacto- + -phore + -ous, from Ancient Greek γαλακτοφόρος (galaktophóros). Compare lactiferous.
Senses: examples: text: galactophorous duct
text: galactophorous sinus
text: galactophorous tubule
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: lactiferous
glosses: Milk-carrying
laicality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From laical + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being laic; the condition of a layman or non-religious person
forcipation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: And à punishment surely it is , though of great terror , yet by reason of the quick dispatching , of less torment far than either the wheel or forcipation , yea than simple burning
ref: 1592, Francis Bacon, Observations on a Libel:
glosses: torture by pinching with forceps or pinchers
hepatite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hepatites
Etymology: From Latin hepatitis, an unknown precious stone, from Ancient Greek ἧπαρ (hêpar, “liver”); compare French hépatite.
Senses: examples: text: Carbon forms the basis of several of the combustibles; as coal, bitumen, amber, &c.; and it enters into the composition of a few minerals in small proportion; in the Aberthaw limestone, the hepatite, semi-opal, and in clay-slate, not exceeding 1 or 2 per cent.;[…].
ref: 1823, [1816], William Phillips, An Elementary Introduction to the Knowledge of Mineralogy, 3rd edition, page lii:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A variety of barite that emits a foetid odour when rubbed or heated.
intermundian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of intermundane.
myositic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more myositic
form: most myositic
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: myotic; producing myosis
glosses: Related to, or affected with, myositis
tortility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tortile + -ity.
Senses: synonyms: twistedness
glosses: The quality or state of being tortile (twisted, or wreathed).
heptarch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heptarchs
Etymology: From hepta- + -arch.
Senses: glosses: a heptarchist
heptarchs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heptarch
volitable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more volitable
form: most volitable
Senses: glosses: volatilizable
lobefeet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lobefoot
lobefoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lobefoots
form: lobefeet
Etymology: From lobe + foot.
Senses: glosses: A bird with lobate toes, especially the phalarope.
gummous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gummous
form: most gummous
Etymology: Latin gummosus; compare French gommeux.
Senses: glosses: gum-like, or composed of gum; gummy
glosses: Of or pertaining to a gumma.
hexine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of hexyne.
intercarpal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + carpal.
Senses: examples: text: intercarpal articulations
text: intercarpal ligaments
text: intercarpal joints
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Between the carpal bones.
chorepiscopal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: chorepiscopal office
text: chorepiscopal power
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: Pertaining to a chorepiscopus or his change or authority.
endict
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: endicts
form: endicting
form: endicted
form: endicted
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of indict.
endicted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of endict
endicting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of endict
endicts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of endict
candle coal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: candle coals
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cannel (“coal”).
earthboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earthboards
Etymology: From earth + board.
Senses: glosses: The part of a plough or other implement that turns over the earth; the moldboard.
earthboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earthboard
inhability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + hability (“ability”). Compare French inhabileté, inhabilité. See inability.
Senses: examples: text: Wisedom conferrs : whatever evil blind ignorance, false presumption, unwary credulity, precipitate rashness, unsteady purpose, ill contrivance, backwardness, inhability, unwieldiness and confusion of thought beget.
ref: a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). The Pleasantness of Religion”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:
glosses: unsuitableness; inability
defalcator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈdɛfəɫkeɪtə(ɹ)]
Forms: form: defalcators
Etymology: From defalcate + -or.
Senses: glosses: A defaulter or embezzler.
defalcators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of defalcator
indeficient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪndɪˈfɪʃənt/
rhymes: -ɪʃənt
Forms: form: more indeficient
form: most indeficient
Etymology: From Latin indēficiēns. See in- (“not”) + deficient.
Senses: examples: text: brighter than the sun, and indeficient as the light of heaven
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:
glosses: Not deficient; full or sufficient.
Related terms: indeficiency
discapacitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: discapacitates
form: discapacitating
form: discapacitated
form: discapacitated
Etymology: From dis- + capacitate.
Senses: glosses: To deprive of capacity or ability; to incapacitate.
discapacitated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of discapacitate
discapacitates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of discapacitate
discapacitating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of discapacitate
ingrafter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ingrafters
Etymology: From ingraft + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who ingrafts.
ingrafters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ingrafter
fornicatress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fornicatresses
Etymology: Compare French fornicatrice, Latin fornicatrix.
Senses: examples: text: Well: let her be admitted, / See you the Fornicatreſſe be remou’d, / Let her haue needfull, but not lauiſh, meanes, / There ſhall be order for't.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 67, column 1:
text: Joshua, the High-Priest, who, according to Justin, is said to have been clothed in filthy garments, because he had married a fornicatress
ref: 1853, John Kaye, Some Account of the Writings and Opinions of Justin Martyr:
text: 1856: Meditations and prayers to the Holy Trinity and our Lord Jesus Christ by S. Anselm, Sometimes Archbishop of Canterbury
For thou, thou, my wretched soul, perverse harlot, shameless fornicatress, thou first castedst off God, thy Lover and thy Creator, and betookest thyself of thine own accord to the devil, thine ensnarer and destroyer.
text: (As for) the fornicatress and the fornicator, flog each of them, (giving) a hundred stripes, and let not pity for them detain you in the matter of obedience to Allah, if you believe in Allah and the last day, and let a party of believers witness their chastisement.
ref: 1917, Maulana Muhammad Ali (translator), Qu’ran 24:2
text: However, terrible as it may seem to the tall maiden sisters of J.P.'s in Queen Anne houses with walled vegetable gardens, this courtesan, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie, street-walker, this trollop, this trull, this baggage, this hussy, this drab, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, demirep, demimondaine, this wanton, this fornicatress, this doxy, this concubine, this frail sister, this poor Queenie--did actually solicit me, did actually say 'coming home to-night, dearie' and my soul was not blasted enough to call a policeman.
ref: 1936, Anthony Bertram, Like the Phoenix:
glosses: A female fornicator; a fornicatrix.