cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cerused
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ceruse + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: My wants have not transformed me: I dare tell you, / To your new-cerused face
ref: 1623 January 5 (first performance), John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Spanish Curat”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act V, scene i:
text: Because I though myself more deserving of such a dignity, being more like a man, and able to render more service to the king than you who are so cerused, shaved, and painted about the eyes, face, and skin.
ref: 1858, Truman Slater, A New Compendium of Ancient History, Geography, and Chronology, page 178:
text: "Your cerused lips and bandaged chin seem well ; Pray what's amiss? " Philænis, if I've got to tell—I dread your kiss.
ref: 1911, Martial, Paul Nixon (translator), A Roman Wit: Epigrams of Martial Rendered Into English by Paul Nixon, page 74:
text: He surveyed the chamber filled with vibrant silks and the white powdered wigs adorning old beaux and grande dames, cerused and patched in the prevailing fashion.
ref: 2011, Emery Lee, Fortune's Son:
glosses: Washed with a preparation of white lead as a cosmetic treatment.
examples: text: Traverse the lobby's inlaid marble floor and cream Venetian-plastered walls and ascend one level to the reception area, lounge and bar boasting cerused dark wood floors, 15-foot-high ceilings and floor-to-ceiling windows facing Thompson Street.
ref: 2001 July, Los Angeles Magazine, volume 46, number 7, page 127:
text: Furnishings of teak and cerused oak inside and out compliment bona fide classics such as the Barcelona chairs in the living room and Eames lounge in the master bedroom .
ref: 2017, Steven M. Price, Trousdale Estates:
text: Flynn's design for the kitchen incorporates a combination of cerused teak cabinetry, bronzed steel, and basaltina volcanic stone counters. By using the same cerused-teak in the bedroom for a wall of storage, Flynn created a sense of continuity he hoped would both render the space more modern and increase the perception of continuous space.
ref: 2019, Anthony Iannacci, New York Design at Home, page 80:
glosses: Finished with a whitening pigment that fills the grain, originally white lead, but in more recent times using less toxic pigments.
raw_tags: of wood
insection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insections
Etymology: See insect.
Senses: glosses: A cutting in or into; incision.
insections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insection
benzal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benzals
Etymology: From benzoic and aldehyde.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A transparent crystalline substance, C₆H₅.CO. NH₂, obtained by the action of ammonia on benzoyl chloride and by several other reactions with benzoyl compounds.
Derived terms: benzal chloride
bullition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bullitions
Etymology: From Latin bullire, bullitum (“to boil”). See boil (verb) and ebullition.
Senses: examples: text: There is to be observed in those dissolutions which will not easily incorporate, what the effects are : as the bullition ; the precipitation to the bottom; the ejaculation towards the top […]
ref: a. 1626, Francis Bacon, Articles of Questions touching Mi∣nerals:
glosses: The action of boiling.
bullitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bullition
flatscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flatscapes
Etymology: From flat + -scape.
Senses: examples: text: This non-place could be the flatscape of a parking lot, or a suburban sprawl littered with supermarkets, parkways, little houses and garden plots.
ref: 1988, A. Papadakēs, Deconstruction in architecture:
text: Other rooms filled with other men roaming a flatscape only recently wired with electricity and now braising in radio waves.
ref: 2010, Douglas Coupland, Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work!:
glosses: Any flat surface or area; a platform.
examples: text: Tractor trailers pass through the flatscape, the few people whom we do see are wearing modern clothing, a billboard advertises Coca-Cola, and some of the dogs are wearing collars, so they must live somewhere outside the barren world [...]
ref: 1999, Maude Schuyler Clay, Delta land:
text: A flatscape of houses with the San Francisco Bay beyond unfolded outside Ford's office window.
ref: 2003, Perri O'Shaughnessy, Unfit To Practice:
text: The interstate was at least a couple of football fields wide. I turned down Old Sawmill Road, a country road that wasn't a thoroughfare. It was a two-lane blacktop with no shoulder, winding its way through the piney woods flatscape.
ref: 2004, Dayne Sherman, Welcome to the Fallen Paradise:
glosses: A flat landscape.
examples: text: In industrial civilization, environmental variety has been replaced by what has been called "'a flatscape", lacking intentional depth and providing possibilities only for commonplace and mediocre experiences.
ref: 1992, Lothar Fietz, Paul Hoffmann, Hans-Werner Ludwig, Regionalität:
text: Several phenomenologists have remarked on the problems of modern living, where architectural trends are towards a placeless geography, a meaningless pattern of similar buildings, a 'flatscape'.
ref: 1997, Michael Parker Pearson, Colin Richards, Architecture and order: approaches to social space:
text: On the whole, in comparison with traditional agricultural landscapes, the appearance seems that of a “blandscape” rather than a landscape, a “flatscape” of dreary and monotonous sameness.
ref: 2007, Arnold Berleant, Allen Carlson, The aesthetics of human environments:
glosses: A landscape lacking distinguishable or interesting features; a plain or monotonous landscape.
Related terms: blandscape
gerocomia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gerocomy.
battologize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: battologizes
form: battologizing
form: battologized
form: battologized
Etymology: From battology + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: after they have battologized Lla y-lala, or Hilula, i.e. Praises, they iterate another to this effect
ref: 1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC:
glosses: To keep repeating needlessly; to iterate.
battologized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of battologize
battologizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of battologize
battologizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of battologize
spinstry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: What new Decency then can be added to this by your spinstry?
ref: 1642 (indicated as 1641), John Milton, The Reason of Church-governement Urg’d against Prelaty […], London: […] E[dward] G[riffin] for Iohn Rothwell, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The business of one who spins; spinning (of yarn)
Sirbonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈbəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /sɚˈboʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Serbonian.
consignification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consignifications
Etymology: From con- + signification.
Senses: glosses: joint signification
Related terms: consignify
consignifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of consignification
paune
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: cornpone (bread)
tubicolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tubicolar
form: most tubicolar
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: tubicolous
dérailleur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dérailleurs
Senses: examples: text: Generally the problems in this area will be with the dérailleurs or the chain.
ref: 1973, Ross R[obert] Olney, Simple Bicycle Repair and Maintenance, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 28:
text: To this effect, the subject of the invention is a control device for a dérailleur-gear for a bicycle, of the type as described previously, characterized in that the cable for actuation of the dérailleur-gear is connected to an actuation stud rotated by the operating hand-lever, and on which are provided the control mechanism and the means for attaching the moveable part of the device to the fixed part of the latter.
ref: 1989 July 27, Günter Look, Régis Sinoquet, Control device for a derailleur-gear for a bicycle, US Patent 5,052,242:
text: Adjusting a dérailleur may look complicated, but the process is actually simple and can be done by anyone.
ref: 1994, Steve M. Matthews, Improve Your Paragraphs, Glencoe, Macmillan/McGraw-Hill School Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 242:
text: A cunning mechanical gear-shift called a dérailleur allows you to do this as you’re bicycling along, even while the gear wheels and the chain are spinning at speed.
ref: 2015, Chris Woodford, Atoms Under the Floorboards: The Surprising Science Hidden in Your Home, Bloomsbury Sigma, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of derailleur.
denticulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: denticulations
Senses: examples: text: He only omits the Denticulation of the edges of his Bill, or those small oblique Incisions, which, from their inward respect, are plainly made for the better retention of the Prey
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: The state of being set with small notches or teeth.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A small tooth; a denticle.
denticulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of denticulation
hindward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hindward
form: most hindward
Etymology: From Middle English hindward, hindeward, from Old English hindanweard, equivalent to hind (“behind”) + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Toward the posterior extremity.
Synonyms: hindwards
hindward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hindward
form: most hindward
Etymology: From Middle English hindward, hindeward, from Old English hindanweard, equivalent to hind (“behind”) + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Posterior; in the rear.
photopsin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photopsins
Etymology: From photo- + opsin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of photoreceptor proteins present in the cones of the retina
delibation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delibations
Etymology: Latin delibatio: compare French délibation.
Senses: examples: text: The principles of motion and vegetation in living bodies seem to be delibations from the invisible fire or spirit of the universe
ref: 1744, George Berkeley, Siris: A Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tarwater, And divers other Subjects connected together and arising one from another:
glosses: Act of tasting; a slight trial.
delibations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delibation
disemployment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dis- + employment.
Senses: examples: text: this glut of leisure and disemployment
ref: 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:
text: So an AI-enabled future may have all sorts of economic dislocations — not just unemployment, but disemployment — the obsolescence of a lot of professions. But the marginal cost of goods and services will essentially go to zero, providing enough wealth that societies can provide a universal basic income for all. What you’re predicting makes me think of a 1930 piece by John Maynard Keynes called “The economic possibilities of our grandchildren.”
ref: 2024 January 19, Eric Larsen, “Vinod Khosla — Silicon Valley legend and early investor in OpenAI — on the coming AI revolution in medicine”, in Advisory Board (Lessons from the C-suite):
antonyms: employment
reemployment
coordinate_terms: misemployment
unemployment
glosses: The state of being disemployed, or deprived of employment (as sometimes distinguished from unemployment).
bachelry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English bachelrie, from Old French bachelerie.
Senses: glosses: Collectively, aspiring knights.
photopsins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photopsin
phthalin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phthalins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A colourless crystalline substance obtained by reduction from phthalein, into which it is easily converted by oxidation.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of the series of which phthalin proper is the type.
precogitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: precogitates
form: precogitating
form: precogitated
form: precogitated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin praecōgitātus, perfect passive participle of praecōgitō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more. By surface analysis, pre- + cogitate.
Senses: examples: text: […]without any precogitated and resolved mallice
ref: 1627, William PRYNNE, The Perpetuitie of a Regenerate Mans Estate; wherein it is manifestly proved ... That such as are once truly regenerated ... can neither finally nor totally fall from grace, etc, page 312:
glosses: To cogitate beforehand.
precogitated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of precogitate
precogitates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of precogitate
precogitating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of precogitate
premunitory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: premunitory process
text: premunitory clause
topics: law
glosses: Of or relating to a praemunire.
premunires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of premunire
cultirostral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cultirostral
form: most cultirostral
Etymology: From Latin culter (“knife”) + rōstrum (“beak”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a bill shaped like the colter of a plough, or like a knife, as in the heron, stork, etc.
Related terms: rostral
NP-hard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A problem H is NP-hard if and only if there is an NP-complete problem L that is polynomial time Turing-reducible to H.
topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An alternative definition restricts NP-hard to decision problems and then uses polynomial-time many-one reduction instead of Turing reduction.
Related terms: NP-complete
NP-easy
NP-equivalent
preambulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹiːˈæmbjʊlətɹi/
ipa: /pɹiːˈæmbjʊlətəɹi/
ipa: /pɹiːæmbjʊˈleɪtəɹi/
ipa: /pɹiˈæmbjʊləˌtɔɹi/
Senses: examples: text: Simon Magus had preambulatory impieties.
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: Preceding; acting as a preamble; introductory.
manation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin manatio, from manare (“to flow”). Compare emanation.
Senses: glosses: The act of issuing or flowing out.
dérailleurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dérailleur
solemnizate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: solemnizates
form: solemnizating
form: solemnizated
form: solemnizated
Etymology: From Medieval Latin sōlemnizō + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: solemnizate matrimony in their churches, chappels, or elsewhere, between any persons that have been married before
ref: 1679–1715, Gilbert Burnet, “(please specify the page)”, in The History of the Reformation of the Church of England., London: […] T[homas] H[odgkin] for Richard Chiswell, […]:
glosses: Obsolete form of solemnize.
solemnizated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of solemnizate
solemnizates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of solemnizate
solemnizating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of solemnizate
alkekengi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkekengis
Etymology: Through French alkékenge, Spanish alquequenje, from Arabic كَاكَنْج (kākanj).
Senses: glosses: A herbaceous plant of the nightshade family (Alkekengi officinarum).
glosses: The flavoursome berry of this plant.
alkekengis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alkekengi
coexecutor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coexecutors
Etymology: From co- + executor.
Senses: glosses: A joint executor.
coexecutors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coexecutor
superplease
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: superpleases
form: superpleasing
form: superpleased
form: superpleased
Etymology: From super- + please.
Senses: examples: text: But careless of all vulgar censure, as not depending on common approbation, he is confident it shall superplease judicious spectators
ref: 1632 (first performance), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “The Magnetick Lady: Or, Humors Reconcil’d. A Comedy […]”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640, →OCLC:
glosses: To please exceedingly.
superpleased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of superplease
superpleases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of superplease
superpleasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of superplease
decerniture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decernitures
Senses: qualifier: Scots law
glosses: A decree or sentence of a court.
Related terms: decern
decernitures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decerniture
trichinize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: trichinizes
form: trichinizing
form: trichinized
form: trichinized
Etymology: From trichina + -ize.
Senses: examples: trichinized pork
glosses: To render trichinous; to affect with trichinae.
trichinized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trichinize
trichinizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of trichinize
trichinas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trichina
trichinizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trichinize
setula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: setulae
Etymology: From Latin setula, saetula, diminutive of seta, saeta (“bristle”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A small, short hair or bristle; a small seta
Related terms: setulate
setulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of setula
nemertian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nemertians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nemertean.
nemertians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nemertian
featherfoil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: featherfoils
Etymology: From feather + foil (“a leaf”).
Senses: synonyms: water violet
glosses: An aquatic plant (Hottonia palustris) with finely divided leaves.
featherfoils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of featherfoil
twi-tongued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From twi- + tongued.
Senses: examples: text: The doubtful House she fears, the twi-tongued race. [...]
ref: 1906, Virgil, The Aeneid of Virgil:
text: [...] that in this view of the case the crafty twi-tongued Burleigh said, that England never could be undone but by her parliament.
ref: 1826, William Bailey, Records of patriotism and love of country:
glosses: Having two tongues; double-tongued; two-tongued; (by extension) deceitful.
amalgamize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: amalgamizes
form: amalgamizing
form: amalgamized
form: amalgamized
Etymology: From amalgam + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To amalgamate.
amalgamized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of amalgamize
amalgamizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of amalgamize
amalgamizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of amalgamize
punctist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: punctists
Senses: examples: text: That the words are to be read interrogatively, both the LXX. and the punctists agree […]
ref: 1830, Ebenezer Henderson, Elements of Biblical Criticism and Interpretation:
glosses: A punctator.
punctists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of punctist
revesture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The aulters of this Chapell were hanged with rich reueſture of cloth of golde of Tiſſue, embroudered with pearles.
ref: 1569, Richard Grafton, “Henry the Eyght”, in A Chronicle at Large and Meere History of the Affayres of Englande […], volume II, London: […] Henry Denham, […], for Richarde Tottle and Humffrey Toye, →OCLC, page 1037:
glosses: Vesture.
esloin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪsˈlɔɪn/
/ɛsˈlɔɪn/
Forms: form: esloins
form: esloining
form: esloined
form: esloined
Etymology: See eloign.
Senses: examples: text: From worldy cares himselfe he did esloyne
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 20:
text: If any be diſſeized or eſloined by us, without lawful judgment of his peers, of lands, chattels, franchiſes, or of any right, we will, forthwith, reſtore the ſame….
ref: 1769, Samuel Johnson, “The Great Charter of King John”, in A History and Defence of Magna Charta, Dublin: James Williams, pages 213, 215:
glosses: To remove, banish or withdraw.
esloined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of esloin
esloining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of esloin
esloins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of esloin
stimulatress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stimulatresses
Etymology: From stimulator + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A woman who stimulates.
two-tongued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English two-tounged, two tungyd, equivalent to two + tongued. Compare twi-tongued.
Senses: glosses: Having two tongues; double-tongued.
glosses: Deceitful; lying; two-faced.
examples: text: Thomas had used "the bilingual sea" in "Quite Early One Morning" (1945), so that "two-tongued" was a product of a natural piece of wordplay.
ref: 1963, Ralph Maud, Entrances to Dylan Thomas' poetry:
text: It is through the voice-over (fully bilingual, because, as the narrator announces, this will be an “f...ing Canadian film”) that the narrator demonstrates both the positive and the negative aspects of the two-tongued individual.
ref: 2006, Sherry Simon, Translating Montreal: Episodes in the Life of a Divided City:
glosses: Possessing the ability to speak two languages; synonym of bilingual.
semicastrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: semicastrates
form: semicastrating
form: semicastrated
form: semicastrated
Etymology: From semi- + castrate.
Senses: glosses: To deprive of one testicle.
Related terms: hemicastrate
semicastration
semicastrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of semicastrate
semicastrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of semicastrate
semicastrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of semicastrate
catapasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catapasms
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek κατάπασμα (katápasma, “powder”), from πάσσω (pássō, “sprinkle”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A medicinal powder used by the ancients to sprinkle on ulcers, to absorb perspiration, etc.
catapasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catapasm
hemadynamometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemadynamometers
Senses: glosses: An instrument to take various measurements in the blood, originally only blood pressure.
Synonyms: haemomanometer
hemadynamometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemadynamometer
tetricity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin tetricitas, taetricitas. By surface analysis, tetric + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: His Manner of Laughter is no way agreeable, opening his Mouth too wide: It even ſeems to indicate ſome Conſtraint and Pain: When he ſhuts his Mouth it gives a Tetricity to his Looks; his Noſe is all of a Piece; his Countenance wears a ſettled Gloomineſs; and his Forehead is of the uſual Size and Figure.
ref: 1751, [Jacques Pernetti], “Letter IV”, in Philosophical Letters upon Physiognomies. To which are added, Dissertations on the Inequality of Souls, Philanthropy, and Misfortunes, London: Printed for R. Griffiths, […]; W. Meyer, […]; J. Payne and J. Bouquet […], page 27:
text: "Had you truinated this matter with imprejudication," said the Lady Marguerite, "prior to the existimation you have with so much tetricity delivered, it must have been obvious to you, Doctor Gregory Martimas, that your incondite baniloquence must appear to me either arising from incogitancy, or an innane knodoxy, which gives you an exopation temerariously to insinuate, that those of my sex must necessarily be nescious on topics of erudition."
ref: 1810, Alicia Tindal Palmer, The Daughters of Isenberg, page 77:
text: Notwithstanding the excellency of many inventions, byu which men have professed to purify water, no permanent and economical filter which has yet been devised, can answer the especial purposes of the brewer; not has any, howeverr ingeniously constructed, been found to sweeten foul water when its tetricity has passed from suspension to combination; nor will any other means yet known , including evaporation, do it on a scale suitable to brewing.
ref: 1850, William Littell Tizard, The Theory and Practice of Brewing Illustrated, page 118:
glosses: The quality of being tetric: crabbedness, harshness, bitterness.
ramberge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ramberges
Etymology: From French rame (“oar”) + barge (“barge”).
Senses: glosses: A kind of large war galley.
ramberges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ramberge
air jacket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air jackets
form: airjacket
Senses: examples: text: AIR-JACKET. A leathern garment furnished with inflated bladders, to buoy the wearer up in the water.
ref: 1867, William Henry Smyth, The Sailor’s Word-Book, London: Blackie & Son, page 28:
text: She wore an inflatable air jacket stolen from Air France.
ref: 1985, Lawrence Durrell, chapter 1, in Quinx, New York: Viking, page 29:
glosses: A lifejacket.
examples: text: 1765, George Alexander Stevens, The Celebrated Lecture on Heads, London: R. Richards, Part 3, p. 16,
[…] our army all should wear a new uniform; all our horse infantry should wear air jackets, and all our foot cavalry should wear cork waistcoats; and then ye know why they’d be all over the sea before you could say Jack Robinson.
text: Anna Sparks shrugged into her air jacket and slipped her bib over the top of it. There was a time when she'd have felt invincible in the lead-up to the cross-country, especially if she'd posted a personal best of 40.3 to lie third behind David Powell and Sam Tide after the dressage, but today nerves roared through her system like ocean waves, building and crashing.
ref: 2014, Lauren St John, The One Dollar Horse:
text: If a competitor chooses to wear an inflatable air jacket during the cross country phase it must be placed over the top of a body protector, whereas in the other phases/other disciplines the air jacket can be worn without a body protector.
ref: 2017, Guy N. Rutty, Essentials of Autopsy Practice, page 94:
topics: equestrianism
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
glosses: An inflatable vest worn to cushion falls.
examples: text: In the first Daimler gasoline engines a current of air was forced through an air jacket surrounding the cylinder by means of a rotary fan mounted on the crank shaft.
ref: 1906 November 7, E. Favary, “Air Cooling Devices”, in The Horseless Age: The Automobile Trade Magazine, volume 18, number 19:
text: But instead of having an air jacket around the firebox or stove, it has many water pipes among the flames.
ref: 1938, Benjamin Charles Gruenberg, Samuel P. Unzicker, Science in Our Lives, page 222:
text: For example, if one patient was conducted two times of frozen–thawed embryo transfer (FET) (all embryos from the air jacket incubator) and was verified pregnant at last, the clinical pregnancy rate would be 50%.
ref: 2021, Wei-Hua Wang, Infertility and Assisted Reproduction, page 227:
glosses: An enclosed space containing nothing but air that surrounds something in order to provide insulation.
air jackets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of air jacket
crumpy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crumpy
form: most crumpy
Etymology: From crump + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I had hardly swallowed my broiled chicken , and three fourths of a sweet fresh trout that was set before me ; and was just nibbling at a bit of crumpy oaten cake to give a goût to my cheese and my dram of brandy
ref: 1833, Andrew Picken, “The Priors of Lawford”, in Traditionary Stories of Old Families:
glosses: brittle; crisp
Derived terms: crumpiness
smearings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smearing
odontocete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /oʊˈdɑn(t)əˌsit/
ipa: /ɒˈdɒntəˌsiːt/
ipa: /əʊˈdɒntəsiːt/
Forms: form: odontocetes
Etymology: Learned borrowing from translingual Odontoceti, From Ancient Greek ὀδόντος (odóntos, “teeth”) + κῆτος (kêtos, “whale”).
Senses: examples: text: Sperm whales and dolphins are odontocetes.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the cetacean parvorder Odontoceti; a toothed whale.
odontocetes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of odontocete
two-headed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From two + headed. Compare twi-headed.
Senses: glosses: Having two heads or faces on one body.
glosses: Directed by two heads or chiefs; existing under two coordinate authorities.
Related terms: two-faced
bicephalic
bipolar
twi-headed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From twi- + headed.
Senses: examples: text: Compare the two twi-headed serpents which Loeg, in the Serglige Conculaind, sees on the plain of Mag Denna.
ref: 1903, Henry Arbois de Jubainville, The Irish mythological cycle and Celtic mythology:
text: They watched in silent anxious adoration as their twi-headed god was led forward and seated in the centre of the circular enclosure on a massive throne of carved dark wood.
ref: 1967, M. K. Joseph, The hole in the zero:
glosses: Having two heads; two-headed.
A-Pucikwar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From A-Pucikwar a- (prefix used on words relating to the mouth) + Pucikwar.
Senses: glosses: The now-extinct language spoken by the Pucikwar people.
Synonyms: Pucikwar
A-Pucikwar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From A-Pucikwar a- (prefix used on words relating to the mouth) + Pucikwar.
Senses: qualifier: possibly erroneous
glosses: The Pucikwar people, collectively.
spiralizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spiralize
spiralizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spiralize
spiralized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spiralize
spiralized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Formed into spirals
spiralizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spiralization
spouters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spouter
interblends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of interblend
interblending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of interblend
interblending
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interblendings
Senses: glosses: A blending together.
interblended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of interblend
two-legged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tuːˈlɛɡɪd/
ipa: /ˈtuːlɛɡd/
ipa: /tuːˈlɛɡɪd/
Etymology: From two + legged.
Senses: examples: text: two-legged animals    two-legged shears
text: And that thing made of ſound and ſhovv / VVhich mortals have miſnamed A Beau, / (But in the language of the ſky / Is call'd a tvvolegg'd butterfly) / VVill make your very heartſtrings ake / VVith loud and everlaſting clack, […]
ref: 1766, James Beattie, “[Miscellany Poems.] The Wolf and Shepherds, a Fable.”, in Poems on Several Subjects. […], new edition, London: […] W. Johnston, […], →OCLC, stanza 3, pages 113–114:
glosses: Having or furnished with two legs, or leg-like appendages.
two-legged
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tuːˈlɛɡɪd/
ipa: /ˈtuːlɛɡd/
ipa: /tuːˈlɛɡɪd/
Forms: form: two-leggeds
Etymology: From two + legged.
Senses: examples: text: The four-leggeds blamed the cleansing on the humans, and decided to destroy all two-leggeds.
ref: 2000, Clyde Holler, The Black Elk Reader, →ISBN, page 195:
text: Because most of the animals had learned to distrust the two-leggeds, they shrank back into the forest.
ref: 2011, Allan J. Hamilton, (Please provide the book title or journal name), →ISBN:
text: It was a serious race, for the two-leggeds —human beings and birds— were racing the four-leggeds to determine which should feed the others.
ref: 2013, Vine Deloria; Vine Deloria, Jr.; James Treat, For This Land: Writings on Religion in America, →ISBN, page 238:
glosses: Someone or something with two legs, especially human beings.
two-lipped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From two + lipped.
Senses: glosses: Having two lips.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Divided so that segments resemble the two lips when the mouth is more or less open; bilabiate.
twoling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twolings
Etymology: From two + -ling. Compare twilling.
Senses: glosses: A twin crystal consisting of two individuals.
Abun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A language, sometimes considered an isolate and sometimes considered West Papuan, spoken in Papua and divided into the dialects Abun Tat (Karon Pantai), Abun Ji (Madik), and Abun Je.
Synonyms: North Bird's Head
Yimbun
A Nden
Manif
Karon
Abun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Amharic or Tigrinya አቡነ (ʾäbunä), or from a similar Classical Syriac word.
Senses: glosses: Father, the title of a bishop in an Ethiopian or Coptic church.
Synonyms: english: the status constructus form used when a name follows, sometimes erroneously used even when it does not precede a name
translation: the status constructus form used when a name follows, sometimes erroneously used even when it does not precede a name
word: Abuna
twolings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twoling
impiousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From impious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being impious.
uninjurable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uninjurable
form: most uninjurable
Etymology: From un- + injurable.
Senses: examples: text: Unerringly impelling this dead, impregnable, uninjurable wall, and this most buoyant thing within; there swims behind it all a mass of tremendous life, only to be adequately estimated as piled wood is—by the cord; and all obedient to one volition, as the smallest insect.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Battering-ram”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 376:
glosses: immune to injury
injurable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more injurable
form: most injurable
Etymology: From injure + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being injured.
Derived terms: uninjurable
soundingboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soundingboards
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sounding board.
wastingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more wastingly
form: most wastingly
Etymology: From wasting + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: As in decapitating the whale, the operator's instrument is brought close to the spot where an entrance is subsequently forced into the spermaceti magazine; he has, therefore, to be uncommonly heedful, lest a careless, untimely stroke should invade the sanctuary and wastingly let out its invaluable contents.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Scribner, published 1902, page 295:
glosses: In a way that causes wastage; wastefully.
physiognomically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From physiognomical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Physiognomically regarded, the Sperm Whale is an anomalous creature. He has no proper nose.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: In terms of physiognomy.
undecreasing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + decreasing.
Senses: examples: text: And what is still more, for many feet after emerging from the brain's cavity, the spinal cord remains of an undecreasing girth, almost equal to that of the brain.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: Not decreasing; growing no smaller.
unincreasing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + increasing.
Senses: glosses: Not increasing; growing no larger.
suckingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more suckingly
form: most suckingly
Etymology: From sucking + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […] but, on a sudden, as the eightieth or ninetieth bucket came suckingly up — my God! poor Tashtego — like the twin reciprocating bucket in a veritable well, dropped head-foremost down into this great Tun of Heidelburgh, and with a horrible oily gurgling went clean out of sight!
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: With a sucking sound or motion.
openmouthed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more openmouthed
form: most openmouthed
Senses: examples: text: The edges of these bones are fringed with hairy fibres, through which the Right Whale strains the water, and in whose intricacies he retains the small fish, when openmouthed he goes through the seas of brit in feeding time.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of open-mouthed.
Ahwai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Nigerian Plateau language or language group, which comprises the lects Nandu or Ndun, Ningon or Nyeng, and Tari or Shakara.
Synonyms: Ndunic
hoister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoisters
Etymology: From hoist + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] putting one foot into it, so as the better to secure his slippery hand-hold on the whip itself, the hoisters ran him high up to the top of the head, almost before Tashtego could have reached its interior bottom.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
glosses: One who, or that which, hoists or lifts.
examples: text: In order better to appreciate the use of argot among thieves, a visit to a few public bars of the third-class public houses of Kennington or in the immediate vicinity of the Elephant and Castle would prove of great value, as hoisters, whizzers, tea-leaves, con-heads, broadsmen and brass nobs […]
ref: 1931, The Police Journal, volume 4, page 504:
text: Like their friends the "draggers," the "hoisters" or shoplifters are having a thin time these days, […]
ref: 1945, Jack Henry, What Price Crime?, page 92:
glosses: A thief.
hoisters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoister
base class
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: base classes
Senses: qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: A class from which other classes can be derived, inheriting its functionality or interface; a potential superclass for subclasses.
Aka-Bo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Aka-Bo aka- (“a prefix used on words relating to the mouth”) + bo.
Senses: glosses: A Great Andamanese language, the last speaker of which died in 2010.
Synonyms: Bo
Ba
wagenboom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wagenbooms
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans wagenboom, literally "wagon tree".
Senses: glosses: A South African proteaceous tree (Protea nitida).
glosses: The tough wood of this tree, formerly used for making furniture or wagon wheels.
Synonyms: waboom
wagon tree
wagenbooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wagenboom
unboxings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unboxing
sexmobile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sexmobiles
Etymology: From sex + -mobile.
Senses: glosses: A vehicle in which people have sexual intercourse.
Synonyms: fuckmobile
passion wagon
bangbus
sexmonger
sexpat
sex-machine
banger
sex on a stick
shagging wagon
sexmobiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sexmobile
lady who lunches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ladies who lunch
Senses: examples: text: But there's always this aggrieved air that I'm some sort of ghastly Harvey Nichols-obsessed lady who lunches while he earns all the money.
ref: 1996, Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary: A Novel, London: Picador, →ISBN:
text: I'm not interested in material things, the way you and your ladies who lunch are, the way my fat brother Aaron is! I'm happy to work on my jewelry, to be able to commit to my religious beliefs through my jewelry.
ref: 2002, Evan Hunter, The Moment She was Gone: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN:
text: Sublime cafe fare (and gourmet takeaway) in a sunny, noisy setting crowded with suits, ladies who lunch and artsy Mass Ave types.
ref: 2006 February, Indianapolis Monthly, page 263:
text: I then choose a pale green silk print dress that plays up the green in my eyes. Matching it with pea green 3 inch heels, pearl necklace and 7mm pearl earrings; I once again look like a lady who lunches; a very wealthy one but one never the less.
ref: 2010, Tammi Shelton, The Stone Dragon, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 145:
glosses: A lady who is affluent and thus able to have lunch with other such ladies in relatively expensive restaurants.
wikipedia: Art Museum of Georgia
Shalva Kikodze
Tbilisi
Synonyms: lady of leisure
procoele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: procoeles
Etymology: From pro- + -coele.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A lateral cavity of the prosencephalon; a lateral ventricle of the brain.
procoeles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of procoele
haemochromometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haemochromometers
Etymology: From haemochrome + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An apparatus for measuring the amount of hemoglobin in a fluid, by comparing it with a solution of known strength and of normal colour.
haemochromometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haemochromometer
petrific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈtɹɪf.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɪfɪk
Forms: form: more petrific
form: most petrific
Etymology: From post-classical Latin petrificus (13th c.), from petra (“rock, stone”).
Senses: examples: text: Death with his mace petrific, cold and dry.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: “Sir!” cried Mr. Delvile, with a look meant to be nothing less than petrific.
ref: 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, III.vi.2:
glosses: Petrifying, turning into stone; petrifactive.
disleal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /dɪsˈliːəl/
Forms: form: more disleal
form: most disleal
Etymology: See disloyal, leal.
Senses: examples: text: disleall knight
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 5:
glosses: disloyal; perfidious
superspinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + spinous.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of supraspinate.
snoff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snoffs
Etymology: Compare snuff.
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A short candle end used for igniting a fuse.
snoffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snoff
Ake
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Nigerian Plateau language.
Synonyms: Aike
earshes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earsh
arrish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arrishes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of earsh.
arrishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arrish
droskies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drosky
drosky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: droskys
form: droskies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of droshky.
droschke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: droschkes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of droshky.
droschkes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of droschke
supercretaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + cretaceous.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of supracretaceous.
Akpes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A dialect cluster spoken in Nigeria, which is its own branch of the Volta–Niger languages.
hotelkeeping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hotel + keeping.
Senses: glosses: The management of a hotel.
hotelkeepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hotelkeeper
ladies who lunch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lady who lunches
Amarakaeri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An indigenous American language, which is in the Harákmbut or Harákmbet language family, spoken in Peru.
Amdang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Amdang sìmí amdangtí.
Senses: glosses: A Fur language spoken in Chad.
Synonyms: Biltine
collateral forms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collateral form