cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ankylosaurian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ankylosaurians
Etymology: From ankylosaur + -ian.
Senses: synonyms: ankylosaur
glosses: Any dinosaur of the suborder Ankylosauria
hylaeosaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hylaeosaurs
Senses: glosses: A dinosaur of the genus Hylaeosaurus.
hylaeosaurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hylaeosaur
Joelyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Coined from Jo or Joe + the suffix -lyn in the 20th century.
Senses: examples: text: Faith laughed, pointing out, "All of their names rhyme—Gwendolyn, Jacquelyn, Joelyn. It's kind of weird, don't you think?'
ref: 2009, Karin Slaughter, Genesis, Century, →ISBN, page 143:
glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage.
Related terms: Jolene
Lakeshia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A variant of Lakeisha.
Senses: glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage, variant of Lakeisha.
Lakesha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A variant of Lakeisha.
Senses: glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage, variant of Lakeisha.
Lakisha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A variant of Lakeisha.
Senses: glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage, variant of Lakeisha.
nakong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nakongs
Senses: glosses: marsh buck
nakongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nakong
unconceded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + conceded.
Senses: examples: text: unconceded lands
glosses: Not having been conceded.
unconceding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unconceding
form: most unconceding
Etymology: From un- + conceding.
Senses: examples: an unconceding attitude
glosses: Not making concessions.
scraber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scrabers
Etymology: Compare scrabble.
Senses: glosses: The black guillemot.
scrabers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scraber
puzzolan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puzzolans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pozzolana.
puzzolana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puzzolanas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pozzolana.
puzzolans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puzzolan
puzzolanas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puzzolana
opisthocoelian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: opisthocoelous
pixie moss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A low subshrub (not a true moss), of species Pyxidanthera barbulata, native to the east coast of the US, producing a mat on the ground.
cruths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cruth
martyrologia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of martyrologium
significancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: significancies
Etymology: From Latin significantia + -ancy.
Senses: examples: text: To break in upon this Sanctuary of Vanity and Ignorance, will be, I ſuppoſe, ſome Service to humane Understanding: Though ſo few are apt to think, they deceive, or are deceived in the Uſe of Words; or that the Language of the Sect they are of, has any Faults in it, which ought to be examined or corrected, that I hope I ſhall be pardon’d, if I have in the Third Book dwelt long on this Subject; and endeavoured to make it ſo plain, that neither the inverateneſs^([sic – meaning inveterateness]) of the Miſchief, nor the prevalency of the Faſhion, ſhall be any Excuſe for thoſe, who will not take Care about the meaning of their own Words, and will not ſuffer the Significancy of their Expreſſions to be enquired into.
ref: 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], “The Epistle to the Reader”, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC, book I:
text: […] I have added to both of them [language and poetry] in the choice of Words, and Harmony of Numbers which were wanting, […] One is for raking in [Geoffrey] Chaucer (our Engliſh Ennius) for antiquated Words, which are never to be reviv'd, but when Sound or Significancy is wanting in the preſent Language.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “Postscript to the Reader”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 621:
text: The object of rhetoric is persuasion,—of logic, conviction,—of grammar, significancy.
ref: 1830 September 23, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Logic”, in H[enry] N[elson] C[oleridge], editor, Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge. […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], published 1835, →OCLC, page 207:
text: With this brain I must work, in order to give significancy and value to the few facts which I possess.
ref: 1852, Thomas De Quincey, “Sir William Hamilton”, in Hogg's Instructor:
glosses: Significance.
significancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of significancy
jitterless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jitterless
form: most jitterless
Etymology: From jitter + -less.
Senses: examples: jitterless transmission
glosses: Free from jitter.
hammer beam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hammer beams
form: hammer-beam
form: hammerbeam
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A (short) member of a kind of roof truss (a hammer-beam truss), so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall. Each principal has two hammer beams, which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a tiebeam.
Derived terms: hammer beam roof
hammer beam truss
hammer beams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hammer beam
shearbill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shearbills
Etymology: From shear + bill.
Senses: examples: text: His cheeks thus pulled into shadow while the light flickered across nose and brow, he looked disquietingly like a shearbill about to stoop on prey.
ref: 1971, Poul Anderson, The Queen of Air and Darkness:
glosses: A seabird, the black skimmer.
shearbills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shearbill
ectropium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ectropiums
Senses: glosses: ectropion
Priapean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Priapean
form: most Priapean
Senses: examples: text: In sculpture and in the drama, in Aristophanic farce and in hieratic rituals, in pictorial art and in the stream of literature, the phallus is transcendent. Thus the Priapean poetry of the ancients, particularly of the Romans, hymned sexual potency.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page iii:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, or in honour of Priapus or Priapos (Ancient Greek: Πρίαπος), a minor rustic fertility god, protector of livestock, fruit plants, gardens, and male genitalia.
examples: text: Ovid, the amatory poet, describes a professional dancing-girl, whose subtle bodily movements are such an excitant as to provoke, in an ascetic such as the ancient Hippolytus, a priapean condition.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 85:
glosses: Of, or relating to, an erect penis; phallic.
Priapean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Priapeans
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A kind of hexameter verse so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three metrical feet each, generally having a trochee in the first and fourth feet and an amphimacer in the third; applied also to a regular hexameter verse when so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each.
Priapeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Priapean
pseudo-quantitative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pseudo-quantitative
form: most pseudo-quantitative
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pseudoquantitative.
lucids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lucid
pickback
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of pickaback.
Wensleydale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Wensley (“a village”) + dale (“valley”).
Senses: glosses: The valley of the River Ure in Richmondshire district, North Yorkshire, England.
Wensleydale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wensleydales
Etymology: From Wensley (“a village”) + dale (“valley”).
Senses: glosses: A supple, moist cheese produced in Wensleydale in North Yorkshire, England.
anophelines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anopheline
apterium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪəɹiəm
Forms: form: apteria
Etymology: From a- + Ancient Greek πτερόν (pterón, “feather”) + -ium. Compare Ancient Greek ἄπτερος (ápteros, “featherless”).
Senses: examples: text: The two halves of the lower cervical tract are still separated by an apterium 4 mm. wide, as in the young bird, but contour feathers are now present on the chin and upper throat, so that they are united at their upper ends.
ref: 1918, American Ornithologists' Union, The Auk:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: An area of bare (featherless) skin on a bird.
Coordinate terms: pteryla
whoreling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whorelings
Etymology: From whore + -ling; compare Middle English horlynge.
Senses: examples: text: “[...] Nafai even went and prayed——” “So I heard, but then, so did Mebbekew, Wetchik's son by that miserable little whoreling Kilvishevex—” “And the Oversoul spoke to Nafai and woke him up, and brought him outside to meet me in the traveler's room.
ref: 1993, Orson Scott Card, The Memory of Earth - Page 181:
text: The whole, long, thick, meaty shaft of it quivered as if eager to dispel my mouth. Odor assailed me, too – my brother, like so many soldiers, not being overly fastidious in matters of personal hygiene. "All right, my little whoreling," he commanded, [...]
ref: 2002, Jean Marie Stine, Trans-Sexual - Page 68:
glosses: A young or diminutive whore.
whorelings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whoreling
loadsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loadsmen
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of lodesman (“pilot”).
loadsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loadsman
aortoiliac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aorto- + iliac.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of the aorta and iliac arteries.
Derived terms: aortoiliac occlusive disease
arteriopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arteriopathies
Etymology: From arterio- + -pathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any disease of the arteries.
arteriopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arteriopathy
hunormous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hunormous
form: most hunormous
Etymology: Blend of huge + enormous
Senses: synonyms: word: ample
word: big
word: bodacious
word: broad
word: commodious
word: considerable
word: expansive
word: good-sized
word: full
word: generous
word: giant
word: grand
word: great
word: hefty
word: hench
word: immense
word: jumbo
word: larger than life
word: largifical
word: leviathan
word: long
word: massive
word: mega-
word: overlarge
word: outsized
word: oversize
word: oversized
word: prodigious
word: roomy
word: rotund
word: sizeable
word: spacious
word: stonking
word: tall
word: vast
word: voluminous
word: wide
word: astronomic
word: behemothic
word: big fat
word: boxcar
word: Brobdingnagian
word: bulky
word: colossal
word: cyclopean
word: Daniel Lambertish
word: elephantine
word: elephantic
word: enormous
word: gargantuan
word: giantesque
word: gigantesque
word: gigantic
word: ginormous
word: great big
word: honkin'
word: huge
word: hulking
word: humongous
word: hunormous
word: immane
word: mahoosive
word: mammoth
word: mastodonic
word: monstrous
word: monumental
word: mountainous
word: pantagruelian
word: pyramidal
word: Pythonic
word: stupendous
word: super-
word: supersized
word: titanic
word: tremendous
word: whopping
word: yuge
glosses: Of a gigantic size.
Related terms: ginormous
owlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of owling
dreamsign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dreamsigns
Etymology: From dream + sign.
Senses: examples: text: Watch for a dreamsign, something that wouldn't be there if you were awake.
ref: 2001, Amazing brain and body breakthroughs, page 233:
text: Once dreamsigns are identified, they can assist a person in becoming aware that he or she is experiencing a dream and, thus, lead to a state of lucidity.
ref: 2002, Kathlyn Hinesley, Welcome to Infinity, page 157:
text: LaBerge divides dreamsigns into four categories[…]
ref: 2010, Sandra A. Thomson, Cloud Nine: A Dreamer's Dictionary, page 66:
glosses: Something seen in a dream that can be used by the dreamer to recognise that he/she is dreaming.
dreamsigns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dreamsign
bonetta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bonettas
Senses: examples: text: On the morning of this day we caught five bonettas, being the only fish taken since leaving England, excepting several flying fish, which at times flew aboard during the night, in their endeavours to escape from their pursuers, the bonettas and dolphins, whose principial food they constitute.
ref: 1819, A Voyage To South-America And The Cape Of Good Hope: In His Majesty's Gun Brig The Protector::
glosses: The Atlantic bonito, Sarda sarda.
bonettas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bonetta
hit the shelves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hits the shelves
form: hitting the shelves
form: hit the shelves
form: hit the shelves
Senses: glosses: To become available for purchase.
Related terms: hit the shops
hit the stores
hit the streets
monofractals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monofractal
rummiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of rummy: most rummy
rummier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of rummy: more rummy
hypogaeic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypogeic acid
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid found in peanut oil in the form of a glyceride.
cavallies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cavally
cavally
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cavallies
Etymology: Compare Portuguese cavala, Spanish caballa; probably from Portuguese cavalo (“horse”).
Senses: glosses: a carangoid fish of species Caranx hippos, of the Atlantic coast.
Synonyms: crevalle jack
horse crevalle
hypogeic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hypogaeic acid.
borages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of borage
borrage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: borrages
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of borage.
borraginaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of boraginaceous.
moot-hall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moot-halls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of moot hall.
moot-halls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moot-hall
tough-cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tough-cakes
Senses: glosses: tough-pitch; refined copper
tough-cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tough-cake
oryall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oryalls
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of oriel.
oryalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oryall
barling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barlings
Etymology: From Middle English *barling, diminutive of Middle English bar, bor (“boar”), equivalent to boar + -ling. Compare Scots bar, bare, bair (“boar”).
Senses: glosses: The smallest pig in a litter; runt.
barling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barlings
form: berling
Etymology: From Middle English barling, berling, from Old Norse berlingr (“bar, pole”) (found in berlings-áss (“bar, beam, plank, rail”)), a diminutive derived from Proto-Germanic *barō (“beam, bar, barrier”); equivalent to bar + -ling. Cognate with Swedish bärling (“pole, bar”).
Senses: examples: text: A tripod can be formed of three hop poles or barlings. The former can be laid in depths up to 2^ metres and the latter in depths up to about 5 metres at low water if the tidal range does not exceed about 3 metres.
ref: 1970, Admiralty Manual of Hydrographic Surveying - Volume 2
text: [...] one pair of fetters, one pair of couplings, 2 barlings [poles], 2s 6d; one saddle, one bridle, one panel, 12s; one corn hutch and 1 chaff bin, 6s 8d; one plough, one pair of harness and one coulter, 2 plough sha-[rest torn] with chains, 14s.
ref: 1981, Ann Hughes, W. R. Owens, Seventeenth-century England, a Changing Culture:
text: On shallow waters they moved upstream using small barlings; [...]
ref: 2005, V. D. Golubchikova, Z. Í. Khvtísíashvílí, E. R. Akbalʹi︠a︡n, Severnai︠a︡ ėnt︠s︡iklopedii︠a︡:
glosses: A pole; (carpentry) the cross rafter of a roof.
Related terms: sile
Gbin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An extinct Mande language of Ivory Coast.
elenchtic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more elenchtic
form: most elenchtic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of elenctic.
armil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: armils
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of armill.
armils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of armil
diarea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This morning I noticed that what I raise is very much mixed with blood ever since I took them 2 Brandrettis pills it stopt the diarea entirely removed the swelling of my ankles & feet and broke loose some thing that made the blood flow hope it is all for the best
ref: 1900, Supreme Court Appellate Division—Second Department, Mortimer S. Brown v. Augusta A. Brown:
text: I have a seven month old Pharaoh Hound that has had diarea for a month now. I have taken stole sample to vet #1 and they can't find anything. So, I tried vet #2, as per recommended by many people at my local dog run (personnally I sort of liked vet #1 better, vet #2 seemed a bit strange, and BTW I am thinking of trying vet #3 which is the vet my breeder uses (although it would be quite a trip to go for someone without a car (OK, enough about vets))).
ref: 1997 March 3, Michael Calleia, “diarea for month! What to do?”, in rec.pets.dogs.health (Usenet), retrieved 30 Apr 2022:
text: had diarea in my school clothes sat in class at 15. this has left me with a desire to meet other boys gay who messed there pants in school and to mail/meet a boy for pants messing
ref: 2003 June 2, justin, “diarea in my pants”, in alt.sex.fetish.diapers (Usenet), retrieved 30 Apr 2022:
text: I think that some in this groups have a severe case of verbal diarea. I mean, they are message flooders, I have no idea where they get the time to bombard us with this endless flow of ........ (you name it.)
ref: 2012 January 29, Bellende Belhamel, “verbal diarea”, in alt.freemasonry (Usenet), retrieved 30 Apr 2022:
glosses: Misspelling of diarrhea.
buy cheap, buy twice
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: synonyms: good work ain't cheap, cheap work ain't good
you buy cheap, you get cheap
glosses: Buying a cheap but inferior product is a false economy since it will need replacement.
Related terms: false economy
if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys
ormolued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ormolu
ormoluing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ormolu
Such
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Suchs
form: Suches
Senses: glosses: A surname.
golore
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of galore.
macrodomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macrodome
clinodome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clinodomes
Etymology: From clino- + dome.
Senses: topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A dome that is parallel to the inclined axis in a monoclinic crystal
Related terms: clinodomatic
clinodomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clinodome
orthodome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthodomes
Etymology: From ortho- + dome.
Senses: topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A dome that is parallel to the orthodiagonal in a monoclinic crystal.
orthodomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orthodome
potamian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potamians
Etymology: Ancient Greek ποτᾰ́μιος (potắmios, “of or from a river”), from ποτᾰμός (potămós, “river”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A softshell turtle (family Trionychidae)
potamians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potamian
moonie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moonies
Senses: glosses: The European goldcrest.
ballahoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballahoos
form: ballahou
Senses: glosses: A fast-sailing class of schooner made for the Royal Navy, used in the Bermudas and the Caribbean.
ballahoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ballahoo
ballahou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballahous
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ballahoo.
ballahous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ballahou
caudicula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caudiculas
form: caudiculae
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A caudicle.
caudicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caudicles
form: caudicula
Etymology: Diminutive of Latin cauda (“tail, appendage”).
Senses: examples: text: A pollinium when highly developed consists of a mass of pollen-grains, affixed to an elastic foot-stalk or caudicle, and this to a little mass of extremely viscid matter.
ref: 1858, Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, volume 2, Harvard Classics Edition, published 1909, page 251:
text: The structure of the rostellum and caudicles of the pollinia are worth noting. There are four pollinia, separated into two pairs. Each pair is attached to a long caudicle ending in a mass of sticky material or a distinct, viscid disc, except that in one species, I. intermedia, the two caudicles share a viscid disc. The rostellum in all species has two projections on which the caudicles lie.
ref: 1996, Rebecca Tyson Northen, Miniature Orchids and How to Grow Them, page 86:
text: The caudicle holds the pollen grains together (Proctor and Harder 1994; Fig. 1).
ref: 2000, E. Pacini, G. G. Franchi, “Types of Pollen Dispersal Units in Monocots”, in Karen Wilson, David Morrison, editors, Monocots: Systematics and Evolution, unnumbered page:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A slender, elastic process to which the masses of pollen in orchidaceous plants are attached.
Synonyms: stipe
Related terms: caudex
caudiculate
caudicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caudicle
caudiculas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caudicula
caudiculae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caudicula
melampyrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: melampyrite
melampyrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melampyrin
Etymology: Melampyrum (of which it is found in the leaves) + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: galactitol
conductions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conduction
unownedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unowned + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unowned.
ownedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From owned + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being owned.
stearrhea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek στέαρ (stéar, “suet”) + -rrhea.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: seborrhea
simulachre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: simulachres
Etymology: Compare French simulacre.
Senses: glosses: A simulacrum.
simulachres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of simulachre
parlandos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parlando
bedplate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedplates
Etymology: From bed + plate.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The foundation framing or piece, by which the other parts are supported and held in place; the bed.
Synonyms: baseplate
bedpiece
soleplate
bedplates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bedplate
bedpiece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedpieces
Etymology: From bed + piece.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A bedplate.
bedpieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bedpiece
prodromus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prodromuses
form: prodromi
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A prodrome; an early symptom.
glosses: A preliminary course or publication; used especially in the titles of elementary works.
prodromuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prodromus
hypethral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hypaethral.
crow-silk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crow-silks
Senses: glosses: A filamentous freshwater alga (Cladophora rivularis).
crow-silks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crow-silk
pimpinel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pimpinels
Etymology: See pimpernel.
Senses: glosses: The burnet saxifrage.
glosses: The salad burnet
pimpinels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pimpinel
Kautskyan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Kautskyan
form: most Kautskyan
Etymology: From Kautsky + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Karl Kautsky (1854–1938), Czech-German philosopher and politician and leading theoretician of Marxism.
linga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lingas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lingam.
twitterpation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From twitterpated + -ation, as if it were a Latinate verb.
Senses: examples: text: Ah, twitterpation: that state of ephemeral bliss we all have such an awkward relationship with.
ref: 2002, David Mark Brown, Tainted Love, page 98:
text: Her face made him smile, and twitterpation swirled in his belly. He missed her.
ref: 2010, Rachel Hauck, Dining with Joy:
glosses: The quality of being twitterpated.
woald
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of weld (“the herb”).
bebeerine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bebeerines
form: bebirine
form: bibirine
Etymology: From bibiru + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkaloid found in the bark of the bibiru (Chlorocardium rodiei). It is a tonic, antiperiodic, and febrifuge, and is used in medicine as a substitute for quinine.
bebirine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of bebeerine.
saw wrest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saw wrests
Senses: glosses: A saw set.
saw wrests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saw wrest
pissboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pissboys
Etymology: From piss + boy.
Senses: topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
coordinate_terms: pissgirl
glosses: A man who engages in pissplay.
pissboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pissboy
welshnut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: welshnuts
form: Welshnut
form: Welsh-nut
Etymology: From Middle English walsh-note, from Old English wealhhnutu (“walnut”, literally “Welsh-nut”), equivalent to Welsh + nut.
Senses: examples: text: […] Our tongues do run, O, / Enough to stun, O, / Your head wi' glee by the welshnut tree.
ref: 1879, William Barnes, “The Welshnut Tree”, in Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, page 85:
text: A wife, a whelp and a Welshnut tree / The more you beat 'em, the better they be.
ref: 1912, Country Life, volume 31, page 313:
qualifier: Dorset; Somerset; Dorset; Somerset
glosses: A walnut (nut or tree).
davy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdeɪvi/
Forms: form: davies
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: examples: text: Rather than testify in open court, each sailor posted a davy before sailing off.
text: "You and me should get on well, Hawkins, for I'll take my davy I should be rated ship's boy."
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
glosses: An affidavit, a legally binding statement or oath
Related terms: affidavy
affydavy
affy-davy
davy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdeɪvi/
Forms: form: davys
form: davies
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: examples: text: The miner knew the old davy was safer than any open flame, but far riskier than a modern flashlight.
text: He also developed the innovative davy lamp for use in coal mines.
ref: 2009, Cutler J. Cleveland, Christopher G. Morris, editors, Dictionary of Energy: Expanded Edition, Elsevier, published 2009, page 124:
glosses: A Davy lamp, a type of safety lamp.
Related terms: Davy
Davy lamp
Davy-lamp
Davy's lamp
davys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of davy
davy lamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: davy lamps
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Davy lamp.
unhate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unhates
form: unhating
form: unhated
form: unhated
Etymology: From un- + hate (verb).
Senses: examples: text: I hate you! And I'll never unhate you or nothing!
ref: 1982, Eric Wanner, Lila R. Gleitman, Language Acquisition:
text: Till when, All that was, is; and must forever be. Nor is it in me to unhate my hates, — [...]
ref: 2004, Robert Browning, Stefan Hawlin, Ian Robert James Jack, The Poetical Works of Robert Browning - Volume 9 - Page 317:
text: I learned how to unhate Bush the only way people ever really learn things—by doing.
ref: 2008, Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith:
glosses: To leave off, cease, or desist from hating.
unhate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + hate (noun).
Senses: examples: text: Hold me. I am perishing. Achilles We can never perish. It is Unlove and unhate that give form To phantasms of time and space.
ref: 1951, Kenneth Rexroth, Beyond the mountains - Page 71:
text: [...] as Greene in his Our Man in Havana and other novels of power and glory, puzzled and worried, for other reasons than purely political or literary, why on earth should lt be easy to work up the politics of hate, but difficult to work out the politics of unhate.
ref: 1993, Shuaib Bin Hasan, Amer Rashid Sheikh, A passage to Pakistan - Page 85:
glosses: The lack, absence, or omission of hate; hatelessness; love.
mislove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misloves
form: misloving
form: misloved
form: misloved
Etymology: From mis- + love.
Senses: examples: text: Milkman "want(s) to get rich" on his own accord, so he misloves a woman (treats her like a whore) and gets an old car to ramble through ancestral homelands in search of gold.
ref: 1979, Explorations in Ethnic Studies, page 42:
text: I often yelled these words like a mad man at those I thought were guilty of my guilt: “the stabbing dagger of half-baked feeling," I would shriek in their faces, and in pain — "Love indeed!"— at those beings who had misloved me so, even though they had probably tried their best.
ref: 1992, Mid-American Review - Volume 13, page 20:
text: Goods such as bodily pleasure, or worldly fame and honor, or even human souls themselves are misloved unless loved for the sake of God .
ref: 1994, Roy Wesley Battenhouse, Marian Battenhouse, Shakespeare's Christian Dimension: An Anthology of Commentary, page 46:
text: The way my parents and I believed and disbelieved in each other when I was little, the way we created and confused, encouraged and thwarted, loved and misloved each other, is a sad story.
ref: 1995, David James Duncan, River Teeth: Stories and Writings, page 63:
text: The motif of writing a dead woman into text is, of course, far from new in 1939: it is a staple of the French récit (from Manon Lescaut via Adolphe, Carmen, Sylvie, up to and beyond Gide's own four récits), in which a young man confesses how he loved, misloved, was misloved and lost.
ref: 2002, Charles Burdett, Derek Duncan, Cultural Encounters: European Travel Writing in the 1930s, page 150:
text: I do this because as a girl I learned that sex is love from my father, the first dangerous man who sexually misloved me.
ref: 2003, Rebecca Shannonhouse, Under the Influence:
text: We shall greet the new face of tomorrow and I shall say to this daughter of mine: "I gave birth to you, but I misloved you."
ref: 2011, Maryse Conde, Crossing the Mangrove:
glosses: To love wrongly, insufficiently, inadequately, or imperfectly.
mislove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misloves
Etymology: From mis- + love.
Senses: examples: text: To a large extent, the mislove of the world is caused by lack of imagination. Your mother cannot recall her own youth, and so fails to project her personality into your later-generation thoughts and ambitions.
ref: 1902, Lilian Bell, “Why Men Remain Bachelors”, in Harper's Bazaar, page 32:
text: Triple-lipped Apollo, I consign Your visitation to the night, When, amid cavernous mislove, your orbs Large with anticipate lust must diminish As, beneath my smothering embrace, The shocks your nine limbs striving to impart Shudder into the gentle heaving of sleeping.
ref: 1969, Francis Scarfe, Auden and After: The Liberation of Poetry, 1930-1941, page 122:
text: Our worship, in fact our daily relationship of a life offered to God, converts our misloves of money into proper love.
ref: 2017, James C. Howell, Worshipful: Living Sunday Morning All Week:
glosses: Inadequate, imperfect, or misdirected love.
examples: text: " […] their friendships, their loves, their “misloves," that the world instantly set her down as a spinster, a clever woman, but a double-twisted old maid.
ref: 1904, Good Housekeeping - Volume 38, page 12:
text: The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis RC 14567 by Max Shulman narrated by Roy Avers 2 cassettes Eleven humorous short stories about the adventures and misadventures, loves and misloves of Dobie Gillis on the University of Minneapolis campus.
ref: 1981, Talking Book Topics, page 35:
glosses: The act or object of misloving.
whaleling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whalelings
form: whaling
Etymology: From whale + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: Their blood and body temperatures are warm and constant, and they bring forth living offspring — and produce milk to suckle their young whalelings with.
ref: 1937, Henry Goddard Leach, Forum and century - Volume 97 - Page 108:
text: I like to think that Old Grandma Sperm Whales tell bedtime stories to the little whalings all about the deviousness and monstrosity that humankind used to inflict upon their ancestors.
ref: 2009, plasticactus.livejournal.com/1924.html?thread=4228
text: My wife was a charming creature, and we were very happy, till one sad day, when she was playing with our child, – a sweet little whaleling only twelve feet long, and weighing but a ton, — my son was harpooned.
ref: 2010, Louisa May Alcott, Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag VI An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc.:
glosses: A small or young whale.
monsterling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monsterlings
Etymology: From monster + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: "They will know something is wrong, for the brute would not willingly have left her side. Odd that it did not fight you." The blunt-nose, slope-browed face of the monsterling was inscrutable, scarlet eyes inhuman and feral in the glow of the fire.
ref: 1999, Lin Carter, The Quest of Kadji:
text: “My apologies, good monsterling. It was an accident.”
ref: 2006, Martin H. Greenberg, Brittiany A. Koren, Fantasy Gone Wrong:
glosses: A small or young monster.
strangeling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strangelings
Etymology: From strange + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: Every strangeling ( Fremdling) has gone through a coming-to-terms with the mother, but has another such ahead: ... An inner voice holds the strangeling back from blasphemy against his own origin, even though he is filled with rebellion.
ref: 2000, Zafer Şenocak, Leslie A. Adelson, Atlas of a Tropical Germany:
glosses: One who is strange, foreign, or unusual; stranger.
Synonyms: sense: one who is strange
word: kook
word: odd duck
word: weirdling
word: strange person
sense: one who is foreign
word: alien
word: outlander
word: stranger
word: foreigner
strangelings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strangeling
German Swiss Sign Language
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Swiss-German Sign Language
Swiss German Sign Language
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Swiss-German Sign Language.
grubling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grublings
Etymology: From grub + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: When she has finished her hole, the inside of which she smooths with great care, in order that it may be comfortable for her little grublings, she lays an egg at the bottom, and then goes to work to provide a supply of food for the future wasp.
ref: 1880, Jenny and the insects; or, Little toilers and their industries - Page 117
text: As they are fed up in this way several times a day the ugly grublings soon begin to grow in breadth and stature, until they suddenly burst forth into full-blown wasps, and immediately begin to relieve their mother of her multitudinous duties.
ref: 1892, The Humming Bird - Volumes 2-5 - Page 53
text: When Grubs, and Grublings, censure Fielding's Scenes, He cannot answer that which Nothing means: Scorn'd by the wise, and in their Filth secure, How should he damn the damn'd, or soil th' impure?
ref: 1969, Ronald Paulson, Thomas F. Lockwood, Henry Fielding: The Critical Heritage - Page 40:
text: Hurrying, sometimes leaping from boulder to boulder but never once glancing back or stopping to rest its heavy satchel, the grubling led them further down the gorge.
ref: 2002, Stephen Elboz, Temmi and the Frost Dragon:
text: Her metal breast accoutrements thrust forward over a childless belly. In Nergal's society, the females did not go out with the warriors, but stayed in the caves with their grublings.
ref: 2010, Michael McCloskey, Slave of Chu Kutall:
glosses: A small, young, or miniature grub.
grublings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grubling
driftling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: driftlings
Etymology: From drift + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: The low note is the voice Of the Spirit, God, Love, Saying. "Driftling! rejoice, There is harbor Above."
ref: 1888, Edward Doyle, Moody moments: poems - Page 56:
text: The fact of their existence at Nagasaki having been communicated to the American commissioner at Canton, the sloop of war, Preble, was dispatched to bring away these driftlings. She arrived off the harbour of Nagasaki on the 17th of April.
ref: 1999, Kinahan Cornwallis, Two Journeys to Japan, 1856-7 - Page 60:
glosses: One who is carried about, drifts, or wanders aimlessly; a drifter; wanderer; traveller.
batling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: batlings
Etymology: From bat + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: When the batling was eight days old he fell, fluttering.
ref: 1998, Irene Brady, Wild Babies:
text: His flexible wings, wrapped round him, serve him as bed-clothes, and his mate carries the batling clinging to her breast even when she flies out to forage.
ref: 2008, Wonders of Animal Life - Page 126
text: “Now if you don't mind; I have some 'batlings' to feed, if you catch my drift.” He smiled, nodding a subtle goodbye before turning towards the open window.
ref: 2011, Hayley Perridge, Flashing Lights:
glosses: A young, small, or baby bat.
batlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of batling
antling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antlings
Etymology: From ant + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: Certainly, the kicking of the imprisoned antling is apparent enough to attract even the most stupid nurse, and the vigor of the motions, perhaps even the beginning of them, might easily give warning of the proper time for cutting the envelop.
ref: 1876, American Entomological Society, Transactions of the American Entomological Society - Volume 5 - Page 289:
text: This antling was, as indeed all the larvae and cocoons appeared to be, of the dwarf caste.
ref: 1884, The Annals and magazine of natural history:
text: Some of these caves were used as nurseries for eggs, larvaa, and antlings; [...]
ref: 1905, Harper's Magazine, volume 111, page 297:
text: Fortunately it so "happens " — if that be the lawful word — that its puparium is invariably formed at the posterior pole of the ant cocoon, directly opposite the anterior pole from which, as the point next to its jaws in its recumbent position, the antling emerges, and to which, as the point of fracture, the strain and force within and without are directed.
ref: 1909, Henry Christopher McCook, Ant communities and how they are governed:
glosses: A small, immature, or miniature ant.
Synonyms: antlet
antlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antling
workling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: worklings
Etymology: From work + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: Among its trophies it can point to penitent blasphemers, reclaimed drunkards, reformed prostitutes, and awakened worklings.
ref: 1857, Thomas Hughes Milner, The Christian advocate, ed. by T.H. Milner - Page 171:
text: Not into land's expansion, Not to the miser's chest, Not to the princely mansion, Not to the blazoned crest, Not to the sordid workling, Not to the knavish clown, Not to the haughty tyrant, Cometh n blessing down.
ref: 1901, Transportation-Communication Employees Union, Trans-communicator - Volume 18 - Page 123:
text: The worklings can be seen on the slopes of the koppie in the left background Kamiesberg - which Fannin visited Fannin 's Mine today.
ref: 1978, South Africa. Dept. of Education. Adult Education Division, Lantern - Volumes 28-29 - Page 86
text: Here are five master-builders besides worklings, all british [sic] subjects; three are masters reckoned as good carpenters as any we have in Great-Britain, and considering that all of them are good subjects, [...]
ref: 2005, James R. Moulton, Peter the Great and the Russian military campaigns:
text: A bloody nation pushed empathy of a sight-sighing gargoyle smile from up high by lung-lapped seagull soars and swells its raffle high in the sky made for worklings. The lantern well fits the mist of design from the rocky swing of flying whiles.
ref: 2007, Matthew Woods, The Chrysalis Time:
glosses: One who is employed or who works; worker.
worklings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of workling
dystocial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dystocia + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Both authors discuss the same points, but Dr. Kennedy extends his observations to obstetric auscultation in dystocial or difficult parturitions.
ref: 1834, Michael Ryan, editor, The London Medical and Surgical Journal, volume IV, page 466:
text: Again to point out the value of x-ray pelvimetry, only 42.5 per cent of the patients who were referred to the dystocial clinic because of clinically suspected contracted pelves had them according to the Mengert indices by x-ray.
ref: 1952, George Morris Piersol, John Henry Moyer, The Cyclopedia of Medicine, Surgery and Specialties, page 155:
text: By contrast, low-vitality calves, especially dystocial calves, are unable to withstand adverse climatic conditions.
ref: 1987, M. Vermorel, “Effects of climatic conditions on energy metabolism and performance of calves”, in M. W. A. Verstegen, A. M. Henken, editors, Energy Metabolism in Farm Animals: Effects of Housing, Stress, and Disease, page 184:
text: However, there is a relationship between the occurrence of cold weather and calf deaths, including those due to the ‘weak calf syndrome’ and deficiencies in thermoregulation occur in animals born prematurely and in dystocial calves.
ref: 2000, Otto M. Radostits, Clive C. Gay, Douglas C. Blood, Kenneth W. Hinchcliff, Veterinary Medicine: A Textbook of the Diseases of Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, Goats and Horses, 9th edition, page 131:
glosses: Of, pertaining to or characterised by dystocia; having had a difficult birth.
federal council
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: federal councils
Senses: glosses: a central legislative group or assembly in certain governments.
glosses: a central executive council in certain governments.
loaded words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loaded word
cropable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cropable
form: most cropable
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of croppable.
eclosions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eclosion
intermachine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + machine.
Senses: glosses: Between machines.
intercomputer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + computer.
Senses: glosses: Between computers.
classical language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: classical languages
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
literature
media
publishing
sciences
glosses: An ancient language that has an independent tradition that arose mostly on its own, and has a large and rich body of ancient literature.
Related terms: Classical Arabic
Classical Armenian
Classical Chinese
Classical Greek
Classical Japanese
Classical Latin
Classical Nahuatl
Classical Sanskrit
Classical Syriac
Classical Tupi
run-times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of run-time
cromorna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cromornas
form: cromona
Etymology: From French cromorne, from German Krummhorn (“crooked horn, cornet, an organ pipe turned like a trumpet”). Doublet of krummhorn.
Senses: glosses: An organ's reed stop of a quality of tone resembling that of the oboe.
cromornas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cromorna
thin-film transistor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thin-film transistors
Senses: glosses: A form of transistor manufactured by depositing layers of semiconductor, dielectric and metal on a substrate
retinoblasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retinoblast
La Coruña
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlɑ kəˈɹunjə/
rhymes: -uːnjə
Etymology: From Spanish La Coruña, of uncertain origin.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of A Coruña:
A province of Galicia, Spain.
glosses: Synonym of A Coruña:
A city and municipality, the capital of A Coruña, Galicia, Spain.