cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
epigenetic clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A type of a molecular age estimation method based on DNA methylation levels.
anicom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈænɪˌkɒm/
ipa: /ˈænɪˌkɑm/
Forms: form: anicoms
Etymology: Blend of animated + sitcom
Senses: examples: text: Development of the 'anicom' "The Simpsons" and a number of other 'anicoms' differ from other forms of television […]
ref: 2001, Animation Journal, volumes 9-12, page 85:
text: […] teen soaps (Hollyoaks), anicoms (The Simpsons), police psychological thrillers (Cracker) and so on.
ref: 2006, Tony Purvis, Get Set for Media and Cultural Studies, page 65:
glosses: A sitcom that uses animation rather than filmed actors.
anicoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anicom
Pan-Islamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pan-Islamic
form: Panislamic
Etymology: From pan- + Islamic.
Senses: examples: text: The past and present fear of a monolithic Islamic threat has often been expressed in Pan-Islamic terminology.
ref: 1999, John L. Esposito, The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality?, →ISBN, page 222:
text: This was repeated time and again in foreign propaganda, both during that time and in the Balkan War and First World War periods, as agents of the Committee of Union and Progress alternated between Pan-Turk and Pan-Islamic arguments to drum up support abroad, for example among elemnts of Turkic background in Afghanistan and Central Asia.
ref: 2004, Jacob M. Landau, Exploring Ottoman and Turkish History, →ISBN:
text: The jihad proclamation, Pan-Islamic sentiments presenting the Ottoman Sultan as Caliph, and feelings of Muslim solidarity combined to form a potentially powerful mix.
ref: 2009, R Michael Feener, Terenjit Sevea, Islamic Connections: Muslim Societies in South and Southeast Asia, →ISBN:
glosses: Pertaining to all Islamic groups in the world.
pan-Islamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The Muslim community as the pan-Islamic thinkers conceived it, or the Jewish community of the Zionists, was not held together by common profession of faithor the will to live in accordance with revealed law.
ref: 1983, Albert Hourani, Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1798–1939, →ISBN:
text: In the following years, Lord Cromer fought vigorously against pan-Islamist propaganda, banning, for instance, the popular Paris-published pan-Islamic journal al'Urwa alWuthqa (The Firmest Bond).
ref: 2014, David Motadel, Islam and the European Empires, →ISBN:
text: He went to Peshawar in 1987 and met with Azzam, who convinced him that the struggle in Afghanistan should be a pan-Islamic struggle and should get top attention from Islamists.
ref: 2014, Bruce Riedel, What We Won: America's Secret War in Afghanistan, 1979 89, →ISBN, page 88:
glosses: Alternative form of Pan-Islamic.
Panislamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: This was during their Panislamic period, before they turned to the policy of "Turks only for Turkey" and probably they believed they had won the sympathies of the Hussein family during his long residence in the capital.
ref: 1939, Joseph Mary Nagle Jeffries, Palestine: the reality, page 52:
text: ...the fact that all but a few fragments of the core of the Islamic World had succeeded in remaining independent on a low level of vitality took the edge off the appeal of the Panislamic gospel of self-preservation through an increase of inter-Islamic solidarity.
ref: 1955, Arnold Joseph Toynbee, A Study of History - Volume 8, page 694:
text: The only constructive effort which the Pan-Slavist Center in Belgrade initiated was an attempt at cooperation with the newly emerging Panislamic groups.
ref: 1997, Serbian Studies - Volumes 11-12, page 8:
glosses: Alternative form of Pan-Islamic.
stimulancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stimulate + -ancy.
Senses: examples: text: Let then its comparative merits and demerits, in respect of style and stimulancy, possess a proportional weight, and no more, in determining your judgment for or against its contents.
ref: 1839, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, Aids to Reflection, page liii:
text: And if the water offered to us has been as fresh as the wit, and the wine as old and rich as the recollections, then recollections and wit have had especial charm and stimulancy.
ref: 1851, The Monthly Christian spectator, page 231:
text: It would be well if his already over-wrought stimulancy could be somewhat tranquillized and enriched by the languor and sluggishness of the tropics.
ref: 1857, William Greenough Thayer Shedd, “Africa and Colonization.” An address delivered before the Massachusetts Colonization Society, May 27, 1857, page 15:
glosses: The quality of being stimulating.
examples: text: I conceive extemporaneous worship has hitherto prevailed, because the appetite for devotion has needed the stimulancy of human passion and social excitement.
ref: 1864, R.M. Abercrombie, The Prayer Book and Its Story: Principally Designed for the Young:
text: The above work is edited by Sir Charles's sister-in-law, and is composed of many pleasantly-written letters, collected from friends and relations, most of them written by Sir Charles under the stimulancy of fresh scenery, or visits to famous geological sections, or to celebrated geologists.
ref: 1882, Hardwicke's Science-gossip, page 111:
text: Unquestionably the first step in this direction was made by Dr. Priestley, of Birmingham, who observed that oxygen gas was given off by plants when under the active stimulancy of sunlight.
ref: 2013, John Ellor Taylor, The Aquarium: Its Inhabitants, Structure, and Management, →ISBN, page 10:
glosses: The act of stimulating; stimulation.
morphomechanics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From morpho- + mechanics.
Senses: glosses: The study of (the relationship between) morphology and mechanical properties.
planetical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From planet + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: Of this figure Plato made choice to illustrate the motion of the soul, both the world and man: while he delivereth that God divided the whole conjunction length-wise, according to the figure of a Greek X, and then turning it about reflected it into a circle; by the circle implying the uniform motion of the first orb, and by the right lines, the planetical and various motions within it
ref: 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus:
text: ... that white specks p'sage our felicity, blude ones misfortunes; that those in ye nail of ye thumb have significations of honour, those in ye forefinger of riches, and so respectively in other fingers (according to the planetical relations from whence they receive their names), as Tricassus hath taken up and Picciolus well rejecteth.
ref: 1881, John Aubrey, James Britten, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 114:
glosses: Synonym of planetary.
Pertaining to the planets and/or their motions.
examples: text: They are stated to be the circles of unequal or planetical hours, or one-twelfth part of the time between sunset and sunrise, the division of the night in common use in early times.
ref: 1904, The Geographical Journal - Volume 24, page 414:
text: Thus when a person says, "I fear a dog," Morton writes, a person may mean that "he is afraid of the household dog ... or to be drowned and so devoured of the sea dog, or to go mad by the poisonous influences of the planetical dog.
ref: 2001, The Ben Jonson Journal: BJJ., page 283:
glosses: Synonym of planetary.
Relating to the earth; terrestrial.
examples: text: He has also a characteristic rebuke of "planetical" preachers, who were not to be restrained to one parish, but must spread their talents over a whole province or principality.
ref: 1891, Thomas Fuller, John Eglington Bailey, William Edward Armytage Axon, The Collected Sermons of Thomas Fuller, D.D., 1631-1659:
glosses: Synonym of planetary.
Global.
wasting investment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wasting investments
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Stocks redeemable on a certain date at a fixed price, for which a premium above the redemption price is paid.
wasting investments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wasting investment
run to waste
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs to waste
form: running to waste
form: ran to waste
form: run to waste
Senses: glosses: To become incapable or useless.
creesh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: creeshes
form: creeshing
form: creeshed
form: creeshed
Etymology: From Old French craisse, from Latin crassus (“fat”).
Senses: glosses: To grease.
creesh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Old French craisse, from Latin crassus (“fat”).
Senses: glosses: Grease.
Derived terms: creeshy
creeshed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of creesh
creeshes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of creesh
creeshing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of creesh
parritches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parritch
hacklet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hacklets
Senses: glosses: Synonym of haglet (“the bird”).
synonyms: word: haglet
extra: the bird
hacklets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hacklet
archicarp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archicarps
Etymology: From archi- + -carp.
Senses: examples: text: The archicarp is bounded at the top by the trichogyne and at the base by a foot cell.
ref: 1975, Steven E. Carpenter, Taxonomy, morphology and ontogeny of Gelatinodiscus flavidus:
text: In Chaetomium spirale the cells of the mycelium contain each a single nucleus, the archicarp arises as a coiled branch and divides into four or more uninucleate cells.
ref: 2010, Helen Gwynne-Vaughan, Fungi: Ascomycetes, Ustilaginales, Uredinales, →ISBN, page 155:
text: The other branch (antheridium) grows up in close contact with the archicarp, and like it is shut off by a partition from its filament.
ref: 2010, Douglas H. Campbell, Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany, →ISBN, page 80:
glosses: The female reproductive structure of an ascomycete.
archicarps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archicarp
plum in one's mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Pulse 108, appetite good, bowels regular, utterance thick and indistinct, speaks as if he had a plum in his mouth, walks with his legs wide apart, does not stagger, not dirty, has control over sphincters.
ref: 1872, The Journal of Mental Science, volume 17, page 12:
text: The fact is that King Edward has all his life spoken as if he had a plum in his mouth. Like all his family he speaks with a thick guttural voice and a German accent, which people who wish to be thought fashionable try to imitate
ref: 1901, The Medical News, volume 79, page 833:
text: Georgy, "Jersey" to his masculine mates, liked Elizabeth, even though she spoke with that incredible plum in her mouth that made her sound like the Queen of England, though sometimes it was the Queen in her most private of moments:
ref: 1991, Brizbin Boy—Canberra Girl: Short Stories, page 31:
text: ‘That's not his real name. His real name is William Joyce.’
‘But why is he called Lord Haw Haw?’
Lorrie is embarrassed, and Dick answers.
‘It's because of the way he speaks, with a plum in his mouth, like some of the English do, hawhawhaw. You know?’
ref: 1995, Bary Dowling, Mudeye: An Australian Boyhood and Beyond, page 89:
text: I wanted to fit in with the posh, horsey girls, all honey-blond hair and plums in their mouths, fresh from boarding school.
ref: 2007, Emily Franklin, It's a Wonderful Lie: 26 Truths About Life in Your Twenties:
text: Both of them spoke with British aristocratic plums in their mouths. 'My dear fellow! How very kind of you to come and pay us a visit!'
ref: 2011, James Edmiston, The Sterling Years: Small Arms and the Men, page 105:
text: She talks at a crisp clip with a slight plum in her mouth that she almost certainly didn't pick up at Rangitoto College.
ref: 2018 March 10, Audrey Young, “Amy Adams was the right choice but she has plenty of homework to do”, in New Zealand Herald:
glosses: An accent resembling Received Pronunciation (often described as plummy).
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see plum, in, mouth.
alkahestic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alkahestic
form: most alkahestic
Etymology: From alkahest + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: His intellect possesses a sort of alkahestic quality. No composite entity but breaks under his mental catalysis, and his sense of continuity seems to dissuade him from dissipating his thought into such grammatical individualities as sentences, for he ramifies his theme with clause after clause, in bewildering profusion, til a sentence extends sometimes through a score or more of lines of his book, and mental continuity well-nigh exhausts itself in wending the verbal causeway he throws across his thought.
ref: 1951, Ira Kendrick Stephens, The hermit philosopher of Liendo, page 361:
text: "Look No Further for the Universal Solvent." I was manufacturing something alkahestic by the gutful, and I had to get rid of it somewhere.
ref: 1980, Christopher Street Magazine, Aphrodisiac, page 222:
text: Roland Wood had already been passed over twice, so he was definitely on the lookout for that alkahestic ledger that would put him on the cutting edge of promotions.
ref: 2006, Gene Lovell, Passing Grade, →ISBN, page 15:
text: The back of god's T-shirt, which the opposing forces got a glimpse of just as god was about to dissolve and thereby make his extra-speedy, hasty retreat, had printed on it god's universal, alkahestic motto: Dieus le veult! ('The lord wishes it')
ref: 2014, Neil Baker, Occultus Liber, →ISBN, page 805:
glosses: Resembling or relating to alkahest.
clavations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clavation
carritch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carritches
Senses: examples: text: "Do sae, minister — do sae," cried Madge; "I am as weel worth looking at as ony book in your aught. — And I can say the single carritch, and the double carritch, and justification, and effectual calling, and the assembly of divines at Westminster, that is," (she added in a low tone) " I could say them anes -- but it's lang syne -- and ane forgets, ye ken."
ref: 1818, Sir Walter Scott, The heart of Midlothian:
text: Can I forget how lang and weel The carritches ye made me read ?
ref: 1870, Edwin Paxton Hood, The Peerage of Poverty:
text: Christily is a most faithful young woman with a face as red and lush as a rasp, who knows her carritches both ways, and has such a reverence for ministers that she looks upon me more as an edifice than a mortal.
ref: 1902, James Matthew Barrie, The Little White Bird:
glosses: A catechism.
carritches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carritch
examples: text: So the garçon was ca'd in an' put through his carritches, an' the outcome o' the conference was that an assortment o' bottles, containin' divers kinds o' lickers, soon made their appearance upo' the table.
ref: 1986, William Donaldson, Popular literature in Victorian Scotland, page 52:
glosses: A set of questions to determine one's knowledge.
lacunosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lacunose + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The variegated, inconsistent picture it presents is no trick played by its lacunosity, but a function of its diverse origins and uses; thus in a text like Idyll, it is not simply a question for us to unravel syncretistic matter from some essential Adonia.
ref: 2000, Transactions of the American Philological Association:
text: Though I shall develop my argument using archaeological and textual data, I want to stress the lacunosity of the various types of evidence for the construction of real temporal sequences, whether they be historical or archaeological.
ref: 2002, Paul Arthur, Naples, from Roman Town to City-state: An Archaeological Perspective, →ISBN:
text: One strength of the approach has been the ease with which the physical conditions of connectedness and lacunosity arise as necessary for correctness.
ref: 2009, Juan González Nieto, Guojun Wang, Wolfgang Reif, Autonomic and Trusted Computing, →ISBN:
glosses: The quality of being lacunose.
catalogise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: catalogises
form: catalogising
form: catalogised
form: catalogised
Etymology: From catalog + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: Upon the table More kuacks and quips there be than I am able To catalogise in this verse of mine :
ref: 1907, Percy Bysshe Shelley, With Shelley in Italy:
text: These species were catalogised and documented for research besides being utilized for instructional purposes.
ref: 2000, Indian Journal of Arecanut, Spices and Medicinal Plants:
text: A considerable number of letters written by students at Königsberg survived in Kassa City Archives, though they have not been published yet. These have been recently catalogised and used by I. Caproş, Students from Košice at Foreign Universities before and during the Reformation Period in Town (Kiel 2013).
ref: 2016, Gábor Almási, Szymon Brzeziński, Ildikó Horn, A Divided Hungary in Europe, →ISBN, page 106:
glosses: Alternative spelling of catalogize.
catalogises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of catalogise
catalogising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of catalogise
catalogised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of catalogise
straichter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of straicht: more straicht
straichter
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: comparative form of straicht: more straicht
straichtest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of straicht: most straicht
straichtest
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: superlative form of straicht: most straicht
calyptera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calypteras
Senses: examples: text: When the sporophyte has attained about a quarter of its eventual length, it pushes through the apex of the calyptera and grows upward above the perianth (Fig. 32B).
ref: 1938, Gilbert Morgan Smith, Cryptogamic Botany, page 56:
text: Because the calyptera protects the ovule from injury by surface sterilization treatments, a 1-2% sodium hypochlorite (« 10-20% household bleach) with .01% Tween-20 may be used for 10-15 minutes with vigorous shaking.
ref: 1995, Richard Kent Schaefers, Nucellar Somatic Embryogenesis:
glosses: Alternative form of calyptra.
calypteras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calyptera
semilucent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more semilucent
form: most semilucent
Etymology: From semi- + lucent or semi- + -lucent.
Senses: examples: text: His litter of smooth semilucent mist, Diversely tinged with rose and amethyst, Puzzled those eyes that for the centre sought.
ref: 1818, John Keats, Endymion:
text: She spoke the last words looking up at Rodney's windows, which were a semilucent red color, in her honor, as she knew.
ref: 1919, Virginia Woolf, Night and Day:
text: The displaced retina with its superficial vessels appears as a semilucent gray membrane that obscures underlying detail and decreases tapetal reflectivity (Figure 43-30).
ref: 2010, Michael E. Peterson, Michelle Kutzler, Small Animal Pediatrics: The First 12 Months of Life, →ISBN, page 481:
glosses: Partially lucent; allowing less light to pass than through than something translucent but more than something opaque.
White Wall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of Ancient Greek Λευκὸν τεῖχος (Leukòn teîkhos), itself calqued from Egyptian jnb-ḥḏ. Some of the modern uses are likely to be directly calqued from Egyptian.
Senses: examples: text: Thoſe who eſcaped fled to Memphis, whither the conquerors purſued them, and immediately made themſelves maſters of two quarters or diviſions of the city: but the Perſians having fortified themſelves in the third, called the white wall, which was the largeſt and the ſtrongest of the three; they were beſeiged in it near three years, during which they made a moſt vigorous defence, till they were at laſt delivered by the forces that were ſent to their ſuccour.
ref: 1735, Charles Rollin, The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians, volume III, pages 250–251:
text: I will make an offering unto Ptaḥ and the gods who are within White Wall, I will perform all the ceremonies appertaining to Seker in the secret sanctuary, I will look upon the god who is on his southern wall (i.e. Ptaḥ), and then I will sail on down the river in peace.
ref: 1907, Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge, transl., The Egyptian Sûdân: Its History and Monuments, volume 2, page 19:
text: Lord of remembrance in the Hall of Justice,
Secret ba of the lord of the cavern,
Holy in White-Wall,
Ba of Re, his very body.
ref: 1976, Miriam Lichtheim, transl., Ancient Egyptian Literature, volume II: The New Kingdom, University of California Press, page 81:
text: For the Egyptians even more important was the fact that the place of the royal residence did not change, but remained at White Wall (Ineb-hedj), on the west bank of the Nile south of modern Cairo. […] The original capital at White Wall, founded at the beginning of the 1st Dynasty, was probably gradually replaced in importance by the more populated suburbs further to the south, approximately to the east of Teti’s pyramid.
ref: 2000, Jaromir Malek, “The Old Kingdom”, in Ian Shaw, editor, The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, pages 83 and 104:
text: The First Dynasty kings, however, continued to be buried in the south, in the cemetery of their forefathers of Dynasty Zero at Umm al-Ga‘ab by Abydos, close to the town of Tjeny (called Thinis or This in Greek)—likewise not yet reliably located archaeologically—which in the Early Dynastic Period still served as the capital of the country alongside the White Wall.
ref: 2012, Miroslav Verner, translated by Anna Bryson-Gustová, Temple of the World: Sanctuaries, Cults, and Mysteries of Ancient Egypt, page 93:
glosses: Memphis, Egypt or its central fortress
gets cold feet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets cold
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get cold feet
getting cold feet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of get cold feet
got cold feet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of get cold feet
gotten cold feet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of get cold feet
pancolonoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pancolonoscopies
Etymology: From pan- + colonoscopy.
Senses: glosses: colonoscopy of the entire colon
pancolonoscopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pancolonoscopy
panpestivirus
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pan- + pestivirus.
Senses: glosses: Relating to all pestiviruses
panproteinase
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pan- + proteinase.
Senses: glosses: Relating to all proteinases
paratesticular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + testicular.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Throughout the testicles
pathobiochemical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From patho- + biochemical.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
pathology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: pathological and biochemical
pedunculation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedunculations
Senses: glosses: The condition of being pedunculate
glosses: A mass of peduncles
pedunculations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedunculation
pericancerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + cancerous.
Senses: glosses: Surrounding a cancer
pericholedochal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + choledochal.
Senses: glosses: Surrounding the bile duct
peridinioid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peridinioids
Senses: glosses: Any dinoflagellate of the subclass Peridinoidia (or of the class Peridinea)
peridinioids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peridinioid
perioxisomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of peroxisomal.
pharmacoprotective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pharmaco- + protective.
Senses: glosses: Describing a drug that confers protection against a disease or condition
phospholambin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of phospholamban.
photoaversion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + aversion.
Senses: glosses: aversion to (bright) light
Related terms: photoaversive
phytosynthesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phyto- + synthesis.
Senses: glosses: biosynthesis by plants
phytyltransferase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytyltransferases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any transferase that transfers a phytyl group
pleurocidins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pleurocidin
wagonet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wagonets
Etymology: From wagon + -et.
Senses: examples: text: Fig. 3 represents a style of wagonet with a panel seat at the front.
ref: 1892, The Automotive Manufacturer, volume 33, page 205:
text: Running through dust, Barbie came to the culvert over the dried-up creek; across the flat off the road a hundred yards or so she saw the wagonet drawn up on the bank, and the squat black shape of a man freeing the horse from the shafts.
ref: 1959, D'Arcy Niland, Woman from the Country, page 47:
text: He heard a light wagonet approach, the nimble trot of hooves on the dusty street.
ref: 2002, Josepth Roth, translated by Michael Hofmann, The Radetsky March, Folio Society, published 2015, page 158:
glosses: A small wagon.
tenaculums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenaculum
glucosidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From glucoside + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The determination of the glucosidal or non-glucosidal nature of a tannin is sometimes a matter of considerable difficulty, because, on the one hand, it is not always easily separated from any glucose with which it may be contaminated, and, on the other hand, many tannins readily decompose, yielding bodies resembling their mother substances in possessing a similar action on hide, gelatine, etc.
ref: 1884, Georg Dragendorff, Plant Analysis: Qualitative and Quantitative, page 154:
text: This action is doubtless due to a splitting up and oxidation of the glucosidal constituents and seems to in some way be aided by the action of the ferment of the kola.
ref: 1894, American Druggist and Pharmaceutical Record - Volume 25, page 358:
text: Moreover, it seems probable that if the yellow pigments acted upon are in the glucosidal state, and if the reduction takes place in the cold, allocyanin (the glucoside of allocyanidin) is formed and the product is not extracted from solution by amyl alcohol.
ref: 2014, Muriel Wheldale Onslow, Practical Plant Biochemistry, →ISBN, page 121:
glosses: Pertaining to or containing glucosides.
Derived terms: nonglucosidal
plogging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplɒɡɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɒɡɪŋ
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish plogging, coined in 2016 as blend of plocka upp (“to pick up”) and jogging (“jogging”). From there the practice has spread to other countries.
Senses: examples: text: Since 2016, across Europe, plogging groups have appeared in Scandinavia, Germany, and beyond.
ref: 2019, David L. Edgell Sr, Managing Sustainable Tourism, Routledge, →ISBN:
coordinate_terms: pliking
plaking
plycling
glosses: jogging and picking up litter
polysyndromic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + syndromic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Relating to, or possessing multiple syndromes
pontoniid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pontoniids
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pontoniine.
synonyms: word: pontoniine
pontoniids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pontoniid
postconfluency
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + confluency.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of postconfluent.
synonyms: word: postconfluent
postconfluency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From post- + confluency.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being postconfluent
postconvergence
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + convergence.
Senses: glosses: Following convergence
Synonyms: postconvergent
postconvergent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + convergent.
Senses: glosses: Following convergence
Synonyms: postconvergence
predreissenid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + dreissenid.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Prior to the presence of dreissenids in an environment
postdreissenid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + dreissenid.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Following the introduction of dreissenids in an environment
postnucleoplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + nucleoplasty.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Following nucleoplasty
prenucleoplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + nucleoplasty.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Prior to nucleoplasty
occludants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of occludant
presupplemental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + supplemental.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of presupplementary.
synonyms: word: presupplementary
proadipocytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pro- + adipocytic.
Senses: glosses: That promotes the activity of adipocytes
Related terms: preadipocytic
propriolactone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of propiolactone.
protospine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protospines
Etymology: From proto- + spine.
Senses: glosses: A structure that develops into a spine
protospines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protospine
pseudoazurin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoazurins
Etymology: From pseudo- + azurin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of cupredoxin.
synonyms: word: cupredoxin
pseudoazurins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoazurin
pseudoceratinid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoceratinids
Senses: glosses: Any sponge of the family Pseudoceratinidae
pseudoceratinids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoceratinid
psychotechnical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From psycho- + technical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to practical applications of psychology
dabao
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˌtɑ(ː)˧ˈpaʊ]
Etymology: From Chinese Mandarin 打包 (daa3 baau1, “to pack and unpack”).
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, they don't go for lunch but "Da Bao" and keep working during lunch break.
ref: 1999 September 27, sg.jobs.offer (Usenet):
text: xiaoyang: though one thing - can we move the place to bedok instead? all the famous hawker food in katong kind of close at night, but bedok block 85 bak chor mee + sambal stingray + orh luah + aboling only open at night. anyone strongly objects to that? Joseph Heng: tapao something for me?
ref: 2008 July 30, Joseph Heng, “pre-departure food outing (yay!)”, in Hopkins4U, retrieved 28 Oct 2018:
text: This isn't meant to shame people, just to kind of remind them (and the audience) that sometimes, little things like take-aways from the canteen aren't always necessary, and that by not da-baoing for a change, we can make a positive contribution to the environment (decreasing the demand for logging/deforestation for paper!).
ref: 2013 June 4, NY5 2013 (Usenet):
glosses: Alternative form of tapao.
ranunculoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ranunculoids
Senses: glosses: Any flowering plant of the subfamily Ranunculoideae
ranunculoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ranunculoid
recannulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recannulations
Etymology: From re- + cannulation.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A second or subsequent cannulation
recannulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recannulation
redissociate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: redissociates
form: redissociating
form: redissociated
form: redissociated
Etymology: From re- + dissociate.
Senses: glosses: To dissociate again
redissociated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of redissociate
remesothelization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + mesothelization.
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent mesothelization, typically following demesothelization
mesothelization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The formation and development of the mesothelium
Derived terms: demesothelization
remesothelization
reprotoxicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reprotoxicities
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
toxicology
glosses: The condition of being reprotoxic
residualize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: residualizes
form: residualizing
form: residualized
form: residualized
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of residualise.
residualizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of residualize
residualises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of residualise
residualising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of residualise
retinogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From retino- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to retinogenesis
retrodiscal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: retrodiskal
Etymology: From retro- + discal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Behind an intervertebral disc.
rhizosheath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhizosheaths
Etymology: From rhizo- + sheath.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The coating that surrounds a rhizome
rhizosheaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhizosheath
rostrodorsomedial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rostro- + dorsomedial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: rostral and dorsomedial
rostrotentorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rostro- + tentorial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: rostral and tentorial
Creston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in San Luis Obispo County, California, United States.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Union County, Iowa, United States.
porte-épée
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French porte-épée.
Senses: examples: text: An additional strap extends from the porte-épée and hooks onto the front of the belt with another clasp to stabilize the arrangement.
ref: 1987, Alaric Faulkner, Gretchen Fearon Faulkner, The French at Pentagoet, page 251:
text: He held the porte-épée in his hand. The metalled silk seemed to trickle between his fingers, like cool golden rain.
ref: 2002, Josepth Roth, translated by Michael Hofmann, The Radetsky March, Folio Society, published 2015, page 134:
synonyms: frog
glosses: A strap, buckle or other fastening by which a sword or scabbard is held attached to a person's belt, clothing etc.
shop owner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shop owners
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shopowner.
shop owners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shop owner
regulizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of regulize
regulizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of regulize
regulise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: regulises
form: regulising
form: regulised
form: regulised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of regulize.
regulises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of regulise
regulising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of regulise
regulised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of regulise
nidderling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nidderlings
Etymology: Corruption of niddering.
Senses: examples: text: There they meet young men who have the true feeling for the sex, and call that man churl and nidderling and pitiful sneak and cur, who would suffer any young woman whom he loves to work if he could order otherwise.
ref: 1889, Walter Besant, To Call Her Mine, page 295:
text: As we began to climb the moor, Sir Thomas motioned me with his hand to ride abreast of him, and to make ready my weapons, which I was not loth to do, for I am no nidderling to be afraid of powder.
ref: 1896, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, The Grey Man, page 25:
text: All at once I realized that I had come as it were into the very hands and mouth of the famous, the notorious, Giant of Cerne Abbas — Baal Durotrigensis, he has been fancifully called — that mysterious figure whose impudent anatomy rouses every sort of surmise and emotion in the archaeologist, the boor, the innocent, the nidderling of towns, the philosopher, and the moralist, each after his kind.
ref: 1935, Frederick Joseph Harvey Darton, English fabric: a study of village life, page 26:
glosses: Someone who is weak and cowardly.
nidderling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nidderling
form: most nidderling
Etymology: Corruption of niddering.
Senses: examples: text: ... and dismissing him with a half sullen, half courteous "Goot nicht," disappeared, before Philip had half got to the end of his catalogue of mental execrations, on the "hog of a German brute, that set no more by the life and limb of a born gentleman, than o' one of his own outlandish, nidderling chaps, that never a Christian soul ud go for to look arter, an' the old Barton ud tumble upon the heads o' the whole kit on em."
ref: 1839, The wizard of Windshaw, page 61:
text: He was starting to get frustrated now, me keeping him from the Long Orbit with this nidderling triviality.
ref: 1992, Eluki Bes Shahar, Darktraders, →ISBN, page 203:
glosses: Unmanly.
nidderlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nidderling
thre-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: threo-
Etymology: From threose, formed by changing the letters from the earlier discovered isomer erythrose.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to general organic structures with adjacent chiral centers
Derived terms: threitol
threonate
threonic acid
threonin
threonine
threonyl
threose
niderling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: niderlings
Senses: examples: text: She stamped her little foot. "Shall I be prey of his, sir? I had rather lie under the sod!" "Coward and niderling he is!" said Bertram.
ref: 1905, The Windsor Magazine - Volume 22, page 451:
text: "It is life to serve," she said, and was busy about his meal. “The life of the niderling. Lordly life is all mad joy. Hath thy maiden heart no longing?”
ref: 1908, The Pall Mall Magazine - Volume 41, page 684:
text: Who is for jousting? Let come forth to me to-day no weakling or niderling; ay, let none come forth to me but the champions who the enemies of the Faith represent, that I may give them to drink the cup of ignominious punishment.
ref: 1962, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night:
glosses: Alternative form of nidderling.
niderling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more niderling
form: most niderling
Senses: examples: text: "Yet you think not that there are any now within hearing who would be so niderling as to betray what is here spoken in secret?" said Hunne, somewhat taken aback.
ref: 1881, George Etell Sargent, Richard Hunne: a story of old London, page 90:
glosses: Alternative form of nidderling.
niderlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of niderling
guber
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Despite his inability to get the speakership, luck later came to Ogbe's side when he was appointed as minister of communication to replace Isaac Shaahu who resigned to challenge Governor Aku in the guber race.
ref: 2016, Richard Tersoo Mnenga, Js Tarka: The Life of a Charismatic Leader, Xlibris Corporation:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Clipping of gubernatorial.
threo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: See thre-
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thre-.
virgina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: virginas
Etymology: An alteration caused by confusion with virgin.
Senses: examples: text: During the sexual intercourse, blood suddenly gushed out from her virgina.
ref: 1971, The All Nigeria Law Reports:
text: And when they left me, I found water on my virgina and my virgina started paining me.
ref: 1986, Federation of Nigeria Law Reports:
text: The Ife believe that diseases such as gonorrhoea, Leuchoria, syphillis, inflamation^([sic]) of the vulva and virgina, abnormal uterine bleeding, primary and secondary amenorhoea etc., can be caused by parasitic and bacteria infection […]
ref: 1990, Nigeria Magazine:
glosses: Alternative form of vagina.
babariga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babarigas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of babanriga.
Ofala
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Igbo ọfala.
Senses: glosses: A major festival in some Igbo communities in Nigeria, marking the anniversary of the ascension of certain royalty.
commutal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commutals
Senses: examples: text: Gladys' conviction generated reactions from a cross-section of Nigerians who pleaded for the commutal of the death sentence to a jail-term.
ref: 1985, Concord Weekly:
text: The demand for commutal of sentences was informed by two factors.
ref: 1998, The Nigerian Journal of the Social Sciences: NJSS.:
text: Having earned so much domestic and international respect for the unprecedented commutal of sentences on coup plotters last month, General Sani Abacha is expected to build on this growing goodwill by handling the Ogoni matter […]
ref: 2004, Reuben Abati, The Whole Truth: Selected Editorials of the Guardian (1983-2003), →ISBN:
topics: law
glosses: commutation (of a sentence)
lizard man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lizard men
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lizardman.
lizard men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lizard man; alternative form of lizardmen
fuddlecap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuddlecaps
Etymology: From fuddle (“liquor”) + cap (“head”); compare madcap.
Senses: examples: text: 1666, S.W., “A Paraphrase upon the first Ode” in The Poems of Horace consisting of Odes, Satyres, and Epistles, rendred in English verse by several persons, London: Henry Brome, p. 3,
The Fuddlecap, whose God’s the Vyne,
Lacks not the Sun if he have Wine;
text: The num’rous throng of Fuddle-Caps, that here
Promiscuously before the Bar appear,
On others ruine have themselves enrich’d,
And with their charming Juice the World bewitch’d.
ref: 1700, Edward Ward, A Journey to Hell, or, A Visit Paid to the Devil, London, Part 2, Canto 8, p. 23:
text: […] it is a broken and witless Sentence, such as Fuddlecaps utter by halves, when the Wine’s in, and the Wit’s out.
ref: 1728, Thomas Woolston, A Fourth Discourse on the Miracles of our Saviour, London: for the author, page 33:
text: “[…] Here, fuddle-cap,” he continued, giving her some brandy, “drink, and then tell me the best news you have […].”
ref: 1840, William Mudford, chapter 11, in Stephen Dugard, volume 1, London: R. Bentley, page 122:
glosses: Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages too freely.
Synonyms: bibber
tippler
fuddlecaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fuddlecap
girthlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of girthline
gruellings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gruelling
hinderlin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hinderlins
Senses: examples: text: How say you, my lusty compeers; shall we permit a hinderlin to sit at board with us, and brand us with the name of cowards?
ref: 1808, Joseph Strutt, [Walter Scott], “Section VII. Chapter II.”, in [Walter Scott], editor, Queenhoo-Hall, a Romance: And Ancient Times, a Drama. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for John Murray, […]; and Archibald Constable & Co. […], →OCLC, page 155:
glosses: Alternative spelling of hinderling.
A worthless degenerate.
examples: text: We downa bide the coercion of gude braid-claith about our hinderlans; […]
ref: 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter X, in Rob Roy. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 206:
text: And although a bold front aye quells them, still they always are on the look-out to take you at disadvantage—in the louping of a dyke, for instance, wha will assure ye that they shall not kittle your hinderlins?
ref: 1878, Michael Scott, The Cruise of the Midge, page 58:
text: My certes! gin ever it comes to a fecht wi' the Levellers, the dragooners has only to turn their horses and chairge hinderlins on, and—weel, Davie Veitch will no be there!
ref: 1902, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, The Dark o’ the Moon: Being Certain Further Histories of the Folk Called “Raiders”, page 1902:
glosses: Alternative spelling of hinderling.
The buttocks.
hinderlins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hinderlin
arrow-roots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arrow-root (alternative form of arrowroots).