cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
buskined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From buskin + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Her buskin'd virgins traced the dewy lawn.
ref: 1713, [Alexander] Pope, Windsor-Forest. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:
glosses: Wearing buskins.
examples: text: Or what (though rare) of later age, / Ennobled hath the buskined stage.
ref: a. 1645, John Milton, “Il Penseroso”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC:
glosses: Trodden by buskins.
examples: text: That simplicity of the Greek plot, that sobriety of Greek manners, that sustained, buskined style of expression, song making, spectacle[…]all these things lay[…]in the origins of Greek tragedy.
ref: 2008, Johann Gottfried Herder, translated by Gregory Moore, Shakespeare, pages 7–8:
glosses: Tragic, dignified or serious in style.
Derived terms: unbuskined
vinasse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /vɪˈnæs/
Forms: form: vinasses
Etymology: Borrowed from French vinasse, ultimately from Latin vīnācea.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The waste liquor remaining in the process of making beet sugar, used in the manufacture of fertiliser or potassium carbonate.
vinasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vinasse
delaine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delaines
Etymology: Borrowed from French de laine (“(made) of wool”). See muslin delaine.
Senses: glosses: A kind of mixed fabric previously used to make women's dresses.
delaines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delaine
hygiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hygeology
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὑγίεια (hugíeia) + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The science of hygiene or the preservation of health.
Related terms: hygiene
dispositively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From dispositive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: the generation of one thing is the corruption of another , although it be substantially true concerning the form and matter , is also dispositively verified in the efficient or producer
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
text: Do dispositively what Moses is recorded to have done literally, […] break all the ten commandments at once.
ref: 1695, Robert Boyle, A Free Discourse against Customary Swearing:
glosses: In a dispositive manner; by natural or moral disposition.
euphemistical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more euphemistical
form: most euphemistical
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of euphemistic.
free-milling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Yielding free gold or silver; said of certain ores that can be reduced by crushing and amalgamation, without roasting or other chemical treatment.
incompliable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incompliable
form: most incompliable
Etymology: From in- + compliable.
Senses: glosses: Not compliable; disobedient
uncinatum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From New Latin [Term?], from Latin uncinatus (“hooked”). Compare uncinate.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The hamate bone.
saltcat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saltcats
form: salt-cat
form: salt cat
Etymology: From salt + cat?
Senses: glosses: A type of feed attractive to pigeons, consisting of a mixture of salt, coarse meal, lime, etc.
saltcats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saltcat
cerebralism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cerebralisms
Etymology: From cerebral + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The doctrine that non-physical phenomena are functions or products of the brain only.
examples: text: the enchanting cerebralisms of Eliot
glosses: Something cerebral.
cerebralisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cerebralism
deviatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more deviatory
form: most deviatory
Etymology: From deviate + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: And I do not question but to satisfie your Scruples, and remove your Prejudices about the Deviatory Motion of the Atoms, the Bigness of the Sun, and the reasonableness of the Improvements made by Epicurus upon Democritus.
ref: 1702, Samuel Parker, Tully's Five Books de Finibus:
glosses: Tending to deviate.
opiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more opiferous
form: most opiferous
Etymology: From Latin opifer, from ops, opis (“help”) + ferre (“to bear”).
Senses: glosses: Bringing help; helpful.
pridingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pridingly
form: most pridingly
Etymology: From priding + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With pride; proudly.
reloan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reloans
Etymology: From re- + loan.
Senses: glosses: A second lending of the same thing; a renewal of a loan.
reloan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reloans
form: reloaning
form: reloaned
form: reloaned
Etymology: From re- + loan.
Senses: glosses: To loan again.
reloans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reloan
reloans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reloan
scholical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scholical
form: most scholical
Etymology: From Latin scholicus. See school.
Senses: glosses: scholastic; academic
logographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: logographers
Etymology: From Ancient Greek λογογράφος (logográphos) + -er. By surface analysis, logo- + -grapher.
Senses: glosses: a chronicler; one who writes history in a condensed manner with short simple sentences
glosses: one skilled in logography
qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: Someone who made a speech on behalf of another, in a legal trial.
logographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of logographer
theologizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theologizers
Etymology: From theologize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: And vve are taught by Euſebius, that the antient Ægyptian theologizers, vvhoſe religion was neer of kin to that of the Chaldeans, if not borrovved of it, looked upon the ſun and moon, vvhom they vvorſhipped under the names of Oſiris and Iſis, not only as the chief gods, but as the makers and governors of much, if not of all, of the reſt of the univerſe.
ref: 1686 (indicated as 1685–1686), Robert Boyle, “A Free Inquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature: […]”, in The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle. […], volume IV, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], published 1744, →OCLC, section IV, page 375, column 1:
glosses: someone who theologizes; a theologian.
theologizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of theologizer
exhumate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: exhumates
form: exhumating
form: exhumated
form: exhumated
Senses: glosses: To exhume; to disinter.
exhumated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of exhumate
exhumates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of exhumate
exhumating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of exhumate
bedesman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedesmen
Senses: examples: text: I am your bedesman for this letter.
ref: 1883, “Earl Risingham”, in The Black Arrow:
text: […]the place of warden in Hiram's hospital was again to be filled up, and he would once more return to […] his twelve bedesmen.
ref: 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers:
glosses: Obsolete form of beadsman.
bedesmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bedesman
planisher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planishers
Etymology: From planish + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, planishes.
wikipedia: John Weale
planishers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planisher
fascicularly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From fascicular + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: in very minute right angled quadrangular , or fascicularly accumulated tables
ref: 1784, Richard Kirwan, Elements of Mineralogy:
glosses: Having, or in terms of, fascicles.
Derived terms: intrafascicularly
thaumatolatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thaumato- + -latry.
Senses: examples: text: the thaumatolatry by which our theology has been debased for more than a century
ref: 1826, Julius Hare, Guesses at Truth by Two Brothers:
glosses: Worship or undue admiration of wondrousl or miraculous things.
lorate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lorate
form: most lorate
Etymology: From Latin lōrum (“thong, strap”) + -ate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: ligulate
glosses: Having the form of a thong or strap.
raw_tags: of leaves
contagionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contagionists
Etymology: From contagion + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A believer in the contagious nature of certain diseases, such as yellow fever.
Derived terms: noncontagionist
Related terms: anticontagionism
anticontagionist
contagionism
contagionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contagionist
homoplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From homo- + -plasty.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The formation of homologous tissues.
inactuate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inactuates
form: inactuating
form: inactuated
form: inactuated
Senses: examples: text: For the plastick in them is too highly awakened, to inactuate only an aerial body.
ref: 1662, Joseph Glanvill, Two Choice and Vsefvl Treatises:
glosses: To put into action; to activate.
Derived terms: inactuation
inactuated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inactuate
inactuates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inactuate
inactuating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inactuate
maleyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From maleic + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A divalent radical derived from maleic acid
Derived terms: maleylated
maleylation
sea pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea pies
Etymology: From sea + pie (“a type of pastry”).
Senses: examples: text: [L]ast of all, a prodigious sea-pye was presented, with an infinite volume of pancakes and fritters.
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: A dish of crust or pastry with meat or fish, etc., cooked together in alternate layers, once a common food of sailors.
sea pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea pies
form: sea pye
Etymology: From sea + pie (“magpie”).
Senses: examples: text: In the West Bay we had pretty good sport among the sea pies and shaggs […] .
ref: 1773, James Cook, The Journals, Second Voyage, 24 May
glosses: The oystercatcher (any of several black or pied coastal wading birds in the genus Haematopus that have a long red or orange bill and feed on shellfish).
sea pies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea pie
norimon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈnɔrəˌmɑn/
/ˈnɒrəmɒn/
Forms: form: norimons
Senses: examples: text: The principal large objects made of lacquered wood are the norimons (palanquins) and travelling trunks of nobles, wardrobes, toilet tables[…]
ref: 1872, Bayard Taylor, Japan in Our Day:
text: There are two sorts of palanquin, the norimon and the cango. The former, which requires four bearers for long journeys, is a large, heavy box, in which one may sit with tolerable comfort. The sides are in lacquered wood, and contain two sliding doors. Although this norimon is, par excellence, the vehicle of the nobility, it admits of no ornaments, and is used by the ladies of the middle class and by the registered courtesans, because both occupy a certain position of fortune and consideration in society. The cango is a light litter of bamboo, open on both sides; it requires only two bearers, who always walk with a rapid and regular step. They rest for one minute out of twenty.
ref: 1874, Aimé Humbert, translated by Frances Cashel Hoey et al., Japan and the Japanese Illustrated, page 156:
glosses: Alternative form of norimono, a Japanese palanquin.
norimons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of norimon
bogeyperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bogeypersons
form: bogeypeople
Senses: examples: text: If secular humanism is your bogeyperson, you shouldn't concentrate all your energy on attacking sociobiologists or behaviorists or academic philosophers[…]
ref: 1996, Daniel Clement Dennett, Darwin's dangerous idea: evolution and the meanings of life:
text: More often, it's to make the other parent the bogeyperson and leave the step-parent and their partner feeling it's not their fault that the child behaves like this.
ref: 2010, Suzie Hayman, Be a Great Step Parent: Teach Yourself:
glosses: A bogeyman of any gender.
bogeypersons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bogeyperson
bogeypeople
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bogeyperson
pseudobiographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pseudobiographical
form: most pseudobiographical
Etymology: From pseudo- + biographical.
Senses: glosses: Apparently, but not truly, biographical.
coughy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔfi/
ipa: /ˈkɒfi/
ipa: /ˈkɑ.fi/
rhymes: -ɒfi
rhymes: -ɔːfi
homophone: coffee
Forms: form: coughier
form: coughiest
Etymology: From cough + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The man looked ill, and she hoped he didn't have that coughy flu that had been wiping out everyone at the office.
ref: 1996, Frank Freudberg, Gasp!: a novel of revenge, page 213:
text: This genial, frail, chain-smoking septuagenarian is an agreeable, good-humoured conversationalist, who frequently punctuates proceedings with hearty, coughy chuckles.
ref: 2005, Julian Baggini, Jeremy Stangroom, What philosophers think, page 215:
glosses: Characterized by coughing.
Maidstonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /meɪdˈstəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /meɪdˈstoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Maidstonian
form: most Maidstonian
Etymology: From Maidstone + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Maidstone in Kent, England.
glosses: Of or pertaining to Maidstone Grammar School (founded 1549).
Maidstonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /meɪdˈstəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /meɪdˈstoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Maidstonians
Etymology: From Maidstone + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A pupil or alumnus of Maidstone Grammar School.
heterosexualness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From heterosexual + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being heterosexual.
Synonyms: heterosexuality
homosexualness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From homosexual + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being homosexual.
Synonyms: homosexuality
blepharicerid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blepharicerids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the Blephariceridae, or net-winged midges.
blepharicerids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blepharicerid
basi-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: baso-
Etymology: From Latin basis.
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Positioned at the base; forming a base
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the basion
topics: biology
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to bases (substances with pH greater than 7)
isodimorphous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + dimorphous.
Senses: synonyms: isodimorphic
glosses: Having the quality of isodimorphism.
pleasedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pleasedly
form: most pleasedly
Etymology: From pleased + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a pleased manner; with pleasure or satisfaction.
paridigitate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pari- + digitate.
Senses: examples: text: Thus the Hog-group (paridigitate) stands below the Tapir - group (imparidigitate)
ref: 1864, James Dwight Dana, The Classification of Animals Based on the Principle of Cephalization:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having an even number of digits on the hands or feet.
utopist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: utopists
Etymology: From utopia + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A utopian.
utopist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From utopia + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: With a different contractor coming to Panama Street every week to make improvements, and with Robin disappearing into a utopist sink of time and energy, Brian reconciled himself to remaining in the dismal city of his childhood.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
glosses: Utopian.
utopists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of utopist
preexamination
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + examination.
Senses: examples: text: preexamination blues
text: preexamination ritual
text: preexamination study
glosses: before an examination
preexamination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preexaminations
Etymology: From pre- + examination.
Senses: glosses: Previous examination.
preexaminations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preexamination
untank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: untanks
form: untanking
form: untanked
form: untanked
Etymology: From un- + tank.
Senses: examples: the process of untanking an electrical transformer
glosses: To remove the tank from.
untanked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of untank
untanking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of untank
untanks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of untank
inconstance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inconstances
Etymology: French
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of inconstancy.
vowelize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vowelizes
form: vowelizing
form: vowelized
form: vowelized
Etymology: From vowel + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To give the quality, sound, or office of a vowel to.
examples: text: One approach is to have experts in Arabic manually vowelize a small training set.
ref: 2014, Imed Zitouni, Natural Language Processing of Semitic Languages, page 419:
glosses: To insert a vowel or vowels into.
Related terms: vowelization
consonantize
vowelized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vowelize
vowelizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vowelize
vowelizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vowelize
hyosternal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)nəl
Etymology: From hyo- + sternal.
Senses: examples: text: the hyosternal region of the neck
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Between the hyoid bone and the sternum, or relating to both of them; infrahyoid.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the hyosternum of turtles.
dermatography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɜːməˈtɒɡɹəfi/
Etymology: From dermato- + -graphy.
Senses: examples: text: On the basis of a decoder dermatography transcription, a shift in the acid-alkali balance is shown in favor of the acid.
ref: 1998, Walter Lübeck, Rainbow Reiki:
glosses: The anatomical description of the skin.
examples: text: For others, cosmetic tattooing and dermatography are an adjunct to and considered as the finishing touch of reconstructive surgery.
ref: 2009, Christa de Cuyper, Maria Luisa Cotapos, Dermatologic Complications with Body Art:
glosses: A method of tattooing used in reconstructive surgery developed in 1984 based on micropigmentation, requiring a special ink injector and taking several sessions to complete.
Derived terms: dermatographic
lucubratory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈkjuːbɹətəɹi/
ipa: /ləˈkjuːbɹətɹi/
ipa: /ləˈkjubɹətɔɹi/
ipa: /luˈkjubɹətɔɹi/
Etymology: Latin lucubratorius.
Senses: examples: December 21, 1711, Alexander Pope, letter to H. Cromwell
a solitary candle at your side, to write an epistle lucubratory to your friend
glosses: Composed by candlelight, or at night.
misplead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mispleads
form: mispleading
form: mispled
form: mispled
form: mispleaded
form: mispleaded
Etymology: From mis- + plead.
Senses: glosses: To plead amiss wrongly; to make an error in pleading.
mispleaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misplead
mispleading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misplead
mispleading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mispleadings
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An error in pleading.
Synonyms: jeofail
mispleads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misplead
revolvency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From revolve + -ency.
Senses: examples: text: Constant rotation of th' unwearied wheel / That nature rides upon maintains her health […] / Its own revolvency upholds the world.
ref: 1785, William Cowper, The Task, Book I, l. 372:
glosses: The fact or act of revolving; capacity for revolution.
drawlingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more drawlingly
form: most drawlingly
Etymology: From drawling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Speaking or spoken with a drawl.
hypocrateriform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌhaɪpəʊkɹəˈtɪəɹɪˌfɔː(ɹ)m/
Forms: form: more hypocrateriform
form: most hypocrateriform
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὑποκρατήριον (hupokratḗrion, “stand for a vessel”) + -form.
Senses: examples: text: Calyx tubular ,5-10 - cleft; corolla hypocrateriform, tube long, limb flat
ref: 1861, Alphonso Wood, A class-book of botany […] :
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Shaped like a salver.
Synonyms: hypocraterimorphous
retinerved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more retinerved
form: most retinerved
Etymology: Latin rete (“a net”) + English nerved.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having reticulated veins.
reenthrone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reenthrones
form: reenthroning
form: reenthroned
form: reenthroned
Etymology: From re- + enthrone.
Senses: glosses: To enthrone again; to restore to the throne.
Derived terms: reenthronement
reenthroned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reenthrone
reenthrones
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reenthrone
reenthroning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reenthrone
divergement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: divergements
Etymology: From diverge + -ment.
Senses: glosses: divergence
divergements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of divergement
pentastichous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: examples: text: The leaves of apple and cherry trees are pentastichous.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having, or arranged in, five vertical ranks.
prismy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From prism + -y.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to or resembling a prism.
spittly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spittly
form: most spittly
Etymology: From spittle + -y.
Senses: glosses: Like spittle; slimy.
examples: text: spittly kiss
glosses: Containing spittle
assizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assizers
Etymology: From assize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: In the case of any such weighing instruments, weights or measures as are referred to in Sub-section (2), the position thereof shall be notified in writing to the assizer before the expiry of the time fixed by the Council in accordance with Sub-section (1), and any person who shall fail so to notify the position of any such weighing instruments, weights or measures shall be guilty of an offence.
ref: 1916, Johannesburg (South Africa). City Council, Minutes of 337th Meeting of the Municipal Council:
text: Any person appointed as an assizer or inspector in pursuance of an agreement referred to in subsection (1) shall have all the powers and duties of an assizer or inspector, as the case may be, under this Act but only within the area to which such agreement relates.
ref: 1958, The Statute Law of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, page 116:
text: The superintendent shall provide for the use by any assizer such standard weights and standard measures of length and capacity (or volume) (in this Act referred to as working standards) as may in the opinion of the superintendent be required by such assizer for the purpose of carrying out his duties and functions under this Act.
ref: 1964, Statutes of the Union of South Africa - Part 1, page 505:
text: An assizer shall refuse to assize an instrument which—(a) has interchangeable or reversible parts, unless the interchange or reversal does not affect the accuracy of the instrument;
ref: 1972, The Laws of the Republic of Zambia, page 37:
glosses: An officer who has the care or inspection of weights and measures.
examples: text: It is a good objection to an assizer if he is erroneously designed; but neither that nor any other objection can be stated after the jury is sworn.
ref: 1833, Archibald Alison, Practice of the Criminal Law of Scotland - Volume 2, page 388:
text: Neilson was admitted to be an assizer against Margaret Wallace, though he was brother-in-law to John Nicol who had given information for raising the ditty, because the ditty was not at Nicol's instance; and yet Starling was set from being an assizer because Moore, who was alleged to be one of the persons maleficiat, was his brother-in-law.
ref: 1877, A History of the Witches of Renfrewshire, page 34:
text: Being an assizer was not a well-loved profession at the best of times, but it was frequently a lucrative one.
ref: 2013, Max Decharne, Capital Crimes: Seven Centuries of London Life and Murder, page 4:
glosses: Alternative form of assizor.
assizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assizer
telegraphical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more telegraphical
form: most telegraphical
Etymology: From telegraph + -ical.
Senses: glosses: telegraphic
tallower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tallowers
Etymology: From tallow + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The South Down sheep are not great tallowers, compared with some other sorts; but what they loose^([sic]) in tallow, they make up in a disposition to fatten.
ref: 1813, Arthur Young, General view of the agriculture of the county of Sussex, page 332:
glosses: An animal which produces tallow.
glosses: A merchant who deals in tallow.
glosses: omeone who tallows, who greases with tallow
tallowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tallower
intestates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intestate
tourns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tourn
pronominally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pronominal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: nouns used pronominally
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: In a pronominal manner; as a pronoun.
heremitical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heremitical
form: most heremitical
Etymology: From heremitic + -al.
Senses: examples: October 3, 1721, Alexander Pope, letter to Ed. Blount
You describe so well your Heremitical state of Life
glosses: Alternative form of eremitical.
chromascope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromascopes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χρῶμα (khrôma, “colour”) + -scope.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for showing the optical effects of colour.
chromascopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chromascope
unpartial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnpɑːʃl̩/
Forms: form: more unpartial
form: most unpartial
Etymology: From un- + partial.
Senses: examples: text: Justice, that makes princes like the gods, / Draws us unto the Senate, / That with unpartial balance we may poise / The crimes and innocence of all offenders.
ref: 1613, John Marston, William Barksted, The Insatiate Countess, IV.1:
text: [S]uch as therefore ſhould not be adventured vpon vvithout mature and vnpartiall diſquiſition of the vprightneſſe of our affections therein, […]
ref: 1621 May 4 (date delivered; Gregorian calendar), Robert Saunderson [i.e., Robert Sanderson], “[Ad Clerum.] The Second Sermon. At a Visitation at Boston, Linc[olnshire] 24. April. 1621.”, in Twelve Sermons, […], [new] edition, London: […] Aug[ustine] Math[ews], for Robert Dawlman, and are to be sold by Robert Allet, […], published 1632, →OCLC, §. 18, pages 59–60:
text: The Liberal Union […] approves the idea of guaranteeing an unpartial and proper trial.
ref: 1998 March 4, Baltic News Service:
synonyms: word: disinterested
word: nonpartial
word: candid
word: cold
word: clinical
word: detached
word: egal
word: equal
word: equitable
word: evenhanded
word: fairhanded
word: fair-minded
word: disinterested
word: dispassionate
word: impartial
word: imprejudicate
word: indifferent
word: indistinguishing
word: neuter
word: neutral
word: nonaligned
word: nonpartial
word: nonpartisan
word: nonpersonal
word: objective
word: unbiased
word: unbigoted
word: uninterested
word: unpartial
word: unpartisan
word: unprejudiced
word: unprepossessed
glosses: Impartial, unbiased.
examples: text: I’m particularly unpartial to Bluetooth with its pairing hassles (the K-750s use an RF interface and a USB receiver dongle), but for the past 3-1/2 years, Bluetooth keyboards have been the only external input devices supported on the iPad and other iOS machines.
ref: 2014 May 16, Technology Tell, archived from the original on 24 Mar 2016:
synonyms: word: adverse
word: opposed
word: adverse
word: antagonistic
word: conflicting
word: contentious
word: counteracting
word: hostile
word: incompatible
word: inharmonious
word: inimical
word: irreconcilable
word: opposed
word: repugnant
word: unbefriending
word: unfriendly
word: unharmonious
word: unpartial
glosses: Not partial (to); antagonistic.
Derived terms: unpartially
bibliopegist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bibliopegists
Etymology: From bibliopegy + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The annual exhibitions of fine bookbindings held at our principal bookstores, to which I have already drawn attention, embrace examples of the best work of all the prominent American, as well as European, bibliopegists, […]
ref: 1903, The Bookman, volumes 15-16, page 175:
glosses: Synonym of bookbinder.
synonyms: word: bookbinder
Derived terms: bibliopegistic
bibliopegists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bibliopegist
extraparochial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more extraparochial
form: most extraparochial
Etymology: From extra- + parochial.
Senses: glosses: Outside or beyond the limits of a parish.
Related terms: extraparochially
lichenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lichen + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or obtained from lichens
Derived terms: endolichenic
lichenic acid
complicateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From complicate (adjective) + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: There is so great variety of Intelligibles in the World, so much objected to our Senses […] and every several Object so full of subdivided multiplicity and complicateness.
ref: 1677, Matthew Hale, chapter 1, in The primitive origination of mankind, considered and examined according to the light of nature:
text: The remaining nine old states, originally colonized under the special protection of the British government, are burdened with all the inconveniences, litigation, complicateness, and expense of the feudal territorial division into counties and parishes.
ref: 1838, William Maclure, Opinions on Various Subjects, Dedicated to the Industrious Producers, volume 3, page 8:
glosses: Complicatedness, complexity.
deaconhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From deacon + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The state or office of being a deacon; deaconship.
edriophthalmous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Edriophthalma + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: edriophthalmic
edriophthalmian
glosses: Pertaining to the Edriophthalma, a former classification of peracarids.
twinkler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twinklers
Etymology: From Middle English twinklere, twinclere, equivalent to twinkle + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, twinkles or winks.
examples: text: The pupils of his eyes were as dark as his hair, except that they were flecked with sparks of hazel: as a child, strangers were apt to say that a pair of twinklers like his could be sold as diamonds to a duchess (later, when it came time for him to be included in Deeti's shrine, much would be made of the brilliance of his gaze).
ref: 2015, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies:
glosses: An eye.
twinklers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twinkler
opposal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opposals
Etymology: From oppose + -al.
Senses: examples: text: a. 1682, Sir Thomas Herbert, 1st Baronet, Memoirs of the Last Two Years of the Reign of King Charles, published 1702.
for some Weeks there was no Prohibition, any that were desirous to see his Majesty might without Opposal...
text: in opposal
glosses: opposition
opposals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opposal
tapiroid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tapir + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Related to the tapir
tapiroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tapiroids
Etymology: From tapir + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Any of the superfamily Tapiroidea of perissodactyls.
muckmidden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muckmiddens
Etymology: From muck + midden.
Senses: glosses: A dunghill.
muckmiddens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muckmidden
diamagnetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diamagnetic
rhabdolith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhabdoliths
Etymology: From rhabdo- + -lith.
Senses: examples: text: It there forms bold bluffs for many miles, and the name "Chalk" is very properly applied to it, from the fact that, like the chalks of Europe, it is largely composed of Foraminifera and coccoliths, to which, in these formations, is added the more recently discovered rhabdolith.
ref: 1895, Geology of Minnesota, page 49:
glosses: A minute calcareous rodlike structure found at both the surface and the bottom of the ocean, supposed by some to be a calcareous alga.
examples: text: There is no doubt that Cruxia mericii designates a sacculiform rhabdolith with a structure related to that of the rhabdoliths in Group 1.
ref: 1984, Marie-Pierre Aubry, Handbook of Cenozoic Calcareous Nannoplankton, page 88:
text: A dithecate coccosphere has two discrete layers of different rhabdolith type, an inner endotheca and an outer exotheca.
ref: 1992, Annelies Kleijne, Extant Rhabdosphaeraceae, page 11:
glosses: Any Mesozoic and Cenozoic coccolith consisting of a single plate with a stem.
Related terms: rhabdolithic
rhabdosphere
rhabdoliths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhabdolith
prognosticable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: it is not reasonable from variable and unstable causes to derive a fixed and constant effect, and such are the causes of this inundation, which cannot indeed be regular, and therefore their effects not prognosticable
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Capable of being prognosticated or foretold; predictable.
canceration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cancerations
Etymology: From cancer + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act or state of becoming cancerous or growing into a cancer.
cancerations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canceration
renavigate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: renavigates
form: renavigating
form: renavigated
form: renavigated
Etymology: From re- + navigate.
Senses: glosses: To navigate again.
Related terms: renavigation
renavigated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of renavigate
renavigates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of renavigate
renavigating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of renavigate
logarithmetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From logarithmetic + -ally? logarithmetical + -ly?
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of logarithmically.
protocatechualdehyde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protocatechualdehydes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: protocatechuic aldehyde
protocatechualdehydes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protocatechualdehyde
indogenide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indogenides
Etymology: From indogen + -ide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of the derivatives of indogen that contain that group as a nucleus.
indogenides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indogenide
reflexible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈflɛksɪbəl/
Etymology: From Latin reflexibilis, from reflectō (“reflect”). Compare French réflexible.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. [Isaac] Nevvton has demonſtrated from plain and convincing Experiments, that the Light of the Sun conſiſts of Rays differently refrangible and reflexible, and that thoſe Rays are differently reflexible, that are differently refrangible.
ref: 1705, George Cheyne, “Of the Physical Laws, and the Uniform Appearances of Nature. Law III.”, in Philosophical Principles of Natural Religion: […], London: […] George Strahan […], →OCLC, § XXXIX, page 81:
glosses: Archaic spelling of reflectable
orthopinacoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthopinacoids
Etymology: From ortho- + pinacoid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Either of the two planes in the monoclinic system which are parallel to the vertical and orthodiagonal axes.
orthopinacoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orthopinacoid
renavigation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + navigation.
Senses: glosses: Navigation again; the act of renavigating.
lean-witted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lean-witted
form: most lean-witted
Senses: examples: text: And thou a lunatic lean-witted fool
Presuming on an ague's privilege
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: there is not a street boy who holds your horse but has a laugh, and a good one, at the lean-witted, dull Bavarian
ref: 1877, Walter Thornbury, “Athens under King Otho”, in The Gentleman's Magazine:
glosses: Lacking in intelligence or shrewdness.
apothegmatize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: apothegmatizes
form: apothegmatizing
form: apothegmatized
form: apothegmatized
Senses: examples: text: This occurs with the stylization of the impasse of reflexive consciousness, of the movement of the mind that we can call A therefore not-A and that Beckett apothegmatizes in the phrase "imagination dead imagine" and elsewhere explicates as "the expression that there is nothing to express, nothing with which to express, nothing from which to express, no power to express, no desire to express, together with the obligation to express."
ref: 1992, J. M. Coetzee, Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews:
glosses: To utter apothegms (short witty sayings).
apothegmatized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of apothegmatize
apothegmatizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of apothegmatize
apothegmatizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of apothegmatize
lithoxyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek, literally "stone wood". See litho-, xylo-.
Senses: glosses: Petrified wood.
pantascope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pantascopes
Etymology: From panta- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: A pantascopic camera.
pantascopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pantascope
divineress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: divineresses
Etymology: From Middle English divyneresse, devyneresse, dyvyneresse, dyveneras, dyvenourese; equivalent to diviner + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: The mad Divineress had plainly writ,
A time shou'd come (but many ages yet,)
In which, sinister destinies ordain
ref: 1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
text: Altogether, with her snowy raiment and white flesh and passionless face, she seems rather a beautiful living statue than a Japanese maiden. And all the while the weird flutes sob and shrill, and the muttering of the drums is like an incantation. What I have seen is called the Dance of the Miko, the Divineress.
ref: 1894, Lafcadio Hearn, Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan, series 1:
glosses: A female diviner.
divineresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of divineress
folwed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of folwe
folwing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of folwe
departer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: departers
Etymology: From depart + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Late departers (late May) are surf scoters, while harlequins and white-winged scoters may occur in summer.
ref: 1961, British Columbia Provincial Museum, Report of the Provincial Museum of Natural History, page 22:
glosses: Someone who departs.
topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Someone who refines metals by separation.
departers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of departer
interpolable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more interpolable
form: most interpolable
form: interpolatable
Etymology: From interpolate + -able.
Senses: examples: text: a most interpolable clause of one sentence
ref: 1847, Augustus De Morgan, “Introduction”, in Arithmetical Books from the Invention of Printing to the Present Time:
glosses: Capable of, or suitable for, being interpolated.
moderatress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moderatresses
Etymology: From moderator + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: Hilda, a woman, being moderatress therein
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
synonyms: moderatrix
glosses: A female moderator.
recursant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin recursans, recursantis, present participle of recursare (“to run back”), v. freq. of recurrere. See recur.
Senses: examples: text: Argent, an eagle recursant, wings overture, sable.
ref: 1870, Routledge's Magazine for Boys, page 64:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
synonyms: tergiant
en arrière
glosses: Having its back towards the observer.
raw_tags: of an eagle
iambical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of iambic.
Derived terms: iambically
Belgravians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Belgravian
Pugh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /pjuː/
homophone: pew
homophone: Pew
Forms: form: Bew
form: Pew
form: Pughe
Etymology: From Welsh ap (“son of”) + Huw (“Hugh”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Welsh.
Derived terms: Billy Pugh
glumal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From glume + -al.
Senses: examples: text: glumal endogen
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a glume, or relating to a glume.
Pughe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Less common spelling of Pugh, from Welsh ap + Huw.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Welsh.
Pew
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Less common spelling of Pugh, from Welsh ap + Huw.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Welsh.
tomelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tomelets
Etymology: From tome + -let.
Senses: glosses: A small tome, or volume.
tomelets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tomelet
graphiscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graphiscopes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of graphoscope.
graphiscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of graphiscope
Bew
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh ap + Huw.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Welsh.
Huw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪw/
ipa: [hɪʊ̯]
ipa: /hjuː/
ipa: [ç(j)u̟ː]
Forms: form: Huws
Etymology: From Welsh Huw.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Welsh, equivalent to English Hugh.
Related terms: Hugh
Hugo
hearsal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hearsals
Etymology: Apheretic alteration of rehearsal.
Senses: examples: text: With this sad hersall of his heavy stresse / The warlike Damzell was empassiond sore […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: An act of recounting something; a narrative, a recital, a rehearsal.
Ogeechee lime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ogeechee limes
Etymology: Named after the Ogeechee River in Georgia, USA.
Senses: glosses: A species of tupelo (Nyssa ogeche) which grows in swamps in Georgia and Florida.
glosses: Its acid, olive-shaped, drupaceous fruit.
Synonyms: Nyssa capitata
river lime
ogeechee lime tree
sour gum
wild lime
Ogeechee limes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ogeechee lime
Hewlett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hewletts
Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive of Hugh.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, United States.
Huggett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive of Hugh.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A locality in Leduc County, Alberta, Canada.