cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
greeze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹiːz/
rhymes: -iːz
homophone: grees
homophone: grease stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: greezes
form: greese
form: grise
Etymology: See gree (“a step”).
Senses: examples: text: This Scala celi, is the true ladder that bryngeth a man to heauen, the toppe of the ladder or fyrſte greeſe, is this. Who ſo euer calleth vpon the name of the Lord, ſhalbe ſaued.
ref: 1549 March 25 (Gregorian calendar), Hughe Latymer [i.e., Hugh Latimer], Augustine Bernher, compiler, “[27 Sermons Preached by the Ryght Reuerende Father in God and Constant Matir of Iesus Christe, Maister Hugh Latimer, […].] The Second Sermon of Maister Hughe Latimer, which He Preached before King Edward [VI].”, in Certayn Godly Sermons, Made uppon the Lords Prayer, […], London: […] John Day, […], published 1562, →OCLC, folio 37, recto:
glosses: A step.
greeze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹiːz/
rhymes: -iːz
homophone: grees
homophone: grease stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: greezes
Etymology: An alteration of grease.
Senses: examples: text: Man, I'm hungry! Let's go for a greeze!
ref: 1984, Peter A. Smith, Fred M. Barritt, Bermewjan Vurds, Island Press:
text: Where do you get your favourite 'greeze'?
ref: 2013 April 12, “Exclusive: Meet Derpuntae - Bermuda's first meme”, in The Bermuda Sun, archived from the original on 12 Dec 2022:
qualifier: Bermuda
glosses: A large and fulfilling meal; a feast.
examples: text: 12:30pm: Went tahn to get some greeze. Parked opposite de lye-berry.
ref: 2013 September 5, James Burton, “Burton's Banter: Our rich dialogue — as moreish as a cold burr...”, in The Bermuda Sun, archived from the original on 12 Dec 2022:
qualifier: Bermuda
glosses: A large quantity of food.
greezes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greeze
arrosion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arrosions
Etymology: From Latin arrodere, arrosum (“to gnaw”). Compare French arrosion.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The wasting away of a vessel wall under pressure.
examples: text: Hurt by the Arrosion of its Gristle
ref: 1707, John Dunton, Athenian Sport:
glosses: A gnawing.
bundleware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bundle + -ware.
Senses: examples: text: But missing from the 100's bundleware is any kind of video editor—a key feature for a capture card.
ref: 2001, PC Mag, volume 20, number 1, page 177:
text: Because bundleware is so time-consuming and difficult to remove, the first thing many techie users do when they purchase a new PC is wipe off the hard disk (thus deleting all the bundleware) and reinstall Windows.
ref: 2009, Michael Miller, Speed It Up! A Non-Technical Guide for Speeding Up Slow Computers:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Software that is bundled with something else.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: Postage stamps of the same issue tied together in small bundles, usually for bulk sorting or sale.
taled
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taleds
Senses: examples: text: The following engraving represents a Jew wrapped up Jewish doctors, was the origin of the Taled
ref: 1828, Robert Huish, Bernard Picart, The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of Every Nation of the World:
glosses: Dated form of tallit.
taled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tale
taleds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taled
Ashley's bend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ashley's bends
Etymology: From the name of the inventor, Clifford Ashley.
Senses: glosses: A type of bend knot which has proven stability and grip.
Ashley's bends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ashley's bend
beer knot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beer knots
Etymology: From beer + knot; compare water knot.
Senses: glosses: A type of bend knot used to join the ends of tubular webbing, commonly employed by mountaineers to create a sling seat.
beer knots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beer knot
water knot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water knots
Etymology: Uncertain, apparently water + knot. Attested from at least the 18th century.
Senses: examples: text: To tie a water-knot, lay the end of one of your hairs about five inches or less, over that of the other, and through the loop, which you would make to time them in a common way, pass the long and short end of the hairs, which will lie to the right of the loop, twice, and wetting the knot with your tongue, draw it close, and cut off the spare hair.
ref: 1775 [1653], Izaak Walton, edited by John Hawkins, The Complete Angler, compilation of Walton’s original and Charles Cotton’s second part of The Compleat Angler, page 255:
synonyms: ring bend
grass knot
tape knot
glosses: A type of bend knot used to join the ends of lines or flat material such as tubular webbing.
glosses: Synonym of fisherman's knot.
synonyms: word: fisherman's knot
water knots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water knot
alloxanic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The carobxylic acid 4-hydroxy-2,5-dioxoimidazolidine-4-carboxylic acid obtained by the hydrolysis of alloxan
prytanies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prytany
prytany
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prytanies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πρυτανεία (prutaneía, “presidency”), from πρύτανις (prútanis).
Senses: qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: The period during which the presidency of the senate belonged to the prytanes of the section
Related terms: prytaneis
prytanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌpɹaɪˈteɪn.iz/
Senses: glosses: plural of prytane
piecener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pieceners
Etymology: From piecen + -er?
Senses: glosses: Someone who supplies rolls of wool to the slubbing machine (a billy) in a wool mill.
glosses: A worker in a wool mill who repairs broken yarn by twisting them together.
Synonyms: piecer
pieceners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piecener
pierid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pierids
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any member of the butterfly family Pieridae.
Related terms: pieridine
pierids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pierid
plutology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πλοῦτος (ploûtos, “wealth”) + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The science that deals with wealth.
egotize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: egotizes
form: egotizing
form: egotized
form: egotized
Etymology: See egotism and -ize.
Senses: examples: June 6 1789, William Cowper, letter to Lady Hesketh
I egotize in my letters to thee, not because I am of much importance to myself, but because to thee both Ego, and all that Ego does is interesting.
glosses: To talk or write as an egotist.
egotized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of egotize
egotizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of egotize
egotizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of egotize
coboose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cobooses
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of caboose.
cobooses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coboose
slubbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slub
slubbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slub
exundate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: exundates
form: exundating
form: exundated
form: exundated
Etymology: From Latin exundatus, past participle of exundare (“to overflow”), from ex (“out”) + undare. See undated (“waved”).
Senses: examples: text: A breath of awakening and resurrection moved over the face of the waters; recreation and new-born life sparkled everywhere; the past night seemed forever buried in the vast and exundating sea.
ref: 1887, Bret Harte, The Crusade of the Excelsior:
glosses: To overflow; to inundate.
exundated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of exundate
exundates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of exundate
exundating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of exundate
symbal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: symbals
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of cimbal.
glosses: Obsolete form of cymbal.
symbals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of symbal
prongbuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prongbucks
Etymology: From prong + buck.
Senses: glosses: The springbok.
examples: text: Thus the whitetail deer had thrust forward along the very narrow river bottoms into the domain of the mule-deer and the prongbuck among the foothills of the Rocky Mountains
ref: 1905, Theodore Roosevelt, Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter:
glosses: The pronghorn
prongbucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prongbuck
coetanean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coetaneans
Senses: examples: late 17th century, John Aubrey, "Sir Walter Raleigh", in Brief Lives
a […] coetanean of the late Earle of Southampton
glosses: Someone who lives or lived at the same era as another.
coetaneans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coetanean
charnelhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charnelhouses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of charnel house.
uncharnel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uncharnels
form: uncharneling
form: uncharnelling
form: uncharneled
form: uncharneled
form: uncharnelled
form: uncharnelled
Etymology: From un- + charnel.
Senses: examples: text: Whom wouldst thou uncharnel?
ref: 1817, Lord Byron, Manfred:
glosses: To remove from a charnel house; to raise from the grave; to exhume.
uncharnelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uncharnel
charnelhouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of charnelhouse
stonecutting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stonecuttings
Etymology: From stone + cutting.
Senses: glosses: The hewing or dressing of stone.
stonecrafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stonecraft
Claude Lorraine glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Claude Lorraine glasses
Etymology: Supposed to be derived from the similarity of the effects it gives to those of a picture by Claude Lorrain (often written Lorraine).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Claude glass.
synonyms: word: Claude glass
wikipedia: Claude Lorrain
Claude Lorraine glasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Claude Lorraine glass
beetlehead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beetleheads
Etymology: From beetle + head. See beetle (“a mallet”).
Senses: glosses: A stupid person; a blockhead.
glosses: The black-bellied plover, or bullhead (Pluvialis squatarola).
beetleheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beetlehead
Norbertine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Norbertines
Senses: glosses: A Premonstrant.
Norbertines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Norbertine
apotelesmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more apotelesmatic
form: most apotelesmatic
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀποτελεσματικός (apotelesmatikós), from ἀποτέλεσμα (apotélesma, “effect of the stars on human destiny”). Morphologically, from apotelesm + -atic.
Senses: examples: text: It will easily be supposed that when this apotelesmatic or judicial astrology obtained firm possession of men's minds, it would be pursued into innumerable subtle distinctions and extravagant conceits
ref: 1837, William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences:
topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Relating to the casting of horoscopes.
examples: text: In this way a passage in the Old Testament may have, or rather comprise, an apotelesmatic sense, i. e., one of after or final accomplishment.
ref: 1852 July, Moses Stuart, “Observations on Matthew 24:29-31”, in The Bibliotheca Sacra and American Biblical Repository:
glosses: Relating to an issue of fulfilment.
Related terms: apotelesm
edentalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: edentate; lacking teeth
pigeon-hearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pigeon-hearted
form: most pigeon-hearted
Senses: examples: text: I never saw such pigeon-hearted people: What drum? what danger?
ref: c. 1621, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Pilgrim”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act III, scene iv:
synonyms: chicken-hearted
glosses: timid, or easily frightened
stercoraries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stercorary
stercorary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stercoraries
Etymology: From Latin stercorarium, from stercorarius (“relating to dung”), from stercus.
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
synonyms: dunghouse
glosses: A sheltered place for storing dung.
monopteron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monoptera
Etymology: From Latin. See monopteral.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: monopteros
scabling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scablings
form: scabline
Etymology: See scapple.
Senses: glosses: A fragment or chip of stone.
Related terms: scabling hammer
scablings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scabling
disbark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /dɪsˈbɑː(ɹ)k/
Forms: form: disbarks
form: disbarking
form: disbarked
form: disbarked
Etymology: From dis- + bark.
Senses: examples: text: Lieutenant G. Drummon confirm'd what others had told me, of the great noiſe, like the diſcharge of Muskets, that they hear in the wooden houſes, whoſe Walls are made of Fir-trees (unſquar'd, and only diſbark'd,) upon very intenſe Froſts; […]
ref: 1663, Robert Boyle, “An Appendix Containing Some Promiscuous Experiments & Observations Relating to the Precedent History of Cold. [Particulars Referable to the XIX. Title.]”, in New Experiments and Observations Touching Cold, or, An Experimental History of Cold, Begun. […], London: […] Richard Davis, […], published 1683, →OCLC, paragraph 2, page 24:
synonyms: bark
excorticate
glosses: To strip (a tree, etc.) of bark.
disbark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /dɪsˈbɑː(ɹ)k/
Forms: form: disbarks
form: disbarking
form: disbarked
form: disbarked
Etymology: From Middle French desbarquer, from des- + barque.
Senses: examples: text: The ship we moor on these obscure abodes; / Disbark the sheep, an offering to the gods
ref: 1725–1726, Homer, “Book 9”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:
glosses: To disembark.
disbarked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disbark
disbarking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disbark
disbarks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disbark
dedalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dedalous
form: most dedalous
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of daedalous.
rhodeoretin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ῥόδεος (rhódeos, “rose”) + ῥητίνη (rhētínē, “resin”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: convolvulin
Derived terms: rhodeoretinic acid
rhodeoretinol
cholochrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ, “bile”) + -chrome.
Senses: glosses: bilirubin
pinacone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinacones
form: pinakone
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πίναξ (pínax, “tablet”) ̺+ -one. So called because it unites with water to form tablet-shaped crystals.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of pinacol.
synonyms: word: pinacol
Derived terms: benzopinacone
pinacones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinacone
amphictyon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amphictyons
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Amphictyones, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἀμφικτύονες (Amphiktúones), both of which are only attested in the plural. Probably the word originally meant "dwellers around, neighbours".
Senses: qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: One of the deputies from the confederated states of Ancient Greece to a congress or council. They considered both political and religious matters.
Derived terms: amphictyonic
amphictyons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amphictyon
pinakone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinakones
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pinacone.
pinakones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinakone
clotter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈklɒtɚ/
Forms: form: clotters
form: clottering
form: clottered
form: clottered
Etymology: From clot.
Senses: examples: text: clottered blood
ref: 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To concrete into lumps; to clot.
clottered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of clotter
clottering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of clotter
clotters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of clotter
patent hammer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patent hammers
Senses: glosses: A stonecutter's hammer with a head consisting of broad thin chisels clamped together.
patent hammers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patent hammer
pouldavis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of poledavy.
Mopla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Moplas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mappila.
Moplas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mopla
Moplah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Moplahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mappila.
Moplahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Moplah
Mappila
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mappilas
form: Mopla
form: Moplah
Etymology: From Malayalam മാപ്പിള (māppiḷa).
Senses: glosses: A member of the largest Muslim community in Kerala state, India.
Mappilas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mappila
countyhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From county + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: The proposers of countyhood for the Bronx are either unintelligent or insincere when they say that the autonomy of that borough would separate it from Tammany Hall.
ref: 1911 December 8, “Countyhood for the Bronx”, in The New York Times:
text: In the years following countyhood, the court levied taxes, set salaries for county officials, provided for public safety and regulated morals.
ref: 1996, Yolanda Reed, Rick Gregory, Robertson Co, TN, page 25:
glosses: The state of being a county.
investure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈvɛstjʊə(ɹ)/
/ɪnˈvɛst͡ʃə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: investures
form: investuring
form: investured
form: investured
Senses: examples: text: Monks […] investured in their copes.
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: To clothe; to invest.
investure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈvɛstjʊə(ɹ)/
/ɪnˈvɛst͡ʃə(ɹ)/
Senses: examples: text: they gained the Power of giving Investures, receiving Appeals to Rome, and of sending Legates to England
ref: 1679–1715, Gilbert Burnet, “(please specify the page)”, in The History of the Reformation of the Church of England., London: […] T[homas] H[odgkin] for Richard Chiswell, […]:
glosses: investiture; investment
investured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of investure
investures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of investure
investuring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of investure
menilite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: menilites
Etymology: French ménilite, because it is found at Ménilmontant, in Paris.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A greyish-brown form of opal.
menilites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of menilite
necrolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of necronite.
synonyms: word: necronite
hydragogue
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin hydragogus (“conveying off water”), from Ancient Greek ὑδραγωγός (hudragōgós, “to lead”). Compare French hydragogue.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Causing a discharge of water; expelling serum effused into any part of the body, as in dropsy.
hydragogue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydragogues
Etymology: From Latin hydragogus (“conveying off water”), from Ancient Greek ὑδραγωγός (hudragōgós, “to lead”). Compare French hydragogue.
Senses: glosses: Any medicine of this kind, usually a cathartic or diuretic.
hydragogues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydragogue
boroughhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From borough + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: In the days of its close boroughhood, it had owned but one mind, and that a little one ; it had now a thousand ; and each, in its own conceit, gigantic.
ref: 1850, Catherine Grace Frances, The Hamiltons, or, Official life in 1830, page 353:
text: The Gazette began before boroughhood and has continued along successive decades.
ref: 1922, George Thornton Flemming, History of Pittsburgh and its Environs, page 348:
text: Hmm, 'Park Slope, New York' again. That's two votes for Park Slope boroughhood. Message to residents of Cobble Hill, New York: get with it!
ref: 1988 April, the Editor, Spy Magazine, page 23:
glosses: The state of being a borough
encephalectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: encephalectomies
Etymology: From encephal- + -ectomy.
Senses: examples: text: Aside from thematic similarities, one other element common to most zombie movies is the scene where a soon-to-be encephalectomy victim spots a zombie, formerly a loved-one, and reasons "the power of our relationship will protect me", and therefore fails to flee.
ref: 2006 August 28, “Incorruptible virus protection”, in The Financial Express:
glosses: Removal of the brain.
encephalectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of encephalectomy
unsatiate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈseɪʃiət/
Forms: form: more unsatiate
form: most unsatiate
Etymology: From un- + satiate.
Senses: examples: text: One, my lord, that doth ſo palpably, ſo apparently make her Adulteries a Trophey, vvhiles the poting-ſticke to her vnſatiate and more then goatiſh abomination, jeeres at, and flouts your ſleepiſh, and more than ſleepiſh, ſecurity.
ref: 1633, Iohn Ford [i.e., John Ford], Loues Sacrifice. A Tragedie […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Hugh Beeston, […], →OCLC, Act IV:
text: Unsatiate covetise
ref: 1642, H[enry] M[ore], “ΑΝΤΙΨΥΧΟΠΑΝΝΥΧΙΑ [Antipsychopannychia], or A Confutation of the Sleep of the Soul after Death”, in ΨΥΧΩΔΙΑ [Psychōdia] Platonica: Or A Platonicall Song of the Soul, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel, printer to the Universitie, →OCLC:
glosses: Insatiable.
turkois
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turkoises
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of turquoise.
turkoises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turkois
villagehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From village + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: It is, comparatively speaking, an old place, and was raised from villagehood to parochial rank by a Royal Letter of January 28th, 1752.
ref: 1869, Richard Francis Burton, Explorations of the highlands of the Brazil, page 306:
text: We drive west into the Wallachian countryside, past rows of daub- and-wattle houses, plastered with a blue wash, clustered together along the road, aspiring to villagehood.
ref: 2004, Robin Peck, Sculpture, A Journey To The Circumference Of The Earth, page 34:
glosses: The state of being a village.
examples: text: They came to the school, and in due course formed part of the young villagehood.
ref: 1857, William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 24, page 76:
text: But the practice of villagehood still remains a constant through all of this, creating Miloli'i people as opposed to just islanders.
ref: 1995, Kajsa Ekholm Friedman, Jonathan Friedman, “Global Complexity and Everyday Life”, in Worlds Apart: Modernity Through the Prism of the Local, page 162:
glosses: The people and culture of a village.
glomeration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glomerations
Etymology: Latin glomeratio.
Senses: glosses: The act of forming or gathering into a ball or round mass; conglomeration.
examples: text: the rainbow consisteth of a glomeration of small drops , which cannot possibly fall
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “IX. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: That which is formed into a ball.
glomerations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glomeration
districthood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From district + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: Later NC Hill was granted districthood and in 1976, Mikir Hill District was renamed Karbi Anglong District.
ref: 1990, P.S. Dutta, Ethnic movements in poly-cultural Assam, page 134:
text: 2012, 21 Jan, Oinam Sunil, "safeguard for Manipur's territorial integrity will be our main plank', The Times of India
Your government has been accused of going soft on the Naga and Kuki agitators who blocked two national highways for 121 days last year over the Sadar Hills districthood issue.
glosses: The state of being a district.
empirehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From empire + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: Naval power was the foundation of British and Dutch empirehood.
glosses: The state of being an empire.
Related terms: imperialism
colonyhood
nationhood
statehood
starhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From star + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: Brown dwarfs are much bigger than planets but not quite big enough to generate the internal pressure needed to burst into starhood.
ref: 2002, Tom Siegfried, Strange Matters: Undiscovered Ideas at the Frontiers of Space and Time:
text: Near those stars-to-be, other bodies, too low in mass ever to reach starhood, also began to form.
ref: 2008, Mark Littmann, Fred Espenak, Ken Willcox, Totality: Eclipses of the Sun, page 289:
text: It was the only image of the funeral most people saw, making the occasion an emblem of Diana's starhood rather than a celebration of Florence's life and a scene of mourning for her death.
ref: 2009, Peter Benjaminson, The Lost Supreme: The Life of Dreamgirl Florence Ballard, page 169:
glosses: The state of being a star (whether an astronomic object or a celebrity).
Synonyms: sense: the state of being a celebrity
word: stardom
bluenette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bluenettes
Etymology: Blend of blue + brunette.
Senses: examples: text: A girl with pale blue hair and a translucent dress wears see-through underwear (she's not a natural bluenette).
ref: 2000 November, B. Werde, “The Love”, in CMJ New Music Monthly:
glosses: A person with blue hair, especially a woman.
Related terms: bluehair
bluenettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bluenette
syrma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syrmas
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σύρμα (súrma), from σύρω (súrō, “to drag”).
Senses: qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: A long dress that trailed on the floor, worn by tragic actors.
syrmas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syrma
uniform convergence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uniform convergences
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A type of convergence of a sequence of functions { fₙ }, in which the speed of convergence of fₙ(x) to f(x) does not depend on x.
meadery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmidəɹi/
ipa: /ˈmiːdəɹi/
Forms: form: meaderies
Etymology: From mead + -ery. Cognate with Dutch mederij (“meadery”).
Senses: examples: text: People used to come to the Upper Midwest's only dedicated meadery and say, "Huh?" Or perhaps something like, "Oh, yeah, mead, isn't that what Beowulf drank?"
ref: 2008, Patricia Monaghan, Wineries of Wisconsin and Minnesota, Minnesota Historical Society Press, →ISBN, page 177:
glosses: A place where mead is made.
meaderies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meadery
tarte flambée
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tartes flambées
Etymology: Borrowed from French tarte flambée.
Senses: glosses: A baked dish consisting of a thin, crispy bread base covered with crème fraîche, usually topped with onion and bacon.
Synonyms: flammkuchen
ychosen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ichosen
Etymology: From Middle English ichosen, ȝechosen, for earlier ȝecoren (“chosen”), from Old English ġecoren (“chosen”), past participle of ċēosan (“to choose”), equivalent to y- + chosen. More at choose.
Senses: examples: text: Ye cannot lay one finger upon us to our despite," replied the former, "if my Master permit not; for the race is neither to the swift nor the battle to the strong; for God hath ychosen ye foolish things of this world to confound ye wise; [...]
ref: 1830, The British magazine:
glosses: Archaic or obsolete form of chosen.
flammkuchen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Flammkuchen
Etymology: Borrowed from German Flammkuchen.
Senses: examples: text: They begin with flammkuchen or smoked salmon and continue with a cream soup (turnip-and-shrimp, say) or a Caesar salad.
ref: 2009, Ann Hardy, Where To Eat In Canada 09-10, page 218:
glosses: tarte flambée, especially when served in a German setting.
Flammkuchen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of flammkuchen.
chikara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chikaras
form: chinkara
Etymology: From Hindi चिकारा (cikārā).
Senses: glosses: An Indian antelope (Gazella bennettii).
synonyms: chousingha
glosses: The Indian four-horned antelope (Tetracerus quadricornis).
glosses: A Hindu musical instrument of the violin class.
Related terms: chikara gami
chikara mizu
chikaras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chikara
ponghee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pɒŋˈɡiː/
Forms: form: ponghees
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of phongyi.
ponghees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ponghee
Premonstrant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Premonstrants
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Premonstratensian.
Premonstrants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Premonstrant
schediasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schediasms
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek σχεδίασμα (skhedíasma, “freak, whim, caprice”).
Senses: glosses: cursory writing on a loose sheet
schediasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schediasm
steinkirks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steinkirk
swanmark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swanmarks
Etymology: From swan + mark.
Senses: examples: text: None may have a Swanmark, unless it be by Grant of the King
ref: 1718, The Game Law:
glosses: A mark of ownership cut on the bill of a swan.
swanmarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swanmark
ycomen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: icomen
Etymology: From Middle English ycomen, icumen, ȝecumen, from Old English ġecumen, past participle of cuman (“to come”), equivalent to y- + comen. More at come.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of comen.
rageholic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rageholics
form: rageaholic
Etymology: From rage + -holic.
Senses: examples: text: One day he turned into the rageholic and we couldn't get him calm.
ref: 2001, Betty Rushford, Mercy Triumphs: Inspiration for Those Infected or Affected by AIDS, Xulon Press, →ISBN, page 34:
glosses: A person with a highly volatile temper.
rageholics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rageholic
rageaholic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rageaholics
form: rageholic
Etymology: From rage + -aholic.
Senses: glosses: A person who feeds on expressing rage and aggression.
examples: text: "He was abrasive, abusive, probably a rageaholic. Popular? No, I'd have to say not."
ref: 1992, Steven Womack, Dead Folks' Blues, Ballantine Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A person with a highly volatile temper.
rageaholics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rageaholic
ferry-boat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferry-boats
Senses: examples: text: Three miles below town the ferry-boat stopped at the mouth of a woody hollow and tied up.
ref: 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXIX, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 219:
glosses: Alternative form of ferryboat.
ferry boat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferry boats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ferryboat.
ferry-boats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ferry-boat
ferry boats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ferry boat
morphoclimatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more morphoclimatic
form: most morphoclimatic
Etymology: From morpho- + climatic.
Senses: examples: text: Lakes of morphoclimatic inheritance (Chapter IV) often are of medium size and some thousands of years old.
ref: 2000, Laurent Touchart, Les lacs : origine et morphologie, →ISBN, page 8:
glosses: Relating to relief-dependent climates.
dark red
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Related terms: english: light red
translation: light red
word: pink
spring to life
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: springs to life
form: springing to life
form: sprang to life
form: sprung to life
form: sprung to life
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes the ideas spring to life fully formed.
text: Just after the half-hour mark, the contest sprung to life with a frantic passage of play, Lampard's first-time ball releasing Drogba, whose slight hesitation allowed Gael Givet to produce a brilliant saving tackle.
ref: 2011 January 15, Sam Sheringham, “Chelsea 4 - 3 Blackburn Rovers”, in BBC:
glosses: To start to exist.
bowssen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈbaʊsən/
Forms: form: bowssens
form: bowssening
form: bowssened
form: bowssened
Etymology: Ultimately borrowed from Cornish beudhi or Breton beuziñ (“to drown”).
Senses: examples: text: There were many bowssening places, for curing of mad men.
ref: 1609, Richard Carew, “The Second Booke”, in The Survey of Cornwall, London: […] S[imon] S[tafford] for Iohn Iaggard, […], →OCLC, folio 123, recto:
glosses: To dunk or immerse (into water, for remedial purposes).
bowssened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bowssen
bowssening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bowssen
bowssens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bowssen
philosophation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: philosophations
Senses: examples: text: there need no other or further philosophation concerning the same
ref: 1655, Samuel Hartlib, His Legacy of Husbandry:
text: I hope it will offend no Man if we send them quite packing from our Philosophations touching an Incorporeal Being or Spirit
ref: 1681, Joseph Glanvill, Saducismus Triumphatus:
glosses: philosophical speculation and discussion
philosophations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of philosophation
sacchulmin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An amorphous humin-like substance resembling sacculmic acid, and produced together with it.
coalite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkəʊ.əˈlaɪt/
Forms: form: coalites
form: coaliting
form: coalited
form: coalited
Etymology: Back-formation from coalition, from Latin coalitus, past participle of coalēscō (see coalesce).
Senses: examples: 1792, Edmund Burke, a letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe on the subject of the Roman Catholics of Ireland
Time has by degrees blended […] and coalited the conquered with the conquerors.
glosses: To cause to unite or coalesce.
examples: text: Let them continue to coalite.
ref: 1733, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, "A Dissertation on Parties:
glosses: To unite or coalesce.
topics: government
politics
glosses: To form a political coalition.
coalite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkəʊ.əˈlaɪt/
ipa: /ˈkəʊlaɪt/
ipa: /ˌkəʊ.əˈlaɪt/
Forms: form: coalites
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard form of Coalite.
coalited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coalite
coalites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coalite
coaliting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coalite
conchite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conchites
Etymology: From conch + -ite.
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A fossilised conch or shell.
conchites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conchite
footlog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: footlogs
Etymology: From foot + log.
Senses: examples: text: The Yankees had burned the bridge but she knew of a footlog bridge across a narrow point of the stream a hundred yards below.
ref: 1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC, part IV, page 426:
text: Pass a trail registration station, crossing a swamp on a footlog at 0.2 miles. ... Cross a small branch at 0.9 miles on a footlog.
ref: 2002, Johnny Molloy, Long Trails of the Southeast (Hiking), Menasha Ridge Press, →ISBN, page 138:
glosses: A log used as a footbridge.
gallygaskins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of galligaskins.
subtilization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subtilizations
Etymology: Compare French subtilization.
Senses: glosses: The act of making subtle.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The operation of making so volatile as to rise in steam or vapour.
glosses: refinement; subtlety; extreme attenuation
subtilizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subtilization
turbinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more turbinoid
form: most turbinoid
Etymology: See turbo and -oid.
Senses: synonyms: turbinid
glosses: Belonging or relating to Turbo or the family Turbinidae.
glosses: Shaped like a top; turbiniform.
turbinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turbinoids
Etymology: See turbo and -oid.
Senses: synonyms: turbinid
turban shell
glosses: A member of Turbo or the family Turbinidae.
scaphocerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scaphocerites
Etymology: From scapho- + Ancient Greek κέρας (kéras, “horn”) + -ite.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A flattened plate or scale attached to the second joint of the antennae of many crustaceans, typically used for locomotion, but which sometimes has a sensory function.
scaphocerites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scaphocerite
cereous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪəɹiəs/
homophone: serious
Forms: form: more cereous
form: most cereous
Etymology: From Latin cēreus, from cēra (“wax”).
Senses: examples: text: at night he [the bee] stores up his dayes gatherings, and what is worth his observation, goes into his cereous Tables, and what is not, pasles away at supper for Table-talke
ref: 1654, Edmund Gayton, Pleasant notes upon Don Quixot:
glosses: waxen; waxy; like wax
theolog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theologs
form: theologue
Etymology: From Ancient Greek θεόλογος (theólogos, “one who discourses of the gods”). By surface analysis, theo- + -log.
Senses: glosses: A student of theology.
examples: text: I introduced the theolog to them, explained that I was going to have the theolog demonstrate various hypnotic phenomena for them ...
ref: 2000, Milton H. Erickson, edited by Jeffrey K. Zeig and Brent B. Geary, The Letters of Milton H. Erickson, Zeig Tucker & Theisen Publishers, →ISBN, page 24:
glosses: A theologian.
dining-rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dining-room
IIHF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈdʌb.əɫˌaɪˌeɪtʃˌɛf/
/aɪˌaɪˌeɪtʃˌɛf/
Senses: topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: Initialism of International Ice Hockey Federation.
three-quarter sibling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: three-quarter siblings
form: 3/4 sibling
Senses: glosses: A sibling with whom one shares about 37.5% of one's genes, as opposed to 25% for half-siblings and 50% for full siblings.
The offspring of a horse's sire/dam that is by/out of a sibling of its other parent.
qualifier: horse breeding
glosses: A sibling with whom one shares about 37.5% of one's genes, as opposed to 25% for half-siblings and 50% for full siblings.
The offspring of a horse's dam and a son of its sire.
qualifier: horse breeding
glosses: A sibling with whom one shares about 37.5% of one's genes, as opposed to 25% for half-siblings and 50% for full siblings.
The offspring of a horse's sire and a daughter of its dam.
qualifier: horse breeding
Hyponyms: three-quarter brother
three-quarter sister
three-quarter siblings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of three-quarter sibling
3/4 sibling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 3/4 siblings
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of three-quarter sibling.
3/4 siblings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 3/4 sibling
arrowsmith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arrowsmiths
Etymology: From arrow + smith.
Senses: glosses: A smith who made the iron tips for arrows
antisexualist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antisexualists
Etymology: From antisexual + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who is antisexual.
Synonyms: sense: person who is antisexual
word: celibacist
sense: person who is antisexual
word: erotophobe
sense: person who is antisexual
word: genophobe
Derived terms: antisexuality
celibacist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: celibacists
Etymology: From celibacy + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who promotes or advocates celibacy and abstinence
Derived terms: celibacy
Related terms: antisexualist
prude
puritan
erotophobe
genophobe
genophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From geno- + -phobia.
Senses: synonyms: antisexuality
erotophobia
coitophobia
glosses: The physical or psychological fear of sexual relations or sexual intercourse.
Related terms: erotophobia
three-quarter brother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: three-quarter brothers
form: 3/4 brother
Senses: qualifier: horse breeding
glosses: The male offspring of a horse's sire/dam that is by/out of a sibling of its other parent.
qualifier: horse breeding
glosses: The male offspring of a horse's dam and a son of its sire.
qualifier: horse breeding
glosses: The male offspring of a horse's sire and a daughter of its dam.
Hypernyms: three-quarter sibling
three-quarter brothers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of three-quarter brother
3/4 brother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 3/4 brothers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of three-quarter brother.
3/4 brothers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 3/4 brother
not as black as one is painted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: not as bad as one is said to be
packed to the rafters
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: rammed to the rafters
Senses: examples: text: The second reason his disliking of objects seems implausible is that I'm interviewing him in his Victorian terrace house in Islington – and it is packed to the rafters, often rather beautifully, with everything from Memphis glass to mid-century Aalto furniture to William Morris prints to Picasso plates...
ref: 2012 April 8, Holly Williams, “Mix and max: Designer Max Clendinning has had a radical change of heart when it comes to minimalism”, in The Independent:
synonyms: packed to the gills
;
see also Thesaurus:empty § Antonyms
antonyms: word: empty
word: cramful
word: cramfull
word: freighted
word: fraught
word: full
word: jammed
word: jam-packed
word: jam rammed
word: laden
word: loaded
word: non-empty
word: packed
word: packed to the gills
word: packed to the rafters
word: rammed
word: rammed to the rafters
word: stuffed
word: stuffed to the gills
glosses: Completely full (of things, of stuff); packed; stuffed.
three-quarter sister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: three-quarter sisters
form: 3/4 sister
Senses: qualifier: horse breeding
glosses: The female offspring of a horse's sire/dam that is by/out of a sibling of its other parent.
qualifier: horse breeding
glosses: The female offspring of a horse's dam and a son of its sire.
qualifier: horse breeding
glosses: The female offspring of a horse's sire and a daughter of its dam.
Hypernyms: three-quarter sibling
three-quarter sisters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of three-quarter sister
3/4 sister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 3/4 sisters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of three-quarter sister.
3/4 sisters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 3/4 sister
blood knot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blood knots
Senses: glosses: A type of bend knot used to join nylon lines and cords, for its ability to maintain line strength and its non-slip quality. Also known as the barrel knot.
blood knots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blood knot