cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
latitancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From latitant + -cy.
Senses: examples: text: Her latitiancy must commence at some time, when the serpent poured such a flood out of his mouth, such vehemence of false doctrines, as to cause the true doctrines in much to submit thereto, and abscond; which is the woman's fleeing into the wilderness.
ref: 1786, Joseph Wise, “An Exposition of the Apocalypse”, in The Town and Country Magazine:
text: Latitancy, or the lying in wait of the ovum and spermatozoa for each other , has an important bearing on the question .
ref: 1885, Robert Barnes, Fancourt Barnes, A System of Obstetric Medicine and Surgery:, page 237:
glosses: The act or state of lying hidden, or lurking.
examples: text: It cannot be denied it [the chameleon] is (if not the moſt of any) a very abſtemious animall, and ſuch as by reaſon of its frigidity, paucity of bloud, and latitancy in the winter (about which time the obſervations are often made) will long ſubſist without a viſible ſuſtentation.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, “Of the Cameleon”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 133:
text: but being still unwilling to withhold their contents any longer from others also, either whose interest or curiosity be conceives might chance to be anyways excited by their disclosure, from their present dormant state of latitancy, to public view.
ref: 1813 June, Thomas Abraham Salmon, “Letter”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 83, page 537:
glosses: Dormancy.
examples: text: Supposing the fact of latency established, and the fact of latitancy justly inferred from it; still, under existing institutions, there exists a counter-probability by which its probative force in the character of a criminative circumstance is weakened.
ref: 1843, Jeremy Bentham, The Works - Volume 7, page 53:
text: The allegation of a cuase for a writ of pone is a mere matter of form; as much so as the allegation of latitancy upon mesne process, or the affection of John Doe for the tenant in possession.
ref: 1873, John Cole Lowber, Thomas Sergeant, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts, page 451:
topics: law
glosses: The act of withholding information in order to avoid justiciability.
Rhetian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Rhaetian.
trampoose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹæmˈpuːz/
Forms: form: trampooses
form: trampoosing
form: trampoosed
form: trampoosed
form: trampouse
Etymology: See tramp, trample, and traipse.
Senses: examples: text: "you don't think I'd trampoose about from poll to poll, for nothin, do you?"
ref: 1837, Asa Greene, A Glance at New York:
glosses: To walk laboriously or heavily.
trampoosed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trampoose
trampooses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of trampoose
trampoosing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trampoose
coccygei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coccygeus
seintuaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seintuary
seintuary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seintuaries
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of sanctuary.
dactyliography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdæktɪlɪˈɒɡɹəfi/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “finger”) + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: The art of gem engraving.
dies juridici
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dies juridicus
dies juridicus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dies juridici
Etymology: Latin [Term?]
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A court day, i.e. a day when a legal court is functioning.
triclinate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: triclinic
balanoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more balanoid
form: most balanoid
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βάλανος (bálanos, “acorn”) + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Resembling an acorn; applied to the acorn barnacles
Memphian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Memphian
form: most Memphian
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Μέμφῐς (Mémphĭs) + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Memphian darkness
text: Now may we ſee Damaſcus lofty towers,
Like to the ſhadowes of Pyramides,
That with their beauties grac’d the Memphion fields: […]
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act IIII, scene ii:
text: Nor is Oſiris ſeen
In Memphian Grove, or Green,
Trampling the unſhowr’d Graſſe with lowings loud: […]
ref: 1629, John Milton, “On the Morning of Christs Nativity”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC, stanza XXIV, page 11:
synonyms: Memphite
Memphitic
glosses: Of or relating to the ancient city of Memphis in Egypt.
synonyms: Memphibian
glosses: Of or relating to the city of Memphis in the US, or another city named Memphis.
Memphian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Memphians
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Μέμφῐς (Mémphĭs) + -an.
Senses: examples: text: One, in few howers, a fearfull ſlaughter made / Of all the Firſt-born that the Memphians had; […]
ref: 1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, “[Du Bartas His First Week, or Birth of the World: […].] The First Daie of the First Week.”, in Josuah Sylvester, transl., Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC, page 21:
text: Tranced in her Lord’s Olympian smile / His lotus-loving Memphian lies,— / The musky daughter of the Nile / With plaited hair and almond eyes.
ref: 1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes [Sr.], chapter VII, in The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson and Company, poem “The Last Blossom”, page 187:
text: A few moments later we were standing before the Sphinx. In front of this gigantic statue the sand has been excavated, and the paws, brick-built, have been laid bare. Here an altar once stood, and hither we clambered down, and looked up sixty feet at the gigantic scarred face. What name had they of yore for this divinity, those ancient Memphians?
ref: 1892, Clinton Scollard, “Round about Cairo”, in Under Summer Skies, New York, N.Y.: Charles L[uther] Webster & Company, pages 61–62:
synonyms: Memphite
glosses: A native or inhabitant of the ancient city of Memphis in Egypt.
examples: text: A soft summer downpour greeted the crowd arriving for Memphis Night, with 100 Memphians on hand to holler for their girls, the first of whom was Ruth Welting in the same kind of innocent cotton dress a girl might wear to a dancer at home.
ref: 1977 August 8, Henry Mitchell, “The Night Of the Memphis Sopranos”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Nov 2024:
text: As Memphians' hearts broke, millions of Americans watched on television when Bill Walton sprained his ankle […] Larry Finch thanked his fellow Memphians “for making us proud to know that we had more people pulling for us[…]"
ref: 2014 March 18, G. Wayne Dowdy, On This Day in Memphis History, Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN, page 26:
text: Further, this socialization implores black Memphians to strive to challenge the increasingly complex structural inequalities of race and class in the post–civil rights era.
ref: 2014 April 15, Zandria F[elice] Robinson, “Post-Soul Blues”, in This Ain’t Chicago: Race, Class, and Regional Identity in the Post-Soul South, Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 78:
synonyms: Memphibian
glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Memphis in the US, or another city named Memphis.
aumeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aumery
aumery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aumeries
Senses: examples: text: They refused us a han'fu' in our greatest need, but now it wull be our turn to ha' fou sacks and baith cakes and kebbucks at command, while their aumery is bare
glosses: An ambry or closet.
petalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛtəlɪz(ə)m/
Forms: form: petalisms
Etymology: From Middle French petalisme, and its source, Hellenistic Ancient Greek πεταλισμός (petalismós), from πέταλον (pétalon, “leaf”) (because the ballot for banishment was written on olive leaves). By surface analysis, petal + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Witnesse the Ostracisme amongst the Athenians, and the Petalisme among the Siracusans.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 32, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: They've identified a reference to the ancient Syracusian practice of banishment known as petalism, and what may or may not be a reference to efilism, a branch of the antinatalist philosophical position advanced by Schopenhauer, but what any of that has to do with the lyrics' subsequent allusions to Moby-Dick seems pretty open to question.
ref: 2014 July 24, Alexis Petridis, “Shabazz Palaces: Lese Majesty review – spectacular, way-out hip-hop”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 25 Jul 2014:
glosses: A form of ostracism among the ancient Syracusans by which they temporarily banished a citizen suspected of having dangerous influence or ambition.
petalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petalism
pargeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pargeters
Etymology: From parget + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Can not a Pargeter make a browne wal white?
ref: 1568, Thomas Harding, A Detection of Sundrie Foule Errours, Lies, Sclaunders […] :
glosses: A plasterer.
pargeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pargeter
saxifragaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From translingual Saxifragaceae + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Saxifragaceous plants include the hydrangea and the gooseberry.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to an order of plants (Saxifragaceae) of which saxifrage is the type.
Related terms: saxifrage
prostitutional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From prostitution + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Now, you know that the classical analytical explanation of agoraphobia of the early 1900s was that it represented a street phobia because the patient equated streetwalking with prostitutional activity[…]
ref: 1981, Donald F. Klein, Judith G. Rabkin, Anxiety: new research and changing concepts:
text: There is nothing inherent in the physical union of the sexes to make one prostitutional and the other legitimate or respectable.
ref: 1930, Ben Zion Goldberg, The Sacred Fire: The Story of Sex in Religion, page 59:
glosses: Of or relating to prostitution.
prostrately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more prostrately
form: most prostrately
Etymology: From prostrate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a prostrate manner or position.
avowant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: avowants
Senses: examples: text: the demandant Plaintiff, or avowant, this is peremptory by the same Statute
ref: 1578, Sir Robert Brooke, New Cases in the Time of Henry VIII:
topics: law
glosses: The defendant in replevin, who avows the distress of the goods, and justifies the taking.
avowants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of avowant
torvity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From torv(ous) + -ity, from Latin torvitas. See torvous.
Senses: glosses: sourness, grimness or severity of appearance; sternness
tartareous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɑːˈtɛəɹi.əs/
ipa: /tɑɹˈtɛɹi.əs/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.əs
Forms: form: more tartareous
form: most tartareous
Etymology: Compare tartarous.
Senses: glosses: Consisting of tartar; of the nature of tartar.
examples: text: Many lichens are tartareous.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a rough, crumbly surface.
embattail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: embattails
form: embattailing
form: embattailed
form: embattailed
Senses: examples: text: The glorious standard last to heav'n they spread, / With Peter's keys ennobled, and his crown, // With it seven thousand stout Camillo had, / Embattailed in walls of iron brown.
ref: 1600, Edward Fairfax (translator), Jerusalem Delivered, Tasso, Book I, lxiv
text: Thou art no Sabbath drawler of old saws, / Distill'd from some worm-canker'd homily; / But spurr'd at heart with fieriest energy / To embattail and to wall about thy cause / With iron-worded proof, […]
ref: 1830, Alfred Tennyson, “To J. M. K.”, in The Complete Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson, Chicago, Ill.: The Dominion Company, published 1897, →OCLC, page 32:
glosses: To embattle (furnish with, or as if with, battlements)
embattailed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of embattail
embattailing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of embattail
embattails
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of embattail
orphanotrophies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orphanotrophy
orphanotrophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orphanotrophies
Etymology: From Latin orphanō̆trophīa (cf. orphanō̆trophīum, from Ancient Greek ὀρφανοτροφεῖον (orphanotropheîon)), from Ancient Greek ὀρφᾰνός (orphănós, “orphan”) + τροφή (trophḗ, “nourishment, food; nurture, rearing, upbringing”). By surface analysis, orphan + -o- + -trophy.
Senses: examples: text: A Memorial concerning the erecting, in the City of London, or the Suburbs thereof, an Orphanotrophy, or Hospital for the Reception of Poor cast-off Children
ref: 1797, Sir Frederick Morton Eden, The State of the Poor: Or, An History of the Labouring Classes in England:
glosses: A hospital for orphans.
synonyms: orphanotrophism
glosses: The act of supporting orphans.
Related terms: orphanotrophism
orphanotrophium
gynodioecious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gyno- + dioecious.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: dioecious, but having some hermaphrodite or perfect flowers on an individual plant which bears mostly pistillate flowers
Related terms: gynodioecy
gratifiedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gratifiedly
form: most gratifiedly
Etymology: From gratified + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With gratification.
inodorate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inodorate
form: most inodorate
Etymology: From in- + odorate.
Senses: examples: text: Whites are more inodorate than flowers of the same kind coloured.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, 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: scentless; without an odour
inframedian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From infra- + median.
Senses: examples: text: The inframedian zone ranges from fifty fathoms to a hundred.
ref: 1853, The Annual of Scientific Discovery, page 342:
text: Thus, in the British seas naturalists speak of a littoral, laminarian, coralline, and coral zone; an in the ocean genrally, of a littoral, circum-littoral, median, inframedian, and abyssal or deep-sea zone.
ref: 1863, David Page ·, Introductory Text-book of Physical Geography, page 168:
glosses: Of or relating to the interval or zone along the sea bottom, at the depth of between fifty and one hundred fathoms.
examples: text: Thus the upper, inframedian and carinal laterals have three layers, but the rostrum and rostro-laterals, which appear at a later stage, have only two.
ref: 1930, C. C. A. Monro, Polychaete Worms, page 231:
text: Gl. oculatum is easily distinguished from these by the fact that it bears no spines and by the median rather than inframedian girdle.
ref: 1950, Theodor Karl Just, Lloydia - Volume 13, page 295:
text: From the ventral apices of the two lateral cartilages, the two inframedian radular tensors run upwards and slightly forwards.
ref: 1964, Emile S. Demian, The Anatomy of the Alimentary System of Marisa Cornuarietis (L.), page 39:
text: Oogonium with projections or lateral pleating of the wall (flange ) ; circumcision supramedian , median , submedian or distinctly inframedian, sometimes resembling a hinged pore.
ref: 2006, P. M. McCarthy, Lyn Jessup, Algae of Australia - Volume 3, page 51:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Below the middle.
ampelite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ampelites
Etymology: From Latin ampelitis, from Ancient Greek ἀμπελῖτις (ampelîtis, “of or for vines”), from ἄμπελος (ámpelos, “vine”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An earth abounding in pyrites, used by the Ancients Greeks as a pesticide on vines.
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A carbonaceous alum schist.
Derived terms: ampelitic
ampelites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ampelite
anastaltic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anastaltic
form: most anastaltic
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀνάσταλτικός (anástaltikós, “fitted for checking or halting”), from ἀνά (aná, “back”) + στέλλειν (stéllein, “send”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: styptic
anastaltic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anastaltics
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀνάσταλτικός (anástaltikós, “fitted for checking or halting”), from ἀνά (aná, “back”) + στέλλειν (stéllein, “send”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: styptic
cottoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cottoid
form: most cottoid
Etymology: From Cottus + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to fish of the genus Cottus.
cottoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cottoids
Etymology: From Cottus + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A fish belonging to the genus Cottus.
cottoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cottoid
inoperation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inoperations
Etymology: From Latin inoperari (“to effect”), from in- (“in”) + operari (“to operate”).
Senses: examples: text: As no man can come to me but by the grace and lively inoperation of my Father, so none can attain to the perfect knowledge of the Father
ref: 1633, Joseph Hall, A paraphrase upon the hard texts of Scripture:
glosses: agency; influence; production of effects
inoperations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inoperation
spermogonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spermogonium
spermogonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spermogonia
form: spermagone
form: spermagonium
form: spermogone
Etymology: From spermo- + -gonium.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
lichenology
natural-sciences
glosses: A conceptacle of certain lichens, containing spermatia.
bon-accord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French
Senses: glosses: goodwill; harmony
countersecure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: countersecures
form: countersecuring
form: countersecured
form: countersecured
Etymology: From counter- + secure.
Senses: examples: February 28 1785, Edmund Burke, speech in the House of Commons on the Nabob of Arcot's Debts
When a soucar, that is a money dealer, becomes security for any native prince, the course is for the native prince to countersecure the money dealer, by making over to him in mortgage a portion of his territory
glosses: To give additional security to or for.
countersecured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of countersecure
countersecures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of countersecure
countersecuring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of countersecure
slugworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slugworms
Etymology: From slug + worm.
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of caterpillars which have the general appearance of a slug.
Derived terms: Caliroa slugworm
pear slugworm
rose slugworm
young oak slugworm
slugworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slugworm
stingfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stingfishes
form: stingfish
Etymology: From sting + fish.
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of scorpionfish
Derived terms: dusky stingfish
grey stingfish
joyner stingfish
marbled stingfish
one-stick stingfish
orangeband stingfish
two-stick stingfish
yellowbarred stingfish
stingfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stingfish
commercialisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more commercialisable
form: most commercialisable
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of commercializable.
rhombogene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhombogenes
form: rhombogen
Etymology: From rhomb + -gene.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A dicyemid that produces infusoria-like embryos.
rhombogenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhombogene
lecanorin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Lecanora + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: lecanoric acid
spurnwater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spurnwaters
Etymology: From spurn + water.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A channel at the end of a deck to restrain the water.
spurnwaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spurnwater
theobroma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theobromas
Etymology: From the genus name Theobroma. Compare French théobrome.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Theobroma of small trees found in Central and South America.
theobromas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of theobroma
renning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛnɪŋ/
Senses: examples: text: Asses' milk is holden for to be thickest, and therfore they use it in stead of renning, to turn milke and gather curds thereof
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
glosses: rennet
mimetism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mimetisms
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μίμησις (mímēsis, “imitation”) + -ism.
Senses: glosses: mimicry
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: mimicry
mimetisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mimetism
submammary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + mammary.
Senses: examples: submammary inflammation
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated under the mammae.
hemachate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemachates
Etymology: Latin haemachates; Ancient Greek [Term?] blood + agate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: blood agate
glosses: A variety of agate, sprinkled with spots of red jasper.
hemachates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemachate
excoction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: excoctions
Etymology: Latin excoctio.
Senses: examples: text: For in the excoctions and depurations of Metalls it is a familiar error that to advance excoction , they augment the heate of the Fornace , or the Quantity of the Iniection
ref: 1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC:
text: This much is in agreement with what many earlier mechanists had recognized, but Leigniz adds a further principle from the chemical tradition, arguing that it is not just a hydraulico-pneumatical machine, but also a 'pyrotechnical' machine, to the extent that its first motion is generated out of the production of heat in the excoction of chyle from the aliment it takes in.
ref: 2011, Brandon Look, The Continuum Companion to Leibniz:
glosses: The act of excocting or boiling out.
excoctions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of excoction
excocted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of excoct
excocting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of excoct
myricin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare French myricine. Probably so called from a fancied resemblance to the wax of the bayberry (Myrica).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A silky, crystalline, waxy substance, forming the less soluble part of beeswax, and regarded as a palmitate of a higher alcohol of the paraffin series; myricyl alcohol.
albugineous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See albugo and albuginea.
Senses: examples: text: albugineous fibre
text: albugineous membrane
text: albugineous tunic of the epididymis
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: albuminous
glosses: Resembling the white of the eye, or of an egg. It is applied to various white or whitish things in the body.
Derived terms: word: albugineous humor
alt: tunica albuginea
word: albugineous tunic
putanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French putanisme, from putain (“harlot”).
Senses: glosses: prostitution; harlotry.
subendymal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + endymal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: subependymal (situated under the ependyma).
staggerwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stagger + wort.
Senses: glosses: Jacobaea vulgaris (syn. Senecio jacobaea), a kind of ragwort.
endymal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endyma + -al
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: ependymal.
Derived terms: subendymal
alexipyretic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌlɛksɪpaɪˈɹɛtɪk/
ipa: /-pɪ-/
ipa: [-ɾɪk]
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Forms: form: alexipyretics
Etymology: PIE word
 *péh₂wr̥
The noun is a learned borrowing from Late Latin alexipyreticum, alexipyreticon + English -ic (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Alexipyreticum and alexipyreticon are derived from Ancient Greek ἀλέξειν (aléxein) (the active infinitive of ἀλέξω (aléxō, “to defend, guard, protect; to help; to keep off, turn aside, ward off”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂lek- (“to protect”)) + πυρετός (puretós, “fever; heat”) (from πῦρ (pûr, “fever; fire”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥ (“fire”)) + Latin -icum (suffix meaning ‘connected with; of or pertaining to’), -icon.
The adjective is derived from the noun.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
synonyms: antifebrile
antipyretic
febrifuge
glosses: A medicine which reduces fever.
Coordinate terms: alexipharmic
alexiteric
Related terms: pyretic
alexipyretic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌlɛksɪpaɪˈɹɛtɪk/
ipa: /-pɪ-/
ipa: [-ɾɪk]
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Forms: form: more alexipyretic
form: most alexipyretic
Etymology: PIE word
 *péh₂wr̥
The noun is a learned borrowing from Late Latin alexipyreticum, alexipyreticon + English -ic (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Alexipyreticum and alexipyreticon are derived from Ancient Greek ἀλέξειν (aléxein) (the active infinitive of ἀλέξω (aléxō, “to defend, guard, protect; to help; to keep off, turn aside, ward off”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂lek- (“to protect”)) + πυρετός (puretós, “fever; heat”) (from πῦρ (pûr, “fever; fire”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥ (“fire”)) + Latin -icum (suffix meaning ‘connected with; of or pertaining to’), -icon.
The adjective is derived from the noun.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
synonyms: antifebrile
antifever
antipyretic
febrifugal
glosses: Having the effect of reducing fever.
Coordinate terms: alexipharmic
alexiteric
lucernarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lucernarian
form: most lucernarian
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or relating to the former subclass Lucernarida, roughly equivalent to order Stauromedusae.
lucernarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lucernarians
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the former subclass Lucernarida of cnidarians.
lucernarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lucernarian
swinglebar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swinglebars
Etymology: From swingle + bar.
Senses: examples: text: Either with the swinglebar, or with the haunch of our near leader, we had struck the off-wheel of the little gig; which stood rather obliquely, and not quite so far advanced as to be accurately parallel with the near wheel.
ref: 1849, Thomas De Quincey, “The English Mail-coach, or the Glory of Motion”, in Blackwood's Magazine:
glosses: A whippletree.
swinglebars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swinglebar
discal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From disc + -al.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to, or resembling, a disc (disk).
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to the central area of an insect's elytron or wing.
Synonyms: sense: resembling a disc
word: discoid
Derived terms: interdiscal
intradiscal
postdiscal
retrodiscal
subdiscal
Related terms: disco-
discus
disko-
discal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discals
Etymology: From disc + -al.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The central area of an insect's elytron or wing.
compotier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compotiers
Etymology: French
Senses: glosses: A dish for holding fruit or compotes.
compromission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compromissions
Senses: examples: text: […] the result of a compromission between the conflicts of the various opposing interests, carriers, shippers, and investors.
ref: 1958, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Hearings, page 1640:
glosses: A compromise.
compulses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of compulse
concassé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concassés
form: concasse
Etymology: From French concassé (“diced; ground; reduced to small(er) pieces”).
Senses: examples: text: Spoon the concassé over the arugula, leaving a bit of green showing around the edge. Set aside.
ref: 1999, The Gardeners' Community Cookbook, Workman Publishing, →ISBN, page 74:
text: This is a great make - ahead dessert because both the crème caramel and the concassé (a coarsely chopped mixture) need to chill for at least four hours. Basil adds an interesting, fresh flavor to the concassé.
ref: 2006, Anne C. Chappell, The All-New Complete Cooking Light Cookboook: The Ultimate Guide from America's #1 Food Magazine, page 168:
text: […] Leave the oven on. Meanwhile, make the concassé. Put the tomatoes, garlic, bouquet garni, salt, and pepper in a saucepan. Cover and cook […]
ref: 2007, Anne Willan, The Country Cooking of France, Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 260:
text: This is another showstopper, a real “come-over-to-my-place” breakfast or brunch, which means you can follow your fast without anyone else knowing about it. Make plenty of the concassé—you can double or even triple the recipe—and use it […]
ref: 2013, Mimi Spencer, Sarah Schenker, Michael Mosley, The FastDiet Cookbook: 150 Delicious, Calorie-Controlled Meals to Make Your Fasting Days Easy, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 35:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Food (fish, fruit, vegetables, etc) that has been coarsely chopped or cut into large pieces.
concassé
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: concassés
form: concassing
form: concasséd
form: concasséd
form: concasse
Etymology: From French concassé (“diced; ground; reduced to small(er) pieces”).
Senses: examples: text: Blanch, refresh, peel and concassé the tomatoes. Blanch the peas in boiling salted water and refresh quickly in iced water. […]
ref: 2007, Gary Hunter, Terry Tinton, Patrick Carey, Stephen Walpole, Professional Chef - Level 2 - S/NVQ, Cengage Learning EMEA, →ISBN:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: To roughly chop or cut (a tomato) into pieces after removing its seeds/core and skin.
concasse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concasses
Senses: examples: text: […] with truffled Madeira sauce, haricots verts and fresh tomato concasses, and chocolate raspberry shortcake. The a la carte menu offered the rest of the week features light and informal foods. Guests eat on the garden terrace […]
ref: 1994, Christina Tree, Best Places to Stay in New England, page 299:
text: Now the new executive chef, Tsvika (Vik) Silberberg, has swung far the other way with a menu full of trendy ingredients: fingerling potatoes, day-boat scallops, root vegetables, jasmine rice. There are reductions and concasses and infused oils.
ref: 2001 February, Cincinnati Magazine, page 132:
glosses: Alternative form of concassé.
concasse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: concasses
form: concassing
form: concassed
form: concassed
Senses: examples: text: Concasse the tomatoes, roughly chop the tarragon then remove the dish from the heat. Add the concasse and tarragon, adjust the seasoning and serve, garnished with chopped parsley in a warm entree dish.
ref: 2016, Dun Jipping, Army Chef's Handbook of Cookery, →ISBN, page 14:
glosses: Alternative form of concassé.
concasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concasse
concasses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of concasse
bowdlerizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bowdlerizers
Etymology: From bowdlerize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who bowdlerizes.
bowdlerizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bowdlerizer
principiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: principiations
Senses: examples: text: the separating of any metal into his original , or materia prima , or element , or call them what you will ; which work we will call principiation
ref: a. 1626, Francis Bacon, Questions Touching Minerals:
glosses: analysis into primary or elemental parts
principiations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of principiation
slighty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slighty
form: most slighty
Senses: examples: text: Let them shew where any thing is advised or commanded after this slothful and slighty way.
ref: 1671, John Eachard, Some Observations upon the Answer:
glosses: slight
stanchel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stanchels
Senses: glosses: A stanchion.
stanchels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stanchel
toluid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toluids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A complex double tolyl and toluidine derivative of glycocoll.
deforceor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deforceors
Etymology: Old French
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A deforciant.
deforceors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deforceor
compotiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compotier
prelateity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Neither shall I stand to trifle with one that would tell me of quiddities and formalities , whether prelaty or prelateity
ref: 1642 (indicated as 1641), John Milton, The Reason of Church-governement Urg’d against Prelaty […], London: […] E[dward] G[riffin] for Iohn Rothwell, […], →OCLC:
glosses: prelacy
roboration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin roboratio.
Senses: examples: text: This Roboration and fortifying of Nature is necessary , where there is a debility and decay
ref: 1666, Everard Maynwaringe, Nova medendi ratio:
glosses: The act of strengthening.
turnverein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtʊə(ɹ)nvəˌɹaɪn/
Forms: form: turnvereins
Etymology: From German turnen (“to exercise”) + Verein (“a union”).
Senses: glosses: A gymnastic or athletic club, originally those promoting German culture. They originated in the 19th century and spread from Germany to the USA, where a small number still exist, at least in name.
turnvereins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turnverein
boragineous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to the borage tribe; boraginaceous.
wincey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwɪnsi/
Forms: form: winceys
form: winsey
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots wincey, a clipping of linsey winsey, from Middle Scots linsiewinsie, assimilated variant of linsiwolsie (“linsey-woolsey”).
Senses: glosses: linsey-woolsey
Derived terms: winceyette
whipper-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whipper-ins
form: whippers-in
Etymology: From whipper + in.
Senses: examples: text: “[…] I shall take to hunting a pack of hounds myself after this.”
“Do, my dear, and I'll be your whipper-in. I wonder whether Mrs. Proudie would join us.”
ref: 1860 January – 1861 April, Anthony Trollope, chapter IV, in Framley Parsonage. […] (Collection of British Authors; 551), copyright edition, volume I, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, published April 1861, →OCLC:
text: The other servant was an old man, who had been whipper-in to a baronet in the next county, and knew as much of the ways of wild animals as Burton did of those of his horses; […]
ref: 1871, George MacDonald, chapter X, in The Vicar's Daughter:
text: Now the clerk […] saw the hunting man pass, and presently saw lots more of ’em, noblemen and gentry, and then he saw the hounds, the huntsman, Jim Treadhedge, the whipper-in, and I don’t know who besides.
ref: 1894, Thomas Hardy, “Andrey Satchel and the Parson and Clerk”, in Life’s Little Ironies […], London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: He heard the chaunting voices of huntsman and whippers-in; the noises of motor-cars moving slowly along the hard-rutted trackway, the old canal-bed, above the right bank of the river;
ref: 1927, Henry William Williamson, Tarka the Otter, Chapter 19:
topics: hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: A huntsman who keeps the hounds from wandering, and whips them in, if necessary, to the chase.
topics: government
politics
synonyms: whip
glosses: One who enforces the discipline of a party, and urges the attendance and support of the members on all necessary occasions.
whippers-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whipper-in
whipper-ins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whipper-in
practics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of practic
bullwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bull + wort.
Senses: examples: text: Bullwort is a difficult-to-control weed: in cereals, only sulfonylureas are effective.
ref: 2017, Michel Beckert, Yves Dessaux, Effects of Herbicide-Tolerant Crop Cultivation:
glosses: A plant, bishop's weed, Ammi majus.
handflower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handflowers
Etymology: From hand + flower. Chiranthodendron pentadactylon is so called because its flowers resemble five-fingered human hands.
Senses: glosses: A Mexican hand tree (Chiranthodendron pentadactylon).
raw_tags: in the phrase ‘handflower tree’
glosses: A wallflower (Erysimum cheiri, syns. Erysimum × cheiri, Cheiranthus cheiri).
examples: text: The only other piece I owned from the Aurita was a delicate handflower, with similar fine gold chains trailing from a ring on my middle finger and across the back of my hand to a bracelet of twisted gold.
ref: 2010, Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, The Shapeshifters: The Kiesha'ra of the Den of Shadows, page 86:
synonyms: slave bracelet#Noun
glosses: An item of jewellery consisting of a bracelet linked to a ring by chains, lace or other elements which cross the back of the hand.
semivoluntary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + voluntary.
Senses: glosses: Partly voluntary.
Aristotle's lantern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aristotle's lanterns
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The five united jaws and accessory ossicles of certain sea urchins.
Aristotle's lanterns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aristotle's lantern
microdont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microdonts
Etymology: From micro- + -odont.
Senses: glosses: A tooth that is smaller than usual.
microdont
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + -odont.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having short or small teeth.
microdonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microdont
photogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photogens
form: photogene
Etymology: From photo- + -gen.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A light hydrocarbon oil resembling kerosene, used as a lubricant, illuminant, etc.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A microorganism that produces phosphorescence.
photogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photogen
protoxidize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: protoxidizes
form: protoxidizing
form: protoxidized
form: protoxidized
Etymology: From protoxide + -ize.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To combine (an elementary substance) with oxygen, in such proportion as to form a protoxide.
protoxidized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of protoxidize
protoxidizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of protoxidize
protoxidizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of protoxidize
prothonotaryship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prothonotaryships
Etymology: From prothonotary + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The position or office of a prothonotary.
prothonotaryships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prothonotaryship
shoddyism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoddyisms
Etymology: From shoddy + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Shoddy quality or condition.
glosses: The condition of being a nouveau riche or social climber.
glosses: The practice of suppliers who profited from United States government contracts during the Civil War by supplying cheap, inferior goods.
Related terms: shoddyite
shoddyisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoddyism
handflowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handflower
cross-reading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-readings
Etymology: From cross- + reading.
Senses: glosses: The reading of the lines of a newspaper directly across the page, instead of down the columns, thus producing a ludicrous combination of ideas.
cross-readings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross-reading
flower sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flower stick
Senses: examples: text: As the flower sticks were not the best known of juggling items, this was fast becoming the thing which Len could make his own.
ref: 2010, Peter Cooper, April's Fools, page 68:
glosses: A set of two hand sticks and a third, softer, high-grip flower stick used for juggling.
Related terms: devil sticks
subsilicate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subsilicates
Etymology: From sub- + silicate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A basic silicate.
Hypernyms: silicate
Related terms: unisilicate
subsilicates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subsilicate
weighth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weighths
Etymology: By comparison with width, breadth, length. Compare heighth.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of weight.
rola bola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rola bolas
Senses: glosses: A balance board, usually in the context of circus or entertainment.
psilanthropy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The doctrine that Jesus Christ was merely human, i.e. not the son of God.
rola bolas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rola bola
conusor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conusors
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A cognizor.
Related terms: conusant
conusors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conusor
exiccate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: exiccates
form: exiccating
form: exiccated
form: exiccated
Senses: examples: text: Let her auoyde such thynges the which shold exiccat[…]her.
ref: 1540, Thomas Rayndale, The Byrth of Mankynde:
glosses: Obsolete form of exsiccate.
exiccated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of exiccate
exiccates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of exiccate
exiccating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of exiccate
preteritive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: a preteritive verb
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Used only or chiefly in the preterite or past tenses.
preteritive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preteritives
Senses: glosses: A preteritive verb
superalimentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From super- + alimentation.
Senses: examples: text: superalimentation of pigs
glosses: overfeeding
extuberate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: extuberates
form: extuberating
form: extuberated
form: extuberated
Etymology: From Latin extuberatus, present participle of extuberare (“to swell”), from ex (“out”) + tuber (“a swelling”).
Senses: examples: text: A Plaister for swollen, and extuberated Eyes
ref: 1665, Thomas Moulton, The Compleat Bone-setter:
glosses: To swell out.
extuberated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of extuberate
extuberates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of extuberate
extuberating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of extuberate
protogines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protogine
Attical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Attical
form: most Attical
Senses: examples: text: Now if this be not the common Atticalacception of it, yet it will seem agreeable to the penning of the New Testament
ref: a. 1660, Henry Hammond, a sermon:
glosses: Attic