cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unpatient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpatient
form: most unpatient
Etymology: From un- + patient.
Senses: examples: text: Forsothe he that is vnpacient, schal suffre harm; and whanne he hath rauyshid, he schal leie to anothir thing.
ref: c. 1382–1395, John Wycliffe [et al.], edited by Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden, The Holy Bible, […], volume III (in Middle English), Oxford: At the University Press, published 1850, →OCLC, Proverbs XIX:19, page 31, column 2:
english: Forsooth he that is unpatient, shall suffer harm; and when he hath ravished, he shall lay to another thing.
translation: Forsooth he that is unpatient, shall suffer harm; and when he hath ravished, he shall lay to another thing.
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text: Gond. That I hate truely, thou hadst better bin a devill.
Orian. Why my unpatient Lord?
Gond. Devils were once good, there they excell'd you wom[e]n.
ref: 1607, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, The Woman Hater:
text: The Lord is King, be the people never so unpatient: he sitteth between the cherubims, be the earth never so unquiet
ref: 1662, Thomas Cranmer [et al.], compilers, “Psalms”, in The Book of Common-Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, […], London: […] John Bill, and Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC, column 1:
glosses: impatient
geminiflorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin geminus (“twin”) + flos, floris (“flower”).
Senses: examples: text: geminiflorous helices
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the flowers arranged in pairs.
unmantle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unmantles
form: unmantling
form: unmantled
form: unmantled
Etymology: From un- + mantle.
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile the earl, for he was of no inferior rank, returned his lady's caress with the most affectionate ardour, but affected to resist when she strove to take his cloak from him. “Nay,” she said, “but I will unmantle you[…]”
ref: 1821 January 8, [Walter Scott], Kenilworth; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; and John Ballantyne, […]; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
glosses: To divest of a mantle; to uncover.
unmantles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unmantle
unmantling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unmantle
forbiddenly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more forbiddenly
form: most forbiddenly
Etymology: From forbidden + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: you haue toucht his Queene
Forbiddenly
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
synonyms: illegally
unlawfully
glosses: In a forbidden or unlawful manner.
choralist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choralists
Etymology: From choral + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A singer or composer of chorales.
glosses: A chorister
choralists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of choralist
incommodation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incommodations
Senses: examples: text: while the incommodation lasts, what but the selfishness of men devolves it upon women?
ref: 1850, George William Curtis, “The Easy Chair”, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine:
glosses: The state of being incommodes; inconvenience; discomfort.
incommodations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incommodation
intertalk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: intertalks
form: intertalking
form: intertalked
form: intertalked
Etymology: From inter- + talk.
Senses: examples: 1633, Thomas Carew, "The Enquiry", in the supplement to Coelum Britanicum
Love and my ighes thus intertalk't
glosses: To converse.
intertalked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of intertalk
intertalking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of intertalk
intertalks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of intertalk
ballproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ballproof
form: most ballproof
Etymology: From ball + -proof.
Senses: glosses: bulletproof.
forebrace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forebraces
Etymology: From fore- + brace.
Senses: examples: text: He noted the effect on the ship of this change; then, as though satisfied, roared out: "Let your forebraces hang, forrard there! Stand by heavin'-lines fore and aft! Stand by to go ahead with that steamer when we have your line!"
ref: 1899, Morgan Robertson, Where Angels Fear to Tread:
text: “The gorilla was halfway up the fore rigging by this time, and the two Dutchmen had reached the foreyard, while the Sou’egian was going higher. One Dutchman laid out to windward, the other to leeward, and I thought of a plan.
“‘Climb aft on the forebrace, each one of you,’ I sang out. ‘If he follows, I’ll let go the brace when you’ve reached the mainmast.’
ref: 1908, Morgan Robertson, The Hair Devil:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A rope applied to the fore yardarm, to change the position of the foresail.
forebraces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forebrace
globy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɡləʊbi/
Forms: form: more globy
form: most globy
Etymology: From globe + -y.
Senses: examples: text: the globy sea whereon she stands
ref: 1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC:
glosses: Resembling a globe; round.
undecencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undecency
undecency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undecencies
Etymology: From un- + decency.
Senses: examples: text: an aft of lukewarmness is only an undecency
ref: 1651–1653, Jer[emy] Taylor, ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of indecency.
kousso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʊsəʊ/
Forms: form: cusso
form: kosso
form: kusso
Etymology: Borrowed from Amharic ኮሶ (koso).
Senses: glosses: An Ethiopian rosaceous tree whose flowers were used as a vermifuge, of species Hagenia abyssinica.
Derived terms: koussin
Related terms: kosotoxin
regeneratory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more regeneratory
form: most regeneratory
Etymology: From regenerate + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: A Power regeneratory, and of begetting them by the Word
ref: 1739, Ralph Erskine, Gospel-compulsion:
glosses: Having power to renew; regenerative.
enneagonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From enneagon + -al.
Senses: examples: text: enneagonal angle
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: In the form of an enneagon; having nine angles.
unpenitent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpenitent
form: most unpenitent
Etymology: From un- + penitent.
Senses: examples: ref: 1636, G[eorge] S[andys], “(please specify the page)”, in A Paraphrase upon the Psalmes of David. And upon the Hymnes Dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments, London: [Andrew Hebb […]], →OCLC:
text: God will not relieve th'unpenitent,
Nor to the pray'rs of wicked souls consent
glosses: Not penitent; impenitent.
vernicose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vernicose
form: most vernicose
Etymology: See varnish.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a brilliantly polished surface, like some leaves.
mystickal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mystickal
form: most mystickal
Etymology: From mystick + -al.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of mystical.
Related terms: magickal
unleasht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of unleashed.
coördinational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of co-ordinational.
co-ordinational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: coordinational
form: coördinational
Etymology: From co-ordination + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to co-ordinations.
sh-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sch-.
coordinational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of co-ordinational.
naïver
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of naïve: more naïve
naïvest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: naïve + -est
Senses: examples: text: He spoke of me all the time, in the blandest way, as “this prodigious giant,” and “this horrible sky‐towering monster,” and “this tusked and taloned man‐devouring ogre,” and everybody took in all this bosh in the naïvest way, and never smiled or seemed to notice that there was any discrepancy between these watered statistics and me.
ref: 1917, Mark Twain, chapter IV, in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, page 31:
glosses: superlative form of naïve: most naïve
élitists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of élitist
insues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of insue
insue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: insues
form: insuing
form: insued
form: insued
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of ensue.
interlines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of interline
postest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: post + -est
Senses: examples: text: thou postest by running into so many Sins
ref: 1684, Jeremy Taylor, Contemplations on the State of Man:
glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of post
probest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: probe + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of probe
robbest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: rob + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of rob
cond
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒnd/
ipa: /kɑnd/
rhymes: -ɒnd
homophone: conned
Etymology: Clipping.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of conditional.
cond
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒnd/
ipa: /kɑnd/
rhymes: -ɒnd
homophone: conned
Forms: form: conds
form: conding
form: conded
form: conded
Etymology: From Middle English conduen, condien, French conduire (“to conduct”), from Latin conducere.
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes he who conds the ship will be speaking to him at helm at every little yaw; which the sea-faring men love not, as being a kind of disgrace to their steerage; then in mockage they will say, sure the channel is narrow he conds so thick […]
ref: 1922, Publications of the Navy Records Society:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of con (“direct or steer a ship”).
Derived terms: conder
cheshirization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌt͡ʃɛʃəɹaɪˈzeɪʃən/
ipa: /-ɹə-/
ipa: /-ɹɪ-/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: cheshirisation
form: Cheshirisation
form: Cheshirization
Etymology: From Cheshire (cat) (“fictional cat which disappeared leaving only its smile, from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by the English author Lewis Carroll (1832–1898)”) + -ization (suffix forming nouns denoting the act, process, or result of doing or making something), coined by the American linguist James Matisoff (born 1937) in a 1991 book chapter entitled “Areal and Universal Dimensions of Grammatization in Lahu”.
Senses: examples: text: For example, Mandarin uses the suffix ɚ < ér 兒 'son' while Cantonese employs tone sandhi, changing the citation tone to high rising tone, the cheshirization of an earlier segmental morpheme meaning 'son'.
ref: 2006, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Robert M. W. Dixon, Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance, →ISBN, page 344:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
synonyms: word: rephonologization
word: transphonologization
extra: a type of sound change whereby a phonemic contrast that used to involve a certain feature evolves in such a way that the contrast is preserved, yet becomes associated with a different feature
glosses: Synonym of transphonologization (“a type of sound change whereby a phonemic contrast that used to involve a certain feature evolves in such a way that the contrast is preserved, yet becomes associated with a different feature”).
wikipedia: Bernd Heine
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Lewis Carroll
Typological Studies in Language
drinkableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From drinkable + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: drinkability
glosses: The quality of being drinkable.
inevasible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inevasible
form: most inevasible
Etymology: From in- + evasible.
Senses: glosses: Impossible to evade.
Synonyms: inevitable
unavoidable
Derived terms: inevasibly
kerl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kerls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of carl.
kerls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kerl
legitimism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: legitimisms
Senses: glosses: The principles or ideas of legitimists.
legitimisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of legitimism
orthoxylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthoxylenes
form: ortho-xylene
Etymology: From ortho- + xylene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An aromatic hydrocarbon based on benzene with two methyl substituents bonded to adjacent carbon atoms in the aromatic ring (the ortho configuration).
orthoxylenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orthoxylene
parasital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more parasital
form: most parasital
Etymology: From parasite + -al.
Senses: examples: text: parasital chemicals
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: parasitic
sarcocele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarcoceles
Etymology: From sarco- + -cele.
Senses: examples: text: The complaint was a sarcocele, which Johnson bore with uncommon firmness, and was not at all frightened while he looked forward to amputation.
ref: 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 1249:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any solid tumour of the testicle.
sarcoceles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarcocele
undecisive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undecisive
form: most undecisive
Etymology: From un- + decisive.
Senses: examples: text: this Philosophy is litigious, the very spawn of disputations and controversies as undecisive as needless
ref: 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of indecisive.
Wernerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Wernerian
form: most Wernerian
Etymology: From Werner + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749-1817), German mineralogist and geologist, or his theory of Neptunism.
Related terms: Wernerism
whipstalk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whipstalks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whipstock.
whipstalks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whipstalk
Christlikeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Christlike + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being Christlike.
formeret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: formerets
Etymology: French [Term?]
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: One of the half-ribs against the walls in a ceiling vaulted with ribs.
formerets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of formeret
indew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: indews
form: indewing
form: indewed
form: indewed
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: indew
form: indew
form: indewed
form: indew
form: indewest
form: indewed
form: indewedst
form: indews
form: indeweth
form: indewed
form: indew
form: indewed
form: indew
form: indewed
form: indew
form: -
form: indewing
form: indewed
Senses: examples: text: Cattes fleſhe is vnholeſome, and harde to be indewed, and breedeth perillous wormes, and ſtoppeth a Hawke in the gorge, and marreth hir winde.
ref: 1575, George Turberuile [i.e.. George Turberville], “Of Feeding a Hawke”, in The Booke of Faulconrie or Hauking, for the Onely Delight and Plerasure of All Noblemen and Gentlemen: […], London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC, page 138:
text: Infinite ſhapes of creatures there [in the Garden of Eden] are bred, / And vncouth formes, vvhich none yet euer knevv, / […] / Some fitt for reaſonable ſovvles t’indew, / Some made for beaſts, ſome made for birds to vveare, […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 35, page 488:
text: He did her ſeruice devvtifull, and ſevvd / At hand vvith humble pride, and pleaſing guile, / So cloſely yet, that none but ſhe it vevved, / VVho vvell perceiued all, and all indevvd.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 9, page 545:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of endue.
indewed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of indew
indewing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of indew
indews
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of indew
vexillaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vexillary
vexillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛksɪləɹi/
ipa: /ˈvɛksəˌlɛɹi/
rhymes: -ɪləɹi
Etymology: From Latin vexillarius: compare French vexillaire.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Creating a partition.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Larger than the other (leaves, petals, etc.) and rising above them.
Derived terms: vexillary permutation
vexillary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛksɪləɹi/
ipa: /ˈvɛksəˌlɛɹi/
rhymes: -ɪləɹi
Forms: form: vexillaries
Etymology: From Latin vexillarius: compare French vexillaire.
Senses: examples: text: In letters like to those the vexillary / Hast left crag-carven o'er the streaming Gelt— […]
ref: 1874, Alfred Tennyson, “Gareth and Lynette”, in Idylls of the King (The Works of Alfred Tennyson; V), cabinet edition, London: Henry S. King & Co., […], →OCLC, page 84:
synonyms: vexillator
glosses: A standard-bearer of a vexillum.
unlikeableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unlikableness
Etymology: From unlikeable + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: To be "at home" in the presence of others is not necessarily to like them (nor is it necessarily to condone their characters or their actions), but it is to recognize them as beings who are like us even in their unlikeableness.
ref: 1997, Diana Fritz Cates, Choosing to feel: virtue, friendship, and compassion for friends:
synonyms: unlikability
glosses: The quality of being unlikeable.
territoried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more territoried
form: most territoried
Etymology: From territory + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: a territoried prince
text: a many-territoried country
glosses: Having territory or territories
unmutable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmutable
form: most unmutable
Etymology: From Middle English unmutable; equivalent to un- + mutable.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of immutable.
ridgebone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪd͡ʒbəʊn/
Forms: form: ridgebones
form: ridge-bone
Etymology: From Middle English rygge-bone, rigbone, from Old English hryċġbān (“backbone; spine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hruggjabain, from Proto-Germanic *hrugjabainą (“backbone”); equivalent to ridge (“the back”) + bone.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he corrupt blood […] lying cluttered about the ridge-bone.
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XXII.] Chapter XXI.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], 2nd tome, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
text: Let your body be erect and straight, your ridgebone answering to that of the horse; so that his body and your's may appear but as one piece of mechanism.
ref: 1815, G. LLOYD (Riding Master, and SYMES (R.)), R. SYMES, The Improved Art of Riding, Etc
text: And running zigzag down its back, you can see its squiggly ridgebone taking all the meanders you can see right down below. "That ridgebone is the river, I swear. Rising sun hits it dead the same way, only earlier, over the plateau.
ref: 2005, Brock Brower, Nancy Lawton, Blue Dog, Green River:
text: […]; a Drynnian ridgebone was made for combat, hunting, and tunneling rock. It was also a very good shield and with it, he parried the blow meant for his head.
ref: 2013, Steve Vera, Drynn:
text: “Voila, my little angry one,” Markus spoke, looking at the foreign piece of junk that had been yanked free without any further struggle, straight out of the ridgebone of his back.
ref: 2015, Adele DeGirolamo, Stolen Child - In-Between: Book Two:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The backbone or spine.
ridgebones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ridgebone
glissette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glissettes
Etymology: From French glissette, from glisser (“to slip”).
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The locus described by any point attached to a curve that moves continuously along another fixed curve, the movable curve having no rotation at any instant.
glissettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glissette
dobule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dobules
Senses: glosses: A common dace (Leuciscus leuciscus)
dobules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dobule
oryctologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oryctologists
Etymology: From oryctology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone versed in oryctology.
oryctologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oryctologist
favillous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more favillous
form: most favillous
Etymology: From Latin favilla (“sparkling or glowing ashes”) + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: But of lower consideration is the common foretelling of strangers, from the fungous parcels about the weeks of Candles: which only signifieth a moist and pluvious ayre about them, hindering the avolation of the light and favillous particles; whereupon they are forced to settle upon the snast.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
text: The rocks and stones generally upon the hills, are extremely ragged and favillous, vast bodies of them, in many instances, having the appearance of being composed entirely of the calcarious matter once held in solution by the hot water of the springs.
ref: 1818 June, “A Description of the Hot Springs, near the river Washitaw, and of the Physical Geography of the adjacent country”, in The American Monthly Magazine and Critical Review, volume 3, number 2, page 86:
text: The great noises, united in one continuous roar all the evening and through the night to Thursday morning, with the black rain, falling dust, and favillous scoriae, and with the midnight darkness all Wednesday, created feelings of fear and anxious suspense.
ref: 1902 May 12, “Hundreds Dead in St. Vincent”, in The New York Times, volume LI, number 16332, New York, page 1:
glosses: Of or pertaining to ashes.
inditer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inditers
Etymology: From Middle English enditour, endyter, inditer; equivalent to indite + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who indites.
inditers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inditer
ostreophagist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ostreophagists
Etymology: From ostreo- + -phagist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who eats oysters.
Synonyms: ostreophage
Related terms: ostreophagous
ostreophagists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ostreophagist
nol-pros
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nol-prosses
form: nol-prossing
form: nol-prossed
form: nol-prossed
form: nollepros
form: nolle-pross
Senses: topics: law
glosses: To discontinue by entering a nolle prosequi; to decline to prosecute.
nol-prossed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nol-pros
nol-prosses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nol-pros
nol-prossing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nol-pros
osiered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more osiered
form: most osiered
Etymology: From osier + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: osiered banks
ref: 1876, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poems of Places: Scotland, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden:
glosses: Covered or adorned with osiers.
fluentness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fluent + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being fluent.
Synonyms: fluency
gyneolatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌd͡ʒaɪniˈɒlətɹi/
/ˌɡaɪniˈɒlətɹi/
Forms: form: gyniolatry
form: gynolatry
Senses: glosses: The worship or adoration of women.
Lowellian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lowellian
form: most Lowellian
Etymology: From Lowell + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Percival Lawrence Lowell (1855–1916), writer and astronomer who fuelled speculation that there were canals on Mars.
glosses: Of or relating to Robert Lowell (1917–1977), American poet.
glosses: Of or relating to Amy Lowell (1874–1925), American imagist poet.
glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Lowell (any of the towns or cities of that name).
terrestrious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /təˈɹɛstɹiəs/
Forms: form: more terrestrious
form: most terrestrious
Etymology: From Latin terrestris + -ious.
Senses: examples: text: The ſecond way whereby bodies become black, is an Atramentous condition or mixture, that is a vitriolate or copperoſe quality conjoyning with a terreſtrious and aſtringent humidity;
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, “A digression concerning Blacknesse”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 6th book, page 284:
glosses: Synonym of terrestrial.
synonyms: word: terrestrial
unprudent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unprudent
form: most unprudent
Etymology: From un- + prudent.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of imprudent.
iodizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iodizers
Etymology: From iodize + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that iodizes.
iodizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iodizer
overtrust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈtɹʌst/
ipa: /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌtɹʌst/
Forms: form: overtrusts
form: overtrusting
form: overtrusted
form: overtrusted
Etymology: From over- + trust.
Senses: examples: text: Some there are, that do so overtrust their leaders' eyes
ref: 1649, Joseph Hall, Resolutions and Decisions of Divers Practicall cases of Conscience:
glosses: To trust too much.
overtrust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈtɹʌst/
ipa: /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌtɹʌst/
Etymology: From over- + trust.
Senses: glosses: excessive trust
overtrusted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overtrust
overtrusts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overtrust
Franklinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Forms: form: more Franklinic
form: most Franklinic
Etymology: From Franklin + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Benjamin Franklin, especially his work on electricity.
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of franklinic.
lepidodendrid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lepidodendrids
Senses: glosses: Any of an extinct genus (†Lepidodendron) or its close relatives of trees, related to the present-day club mosses.
lepidodendrids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lepidodendrid
Franklinian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Franklinian
form: most Franklinian
Etymology: From Franklin + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Benjamin Franklin, scientist and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
feetless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From feet + -less. Compare Old English fēþelēas.
Senses: examples: text: feetless birds
text: feetless stockings
glosses: Without feet.
Synonyms: footless
Derived terms: feetlessness
shrubbed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From shrub + -ed.
Senses: examples: a richly-shrubbed garden
glosses: Having shrubs.
unshrubbed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + shrubbed.
Senses: examples: text: Hail, many-colour’d messenger, that ne'er
Dost disobey the wife of Jupiter;
Who with thy saffron wings upon my flowers
Diffusest honey-drops, refreshing showers,
And with each end of thy blue bow dost crown
My bosky acres and my unshrubb’d down,
Rich scarf to my proud earth;
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: From the spot he’s left her in, a blank, unshrubbed bit of service-yard where the earth is worn bald, she can see printed in black cut-out and lamp-glow, her own house.
ref: 1977, Hortense Calisher, “In a Fiery Glade”, in On Keeping Women, New York: Arbor House, pages 153–154:
synonyms: shrubless
glosses: Without shrubs.
keeches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keech
foreadmonish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foreadmonishes
form: foreadmonishing
form: foreadmonished
form: foreadmonished
Etymology: From fore- + admonish.
Senses: examples: text: Christ […] did not only give me the book, but power to comprehend it; […] and, withal, foreadmonished me, that the matter comprised therein, howsoever it should be very sweet and pleasant to me in the knowledge thereof, yet, in regard of the trouble and opposition which will follow upon the publishing thereof and conveying of it forth to the use of others, it should be found very bitter and unpleasing.
ref: 1633, Joseph Hall, A paraphrase upon the hard texts of Scripture:
glosses: To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.
foreadmonished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of foreadmonish
foreadmonishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of foreadmonish
foreadmonishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of foreadmonish
unhosed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + hosed.
Senses: glosses: Not wearing hose.
glosses: Not having been hosed or watered.
Derived terms: great unhosed
papalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of papality
papality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: papalities
Etymology: Latin papalitas: compare French papauté.
Senses: examples: text: the Papality and other Hereticks were much weakened
ref: 1646, Johann Arndt, Book of Scripture:
glosses: The papacy.
glosses: A papal doctrine.
portmantle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: portmantles
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of portmanteau.
portmantles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of portmantle
comfortment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkʌmfə(ɹ)tmənt/
Forms: form: comfortments
Etymology: From comfort + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: the gentle comfortment and entertainment of the said embassador
ref: 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC:
glosses: comforting, The act of providing comfort.
comfortments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comfortment
consubstantialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consubstantialists
Etymology: From consubstantial + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Lutheran Consubstantialists
ref: a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). He ascended into Heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of God”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:
text: The consubstantialists, who by their success have deserved and obtained the title of Catholics, gloried in the simplicity and steadiness of their own creed, and insulted the repeated variations of their adversaries, who were destitute of any certain rule of faith.
ref: 1781, Edward Gibbon, chapter XXI, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume II, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 254:
glosses: One who believes in consubstantiation.
Related terms: consubstantialism
consubstantialists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of consubstantialist
deducibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From deducible + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: deducibility
glosses: The quality of being deducible.
lentoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lentoid
form: most lentoid
Etymology: From lens + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of a lens; lens-shaped.
lentoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lentoids
Etymology: From lens + -oid.
Senses: glosses: A three-dimensional geometric shape that appears as a circle viewed from one direction and a convex lens viewed from every other orthogonal direction.
applausable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more applausable
form: most applausable
Etymology: From applause + -able.
Senses: synonyms: applaudable
glosses: Worthy of applause; praiseworthy.
unceasable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unceasable
form: most unceasable
Etymology: From un- + cease + -able.
Senses: glosses: Not capable of being ended; ceaseless; unendable.
wrackful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wrackful
form: most wrackful
Etymology: From Middle English wrakeful, wrakful, equivalent to wrack + -ful. See also wrake.
Senses: examples: text: As it happened, his destiny, aided by this opportunity, carried him far beyond, so that the new era in his political fortunes which opened amidst the wrackful confusion in which Liberalism found itself in 1874 and the years immediately following must be accounted the most important and fateful of all.
ref: 1904, Henry Leach, The Duke of Devonshire:
text: No longer surrounded by a wooden shell in a wrackful sea, but by an aluminum box in its slot with all the other boxes, he stared at the pinwheel of stars on the cover of his library book.
ref: 2000, Brian McNaughton, Even More Nasty Stories:
text: Yes, of course, we worried about the symptoms that were suggestive of a compromised health - the fevers and sweating, poor appetite and weight loss, a wrackful cough with painful breathing and unfamiliar lassitude - all signs producing a fearful trembling in the back of our minds.
ref: 2010, Dale M. Moyer Ph. D., The Flash and Outbreak of a Fiery Mind
glosses: ruinous; destructive.
lophobranch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lophobranchs
Etymology: From Ancient Greek λόφος (lóphos, “crest”) and βράγχια (bránkhia, “gills”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the obsolete order Lophobranchii of fishes, now roughly corresponding to order Syngnathiformes.
lophobranchs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lophobranch
proxyship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From proxy + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The office, status, or agency of a proxy.
dipropyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + propyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: One of the hexane paraffins, found in petroleum, consisting of two propyl radicals.
Derived terms: probenecid
toucanets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toucanet
puddler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puddlers
Etymology: From puddle + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who converts cast iron into wrought iron by the process of puddling.
puddlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puddler
whelky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more whelky
form: most whelky
Etymology: From whelk + -y.
Senses: examples: text: whelky pearles
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
synonyms: streaked
striated
glosses: Having whelks, ridges, or protuberances.
glosses: Resembling a whelk (the sea snail)
fluorspars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluorspar
interceed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: interceeds
form: interceeding
form: interceeded
form: interceeded
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of intercede.
interceeded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of interceed
interceeding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of interceed
interceeds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of interceed
sparrowwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sparrow + wort.
Senses: glosses: An evergreen shrub, Erica passerina.
examples: text: A compound of galanga, cubebs, sparrow wort, cardamoms, nutmeg, gillyflowers, Indian thistle, laurel seeds, cloves, Persian pepper is made into a drink. Taken twice daily morning and night, in pigeon or fowl broth, preceded and followed by eater. The result, according to Arab tradition, is an effective aphrodisiac.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 102:
glosses: Any plant in the genus Passerina.
glosses: Any plant in the genus Thymelaea.
countervallation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countervallations
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of contravallation.
countervallations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countervallation
vertebro-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: examples: Holonyms: rachi-, spino-
topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
synonyms: spondylo-
related: word: myelo-
glosses: Vertebra.
Related terms: english: back
translation: back
word: dorso-
senget
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseŋ.et/
ipa: /ˈsɛŋ.ɛt/
ipa: [-t̚]
Forms: form: more senget
form: most senget
Etymology: Borrowed from Malay senget.
Senses: glosses: Askew, uneven, not straight.
examples: text: What do you dislike about your appearance? My hair. It’s very difficult to maintain and when it’s too long it becomes senget (untidy).
ref: 1991 March 26, The Straits Times, quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English, Singapore: Singapore Press Holdings Limited:
qualifier: never attributive
glosses: Crooked or dishevelled.
spannest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of span
residenter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: residenters
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of resident.
residenters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of residenter
impeed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: impeeds
form: impeeding
form: impeeded
form: impeeded
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of impede.
impeeded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of impeed
starre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starres
Senses: examples: text: When yond ſame ſtarre thats weaſtward from the pole […]
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: Archaic spelling of star.
impeeding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of impeed
impeeds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of impeed
sticke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stickes
form: sticking
form: stuck
form: stuck
form: sticked
form: sticked
Senses: examples: text: After this contencion, the common people did ſticke vnto king Agis, and the riche men followed Leonidas, praying and perſwading him not to forſake them: and further, they did ſo intreate the Senators, in whom conſiſteth the chiefe authority,[…]
ref: 1579, Plutarke of Chæronea [i.e., Plutarch], “Agis and Cleomenes”, in Thomas North, transl., The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, […], London: […] Richard Field, →OCLC, page 852:
glosses: Obsolete form of stick.
enniche
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enniches
form: enniching
form: enniched
form: enniched
Etymology: From en- + niche.
Senses: examples: text: And to do justice to Slawkenbergius, he has entered a list with a stronger lance, and taken a much larger career in it, than any one man who had ever entered it before him,——and indeed, in many respects, deserves to be en-nich'd as a prototype for all writers, of voluminous works at least, to model their books by,
ref: 1761, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman:
glosses: To place in a niche, or as in a niche.
stickest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: stick + -est
Senses: examples: text: Thou stickest a dagger in me: I shall never see my gold again: fourscore ducats at a sitting!
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
text: […] alas! my child, by not passing the night wisely in reading, when thou art among the learned, thou stickest like a calf in the mud.
ref: 1787, William Jones, "Hitopadesa of Vishnusarman" (1787, aka "Hitopadesa of Vishnu Sarman"); repr. in Works (1807), Vol. 13, p. 8
glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of stick
stickest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stick (“sticky”, adjective) + -est (“superlative”).
Senses: examples: text: What is the stickest kind of gum?
text: What is the stickest tape to hold something up with?
text: What is the stickest thing on earth?
glosses: superlative form of stick: most stick (stickiest).
enniched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enniche
enniches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enniche
enniching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enniche
perpetuable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /pə(ɹ)ˈpɛtjʊəbəl/
/pə(ɹ)ˈpɛt͡ʃʊəbəl/
Forms: form: more perpetuable
form: most perpetuable
Etymology: From perpetuate + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Varieties are perpetuable, like species.
ref: 1860, Asa Gray, The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection:
glosses: Capable of being perpetuated or continued.
resultful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more resultful
form: most resultful
Etymology: From result + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Producing results or effects; resulting.
Derived terms: resultfulness
hortyard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hortyards
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of orchard.
hortyards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hortyard
imbraid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: imbraids
form: imbraiding
form: imbraided
form: imbraided
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of embraid.
imbraided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of imbraid
imbraiding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of imbraid
imbraids
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of imbraid
tobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /təʊb/
Forms: form: tobes
Senses: examples: text: It consists, for men and women alike, of a ‘tobe,’ or straight piece of cotton cloth (printed, or white with a crimson border), two breadths wide, and some twelve feet long, draped in graceful folds about the body, and fastened on the left shoulder.
ref: 1889, Edinburgh Review, page 391:
text: She loved travelling to Egypt, and how she didn’t have to wear a tobe in Cairo.
ref: 2010, Leila Aboulela, Lyrics Alley, page 4:
glosses: A cotton garment worn in parts of northern Africa.
overcapable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overcapable
form: most overcapable
Etymology: From over- + capable.
Senses: examples: text: overcapable of such pleasing errors
ref: 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: Too capable.
trottest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: trot + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of trot
kentle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kentles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quintal.
kentles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kentle
somatist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsəʊmætɪst/
Forms: form: somatists
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σῶμα (sôma, “body”) + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: And therefore I cannot but wonder at a late Reverend Author , who seems to conclude thoſe Modern Philosophers under the name and notion of such Somatists, as are for meer Matter and Motion, and exclude immaterial Beings
ref: 1671, Joseph Glanvill, Philosophia Pia:
glosses: One who admits the existence of material beings only; a materialist.
somatists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of somatist
presumingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more presumingly
form: most presumingly
Etymology: From presuming + -ly.
Senses: glosses: confidently; arrogantly
glosses: presumably
Related terms: presumably
presumedly
protuberation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protuberations
Senses: glosses: protuberance
protuberations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protuberation