cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
defeudalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of defeudalize
defeudalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of defeudalize
defeudalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of defeudalize
overflush
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overflush
form: most overflush
Etymology: From over- + flush.
Senses: examples: text: You're a poor man, I dare say. You don't look as if you were overflush of money.
ref: 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair:
text: He rode into town from the Brazos, and Meekly called for his supper and bed; A dark-eyed gent with a nervous hand And a belt overflush with cold lead.
ref: 1894, John Henton Carter, Duck Creek Ballads, page 132:
text: It would raise the permit from its nominal $6 an acre for the reclamation of orphan lands to what we considered a reasonable permit but not an overflush one, of $60 an acre.
ref: 1973, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on the Environment, Regulation of Surface Mining, page 944:
text: From what you've told me,he wasn't overflush.
ref: 2012, S. T. Haymon, Death and the Pregnant Virgin:
text: You can imagine we were not overflush just then, and what puzzled us was what to give the chief as a present when he would accord us an interview.
ref: 2020, Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, The Outspan, Tales of South Africa, page 9:
glosses: Too flush; having an excess of something (too much money if nothing else is specified)
examples: text: That is probably an overflush allusion .
ref: 1937, Robert Phillips, Edward McChesney Sait, American Government and Its Problems, page 676:
text: Head lamp mounting surface shallow —head lamp bezel will be overflush to fender causing appearance and fit problems.
ref: 1987, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks, The Industrial Innovation and Technology Act, page 77:
text: The A-pillar, roof-rail, and C-pillar trim panels can be ordered in varying colors and styles — colorblind folks are even allowed to select silver on gold — but they look tacked on, overflush, and by design they do not align with other character lines and the hood and trunk shut-lines.
ref: 2003, Car and Driver - Volume 48, page 125:
glosses: Protruding or sticking out rather than flush and smooth.
overflush
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more overflush
form: most overflush
Etymology: From over- + flush.
Senses: examples: text: The last two to three layers or 14 in. of the groove is filled up slightly overflush using 316-in. hard rod.
ref: 1960, Iron and Steel Engineer - Volume 37, page 70:
text: Minor imperfections (such as gasket frets and corrosion on the edges of water jacket holes,) should be brazed slightly overflush before the head is milled.
ref: 2007, Paul Dempsey, Troubleshooting and Repair of Diesel Engines, page 161:
glosses: Beyond the level that is flush and smooth.
overflushed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overflush
overflushes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overflush
overflushing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overflush
irreligiousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From irreligious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being irreligious; ungodliness.
Synonyms: irreligiosity
picktooth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picktooths
Etymology: From pick + tooth.
Senses: examples: text: […]where did you get that Pick-Tooth Caſe?
ref: 1731 (date written), Simon Wagstaff [pseudonym; Jonathan Swift], “Dialogue II”, in A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, […], London: […] B[enjamin] Motte […], published 1738, →OCLC, page 185:
glosses: A toothpick.
picktooths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picktooth
toggle switch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toggle switches
Etymology: From the similarity of the control lever in early designs to a toggle.
Senses: glosses: A switch actuated by moving a small lever; usually an on/off switch with two positions.
examples: text: When we add code modules, we will have an additional folder called (surprise!) Modules. We can use this toggle switch to display/hide all items within our folders.
ref: 2013, John Connell, Beginning Visual Basic 6 Database Programming, page 129:
text: […] most participants (17 out of 20) had problems using toggle switches and preferred checkboxes instead.
ref: 2023, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Maurice D. Mulvenna, Martina Ziefle, Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health, page 14:
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: checkbox
radio button
glosses: A control resembling such a switch, allowing a setting to be enabled or disabled.
Synonyms: sense: switch
word: toggle
sense: switch
word: flip switch
sense: switch
word: paddle switch
sense: switch
word: snap switch
toggle joint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toggle joints
Senses: examples: text: A toggle joint, which used a lever system to multiply power, replaced the screw mechanism for forcing down the impression-forming platen.
ref: 2009, Ross Thomson, Structures of change in the mechanical age, page 48:
glosses: A mechanical linkage of the type of an elbow or knee joint, consisting of two bars so connected that they may be brought quite or nearly into a straight line, and made to produce great endwise pressure when brought into this position.
exsanguinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of exsanguious.
isologous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more isologous
form: most isologous
Etymology: From isologue + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Ethane, ethylene, an acetylene, or their analogous compounds form an isologous series.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having similar proportions, similar relations, or similar differences of composition; said specifically of groups or series which differ by a constant difference.
nubilate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nubilates
form: nubilating
form: nubilated
form: nubilated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin nūbilātus, perfect passive participle of nūbilō (“to cloud”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from nūbila (“clouds”).
Senses: glosses: To cloud or obscure
nubilated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nubilate
nubilates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nubilate
nubilating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nubilate
sectarist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sectarists
Senses: examples: text: So that when the Sectarists, the Catholics , and even ſome disappointed Royalists, all joined in enmity to Clarendon
ref: 1662, John Dryden, letter to the Lord Chancellor Hyde:
glosses: A sectary.
sectarists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sectarist
syphilide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syphilides
Etymology: French
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A cutaneous eruption due to syphilis.
syphilides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syphilide
fissurella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fissurellas
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the genus Fissurella of marine gastropod mollusks.
Hypernyms: fissurellid
fissurellas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fissurella
mystacal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μύσταξ (mústax, “moustache”), whence also moustache.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to the upper lip, or moustache.
examples: text: mystacal stripe
glosses: Resembling a moustache
glave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡleɪv/
enpr: glāv
rhymes: -eɪv
homophone: glaive
Forms: form: glaves
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of glaive.
glaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glave
enterotome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enterotomes
Etymology: From French entérotome. See enterotomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A kind of scissors used for opening the intestinal canal, as in post-mortem examinations.
enterotomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enterotome
ineffervescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + effervescence.
Senses: examples: text: From Marls , by its fineness , adherence to the tongue , and ineffervescence
ref: 1784, Richard Kirwan, Elements of Mineralogy:
glosses: Lack of effervescence.
Towser
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Towzer
Etymology: See touse (“to pull about”) and -er.
Senses: glosses: A given name for a dog.
impave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: impaves
form: impaving
form: impaved
form: impaved
Etymology: From im- + pave?
Senses: examples: text: Impaved with rude fidelity / Of art mosaic.
ref: 1835, William Wordsworth, On revisiting Dunolly Castle:
qualifier: literal or figurative
glosses: To pave.
impaved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of impave
impaves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of impave
impaving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of impave
almesse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: almesses
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of alms.
almesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of almesse
fleaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A narrow eaves-board being nailed across the feet of the spars, and some fleaking scattered on, the thatcher begins to “set his caves,” by laying a coat of reed[…]
ref: 1787, John Collier, A View of the Lancashire Dialect, or, Tummus and Mar:
glosses: In a thatched building: a light covering of reeds, over which the main covering is laid.
fleaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: See fleak.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fleak (synonym of flaking).
fleaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: See fleak.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fleak (synonym of flecking).
adreamed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + dreamed.
Senses: glosses: Dreaming.
slipstring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slipstrings
Etymology: From slip + string.
Senses: examples: text: Every promise that thou therein dost utter, / Is as sure as it were sealed with butter, / Or a mouse tyed with a threed. Every good thing / Thou lettest even slip, like a waghalter slipstring.
ref: 1546, John Heywood, chapter VII, in Julian Sharman, editor, The Proverbs of John Heywood, London: George Bell and Sons, published 1874, pages 147–148:
text: Goinfre: m. A wag, ſlipſtring, knaviſh lad; a merrie conceited whoreſonne, a notable good fellow, an excellent companion.
ref: 1611, Randle Cotgrave, A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues, page GOI-GON:
text: Well, slip-string, I shall meet with you.
ref: 1619, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, A King and No King, act 2, scene 2; republished in The Works of Beaumont & Fletcher, volume 2, London: Edward Moxon, 1843, page 270:
glosses: A wastefully extravagant person; a prodigal; a spendthrift.
Synonyms: spendthrift
slipstrings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slipstring
overstore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overstores
Etymology: From over- + store.
Senses: examples: text: So may the bread, this day sent down from heaven, Suffice for all the seven; And to each week, till toil and care are o'er, Each Sabbath still may yield its goodly overstore.
ref: 1881, The Christian miscellany, and family visiter, page 109:
text: Thus Nature grants Enough for man's support; yea, more, she gives An overstore of all his simplest wants.
ref: 1881, Wilhelm Jensen, Fair Isle: A Tale in Verse, page 18:
text: At the thought, horror freezes the vitals of all the political antiquarians, of which we have an overstore.
ref: 1913 May, “Things as they are”, in Pearson's Magazine, volume 29, number 5, page 638:
text: It is not until seeing on every hand the risks taken , and the unspeakable torture and hardships which those in quest of this momentary pleasure and the release of a seeming overstore of nervous energy , are more than willing to endure, that one begins to wonder if those psychologists who base all human actions upon the one and powerful propelling force of the will to satisfy the sex desire have not a fair basis for their conclusions.
ref: 1987, David Monroe Shoup, Thomas Hayes, Howard Jablon, The Marines in China, 1927-1928, page 119:
glosses: An instance of overstoring, a surplus.
examples: text: Since then, however, except for the short-lived recovery mainly in distributors' demand in 1976 owing to the socalled "overstore effect" ( a large-scale floor space expansions in department stores and supermarkets), the demand has generally remained sluggish, in spite of the demand increasing factor of a rise in the synthetic fiber ratio from 46.5% in 1972 to 55.6 in 1977.
ref: 1978, Sumitomo Bank Review: Economic Conditions in Japan, page 5:
glosses: The opening of too many stores or stores that are too large.
examples: text: If the overstore involves non-reducible data, i.e. data which cannot be effectively stored by interpolation at larger intervals from the original data, then the run will abort.
ref: 1970, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Hydrodynamics Laboratory, Technical Report - Issue 133, page 395:
text: […] a loop data destroyed by overstore
ref: 1975, Edward A. Torrero, Microprocessors, page 49:
text: Floating point error ( or a calculation that goes to zero ) Overstore, jump out of bounds, or illegal instruction.
ref: 1980, Proceedings of ... Annual ACM-SIGUCC User Services Conference, page 49:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The overwriting of memory or data, especially when done in error.
overstore
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From over- + store.
Senses: examples: text: […] ; 72,364 ( 29.5 % ) are two-family homes; the remainder, 93,644, are multifamily and apartment-overstore dwellings.
ref: 1939 ·, James Boyle, Official Brooklyn Guide Book, page 10:
text: […] if there is any justice up in heaven, Dr. Freud has been assigned a corner apartment with one of those little concrete balconies or "terraces," of the Collins Avenue condominium-tower variety, rigged out with a telescope and an infrared X-ray attachment that enables him to look down through every roof and every ceiling in the United States...day or night, into overstore massage parlors on lower State Street as easily as the flimsiest cinder-block motel room, even into the utter darkness of the Lido East movie theater […]
ref: 1988, Tom Wolfe, Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter and Vine:
glosses: Located above a store.
overstored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overstore
overstores
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overstore
overstoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overstore
tanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: possibly a trademark
glosses: A firm composition of emery and a certain kind of cement, used for making grinding wheels, slabs, etc.
fatner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fatners
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of fattener.
fatners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fatner
tallowing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tallow + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act of applying tallow.
tallowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From tallow + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tallow
hadder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhædə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: hadders
Etymology: From Middle English hader, hather, heddre, from Old English *hǣddre, a variant of hǣþ (“heath; heather”). More at heath, heather.
Senses: examples: text: they lay upon the ground covered with skins, as the Redshanks do on Hadder
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
glosses: heather or heath
hadder
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: /ˈhædə(ɹ)/
Etymology: Contracted form
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of had to.
pyralis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyralises
form: pyralides
Senses: examples: text: As Loeb has shown by many experiments, the phototropic phenomena of animals differ not at all from those of plants, and they carry no more psychism in a polyp or in a pyralis than in a geranium or in a volvox.
ref: 1922, E.-L. Bouvier, The Psychic Life of Insects, page 9:
text: If you have an opportunity to experiment with Photinus pyralis, try the following: Start a male toward you by answering him properly, that is, as a pyralis female would answer him, once or twice.
ref: 1968, The Conservationist - Volumes 23-24, page 169:
text: When a pyralis female sees a flash of the appropriate characteristics, she waits 2 seconds and then emits her own half-second flash.
ref: 1986, Robert W. Mitchell, Nicholas S. Thompson, Deception: Perspectives on Human and Nonhuman Deceit, →ISBN, page 114:
glosses: A species of firefly, Photinus pyralis
examples: text: This once happened in a hemp field destroyed by a pyralis, described by me in a special memoir.
ref: 1850, Gardeners Chronicle & New Horticulturist - Volume 10, page 277:
text: At first there was a belief that the caterpillar was that of a pyralis like that which caused such great loss to beet growers in southern Russia, Roumania and North America.
ref: 1907, Sugar - Volume 9, page 333:
text: What would have been the opinion of the public, seeing e.g. a butterfly and a pyralis placed in the same genus ?
ref: 1962, Memorie della Società entomologica italiana:
glosses: A moth of the genus Pyralis.
pyralides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyralis
porpita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porpitas
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A marine organism, Porpita porpita, the blue button.
eeler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eelers
Etymology: From eel + -er.
Senses: glosses: A fisherman who catches eels.
eelboat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eelboats
Etymology: From eel + boat.
Senses: glosses: A boat used for eeling (catching eels).
toggle bolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toggle bolts
Etymology: From the resemblance of the hinged wings to a toggle.
Senses: glosses: A fastening device consisting of a bolt and a pair of hinged, usually sprung, wings threaded at the hinge to receive the bolt, used by inserting the bolt with wings folded into a small hole in a sheet material to the point where the wings unfold and the bolt can be tightened.
heelpiece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heelpieces
Etymology: From heel + piece.
Senses: examples: text: Courts are to be the theatres of your wars, where you should be always as completely armed , and even with the addition of a heelpiece.
ref: January 15 1753, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, in Letters to His Son, published in 1774
glosses: A piece of armour to protect the heels.
glosses: A piece of leather fixed on the heel of a shoe.
examples: text: the heel-piece of his book
ref: 1761, Robert Lloyd, The Cobler of Tissington's Letter to David Garrick, Esq.:
glosses: The end.
heelpieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heelpiece
blue-eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue-eyes
Senses: glosses: The blue-faced honeyeater of Australia (Entomyzon cyanotis).
glosses: Fish of the family Pseudomugilidae, native to Australia and New Guinea.
Derived terms: glass blue-eye
blue-eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue-eye
epipterygoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛɹɪɡɔɪd
Etymology: From epi- + pterygoid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated upon or above the pterygoid bone.
epipterygoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛɹɪɡɔɪd
Forms: form: epipterygoids
Etymology: From epi- + pterygoid.
Senses: glosses: An epipterygoid bone or cartilage
glosses: the columella in the skulls of many lizards.
epipterygoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epipterygoid
imitatorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From imitator + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: servile imitatorship
ref: 1599, W. Kinsayder or Theriomastix [pseudonyms; John Marston], The Scourge of Villanie. […], London: […] I[ames] R[oberts], →OCLC; republished as G[eorge] B[agshawe] Harrison, editor, The Scourge of Villanie (The Bodley Head Quartos; 13), London: John Lane, The Bodley Head […]; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Company, 1925, →OCLC:
glosses: The state or quality of an imitator.
eelboats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eelboat
CATOBAR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Acronym of catapult-assisted takeoff but arrested recovery.
glosses: Acronym of catapult-assisted takeoff barrier arrested recovery.
historize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: historizes
form: historizing
form: historized
form: historized
Etymology: From history + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To relate as history.
glosses: To chronicle.
examples: text: fountaines, under which is historized the whole Ovidian Metamorphosis
ref: 1645 May 16 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for May 6 1645]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC:
glosses: To historicize.
historized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of historize
historizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of historize
historizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of historize
waterie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more waterie
form: most waterie
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of watery.
overplease
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overpleases
form: overpleasing
form: overpleased
form: overpleased
Etymology: From over- + please.
Senses: glosses: To please excessively.
overpleased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overplease
overpleases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overplease
overpleasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overplease
twigsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more twigsome
form: most twigsome
Etymology: From twig + -some.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he twigsome trees by the wayside (which, I suppose, never will grow leafy, for they never did) guarded here and there by a dusty soldier, […]
ref: 1860 January 28 – October 13, Charles Dickens, “Travelling Abroad”, in The Uncommercial Traveller, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1861, →OCLC, pages 91–92:
glosses: Full of twigs; twiggy.
invitrifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + vitrifiable.
Senses: examples: text: Macquer found the purest gypsum invitrifiable by solar heat ; that of Monmartre seemed to yield , but probably was not pure. Even the heat excited by pure air , if continued long enough to dissipate the acid , cannot vitrify it
ref: 1784, Richard Kirwan, Elements of Mineralogy:
glosses: Not capable of being vitrified.
compressibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From compressible + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being compressible.
Synonyms: compressibility
homeling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homelings
Etymology: From home + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: […] that one writer will still deal with a word as a stranger, and lead us to suppose it so. while another, who wrote earlier, had already treated it as an homeling.
ref: 1857, Richard Chenevix Trench, On Some Deficiencies in our English Dictionaries:
glosses: A native; a person or thing belonging to a home or to a particular country; an inhabitant.
homelings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homeling
eelblenny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eelblennies
form: eel-blenny
Etymology: From eel + blenny.
Senses: glosses: Any fish of genus Lumpenus, resembling an eel, found in subarctic waters, especially Lumpenus sagitta and Lumpenus fabricii (slender eelblenny).
glosses: A carpet eel-blenny (Congrogadus subducens).
glosses: Certain fish of genus Notograptus.
glosses: Eel snake blenny (Peronedys anguillaris), of Australia
Derived terms: taxonomic: Haliophis aethiopus
word: Bali eelblenny
taxonomic: Congrogadus winterbottomi
word: Pilbara eelblenny
taxonomic: Lumpenus fabricii
word: slender eelblenny
alt: Anisarchus medius
word: stout eelblenny
taxonomic: Congrogadus hierichthys
word: Sulu eelblenny
taxonomic: Congrogadus winterbottomi
word: Winterbottom's eelblenny
disslander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dislaunder
form: disslaunder
form: disclaunder
Etymology: From Middle English disclaundre, disslaundre, from Anglo-Norman disclaundre, from sclandre, esclandre, from Old French esclandre. See slander and compare Middle English sclaundre. By surface analysis, dis- + slander.
Senses: examples: text: He declareth you a true man to hym[…]the saied dislaunder and noysyng notwithstandyng.
ref: a. 1548 (date written), Edward Hall, Richard Grafton, “(please specify the part of the work)”, in The Vnion of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre & Yorke, […], London: […] Richardi Graftoni […], published 1548, →OCLC:
glosses: Slander.
stalactitiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stalactitiform
form: most stalactitiform
Etymology: From stalactite + -iform.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having the form of a stalactite; stalactiform.
simple-hearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more simple-hearted
form: most simple-hearted
form: simplehearted
Etymology: From simple + hearted.
Senses: examples: text: He exhibited his client as a simple-hearted, honest, well-meaning man, who, during a copartnership of twelve years, had gradually become impoverished
ref: 1824 June, [Walter Scott], Redgauntlet, […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
text: “My dear friend, above all things I want to behave like a gentleman and to be recognised as such,” the visitor began in an access of deprecating and simple-hearted pride, typical of a poor relation.
ref: 2015, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, →ISBN:
glosses: sincere
glosses: ingenuous; guileless
Derived terms: simple-heartedly
simple-heartedness
pausingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pausingly
form: most pausingly
Etymology: From pausing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: This pausingly ensu'de
ref: 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
glosses: With pauses; haltingly.
eelblennies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eelblenny
doomful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more doomful
form: most doomful
Etymology: From doom + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: that doomful deluge
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for M[athew] Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Full of, or portending, doom.
Derived terms: doomfully
pleuropericardial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pleuro- + pericardial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the pleura and pericardium.
civicism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From civic + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The principle of civil government.
glosses: civil studies or civic-mindedness
monopyrenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + pyrene + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: monopyrenous drupe
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a single stone or kernel.
styracin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From styrax + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A white crystalline substance extracted from gum storax, consisting of a salt of cinnamic acid with cinnamic alcohol.
emmantle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: emmantles
form: emmantling
form: emmantled
form: emmantled
Senses: examples: text: The World, and this, which by another name men have thought good to call Heaven (under the pourprise and bending cope wherof, all things are emmanteled and covered) beleeve wee ought in all reason to be a God, eternall, unmeasurable, without beginning, and likewise endlesse.
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: Obsolete form of immantle.
examples: text: Whereby he grew to such wealth, that of late he bequeathed by his last will and testament ten millions of Sesterces unto his native city Marsils toward the fortifications therof, besides the walls that he caused to be built and emmanteled about other towns , which cost him little under the foresaid summe.
ref: 1601, Pliny the Elder, translated by Philemon Holland, The Historie of the World:
glosses: Place around as a fortification
emmantled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of emmantle
emmantles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of emmantle
emmantling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of emmantle
bedye
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /bɪˈdaɪ/
Forms: form: bedyes
form: bedyeing
form: bedyed
form: bedyed
Etymology: From be- + dye.
Senses: examples: text: Briton fields with Sarazin blood bedyed
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 7:
glosses: To dye or stain.
Derived terms: bedyeing
bedying
bedyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bedye
bedyeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bedye
bedyes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bedye
reask
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reasks
form: reasking
form: reasked
form: reasked
Etymology: From re- + ask.
Senses: examples: text: I'll reask my original question.
glosses: To ask again.
reasking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reask
reasks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reask
reasked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reask
reclasp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reclasps
form: reclasping
form: reclasped
form: reclasped
Etymology: From re- + clasp.
Senses: glosses: To clasp again.
reclasped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reclasp
reclasping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reclasp
reclasps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reclasp
Turnbull's blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Prussian blue, especially when viewed as ferrous ferricyanide.
glucic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γλυκύς (glukús) + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to, or obtained from, sugar
Related terms: glucic acid
glucose
intemperament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intemperaments
Etymology: From in- + temperament?
Senses: examples: text: depend upon the intemperament of the part Ulcerated
ref: 1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions:
glosses: A bad state.
amianthiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more amianthiform
form: most amianthiform
Etymology: From amianthus + -iform.
Senses: examples: text: amianthiform arseniate
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Resembling amianthus in form.
leapful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leapful
form: most leapful
Etymology: From leap + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Pity ('tis true) revolves their leapful springs, Smil'd thanks, attoning pray'rs, embracing clings, Sallies of guileless joy, gay gleams offense, Soft stroking flatt'ries — active impotence ;
ref: 1753, Aaron Hill, Works - Volume 3, page 147:
text: O leapful look, assault of eye, hurdle the decorous delay.
ref: 1954, The Virginia Quarterly Review - Volume 30, page 530:
text: Bony rocks jut up from the water, forming a haphazard, leapful path, a path that looks like a twisted spine, to the bluff on the other side.
ref: 2004, The South Dakota Review, page 55:
glosses: Full of leaps: requiring one to leap or making many leaps.
leapfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leapful
isabelline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪzəˈbɛlɪn/
Forms: form: more isabelline
form: most isabelline
Etymology: From isabella + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: The isabelline (or Daurian) shrike is a greyish-yellow and hunts from prominent perches, impaling the corpses on thorns as a larder.
text: As Mr. Tristram has remarked, in regard to the inhabitants of the Sahara, all are protected by their “isabelline or sand-colour.”
ref: 1871, Charles Darwin, “Birds—concluded”, in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. […], volume II, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, Part II (Sexual Selection), page 224:
text: Isabelline -us: pale yellow with some red and brown [chronic lemon with a little carmine and roman sepia].
ref: [1906, John Bernhard Smith, Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology:
glosses: Coloured a greyish yellow.
raw_tags: of animals
Derived terms: isabelline bear
isabelline wheatear
Related terms: isabella
stylose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stylose
form: most stylose
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having styles of unusual length or persistence.
palmaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more palmaceous
form: most palmaceous
Etymology: From palm + -aceous.
Senses: examples: text: palmaceous tribe
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to palms; of the nature of, or resembling, palms.
rosiny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rosiny
form: most rosiny
Etymology: From rosin + -y.
Senses: glosses: Like or resembling rosin.
tres-tyne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tres-tynes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tres-tine.
tres-tynes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tres-tyne
bethabara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Originally a trademark. Based on the Ancient Greek proper noun Βηθαβαρά (Bēthabará).
Senses: glosses: Ipe (kind of wood).
peerdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peerdoms
Etymology: From peer + -dom.
Senses: glosses: A lordship.
examples: text: Today's most cited authors wil be tomorrow's peers. It all revolves around professional proficiency, sharing specific research traditions, the availability of money, publications in leading journals, honours received. There is more to peerdom than reviewing papers.
ref: 2001, Einar H. Fredriksson, A Century of Science Publishing:
text: The families that left the village in the dead of niot were headed westward to a new peerdom beyond the reach of peers and lashers — a peerdom of one- namers, a peerdom where they could manage their own affairs, educate their children, and guarantee a full measure of freedom to all.
ref: 2002, Lloyd Biggle, Jr., The Chronocide Mission:
glosses: Peers as a group; peerage.
peerdoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peerdom
becker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beckers
Senses: synonyms: sea bream
braise
glosses: A European fish, Pagrus pagrus
beckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of becker
desynonymization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: desynonymizations
Etymology: From de- + synonym + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The act of desynonymizing.
desynonymizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desynonymization
Turnbull
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Turnbulls
Etymology: From turn + bull, originally a nickname for someone who was strong enough to turn a bull.
Senses: glosses: An English surname transferred from the nickname.
Derived terms: Turnbull's blue
overfront
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overfronts
Etymology: From over- + front.
Senses: examples: text: No 2—Is the Overfront, forming a jacket that opens over the fullness.
ref: 1887 April, Emily H. May, “Girl's Frock: with Supplement”, in New Peterson's Magazine, volume 91, number 4, page 377:
text: The straight overfronts and back of the gown were made in Ondine silk , shot blue and faint yellow with an opalescent effect
ref: 1894, “What to Wear: Chit-Chat on Dress”, in Cassell's Family Magazine:
text: A garment of the general character described, comprising an open-front under-body shirt, and an over-front thereon consisting of a lower abdominal body portion having lateral extensions attached to the side portions of the under-body shirt, and divergent upwardly extended strap portions connected to the shoulder portions of the under-body shirt, said overfront being connected to said under-body shirt adjacent its lower edge whereby to form pockets between the under-body shirt and the over-front.
ref: 1943, Frederick W. Bryant, “Sports Shirt”, in Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, page 526:
glosses: A false overshirt, jacket, or vest that is attached to the bodice or shirt of a garment.
examples: text: Or when they had four columns to hold up the overfront and riddells, these were often utilised to carry a taper on each.
ref: 1904, Essays on Ceremonial, page 7:
text: It seems quite possible that the 'greater sorte' of silk pictures in particular were intended to adorn an altar, either as an overfront, a netherfront or even a reredos.
ref: 2016, Sarah Hamilton, Andrew Spicer, Defining the Holy:
text: The most noteworthy altar-cloths were a set given by Alice Chester, the overfront representing our Lord rising out of the Sepulchre, sometimes called our Lord's Pity, with a netherfront and two curtains all "of one work."
ref: 1904, Transactions - Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, page 258:
glosses: A decorative wall hanging or dorsal that sits behind the altar and matches the netherfront.
overfront
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overfronts
form: overfronting
form: overfronted
form: overfronted
Etymology: From over- + front.
Senses: examples: text: Doubling of the Reere, your battaile will be both lengthened and strengthned , And so by the sudden bringing of these Supplies into the reere, you may not only relieve your owne, but happily overfront your enemy.
ref: 1643, William Barriffe, Military Discipline: or the Yong Artillery Man, page 72:
text: When things indifferent shall be set to overfront us under the banners of sin , what wonder if we be routed , and by this art of our adversary fall into the subjection of worst and deadliest offences ?
ref: 1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC:
text: The first, a foe no tempest can unbend; The next more supple, but a dangerous friend; This flies the storm he dares not to oppose, That boldly stands, to overfront his foes;
ref: 1807, Voltaire, The Henriade, Translated by Daniel French, Esq., page 154:
glosses: To confront; to oppose; to withstand.
overfronted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overfront
overfronting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overfront
overfronts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overfront
mannitose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mannite + -ose.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A sugar obtained by partial oxidation of mannitol, and closely resembling levulose.
idiotish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more idiotish
form: most idiotish
Etymology: From idiot + -ish. Compare Dutch idioots (“idiotic”), German idiotisch (“idiotic”), Danish idiotisk (“idiotic”), Swedish idiotisk (“idiotic, stupid, insane”).
Senses: glosses: Like an idiot; idiotic; foolish.
extructive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more extructive
form: most extructive
Senses: examples: text: papistry is both affirmative and extructive of all wickedness
ref: 1580, William Fulke, Answer to Frarine's Declaration:
glosses: constructive
tiewig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tiewigs
Etymology: From tie + wig.
Senses: glosses: A wig having a tie or ties, or one having some of the curls tied up.
examples: text: A pragmatical pleader, as soon as he has thrown a tiewig over his toupee, [is equalled] to a Coke or a Littleton.
ref: 1788, Vicesimus Knox, Winter Evenings:
glosses: A wig that is tied upon the head; a court-wig tied with ribbon at the back.
tiewigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tiewig
Dandie Dinmont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dandie Dinmonts
Etymology: Named after a character in Guy Mannering by Sir Walter Scott.
Senses: glosses: A terrier of a small Scottish breed with long body, short legs, and a distinctive "topknot" of hair on the head.
wikipedia: Guy Mannering
Sir Walter Scott
mootman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mootmen
form: moot-man
Etymology: From moot + -man.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: One who argued moot trials in the Inns of Court.
Related terms: moot court
mootmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mootman
seigniories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seigniory
triticin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: translingual Triticum (“genus of wheat, also formerly the genus of quitchgrass, from which it can be obtained”), + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A carbohydrate isomeric with dextrin.
faffle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: faffles
form: faffling
form: faffled
form: faffled
Etymology: Compare famble, maffle and waffle.
Senses: glosses: To stammer or murmur.
examples: text: From drooping at half-mast, his personal pennant was faffling away in a whole new wind.
ref: 2007, Simon Leigh, Wild Women:
glosses: to flap, like a flag
faffled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of faffle
faffles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of faffle
faffling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of faffle
anophthalmos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: anophthalmia
bedung
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bedungs
form: bedunging
form: bedunged
form: bedunged
Etymology: From Middle English bidungen, bydyngen, from Old English *bedynġan, from Proto-West Germanic *bidungijan, equivalent to be- + dung. Cognate with West Frisian bedongje (“to bedung”), Dutch bedongen (“to bedung”), German bedüngen (“to bedung”).
Senses: glosses: To cover with dung or manure.
examples: text: […] had not God's inexpected champion, by divine instinct, taken up the monster, and vanquished him; leaving all but his head to bedung that earth, which had lately shaken at his terror.
ref: 1649, Bishop Hall, Resolutions and Decisions of Diverse Practical Cases of Conscience:
glosses: To bedaub or defile.
bedunged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bedung
bedunging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bedung
bedungs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bedung
ascigerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æˈsɪd͡ʒəɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪdʒəɹəs
Forms: form: more ascigerous
form: most ascigerous
Etymology: From ascus + -gerous.
Senses: examples: text: Perithecium closed , perforated by an orifice , filled by an ascigerous somewhat deliquescent nucleus
ref: 1828, John Claudius Loudon, An Encyclopaedia of Plants:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having asci.
birdbolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birdbolts
Etymology: From bird + bolt.
Senses: glosses: A short blunt arrow for killing birds without piercing them.
examples: text: To be generous, / guiltless and of free disposition, is to take those / things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets:
ref: c. 1601–1602, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, act 1, scene 5, lines 86–88:
glosses: Anything that smites without penetrating.
birdbolts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birdbolt
beglerbeg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beglerbegs
Etymology: Borrowed from Turkish.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of beylerbey.
Derived terms: beglerbegship
beglerbegs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beglerbeg
scrawler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scrawlers
Etymology: From scrawl + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who scrawls; a scrawly writer.
scrawlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scrawler
Sanskritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Sanskrit + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Sanskrit, relating to Sanskrit.
Related terms: Prakritic