cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hard-mouthed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hard-mouthed
form: most hard-mouthed
Senses: glosses: not sensitive to the bit
raw_tags: of an animal
glosses: not easily trained.
raw_tags: of an animal
examples: text: a hard-mouthed woman
glosses: Hard-featured about the mouth.
intravalvular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + valvular.
Senses: examples: text: intravalvular fluid
text: intravalvular liquid
text: intravalvular regurgitation
glosses: Within valves.
prickpunch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prickpunches
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of prick punch.
prickpunches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prickpunch
submaxillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪləɹi
-æksɪlɛəɹi
Etymology: From sub- + maxillary.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated under the maxilla, or lower jaw; inframaxillary.
examples: text: submaxillary saliva
text: submaxillary mucin
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the submaxillary gland.
Derived terms: submaxillary duct
submaxillary gland
unservice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + service.
Senses: examples: text: And where you tax us for unservice, lady / I never knew a soldier yet, that could / Arrive into your favour;
ref: 1624, Philip Massinger, “The Parliament of Love”, in William Gifford, editor, The Plays of Philip Massinger, published 1845, act 1, scene 5, page 152:
text: He was carving a fowl at the time; and with a blade of blunt unservice made but wretched work of it.
ref: 1901, Alfred Henry Lewis, Richard Croker - Volume 1, page 251:
glosses: neglect of duty; idleness; indolence; poor service.
examples: text: The under-mentioned districts are to be Tenaka, or secured to me by your Highness, on account of the balances due to the Soucars through my means; biz. Vodearpollam, Aleanoor, Madura, Trichinopoly, and Terooputtyl and your Highness might at the same time pass order to the Amuldars and Moostadars, under service and unservice, in the said districts, for the produce of the Pasily 1210 and 1211.
ref: 1811, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Papers - Volume 8, page 99:
text: The cost of preparation for teaching is large, the cost of living is large, and under present conditions there is likely to be an old age of enforced unservice.
ref: 1906, Portsmouth (N.H.). Board of Instruction, Annual Report of the Board of Instruction, page 32:
text: Figure 13b shows the rebalance performance over multiple days. We count the decreased unservice events since it is additive.
ref: 2022, Souvik Pal, Debashis De, Rajkumar Buyya, Artificial Intelligence-based Internet of Things Systems, page 384:
glosses: Lack of work.
examples: text: "In fact" he says, "it would be an absolute, tangible unservice."
ref: 1974, Electronics - Volume 47, page 73:
glosses: Disservice.
unservice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unservices
form: unservicing
form: unserviced
form: unserviced
Etymology: From un- + service.
Senses: examples: text: […] has unserviced the appliances and has removed trash and debris before you sign.
ref: 1968, The Handbook for the Military Family, page 34:
text: Were appliances properly unserviced as required?
ref: 1971, United States. Army. Military Traffic Management Command title=Personal property traffic management regulation - Issue 10, (Please provide the book title or journal name), pages 4-6:
text: Upon request of shipper, owner, or consignee of the goods, carrier will, subject to (2) below, service and unservice such articles as stoves, automatic washers, and dryers at origin and destination.
ref: 1974, California Public Utilities Commission, General Order - Issues 136-138, page 5:
glosses: To disconnect from service; to decommission.
footworn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more footworn
form: most footworn
Etymology: From foot + worn.
Senses: examples: text: a footworn path
text: a footworn carpet
text: a footworn track
text: a footworn staircase
glosses: Worn or eroded by the feet.
examples: text: a footworn cat
text: a footworn traveler
glosses: Having tired feet; footsore.
command economies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of command economy
pitier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pitiers
Etymology: From pity + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The high Esteemers, the hearty Lovers, the liberal Relievers, the unfeigned Pitiers, the faithful Advocates, and the earnest Intercessors, for the distressed Ministers; the so much despighted and (by many) despised Ministry of this Church.
ref: 1653, John Gauden, Hieraspistes: Or a Defense by way of Apology for the Ministry and Ministers of the Church:
text: Pity implies the assertion of superiority in the pitier; and it is a gratification of a man's pride to go about pitying those who are perhaps a great deal better than himself.
ref: 1867, Authorized report of the papers, prepared addresses, and discussions of the Church Congress held at Wolverhampton on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, October 1st, 2d, 3d, & 4th, 1867, page 248:
text: The unsettling potential of pity to “entrap” the pitier, as exposed in these Euripidean plays, has fascinating political implications. In all instances, a possible unresolved conflict exists between the pitier and the pitied.
ref: 2011, Dana LaCourse Munteanu, Tragic Pathos: Pity and Fear in Greek Philosophy and Tragedy:
glosses: One who pities.
pitiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pitier
Sovietism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sovietisms
Etymology: From Soviet + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Soviet beliefs or practices.
Derived terms: neo-Sovietism
Sovietisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sovietism
botanology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare French botanologie.
Senses: examples: text: the Tree mentioned in the Canticle, which stricter Botanology will hardly allow to be Camphire.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The science of botany.
Derived terms: botanologer
gravitative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gravitative
form: most gravitative
Etymology: From gravitate + -ive?
Senses: examples: text: The particles themselves must have an interior and gravitative being, and the multeity must be a removable or at least suspensible accident.
ref: 1827, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Note on a passage in the life of Henry Earl of Morland:
text: If such is the case, we have here examples of deposits along the contact, and as the contact is nearly vertical Soret's principle might be urged as against the idea of gravitative settling.
ref: 1922, Frank Samuel Hudson, Geology of the Cuyamaca Region of California:
glosses: Causing to gravitate; tending to a centre.
gruelly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gruelly
form: most gruelly
Etymology: From gruel + -y.
Senses: glosses: Like gruel.
amphiblastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From amphi- + -blastic.
Senses: examples: text: amphiblastic gastrulation
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: exhibiting both holoblastic and meroblastic features: a telolecithal ovum with complete cleavage.
Related terms: amphiblastula
oligarchal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oligarch + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The whole defence, / Our oligarchal tyrants have to boaſt, / Are poor Barbarians, ſcarce three hundred ſtrong, […]
ref: a. 1786, [Richard Glover], “Book the Thirteenth”, in [Mrs. Halsey], editor, The Athenaid, a Poem, […], volume II, London: […] T[homas] Cadell, […], published 1787, →OCLC, page 59, lines 101–103:
glosses: Oligarchic, oligarchical.
reassumption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌmpʃən
Forms: form: reassumptions
Etymology: From re- + assumption.
Senses: glosses: Assumption again or anew.
reassumptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reassumption
pilcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɪlt͡ʃə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: pilchers
Senses: examples: text: He that eats nothing but a red herring a-day shall ne'er be broiled for the devil's rasher: a pilcher, signor, a surdiny, an olive, that I may be a philosopher first, and immortal after.
ref: c. 1612–1615?, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont, revised by Philip Massinger, “Loves Cure or, The Martial Maid”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act II, scene i:
glosses: Archaic form of pilchard.
pilcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɪlt͡ʃə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: pilchers
Etymology: From pilch + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who wears a pilch.
examples: text: MERCUTIO: Will you pluck your sword out of his pilcher by the ears?
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
glosses: A scabbard, as of a sword.
pilchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of plastic pants (“an undergarment worn over a diaper/nappy (or underwear) to prevent leakage.”).
synonyms: word: plastic pants
extra: (“an undergarment worn over a diaper/nappy (or underwear) to prevent leakage.”).
pilchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pilcher
parthenogeny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: parthenogenesis
repentingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more repentingly
form: most repentingly
Etymology: From repenting + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: repentantly
glosses: With repentance; penitently.
case closed
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: […]he would no more tell a grunt in uniform what he was really thinking than he'd drop his pants and wag the weasel at a formal diplomatic function.
Some things were simply not done by professionals. Full stop. Case closed.
ref: 2007, Ripple Effect, page 13:
text: "And I your God say no angel of mine will ever marry a female human being. And that is final!"
"Positively final?" I asked in a firm, steady voice.
"Yes! Doubly positively final! Case closed!"
ref: 2011, Dominick Ricca, "The Salvation of Satan", in Would You Like to Be White? and Other Stories, Xlibris (self-published), page 403 http://books.google.com/books?id=YVr6Rw8UaioC&pg=PA403&dq=case
glosses: Expressing finality, that that preceding material is meant as final, not subject to amendation or variation.
examples: text: The bodies of the deceased were removed from the scene to the Suffolk County medical examiner's office in Hauppauge.[…] As you can see from the report, Nikki Hale was the only one who was impaired. Case closed.
ref: 2009, Brad Thor, The Apostle, Atria, →ISBN:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: A case is closed; specifically, a police investigation or similar is resolved.
Related terms: end of
end of story
I rest my case
that's that
winduh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winduhs
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of window.
thermal paste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermal pastes
Senses: glosses: Substance used to transfer heat evenly, such as is used in computers; thermal grease.
sea cock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea cocks
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alternative form of seacock.
glosses: The black-bellied plover, Pluvialis squatarola.
glosses: A gurnard, such as the European red gurnard (Trigla pini).
parent-teacher association
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parent-teacher associations
Senses: synonyms: PTA
PTO
parent-teacher organization
glosses: A formal organization composed of parents, teachers, and staff that is intended to facilitate parental participation in a public or private school.
Related terms: parent-teacher-student association
GFC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GFCs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of global financial crisis.
glosses: Initialism of gel filtration chromatography.
glosses: Initialism of ground fault circuit.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of generic flow control.
Dún Laoghaire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌn ˈlɪɹə/
ipa: /dʌn ˈlɪəɹə/
rhymes: -ɪəɹə
Forms: form: Dunleary
Etymology: From Irish Dún Laoghaire (literally “fort of Laoghaire”).
Senses: examples: text: (historical)
text: The next morning we caught the boat train to Dun Laoghaire ^([sic]), and we were soon on our way across the Irish Sea.
ref: 1955 June, Rev. A. W. V. Mace, “An Irish Journey—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 394:
synonyms: Dunleary
Kingstown
glosses: A town and port in County Dublin, Ireland.
Derived terms: Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown
water content
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The amount of water contained in a material, such as soil, rock or wood.
water potential
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water potentials
Senses: glosses: The potential energy of water per unit volume.
water feature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water features
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: An architectural design element involving water, such as a fountain, a pond or a waterfall.
water stop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water stops
Senses: examples: text: Following the Yankee Homecoming road race each year, his shop's small parking lot is the scene of a neighborhood celebration. “I'm an official water stop for the road race,” Boothroyd shares."I love being here."
ref: 2014, Kathleen M. Downey, Legendary Locals of Newburyport, page 73:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A place where an athlete can take a break and drink water.
examples: text: The water stop had no such amenities. It was simply a necessary delay along their route.
ref: 2014, Paul Lederer, The Reluctant Gun Hand:
text: After the third water stop, the group took an extended break on what seemed to be a rock ledge while Ivan and the other man determined their next move.
ref: 2014, Joe Buda, Pilgrims’ Passage: Into a New Millennium; Rebuilding the Past, page 771:
glosses: A stop in a journey for drinking water or using the restroom.
examples: text: Water stops are provided in both the types of joints, to prevent leakage of water.
ref: 1992, B. C. Punmia, Irrigation and Water Power Engineering, page 354:
glosses: Alternative form of waterstop.
Sorbonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sorbonists
Etymology: From French sorboniste.
Senses: examples: text: But of our Priests and Doctors how many have bin corrupted by studying the comments of Jesuits and Sorbonists, and how fast they could transfuse that corruption into the people, our experience is both late and sad.
ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica:
text: Now attend here, and see what kind of renovation is required from us [in Rom. 12:1-2 "be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind"]: It is not that of the flesh only, or of the inferior part of the soul, as the Sorbonists [translating sorbonici] explain this word; but of the mind, which is the most excellent part of us, and to which philosophers ascribe the supremacy […]
ref: 1849, John Calvin, translated by John Owen, Commentaries on the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans:
glosses: A student or teacher at the Sorbonne.
Sorbonists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sorbonist
castor beans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of castor bean
hot whisky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot whiskies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hot whiskey.
be careful what you wish for
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: The desired outcome may not be as desirable once it has been attained.
Related terms: double-edged sword
monkey's paw
Energizer bunny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Energizer bunnies
Etymology: From the Energizer bunny, a pink rabbit toy character from the advertising campaign of Energizer, used to demonstrate the longevity of the batteries.
Senses: glosses: A person who seems to have limitless energy and endurance.
wikipedia: Energizer
escape hatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: escape hatches
Senses: glosses: An emergency exit in a vehicle, aircraft, ship, or similar structure.
examples: text: What we need is progress with an escape hatch.
glosses: A workaround to avoid a negative, often unintended, side effect of a positive change.
full metal jacket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: full metal jackets
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
synonyms: word: FMJ
glosses: A bullet having a complete covering of copper over the lead core.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: The metal jacket itself, which covers the lead core.
Derived terms: full-metal-jacketed
Related terms: jacketed
metalclad
allogeneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more allogeneous
form: most allogeneous
Etymology: From New Latin, based on Ancient Greek. By surface analysis, allo- + gen- + -eous.
Senses: glosses: of a different nature or kind.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: From a nonself donor of the same species.
Synonyms: allogeneic
disseminative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disseminative
form: most disseminative
Etymology: From disseminate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: The effect of heresy is, like the plague, infectious and disseminative.
ref: 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in All Her General Measures; […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] James Flesher, for Richard Royston […], →OCLC:
glosses: Tending to disseminate, or to become disseminated (scattered, or widespread), spreadable.
episcopally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From episcopal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: By episcopal authority, ratified by a bishop.
glosses: Using an episcope
extemporizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extemporizers
Etymology: From extemporize + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who extemporizes.
extemporizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extemporizer
Romist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Romists
Etymology: From Rome + -ist.
Senses: examples: a. 1716, Robert South, a sermon on Titus 1. 1.
the Romists hold fast the distinction of mortal and venial sins
glosses: A Roman Catholic.
Romists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Romist
spiritualizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spiritualizers
Etymology: From spiritualize + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who spiritualizes.
spiritualizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spiritualizer
inadvisableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inadvisable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: inadvisability; the state or quality of being inadvisable.
depulsory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more depulsory
form: most depulsory
Etymology: Latin depulsorius.
Senses: examples: text: Making supplication[…]unto the gods by the meanes of certaine depulsorie sacrifices.
ref: 1609, Philemon Holland, The Roman historie […] , translation of original by Ammianus Marcellinus:
glosses: Driving or thrusting away; averting.
futurely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From future + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But this Preſcience of God (as it is Preſcience only) is not the cauſe of any thing futurely ſuccecding : neither doth Gods fore-knowledge impoſe any neceſſity, or binde.
ref: 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], chapter I, in The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, 1st book, §. XII Of Preſcience, page 17:
glosses: In time to come.
oxgoad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxgoads
Etymology: From ox + goad.
Senses: glosses: A goad for driving oxen.
oxgoads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxgoad
melissopalynologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melissopalynologists
Etymology: From melissopalynology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies melissopalynology.
'appen
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: -æpən
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of happen.
melissopalynologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melissopalynologist
enthralldom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enthralldoms
form: enthraldom
Etymology: From enthrall + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: To my mind, those who thus shrink afford thereby but evidences of their psychological enthralldom.
ref: 1907, Alfred Emanuel Smith, New Outlook:
text: […] you will often find yourself in a situation that will render it difficult to extricate yourself from its enthraldoms with credit and integrity.
ref: 2005, The Novitiate's Preceptor Or Religious and Literary Register for the New Church Part One
text: Voice-over: "Ergo LWP from Nike. Now at Foot Action." It's an amazing commercial, which takes exact aim at, for instance, the method of this book: namely, the irrelevance of "analysis" to grace (what an agony of enthralldom we are in).
ref: 2006, David Shields, Gerald Graff, Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season:
glosses: The act of enthralling, or the state of being enthralled; slavery; bondage.
glosses: Anything that enthralls or subjugates.
Related terms: slavedom
enthraldom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enthraldoms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of enthralldom.
untruism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: untruisms
Etymology: From untrue + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: No one but a preaching clergyman can revel in platitudes, truisms, and untruisms, and yet receive, as his undisputed privilege, the same respectful demeanour as though words of impassioned eloquence, or persuasive logic, fell from his lips.
ref: 1878, Anthony Trollope, The warden and Barchester Towers: Volume 1, page 262
text: Parmenides' philosophy rests, if I am right, on an untruism; it is some slight consolation that his was by no means the last system to be built on such a sandy foundation.
ref: 1982, Jonathan Barnes, The Presocratic Philosophers, page 132
text: This fickle oscillation is often precipitated by the chameleon-like quality of 'untruisms': 'An untruism is an ambiguous sentence
ref: 1993, Roy Sorenson, Pseudo-Problems, page 118
text: Aristotle's implicit totalitarianism rests ultimately on a questionable inference from a metaphysical untruism.
ref: 2005, Richard Kraut, Steven Skultety, Aristotle's Politics, page 201
glosses: Something not true; a false statement.
Synonyms: falsehood
untruisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of untruism
megalethoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megalethoscopes
Etymology: From mega- + alethoscope.
Senses: glosses: An optical apparatus in which pictures are viewed through a large lens with stereoptical effects.
megalethoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megalethoscope
supercurious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supercurious
form: most supercurious
Etymology: From super- + curious.
Senses: examples: text: the knife with which the sallet herbs are cut, according to the super-curious (especially oranges, limons, & c.), be of silver, and by no means of steel
ref: 1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Excessively curious or inquisitive.
vaccinist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vaccinists
Etymology: From vaccine + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: German health minister Jens Spahn (right) and Berlin’s health senator Dilek Kalayci (centre) watch 80-year-old vaccinee Rosemarie Langwald getting her second Covid-19 vaccine by vaccinist Tim Ratzloff in the vaccination centre at the fairgriunds in Berlin, on April 5th.
ref: 2021 April 8, Derek Scally, Naomi O'Leary, “Germany in preliminary talks with Russia to secure Sputnik vaccine”, in The Irish Times:
synonyms: vaccinator
vacciner
glosses: One who administers vaccines.
examples: text: We are thus brought to the point that vaccinists argue that clinicians must not quarrel with them for adopting the same criterion of cure, and the answer to the vaccinist is that he is confusing the issue,
ref: 1914, The Medical Chronicle, page 195:
text: The truth was , I had then never read Dr. Jenner's publications, nor, indeed, those of any other vaccinist or anti-vaccinist , being perfectly satisfied with having ascertained, that the vaccine process enabled the human body to resist the small-pox, whether tested by exposure to the epidemic disease, or by inoculation, and which, from my experience in inoculation with small-pox virus, I considerd to be quite satisfactory, until the proof occurred which occasioned an investigation, which terminated in the opintion I have frequently given to the public.
ref: 1842, Thomas Brown, An Investigation of the present Unsatisfactory and Defective State of Vaccination, page 22:
synonyms: pro-vaccinationist
pro-vaccinator
pro-vaxxer
vaccinationist
vaxxer
glosses: One who is in favor of the use of vaccination.
vaccinist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vaccinist
form: most vaccinist
Etymology: From vaccine + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Instead of its being true that the anti-vaccinationists "alone have been examined so far," the fact is that of the scores of witnesses examined a large proportion are vaccinist.
ref: 1893, The British Homoeopathic Review - Volume 37, page 638:
synonyms: pro-vaccination
pro-vaccine
pro-vax
glosses: In favor of vaccination.
Derived terms: anti-vaccinist
vaccinists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vaccinist
entertake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: entertakes
form: entertaking
form: entertook
form: entertaken
Etymology: From enter- + take, after French entreprendre.
Senses: examples: text: And with more myld aspect those two to entertake.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To entertain; to receive.
lustic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈlʌstɪk/
Forms: form: more lustic
form: most lustic
Etymology: From lust + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Luſtique, as the Dutchman ſaies: Ile like a maide the Better whil'ſt I haue a tooth in my head: why he's able to leade her a Carranto.
ref: c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii], page 233, column 2:
glosses: Vigorous.
movingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From moving + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, although Confucianism admits that Being is also an ontological movement, it can at best explicate the "movingness" (Bewegtheit) of this ontological movement in terms of the alternation between yin and yang.
ref: 1984, Chan Wing-Cheuk, “Confucian Moral Metaphysics and Heidegger's Fundamental Ontology”, in Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, editor, Phenomenology of Life in a Dialogue Between Chinese and Occidental Philosophy, page 190:
text: The movingness of cars or planes was represented, as was the movingness of writing as a continuous movement of the pencil across paper.
ref: 1991, Chris Athey, Extending Thought in Young Children, page 181:
text: A light object has less movingness than a heavy object travelling at the same speed.
ref: 2022, Simon Clark, Firmament:
glosses: The power or property of moving; momentum.
examples: text: Slowed down to simulate the successive phase, the really-moving light loses its blur of movingness.
ref: 1942, Gordon Lynn Walls, The Vertebrate Eye and its Adaptive Radiation, page 360:
text: The movingness is a flashing sensation interpreted as motion by virtue of the circumstances connected with it.
ref: 2001, Steven Yantis, Visual Perception, page 163:
text: Under conditions favourable for confusion, it was difficult for the observer to perceive with any clearness the 'vehicle of movement'; all he could see was 'movingness' without any object moving.
ref: 2013, M. D. Vernon, Visual Perception, page 162:
glosses: A quality that suggests movement.
examples: text: The scene, although rural enough, was yet one of sparkle, movingness, and beauty.
ref: 1893, Matilda Betham-Edwards, The Curb of Honour, page 178:
text: Finally, we investigated whether perceived movingness would also mediate the effect of perceived sadness on perceived beauty.
ref: 2018, Mark Reybrouck, Tuomas Eerola, Piotr Podlipniak, Music and the Functions of the Brain:
text: Ever reigns that dance so frequently called to mind by Andre/ Velter and which, if it may be the sign and the act of some near-ecstacy—a felicity, a rapture, a beatitude—remains equally the 'act and place,' as we have seen Bonnefoy call the poetical gesture, of doing made of change and annulation, of reversibility and repeal—in short, the act and place of a profound ontological movingness.
ref: 2019, Michael Bishop, Earth and Mind, page 102:
glosses: The quality of being emotionally moving.
nuciform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nuciform
form: most nuciform
Etymology: From Latin nux, nucis (“nut”) + -form.
Senses: glosses: Shaped like a nut.
reciprocous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of reciprocal.
vitalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vitalic
form: most vitalic
Etymology: Perhaps from vital + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Is it impossible that the successive geological revolutions which have attended, at least, if not immediately caused, these successive elevations of vitalic character—is it improbable that these revolutions have themselves been produced by the successive planetary discharges from the Sun—in other words, by the successive variations in the solar influence on the Earth?
ref: 1848 March, Edgar A[llan] Poe, Eureka: A Prose Poem, New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] P[almer] Putnam, of late firm of “Wiley & Putnam,” […], →OCLC, page 85:
text: The foundation of this argument is, that the human soul is the focalized, concentrated extract or epitome of all the forces and vitalic laws which fill, inspire, and actuate the immeasurable empire of Nature and God.
ref: 1868, Andrew Jackson Davis, The Great Harmonia, volume 5, New York, page 395:
text: Did not Cuvier believe that there had been not one but an infinite number of 'creations’, and that as our earth cooled after its departure from the sun a succession of vitalic phenomena appeared on its surface?
ref: 1931 January, Frank Belknap Long, Jr., “The Horror from the Hills”, in Weird Tales, volume 17, number 1, Indianapolis, Indiana: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, page 42:
glosses: Relating to, or characteristic of life; vital.
examples: text: He did not attempt to be sophistical; he “varied” his reading, in the sense that all literature should be varied, between the so-called “classics”—of stock—and the vitalic literature that breathes of onflowing life.
ref: 1924 February, Francis Collins Miller, “Irrepressible Appreciations of a Good Book”, in The Notre Dame Scholastic, volume 57, number 6, Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame, page 56:
text: Such a child! you'd think first thing, noting her vitalic freshness, her little-girl lack of affectation.
ref: 1935 January, Mary Watkins Reeves, “Subject: Frances Langford; Object: Matrimony”, in Radio Mirror, volume 3, number 3, New York: Macfadden Publications, Inc., page 66:
text: They were impressed with the projecting power of the three main figures, bursting with tension, one of the most vitalic low reliefs they had seen.
ref: 1961, Irving Stone, The Agony And The Ecstasy, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., page 137:
glosses: Full of life; energetic; lively.
vitriform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vitriform
form: most vitriform
Etymology: Latin vitrum (“glass”), + -iform.
Senses: synonyms: glasslike
glosses: Having the shape or appearance of glass.
dos and don'ts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌduːz‿n̩ ˈdəʊnts/
ipa: /ˌduz‿n̩ ˈdoʊnts/
rhymes: -əʊnts
Forms: form: do's and don'ts
form: do's and don't's
Etymology: From dos (“plural of do (“something that can or should be done”)”) + and + don’ts (“plural of don’t (“something that must or should not be done”)”).
Senses: glosses: A set of things that one should do or not do in a particular situation; a set of guidelines or rules that one has to or ought to follow.
gemmuliferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more gemmuliferous
form: most gemmuliferous
Etymology: From gemmule + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: examples: text: gemmuliferous vesicles
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Bearing or producing gemmules or buds.
enthrill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enthrills
form: enthrilling
form: enthrilled
form: enthrilled
form: inthrill
Etymology: From en- + thrill.
Senses: examples: text: Yea, though Christ from the skies hold out never so moving lures unto us, all of them (haggard like) we will turn tail to, and haste to the iron fist, that holds out nought but a knife to enthrill us.
ref: 1815, Thomas Nash, Christ's tears over Jerusalem:
synonyms: word: shank
word: yerk
word: chef
word: chib
word: ching
word: chive
word: enthrill
word: foin
word: gore
word: gride
word: jab
word: job
word: juke
word: kebab
word: knifecrime
word: lancinate
word: pigstick
word: pink
word: poach
word: run through
word: shank
word: shiv
word: spear
word: speet
word: splash
word: stab
word: stick
word: stob
word: stog
word: thrust
word: yerk
glosses: To pierce; penetrate; run through; stab.
examples: text: […] for then a glance from her she knew, Could inthrill his heart, enrapture and control […]
ref: 1839, George Robert Wythen Baxter, Baron George Gordon Byron Byron, Don Juan Junior
text: Long years ago, amid the sunny hills Where Arno dashing makes the maddest mirth, A master lived whose melody enthrills, And ever will, the children of the earth.
ref: 1890, William Clark Russell, A marriage at sea:
synonyms: word: excite
word: inspirit
word: animate
word: awaken
word: electrify
word: enflame
word: enkindle
word: enthrill
word: exagitate
word: excite
word: exhilarate
word: exsuscitate
word: fillip
word: fire
word: fire the blood
word: galvanize
word: gin up
word: ignite
word: inflame
word: intoxicate
word: kindle
word: quicken
word: rouse
word: send
word: set fire to
word: set on fire
word: sharpen
word: stir the blood
word: suscitate
word: thrill
word: vitalise
word: wake
word: warm the blood
word: whet
word: wind up
word: work up
word: yerk
glosses: To cause to thrill.
examples: text: She's getting enthrilled by him; she is, my lord. I saw 'em meet just now in the wood.
ref: 1867, Mrs. Henry Wood, Lady Adelaide's oath:
synonyms: word: beguile
word: entrance
word: allure
word: arrest
word: attract
word: becharm
word: beguile
word: bewitch
word: beckon
word: captivate
word: charm
word: court
word: delight
word: draw
word: enchant
word: engage
word: enthrall
word: entrance
word: enrapture
word: fascinate
word: hypnotize
word: interest
word: intrigue
word: mesmerize
word: pull
word: pull in
word: seduce
word: sirenize
word: spellbind
word: tempt
word: tole
glosses: To charm; to enthrall.
mullet-headed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mullet-headed
form: most mullet-headed
Etymology: From mullet + headed.
Senses: examples: text: They're so confiding and mullet-headed they don't take notice of nothing at all.
ref: 1884, Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn:
text: Well, it's enough to make a body sick, such mullet-headed ignorance!
ref: 1894, Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad:
glosses: Foolish; dimwitted.
examples: text: One by one, he introduces his band, this latest incarnation of The Hawks, all mullet-headed and middle-aged.
ref: 2004, Julia Nunes, Scott Simmie, Beyond Crazy: Journeys Through Mental Illness:
glosses: Having a mullet hairstyle.
inthrill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inthrills
form: inthrilling
form: inthrilled
form: inthrilled
Etymology: From in- + thrill.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of enthrill.
Bumfuck
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: bumfuck
form: Bumfuck, Egypt
form: Bumfuck, Minnesota
Etymology: From bum + fuck.
Senses: glosses: An imaginary place in the middle of nowhere.
osteomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek; corresponding to osteo- + -mancy. Probably coined by John Selden in 1612.
Senses: glosses: A kind of divination by means of bones.
carnifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carnification
noncruciferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + cruciferous.
Senses: glosses: Not cruciferous.
overliberally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more overliberally
form: most overliberally
Etymology: From over- + liberally.
Senses: glosses: In an overliberal manner.
trierarch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trierarchs
Etymology: From Latin trierarchus.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The captain of a trireme.
's-Hertogenbosch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɜɹtoʊɡənˈbɔs/
ipa: /ˌsɛəɹ-/
ipa: /-tɑɡ-/
ipa: /-toʊx-/
ipa: /-tɑx-/
ipa: /-əˈ-/
ipa: /ˌsɜːtəʊɡənˈbɒs/
ipa: /ˌsɛə-/
ipa: /-tɒɡ-/
ipa: /-təʊx-/
ipa: /-tɒx-/
ipa: /-əˈ-/
Etymology: From Dutch 's-Hertogenbosch.
Senses: synonyms: Den Bosch
glosses: A city, capital, and municipality of North Brabant, Netherlands.
Den Bosch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɛn ˈbɒs/
ipa: /ˌdɛn ˈbɔs/
ipa: /ˌdɛn ˈbɑs/
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Den Bosch.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of 's-Hertogenbosch.
synonyms: word: 's-Hertogenbosch
appeasive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more appeasive
form: most appeasive
Etymology: From appease + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Tending to appease; appeasing.
demonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈməʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /dɪˈmoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more demonian
form: most demonian
Etymology: From Latin daemonium + -an. By surface analysis, demon + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Princes, Heavens antient Sons, Æthereal Thrones, / Demonian Spirits now, from the Element / Each of his reign allotted, rightlier call’d, / Powers of Fire, Air, Water, and Earth beneath, / So may we hold our place and theſe mild ſeats / Without new trouble; […]
ref: 1671, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, pages 34–35, lines 122–127:
glosses: Synonym of demonic.
synonyms: word: demonic
Derived terms: demonianism
dog-hearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dog-hearted
form: most dog-hearted
form: doghearted
Senses: examples: text: A ſoueraigne ſhame ſo elbows him his own vnkindnes
That ſtript her from his benediction turnd her,
To forraine caſualties gaue her deare rights,
To his dog-harted daughters […]
ref: c. 1603–1606 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] His True Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Nathaniel Butter, […], published 1608, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
text: “How many of you dog-hearted giants are left?” Roadstrum called loudly. “Only myself,” came the strong voice of Bjorn. “Come out the two of you and we will see who is dog-hearted.”
ref: 1976, R. A. Lafferty, Space Chantey:
text: “You dog-hearted wretch!” sputtered Martin with water streaming down his hair and face.
ref: 2007, Constance Leeds, The Silver Cup:
text: He'd have to be a dog-hearted barnacle not to taste your good intentions.
ref: 2012, Erin Knightley, A Taste For Scandal:
text: How do the dog-hearted get through the day when they're not ransacking graves?
ref: 2014, Marina Carr, The Cordelia Dream:
text: We're gonna drag their dog-hearted king out into the sunlight and watch him sizzle!
ref: 2016, Yvonne L. Stegman, The Clearsong Chronicles: Battle for Daylight:
text: A bunch of spleeny dog-hearted farts.
ref: 2017, Paul Vidich, The Good Assassin:
glosses: Inhuman; cruel.
examples: text: Was Abraham Lincoln's mother dog-hearted? Did the mother of Napoleon waste her time crying because her poodle had the colic?
ref: 1900, Addison McClung Brownlee, Sermons from the Tripod, page 48:
text: For all the dogs who never make it out the front door of the shelter. For all the shelter employees who have to make the hard decisions. And for all the dog-hearted people who are working tirelessly to change the situation.
ref: 2018, Cara Sue Achterberg ·, Another Good Dog:
text: (see title)
ref: 2018, Paul W Ivey, Dog-Hearted: My Life Has Gone to the Dogs:
glosses: Very fond of dogs.
examples: text: The measureless squalor, the calm, house-broken, dog-hearted, subjected, abjected, subtracted, contracted, signed sealed and delivered.
ref: 1954, Louis Grudin, Inky Darkling, page 176:
text: The blessing we seek from God could be the very thing He curses if we do not stay Dog hearted by remaining focused on Him and the honor due His name.
ref: 2010, Bob Sjogren, Gerald Robison, Cat & Dog Prayer: Rethinking Our Conversations with Our Master, page 77:
text: What's in the dog-hearted dog-brained dog's heart?
ref: 2018, Tom Sleigh, House of Fact, House of Ruin: Poems, page 50:
glosses: Subservient and lowly, like a pet dog.
fourling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fourlings
Etymology: From four + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: Every 67th lying-in woman has twins, every 5333rd has trillings, and only every 150,000th has fourlings.
ref: 1842, “Sweden as it is; Moral, Political and Statistical”, in The Foreign Quarterly Review, volume 28, number 55, page 449:
text: this breed is prominent for its remarkable fecundity and yield of milk; as a rule, this goat litters once a year and drops 2 kids; occasionally trillings and fourlings.
ref: 1922, The Goat World, Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Goat Industry, page 67:
text: If the two or the four first cells into which the animal ovum divides during the process of so-called cleavage be separated from one another, then each of these cells grows into a small but complete organism. Conversely, if two ova be caused to amalgamate with parallel axes, the result is a "giant". What is the meaning of this? It is, that the material which, if left undisturbed, would have grown into one, can grow into many-into twins or into fourlings. And similarly the material destined for many may furnish one only.
ref: 1929, Hans Dreisch (W.H. Johnston), Man and the Universe, page 93:
glosses: One of four children born at the same birth; a quadruplet.
topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound or twin crystal consisting of four individuals.
fourlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fourling
ovariotomist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ovariotomists
Etymology: From ovariotomy + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Liston lashed the ovariotomists as ‘belly rippers’, and critics suggested it was done only to allow surgeons to practise pelvic surgery.
ref: 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 351:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Someone who performs a ovariotomy.
ovariotomists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ovariotomist
vicaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vicary
vicary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vicaries
Etymology: Latin vicarius.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of vicar.
firry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɜːɹi/
homophone: furry
Forms: form: more firry
form: most firry
Etymology: From fir + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I often heard the cooing dove / In firry woodlands mourn alone, […]
ref: 1832 December (indicated as 1833), Alfred Tennyson, “The Miller’s Daughter”, in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, stanza VI, page 35:
glosses: Abounding in firs.
glosses: Made of fir wood.
glosses: Similar to fir
throngly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From throng + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In throngs or crowds; densely.
unpathed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈpæθt/
/ʌnˈpɑːθt/
Etymology: From un- + pathed.
Senses: examples: text: unpathed waters and undreamed shores
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 iii]:
glosses: Not having a path.
vineal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈvɪniəl/
Forms: form: more vineal
form: most vineal
Etymology: Latin vīneālis.
Senses: examples: text: vineal plant
text: The ſame [planting in a quincunx formation] ſeems confirmed in Creece^([sic – meaning Greece]) from a ſingular expreſſion in Ariſtotle concerning the order of Vines, delivered by a military term repreſenting the order of Souldiers, vvhich alſo confirmeth the antiquity of this form yet uſed in vineal plantations.
ref: 1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter I.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, page 100:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, bearing, or containing, vines.
gutturalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From guttural + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: He spoke with little movement of the lips, so that his voice was almost without inflection and marked by gutturalness.
ref: 1937, Todd Downing, The Last Trumpet:
glosses: The quality of being guttural.
skulkingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more skulkingly
form: most skulkingly
Etymology: From skulking + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a skulking manner.
mesitylenate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mesitylenic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt of mesitylenic acid.
apoplexed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more apoplexed
form: most apoplexed
Senses: examples: text: […] but sure that sense is apoplex'd; for madness would not err […]
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 III, scene iv]:
glosses: Affected with apoplexy.
disassent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disassents
Etymology: From dis- + assent.
Senses: examples: text: Whether he departed without the French kynges consent or disassent, he[…]returned agayn to the Lady Margaret.
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:
text: But whether he departed without the French kings conſent or diſaſſent, he deceiued in his expectacion, and in maner in diſpaire, retourned againe to the Lady Margaret his firſt fooliſh foundreſſe.
ref: 1569, Richard Grafton, “Henry the Seuenth”, in A Chronicle at Large and Meere History of the Affayres of Englande […], volume II, London: […] Henry Denham, […], for Richarde Tottle and Humffrey Toye, →OCLC, page 898:
glosses: Obsolete form of dissent.