cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
owlism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From owl + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Their Owlisms, Vulturisms, to an incredible extent, will disappear by and by, their Heroisms only remaining, and the helmet be reduced to something like the size of the head, we hope!
ref: 1895, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, and: Heroes and Hero-worship, page 114:
text: But when questioned as to the How? of this splendid proposal, they either belittle the questioner or resort to some vague owlism about the "womb of time."
ref: 1915, Benedict Elder, A Study in Socialism, page 274:
text: It is rather hard to be told at this time of day that ballot-boxes and extension of the suffrage are included in Mr. Carlyle's catalogue of Shams, and that Messrs. Thompson, Fox, and Co. must even submit to the charge of talking unveractities and owlism.
ref: 2013, Jules Paul Siegel, Thomas Carlyle: The Critical Heritage, page 325:
glosses: Affected or pretentious wisdom; pompous dullness; bombast.
examples: text: If the happiness of men depended as much upon the efficiency of agencies for the "mental discipline" and "culture" of women as it does upon their housewifely ability, the owlism would have been punched out of a score of very respectable studies long ago.
ref: 1870, Kansas State Agricultural College, Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, Catalogue, page 15:
text: Rather than be found guilty of Owlism, let me venture on a bit and expand on my broad thesis of information management .
ref: 1966, Mountain-plains Library Quarterly - Volumes 11-12, page 6:
text: Verily, Paul, thy prime minister deserved the patent for owlism, but thou were alone, gigantic, a Cleopatran owl-obelisk, needing no support, no philosophy, no schooling at primary institutes, or primeval colleges, -hooting was thy self.
ref: 1967, Frederick T. McGill, Jr, Channing of Concord, page 23:
glosses: Owlishness; pompous pseudo-intellectual nature or behavior.
examples: text: The book discusses the habits and rituals of these people-owls and explores the nature of <<owlism>>, which exposes the archaic and occult roots of the 20th century totalitarian systems .
ref: 2006, Михаил Епштейн, Великая совь, page 267:
text: The book describes a Northern people who believe the Great Owl to be their totemic ancestor, and explores the customs and rituals of these nocturnal owl-people, and the very nature of "owlism,” an archaic and occult source of twentieth-century ideocratic systems.
ref: 2021, Mikhail Epstein, Ideas Against Ideocracy:
glosses: The identification with and/or worship of owls.
examples: text: Her owlism and his larkism are mild forms of circadian-rhythm glitches known as delayed- and advanced- sleep phase syndromes.
ref: 1994, Shape - Volume 13, Issues 9-12, page 109:
glosses: Night-owlism.
mixogamous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
ichthyology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: polyandrous.
raw_tags: of fish
dotingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From doting + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being doting; excessive fondness.
grammaticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grammaticisms
Etymology: From grammatic + -ism.
Senses: examples: 1693-1694, Archbishop Robert Leighton, A Commentary upon the First Epistle of Peter
No, if we would contest grammaticisms, the word here, is passive: ye are returned, reduced, or caused to return.
glosses: A point or principle of grammar.
grammaticisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grammaticism
chorograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chorographs
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χώρα (khṓra, “tract of land”) + -o- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for constructing triangles in marine surveying, etc.
chorographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chorograph
grisamber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See ambergris.
Senses: examples: text: With diſhes pill'd, and meats of nobleſt ſort / And ſavor, Beaſts of chase, or Fowl of game, / In paſtry built, or from the ſpit, or boyl'd / Griſ-amber-ſtream'd; all Fiſh from Sea or Shore, / […] Alas how ſimple, to theſe Cates compar'd / Was the crude Apple that diverted Eve!
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, page 46, lines 340–344 and 348–349:
glosses: ambergris
traitories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of traitory
traitory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traitories
Etymology: From Middle English traitorie.
Senses: glosses: treachery; acts of a traitor
resiniform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more resiniform
form: most resiniform
Etymology: From resin + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of resin.
l337
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more l337
form: most l337
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of leet.
l337
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of leet.
hydrocarbonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrocarbonates
Etymology: From hydro- + carbonate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: bicarbonate
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: hydrocarbon
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: hydrous carbonate, such as malachite
Related terms: hydrocarbonated
hydrocarbonates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrocarbonate
greyline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grayline
Etymology: From grey + line.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technical
qualifier: strictly
glosses: A transition line, coinciding with a twilight zone (terminator), where a change in the propagation of radio waves is observed.
glosses: Synonym of twilight zone (“terminator”).
synonyms: word: twilight zone
extra: terminator
Related terms: grey area
grayline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of greyline.
interworld
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interworlds
Etymology: From inter- + world.
Senses: examples: text: Daniel especially hauing profited in wisedome, studied the interworld
ref: 1602, The Famous, Memorable Workes, (Please provide the book title or journal name), translation of original by Flavius Josephus:
glosses: A world between other worlds.
interworld
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + world.
Senses: glosses: Between worlds.
interworlds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interworld
añejo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: añejos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish añejo.
Senses: glosses: A tequila or rum which has been aged.
financial statement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: financial statements
Senses: glosses: A formal record of all relevant financial information of a business, person, or other entity, presented in a structured and standardized manner to allow easy understanding.
glosses: Any of the four basic elements in above, i.e. balance sheet, income statement, cash flow statement and statement on changes in equity.
immethodicalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immethodical + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Lack of method; the quality of being immethodical.
misadjust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misadjusts
form: misadjusting
form: misadjusted
form: misadjusted
Etymology: From mis- + adjust.
Senses: examples: text: following the daily routine of Scripture lessons in the track of the misadjusted order
ref: 1861, Isaac Taylor, The Spirit of Hebrew Poetry:
glosses: To adjust wrongly or unsuitably.
Related terms: disadjust
misadjusted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misadjust
misadjusting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misadjust
misadjusts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misadjust
scalloper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scallopers
Etymology: From scallop + -er.
Senses: glosses: A scallop fisher.
scallopers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scalloper
unsubbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unsub
sickishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sickishly
form: most sickishly
Etymology: From sickish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a sickish manner.
sickishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sickish + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: After breakfast the hours passed in the sickishness, the invalid waiting, of a major holiday.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
glosses: The quality of being sickish.
swinesties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swinesty
swinesty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swinesties
Etymology: From swine + sty.
Senses: glosses: A pigsty
Miamis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Miami
illiberalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From illiberal + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being illiberal; illiberality.
enmist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enmists
form: enmisting
form: enmisted
form: enmisted
Etymology: From en- + mist.
Senses: glosses: To enfold, as if in mist.
enmisted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enmist
enmisting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enmist
enmists
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enmist
pericambium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛɹɪˈkæmbɪəm/
Forms: form: pericambia
Etymology: A borrowing of the 19th-century (1868) German Pericambium (now spelt Perikambium), equivalent to the English peri- + cambium.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A pericycle.
Related terms: pericambial
deutosulphuret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deutosulphurets
Etymology: From deuto- + sulphuret.
Senses: examples: text: deutosulphuret of calcium
text: deutosulphuret of copper
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A disulfide.
deutosulphurets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deutosulphuret
carbonide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbonides
Etymology: From carbon + -ide.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of carbide.
carbonides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carbonide
forcipal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Mechanicks make uſe hereof in forcipall Organs, and Inſtruments of Inciſion; […]
ref: 1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter II.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, page 112:
glosses: Branched and forked like a pair of forceps; constructed so as to open and shut.
examples: text: forcipal extraction
glosses: Using forceps.
divorceless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From divorce + -less.
Senses: examples: text: England had been a “divorceless society,” and remained that way until 1857.
ref: 2010, Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, Revised Edition, page 204:
glosses: Without divorces.
glosses: Incapable of being divorced or separated.
Derived terms: divorcelessness
inconsistence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inconsistences
Etymology: From in- + consistence.
Senses: examples: text: And yet I cannot find the least inconsistence with conscience or honour
ref: 1758, Jonathan Swift, The History of the Four Last Years of the Queen:
glosses: inconsistency
ladies' smocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lady's smock
lady's smock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ladies' smocks
form: lady's-smock
form: ladies' smock
Etymology: Attested since 1588. Not found in Middle English, yet compare Old English lustmoce (“lady's smock”).
Senses: glosses: A plant, the cuckooflower (Cardamine pratensis).
nepotal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈnɛpətəl/
Forms: form: more nepotal
form: most nepotal
Etymology: From Latin nepōtālis, from nepōs.
Senses: examples: text: nepotal descent
text: nepotal duties
text: nepotal relationship
glosses: Of or relating to a nephew.
Related terms: nepotistic
nepotism
wrynecked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wrynecked
form: most wrynecked
Etymology: From wryneck + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: In the thick of these scents and sounds [...] reclined Captain John Barker—a little wry-necked gentleman, with a prodigious hump between his shoulders, and legs that dangled two inches off the floor.
ref: 1891, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, chapter 1, in The Blue Pavilions:
glosses: torticollic
insatiateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From insatiate + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being insatiate.
infestive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more infestive
form: most infestive
Etymology: From infest + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Tending to infest; acting like an infection.
Second Coming
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of second coming.
outsquawk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outsquawks
form: outsquawking
form: outsquawked
form: outsquawked
Etymology: From out- + squawk.
Senses: glosses: To squawk louder than; to surpass in squawking.
outsquawked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outsquawk
outsquawking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outsquawk
outsquawks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outsquawk
deludable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more deludable
form: most deludable
Etymology: From delude + -able.
Senses: examples: text: For well understanding the omniscience of his nature, he is not so ready to deceive himself, as to falsifie unto him whose cognition is no way deludable.
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, published 1650, Book I, Chapter 2, p. 5:
text: [That] is too absurd to be mentioned by the most malignant calumniator, or to be credited by the most deludable dupe.
ref: 1799, Arthur O’Connor, Arthur O’Connor’s Letter to Lord Castlereagh, page 35:
text: One could simply stop the argument there, dismiss the resurrection as a lie, and declare belief in the risen Jesus to be the product of a deludable mind.
ref: 2013, Reza Aslan, chapter 13, in Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, Random House:
glosses: Capable of being deluded; gullible.
Derived terms: undeludable
shirky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)ki
Forms: form: more shirky
form: most shirky
Etymology: From shirk + -y.
Senses: glosses: Disposed to shirk; tending to avoid work, obligations, etc.
excommunicable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more excommunicable
form: most excommunicable
Senses: glosses: Liable or deserving to be excommunicated.
Derived terms: nonexcommunicable
Shemite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Shemites
Etymology: From Shem + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A Semite, especially a descendant of the Biblical Shem.
Shemites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Shemite
photographometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photographometers
Etymology: From photograph + -o- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for determining the sensibility of the plates employed in photographic processes to luminous rays.
photographometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photographometer
butcherings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butchering
reperusal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reperusals
Etymology: From re- + perusal.
Senses: glosses: A second or repeated perusal.
reperusals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reperusal
timberling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timberlings
Etymology: From timber + -ling.
Senses: glosses: A small tree.
timberlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of timberling
flittern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flitterns
Senses: glosses: The bark obtained from young oak trees.
examples: text: In August, 1851, 7,600 oak flittern trees and poles were sold by auction
ref: 1857, William Fordyce, The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham:
glosses: A young oak tree.
flitterns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flittern
intractile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more intractile
form: most intractile
Etymology: From in- + tractile.
Senses: examples: text: intractile muscles
text: intractile tentacles
text: bodies[…]to be drawn forth in length, intractile; porous, solid
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “IX. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: Not tractile; incapable of being drawn out or extended.
dicoccous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + coccous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Composed of two coherent, one-seeded carpels.
gurt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɜːt/
ipa: /ˈɡɝːt/
ipa: /ˈɡɜːɹt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
homophone: girt
homophone: gert
Forms: form: gurts
Etymology: Origin obscure. Possibly a metathesis of gutter.
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift.
gurt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɜːt/
ipa: /ˈɡɝːt/
ipa: /ˈɡɜːɹt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
homophone: girt
homophone: gert
Forms: form: gert
form: girt
Etymology: From Middle English girt, gert, a metathetic variant of gret (“great”). More at great.
Senses: examples: text: Then I opens the cupboard door and I sees a gurt big spider looking up at me.
text: Zo ′e bought a slap-up rod and tackle, and, ev coose, a darn gurt book vull o′ vlies — talk′d about ketchin′ whackin′ trout, and me — ap a salmon the fust time.
ref: 1842, The Sportsman, Volume VI: January to June, page 103:
text: “That was the word,” said Farmer Forder. “Hav′n pocketed the tuppunce, the chap as show′d off the clock opened the case, and let me zee the works of ′un, and wonderful works they was : wheels within wheels, and all sorts o′ crinkum-crankums, like a gurt puzzle.[…]”
ref: 1845, Douglas Jerrold, editor, Shilling Magazine, Volume II: July to December, page 416:
text: “Well, Tom, where did those birds settle?”
“Down there, sir, under that gurt oak-tree.”
Not a bird, however, was to be found.
ref: 1884, John Coker Egerton, Sussex Folk and Sussex Ways: Stray Studies in the Wealden Formation of Human Nature, page 27:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of great.
gurts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gurt
glosses: groats; hulled grain
inexhaustibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inexhaustible + -ness.
Senses: glosses: inexhaustibility; the quality of being inexhaustible.
crotonine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From croton + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A supposed alkaloid obtained from croton oil by boiling it with water and magnesia, later found to be merely a magnesia soap of the oil.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: One of a number of alkaloids and terpenoids isolated from plants of the genus Croton.
misdoubtful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈdaʊtfəl/
Forms: form: more misdoubtful
form: most misdoubtful
Etymology: From misdoubt + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: She gan to cast in her misdoubtfull mynde / A thousand fearees, that love-sicke fancies faine to fynde.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Misgiving; doubting, suspicious.
counterpassant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: counter-passant
Etymology: From counter- + passant.
Senses: examples: text: Arg. a bend engr. betw. in chief a lion pass., and in base a lion counterpassant gu.
ref: 1874, John Woody Papworth, An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, page 202:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Passant in opposite directions; said of two animals, or of one animal in relation to another animal on the same shield.
Related terms: counter-couchant
perivisceral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + visceral.
Senses: examples: text: perivisceral fat
text: perivisceral fluid
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Around the viscera.
Coordinate terms: paravisceral
Related terms: intraabdominal
suet
mucronulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mucronulate
form: most mucronulate
Etymology: From mucronule + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Having, or tipped with, a small point or points.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Being mucronate, but with a noticeably diminutive spine, a mucronule.
piecemealed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of piecemeal
temptable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more temptable
form: most temptable
Etymology: From Middle English temptable, probably from Old French temptable, variant of tentable; compare Latin tentābilis; equivalent to tempt + -able.
Senses: examples: text: As concerning the Infamous and Diabolical Magick, he that would know whether or no a Philoſopher be temptable by it, or illaqueable into it, […]
ref: 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, chapter IV, in The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC, page 268:
glosses: Capable of being tempted; liable to be tempted.
cespitine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin caespes, caespitis (“a turf”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An oil obtained by distillation of peat, containing various members of the pyridine series.
venerean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more venerean
form: most venerean
Etymology: Compare French vénérien.
Senses: examples: text: I am all venerean in feeling
ref: 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
glosses: Devoted to the offices of Venus, or love; venereal.
forespurrer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forespurrers
Etymology: From fore- + spur + -er.
Senses: examples: text: A day in April never came so sweet,
To show how costly summer was at hand,
As this forespurrer comes before his lord.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ix]:
text: The records of lost opportunities serve as warnings and incentives to those who aim to be forespurrers among men. They impress the great value of building upon the strong foundations of dogged work while vividly picturing the tottering and [...]
ref: 1900, The Medical Times, volume 28, page 25:
glosses: One who spurs or rides ahead; a vanguard or harbinger.
Mothman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From moth + man.
Senses: topics: biology
cryptozoology
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
natural-sciences
philosophy
sciences
ufology
zoology
glosses: A legendary creature, regarded as a cryptid or alien, reportedly seen in West Virginia in the mid-1960s.
shorl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shorls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of schorl.
shorls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shorl
reallege
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: realleges
form: realleging
form: realleged
form: realleged
Etymology: From re- + allege.
Senses: glosses: To allege again.
realleged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reallege
realleges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reallege
realleging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reallege
steedless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From steed + -less.
Senses: glosses: horseless
extrafoliaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + foliaceous.
Senses: examples: text: extrafoliaceous prickles
text: Flowers umbelled. Leaves ovate toothed angular ciliated, Umbels extrafoliaceous stalked
ref: 1828, John Claudius Loudon, An Encyclopaedia of Plants:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Away from the leaves, or inserted in a different place from them.
illustratory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more illustratory
form: most illustratory
Etymology: From illustrate + -ory.
Senses: glosses: illustrative (serving to illustrate or explain)
byssolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: byssolites
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βύσσος (bússos, “flax”) + -lite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An olive-green fibrous variety of hornblende.
Synonyms: amianthus
Derived terms: byssolitic
misinformant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misinformants
Etymology: From mis- + informant.
Senses: glosses: One who gives wrong information; a misinformer.
misinformants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misinformant
holostome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holostomes
Etymology: From holo- (“whole”) + -stome (“mouth”).
Senses: glosses: An adult digenetic trematode with a portion of its ventral surface modified to be a complex adhesive organ.
topics: biology
conchology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the division Holostomata of gastropods.
topics: biology
ichthyology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the suborder Helostomi of eel-like fish.
Coordinate terms: topics: conchology
zoology
biology
natural-sciences
word: siphonostome
Derived terms: taxonomic: Carex holostoma
word: holostome sedge
Related terms: word: holostomatous
roman: syn. of Reticulipora
word: †Holostoma
word: Holostomidae
word: Holostomis
word: Holostemma
holostomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holostome
doorstead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doorsteads
Etymology: From door + stead.
Senses: examples: February 20 1767 William Warburton, letter to Richard Hurd
I replied , […] "did nobody clog up the King's door-stead more than I, there would be room for all honest men"
glosses: The entrance or place of a door.
doorsteads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doorstead
festucous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /fɛsˈtjuːkəs/
/fɛsˈtuːkəs/
Etymology: From Latin festūcōsus, from festūca.
Senses: examples: text: straws or festucous divisions lightly drawn over with oil
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Formed of, consisting of, or similar to, straw.
perpetuance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perpetuances
Senses: glosses: Synonym of perpetuity.
synonyms: word: perpetuity
glosses: Obsolete form of perpetuana (“type of fabric”).
nicotianine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French nicotianine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: tobacco camphor
glosses: A white waxy substance with a hot, bitter taste, extracted from tobacco leaves.
interpubic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + pubic.
Senses: examples: text: interpubic ligament
text: interpubic disk
text: interpubic joint
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Between the pubic bones or cartilage.
overscrupulosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + scrupulosity.
Senses: glosses: overscrupulousness
ullet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ullets
Etymology: Compare Old French hullote, English howlet.
Senses: glosses: The tawny owl, Strix aluco.
ullets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ullet
misarrangement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misarrangements
Etymology: From mis- + arrangement.
Senses: glosses: Wrong or incorrect arrangement.
misarrangements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misarrangement
hardihead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hardy + -head.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hardihood.
hardihead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hardiheads
form: hardihead
Etymology: From reference to its hardy or robust head.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hardyhead (“the fish”).
dipleidoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dipleidoscopes
Etymology: From diplo- (“double”) + Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos, “image”) + -scope.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: An instrument for determining the time of apparent noon. It consists of two mirrors and a plane glass in the form of a prism, so that, by the reflections of the sun's rays from their surfaces, two images are presented to the eye, moving in opposite directions, and coinciding at the instant the sun's centre is on the meridian.
dipleidoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dipleidoscope
letheon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈliːθiːən/
Etymology: From New Latin lēthēon, from Ancient Greek λήθη (lḗthē, “forgetting, forgetfulness”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: sulphuric ether used as an anaesthetic agent.
Derived terms: letheonize
salicylide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salicylides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A white crystalline substance obtained by dehydration of salicylic acid.
salicylides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salicylide
versicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪkjʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: See versicle.
Senses: examples: text: versicular division of the Bible
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or containing verses (distinct divisions of a writing).
inventful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inventful
form: most inventful
Etymology: From invent + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: the genius of the French government appears powerful only in destruction, and inventful only in oppression
ref: 1797, John Gifford, “Preface”, in A Residence in France, during the years 1792, 1793, and 1795:
glosses: Full of invention; creative.
Derived terms: uninventful
omniparous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Producing or giving birth to all things; omniparient.
endosmometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endosmometers
Etymology: From endosmosis + -meter.
Senses: glosses: osmometer
endosmometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endosmometer
ravingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ravingly
form: most ravingly
Etymology: From raving + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The conjugal companion of Mr Verloc had suddenly become ravingly, murderingly insane.
ref: 2007, Geoffrey N. Leech, Mick Short, Style in Fiction: A Linguistic Introduction to English Fictional Prose:
glosses: So as to rave; madly; in an insane way.
disagreer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disagreers
Etymology: From disagree + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Sir, is not that a strange answer, in you, that know there is fire to awe disagreers in all matters of faith?
ref: a. 1660, Henry Hammond, a sermon:
text: Accordingly, any instance of disagreement involves a potential burden on the speaker (rather than the hearer) which a disagreer has to gauge and which influences whether and how the disagreement will eventually be performed.
ref: 2014, Karen Glaser, Inductive or Deductive?:
glosses: One who disagrees.
disagreers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disagreer
indear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: indears
form: indearing
form: indeared
form: indeared
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of endear.
Derived terms: indearment
indeared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of indear
indearing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of indear
indears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of indear
commentatorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From commentator + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The office or occupation of a commentator.
vicarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vicarians
Senses: examples: text: Shall Balbus, the demure Athenian, / Dreame of the death of next Vicarian?
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: A vicar.
vicarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vicarian
social landlord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: social landlords
Senses: glosses: An agent or agency that provides social housing.
boaty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊti/
ipa: /ˈboʊti/
rhymes: -əʊti
Forms: form: more boaty
form: most boaty
Etymology: From boat + -y (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: We compromised by calling it a geyesmeyer, a word coined by a boaty friend of ours, and used quite profusely by him to describe anything from a bilge-pump to a rhinoceros.
ref: 1950 December, Motor Boating, volume 86, number 6, page 20:
text: Passengers, they meant, not hands. But I found the mistake charming in a boaty kind of way. They were the real thing, these sailors, with salty New England accents and what might have been called coarse manners in a nineteenth-century novel.
ref: 2006, Lucy Jane Bledsoe, The Ice Cave:
glosses: Relating to boats.
epistolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Wherefore the Objections were but ſmall, conſidering the Uſefulneſs of this Epiſtolar way, though there were no other ſenſe of theſe ſeven Epiſtles and the ſeven Churches but the myſticall.
ref: 1669, Henry More, “A Preparation toward the Mysticall or Propheticall Interpretation of the Seven Epistles to the Seven Churches of Asia”, in An Exposition of the Seven Epistles to the Seven Churches; […], London: […] James Flesher, →OCLC, paragraph 6, page 9:
glosses: Alternative form of epistolary.
hidy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪdi
Forms: form: more hidy
form: most hidy
form: hydie
Etymology: From Middle English *hidy, *hudi, from Old English hȳdiġ (“leathern”), equivalent to hide (“skin”) + -y.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to hides.
glosses: Of coffee: having a characteristic leathery taste.
Microsofting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Microsoft
Microsofted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Microsoft
iTouches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iTouch
angely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more angely
form: most angely
Etymology: From angel + -y. Compare West Frisian ingelich (“angelic”).
Senses: examples: text: No one can see the angels in their real form, it's harder than to look directly to the sun, but in Islam we believe that the roosters can see the angels in their angely shape.
ref: 2016, Mohammed Qazzaz, The Little Muslim In The House, page 38:
glosses: Like or resembling an angel; angellike.
Derived terms: angely wood
Related terms: angelly
edulcoration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: edulcorations
Etymology: From Latin ēdulcoratiō (“making sweet”), from ex (“from, out of”) + dulcis (“sweet”). By surface analysis, edulcorate + -ion.
Senses: glosses: A sweetening.
glosses: The process of edulcorating.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The process of removing acid or other impurities from a substance.
Related terms: edulcorate
sikidy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of algebraic geomancy, based on seeds arranged in a tableau, practised by Malagasy peoples in Madagascar.
angy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪŋ.ɡi/
Forms: form: more angy
form: most angy
Senses: glosses: Angry in a cute way.
museum piece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: museum pieces
Etymology: Referring to the preservation of historic artifacts in museums.
Senses: examples: text: These excursions proved popular, and it is, perhaps, not too much to hope that British Railways will revive the idea, and use museum pieces to stage exhibitions of trains of bygone days.
ref: 1950 October, H. C. Casserley, “Locomotive Cavalcade, 1920-1950—4”, in Railway Magazine, page 660:
glosses: An item worthy of being kept by a museum.
examples: text: Jim's car is a real museum piece.
text: A Sinclair Spectrum computer is now just a museum piece.
glosses: A very old item, especially an obsolete piece of technology.
koba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kobas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kob (kind of antelope)
special service requirement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: special service requirements
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel-industry
glosses: A request for special treatment for a passenger such as a special diet or mobility assistance, sent from an agent to an airline, to which a reply will be returned.
Related terms: english: Similar, but not replied to by the airline
translation: Similar, but not replied to by the airline
word: OSI
iraimbilanja
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iraimbilanja
Etymology: From Malagasy.
Senses: glosses: A currency unit of Madagascar, equal to one fifth of an ariary.
misorderly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more misorderly
form: most misorderly
Etymology: From mis- + orderly.
Senses: glosses: irregular; disorderly
not-self
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌnɒtˈsɛlf/
Etymology: From not + self.
Senses: examples: text: a cognizance of not-self
ref: 1859–1860, William Hamilton, edited by H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:
synonyms: non-ego
qualifier: metaphysics
glosses: The negative of self, someone or something that is not the self
Related terms: anatta
nonself
reliefful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reliefful
form: most reliefful
Etymology: From relief + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Giving relief; relieving.
shoecare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shoe + care.
Senses: examples: text: The company has a core range of toiletries, household, shoecare and cosmetic products, many of which are household names […]
ref: 1994, Bill Scott, Manufacturing planning systems:
glosses: The care and maintenance of shoes.
sphenographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sphenography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: archaic Of or pertaining to sphenography.
teelseed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teelseeds
form: teal-seed
Etymology: From teel + seed.
Senses: glosses: sesame seed
teelseeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teelseed
grimily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more grimily
form: most grimily
Etymology: From grimy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a grimy manner.
phyllophorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phyllo- + -phore + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Bearing or producing leaves.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having leaf-like organs.
eternify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eternifies
form: eternifying
form: eternified
form: eternified
Senses: examples: text: a. 1610, The Mirror for Magistrates
Fame […] eternifies the name.
text: This said, her wing'd shoes to her feet she tied, <br<Formed all of gold, and all eternified
ref: 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:
glosses: To make eternal.
eternifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of eternify
exody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: the time of the Jewish exody
ref: a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of exodus.
lycopodite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lycopodites
Etymology: From lycopod + -ite (“mineral”).
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A fossil club moss.
lycopodites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lycopodite
eternifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of eternify
eternified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of eternify
lithocarp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithocarps
Etymology: From litho- + -carp.
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
synonyms: carpolite
carpolith
glosses: A fossilised fruit
synonyms: stone oak
glosses: Any plant of genus Lithocarpus
lithocarps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lithocarp
refreshful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more refreshful
form: most refreshful
Etymology: From refresh + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Having the ability to refresh; refreshing.
Related terms: refreshfully
reimprisonment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + imprisonment.
Senses: glosses: imprisonment again; the act of reimprisoning
mooner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mooners
Etymology: From moon + -er.
Senses: examples: text: A "mooner," fond of staring into shop windows, or watching the labourers pulling up the pavement to inspect the gas-pipes, or listening stolidly to the dull "pech" of the paviour's rammer on the flags.
ref: 1853, Charles Dickens, Household Words, volume 6, page 387:
glosses: One who abstractedly wanders or gazes about.
examples: text: Though not an exhibitionist mooner like Rousseau, Jacques offers us his belaboured rump as an image of a brutalised, not loveless but misloved, childhood .
ref: 1992, W. D. Redfern, Feet First: Jules Vallès, page 93:
ref: 2009 October 13, “Train drags mooner half-naked along tracks”, in Sydney Morning Herald:
glosses: Someone who moons (drops their pants and shows their bare buttocks in public).
glosses: A lunatic.
mooners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mooner
eldern
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eldern
form: most eldern
form: eldren
Etymology: From Middle English eldern, eldrin, elderne, equivalent to elder + -en.
Senses: glosses: Elder; elderly; aged; old.
raw_tags: of persons
glosses: Not new; old; ancient.
raw_tags: of things
Synonyms: sense: elderly
word: aged
word: long in the tooth
word: wizened
word: elderly
sense: not new
word: aged
word: cobwebby
word: olden
word: old
eldern
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From an alteration (due to elder) of Middle English ellern (“eldern”), from Old English ellærn, ellarn (“of elder-wood, eldern”), equivalent to elder + -en.
Senses: examples: text: [T]ruth, a heauen he would diſcharge vs as boyes do elderne guns, one pellet to ſtrike out another: […]
ref: c. 1603 (date written), Iohn Marston, The Malcontent, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for William Aspley, […], published 1604, →OCLC, Act IV, scene iv:
glosses: Made of elder wood, or of the elder tree.
infrasternal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)nəl
Etymology: From infra- + sternal.
Senses: examples: text: the infrasternal approach
text: the infrasternal depression (pit of the stomach)
text: the infrasternal notch
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Below the sternum.
Derived terms: infrasternal angle
infrasternally
incorrupted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incorrupted
form: most incorrupted
Etymology: From in- + corrupted.
Senses: examples: text: breathed into their incorrupted breasts
ref: 1599, John Davies, Nosce Teipsum:
glosses: Archaic form of uncorrupted.
desecrater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desecraters
Etymology: From desecrate + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] as if Nature denied her consolation to man, the desecrater of the forest temples she reared for his protection […]
ref: 1882, Harper's Magazine:
text: They would again send fifty men out into the valley to find and capture this desecrater of their temple.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 210:
glosses: Alternative spelling of desecrator.
desecraters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desecrater
bankeress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bankeresses
Etymology: From banker + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: I dined there a couple of months ago; and the bankeress said something about you
ref: 1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A female banker.
glosses: The wife of a banker
bankeresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bankeress
sweetcheeks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweetcheeks
Etymology: From sweet + cheeks.
Senses: glosses: A term of endearment.
gruntling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹʌntlɪŋ/
Forms: form: gruntlings
Etymology: From grunt + -ling.
Senses: glosses: A young hog or pig
gruntling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹʌntlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɡɹʌntəlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɡɹʌntlɪŋ/
Forms: form: gruntlings
Etymology: From gruntle + -ing.
Senses: glosses: the act or process of grunting or snorting