cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
disencouragement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disencouragements
Etymology: From dis- + encouragement.
Senses: examples: text: to the Disencouragement and Ruin of those who trade in the same Way.
ref: 1712 July 21 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “THURSDAY, July 10, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 443; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume V, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: discouragement
disencouragements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disencouragement
headrope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headropes
Etymology: From head + rope.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The part of a bolt rope that is sewn to the upper edge or head of a sail.
Synonyms: headline
headropes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of headrope
hemitropy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hemi- + -tropy.
Senses: topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of hemitropism.
synonyms: word: hemitropism
ventriculite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ventriculites
Etymology: See ventriculus, + -ite.
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Any of numerous species of siliceous fossil sponges belonging to Ventriculites.
ventriculites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ventriculite
rumkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rumkins
Etymology: Compare rummer, and see -kin.
Senses: glosses: A drinking vessel.
glosses: A tailless variety of fowl.
rumkins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rumkin
gerboa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gerboas
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of jerboa.
gerboas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gerboa
Gothamite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɒθəmaɪt/
Forms: form: Gothamites
Etymology: From Gotham + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: The Gothamites made some semblance of defense, but their women having been all won over into the interest of the enemy, they were shortly reduced to make most abject submission; […]
ref: [1807 November 11, [Washington Irving [et al.]], “Wednesday, November 11, 1807. Chap[ter] CIX. Of the Chronicles of the Renowned and Ancient City of Gotham.”, in Salmagundi: Or, The Whim-whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq. and Others, number 17, London: J[ohn] Limbird, […], published 1824, →OCLC, page 120, column 2:
text: Twenty-two percent of Gothamites surveyed by the conservative-leaning think tank’s pollsters named the city’s economy as their biggest worry, closely followed by 21 percent who said they were worried most about public safety.
ref: 2020 September 1, Nolan Hicks, “Nearly half of New Yorkers think NYC is headed in the wrong direction”, in New York Post, retrieved 07 Dec 2020:
glosses: An inhabitant of New York City.
glosses: A Gothamist.
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: An inhabitant of the fictional Gotham City, the home of the superhero Batman.
Gothamites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gothamite
penitencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penitency
penitency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penitencies
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of penitence.
uncloud
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unclouds
form: unclouding
form: unclouded
form: unclouded
Etymology: From un- + cloud.
Senses: examples: text: whose breath can still the winds, Uncloud the sun, charm down the swelling sea, / And stop the floods of Heaven
ref: c. 1608–1610, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “Philaster: Or, Love Lies a Bleeding”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: To free from clouds or obscurity.
glosses: To enlighten
unclouding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uncloud
unclouds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uncloud
ansated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin ansātus (“handled; having handles”), from ansa (“handle”).
Senses: examples: text: […]elliptico-ansated[…]
ref: 1738, Ephraim Chambers, Cyclopedia:
glosses: Synonym of ansate.
synonyms: word: ansate
vively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more vively
form: most vively
Etymology: Compare French vivre (“to live”).
Senses: examples: text: a thing vively represented on the stage
ref: 1632 (first performance), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “The Magnetick Lady: Or, Humors Reconcil’d. A Comedy […]”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640, →OCLC:
glosses: In a lively manner.
undegrading
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + degrading.
Senses: glosses: Not degrading.
cyberhacker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberhackers
Etymology: From cyber- + hacker.
Senses: examples: text: On February 8, 2000, a cyberhacker attacked Yahoo, Amazon, eBay, CNN, and Buy.com, closing them for several hours.
ref: 2002, William M. Evan, Mark Manion, Minding the machines: preventing technological disasters:
text: Another possible approach to internet security focusing on hardware rather than relying on encryption software is the idea of shielding machines themselves from cyberhackers who usually commit their misdeeds by invading user software.
ref: 2003, Robert Guttmann, Cybercash: the coming era of electronic money, page 99:
glosses: A computer hacker; one who breaks into computer systems.
Related terms: cyberhacking
cyberhackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberhacker
shamblings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shambling
declinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈklaɪnəɫ/
Forms: form: more declinal
form: most declinal
Etymology: From decline + -al.
Senses: glosses: Having a decline or slope.
declinal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈklaɪnəɫ/
Forms: form: declinals
Etymology: From decline + -al.
Senses: glosses: The act of declining or refusing.
faulter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faulters
Etymology: From fault + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Behold the faulter here in sight.
ref: 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “(please specify |book=1 to 20)”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC:
glosses: One who commits a fault.
faulter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: faulters
form: faultering
form: faultered
form: faultered
Senses: examples: text: The penitent shower fell, as down he knelt
Before that care-worn sage, who trembling felt
About his large dark locks, and faultering spake:
Arise, good youth, for sacred Phoebus’ sake!
ref: 1818, John Keats, Endymion:
text: “You know all, then?”—“I know nothing,” said Melmoth faultering.
ref: 1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 179:
glosses: Archaic spelling of falter.
faulters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faulter
faulters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of faulter
interluder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interluders
Etymology: From interlude + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Is't not a fine sight, to see all our children made interluders? do we pay our money for this? we send them to learn their grammar and their Terence, and they learn their play-books
ref: 1625 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Staple of Newes. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot […], published 1631, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: A performer who performs in an interlude.
interluders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interluder
bursarship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bursarships
Etymology: From bursar + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The rank, office, or status of a bursar.
bursarships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bursarship
ulotrichan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ulotrichan
form: most ulotrichan
Etymology: Ulotrichi + -an
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Ulotrichi, a race or species of humans as classified by Jean-Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent.
inexpectant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inexpectant
form: most inexpectant
Etymology: From in- + expectant.
Senses: examples: text: Loverless and inexpectant of love, I was as safe from spies in my heart-poverty, as the beggar from thieves in his destitution of purse.
ref: 1853, Charlotte Brontë, Villette:
glosses: Not expectant.
well-liking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more well-liking
form: most well-liking
Senses: examples: text: Well-liking wits they have
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: They also shall bring forth more fruit in their age, and shall be fat and well-liking.
ref: 1549 March 7, Thomas Cranmer [et al.], compilers, “Psalms”, in The Booke of the Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacramentes, […], London: […] Edowardi Whitchurche […], →OCLC, folio xcii, recto:
text: he was so well fed as they which had all dainties, as lusty, as healthful and well-liking as his fellows.
ref: 1560, James Pilkington, Aggeus (Haggai) the Prophete, declared by a Large Commentary:
glosses: In good condition.
druidish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more druidish
form: most druidish
Etymology: From druid + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of druidic.
erectility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From erectile + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being erectile.
subterraneal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subterraneal
form: most subterraneal
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of subterranean.
frigefaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frigefactions
Etymology: From Latin frigere (“to be cold”) + facere (“to make”).
Senses: glosses: The act of making cold; cooling.
frigefactions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frigefaction
gastroelytrotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gastro- + elytrotomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The operation of cutting into the upper part of the vagina, through the abdomen (without opening the peritoneum), for the purpose of removing a foetus.
peristomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peristome + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a peristome.
Derived terms: postperistomal
peristomial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peristome + -ial.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a peristome.
misaffirm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misaffirms
form: misaffirming
form: misaffirmed
form: misaffirmed
Etymology: From mis- + affirm.
Senses: glosses: To affirm incorrectly.
misaffirmed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misaffirm
misaffirming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misaffirm
oxygenizement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oxygenize + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: The oxygenizement of metals by water is promoted by the action of air.
ref: 1805, William Lewis, The Edinburgh New Dispensatory:
text: The violent effervescence probably arises from a disengagement of nitric oxide, and it would appear that the rapid oxygenizement did not harden the oily substances so much as a slower change
ref: 1829, Andre Duncan, Supplement to the Edinburgh New Dispensatory:
glosses: oxidation
chloropleth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Prism map: Similar to a chloropleth, but in 3D.
ref: 2013, Mark Stacey, Joe Salvatore, Adam Jorgensen, Visual Intelligence, page 354:
glosses: Misspelling of choropleth.
dasymetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Coined by its inventor, Benjamin (Veniamin) Petrovich Semenov-Tyan-Shansky in 1911, from Ancient Greek δασύς (dasús, “thick with leaves, dense”) and μέτρον (métron, “measure”).
Senses: examples: text: A final issue that must be considered in the dasymetric approach is error in the classification of the satellite image.
ref: 2003, Victor Mesev, Remotely-Sensed Cities, page 151:
text: Therefore, the spatial redistribution of population and other sociodemographic data, as we will focus our discussion in this chapter, involves two transformation processes: dasymetric mapping, which involves data disaggregation, to in turn enable areal interpolation, which involves data reaggregation to a set of desired areal units.
ref: 2011, Xiaojun Yang, Urban Remote Sensing: Monitoring, Synthesis and Modeling in the Urban Environment:
glosses: Of or relating to a method of thematic mapping that uses areal symbols to classify volumetric data in a spatial manner.
Related terms: dasymeter
dasypygal
undammable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undammable
form: most undammable
Etymology: From un- + dammable.
Senses: examples: an undammable flood
glosses: That cannot be dammed.
dentalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dental + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: The formation of a sound using the teeth.
pheon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pheons
Etymology: Probably Old French.
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A bearing representing the head of a dart or javelin, with long barbs which are engrailed on the inner edge.
pheons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pheon
precoracoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: precoracoids
form: praecoracoid
form: præcoracoid
Etymology: From pre- + coracoid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The anterior part of the coracoid (often closely united with the clavicle) in the shoulder girdle of many reptiles and amphibians
Related terms: precoracoidal
precoracoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of precoracoid
heliochromic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From heliochromy + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: heliochromic negatives
text: heliochromic reaction
glosses: Pertaining to, or produced by, heliochromy.
membral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛmbɹəl/
Etymology: From Latin membrum + -al.
Senses: examples: text: This man speakes of an unnaturall ill-favourdnesse and membrall deformity, but we call ill-favourdnesse a kinde of unseemelinesse at the first sight, which chiefely lodgeth in the face, and by the colour worketh a dislike in us.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.12:
glosses: Relating to a member, in various senses; especially, (anatomy, zoology) pertaining to a limb.
Derived terms: intermembral
hesp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hesps
form: hasp
Etymology: Compare Icelandic hespa (“a hasp, a wisp or skein”). See hasp.
Senses: glosses: A measure of two hanks of linen thread.
hesps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hesp
squireling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squirelings
Etymology: From squire + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: Our ponderous squire will give
A grand political dinner
To half the squirelings near
ref: 1855, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page)”, in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, part MAUD:
glosses: A minor squire.
squirelings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squireling
vitelligenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vitellus (“yolk”) + -genous.
Senses: examples: text: vitelligenous cells formed in the ovaries of insects
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Producing yolk, or a yolk-like substance
werres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of werre
reprimer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reprimers
Etymology: From reprime + -er.
Senses: glosses: A machine or implement for applying fresh primers to spent cartridge shells, so that the shells may be used again.
reprimers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reprimer
readjuster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: readjusters
Etymology: From readjust + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, readjusts.
glosses: One who advocates a refund, and sometimes a partial repudiation, of a state's debt, without the consent of the creditors.
readjusters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of readjuster
staphyloma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staphylomas
form: staphylomata
Etymology: Latin, from Ancient Greek.
Senses: examples: text: Staphyloma is that disease of the eyeball, in which the cornea loses its natural transparency, rises above the level of the eye, and successively even projects beyond the eyelids […]
ref: 1818, Samuel Cooper, A Dictionary of practical Surgery:
text: One of the forms of staphyloma, which is regarded as in no degree malignant, appears to be essentially composed of a collection of cysts; and, as far as I can judge from mere description, having never had an opportunity of examining a case of the kind myself, is connected with that form of adventitious serous membrane with which we are now occupied.
ref: 1836, Thomas Hodgkin, Lectures on the Morbid Anatomy of the Serous and Mucous Membranes:
text: Abscission of the staphyloma should never be performed where there is reason to suspect pre-existing disease of the choroid or retina, as deep haemorrhage is likely to follow the removal of the front of the globe, which may necessitate the rest of the eye.
ref: 1869, George Lawson, Diseases and injuries of the Eye: their medical and surgical treatment, page 53:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An abnormal protrusion of the uveal tissue through the eyeball.
staphylomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of staphyloma
electropathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + -pathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: electrohomeopathy
glosses: The treatment of disease by electricity.
Derived terms: electropathic
electropalatographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From electropalatography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: relating to electropalatography
keep one's wits about one
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps one's wits about one
form: keeping one's wits about one
form: kept one's wits about one
form: kept one's wits about one
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of have one's wits about one.
diabolick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more diabolick
form: most diabolick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of diabolic.
translatioun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: translatiouns
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of translation.
armoriall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more armoriall
form: most armoriall
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of armorial.
appretiates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of appretiate
appretiating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of appretiate
appretiated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of appretiate
concert pitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concert pitches
form: concert-pitch
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: the reference pitch to which a group of musical instruments are tuned for a performance
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: the reference pitch using the standard of A440
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: the pitch that is heard (usually as played by one or more transposing instruments or a combination of transposing and non-transposing instruments)
Related terms: baroque pitch
concert pitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concert pitch
salvatioun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of salvation.
royall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more royall
form: most royall
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of royal.
royall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: royalls
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of royal.
roiall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more roiall
form: most roiall
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of royal.
administeration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of administration.
regall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more regall
form: most regall
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of regal.
regall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regalls
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of regal.
rationall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rationall
form: most rationall
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of rational.
ecclesiasticall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ecclesiasticall
form: most ecclesiasticall
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of ecclesiastical.
prejudicall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of prejudical.
get the goods on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets the goods on
form: getting the goods on
form: got the goods on
form: got the goods on
form: gotten the goods on
form: have the goods on
Senses: examples: text: "Bob, they've got the goods on you. There's a warrant out."
ref: 1914, Peter B. Kyne, chapter 19, in The Long Chance:
text: "You've got the goods on me. I can't deny I'm the man the police are lookin' for."
ref: 1921, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 10, in Tangled Trails:
text: "With marked money and marked bottles, we ought to be able to get the goods on that gang."
ref: 1922, B. M. Bower, chapter 14, in The Trail of the White Mule:
text: And the film shows how mother-care can be more convincing than a legal brief in getting the goods on the corporate villains.
ref: 2000 April 6, Alexander Walker, "Erin Brockovich" (film review), London Evening Standard (UK) (retrieved 22 Nov 2011)
text: [T]he state's flawed deregulation scheme practically invited unscrupulous behavior. Still, it's encouraging that Washington is finally getting the goods on the manipulators.
ref: 2002 Sept. 26, "California Culprits" (editorial), New York Times (retrieved 22 Nov 2011)
glosses: To acquire knowledge or develop evidence that reveals the truth about someone's character or behavior, especially criminal behavior.
Related terms: incriminate
have the goods on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has the goods on
form: having the goods on
form: had the goods on
form: had the goods on
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of get the goods on.
Jeju-do
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cheju-do
Senses: glosses: An island and self-governing province in South Korea.
goat-antelope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goat-antelopes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of goat antelope.
this just in
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: just in
Senses: examples: text: This just in: the presumed murderer of the young woman has been apprehended in a forest near the city.
glosses: Said to announce breaking news.
synonyms: film at 11
glosses: Said sarcastically with a statement that should be obvious.
sell someone a pup
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sells someone a pup
form: selling someone a pup
form: sold someone a pup
form: sold someone a pup
Etymology: From an old swindle, where one would be sold a bag purportedly containing a piglet, but actually containing a puppy. Compare pig in a poke.
Senses: examples: text: “Yes,” I agreed, “you undoubtedly sold him a pup. Precious mug he must have been to let you. But I suppose, as it was Saturday night, he was pretty busy.”
ref: 1931, R. Austin Freeman, Pontifax, Son and Thorndyke, published 2003, page 31:
text: I don't know who sold him the gold prospectus, but whoever did, sold him a pup.
ref: 2004, Henry De Vere Stacpoole, “Glued”, in The Slayer and Other Tales from the Pulps, page 99:
text: The document[…] reveals how Churchill complained that Duff had “sold him a pup” and let him think that “this place is a real bomb-proof shelter”.
ref: 2009 July 20, Arifa Akbar, “Churchill felt he was ‘sold a pup’ of a bomb shelter, letter reveals”, in The Independent:
text: Online dog lovers sold a pup [title]
ref: 2009 July 31, “Online dog lovers sold a pup”, in Sydney Morning Herald:
text: It hurt Henrietta to think that there was any area in which her husband did not excel, but if he had been anyone else she would have concluded that the dealer had sold him a pup.
ref: 2011, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, Dynasty 22: The Mirage:
synonyms: word: abuse
word: counterfeit
word: deceive
word: dissemble
word: dissimulate
word: feign
word: jiff
word: overreach
word: put on
word: spoof
word: sham
word: trick
glosses: To sell something of little worth, pretending that it is something else of greater value.
Related terms: buy a pup
sell someone a bill of goods
let the cat out of the bag
pig in a poke
floscule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floscules
Etymology: From Latin flōsculus, diminutive of flōs (“flower, blossom”). Compare French floscule.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A floret.
Derived terms: floscular
flosculous
vitasti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vitastis
Senses: glosses: An ancient Indian unit of length.
vitastis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vitasti.
inchmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inchman
inchman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inchmen
form: inch-man
Etymology: From inch (“unit of length”) + man (“soldier”).
Senses: examples: text: We sit under the eaves to eat, or on stumps in the grass (there are “inchmen” about, giant lumbering bull ants).
ref: 1990, Beverley Farmer, A Body of Water: A Year's Notebook, page 46:
text: They would walk many miles along Ocean Beach and they would eat the fleshy leaves of the plant they called pigface and she called dead men's fingers, would rub the bite of jack-jumpers and the inchmen with the pulpy flesh.
ref: 1994, Richard Flanagan, Death of a River Guide, page 203:
text: Outside in the yard we had fierce orange bull ants whose bite was like a red-hot needle; and, for a season, two nests of the dreaded inchmen.
ref: 2004, John Harwood, The Ghost Writer, page 9:
glosses: Any of several species of large, aggressive ants of the genus Myrmecia, mainly endemic to Australia.
Synonyms: sense: aggressive ant of the genus Myrmecia
word: bull ant
sense: aggressive ant of the genus Myrmecia
word: bulldog ant
sense: aggressive ant of the genus Myrmecia
word: inch ant
sense: aggressive ant of the genus Myrmecia
taxonomic: Myrmecia pilosula
word: jack jumper
sense: aggressive ant of the genus Myrmecia
word: jumper ant
sense: aggressive ant of the genus Myrmecia
word: sergeant ant
obliterature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From obliterate + -ure (suffix denoting the result of an action).
Senses: examples: text: After describing the gradual obliterature of the prominences by the advancing moon, he says, "These observations have convinced me that the prominences belong to the sun, and that it is unreasonable to assert the contrary."
ref: 1870, The Month, volume 12, page 56:
glosses: Synonym of obliteration.
synonyms: word: obliteration
obliterature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of obliterate + literature.
Senses: qualifier: literary criticism
glosses: Forms of literature that are somehow obliterated or void, for example, by being interpreted in a way not intended by the original author.
orphan asylum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orphan asylums
Senses: glosses: orphanage
mental asylum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mental asylums
Senses: synonyms: word: bedlam
word: bin
word: booby-hatch
word: booby house
word: bughouse
word: crazy house
word: cuckoo's nest
word: funny farm
word: happy hotel
word: insane asylum
word: laughing academy
word: loony bin
word: lunatic asylum
word: madhouse
word: mental asylum
word: mental home
word: grippy sock vacation
word: mental health center
word: mental health hospital
word: mental hospital
word: mental institution
word: nutfarm
word: nuthouse
word: psych
word: psych hospital
word: psychiatric hospital
word: psychopathic hospital
word: psychiatric ward
word: psych ward
word: special hospital
word: Tanjung Rambutan
word: whack shack
glosses: A mental hospital.
oppignerate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: oppignerates
form: oppignerating
form: oppignerated
form: oppignerated
Etymology: From Latin oppigneratus, past participle of oppignerare (“to pawn”). See ob- and pignerate.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oppignorate.
pale blue dot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the pale blue dot
Etymology: Referring to the Earth's appearance from space; Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of Earth taken in 1990 by the Voyager 1 spacecraft from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers and named by by American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author Carl Sagan.
Senses: glosses: The planet Earth.
wikipedia: Pale Blue Dot
Voyager 1
Related terms: Blue Planet
Blue Max
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Blue Maxes
Etymology: Named after WW1 ace Max Immelmann, the first German pilot to receive the award.
Senses: glosses: The Pour le Mérite military honour.
Augustinianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Augustinian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The doctrines and practices of the Augustinians.
Arab Spring
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Arab Spring
Senses: examples: text: Jonathan Hill, professor of international relations in the School of Security Studies at King’s College London, points to ongoing social unrest among rural youths in Morocco as another key reason why the law was passed. He cites the 2011 Arab Spring as an indicator of where such behaviour might lead if left unchecked.
ref: 2018 October 26, Chris Fitch, “Reintroduction of military conscription in Morocco”, in Geographical, archived from the original on 27 Feb 2021:
coordinate_terms: Arab Winter
glosses: The pro-democracy movement spreading across North Africa and the Middle East from 2010 to 2012.
medispa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medispas
form: medspa
Etymology: Blend of medical + spa
Senses: glosses: A kind of spa, or health club, that offers therapeutic treatments.
medispas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of medispa
politicall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more politicall
form: most politicall
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of political.
leafblower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leafblowers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of leaf blower.
leafblowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leafblower
subformat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subformats
Etymology: From sub- + format.
Senses: examples: differences between DVD-R subformats
glosses: A subsidiary format.
subformats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subformat
suaviate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: suaviates
form: suaviating
form: suaviated
form: suaviated
Etymology: From Latin suavior (“I kiss”).
Senses: examples: text: And now, what joy will there be, to see them and suaviate them, for whose sake he shed his most precious blood; through which they may safely sail into the bosom of the Father!
ref: 1650, John Trapp, A Clavis to the Bible:
glosses: To kiss.
Related terms: suaviation
channelography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From channel + -o- + -graphy.
Senses: examples: text: If a crystalline thin foil is irradiated by means of an isotropic source of charged particles, the particles channeled in the sample leave on a detector an image called channelography.
ref: 1971 June 16, “Détermination par canaligraphie de l'orientation de microcristaux”, in physica status solidi (a), volume 5, number 3, abstract, page 683:
text: Transmission radiography can also be subdivided into: (i) neutron radiography; (ii) ion radiography; (iii) ion lithography; and (iv) ion channelography.
ref: 2003, Michael F. L'Annunziata, Handbook of Radioactivity Analysis, page 218:
text: From the author's experience, provocative gonioscopy and channelography are useful to determine the overall status of the individual case before surgical intervention.
ref: 2012, P. Bettin, Glaucoma Surgery, page 111:
glosses: The study of the process that constrains the path of a charged particle in a crystalline solid.
Derived terms: channelographic
Related terms: dechannel
subrepo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subrepos
Etymology: From sub- + repo.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Clipping of subrepository.
ambiophonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A technique using digital signal processing and two loudspeakers directly in front of the listener in order to improve reproduction of stereophonic and surround sound.
Related terms: ambiophonic
limpard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limpards
Etymology: From limp + -ard.
Senses: examples: text: For most translators are, as Sir Thomas himself would have it, but sottish and doting fresh-water sophisters, gouty limpards, and a thousand worse things, for they turn the strong brews of their originals into thin vinegarish liquors.
ref: 1928, Morris Bishop, A gallery of eccentrics:
glosses: One who limps; a cripple.
wilsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wilsome
form: most wilsome
Etymology: From Middle English wilsom, equivalent to will (“desire”) + -some.
Senses: glosses: Willful; obstinate; stubborn.
glosses: Loved; desirable; amiable.
glosses: Fat; indolent.
Derived terms: wilsomely
wilsomeness
wilsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wilsome
form: most wilsome
Etymology: From Middle English wilsum, wilsom, wildsom, probably after Old Norse villusamr (“erroneous, false”), equivalent to will (“wild”) + -some. Cognate with Scots wilsum (“treacherous, wandering”).
Senses: glosses: Wandering; devious.
glosses: Doubtful; uncertain.
bisulphuret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bisulphurets
Etymology: From bi- + sulphuret.
Senses: examples: text: Occasionally in the metallic or native state: but its usual ore is the bisulpheret, known as Cinnabar .
ref: 1849, Joseph Jones, A plain instructor, page 186:
text: When the papules are developed, nothing answers so well as lotion made with two grains of the bisulpheret of mercury in one ounce of almond-emulsion or glycerine of starch, used every night.
ref: 1885, St. Louis Clinical Review, page 358:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A disulfide (functional group of two sulfur atoms).
bisulphurets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bisulphuret
Onondaga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Onondagas
form: Onondaga
Etymology: Borrowed from Onondaga Onöñda’gaga’. Compare Seneca Onödowáʼga:.
Senses: glosses: A member of a Native American tribe originally inhabiting Onondaga County, New York.
Onondaga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Onondaga Onöñda’gaga’. Compare Seneca Onödowáʼga:.
Senses: glosses: The language of the Onondaga people.
glosses: An ancient village of the Onondaga people in what is now in upstate New York that served as the capital of the Iroquois Confederacy.
glosses: A town in Onondaga County, New York, United States.
Derived terms: Onondaga County
Onondagan
Onondagas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Onondaga
comfortress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comfortresses
Etymology: From comforter + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: To be your comfortress, and to preserve you
ref: 1605 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, Ben: Ionson His Volpone or The Foxe, [London]: […] [George Eld] for Thomas Thorppe, published 1607, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page):
glosses: A woman who comforts.
comfortresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comfortress
guardianess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guardianesses
Etymology: From guardian + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female guardian.
guardianesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guardianess
enzoötic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of enzootic.
enzootics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enzootic
asparaginous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more asparaginous
form: most asparaginous
Senses: examples: text: asparaginous vegetables
text: asparaginous plant
glosses: Resembling or related to asparagus
besetter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: besetters
Etymology: From beset + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that besets.
besetters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of besetter
violaniline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: violanilines
Etymology: Blend of violet + aniline
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An induline dyestuff made from aniline and formerly used as a substitute for indigo in dyeing wool and silk.
violanilines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of violaniline
boulter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boulters
Etymology: From boult + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who boults or sifts.
boulter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boulters
Etymology: Uncertain.
Senses: glosses: A long, stout fishing line with many hooks attached.
boulters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boulter
homodermic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From homodermy + -ic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to homodermy; originating from the same germ layer; homological in respect of derivation from one of the three primary blastoderms (endoderm, mesoderm, and ectoderm).
physiognomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: physiognomers
Etymology: From physiognomy + -er.
Senses: glosses: A physiognomist.
physiognomers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of physiognomer
gallantness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English galauntnesse, galantnesse, equivalent to gallant + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being gallant.
Synonyms: gallanthood
gallantry
sympathist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sympathists
Etymology: From sympathy + -ist.
Senses: examples: c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Some Other Plays of Shakespeare
the sensation , -of human auditors , —of flesh and blood sympathists - acts as a support and a stimulation a tergo
glosses: Someone who sympathizes; a sympathizer.
glosses: One who is susceptible to hypnotic suggestion.
sympathists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sympathist
karvel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: karvels
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of carvel.
glosses: Obsolete spelling of caravel.
karvels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of karvel
violescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more violescent
form: most violescent
form: violascent
Etymology: Latin viola (“a violet”), + -escent.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat violet in colour.
filoplumaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more filoplumaceous
form: most filoplumaceous
Etymology: From filoplume + -aceous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having the structure of a filoplume.
dietetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dietetically
form: most dietetically
Etymology: From dietetical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a dietetic manner, using a diet or in the form of a diet.
neurographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurography
neurography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurographies
Etymology: From neuro- + -graphy.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: imaging of the nerves
Derived terms: electroneurography
microneurography
Related terms: neurographic
outjet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outjets
Etymology: From out- + jet.
Senses: examples: text: I shook them in a manner that must have exerted no small leverage power on the outjet beneath
ref: 1854, Hugh Miller, My Schools and Schoolmasters:
glosses: That which sticks out or projects; a protrusion or projection.
outjets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outjet
equicrescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsənt
Etymology: From equi- + crescent.
Senses: examples: text: It is well to notice that t, time, is an equicrescent variable, i.e., grows in equal steps. Thus, although time continually increases, it does so uniformly, so that the differential increment, dt, is constant, although time, t, is itself variable.
ref: 1913, Louis Adolphe Martin, Text-book of Mechanics, Volume 2:
text: A variable regarded as taking on equal increments is an equicrescent variable.
ref: 1916, Mansfield Merriman, American Civil Engineers' Pocket Book:
text: The scale I2 is equicrescent, i. e., its subdivisions subtend equal angular intervals at the pivot point.
ref: 1947, John W Wilson, Radiograph calculator, US Patent 2484366:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Increasing by equal increments.
equiaxially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From equiaxial + -ly.
Senses: examples: equiaxially recrystallized alloys
glosses: In an equiaxial manner.
pushbikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: push bikes
form: push-bikes
Senses: glosses: plural of pushbike
pushbikes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: push bikes
form: push-bikes
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pushbike
epeirid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epeirids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the former genus Epeira (now Araneus) of spiders.
Related terms: araneid
epeirids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epeirid
Hebraically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more Hebraically
form: most Hebraically
Etymology: From Hebraic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of the Hebrews, or in the Hebrew language.
Related terms: Judaically
corpulently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more corpulently
form: most corpulently
Etymology: From corpulent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a corpulent manner.
tse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tses
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian цэ (cɛ).
Senses: glosses: The letter Ц, ц.
unhingement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unhingements
Etymology: From unhinge + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: Yet we have to remember that six consecutive days of rehearsing the star part of The Fallen Angel, at the New Gaiety Theatre where the plaster was not properly dry, might have brought about an unhingement of spirits which, again, might have led to eccentricities.
ref: [1889 January], Rudyard Kipling, “(please specify the page)”, in Under the Deodars (A. H. Wheeler & Co.’s Indian Railway Library; no. 4), Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh: A[rthur] H[enry] Wheeler & Co.; London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The act of unhinging, or the state of being unhinged.
unhingements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unhingement
acrobatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acrobatisms
Etymology: From acrobat + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The feats of an acrobat; daring acrobatics.
acrobatisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acrobatism
plagueful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plagueful
form: most plagueful
Etymology: From plague + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Abounding with plagues
examples: text: "Why now, what's all this my pretty lady?" cried Mr. Giles, perceiving her situation. "Why do you let those two plagueful things torment you so? Why don't you teach them to be better behaved."
ref: 1814, Fanny Burney, The Wanderer, Volume 3, Chapter 56:
glosses: annoying; troublesome
hornpike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hornpikes
Etymology: From horn + pike.
Senses: glosses: The garfish.
hornpikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hornpike
unbusied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + busied.
Senses: examples: text: An apothecary sate unbusied at his doore , Whom by his heavy countenance he gessed to be poore.
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, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: Not required to work; unemployed; not busy.
waldheimia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waldheimias
Etymology: From translingual Waldheimia, from Waldheim + -ia.
Senses: glosses: Any of the extinct brachiopod genus †Waldheimia, now a subgenus of Terebratus.
waldheimias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waldheimia
sunsted
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of sunstead.
inculpably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inculpably
form: most inculpably
Etymology: From inculpable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: [N]o Man ought in reaſon to be charged vvith the Remote far-fetched Conſequences of any Propoſition held by him; ſince he may in all Equity (if he diſclaims them) be ſuppoſed ignorant of them, and that inculpably too.
ref: 1693, [Robert South], “A Preface, or, Introduction to the Following Animadversions”, in Animadversions upon Dr. Sherlock’s Book, Entituled A Vindication of the Holy and Ever-blessed Trinity, &c. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Randal Taylor, […], →OCLC, page xiii:
glosses: In an inculpable way; blamelessly.