cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tectibranchiate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin tectus, past participle of tegere (“to cover”) + branchiate.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having the gills covered by the mantle; of or relating to the former order Tectibranchiata.
tectibranchiate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tectibranchiates
Etymology: From Latin tectus, past participle of tegere (“to cover”) + branchiate.
Senses: glosses: Any tectibranchiate mollusk.
tectibranchiates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tectibranchiate
subsyndromal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subsyndromal
form: most subsyndromal
Etymology: From sub- + syndromal.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Not pronounced or apparent enough to be clinically classed as a syndrome.
Related terms: subclinical
syndromal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From syndrome + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a syndrome.
Derived terms: subsyndromal
counter-paly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: counterpaly
Etymology: French contre-palé, equivalent to counter- + paly.
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Paly, and then divided fesswise, so that each vertical piece is cut into two, having the colours used alternately or counterchanged.
counterchanging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of counterchange
countercathectic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛktɪk
Forms: form: more countercathectic
form: most countercathectic
Etymology: From counter- + cathectic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to countercathexis.
savagenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of savageness
prisage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹaɪzɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: prisages
Etymology: From Old French prisage (“a praising, valuing, taxing”) (compare Latin prisagium (“prisage”)) or from French prise (“a taking, capture, prize”). See prize.
Senses: examples: text: There is also another very ancient hereditary duty belonging to the crown, called the prisage, or butlerage of wines
ref: 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
topics: law
glosses: A right belonging to the crown of England, of taking two tuns of wine from every ship importing twenty tuns or more: one before and one behind the mast.
glosses: The share of merchandise taken as lawful prize at sea which belongs to the king or admiral.
Related terms: butlerage
prisages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prisage
sontag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sontags
Etymology: After Henriette Sontag (1806–1854), German soprano singer.
Senses: examples: text: If it had, only think what a scattering of clothing there would have been—skirts, dresses, sontags, double-dresses, shawls, cloaks, hoods, scarfs, veils, and little black strings[…]
ref: 1864, Heman Humphrey Barbour, My Wife and My Mother, page 174:
glosses: A knitted worsted jacket, worn over the waist of a woman's dress.
wikipedia: Henriette Sontag
sontags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sontag
prioritizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prioritizers
form: prioritiser
Etymology: From prioritize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: What should you do each day if you are a good task prioritizer?
ref: 1993, George M. Piskurich, Self-directed learning, page 126:
glosses: One who prioritizes.
prioritizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prioritizer
disadvance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disadvances
form: disadvancing
form: disadvanced
form: disadvanced
Etymology: From Old French desavancer.
Senses: examples: text: Through Cambels shoulder it unwarely went, / That forced him his shield to disadvaunce.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To draw back, pull back.
disadvanced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disadvance
disadvances
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disadvance
disadvancing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disadvance
mastich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mastichs
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of mastic.
mastichs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mastich
schistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more schistic
form: most schistic
Etymology: From schist + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or like schist; schistose.
commoration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commorations
Etymology: From Latin commoratio. Doublet of commoratio.
Senses: examples: text: Or was it , that they met not with so fit an opportunity of his commoration amongst them?
ref: 1612–1626, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volume (please specify |volume=II, V, or VI), London, →OCLC:
glosses: residence (the act of staying or residing somewhere).
commorations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of commoration
steerless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɪələs/
ipa: /ˈstɪɹləs/
Etymology: From Middle English stereles, sterelees, from Old English stēorlēas (“ungovernable, unruly”), equivalent to steer + -less.
Senses: glosses: Having no rudder.
glosses: Without a guiding or steering influence; haphazard.
planarioid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more planarioid
form: most planarioid
Etymology: From translingual Planaria + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Resembling planarians.
slacknesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slackness
teaseling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of teasel
teaseling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The cutting and gathering of teasels.
glosses: The use of teasels to raise a nap on cloth.
Synonyms: teaselling
teazling
teaseled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of teasel
paludinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paludinous
form: most paludinous
Etymology: From Medieval Latin palūdīnōsus (“marshy, swampy”), ultimately from palūs. Sense 2 from translingual Paludina + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: The ground, where there happened to be any, was covered with spongy moss, and mucous lichens. We wasted days in going round deep swamps, while all kinds of paludinous creatures glided about and frightened our horses. Our water - proof overcoats were worn full of holes and we were drenched to the skin.
ref: 1907, Eclectic Magazine, page 74:
text: ... species of coccinellids are known to be firmly restricted to a certain, more or less strictly defined habitat. Among the common species, for example, the hygrophilous Anisostica novemdecimpunctata is bound to vegetation of paludinous habitats (as marshes, fens and moist meadows), […]
ref: 2013 December 11, Ivo Hodek, Biology of Coccinellidae, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 78:
glosses: Paludinal: characteristic of or relating to marsh, swamp or fen.
glosses: Relating to the genus Paludina.
stunningness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stunning + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being stunning.
sciniph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sciniphs
Etymology: From Latin scinifes, cinifes or ciniphes, plural, from Ancient Greek σκνίψ (skníps, “gnat, small fly(, flea?)”), plural σκνῖφες (sknîphes) or σκνῖπες (sknîpes).
Senses: examples: text: And they did ſo. And Aaron ſtreched fotth his hand, holding the rodde: and he ſtroke the duſt of the earth, and there were made ſciniphes on men and on beaſtes: al the duſt of the earth was turned into ſciniphes through the whole Land of Ægypt.
ref: 1609, The Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Lavrence Kellam, […], →OCLC, Exodvs 8:17, page 178:
text: The sciniphs and flies are common in warm, and the sciniphs especially in marshy countries.
ref: 1885, George R. Northgraves, Mistakes of Modern Infidels; or Evidences of Christianity […], page 205:
text: But it is worth noting that three of the plagues—blast, frost and fire—which he mentioned here do not appear at all in Exodus. […] In fact, in place of these three, there are recounted three others, sciniphs, boils, and darkness.
ref: 1991 [c. 540], Cassiodorus, translated by P. G. Walsh, Cassiodorus: Explanation of the Psalms, volume 2, →ISBN, page 267:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A kind of stinging or biting insect; a flea, gnat, sandfly, or the like.
sciniphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sciniph
squinsies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squinsy
squinsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈskwɪnzi/
Forms: form: squinsies
Senses: glosses: quinsy
thetine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thetines
Etymology: From thio- + ether + sulphine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a series of complex basic sulphur compounds analogous to the sulfines.
thetines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thetine
certeinely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more certeinely
form: most certeinely
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of certainly.
flower-fence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flower-fences
Etymology: So named from its having been sometimes used for hedges in the West Indies.
Senses: examples: text: Barbadoes flower-fence. Parkinsonia and Poinciana.
ref: 1858, William Baird, The Student's Natural History:
synonyms: peacock flower
gold mohur
glosses: A tropical leguminous bush (Caesalpinia pulcherrima, syn. Poinciana pulcherrima) with prickly branches and showy yellow or red flowers.
flower-fences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flower-fence
synanthous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From syn- + -anthous.
Senses: examples: text: No leaves were yet in sight, but in some cases the petals had fallen , and the seed pod was filling, showing that the leaves are certainly not synanthous, though appearing soon after the flowers.
ref: 1885, Palestine Exploration Fund: Quarterly Statement:
text: The synanthous species develop leaves and flowers only after a suitable rainfall and flower during the season with rain.
ref: 2013, Yitzchak Gutterman, Regeneration of Plants in Arid Ecosystems […] :
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the flowers and leaves appearing at the same time.
Related terms: synanthy
hysteranthous
proteranthous
paraphragma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paraphragmata
Etymology: From Ancient Greek παρά (pará, “beside”) + φράγμα (phrágma, “enclosure”).
Senses: glosses: paraphragm.
Related terms: paraphragmal
paraphragmata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paraphragma
perfix
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: perfixes
form: perfixing
form: perfixed
form: perfixed
Etymology: From per- + fix.
Senses: glosses: To fix, appoint, or allocate.
perfixed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of perfix
perfixes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of perfix
perfixing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of perfix
carpolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carpolites
Etymology: From Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, “fruit”) + -lite; compare French carpolithe.
Senses: synonyms: carpolith
lithocarp
glosses: A fossilised fruit, nut, or seed.
carpolites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carpolite
clifted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clifted
form: most clifted
Etymology: From clift + -ed, from clift (“a cleft”).
Senses: glosses: broken; fissured
examples: text: she had got to a safe distance from the clifted shore
ref: 1835, Gerald Griffin, Tales of my neighbourhood:
text: Climb the Andes' clifted side.
ref: 1812, Robert Chapman, The picture of Glasgow:
glosses: Having cliffs.
shoreweeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoreweed
substellate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛleɪt
-ɛlət
Etymology: From sub- + stellate.
Senses: glosses: almost star-shaped
subglabrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + glabrous.
Senses: glosses: Almost glabrous; having very slight down or hair.
bikh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɪk/
Etymology: From Hindi बिख (bikh, “poison”), from Sanskrit विष (viṣa, “poison”).
Senses: glosses: A poison extracted from Aconitum ferox or related species of.
glosses: The plant itself.
Synonyms: bish
nabee
prefilled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prefill
prefilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prefill
prefills
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prefill
conferva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈfɜːvə/
Forms: form: confervas
form: confervae
form: confervæ
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cōnferva. See comfrey.
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of unbranched slender green freshwater algae, formerly in the genus Conferva, now mostly in genera Cladophora or Tribonema
Derived terms: confervoid
confervous
confervae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conferva
confervas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conferva
cibation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /sɪˈbeɪʃən/
/saɪˈbeɪʃən/
Forms: form: cibations
Etymology: From Latin cibatio, from cibare (“to feed”).
Senses: glosses: The act of consuming food.
examples: text: fermentation and cibation
ref: 1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
topics: alchemy
pseudoscience
glosses: The operation of feeding the contents of the crucible with fresh material.
cibations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cibation
nonlitigating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + litigating.
Senses: glosses: Not litigating.
nonmonetized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + monetized.
Senses: glosses: Not monetized.
unmonetized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unmonetised
Etymology: From un- + monetized.
Senses: glosses: Not monetized.
unmonetized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unmonetised
Etymology: From unmonetize + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unmonetize
Octapla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑktəplə/
ipa: /ˈɒktəplə/
Etymology: From Late Latin Octapla, from Ancient Greek ὀκταπλά (oktaplá), neuter plural of ὀκταπλοῦς (oktaploûs, “eightfold”), from ὀκτα- (okta-, “octa-: eight”) + -πλόος (-plóos, “-fold”), used as the title of such an edition by Origen.
Senses: glosses: A Biblical octapla: an edition of the Bible in eight parallel versions or languages.
wikipedia: Origen
Related terms: Hexapla
maclurin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: morintannic acid
serjeantry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serjeantries
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of serjeanty.
serjeantries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of serjeantry
polewig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polewigs
form: polliwig
form: polliwog
Senses: glosses: sand goby (Pomatoschistus minutus).
Synonyms: pollybait
polewigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polewig
sergeantries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sergeantry
sergeantry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sergeantries
Etymology: From sergeant + -ry.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of serjeanty.
passegarde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passegardes
Senses: examples: text: The shoulder-plates (Achselstücke), with or without passegardes (Ränder). The palettes (Achselhöhlscheiben), which protected the armpits, and whose use does not date farther back than the middle of the fifteenth century[…]
ref: 1870, Auguste Demmin, Weapons of war, tr. by C.C. Black, page 223:
text: There is a very instructive series of monumental efligies at Meissen, engraved by Hollis, of successive dukes of Saxony, showing the continuous advances in Albert, who died in 1500, wears the armet, pauldrons with passegardes,[…]
ref: 1899, Archaeologia Aeliana, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, page 233:
text: Springbuck turned from his second adversary after shearing through passegarde, pauldron and shoulder, just in time to see Bulf go against the commander of the enemy troops, an accomplished fighter who wore armor of ancient design ...
ref: 1977, Brian Daley, The Domfarers of Coramonde, Lucia St. Clair Robson, →ISBN, page 273:
text: Passegardes, in ancient armor, were ridges on the shoulder-pieces to turn the blow of a lance.
ref: 2019, Thomas Wilhelm, A Military Dictionary and Gazetteer, Good Press:
glosses: Alternative form of passguard (“plate sticking up off shoulder-armor to protect the neck”).
passegardes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of passegarde
clavacin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: patulin
expansine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: patulin
clavatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: By surface analysis, clavatum + -in
Senses: glosses: patulin
gigantin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: patulin
nonperiodontal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + periodontal.
Senses: glosses: Not periodontal.
Q-car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Q-cars
Senses: glosses: A high-performance car with an unassuming exterior.
glosses: An unmarked police car.
Synonyms: sense: high-performance car
word: sleeper
sublevation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sublevations
Etymology: From Latin sublevare (“to lift up”), from sub (“under”) + levare (“to lift, raise”). Compare Latin sublevatio (“an allevation”).
Senses: examples: text: The greateſt diſcoveries men have of God's light and truth, are from the midſt of Lightnings and Thunders, Afflictions Storms end in a calm of merciful ſublevation; […]
ref: 1663, Edward Waterhous[e], chapter IV, in Fortescutus Illustratus; or A Commentary on that Nervous Treatise De Laudibus Legum Angliæ, Written by Sir John Fortescue Knight, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Roycroft for Thomas Dicas […], →OCLC, page 74:
glosses: The act of raising on high; elevation.
examples: text: So the Diſcontents and Inſurrections of the Nobles in England, though encouraged and ſupported by forreign Forces, yet failed of Succeſs againſt this nevv King and his Government, becauſe they vvere not follovved by any general Commotion or Sublevation of the People, vvhich left all ſafe and quiet in the Southern Parts, and main Body of the Kingdom, vvhilſt he marched vvith his Army againſt his Enemies in the North: […]
ref: 1695, William Temple, An Introduction to the History of England, London: […] Richard Simpson […], and Ralph Simpson […], →OCLC, page 211:
glosses: An insurrection, an uprising.
sublevations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sublevation
consequencing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of consequence
consequenced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of consequence
slavocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slavocracy
slavocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slavocracies
form: slaveocracy
Etymology: From slave + -o- + -cracy.
Senses: examples: text: This pressure brought the Southern slavocracy into conflict with Northern business interests. Slaveowners precipitated a war to defend the slave system and its accompanying way of life.
ref: 1993, Melvin M. Leiman, Political Economy of Racism, Pluto Press, →ISBN, page 35:
text: Close on their heels was any Texan who had ever said a word against the slaveocracy, or the cotton men, or was suspected of voting for Lincoln.
ref: 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 440:
glosses: The persons or interest representing slavery politically, or wielding political power for the preservation or advancement of slavery.
interdependences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interdependence
medusian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medusians
Senses: glosses: A jellyfish, especially those of the former genus Medusa.
medusians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of medusian
pickmire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pickmires
Etymology: From pick + mire, so called from its picking its food from the mire.
Senses: glosses: The peewit, or black-headed gull.
pickmires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pickmire
parastichies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parastichy
parasubstitutions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parasubstitution
smilaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Irregularly formed from Smilacaceae + -ous
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the plant family Smilacaceae.
dioscoreaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Dioscoreaceae + -ous
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the plant family Dioscoreaceae.
Volynian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Volynian
form: most Volynian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Volhynian.
Volynian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Volynians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Volhynian.
Volynians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Volynian
volvuli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of volvulus
Volhynian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Volhynian
form: most Volhynian
form: Volynian
Etymology: From Volhynia + -n.
Senses: examples: text: “The recipe for the chicken,” Mrs. A. M. Aksoy of Sewickley, Pa., wrote, “brings to mind a Volhynian stuffing I learned to make before World War II while a student at the University of Krakow in Poland, and which I have encountered nowhere else. […] I should like to pass on to you for your consideration chicken stuffed Volhynian style.”
ref: 1975 September 29, Craig Claiborne, “De Gustibus”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2025:
text: Most Volhynian Jews did not die in the extermination camps of Poland. Most were taken from their towns, their streets, their homes, killed in daylight and in darkness, within earshot and, sometimes, within eyesight of their neighbors and friends.
ref: 2009 March 15, Steve Luxenberg, “The Interpreter”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2025:
text: Standing next to Zelenskyy, Tusk said the two sides are 'finding a common language and methods of action on the issue of the Volhynian crime and sensitive issues of our history.'
ref: 2025 January 15, James Reynolds, “Russia 'has been planning acts of air terror against airlines all over the world', Polish leader warns amid growing fears Putin is plotting an atrocity in the West”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Jan 2025:
glosses: Of, relating to, or characteristic of Volhynia.
Volhynian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Volhynians
form: Volynian
Etymology: From Volhynia + -n.
Senses: glosses: One of a tribe or tribal union of Vlachs.
examples: text: The population here was different from that of central Poland where I had grown up. Although there were some Poles, two thirds of the Volhynians were ethnic Ukrainians.
ref: 2004, Joseph Pell, Fred Rosenbaum, “Life under Stalin”, in Taking Risks: A Jewish Youth in the Soviet Partisans and His Unlikely Life in California, Berkeley, Calif.: Western Jewish History Center of the Judah L. Magnes Museum; RDR Books, →ISBN, page 41:
text: On 28 October, Eichmann noted that on the basis of available transport trains, only 11,000 more Poles could be evacuated within the framework of the 2.Nahplan, meaning that the resettlement of most of the remaining Volhynians would have to be postponed further still.
ref: 2007 March 7, Phillip T. Rutherford, “The 2.Nahplan”, in Prelude to the Final Solution: The Nazi Program for Deporting Ethnic Poles, 1939–1941 (Modern War Studies), Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, →ISBN, page 164:
text: Oleksyuk reveals that when talking to his fellow Volhynians, he would often hear that prior to 1943–44 Ukrainians and Poles had coexisted happily.
ref: 2007 August 10, David R[oger] Marples, “The Ukrainian–Polish Conflict”, in Heroes and Villains: Creating National History in Contemporary Ukraine, Budapest; New York, N.Y.: Central European University Press, →ISBN, page 227:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Volhynia.
Volhynians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Volhynian
Semi-Saxon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: semi-Saxon
Etymology: From semi- + Saxon.
Senses: glosses: Late Old English and early Middle English, perceived as a language intermediate between Anglo-Saxon and English and belonging to the period from 1100 to either c. 1200, 1230, or 1250 (depending on the author).
Semi-Saxon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: semi-Saxon
Etymology: From semi- + Saxon.
Senses: glosses: Relating to Late Old English and early Middle English, the form of the English language belonging to the period from 1100 to either c. 1200, 1230, or 1250 (depending on the author).
metemptosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek μετέμπτωσις (metémptōsis), from μετεμπίπτω (metempíptō).
Senses: glosses: The suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late, or the suppression of the leap day once in 134 years.
sternforemost
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From stern + foremost.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: astern, to the rear.
examples: text: A fatal genius for going sternforemost.
ref: 1870, James Russell Lowell, Among my Books:
glosses: In an awkward, blundering manner.
pippul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pippuls
Senses: glosses: Dated form of peepul.
court-leet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: court-leets
form: courts-leet
Senses: examples: text: This oath must be taken by all persons in any office, trust, or employment; and may be tendered by two justices of the peace to any person, whom they shall suspect of disaffection. And the oath of allegiance may be tendered to all persons above the age of twelve years, whether natives, denizens, or aliens, either in the court-leet of the manor, or in the sheriff's tourn, which is the court-leet of the county.
ref: 1771, William, Sir Blackstone, “Of the People, Whether Aliens, Denizens, or Natives”, in Commentaries on the Laws of England, volume 1, page 368:
topics: law
glosses: A court of record held once a year, in a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet.
courts-leet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of court-leet
court-leets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of court-leet
conversative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more conversative
form: most conversative
Senses: glosses: Relating to conversation with others; social.
glosses: Chatty; inclined to talk.
congenious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: congenious experience
glosses: congeneric
perkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See -kin, and compare ciderkin.
Senses: glosses: A kind of weak perry.
sheep-headed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sheep-headed
form: most sheep-headed
Senses: synonyms: word: addlebrained
word: addlepated
word: airheaded
word: bee-brained
word: beef-witted
word: beefheaded
word: beetle-headed
word: birdbrained
word: blockheaded
word: Boeotian
word: boneheaded
word: boofheaded
word: brainless
word: bubbleheaded
word: buffle-headed
word: bullet-headed
word: cerebrally challenged
word: childish
word: chowderheaded
word: chuckleheaded
word: crackbrained
word: cretinous
word: dense
word: dented
word: dim-bulb
word: dim-headed
word: dim-witted
word: dim
word: doltish
word: dopey
word: dozy
word: drowsy
word: dull-headed
word: dull-minded
word: dull-witted
word: dull
word: dumber than a box of rocks
word: dumb
word: dunderheaded
word: empty-headed
word: fatheaded
word: feeble-minded
word: flea-brained
word: foolish
word: fuzzy-headed
word: fuzzy-minded
word: half-brained
word: half-witted
word: hammer-headed
word: idiotic
word: imbecilic
word: inane
word: insipid
word: intellectually challenged
word: knuckleheaded
word: lamebrained
word: lowbrow
word: lumpish
word: lunkheaded
word: mentally challenged
word: mentally retarded
word: mindless
word: monosynaptic
word: moronic
word: muttonheaded
word: nitwitted
word: numbskulled
word: oafish
word: obtuse
word: peabrained
word: pratty
word: pudding-headed
word: puerile
word: purblind
word: quarter-witted
word: retarded
word: rockheaded
word: sharp as a bowling ball
word: sheep-headed
word: simple
word: slow-witted
word: slow
word: smooth-brained
word: stolid
word: stupid
word: thick-skulled
word: thickheaded
word: thickwitted
word: thick
word: unapprehensive
word: unclever
word: unintelligent
word: unsmart
word: vacant
word: vacuous
word: witless
word: wooden-headed
word: wool-headed
word: woolly-headed
word: woolly-minded
word: dumb as a bag of hammers
word: dumb as a box of rocks
word: dumb as a doorknob
word: dumb as an ox
word: dumb as a post
word: dumb as a sack of hammers
word: dumb as dirt
word: dumber than a rock
word: not the sharpest crayon in the box
word: not the sharpest knife in the drawer
word: not the sharpest tool in the shed
word: thick as a brick
word: thick as a plank
word: thick as champ
word: thick as mince
word: thick as two short planks
word: thick as a whale omelette
word: ass-brained
word: fuckwitted
word: shit-for-brains
word: thick as pig shit
glosses: silly; simple-minded; stupid
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: having the head of a sheep.
Related terms: sheepshead
cyprinodont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyprinodonts
Etymology: Ancient Greek κυπρίνος (kuprínos, “carp”) + ὀδών (odṓn, “tooth”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: pupfish
glosses: Any of the Cyprinodontidae, a family of fishes including the killifishes or minnows.
cyprinodonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyprinodont
ceterach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ceterachs
Etymology: From French cétérach, Arabic شطرك
Senses: glosses: A fern of species Asplenium ceterach.
Synonyms: rustyback
scaly spleenwort
ceterachs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ceterach
epilogism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epilogisms
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐπίλογος (epílogos, “a conclusion, peroration of a speech, epilogue of a play”) + -ism, from ἐπιλέγειν (epilégein, “say in addition”), from ἐπί (epí, “in addition”) + λέγειν (légein, “to say”). See epilogue.
Senses: examples: text: the Epilogism from Cyrus[…]
ref: 1646, John Gregory, Notes and Observations upon some Passages of Scripture:
glosses: enumeration; computation
epilogisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epilogism
he-cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: he-cats
Etymology: From he- + cat.
Senses: glosses: A male cat; a tomcat.
Hypernyms: carnivore
felid
cat
he-cats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of he-cat
Related terms: he-
he-asses
he-bears
he-bitches
he-devils
he-goats
he-men
he-wolves
she-
she-asses
she-bears
she-bitches
she-cats
she-devils
she-goats
she-men
she-wolves
free-fire
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: On 1 August 1793, the Convention had permitted its commanders there to introduce free-fire zones in troubled areas.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 485:
text: New Jersey, more readily associated with chemical plants than big game, describes the free-fire zone as a necessary measure to control a burgeoning bruin population in America's most densely populated state.
ref: 2005 December 10, Suzanne Goldenburg, The Guardian:
glosses: Designating an area in which military personnel have authority to shoot on anyone without obtaining prior clearance.
mitraillade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mitraillades
Etymology: Borrowed from French mitraillade.
Senses: examples: text: The fusillades and mitraillades were conducted with the most savage coolness.
ref: 1817, John James M’Gregor, History of the French Revolution, volume III:
text: when Collot d'Herbois and Fouché replaced him, a veritable frenzy of repression occurred, with opponents being gunned down into open graves in the so-called mitraillades.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 487:
glosses: Mass execution by cannon shot or (later) machine-gun, especially during the French Revolution.
Related terms: mitraille
mitrailleur
mitrailleuse
mitraillades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mitraillade
she-cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: she-cats
Etymology: From she- + cat.
Senses: glosses: An (adult) female cat.
Synonyms: word: catess
word: female cat
word: molly
english: female cat
translation: female cat
word: queen
Hypernyms: carnivore
cat
felid
feliform
feline
feloid
Related terms: she-bear
she-dog
she-tiger
she-wolf
she-cats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of she-cat
Related terms: he-
he-asses
he-bears
he-bitches
he-cats
he-devils
he-goats
he-men
he-wolves
she-
she-asses
she-bears
she-bitches
she-devils
she-goats
she-men
she-wolves
he-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Indicating a male, usually of an animal.
Coordinate terms: she-
Derived terms: word: he-ass
word: he-bear
word: he-bitch
word: he-cat
word: he-devil
word: he-fox
word: he-goat
alt: hemale
word: he-male
word: he-man
word: he-whore
word: he-wolf
Internal Revenue Code
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: The domestic portion of federal statutory tax law in the United States.
debismuthization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + bismuth + -ization.
Senses: topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The removal of bismuth from lead during refining.
lcm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lcms
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of least common multiple.
lowest common multiple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lowest common multiples
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Synonym of least common multiple.
synonyms: word: least common multiple
lowest common multiples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lowest common multiple
least common multiples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of least common multiple
smallest common multiple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smallest common multiples
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Synonym of least common multiple.
synonyms: word: least common multiple
smallest common multiples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: plural of smallest common multiple
iggs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of igg
dabb lizard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dabb lizards
Etymology: Dabb from Arabic ضَبّ (ḍabb, “spiny-tailed lizard”).
Senses: glosses: Uromastyx geyri, an agamid lizard.
dabb lizards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dabb lizard
enharbour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enharbours
form: enharbouring
form: enharboured
form: enharboured
form: enharbor
Etymology: From en- + harbour.
Senses: examples: text: O true delight, enharboring the breſts / Of thoſe ſvveet creatures vvith the plumy crests [i.e., birds].
ref: 1613, William Browne, “The Fourth Song”, in Britannia’s Pastorals. [The First Booke], London: […] Geo[rge] Norton, […], →OCLC, page 66:
glosses: To find (something) harbour or safety in; to dwell in or inhabit.
enharboured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enharbour
enharbouring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enharbour
enharbours
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enharbour
peritrochia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peritrochium
peritrochium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peritrochia
Etymology: From New Latin peritrochium, from Koine Greek περιτρόχιον (peritrókhion), from Ancient Greek περίτροχος (perítrokhos, “circular”).
Senses: examples: text: [T]he engineer proceeded to the illustration of his mechanicks, tilting up his hand like a balance, thrusting it forward by way of lever, embracing the naturalist's nose like a wedge betwixt two of his fingers, and turning it round, with the momentum of a screw or peritrochium.
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The wheel which, together with the axle, forms the axis in peritrochio.
Glyconian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlaɪˈkəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ɡlaɪˈkoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Glyconians
Etymology: From Glycon + -ian. Named after Glycon, an Ancient Greek poet, said to have written in this form.
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A kind of verse in Ancient Greek and Latin poetry, consisting of a spondee, a choriambus, and a pyrrhic.
Synonyms: Glyconic
Glyconians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Glyconian
sea fennel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: rock samphire, Crithmum maritimum
polypean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polypean
form: most polypean
Senses: examples: text: polypean colony
text: polypean animalcules
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or relating to a polyp or polyps.
apteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪəɹiə
Senses: glosses: plural of apterium
hognut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hognuts
Etymology: From hog + nut.
Senses: glosses: A pignut or hickory tree (Carya glabra of family Juglandaceae).
glosses: A tuberous plant of family Apiaceae (Conopodium majus).
glosses: Black cumin of family Apiaceae. (Bunium bulbocastanum).
glosses: Certain rushpeas, particularly Hoffmannseggia glauca (syn. Hoffmannseggia densiflora) Indian rushpea, of the Fabaceae.
glosses: A plant of species Mesosphaerum suaveolens (syn. Hyptis suaveolens), of family Lamiaceae.
hognuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hognut
dog-brier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dog-briers
form: dog briar
form: dog brier
Senses: examples: text: The hazel-boughs took me too hard in the face, and the tall dog-briers got hold of me, and the ache of my back was like crimping a fish
ref: 1869, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, chapter X, in Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A dog rose (Rosa canina).
dog-briers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dog-brier
rosetta wood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An East Indian wood of a reddish-orange colour, veined with darker marks.
counsellable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more counsellable
form: most counsellable
form: counselable
Etymology: From counsel + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Few men of so great parts were upon all occasions more counsellable than he.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641, Oxford: The Theater:
glosses: Willing to receive counsel or follow advice.
examples: 1660/1667, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon, written by Himself
He did not believe it counsellable.
glosses: advisable; prudent
superproportion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superproportions
Etymology: From super- + proportion.
Senses: examples: text: the superproportion of the Agent
ref: 1644, Kenelm Digby, Two Treatises:
glosses: overplus or excess of proportion
superproportions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superproportion
spadiceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /spəˈdɪʃiəs/
/spəˈdɪʃəs/
Forms: form: more spadiceous
form: most spadiceous
Etymology: From Latin spadix, spadicis (“a date-brown or nut-brown color”). See spadix.
Senses: examples: text: Of those five [horns] which Scaliger beheld, though one spadiceous, or of a light red, and two inclining to red, yet was there not any of this complexion among them.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Of a bright clear brown or chestnut colour.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Bearing flowers on a spadix; of similar to a spadix.
Synonyms: spadicose
depollute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: depollutes
form: depolluting
form: depolluted
form: depolluted
Etymology: From de- + pollute.
Senses: glosses: To free from pollution.
depolluting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of depollute
depollutes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of depollute
depolluted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of depollute
cyberpunky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cyberpunky
form: most cyberpunky
Etymology: From cyberpunk + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Continuing in the grand cyberpunky tradition of "the street finds its own uses for things," we took a lowly chip originally designed to boost the speaker on your home answering machine and we turned it into a robot brain.
ref: 2004, Gareth Branwyn, Absolute Beginner's Guide to Building Robots, page 261:
glosses: Reminiscent of the cyberpunk genre.
Spitzenburgh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Spitzenburghs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Spitzenburg (“Esopus Spitzenburg apple”).
Spitzenburghs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Spitzenburgh
manswear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: manswears
form: manswearing
form: manswore
form: mansworn
form: mainswear
form: manswere
form: maneswere
form: maneswere
form: mansweir
Etymology: From Middle English mansweren, from Old English mānswerian (“to forswear, perjure oneself”), from mān (“bad, criminal, false”) + swerian (“to swear”).
Senses: examples: text: I require of thee, as a man of thy word, on pain of being held faithless, man-sworn, and nidering [footnote: Infamous], to forgive and to receive to thy paternal affection the good knight, Wilfrid of Ivanhoe.
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter XII, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 302:
text: There are doomed to wade the weltering streams / Men that are mansworn, and they that murderers are.
ref: 1916, The Prose Edda (translation), page 82
synonyms: misswear
glosses: To swear falsely; perjure oneself.
manswearing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of manswear
manswears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of manswear
manswore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of manswear
mansworn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of manswear
alabastrian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alabastrian
form: most alabastrian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of alabastrine.
sericeous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sericeous
form: most sericeous
form: sericious
Etymology: From Latin sēricus (“silken”), sēricum (“Seric material; silk”), from Sēricus (“belonging to the Seres”): Sērēs, Ancient Greek Σῆρες (Sêres, “a people of Eastern Asia, the modern Chinese, celebrated for their silken fabrics”). Compare silk, serge.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to silk; consisting of silk; silky.
examples: text: a sericeous leaf
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Covered with very soft hairs pressed close to the surface.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a silky lustre, usually due to fine, close hairs.
stycerin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of styryl + glycerin
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A triacid alcohol, related to glycerin, and obtained from certain styryl derivatives as a yellow, gummy, amorphous substance; phenyl glycerin.
scomfish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scomfishes
form: scomfishing
form: scomfished
form: scomfished
Etymology: From scomfit, from discomfit.
Senses: glosses: To suffocate, stifle, or smother.
scomfished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scomfish
scomfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scomfish
scomfishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scomfish