cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
lunch bucket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lunch buckets
Senses: glosses: Synonym of lunch pail.
synonyms: word: lunch pail
lunchbucket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lunchbuckets
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lunch bucket.
lunchbuckets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lunchbucket
lunch buckets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lunch bucket
gelande
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɡəˈlɛndə/
Etymology: From German Gelände (“terrain”).
Senses: examples: text: The base area is adorned with an immense gelande jump, off which qualified skiers regularly catch 200 feet of air.
ref: 1993, “The Secret Kingdom of Ski Bums”, in Skiing, volume 46, number 1, page 110:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: terrain, area.
examples: text: Gelande is a two day ski jump event attracting national media as well as jumpers from all over the U.S.
ref: 2009, “Snowbowl Gelande Championship”, in Montana Snowbowl, retrieved 04 Feb 2012:
text: Little Cottonwood Canyon has a rich history with gelande competitions, and watching skiers soar over 200 feet is not something you get to see every day.
ref: 2009 April 19, “Skiers Take Flight at Snowbird Gelande”, in First Tracks:
text: But somewhere along the way gelande quaffing was lost and the aprés spirit forgotten.
ref: 2010 April 9, “'Gelande Quaffing' competition Saturday in Vail Valley”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), Vail, CO: Vail Daily:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: a shortening of gelandesprung, a form of ski jumping.
Related terms: gelandesprung
gelandelaufer
redrums
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of redrum
cobaltous oxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The dark green to red oxide of cobalt, CoO, used to manufacture coloured glazes in the ceramics industry
Synonyms: cobalt monoxide
originalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of originality
sea-floor spreading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of seafloor spreading.
Curie point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Curie points
Senses: examples: text: When the lavas cooled they would pass through the Curie point, and their magnetic minerals would become magnetised.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 143:
topics: chemistry
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Curie temperature.
Curie points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Curie point
resultingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From resulting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: As a result or consequence
splenalgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σπλήν (splḗn, “spleen”) + -algia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: splenodynia
glosses: Pain in the region of the spleen.
polar circle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polar circles
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: Either of the two parallels of the Earth located at the latitude of 66° 33′ 44″ N and 66° 33′ 44″ S.
Related terms: Arctic Circle
Antarctic Circle
gelandesprung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɡəˈlɛndəˌʃpɹʊŋ/
Forms: form: gelandesprungs
form: Geländesprung
form: geländesprung
Etymology: From German Geländesprung, equivalent to Gelände (“countryside, terrain”) + Sprung (“jump”). More at land, spring.
Senses: examples: text: Ove Nygren, the motorcycle-racing man-child of the U.S. Pro Tour, was among the air-happy honchos who thought the event should include a gelandesprung.
ref: 1994, “The World's Greatest Skiers?”, in Skiing, volume 47, number 3, page 152:
text: Gelandesprung literally means terrain jump.
ref: 2009, “Snowbowl Gelande Championship”, in Montana Snowbowl, retrieved 04 Feb 2012:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: A jump, usually over an obstacle, made in downhill skiing.
Synonyms: gelande jump
Related terms: gelande
marmozet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marmozets
Senses: examples: text: Show thee a jay's nest, and instruct thee how / To snare the nimble marmozet; […]
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
glosses: Archaic form of marmoset.
marmozets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marmozet
outname
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outnames
form: outnaming
form: outnamed
form: outnamed
Etymology: From out- + name.
Senses: glosses: To exceed in naming or describing.
examples: text: And found out one to out-name thy other faults.
ref: c. 1608–1611, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Maid’s Tragedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act V, scene iv:
glosses: To exceed in fame or degree.
outnamed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outname
outnames
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outname
outnaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outname
unsensualize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unsensualizes
form: unsensualizing
form: unsensualized
form: unsensualized
Etymology: From un- + sensualize.
Senses: examples: March 25, 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Watchman
Hence the soft couch, and many-colour'd robe,
The timbrel and arch'd dome and costly feast,
With all th' inventive arts that nurse the soul
To forms of beauty; and by sensual wants
Unsensualize the mind, which in the Means
Learns to forget the grossness of the End,
Best pleasur'd with its own activity.
glosses: To elevate from the domain of the senses; to purify.
unsensualized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unsensualize
unsensualized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not sensualized.
unsensualizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unsensualize
unsensualizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unsensualize
ingraftment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ingraftments
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of engraftment.
ingraftments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ingraftment
unbottomed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + bottom + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: who shall tempt with wand'ring feet / The dark unbottom'd infinite Abyss
ref: 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, book 2, lines 404–5:
text: The atoms, as their own weight bears them down / Plumb through the void, at scarce determined times, / In scarce determined places, from their course / Decline a little – call it, so to speak, / Mere changed trend. For were it not their wont / Thuswise to swerve, down would they fall, each one, / Like drops of rain, through the unbottomed void; / And then collisions ne'er could be nor blows / Among the primal elements; and thus / Nature would never have created aught.
ref: 1916, William Ellery Leonard, transl., On the Nature of Things, New York: E. P. Dutton, translation of De rerum natura by Lucretius, →OCLC, Book 2, lines 218–227:
synonyms: word: limitless
word: unbounded
word: bottomless
word: boundless
word: endless
word: infinite
word: limitless
word: unbottomed
word: unbounded
word: unlimited
word: universal
glosses: bottomless
epicleidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From New Latin, from epi- + Ancient Greek κλείς (kleís, “key, clavicle”) + -ium.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A projection, formed by a separate ossification, at the scapular end of the furcula of many birds
Derived terms: epicleidal
Related terms: hypocleidium
platitudinousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From platitudinous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being platitudinous.
dimethylaminopropylamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A diamine used in the preparation of surfactants such as cocamidopropylbetaine.
Synonyms: DMAPA
Related terms: dimethylaminopropionitrile
DMAPA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of dimethylaminopropylamine.
azobisisobutyronitrile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An organic compound often used as a foamer in plastics and rubber and as a radical initiator.
Synonyms: AIBN
AIBN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The O–O bond in benzoyl peroxide and the C–N bonds in AIBN homolyze under thermal or photochemical conditions.
ref: 2007, Robert B. Grossman, The Art of Writing Reasonable Organic Reaction Mechanisms, →ISBN:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of azobisisobutyronitrile.
Sqn Ldr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sqn Ldrs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of squadron leader.
diphenyldichloromethane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Benzophenone is reacted with phosphorus pentachloride to give diphenyldichloromethane.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An organic compound used in the synthesis of tetraphenylethylene.
tetraphenylethylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetraphenylethylenes
Senses: examples: text: Tetraphenylethylene can be synthesized from diphenyldichloromethane.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An organic compound, 1,2,2-triphenylvinylbenzene.
tetraphenylethylenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetraphenylethylene
criminatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more criminatory
form: most criminatory
Senses: examples: text: a criminatory behaviour
text: a criminatory conscience
glosses: Relating to, or involving, crimination; accusatory.
denization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: denizations
form: denisation
Senses: examples: text: a vast number of charters of denization were granted to particular persons of Irish descent from the reign of Henry II. downwards, which gave them and their posterity the full birthrights of English subjects
ref: 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England from the Accession of Henry VII. to the Death of George II. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The act of making one a denizen or adopted citizen; naturalization.
denizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of denization
neuridin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neurine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A non-toxic base, C₅H₁₄N₂, found in the putrescent matter of flesh, fish, decaying cheese, etc.
archiepiscopality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Offa being dead , down fell the best pillar of Lichfield church , to support the archiepiscopality thereof
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
topics: ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The rank or dignity of an archbishop; archbishopric.
randing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rand + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The manufacture or application of rands in shoemaking.
glosses: Plain weave basketwork.
Derived terms: French randing
ctenoidean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ctenoidei + -an.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the former group of fish Ctenoidei; ray-finned.
ctenoidean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ctenoideans
Etymology: From Ctenoidei + -an.
Senses: glosses: Any member of the former group Ctenoidei; a ray-finned fish.
Related terms: ctenoid
ctenoideans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ctenoidean
dethronization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dethronizations
Etymology: From dethronize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he Queene [Isabella of France], vvhen ſhee vvas […] aduertiſed of her huſbands dethronization, ſhee outvvardly expreſſed ſo great extremity of paſſion (notvvithſtanding that at the ſame time ſhee vvas tolde of her ſonnes [Edward III of England's] ſurrogation) as if ſhee had beene diſtraught in her vvittes: […]
ref: 1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “Edward the Second, […]”, in The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], London: […] William Hall and John Beale, for John Sudbury and George Humble, […], →OCLC, book IX ([Englands Monarchs] […]), paragraph 76, page 564, column 1:
glosses: Dethronement.
dethronizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dethronization
beastlihead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From beastly + -head.
Senses: examples: text: But I be relieved by your beastlyhead
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Maye. Ægloga Quinta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Beastliness (as a mock title or style akin to "Highness" or "Holiness").
sulphantimonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphantimonates
Etymology: From sulph- + antimonate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any ion or derived salt in which one or more oxygen atoms of an antimonate is replaced by one of sulfur
sulphantimonates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sulphantimonate
aldermanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aldermanships
Etymology: From alderman + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: the Geneuian Aldermanshippe began vnder the lawe, and was practised under the Gospell
ref: 1592, Matthew Sutcliffe, An Answer to a certaine libel supplicatorie […] :
glosses: The condition, position, or office of an alderman.
aldermanships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aldermanship
forealleged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fore- + alleged.
Senses: glosses: alleged or cited before
blacksalter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blacksalters
Etymology: From black salt + -er.
Senses: glosses: A maker of black salts.
swainish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more swainish
form: most swainish
Etymology: From swain + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: [W]hen good and faire in one Perſon meet, argues both a groſſe and ſhallow Judgement, and withall an ungentle, and ſwainiſh breſt.
ref: 1642 April, John Milton, An Apology for Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 177:
text: Falconer's characters are few; but the calm sagacious commander, and the rough obstinate Rodmond, are well contrasted. Some part of the love-story of Palemon is rather swainish and protracted, yet the effect of his being involved in the calamity, leaves a deeper sympathy in the mind for the daughter of Albert, when we conceive her at once deprived both of a father and a lover.
ref: 1819 Thomas Campbell, Specimens of the British Poets - Volume 6
glosses: Pertaining to, or resembling, a swain according to any definition; but commonly conveying the sense of "ignorant", or "rustic".
Related terms: swainishness
superrewarded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superrewarded
form: most superrewarded
Etymology: From super- + rewarded.
Senses: examples: text: 1621, Francis Bacon, letter to the King
superrewarded by your Majestie's benefits which you heaped upon me
text: Consequently , it is this same group who stand to be rewarded or super-rewarded for their accumulation and investment .
ref: 1979, Steve S. K. Chin, Modernization in China, page 26:
text: To the degree that unrewarded effort provides the basis for ω, ε B > 0 will decrease warm glow toward B for any given level of effort exerted by B. Specifically, it may be thought by A to be the source of “superrewarded” effort for B, thus dampening the degree of warm glow toward B.
ref: 2009 June, John W.Mayo, Catherine H.Tinsley, “Warm glow and charitable giving: Why the wealthy do not give more to charity?”, in Journal of Economic Psychology, volume 30, number 3:
glosses: Given an excessive reward.
Gen-Xer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gen-Xers
form: Gen Xer
form: Gen X-er
form: Gen X'er
Etymology: From Gen X, shortened from Generation X + -er.
Senses: synonyms: word: Generation Xer
word: baby buster
word: Xer
word: thirteener
glosses: A member of Generation X.
servilest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of servile: most servile
unbespeak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unbespeaks
form: unbespeaking
form: unbespoke
form: unbespoken
Etymology: From un- + bespeak.
Senses: examples: text: […] after spending most of the afternoon also, I away home, and there sent for W. Hewer, and he and I by water to White Hall to loop among other things, for Mr. May, to unbespeak his dining with me to-morrow.
ref: 1669 April 23 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “April 13th, 1669”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume VIII, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1896, →OCLC:
glosses: To unsay; to annul or cancel something that has been said.
unbespeaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unbespeak
unbespeaks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unbespeak
unbespoke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of unbespeak
unbespoken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of unbespeak
unbespoken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The appearance, however, of Mrs. Kittle was an unbespoken interlude, and the baronet's thirst for something new was highly gratified.
ref: 1833, Fraser's Magazine, volume 8, page 286:
glosses: Not having been bespoken; not specifically requested.
inclasp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inclasps
form: inclasping
form: inclasped
form: inclasped
Senses: examples: text: The flatt'ring ivy who did ever see / Inclasp'd the huge trunke of an aged tree.
ref: 1602, Francis Beaumont, Hermaphroditus:
glosses: Archaic form of enclasp.
inclasped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inclasp
inclasping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inclasp
inclasps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inclasp
rudderhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rudderheads
Etymology: From rudder + head.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The upper part of the rudderstock, to which a tiller is attached.
rudderheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rudderhead
cotrustee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cotrustees
form: co-trustee
Etymology: From co- + trustee.
Senses: glosses: A joint trustee.
cotrustees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cotrustee
lawnd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lawnds
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of laund.
lawnds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lawnd
constructiones ad sensum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏnstrŭktĭōʹnēs ăd sĕnʹsəm
ipa: /kɒnstɹʌktɪˈəʊniːz æd ˈsɛnsəm/
Senses: glosses: plural of constructio ad sensum
palmatilobed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin palmatus (“palmate”) + English lobed.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Palmate, with the divisions separated less than halfway to the common centre.
purgatorian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purgatorians
Etymology: From purgatory + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: we must either suppose that passage to be metaphorical , or hold with many divines , and all the Purgatorians , that departed souls do not all at once arrive at the utmost perfection of which they are capable
ref: 1791, James Boswell, “(please specify the year)”, in James Boswell, editor, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. […], London: […] Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, […], →OCLC:
glosses: One who holds to the doctrine of purgatory.
purgatorians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purgatorian
aslug
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From a- + slug, to move slowly.
Senses: examples: text: [He] drags on muddy shore his boat, / That comes aslug against the stream.
ref: 1622, Martin Fotherby, Atheomastix:
glosses: sluggishly
collectorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collectorships
Etymology: From collector + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The rank or office of a collector of customs or other taxes.
collectorships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collectorship
stomatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stoma + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Having a stoma, or by means of a stoma
Derived terms: eurystomatous
stenostomatous
backjoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backjoints
Etymology: From back + joint.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A rebate or chase in masonry left to receive a permanent slab or other filling.
backjoints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backjoint
wavey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪvi
Forms: form: waveys
form: wavy
Etymology: According to one theory, from Cree. An alternative etymology, perhaps a folk etymology, attributes the name to their peculiar, wavy flight.
Senses: glosses: The snow goose (Chen caerulescens)
Synonyms: sense: snow goose
word: white wavy
sense: snow goose
word: blue goose
sense: snow goose
word: blue wavy
wavey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪvi
Forms: form: wavier
form: waviest
Senses: examples: text: Pears and Apples I could never diſcover any thing to breed in but only the leſſer Phælænæ, about ⁴⁄₁₀ Inch long, whitiſh underneath; greyiſh brown above (dappled with brown Spots, inclining to a dirty Red) all but about a third part at the end of the Wings, which is not grey, but brown, elegantly ſtriped with wavey Lines of a Gold-Colour, as if Gilt.
ref: 1713, W[illiam] Derham, “[A Survey of the Particular Tribes of Animals.] Of the Care of Insects about their Young.”, in Physico-Theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation. […], London: […] W[illiam] Innys, […], →OCLC, book VIII (Of Insects and Reptiles), footnote 4, page 416:
text: The healthful breeze from off the wavey lake, / Fiavor’d and filtered through your tremulous pines; / Your crazy brawling stream wild babblings make, / But gives the sun-like gleam that nightly shines.
ref: 1889 August, Richard Grigg, “Pretty Port Hope”, in Ingersoll Rhymings, Ingersoll, Ont.: […] Oxford Tribune, published 1894, →OCLC, page 47:
text: He was such a nice looking boy with that mane of dark wavey hair and those sea blue eyes.
ref: 2002, Wensley Clarkson, “The Black Widow”, in Sisters in Blood: Twelve of the Most Horrific Crimes Performed by Women (Blake’s True Crime Library), London: Blake Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 177:
glosses: Uncommon form of wavy.
waveys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wavey
apothecia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apothecium
apothecium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apothecia
Etymology: Coined in 1803, probably based on Ancient Greek ἀποθήκη (apothḗkē, “storehouse”). By surface analysis, derived from thecium, see there also for related terms.
Senses: examples: text: Apothecia lecanoroid; multilocular; each cell containing a single theke; paraphyses deficient.
ref: 1882, Edward Tuckerman, Henry Willey, A Synopsis of the North American Lichens (part 1)
topics: biology
botany
lichenology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: A type of fructification of some ascomycete fungi, forming cyst structures of various shapes. Often the fungal components of lichens have this sort of fertile structure.
Derived terms: apothecial
Related terms: apothecary
perithecium
escaloped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more escaloped
form: most escaloped
Etymology: From escalop + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Cut or marked in the form of an escalop; scalloped.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
synonyms: scaled
escalopé
glosses: Covered with a scaly pattern resembling a series of escalop shells, each of which issues from between two others. (Compare papelonné.)
weanel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weanels
form: wennel
Senses: examples: text: 16thC, Edmund Spenser, The Shepherd′s Calendar: September, 1862, George Gilfillan, Charles Cowden Clarke (editors), The Poetical Works Of Edmund Spenser, Volume 4, page 278,
A lamb, or a kid, or a weanel wast; / With that to the wood would he speed him fast.
text: 1835, Lord Huntingfield′s Important Agricultural Stock Sale, The Farmer′s Magazine, Volume 3: July - December, page 358,
[…] the weanel calves for stock sold at from 12l to 20l 5s per pair […] .
text: To my daughter Grace and her daughter Grace each a silver spoon, also to her daughter Grace a weanel to be let out by her parents to the best advantage to her use till she is 18. To my daughter Bridget and her daughter Elizabeth each a silver spoon, also to Bridget′s two children a weanel likewise.
ref: 1978, Essex Record Office, Elizabethan Life: Wills of Essex Gentry & Merchants, page 304:
glosses: A weanling.
weanels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weanel
bloodbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bloodbirds
Etymology: From blood + bird, from the bright red colour of the male.
Senses: examples: text: I was watching a lovely little read-headed honey-eater—that beautiful scarlet and black bird, familiarly known as the bloodbird— feeding busily in the top of a small turpentine tree, and ceasing operations now and again to utter his little running call.
ref: 1914, Amy Eleanor Mack, A Bush Calendar, page 29:
text: At first only one bloodbird dipped low to catch insects in the last of the milkweed bursting their pods in the fields.
ref: 2013, Alyxandra Harvey, “Anywhere”, in Colleen Anderson, Steve Vernon, editor, Tesseracts Seventeen:
glosses: An Australian honeyeater, the scarlet myzomela (Myzomela sanguinolenta).
bloodbirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bloodbird
holy cricket
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: holy crickets
Senses: examples: text: Hermione Granger: Holy cricket, you're Harry Potter!
ref: 2001, Steve Kloves, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 00:37:16:
glosses: An interjection showing an extreme form of surprise that can be used for both positive and negative moments of sudden enlightenment (like an epiphany); oh my God, great Scott.
Synonyms: wow
Eudoxian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eudoxians
Etymology: From Eudoxius + -an, from Ancient Greek Εὐδόξιος (Eudóxios), from εὐδοξία (eudoxía, “good judgment”), from εὖ (eû) + δόξα (dóxa).
Senses: glosses: A follower of Eudoxius of Antioch (died in 370), patriarch of Antioch and Constantinople, and a celebrated defender of the doctrines of Arius.
glosses: A follower of Eudoxus of Cnidus (408–355 BC), Greek astronomer and mathematician.
Eudoxian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Eudoxius + -an, from Ancient Greek Εὐδόξιος (Eudóxios), from εὐδοξία (eudoxía, “good judgment”), from εὖ (eû) + δόξα (dóxa).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Eudoxius of Antioch
glosses: Of or relating to Eudoxus of Cnidus.
Eudoxians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eudoxian
vermeti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vermetus
vermetus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vermeti
Etymology: From translingual Vermetus, from Latin vermis (“worm”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the many species of marine gastropods belonging to Vermetus and allied genera, of the family Vermetidae.
idiothermic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From idio- + thermic.
Senses: examples: text: Mammals are idiothermic.
glosses: Self-heating; warmed by processes going on within itself.
Synonyms: idiothermous
dingthrift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dingthrifts
Etymology: From ding + thrift. Compare English spendthrift and wastethrift.
Senses: examples: text: Wilt thou, therefore, a drunkard be, / A dingthrift and a knave?
ref: 1566, Thomas Drant, Satires:
glosses: A spendthrift.
dingthrifts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dingthrift
circumflexion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circumflexions
Senses: glosses: The act of bending, or causing to assume a curved form.
glosses: A winding about; a turning or fold.
circumflexions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circumflexion
seditionaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seditionary
seditionary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seditionaries
Etymology: From sedition + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: They believed the Americans to be traitors and seditionaries, ungrateful for the benefits that had accrued to them and unwilling to pay a fair contribution to the expenses of empire.
ref: 2016, Peter Ackroyd, Revolution, Pan Macmillan, published 2017, page 233:
glosses: An inciter or promoter of sedition; a seditionist.
seditionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more seditionary
form: most seditionary
Etymology: From sedition + -ary.
Senses: glosses: Constituting or relating to sedition.
lophostea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lophosteon
lophosteon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lophostea
Etymology: From New Latin lophosteon, from Ancient Greek λόφος (lóphos, “crest”) + ὀστέον (ostéon, “bone”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The central keel-bearing part of the sternum in birds.
aflat
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /əˈflæt/
Etymology: From a- + flat.
Senses: examples: text: When you would have many new roots of fruit trees , take a low tree and bow it , and lay all its branches aflat upon the ground , and cast earth upon them
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “V. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: Level with the ground; lying flat.
technism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technisms
Senses: glosses: A technicality.
glosses: Technology.
glosses: An excessive emphasis on technique.
technisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technism
malepractice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malepractices
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of malpractice.
malepractices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malepractice
malversations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malversation
antilibration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antilibrations
Etymology: From anti- + libration.
Senses: examples: text: having enjoyed his artful antithesis, and solemn antilibration of cadences - we have had the cream of his peculiar excellencies, and may exclaim with Juvenal, Venimus ad summum fortune, or with Romeo, that it is time to be gone
ref: 1831, Thomas De Quincey, “Dr. Parr and his Contemporaries”, in Blackwood's Magazine:
glosses: A balancing; equilibrium.
Related terms: Libra
antilibrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antilibration
capuched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From capuche + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: They are differently cucullated or capuched upon the head and back
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: hooded; or covered with something resembling a hood
cytococcus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytococci
Etymology: From cyto- + -coccus.
Senses: examples: text: from the mixture of the two forms the parent-kernel (cytococcus) seems to originate
ref: 1874, Ernst Haeckel, The Evolution of Man:
text: After fertilization, cytococci divided speedily and free edosmosis with nuclei formed, started the growth of the embryo.
ref: 1991, Pang-yen Huang, Bangyan Huang, Qian Yang, editors, Proceedings of the International Citrus Symposium: Guangzhou, China, Nov. 5-8, 1990, International Academic Publishers, →ISBN, page 524:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The nucleus of the cytula or parent cell.
rhabarbarate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From New Latin rhabarbarum + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Rhabarbarate purges
ref: 1835, London Medical and Surgical Journal:
glosses: Impregnated or tinctured with rhubarb.
deoppilate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deoppilates
form: deoppilating
form: deoppilated
form: deoppilated
Etymology: From de- + oppilate.
Senses: examples: text: [S]ome Bodies taken into that of a Man, are deoppilating, others inciding, reſolving, diſcuſſing, ſuppurating, abſterſive of noxious adherences, and thickning the Blood and humors, being aſtringent, Anodinous or appeaſing paine &c.
ref: 1671, Robert Boyle, “An Introduction to the History of Particular Qualities”, in Robert Boyle, Tracts […]. About the Cosmicall Qualities of Things. […], London: […] W[illiam] H[all] for Ric[hard] Davis, →OCLC, page 6:
glosses: To deobstruct
moonery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From moon + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: […] is it not melancholy to hear a man like Steffens somniloquise in such a mystifying cant of Hylozoism, of Pickism, a hodge-podge of the grossest materialism, and the most fantastic yet maudlin moonery?
ref: a. 1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Marginalia:
glosses: The conduct of one who moons.
despotat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛspətæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: despotats
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French despotat; equivalent to despot + -ate (forms nouns denoting a rank or office). Compare despotate.
Senses: examples: text: In Northern Greece the Greek despotat of Epeiros died out, to leave us in a bewildering confusion of shifting powers
ref: 1879, Edward Augustus Freeman, Historical Essays - Volume III:
synonyms: despotate
glosses: The government or domain of a despot.
despotats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of despotat
pisasphaltum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dated form of pissasphalt.
overraked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overrake
overrakes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overrake
overraking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overrake
mesoscapula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesoscapulae
Etymology: From meso- + scapula.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A process from the middle of the scapula in some animals; the spine of the scapula.
Related terms: mesoscapular
mesoscapulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesoscapula
hawkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hawkeys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hawkie (“white-faced cow”).
hawkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of hockey (“the sport”).
hawkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hawkeys
form: hockey
form: horkey
Senses: glosses: A harvest supper.
stagely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stagely
form: most stagely
Etymology: From stage + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But Tuthill I perfectly understood, and his fine acting was stagely and amusing.
ref: 1864, James Junius Marks, The Peninsular Campaign in Virginia, page 400:
text: We started out of the vestibule with, I should say, rather an accelerated movement, and looked at the dome against the clear, soft blue, afternoon sky, and saw that was all right; whereupon one of the party in a deep stagely tone began "Hark from the tombs a doleful sound," looking at the ornamental coffin on the verandah.
ref: 1877, Julia A. Stone, Illustrated India: Its Princes and People, page 460:
text: The intrepid Shields, a general in two wars and Senator from three States, and Clement C. Clay, whose stately dignity never forgot its austere bearing, walked arm-in-arm, with stagely strut that failed to impress the moving concourse with the vanity of either, but in twain “made both more grandly so."
ref: 1898, Samuel Clagett Busey, Pictures of the City of Washington in the Past, page 252:
text: Close by stood Dr. P., knife in hand, lecturing to the students in his rather stagely manner.
ref: 1916, Arthur Ames Bliss, Blockley Days, page 24:
text: All the gestures, all the moves in this place seemed as if they had been rehearsed for the cabaret scenes in To Have and Have Not, forty years before, and were now endlessly being reenacted—parodied—by an aging company of geriatrics with time on their hands and nothing else to do but perfect their stagely business, while they quietly drank and smoked the day away.
ref: 2010, Jim Nisbet, A Moment of Doubt, page 81:
glosses: Suited or related to the stage; theatrical.
examples: text: Glaciation in the Alps instead of displaying moraines of four Glacial cycles may be actually represented by the tills of only one cycle, the four now recognized being merely stagely phenomena.
ref: 1932, Charles Reuben Keyes, The Pan-American Geologist, page 114:
text: Stagely integration for real machines is connected with difficulties, caused by small relative length of each of these stages and the necessity of approximation of various active resistance under the brush edges.
ref: 1998, Bulletin of the Georgian Academy of Sciences, page 33:
text: These sets are made by stagely reduction of the known-at-the-moment-of-study information attacks, methods of compression and file objects by using of matrix transformations.
ref: 2008, Dimitrina Polimirova-Nickolova, Eugene Nickolov, “Analysis of Information Security of Objects under Attacks and Processed by Methods of Compression”, in Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, volume 2, number 2:
qualifier: chiefly non-native speakers' English
glosses: Occurring in stages.
stagely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more stagely
form: most stagely
Etymology: From stage + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He was a priggish old party too, celebrated for walking up to his pupils and for whispering stagely, after a salute with the foil, “This, sir, is not so much a School of Arms as a School of Politeness."
ref: 1898, Lady Isabel Burton, William Henry Wilkins, The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton, page 48:
text: Miss Sarah Brooke, Mr. Dion Boucicault, and Mr. Laurence Irving play as of the stage, stagely, but are, of course, absolutely sound, firm, and hold the audience with an iron hand.
ref: 1906 May 23, ““Raffles" at the Comedy”, in The Bystander, volume 10, number 129, page 368:
text: Therefore in its elaboration, Drama is a stagely enacted play of the characters created by a cast of […]
ref: 1993, Panjab University Research Bulletin: Arts - Volume 24, page 12:
glosses: In a stagey or theatrical manner.
examples: text: For preparation of complex esters the etherification was carried out stagely (two or three stages)
ref: 2008, F.Kh. Aliyeva, “New Types of Synthetic Lubricating Oils on the Base of Esters of Alkenylsuccinic Acids”, in Processes of petrochemistry and oil refining, volume 2, number 34:
text: In order to get the idea result of processing, the ore must be grinded^([sic]) and concentrated stagely.
ref: 2011 October, Xiu Li Han, Chang Cun Li, LN Liu, Ming Yan Yao, Xin Fu Liu, “Research on Technological Mineralogy of Refractory Hematite Ore”, in Applied Mechanics and Materials, volumes 117-119:
text: With present microsurgical techniques these lesions can be removed stagely and totally.
ref: 2015 February 16, Dasara Kodanda Giri Rao, K Babji, “To evaluate resectability and outcome of intra cranial meningiomas: a prospective study (between Nov 2006-Nov 2014)”, in Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences, volume 4, number 14:
qualifier: non-native speakers' English
glosses: In stages;
swainmote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swainmotes
form: swanimote
form: sweinmote
Etymology: From swain + mote. Compare Latin swanimotum.
Senses: examples: text: The court of sweinmote is to be holden before the verderors, as judges, by the steward of the sweinmote, thrice in every year, the sweins or freeholders within the forest composing the jury.
ref: 1766, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, page 71:
topics: law
glosses: A court held before the verderers of the forest as judges, by the steward of the court, three times a year, the swains or freeholders of the forest composing the jury.
swainmotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swainmote
homilete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homiletes
Etymology: From ὁμιλητής (homilētḗs), from ὁμιλέω (homiléō) + -της (-tēs).
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A homilist.
homiletes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homilete
edulcorative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more edulcorative
form: most edulcorative
Senses: glosses: Tending to sweeten or purify by affusions of water.
pickedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From picked + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being sharpened or pointed.
examples: 1641, Ben Jonson, Timber
Too much pickedness is not manly.
glosses: fineness; spruceness; smartness
do-naught
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: do-naughts
form: donnat
form: donnot
Senses: glosses: A lazy idler.
do-naughts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of do-naught
dispassioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dispassioned
form: most dispassioned
Etymology: From dis- + passion + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: dispassioned men
ref: c. 1608, John Donne, letter to Sir Henry Goodyere:
glosses: Lacking passion; dispassionate.
pentecoster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentecosters
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πεντηκοστήρ (pentēkostḗr), from πεντηκοστύς (pentēkostús, “pentekostys”), from πεντηκοστός (pentēkostós, “fiftieth”).
Senses: examples: text: ...they would have the command of the pentecoster, penteconter, or pentecoptater (for thus variously the title is written)...
ref: 1784-1810, William Mitford, The History of Greece:
glosses: An officer who commands fifty men, particularly (historical) in the Spartan army.
Synonyms: word: quinquagenarian
word: quinquagenary
Related terms: penteconter
Pentecost
pentecosters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pentecoster
wych elm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wych elms
form: witch-elm
form: wych-elm
Etymology: From Old English wiche (“a kind of elm”), wice (“a kind of tree”). Compare wicker.
Senses: synonyms: Scotch elm
Scots elm
glosses: An elm (Ulmus glabra) found in northern and western Europe.
wych-elms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wych-elm
iambize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: iambizes
form: iambizing
form: iambized
form: iambized
Etymology: From iamb + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To satirize in iambics; to lampoon.
iambized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of iambize
iambizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of iambize
iambizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of iambize
legific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin lex, legis (“law”) + -ficare (“to make”, comparative). See -fy.
Senses: examples: 1876', John Grote, A Treatise on the Moral Ideals
Practically, in many cases, authority or legific competence has begun in bare power.
glosses: Of or pertaining to lawmaking.
eupittone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eupitton
Etymology: From eu- + pittacal + -one.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A yellow crystalline substance, resembling aurin, obtained by the oxidation of pittacal; eupittonic acid.
Derived terms: eupittonic
euphuistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more euphuistically
form: most euphuistically
Etymology: From euphuistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a euphuistic manner.
roundaboutly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more roundaboutly
form: most roundaboutly
Etymology: From roundabout + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Now, all of a sudden, he found himself cautious, trying to be a politician, and the result was, he expressed his frustrations roundaboutly instead of directly.
ref: 1990, Ernest Hebert, Live Free or Die:
glosses: In a roundabout manner; indirectly.
revivificate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: revivificates
form: revivificating
form: revivificated
form: revivificated
Etymology: From Latin revīvificātus, past participle of revīvificō. Compare revivify. By surface analysis, re- + vivificate.
Senses: glosses: To revive; to revivify.
revivificated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of revivificate
revivificates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of revivificate
revivificating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of revivificate
antimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antimeters
Etymology: From anti- (“physically opposite”) + -meter (“measuring device”).
Senses: examples: text: A description of Mr. Garrard's Antimeter, or Reflecting Circle, may be seen in his pamphlet, published in 1785; and in the article Antimeter, by the Author of this work
ref: 1809, Andrew Mackay, The Theory and Practice of Finding the Longitude at Sea Or Land, page 78:
glosses: A modification of the quadrant, for measuring small angles.