cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
besayle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: besayles
Senses: examples: text: If the abatement happened on the death of one's grandfather or grandmother, then an assise of mort d' ancestor no longer lies, bur a writ of ayle or de avo; if on the death of the great grandfather or great grandmother, then a writ of besayle or de proavo; but if it mounts one degree higher, to the trefayle or grandfather's grandfather, or if the abatement happened upon the death of any collateral relation, other than those before-mentioned, the writ is called a writ of cosinage, or de consanguineo.
ref: 1771, William, Sir Blackstone, “Of Injuries to Real Property, and First of Dispossession, or Ouster of the Freehold”, in Commentaries on the Laws of England, volume 3, page 186:
glosses: Alternative form of besaiel.
besailes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of besaile
besayles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of besayle
noticeabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noticeability
noticeableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From noticeable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being noticeable.
unnoticeableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unnoticeable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unnoticeable.
unnoticeability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unnoticeable.
fluorotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: fluorotic enamel lesions
glosses: Relating to fluorosis.
beadsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbiːdzmən/
Forms: form: beadsmen
form: bedesman
Etymology: From earlier bedeman, from Middle English bedeman (“a petitioner”), equivalent to bead (“request, petition, prayer”) + -man.
Senses: glosses: A petitioner; someone who seeks some type of favour from another, usually from a superior.
examples: text: Good Lord Cromwell, stand my friend: exert yourself for Thomas Howard, who is your daily beadsman, your debtor for life.
ref: 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 499:
glosses: A man employed in praying; especially one who prays for another.
examples: text: Whereby ye shall bind me to be […]your poor beadsman for ever unto Almighty God.
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman.
glosses: A public almsman; one who received alms from the king, and was expected in return to pray for the royal welfare and that of the state; a licensed beggar.
Related terms: beadswoman
beadsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beadsman
musmon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: musmons
Etymology: From Latin musmo, musimo.
Senses: glosses: A kind of sheep, the mouflon.
musmons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of musmon
cheval glasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cheval glass
filigrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filigrains
Senses: glosses: filigree
centrebit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centrebits
form: centerbit
Etymology: From centre + bit.
Senses: examples: text: Here's your crowbar
 And your centre-bit
Your life-preserver—
 You may want to hit!
ref: 1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, “With Cat-Like Tread”, in The Pirates of Penzance […], Philadelphia: J.M. Stoddart & Co., published 1880, →OCLC, page 34:
glosses: An instrument turning on a centre, for boring holes.
centrebits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centrebit
centerbit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centerbits
Etymology: From center + bit.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of centrebit.
centerbits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centerbit
semilucid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + lucid.
Senses: examples: text: Patients with Alzheimer's disease may have semilucid moments.
text: I had a semilucid dream in which I was vaguely aware that I was dreaming.
glosses: Involving a certain amount of lucidity.
examples: text: Cowering beneath a semilucid veil,
A semilucid bridal veil of snow,
Which from the wreath that binds her temples pale
Down to her white and slender feet doth flow.
ref: 1842, Aubrey De Vere, The Waldenses: or, The fall of Rora, page 273:
glosses: Partly transparent; translucent.
copacker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copackers
Etymology: From co- + packer.
Senses: glosses: One who, or an organisation which, carries out copacking.
copackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copacker
bevilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: beviled
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Notched with an angle like that enclosed by a carpenter's bevel; said of a partition line of a shield.
beviled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bevilled.
disanalogously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more disanalogously
form: most disanalogously
Etymology: From disanalogous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a disanalogous fashion; by disanalogy.
corbell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corbells
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Archaic form of corbel.
corbells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corbell
heptagonally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From heptagonal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Loaded with plates, Richard scuttled past them and into the dining room, where they could see him frantically trying to redistribute the already-set table so that it would be divided heptagonally.
ref: 1964, Jeremy Larner, Drive, he said, page 91:
glosses: In a heptagonal manner.
heptagrids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heptagrid
decagonally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From decagonal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Style upright, short, round, forming with the stigma a continuous clavate shaft equal to the limb; stigma decagonally fluted with shallow membranous ridges and alternately wider grooves[…]
ref: 1816, The Botanical Register, volume 2, page 119:
glosses: In a decagonal manner.
machicoulises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of machicoulis
archaeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archaean
Archean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Archaean.
Archean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Archaean.
monerula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From New Latin monerula, diminutive of moner. So called from its likeness to a moner.
Senses: examples: text: The Monerula, as we may call this egg-cytod without a kernel, repeats then, according to the biogenetic principle
ref: 1883, Ernst Haeckel, The History of Creation:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A germ in that stage of development in which its form is simply a non-nucleated mass of protoplasm.
ladenness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From laden + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being laden.
lamenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lameness
lamellulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lamellula
mophandle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mophandles
Etymology: From mop + handle.
Senses: glosses: The handle of a mop.
Synonyms: mopstick
mophandles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mophandle
mopsies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mopsy
mopsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɒpsi/
Forms: form: mopsies
form: mopsey
Etymology: From mop + -sy.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of moppet.
synonyms: word: moppet
examples: text: rich hande-kercheefes, in their handes, and sometymes laied acrosse over their shoulders and neckes, borrowed for the moste parte of their pretie Mopsies and loovyng Bessies for bussyng them in the darcke
ref: 1583, P. Stubbes, The Puritan's Anatomie of Abuses:
text: However, terrible as it may seem to the tall maiden sisters of J.P.'s in Queen Anne houses with walled vegetable gardens, this courtesan, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie, street-walker, this trollop, this trull, this baggage, this hussy, this drab, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, demirep, demimondaine, this wanton, this fornicatress, this doxy, this concubine, this frail sister, this poor Queenie--did actually solicit me, did actually say 'coming home to-night, dearie' and my soul was not blasted enough to call a policeman.
ref: 1936, Anthony Bertram, Like the Phoenix:
glosses: A slatternly, untidy woman.
Derived terms: Mopsy
mopsey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mopseys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mopsy.
star jelly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A gelatinous substance that, according to folklore, is deposited on the earth during meteor showers.
Synonyms: astromyxin
astral jelly
star rot
star shot
Related terms: nostoc
nostoc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nostocs
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any member of the genus Nostoc of cyanobacteria, found in a variety of environmental niches, that form colonies composed of filaments of moniliform cells in a gelatinous sheath.
Related terms: star jelly
ascians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ascian
nostocs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nostoc
biesting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of beestings (first milk drawn from an animal after it has given birth)
Bethlemite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bethlemites
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bethlehemite.
Bethlehemite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bethlehemites
form: Bethlemite
Etymology: From Bethlehem + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: Faris, the only Bethlehemite in the cast, was striding along with a tour-guide air, visibly pleased to have us on his turf.
ref: 2023, Isabella Hammad, Enter Ghost, Jonathan Cape, page 218:
glosses: An inhabitant of Bethlehem in Judea.
glosses: Member of an extinct English order of friars.
glosses: Member of a Spanish order of friars, founded in 1653 and refounded in 1984.
examples: text: I grafted the Bethlehemite, spoken of by Mr. Ferris, twenty years ago in wild crab.
ref: 1891, Report of the Iowa State Horticultural Society:
glosses: A particular apple cultivar.
Bethlehemites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bethlehemite
Bethlemites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bethlemite
misinspire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misinspires
form: misinspiring
form: misinspired
form: misinspired
Etymology: From mis- + inspire.
Senses: glosses: To inspire falsely or wrongly.
stressable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stress + -able.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Capable of being stressed, or emphasized in speech.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: Of construction materials, able to be subject to physical stress.
noolbenger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noolbengers
Etymology: From Nyunga ngulbunggar.
Senses: synonyms: honey possum
tait
glosses: A small species of nocturnal marsupial, Tarsipes rostratus, of southwest Western Australia.
Related terms: wambenger
noolbengers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noolbenger
honey bucket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honey buckets
Etymology: Compare honey pot and honey wagon (“sewage trailer”).
Senses: examples: text: A wood stove had been fashioned from a fifty-five gallon drum, matching the design of the honey bucket in the outhouse, the fish smoker on the riverbank and, its barrel sliced diagonally and mounted on a nose wheel, the wheelbarrow in the garden.
ref: 1995, Dana Stabenow, Play with Fire, →ISBN, page 106:
glosses: A chamber pot: a bucket used for urination and defecation.
Synonyms: chamber pot
honey buckets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of honey bucket
grudgeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more grudgeless
form: most grudgeless
Etymology: From grudge + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without grudges.
Derived terms: grudgelessness
unbegrudging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbegrudging
form: most unbegrudging
Etymology: From un- + begrudging.
Senses: glosses: ungrudging
unbegrudgingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unbegrudgingly
form: most unbegrudgingly
Etymology: From unbegrudging + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without a grudge.
charredness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From charred + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being charred.
nincompooperies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nincompoopery
mishappiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mis- + happy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: What wit have words so prest and forcible, That may contain my great mishappiness, And just complaints of his ungentleness?
ref: a. 1542, Thomas Wyatt, Wyatt's Complaint upon Love to Reason, with Love's Answer:
text: "My heart pities the man," Baillie wrote at this point in his narrative; "beside other evils, the mishappiness of the affair, which could not be by any hand so compassed as to give content to all...."
ref: 1974, F. N. McCoy, Robert Baillie and the Second Scots Reformation:
synonyms: word: dejection
word: melancholy
word: blueness
word: mirthless
word: blues
word: crestfallenness
word: dejection
word: depression
word: despondency
word: distress
word: dolefulness
word: downheartedness
word: drearihead
word: forlornness
word: grief
word: heartsore
word: ill-being
word: infelicity
word: melancholia
word: melancholy
word: misery
word: mishappiness
word: mourn
word: prosternation
word: regret
word: rue
word: ruth
word: sadness
word: sorrow
word: sorrowfulness
word: tristfulness
word: undelight
word: unhappiness
word: woe
word: woefare
word: wretchedness
glosses: Unhappiness; wretchedness; misery.
eudaemons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eudaemon
honey possum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honey possums
head_nr: 2
Senses: head_nr: 2
glosses: Tarsipes rostratus, a tiny nectarivorous Australian marsupial of Western Australia.
Synonyms: sense: Tarsipes rostratus
word: noolbenger
sense: Tarsipes rostratus
word: tait
honey possums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of honey possum
preponderancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preponderancies
Senses: examples: text: Again, whereas men affirm they perceive an addition of ponderosity in dead bodies, comparing them usually unto blocks and stones, whensoever they lift or carry them; this accessional preponderancy is rather in appearance than reality.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
text: , Book IV, Chapter XV
The mind should […] reject or receive it proportionably to the preponderancy of the greater grounds of probability.
glosses: Archaic form of preponderance.
preponderancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preponderancy
pondless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pond + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a pond.
preponderances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preponderance
pantofles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pantofle
pantable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pantables
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pantofle.
pantoble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pantobles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pantofle.
pantables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pantable
pantobles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pantoble
misguilt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mɪsˈɡɪlt/
Forms: form: misgilt
Etymology: From mis- + guilt.
Senses: examples: text: If a burgess be attached out of the burgh for debt, or for any misguilt, his neighbours shall pass to bail him on their own proper dispense, provided he be taken within the sheriffdom; […]
ref: 1899, The Cooper craft
glosses: Offense; misdeed; crime; fault.
misguilt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /mɪsˈɡɪlt/
Forms: form: misguilts
form: misguilting
form: misguilted
form: misguilted
form: misgilt
Etymology: From mis- + guilt.
Senses: glosses: To do wrong.
ashpit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ashpits
form: ash pit
Etymology: From ash + pit.
Senses: examples: text: I hid my books in the long grass near the ashpit at the end of the garden where nobody ever came and hurried along the canal bank.
ref: 1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “An Encounter”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 24:
glosses: A pit for the disposal of ashes.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: a pit between the rails where a steam locomotive can drop its fire at the end of a day's work, before going "on shed".
ashpits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ashpit
Pechora
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Russian Печо́ра (Pečóra).
Senses: glosses: A river in the Komi Republic and the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia.
glosses: A town in the Komi Republic.
ASMR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ASMRs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of age-specific mortality rate.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
seismology
glosses: Initialism of accelerating seismic moment release.
examples: text: The ASMR community struggles with popular perception of the transgressive nature of their shared pleasure, which by its public nature is what Berlant and Warner call "nonstandard intimacy."
ref: 2014, Joceline Andersen, “Now You’ve Got the Shiveries: Affect, Intimacy, and the ASMR Whisper Community”, in Television & New Media, volume 16, number 8:
text: You might say [Bob] Ross was the first ASMRtist, as those who produce ASMR videos like to be called.
ref: 2015 April 21, Tanis Fowler, “Relax, you may have ASMR: YouTube videos sparking pleasurable, hypnotic-like sensation result in millions of views”, in Toronto Star, archived from the original on 29 Jun 2017:
text: “The ASMR community goes against that mainstream assertion that the internet is making everybody less connected, and hurting relationships,” Herndon says. “People are making these videos at their desks, putting them online for free, and comforting strangers in this really therapeutic and sweet way.” Her own ASMR trigger is the sound of acrylic fingernails tapping on a smartphone screen.
ref: 2015 April 26, Ben Beaumont-Thomas, quoting Holly Herndon, “Holly Herndon: the queen of tech-topia”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Initialism of autonomous sensory meridian response (“a claimed biological phenomenon involving a pleasurable tingling in response to a stimulus”).
glosses: Content, especially audio, intended to elicit the autonomous sensory meridian response.
Derived terms: ASMRotica
ASMRtist
ASMR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of American Society of Mining and Reclamation.
amphicoelian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more amphicoelian
form: most amphicoelian
Etymology: From amphi- + Ancient Greek κοῖλος (koîlos, “hollow”) + -ian.
Senses: glosses: amphicoelous
amphicoelous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more amphicoelous
form: most amphicoelous
form: amphicœlous
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀμφίκοιλος (amphíkoilos, “hollowed on both sides”). By surface analysis, amphi- + -coelous.
Senses: examples: text: amphicoelous centrum
text: amphicoelous vertebra
text: amphicoelous surface
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having both ends concave; biconcave.
raw_tags: of vertebrae
Synonyms: amphicoelian
jambeux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of jambeaux, plural of jambeau.
Encaenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Encaenias
Etymology: From Latin encaenia, from Ancient Greek ἐγκαίνια (enkaínia, “a festival of renewal or dedication”).
Senses: glosses: The eight days of celebration for the dedication of the church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
glosses: An academic ceremony in which degrees or awards are given out.
Abelians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Abelian
misguggle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /mɪsˈɡʌɡəl/
Forms: form: misguggles
form: misguggling
form: misguggled
form: misguggled
form: misgruggle
form: misgoggle
form: misgrugle
form: misgaggle
form: misgoogle
Etymology: From a conflation of mis- + guggle (“to soil, dirty”) and mis- + gruggle (“to disorder, rumple”).
Senses: glosses: To spoil by rough or careless handling; handle roughly; rumple; crumple; maul; mangle or disfigure; mar; spoil; bungle.
glosses: To hack; slash; carve.
misguggle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mɪsˈɡʌɡəl/
Forms: form: misguggles
form: misgruggle
form: misgoggle
form: misgrugle
form: misgaggle
form: misgoogle
Etymology: From a conflation of mis- + guggle (“to soil, dirty”) and mis- + gruggle (“to disorder, rumple”).
Senses: glosses: Disturbance; disorder; discord.
musrol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: musrols
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of musrole.
musrols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of musrol
thowel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /θəʊ.(w)əl/
ipa: /θoʊ.(w)əl/
Forms: form: thowels
form: thowl
Etymology: See thole; other dialectal forms include thoal.
Senses: glosses: A tholepin in a boat.
examples: text: […] I would sit impatiently thinking with what an unusual amount of noise the oars worked in the thowels.
ref: 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter XV, in Great Expectations […], volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, pages 247–248:
glosses: A rowlock.
thowels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thowel
thowl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thowls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thowel.
thowls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thowl
reissuings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reissuing
uncolonnaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + colonnaded.
Senses: glosses: Without a colonnade.
misgrow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misgrows
form: misgrowing
form: misgrew
form: misgrown
Etymology: From mis- + grow.
Senses: examples: text: Fingers or toes may misgrow club-like together. One kidney may fail. The head may contain practically no brain.
ref: 1940, Charles Sherrington, Man on his Nature:
text: The notion was that thereafter the first poetic language decayed and misgrew into workaday language, of merely instrumental usefulness, and only from time to time was it by the miracle of genius rediscovered by some few who were able to [...]
ref: 1966, Benedetto Croce, Philosophy, poetry, history:
text: The Spring Burials Violets growing through the asphalt mean the usual of spring's predicament: how, busy getting born, still wings and green will falter, twist, misgrow their management and die.
ref: 1995, Erin Belieu, Infanta:
glosses: To grow incorrectly or amiss.
Derived terms: misgrown
misgrowth
misgrown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From misgrow.
Senses: glosses: past participle of misgrow.
misgrown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more misgrown
form: most misgrown
Etymology: From misgrow.
Senses: glosses: Grown out of shape; misshapen.
benimming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of benim
benimming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English biniming, equivalent to benim + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The taking away or removal of something.
steel square
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steel squares
Senses: glosses: A tool used to measure out right angles.
Synonyms: sense: tool
word: carpenter's square
sense: tool
word: framing square
melomakarono
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melomakaronos
form: melomakarona
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of melomakarona.
moustalevria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Greek μουσταλευριά f (moustalevriá).
Senses: glosses: a Greek dessert made from grape juice, flour, sugar etc
gives someone the shits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of give someone the shits
giving someone the shits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of give someone the shits
gave someone the shits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of give someone the shits
wrong 'uns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wrong'uns
Senses: glosses: plural of wrong 'un
'uns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 'un
poison gas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poison gases
form: poison gasses
Senses: glosses: A poisonous gas.
examples: text: [...] approximately 23,000 members of the L.M.S.R. staff were trained in methods approved by the Home Office for dealing with the consequences of an air raid, including the effects of poison gas and incendiary bombs.
ref: 1939 November, Charles E. Lee, “Railways and the War — I”, in Railway Magazine, page 315:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A poisonous gas.
Any poisonous gas used as a chemical weapon.
Israelitish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Israelitish
form: most Israelitish
Etymology: From Israelite + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: 1749-1750, William Whiston, Memoirs
This Univocation of Tartar Cities with those of Israel, concurring with the former Reason from the Place and Country, whither they were sometime transplanted by the Assyrians, doth plainly shew that the Israelitish' People have been there, and given the Names unto these Cities […]
text: The Israelitish state as it then existed seemed to them a sacred thing, because it was in their thought the kingdom of God already formed and destined to attain to a perfect purity of faith and morals, and to become the spiritual leader of the nations of the world.
ref: 1913, Edward Chauncey Baldwin, “The Prophets”, in Our Modern Debt to Israel (non-fiction), Boston: Sherman, French & Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 40:
glosses: Israelite, Israelitic.
LALR
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of lookahead LR.
raw_tags: of a parser
nitrosylsulfuric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nitrosyl + sulfuric acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A nitrosyl derivative of sulfuric acid that is used in industrial synthesis
immiserations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immiseration
UpperCamelCase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The autological spelling of the word.
Senses: antonyms: lowerCamelCase
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of upper camel case.
lowerCamelCase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The autological spelling of the word.
Senses: antonyms: UpperCamelCase
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of lower camel case.
still-hunt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: still-hunts
form: still-hunting
form: still-hunted
form: still-hunted
Senses: glosses: To hunt for game in a quiet and cautious manner, or under cover; to stalk.
still-hunted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of still-hunt
still-hunting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of still-hunt
still-hunts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of still-hunt
gords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gord
Gord
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Clipping of Gordon. Second sense is a pronunciation spelling
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Gordon.
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of God.
Gordo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Gordon.
Beghard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /bəˈɡɑːɹd/
Forms: form: Beghards
form: Beguard
Etymology: From French bégard, béguard.
Senses: coordinate_terms: Beguin
Beguine
glosses: One of an association of religious laymen living in semimonastic communities in imitation of the Beguines, and influenced by Albigensian teachings and by the Brethren of the Free Spirit.
Beghards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Beghard
Beguard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Beguards
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Beghard.
Beguards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Beguard
semimonastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌsɛmiməˈnæstɪk/
Etymology: From semi- + monastic.
Senses: examples: text: The Beghards lived in semimonastic communities, without taking formal vows.
text: The colleges were male bastions, and academic study was meant to be a semi-monastic vocation. Thus one was not permitted to bring women into college, except on a few special occasions per year, and then only for a couple of hours in the afternoon.
ref: 2010, Thomas J. Schaeper, Kathleen Schaeper, “Yanks and Brits”, in Rhodes Scholars, Oxford, and the Creation of an American Elite, New York, NY: Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 52:
glosses: Having certain monastic aspects.
Shastras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Shastra
Shastra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Shastras
form: Sastra
form: Shastah
form: Shaster
form: Shastrah
Etymology: From Sanskrit शास्त्र (śāstra, “precept, rule, book or treatise”).
Senses: examples: text: There are six Darshan Shastras called the six schools of philosophy. They are: (1) Poorv Mimansaby Sage Jaimini, (2) Nyay by Sage Gautam, (3) Vaisheshik by Sage Kanad, (4) Sankhya by Bhagwan Kapil, (5) Yog by Sage Patanjali, and (6) Uttar Mimansa (Brahm Sutra) by Bhagwan Ved Vyas. All the six Darshan Shastras are in sutra form.
ref: 1999, Prakashanand Saraswati, The True History and the Religion of India: A Concise Encyclopedia of Authentic Hinduism, published 2001, page 555:
text: There is an interesting link between the need to anchor sociologist's training with knowledge of Sanskrit and the observation that the Shastras are sociological because the latter are in Sanskrit.
ref: 2004, T. K. Oommen, Nation, Civil Society and Social Movements: Essays in Political Sociology, page 170:
text: The answers to both questions are found in the Shastras of the Sanatana Dharma.
ref: 2005, Ashim Bhattacharyya, Bhagavan Shri Krsna & Bhagavat Dharma, unnumbered page:
glosses: A treatise for authoritative instruction in Hinduism, especially one explaining the Vedas.
Related terms: Shastri
Shaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Shasters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Shastra.
Sastra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sastras
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Shastra.
Shasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Shaster
Sastras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sastra
laurates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laurate
behenate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: behenates
Etymology: From behenic + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of behenic acid.
Derived terms: dibehenate
polybehenate
behenates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of behenate
Laurasian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Laurasian
form: most Laurasian
Etymology: From Laurasia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Laurasia.
Gondwanan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Gondwanan
form: most Gondwanan
Etymology: From Gondwana + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Gondwana.
Gondwanan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gondwanans
Etymology: From Gondwana + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Gondwana.
obelias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obelia
Pauling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Paulin; the surname of Linus Pauling derives from its German cognate.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
glosses: Linus Pauling, American chemist
Derived terms: paulingite
Pauling scale
Pauling unit
Pauling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Paulings
Etymology: Variant of Paulin; the surname of Linus Pauling derives from its German cognate.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Pauling unit.
synonyms: word: Pauling unit
going barrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: going barrels
Senses: topics: hobbies
horology
lifestyle
glosses: A barrel containing the mainspring, with teeth on its periphery to drive the train.
topics: hobbies
horology
lifestyle
glosses: A device for maintaining a force to drive the train while the timepiece is being wound up.
going barrels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of going barrel
seesawings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seesawing
heptacontagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heptacontagons
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polygon with seventy edges.
Synonyms: 70-gon
heptacontagons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heptacontagon
tetracontagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛ.tɹəˈkɑntæ.ɡɑn/
Forms: form: tetracontagons
Etymology: Blend of tetra- (“4”) + Ancient Greek τεσσαράκοντα (tessarákonta, “40”) + -gon (“-sided”), from γωνία (gōnía, “corner”).
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A 40-sided polygon.
Synonyms: 40-gon
tetracontagons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetracontagon
heptacosadienes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heptacosadiene
social engineer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: social engineers
Etymology: social + engineer.
Senses: examples: text: We need another type of social engineer for the country problem, who will be able to direct the social forces of a whole county and relate them to the best interests of State and county.
ref: 1911, Edwin Lee Earp, The Social Engineer, Eaton & Mains, page 295:
text: [Pretexting] is one of the critical points for many social engineers. Pretexting involves developing the role the social engineer will play for the attack on the company. Will the social engineer be a customer, vendor, tech support, new hire, or something equally realistic and believable?
ref: 2010, Christopher Hadnagy, Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking, John Wiley, unpaginated page:
glosses: One who engages in social engineering.
social engineer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: social engineers
form: social engineering
form: social engineered
form: social engineered
Etymology: social + engineer.
Senses: examples: text: Leon social engineered his way into our corporate intranet.
text: What was also prevalent was a Fabian-type view of socialism that it could be administered, even social engineered into existence.
ref: 2018, John Astley, The Role of Social Science in the Education of Professional Practitioners, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: To achieve or access by means of social engineering.
rohe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rohes
form: rohe
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori rohe.
Senses: examples: text: Such rohe were most often delineated by geographical features such as mountains, rivers and valleys, or by botanical markers such as forests or individually identified trees.
ref: 2003, Michael King, The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Penguin, published 2023, page 68:
glosses: A Māori tribal territory or region; (loosely), an area or region.
rohes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rohe
hemapophyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemapophysis
hemapophysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌhiːməˈpɒfɪsɪs/
/ˌhɛməˈpɒfɪsɪs/
Forms: form: hemapophyses
form: haemapophysis
Etymology: From hemo- + apophysis.
Senses: examples: text: The bones, 39 and 40, represent the hemapophysis of the parieto-hæmal arch.
ref: 1848, Richard Owen, On the Archetype and Homologies of the Vertebrate Skeleton:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The second element in each half of a hemal arch, corresponding to the sternal part of a rib.
Related terms: hemapophyseal
hemapophysial
lab work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lab + work.
Senses: glosses: work done in a laboratory
cranberryade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cranberry + -ade.
Senses: glosses: A sweetened cranberry drink.
tyler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tylers
Senses: examples: text: The Worshipful Company of Tylers and Bricklayers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London.
glosses: Archaic form of tiler (“Masonic doorkeeper”).
tylers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tyler
protomodernism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From proto- + modernism.
Senses: glosses: A protomodern style.
protomodernist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protomodernists
Etymology: From proto- + modernist.
Senses: glosses: One who uses a protomodern style.
protomodernists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protomodernist
plutonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plutonists
form: Plutonist
Senses: examples: text: The Plutonists, who had Thomas Huxley on their side, asserted that rocks such as basalt and granite, which originated in a molten state deep within the Earth, were the primary source, and that the other rock types such as sandstone and slate were formed from their breakdown and re-deposition as silt and mud.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 74:
glosses: One who supports the geological theory of plutonism.
Coordinate terms: Neptunist
plutonists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plutonist
epimera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epimeron
Derived terms: epimeral
epimeron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epimera
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐπι- (epi-, “upon”) + μέρος (méros, “a part”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: In crustaceans, the part of the side of a somite external to the basal joint of each appendage.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: In insects, the lateral piece behind the episternum.
Synonyms: epimerum
Hyponyms: anepimeron
katepimeron
Derived terms: mesepimeron
metepimeron
superaffluence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From super- + affluence.
Senses: examples: text: We have all heard of the young man who while serving contentedly as a hotel porter, and glad of the job, was suddenly elevated to superaffluence by inheriting a large fortune.
ref: 1919, Augusta Larned, The Borderland of Country Life, page 185:
text: The book of Judges invites us to ask ourselves whether the same greed and self-centeredness that has produced our superaffluence is not also systematically teaching us to be violent.
ref: 2001, J. Clinton McCann, "Judges 4:1-7", Roger E. Van Harn (editor), The Lectionary Commentary, Volume 1, "The Old Testament and Acts: The First Readings", page 159
glosses: A superabundance of wealth
super-affluence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of superaffluence.
super-affluent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more super-affluent
form: most super-affluent
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of superaffluent.
Cordelier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cordeliers
Etymology: French, related to corde (“rope”), from the girdle of knotted cord worn by the Franciscans.
Senses: glosses: A Franciscan (member of the Order of Friars Minor)
glosses: A member of the Cordeliers, a French populist club during the French Revolution, which met in an old Cordelier convent in Paris.
Cordeliers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cordelier
seven-layer cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seven-layer cakes
Senses: glosses: A cake consisting of seven thin layers of baked batter interlaced with seven layers of frosting.
blackout cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blackout cakes
Etymology: From its dark color.
Senses: synonyms: Brooklyn blackout cake
glosses: A dark, rich chocolate cake made with chocolate pudding.
blackout cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blackout cake
blackpolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blackpoll
tilly-vally
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: tilly-fally
form: tillie vallie
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: examples: text: Sir Toby Belch: My lady's a Cataian, we are politicians, Malvolio's
a Peg-a-Ramsey, and 'Three merry men be we.' Am not
I consanguineous? am I not of her blood?
Tillyvally. Lady!
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: Expressing contempt, or rejecting anything trifling or impertinent.
tilly-fally
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tilly-vally.
hypocarp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypocarps
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: hypocarpium
hypocarps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypocarp
quinsey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quinseys
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of quinsy.
grande passion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grandes passions
Etymology: From French grande passion (“great passion”).
Senses: examples: text: And if in fact she takes to a grande passion, / It is a very serious thing indeed: / Nine times in ten 't is but caprice or fashion, / Coquetry, or a wish to take the lead […].
ref: 1823, Lord Byron, Don Juan, section XII:
text: He then said that she was the daughter of a French opera dancer, Céline Varens, toward whom he once cherished what he called a "grande passion".
ref: 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre:
text: ‘A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do.’
ref: 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage, published 2007, page 45:
glosses: An overwhelming love affair or infatuation for someone.
drop-scene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drop-scenes
Senses: examples: text: ‘Well, I found myself seated in a horrid little private box, with a vulgar drop-scene staring me in the face.’
ref: 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage, published 2007, page 46:
glosses: The curtain lowered in a theatre between the acts of a play, to allow for set changes etc.
cantrev
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cantrevs
Etymology: From Middle Welsh cantrev, variant of cantref.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cantref.
cantrevs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cantrev
cymwd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cymwds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cwmwd.
cwmwd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cwmwds
form: cymydau
Senses: examples: text: Cantref Penwedig, subdivided into the cwmwds of Geneu'r Glyn, Perfedd, and Creuddyn[…]
ref: 1822, Memoirs of Owen Glendower (Owain Glyndwr), page xiii:
text: It is situated in a cwmwd which still retains the name of Swydd-y-Grè, i. e., the office or jurisdiction of the Grè.
ref: 1859, Jonathan Williams, The history of Radnorshire, page 199:
glosses: Alternative form of commote.
cymwds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cymwd
cwmwds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cwmwd
Cymrophones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cymrophone
photodegrade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: photodegrades
form: photodegrading
form: photodegraded
form: photodegraded
Etymology: From photo- + degrade.
Senses: glosses: to decompose as a result of exposure to light, especially that of the sun.
Derived terms: photodegradable
photodegradation
photodegraded
red lights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red light
do the laundry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does the laundry
form: doing the laundry
form: did the laundry
form: done the laundry
Senses: glosses: To wash the laundry.
Synonyms: do the washing
Related terms: do the dishes
voice messages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of voice message
voice mails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of voice mail
yass
Language: English
Part of speech: particle
Senses: examples: text: Yass. I never got above the rank of shavetail. We were the dogfaces who gave ’em hell at Chateau Thierry.
ref: 1962, Joseph Commings, “The X Street Murders”, in The Mammoth Book of Perfect Crimes & Impossible Mysteries, published 2006:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of yes.
yass
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: /jɑːs/
/jæs/
Forms: form: yas
form: yaas
form: yaaas
form: yasss
Etymology: Alteration of yes, with likely influence from pronunciation spelling.
Senses: examples: text: Yass queen, you did that!
qualifier: African-American Vernacular; LGBTQ slang; African-American Vernacular; LGBTQ slang
glosses: A strong expression of excitement or admiration.
Derived terms: yassify
yassification
pitchable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pitch + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The movie isn't pitchable.
glosses: Easy to pitch (to promote, advertise, or sell).
examples: pitchable tips
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Able to be pitched.
examples: text: This tent is pitchable anywhere there are trees.
glosses: Possible to pitch (to set up).
raw_tags: of a tent or similar structure