cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
leucodyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leucodye
hyperpigmented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperpigmented
form: most hyperpigmented
Etymology: From hyper- + pigmented.
Senses: synonyms: overpigmented
antonyms: hypopigmented
underpigmented
;
depigmented
;
nonpigmented
unpigmented
hypernyms: pigmented
coordinate_terms: repigmented
glosses: Pigmented more than normal; pigmented too much.
Related terms: hyperpigmentation
overpigmentation
leucodermas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leucoderma
leucodermata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leucoderma
hyperphrenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperphrenic
form: most hyperphrenic
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or pertaining to hyperphrenia.
leuco dye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leuco dyes
form: leucodye
Senses: glosses: Any dye that has a leuco form.
leucites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leucite
joystick waggler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: joystick wagglers
Senses: examples: text: Popeye 3 is an out-and-out joystick waggler. While Zeppelin's Tag Team Wrestling used the old 'press fire with a direction' control method, to beat your opponent in Popeye 3, you have two stages of frenetic wrist-mangling.
ref: 1992, Jon Pillar, Popeye III (game review) in Your Sinclair 83, November 1992
text: It's not an exact simulation and it's not a joystick waggler. It is basically CM2 for cricket.
ref: 1998, Mike Fairweather, “International cricket captain, opinions wanted”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.sports (Usenet):
text: Could be wrong but I'm sure T&F and several of the other give-the-controls-a-good-twatting games were actually button bashers rather than joystick wagglers. Bit picky I know.....
ref: 2003, Nomenluni, “What Speccy game should have been in the arcade?”, in comp.sys.sinclair (Usenet):
topics: video-games
glosses: A video game, usually based on a sport, where the player must build up and maintain speed or energy by rapidly moving the joystick back and forth.
waggler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wagglers
Etymology: From waggle + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, waggles.
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A float consisting of a thin tube of plastic with a line threaded through an eye at the bottom.
Derived terms: joystick waggler
wagglers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waggler
joystick wagglers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of joystick waggler
alæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ala
unswitched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + switched.
Senses: glosses: Not switched.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: Directly connected without an intervening switch.
leucitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From leucite + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to, or composed of leucite
Derived terms: pseudoleucitic
leucoagglutinins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leucoagglutinin
Lysenkoist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lysenkoists
Etymology: From Lysenko + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of Lysenkoism.
Lysenkoists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lysenkoist
Lysenkoites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lysenkoite
shrog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shrogs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of scrog.
quiddler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quiddlers
Etymology: From quiddle + -er.
Senses: glosses: A waster of time; an idler or dawdler.
quiddlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quiddler
quizshows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quizshow
quintains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quintain
questrist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: questrists
Etymology: Related to quest.
Senses: examples: text: Some five or six and thirty of his knights,
Hot questrists after him, met him at gate;
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vii]:
glosses: A seeker or pursuer.
questrists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of questrist
quetched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quetch
confuscate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: confuscates
form: confuscating
form: confuscated
form: confuscated
Senses: glosses: To confuse, confound, or perplex.
glosses: To complicate; to cause confusion.
Synonyms: sense: confuse
word: confusticate
confuscate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of confiscate.
quesals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quesal
quesal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quesals
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of quetzal (the bird).
printing forms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of printing form
quadrigeminous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛmɪnəs
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of quadrigeminal.
Motomi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
kincajou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kincajous
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of kinkajou.
kincajous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kincajou
suffocateth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: suffocate + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of suffocate
stifleth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: stifle + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stifle
strangleth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: strangle + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of strangle
stiflest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: stifle + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of stifle
stranglest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: strangle + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of strangle
Morio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese もりお (Morio).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
questman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: questmen
Etymology: From quest + man.
Senses: glosses: One who is legally empowered to look into certain matters, especially abuses of weights and measures.
glosses: A churchwarden's assistant; a sidesman.
glosses: A collector of parish rents.
questmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of questman
kotschubeite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ? + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chromium chlorite mineral.
Yasuo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
serial files
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of serial file
serial intervals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of serial interval
Yasushi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
subproposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subpropositions
Etymology: From sub- + proposition.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A proposition making up part of a greater proposition.
Related terms: subpropositional
subpropositions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subproposition
concentrism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsɛnt̠͡ɹ̠ɪzm̩/
Forms: form: concentrisms
Etymology: From concentric + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being concentric.
concentrisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concentrism
Yasutoshi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese やすとし (Yasutoshi).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
quadrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quadrate
quadrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quadrate
quadrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of quadrate
topicless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From topic + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a topic.
Hagåtña
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /həˈɡɑːt.njə/
Forms: form: Hagatna
Etymology: From Chamorro Hagåtña.
Senses: glosses: The capital of Guam, a United States island territory.
Synonyms: Agana
Agaña
slant sight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslænt ˌsaɪt/
ipa: /ˈslɑːnt ˌsaɪt/
Senses: glosses: strabismus
smail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛs.meɪl/
ipa: /smeɪl/
Etymology: From snail mail, patterned on email.
Senses: examples: text: To receive this list by smail send self addressed stamped envelope
ref: 1996 May 24, Richard Eymann, “SEEKIG^([sic]) HAPPY MEAL TOY TRADERS WORLDWIDE”, in rec.collecting (Usenet):
ref: 1997 November 18, “SteveH1491”, “Trick Int'l smail address?”, in alt.music.cheap-trick (Usenet):
text: On a similar note just imagine if we could persuade companies that sending junk smail is hugely ineffective. All those people, using all that paper, printers, ink, postmen etc etc.
ref: 2000 August 5, “Robin” (username), “Re: Letter from india”, in uk.politics.misc and other newsgroups, Usenet
text: I would require a copy of the original image either by smail or email (scanned image requirement - 600 dpi min / jpg file) and the basic required size you would like the stamp/stamps to be.
ref: 2001 August 28, Tom & Rose-Marie Kerr, “Custom Rubber Stamp Needed”, in rec.crafts.rubberstamps (Usenet):
text: ... so when I get promoted I can promote my connection :-) It has now been ordered, I just have to wait for the connection pack to be sent by smail.
ref: 2002 April 26, Old Git, “Shoom!”, in freeserve.chat (Usenet):
text: If anyone knows a smail order or internet vendor who carries them, please let me know ¶
ref: 2002 July 15, “Thor”, “Looking for Maisto On Track Diescast Trains”, in rec.models.railroad (Usenet):
text: You must give the seller access to your checking account, which is risky, or send funds via smail, which is slow.
ref: 2009 May 26, Robert, “anybody ordering online?”, in alt.smokers (Usenet):
glosses: Conventional postal mail; snail mail.
smail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛs.meɪl/
ipa: /smeɪl/
Forms: form: smails
form: smailing
form: smailed
form: smailed
Etymology: From snail mail, patterned on email.
Senses: examples: text: You can retrieve the references and go to lib. to get the articles, order the articles to be smailed to you from NLM, or download them to your fax machine
ref: 1993 December 21, Patty Cravener, “medline”, in sci.med.nursing (Usenet):
text: I sent some key lime seeds to Davida last year by US Mail. IIRC, the cost of smailing few seeds was 4 or 5 bucks. --Dick.
ref: 2002 May 27, Dick Harper, “WREVEL: Lutefisk alert”, in misc.writing (Usenet):
text: He met her on IRC and she started emailing, then smailing, then calling on the phone
ref: 2002 November 26, Dan Logcher, “how do I get rid of this pest?”, in alt.food.sushi (Usenet):
text: I eventually stopped trying this bloated crud, and rang the Department to smail me the docs.[…] I gave up and got a friend to get me the documents in person from that office.
ref: 2004 July 30, Al Firan RumaiDin, “Re: ot! - ms office upgrades??”, in uk.business.agriculture (Usenet):
glosses: To send by postal mail.
quateron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quaterons
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of quadroon.
quaterons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quateron
quadrilobed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quadri- + lobed.
Senses: glosses: Having four lobes.
Synonyms: quadrilobate
cuicas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuica
quinquelobate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quinque- + lobate.
Senses: glosses: Having five lobes.
Synonyms: quinquelobed
pentalobate
quinquelobed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quinque- + lobed.
Senses: glosses: Having five lobes.
Synonyms: pentalobate
quinquelobate
quadrifoliate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quadri- + foliate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: quadrifoil
coordinate_terms: unifoliate
bifoliate
trifoliate
glosses: Having four leaves.
Related terms: english: four leaflets
translation: four leaflets
word: quadrifoliolate
word: quadrofoil
word: quatrefoil
quinquefoliate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quinque- + foliate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having five leaves or leaflets.
quinquedentate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quinque- + dentate.
Senses: glosses: Having a pattern of five teeth.
Synonyms: quinquedentated
quinquedentated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quinque- + dentated.
Senses: glosses: Having a pattern of five teeth.
Synonyms: quinquedentate
quinquefoliolate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quinque- + foliolate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having five leaflets.
power ballads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of power ballad
march to the beat of one's own drummer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: marches to the beat of one's own drummer
form: marching to the beat of one's own drummer
form: marched to the beat of one's own drummer
form: marched to the beat of one's own drummer
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of march to the beat of a different drum.
march to the beat of one's own drum
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: marches to the beat of one's own drum
form: marching to the beat of one's own drum
form: marched to the beat of one's own drum
form: marched to the beat of one's own drum
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of march to the beat of a different drum.
ovolos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ovolo
oyezes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oyez
queen truss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: queen trusses
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A truss framed with queen posts.
queen trusses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of queen truss
quatted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quat
queen post
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: queen posts
Senses: examples: text: The bridge carries a double track, and consists of a 300 ft. span, supported on queen post trusses, over the river, and three 100-ft. spans at the Chepstow end.
ref: 1948 November and December, “River Wye Bridge, Chepstow”, in Railway Magazine, page 354:
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A supporting post designed to span longer openings than a king post.
Related terms: queen truss
bootload
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bootloads
Etymology: From boot + load.
Senses: glosses: As much as the boot of a car can hold; a trunkload.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The work done by a boot loader; the startup of an operating system.
bootloads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bootload
outburn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outburns
form: outburning
form: outburned
form: outburned
form: outburnt
form: outburnt
Etymology: From out- + burn.
Senses: synonyms: word: combust
word: go up
word: burn
word: combust
word: forburn
word: go up
word: outburn
word: torch
glosses: To burn away; be consumed by fire.
glosses: To exceed in burning; burn longer than.
outbring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outbrings
form: outbringing
form: outbrought
form: outbrought
Etymology: From Middle English outbringen, outebringen, from Old English ūtbrengan (“to bring out”), equivalent to out- + bring. Cognate with Dutch uitbrengen (“to release, launch, bring out, utter”), German ausbringen (“to propose, give, space out”), Swedish utbringa (“to propose”).
Senses: examples: text: All these, with many more, she deftly wrought Into gay wreaths and posies passing fair; Then from the inner sacristy outbrought Vases of simplest clay, but shapes most rare, And round the statue's base, as quick as thought, [...]
ref: 1873, Alfred Austin, Madonna's child:
text: Whose breath of mouth divine, Of old from the deep gulf outbrought me, And who all beautiful outwrought me.
ref: 1874, Thomas Bruce, The summer queen:
text: And then Sir Launcelot said: Now have good day, my lord the king, for wit you well ye win no worship at these walls; and if I would my knights outbring, there should many a man die.
ref: 1900, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur: Volume 4:
text: We utter or outbring acts; the word of God produced creatures.
ref: 1901, Anne Judith Penny, An introduction to the study of Jacob Boehme's writings:
text: Tea, seeds of crescive sympathy Were sown by those more excellent than he, Long known, though long contemned till then — The gods of men in amity. Souls have grown seers, and thought outbrings The mournful many-sidedness of things With foes as friends, enfeebling ires And fury-fires by gaingiving!
ref: 1914, Louis Freeland Post, Alice Thacher Post, Stoughton Cooley, The Public: A journal of democracy: Volume 17:
glosses: To bring out; deliver; utter; express.
Derived terms: outbringing
outbreathe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outbreathes
form: outbreathing
form: outbreathed
form: outbreathed
Etymology: From out- + breathe.
Senses: glosses: To exhaust or deprive of breath.
examples: text: II Scarsely had Phoebus in the glooming East 10 Yet harnessed his firie-footed teeme, Ne reard above the earth his flaming creast; When the last deadly smoke aloft did steeme That signe of last outbreathed life did seeme Unto the watchman on the castle wall, 15 Who thereby dead that balefull Beast did deeme, And to his Lord and Ladie lowd gan call, To tell how he had seene the Dragons fatall fall.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, published 1921:
glosses: To breathe out; expire.
glosses: To issue as a breath; exhale.
Yasuhiro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
glosses: A surname from Japanese.
outbear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outbears
form: outbearing
form: outbore
form: outborne
Etymology: From Middle English outberen, equivalent to out- + bear. Cognate with Danish udbære, Swedish utbära.
Senses: examples: text: This song of soul I struggle to outbear, […]
ref: 1860, William Caldwell Roscoe, Richard Holt Hutton, Poems and essays: Volume 2:
text: I marvel at myself, that e'er I yielded
This amorous enterprise even to you,
But that my loyalty outbears my love.
ref: 1878, The New York Drama: no. 37-48
glosses: To bear out; support.
Tartessian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Tartessos + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Tartessos
Tartessian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Tartessos + -ian.
Senses: glosses: The Tartessian language
glosses: The Tartessian script
Tartessian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tartessians
Etymology: From Tartessos + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Tartessian civilization
Atlantian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ətˈlænti.ən/
Etymology: From Atlas + -ian and Atlantis + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Atlantean.
Atlantian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ətˈlænti.ən/
Forms: form: Atlantians
Etymology: From Atlas + -ian and Atlantis + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Atlantean.
Atlantian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ətˈlænti.ən/
Etymology: From Atlanta + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Atlantan.
Atlantian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ətˈlænti.ən/
Forms: form: Atlantians
Etymology: From Atlanta + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Atlantan.
Atlantan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Atlantian
Etymology: From Atlanta + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Atlanta
Atlantan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Atlantans
form: Atlantian
Etymology: From Atlanta + -an.
Senses: glosses: A resident of Atlanta
Yui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yuis
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese ゆい (Yui).
Senses: glosses: A unisex given name from Japanese.
glosses: A surname from Japanese.
Atlantans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Atlantan
Atlantians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Atlantian
RCTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RCT
BCT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BCTs
form: B.C.T.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of brigade combat team.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of battalion combat team.
Coordinate terms: sense: battalion combat team
word: BTG
Derived terms: topics: military
war
government
politics
word: ABCT
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: HBCT
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: IBCT
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: LBCT
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: MBCT
Related terms: topics: military
war
government
politics
word: CCT
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: CT
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: DCT
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: PCT
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: RCT
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: SCT
BCTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BCT
TPS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Toronto Police Service.
TPS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TPS's
form: TPSes
Senses: topics: education
glosses: Initialism of think-pair-share
topics: video-games
glosses: Initialism of third-person shooter
examples: text: While some are spreading fears that these protections will inspire more migrants to come to the country, the weight of the evidence shows otherwise: Prior TPS designations have not led to increased unauthorized migration. In fact, our research shows that TPS actually decreases the pressures driving such migration.
ref: 2023 October 5, Ben Helms, David Leblang and Tom Jawetz, “Opinion: A smart and humane answer on immigration”, in CNN:
topics: law
glosses: Initialism of temporary protected status.
glosses: Initialism of thermal protection system.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of testing procedure specification.
glosses: Initialism of transaction per second
Related terms: TPS report
hidden tax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hidden taxes
Senses: topics: economics
government
sciences
taxation
glosses: A tax that is not visible to the consumer at the point of retail, having been levied on intermediate products, such as inputs to a finished product, or outputs from raw material production.
Hyponyms: manufacturer's tax
manufacturers' tax
manufacturers tax
import tax
export tax
biographette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biographettes
Etymology: From biography + -ette.
Senses: examples: text: The juvenile education of the subject of this biographette was limited to the elementary English branches, then but superficially taught in the common schools.
ref: 1839, L. Carroll Judson, A biography of the signers of the Declaration of independence: and of Washington and Patrick Henry. With an appendix, containing the Constitution of the United States and other documents, Volume 2, page 165:
text: In giving the six examples of the work of D. O. Hill, or more correctly "Hill & Adamson," as it was spoken of at the time of its production, the editors have laid their readers under a debt of obligation that the subscription ten times over could not pay; especially, strengthened, as it is, by the brief but accurate biographette of Hill himself, by J. Craig Annan.
ref: 1904, The American amateur photographer, Volume 17, page 391:
text: An excerpt from the accompanying biographette indicates how thoroughly she has been Americanized into a working woman with a son in the advertising business.
ref: 1985, Jerold Savory, Patricia Marks, The smiling muse: Victoriana in the comic press, page 24:
glosses: A short biography.
by rail
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Cotton was increasingly shipped by rail.
glosses: Via a train.
Related terms: by air
by sail
by steam
quata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quatas
Senses: examples: text: Acosta, in his History of the West Indies, relates the following anecdote of a quata which belonged to the Governor of Carthagena […]
ref: 1833, George Long, The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, volume 2, page 547:
text: To be sure the Quatas will, when they meet with a learned traveller, or any other strange animal, descend to the lower branches of their trees, to examine the phenomenon[…]
ref: 1837, The New Monthly Magazine, page 366:
text: The quatas, or large black spider monkeys, spent a good deal of their time in trying to open them by beating them against the branches of trees, or on hard logs upon the ground[…]
ref: 1876, Charles Barrington Brown, Canoe and camp life in British Guiana:
glosses: Archaic form of coiata.
quatas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quata
cinchonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cinchonisms
Etymology: From cinchona + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A pathological condition in humans caused by an overdose of quinine or its natural source, cinchona bark.
Synonyms: quinism
quininism
Related terms: cinchonization
cinchonize
quininism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quinism
Etymology: From quinine + -ism.
Senses: glosses: cinchonism
quinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quininism
Etymology: From quinine + -ism.
Senses: glosses: cinchonism
quadrifoil
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quadrifoliate.
Related terms: quadrofoil
quinquevalve
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quinque- + valve.
Senses: examples: text: Sundew. Calyx quinquefid, five stamina, five styles, capsule unilocular, quinquevalve at the top, polyspermous.
ref: 1777, Stephen Robson, The British flora, page 105:
text: The quinquevalve shell with its inhabitant, hangs by a fleshy gut-like tube […]
ref: 1825, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Richard Thomas Gore, A manual of the elements of natural history, page 252:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having five valves.
Synonyms: quinquevalvular
quinquevalvular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quinque- + valvular.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quinquevalve.
quinquivalence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being quinquivalent.
quoif
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quoifs
Senses: examples: text: A scaly gauntlet now with joints of steel / Must glove this hand: and hence, thou sickly quoif! / Thou art a guard too wanton for the head / Which princes, flesh'd with conquest, aim to hit.
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, 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: Obsolete form of coif.
quoifs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quoif
yoted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of yote
glosses: Misspelling of yote.
yarred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of yarr
yarr
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: yarrs
form: yarring
form: yarred
form: yarred
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: examples: text: She yapped and yarred and ran in foolish circles, as though quarrelling with her own tail.
ref: 1921, Chamber's Journal:
text: And when he saw that all the dogs were flocking about her, yarring at the retardment of their access to her, and every way keeping such a coil with her as they are wont to do about a proud or salt bitch, he forthwith departed […]
ref: 1653, François Rabelais, translated by Thomas Urquhart, Gargantua and Pantagruel:
glosses: To growl or snarl like a dog.
yarr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The plant Spergula arvensis, corn spurry.
yarr
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Yarr, this be a fine ship.
glosses: Alternative form of arr (“used stereotypically in imitation of pirates”).
yarramen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yarraman
yarramans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yarraman
Hocclevean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hocclevean
form: most Hocclevean
form: Hocclevian
Etymology: From Hoccleve + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Thomas Hoccleve (c.1368–1426), English poet and clerk.
Hocclevian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hocclevian
form: most Hocclevian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hocclevean.
foreverness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From forever + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: For some of us, the realization that foreverness isn't a part of every relationship is a sobering reality. It is only devastating because we are invested in the illusion of foreverness.
ref: 2006, Fran Harris, Will the Real You Please Stand Up?, page 166:
synonyms: word: all time
word: alwaysness
word: eternality
word: eternity
word: foreverhood
word: foreverness
word: perpetuity
glosses: The quality of being forever, of never coming to an end.
forewards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foreward
forewards
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of foreward
yeldrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yeldrins
form: yoldrin
form: yaldrin
form: yowdrin
form: yaldring
Etymology: Alteration of earlier yowlring, equivalent to yellow + ring.
Senses: examples: text: Bless the bramble and its berries —nor can we conjecture why it should be “a maltreated shrub,” any more than why the “Yellow Yeldrin” should in Scotland—and we believe in England too—be a maltreated bird.
ref: 1834, “The moral of flowers”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 35 (review of The Moral of Flowers by Rebecca Hey), page 811:
glosses: The yellowhammer.
yeldrins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yeldrin
yarely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more yarely
form: most yarely
Etymology: From Middle English ȝarly, ȝarely, from Old English ġearlīċe, ġearolīċe; equivalent to yare + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […]The silken tackle / Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands / That yarely frame the office.
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
text: […]Fall to't yarely, or we run ourselves aground. Bestir, bestir!
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 I, scene i]:
text: "Eat with despatch," he said,"and follow me yarely to mine house."
ref: 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Chapter 7, The Hooded Face”, in The Black Arrow:
glosses: In a yare way.
Synonyms: lithely
lively
quickly
readily
willingly
polar cod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polar cod
form: polar cods
Senses: synonyms: Arctic cod
glosses: A north Atlantic fish of the family Gadidae (cod, haddock, whitings and pollock), Boreogadus saida.
Related terms: taxonomic: Arctogadus glacialis
word: Arctic cod
almain rivet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: almain rivets
form: Almain-rivet
form: Almain rivet
form: Almaine rivet
form: almain-rivet
Etymology: From Almain + rivet, attested 1530 (as almayne ryvettes). Perhaps named for the overlapping plates' sliding on rivets, although it has also been suggested that rivet meant a suit of armor, related to French revêtir.
Senses: examples: text: Two tithing corslets furnished, ij pair of almain rivets furnished. […]
John Glasse, one almain rivet.
John Chapman, one almain rivet.
John Hurforde, with others[,] one almain rivet.
ref: 1904, Somerset Record Society, Publications, page 178, quoting an earlier tithe
roman: Heugh Hancoke, a pair of almain rivets.
text: This archer of the Earl of Northumberland's contingent (centre) is shown without his 'Almain rivet', displaying instead the coat supplied to men of this contingent. His hat and quiver are both of the Percy family livery colours.
ref: 2012, Martin Windrow, Osprey Men-At-Arms: A Celebration, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 108:
text: The pikemen wore a corslet or almain rivet with a burgonet, the halberdiers and bill-men the almain rivet, or a corslet with mail-sleeves, the “shot” brigandines, coats of plate, or jacks with tippets (and sometimes sleeves), ...
ref: 2013, Francis M. Kelly, Randolph Schwabe, A Short History of Costume & Armour: Two Volumes Bound as One, Courier Corporation, →ISBN:
text: New in Henry's first French war were almain rivets, mass-produced South German plate body armours (see Fig. 3.3). The king himself ordered 2,000 of them in 1512 and his subjects soon began to catch up.
ref: 2018, Steven Gunn, The English People at War in the Age of Henry VIII, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A kind of light, flexible plate armour first used in Germany around 1450, designed to be manufactured easily, especially en masse.
yanging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of yang
yandies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of yandy
yandies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yandy
yandied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of yandy
yandying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of yandy
yotting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of yot
unobjecting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unobjecting
form: most unobjecting
Etymology: From un- + objecting.
Senses: glosses: Making no objection; compliant.
yive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: [jɪv]
Forms: form: yives
form: yiving
form: yave
form: yiven
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʰebʰ-
Proto-Germanic *gebaną
Proto-West Germanic *geban
Old English ġiefan
Middle English yiven
English yive
Inherited from Middle English yiven, from Old English ġiefan, from Proto-West Germanic *geban, from Proto-Germanic *gebaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰebʰ-.
 Doublet of give, from Old Norse.
Senses: glosses: To give.
Related terms: yift
yowes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yowe
boulder opal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boulder opals
Senses: glosses: An opal consisting of concretions and fracture fillings in a dark siliceous ironstone matrix.
Hyponyms: Yowah nut
boulder opals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boulder opal
yellowshanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellowshanks
Senses: examples: text: Besides, old man could always whistle just like a yellowshanks.
ref: 1980, John Janovy, Yellowlegs:
glosses: A bird, the lesser yellowleg.
yellowshanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yellowshank
webless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From web + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a web; unwebbed.
nestless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nest + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a nest.
Derived terms: nestlessness
nestlingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more nestlingly
form: most nestlingly
Etymology: From nestling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to nestle.
postin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of posteen.
yug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yugs
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of yuga (“any of the religious ages in Hinduism”).
yugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yug
intrauterine insemination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intrauterine inseminations
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The insertion of sperm directly into a woman's uterus, typically as a way of increasing the chances of conception.
intra-uterine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more intra-uterine
form: most intra-uterine
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of intrauterine.
voluminal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: If the coefficient of voluminal expansion of the liquid, between 0° and the other two temperatures under consideration, is approximately constant[…]
ref: 1911, Francis M. Hartmann, Heat and thermodynamics:
text: The empirical law of Koistinen and Marburger gives the voluminal fraction of martensite according to the temperature.
ref: 2006, A. G. Youtsos, Residual stress and its effects on fatigue and fracture, page 152:
glosses: Of or pertaining to volume, the measurement of three-dimensional space.
Related terms: voluminous
jaw-dropping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɔː ˌdɹɒpɪŋ/
enpr: jô drŏpʹĭng
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɔ ˌdɹɑpɪŋ/
Forms: form: more jaw-dropping
form: most jaw-dropping
form: jawdropping
Etymology: A reference to a person’s mouth open wide in amazement or shock.
Senses: examples: text: The acrobatic performance in the theater was jaw dropping.
text: Bag of Bones is, hands down, [Stephen] King's most narratively subversive fiction. Whenever you're positive–just positive!–you know where this ghost story is heading, that's exactly when it gallops off in some jaw-dropping new direction.
ref: 1998 September 23, Tom De Haven, “Stephen King, Bag of Bones [book review]”, in Entertainment Weekly, New York, N.Y.: Entertainment Weekly, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Oct 2015:
text: [Iggy] Pop's was the most jaw-dropping stage show anywhere. He made a point of bloodying himself with broken glass at virtually all of his shows.
ref: 1999, Tobias Hurwitz, “Pre-punk”, in Punk Guitar Styles: The Guitarist’s Guide to Music of the Masters (National Guitar Workshop Book), Van Nuys, Calif.: Alfred Publishing, →ISBN, page 12:
text: But they discover their error in the cab, tell their driver to turn around, talk themselves out of that, tell their driver to stop, talk themselves out of that, and finally—displaying a truly jaw-dropping grasp of logic, even for lawyers—decide the clue means that taking the cab there is okay as long as they then walk to the mat on their own two feet.
ref: 2006, Adam-Troy Castro, “The Most Jaw-dropping Errors Ever Made by Racers”, in “My Ox is Broken!”: Roadblocks, Detours, Fast Forwards, and Other Great Moments from TV’s The Amazing Race, Dallax, Tex.: BenBella Books, →ISBN, page 402:
text: The plots of Mission: Impossible movies tend to be convoluted but negligible, really only there to provide connective tissue between jaw-dropping set pieces.
ref: 2018 July 25, A. A. Dowd, “Fallout may be the Most Breathlessly Intense Mission: Impossible Adventure Yet”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2018:
glosses: Causing great awe or surprise.
Derived terms: jaw-droppingly
Related terms: make someone's jaw drop
someone's jaw dropped
wide-eyed
methinx
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: Methinx that line in the sand has been drawn.
ref: 1997, Roger Waters, “VEWY VEWY QUIET IN THE GREAT WHITE NORTH????”, in alt.fan.howard-stern (Usenet):
text: Just a suggestion, but I think that GNER do a very cheap rail ticket as long as you spend the Saturday night away from London ( damm good idea methinx! ).
ref: 1999, croft_house, “Exiles and the Borthdi Meet.”, in uk.local.geordie (Usenet):
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of methinks.
jawdropping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jawdropping
form: most jawdropping
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of jaw-dropping.
jawdroppingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more jawdroppingly
form: most jawdroppingly
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jaw-droppingly.
unraised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + raised.
Senses: glosses: Not having been raised.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Having not been raised pre-flop.
exceptionalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From exceptional + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: exceptionality
glosses: The quality of being exceptional.
Ægyptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ægyptic
form: most Ægyptic
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Egyptic.
Æthiopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Æthiopic
form: most Æthiopic
Etymology: From Æthiop + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Ethiopic.
Æthiopic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Æthiop + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Three early translations of it, however, into Latin, Æthiopic, and Arabic, are extant, all of which have obviously been made from the Greek.
ref: 1876, Frederic Huidekoper, chapter VI, in Judaism at Rome, James Millers, page 130:
glosses: Obsolete form of Ethiopic.
noncuple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nŏnʹkyo͞opl
ipa: /ˈnɒnkjuːpl/
Etymology: First attested in adjectival use in 1557, in nominal use in 1636, and in verbal use in 1674; from the post-Classical Latin noncuplus (“nine times larger than”), from the Classical Latin nōnus (“ninth”) + -cuplus; compare nonuple.
Senses: examples: text: Ðe rigt hand diſcanteŧ in Noncuple uppon đe plain Triple of đe left hand.
ref: 1636, Charls Butler, The Principles of Muſik in Singing and Setting, page 25:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Nine beats per measure.
examples: text: And so on to the ninth and last [row], in which you shall find the noncuple of the number given.
ref: 1690, William Leybourn, Cursus Mathematicus, 1st edition, page 181:
text: In the third […] you ſhall find the triple thereof. In the fourth the Quadruple thereof. In the fifth the Quintuple; and ſo on the ninth and laſt the Noncuple of the Number given.
ref: 1700, William Leybourn, Arithmetick: Vulgar, Decimal, Inſtrumental, Algebraical, 7th edition, page 265:
text: Again adding 2124 (the triple of the Diviſor) to the Diviſor 708, I find 2832 for the quadruple of the Diviſor, which quadruple I ſubſcribe under the Triple, and proceeding in like manner, at laſt the Table is finiſh’d, which readily ſhews the Diviſor, with the duple, triple, quadruple, quintuple, ſextuple, ſeptuple, octuple, and noncuple of the Diviſor.
ref: 1713, Edmund Wingate (author), John Kersey and George Shelley (editors), Mr. Wingate’s Arithmetick (13th ed.), page 45
glosses: The product of multiplying a given number by nine.
examples: text: For nine dice, to have 1 noncuple [... there is one] determinate throw [... and six] indeterminate throws.
ref: 1835, G. Hervey, Hoyle’s Games, page 22:
glosses: A throw in which all of nine dice show the same value (an event whose probability of occurring is 1,679,616 to 1).
raw_tags: of dice
noncuple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: nŏnʹkyo͞opl
ipa: /ˈnɒnkjuːpl/
Etymology: First attested in adjectival use in 1557, in nominal use in 1636, and in verbal use in 1674; from the post-Classical Latin noncuplus (“nine times larger than”), from the Classical Latin nōnus (“ninth”) + -cuplus; compare nonuple.
Senses: examples: text: If you shall quadruple the same weight it will draw down double the first distance, and noncuple will draw it down treble, etc.
ref: 1674, Sir William Petty, A Discourse made before the Royal Society […] concerning the Use of Duplicate Proportion, page 117:
glosses: Make nine times greater; multiply by nine.
Derived terms: word: noncuplication
heat indices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heat index
blennorrhœal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of blennorrhoeal.
blennorrhoeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: blennorrhœal
form: blennorrheal
Etymology: From blennorrhoea + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to blennorrhoea.
Synonyms: blennorrhagic
blennorrhoea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blennorrhoeas
form: blennorrhœa
form: blennorrhea
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βλέννα (blénna, “mucus, slime”) + ῥοία (rhoía, “flow, flux”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A flow of mucus.
Derived terms: blennorrhoeal
blennorrhoeic
logorrhœic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more logorrhœic
form: most logorrhœic
Etymology: From logorrhœa + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: On studying the patient’s logorrhœic utterances, and certain clues which will presently be mentioned, obtained from her association reactions, one of the first groups of ideas that impressed itself on the observer was that concerning the “ impurity ” of her past life, particularly of her sexual life.
ref: 1910, Ernest Jones, The American Journal of Insanity, volume LXVI, The Johns Hopkins Press, pages 210–211:
glosses: Alternative form of logorrheic.
kaimakams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kaimakam
kaimacam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kaimacams
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of kaimakam.
kaimacams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kaimacam
kairoline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Related to kairine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An organic base obtained from quinoline, resembling kairine and used as a febrifuge.
kakoxene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cacoxene.
cacoxene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kakoxene
Senses: glosses: cacoxenite
karob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of carob.
karob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: karobs
Senses: glosses: The twenty-fourth part of a grain; a weight used by goldsmiths.
karobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of karob
karstenite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Karsten + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: anhydrite
kemps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kemp
kempty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kempty
form: most kempty
Senses: glosses: Coarse or rough, like kemp.
raw_tags: of wool
kerargyrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cerargyrite.