cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
filchingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From filching + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In so much that at Rome Liberius, at Hierusalem Cyrillus, at Alexandria George, did filchingly and shamefully gouerne all Churches with hereticall dissembling, and so vehemently persecuted the Catholickes, that this persecution seemed to surtop all passed persecutions of former tyrants.
ref: 1619, John Favour, Antiquitie Triumphing Over Noveltie […], page 389:
text: But (Sir) according to my Judgment, you do understand both of and by yourself, that here Stealth signifieth nothing else, no more than in a thousand other places of Greek and Latin, Old and Modern Writings, but the sweet Fruits of amorous Dalliance, which Venus liketh best, when reap’d in secret, and cull’d by fervent Lovers filchingly.
ref: 1737 [1546], François Rabelais, “[The Third Book of Pantagruel]”, in John Ozell, transl., The Works of Francis Rabelais, M.D., volume 3, page 114:
text: And henceforth, any member of the profession who shall be so lost to a just sense of right […] as to patent any improvements or hold any secrets in the art of healing, should be held at the same distance, regarded with the same disgust and loathing as that horde of contemptible soulless creatures, who, by means of their patent nostrums, thrust, filchingly thrust, their polluted lucre-loving hands into the pockets of the poor, the honest, the ignorant, the sick and dying.
ref: 1853 January, J. W. Keyes, “Patents and Patentees”, in The American Journal of Dental Science, volume 3, number 2, page 260:
text: For where can be found even so much as a needle-point’s breadth of probability, that a Gospel, originated in the apostolic circle […] [could be] laid aside, to make room for an upstart composition, written by nobody knows who, but filchingly bearing the honoured name of the genuine original document?
ref: 1873, James Morison, Mark’s Memoirs of Jesus Christ: A Commentary on the Gospel According to Mark, page lxvii:
glosses: By filching; thievingly.
muns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mun
podunk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more podunk
form: most podunk
Etymology: From Podunk, a mythical small town of no importance, from Eastern Algonquian.
Senses: examples: text: "'A Super Bowl win can legitimize us as a town. We're not some small podunk town anymore,'" said Spencer Venable of Indianapolis.
ref: 2007 February 5, “"We're not some podunk town anymore”, in USA Today:
text: Yes the beautiful time every year when this little podunk town [of Pendleton, Oregon] swells to four or five times her size with Round-Up feverish Cowboy types who chew, spit and chase four-legged critters around a screaming arena….check that….That’s normal…
ref: 2010, “Round-Up Time: Pendleton Town Celebrates 100th!”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 10 Oct 2011:
text: You might live in a podunk town if...your Wal-Mart has a hitching post.
ref: 2010 May 21, “You might live in a podunk town if...”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: Small, rural, and unimportant.
Synonyms: backwater
boonies
drinkwater
jerkwater
Related terms: Podunk
remote place
fleetings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: As soon as the whey is exhausted of its cream , about two quarts of butter-milk is poured into it , which again breaks into what are called fleetings or flit milk
ref: 1813, H. Holland, General View of the Agriculture of Cheshire:
glosses: A mixture of buttermilk and boiling whey; curds.
imbellic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more imbellic
form: most imbellic
Etymology: From Latin imbellis, from im- = in- (“not”) + bellum (“war”). Compare Latin bellicus (“warlike”).
Senses: examples: text: the imbellick Bores
ref: 1673, Joseph Hill, The Interest of These United Provinces:
glosses: Not warlike or martial.
testamentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From testament + -ation.
Senses: examples: 1760-1765, Edmund Burke, Tracts relative to the Laws against Popery in Ireland
By this law the right of testamentation was taken away , which the inferior tenures had always enjoyed ; and all tenures from the 27th Hen. VIII.
glosses: The act or power of giving by testament, or will.
Klamath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklæməθ/
Forms: form: Klamath
form: Klamaths
Etymology: From Chinook Jargon Tlamatl (“either "swiftness" or "they of the river"”), with the first syllable's onset consonant cluster dissimilated and the coda of the second syllable changed to the somewhat similar-sounding interdental fricative during the process of anglicization.
Senses: glosses: Any member of a Native American tribe formerly living along the Klamath River in California and Oregon.
Klamath
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklæməθ/
Etymology: From Chinook Jargon Tlamatl (“either "swiftness" or "they of the river"”), with the first syllable's onset consonant cluster dissimilated and the coda of the second syllable changed to the somewhat similar-sounding interdental fricative during the process of anglicization.
Senses: glosses: The language of this tribe (also known as Klamath-Modoc).
glosses: A river in southern Oregon, and northern California.
glosses: A county in southern Oregon; see Klamath County.
glosses: A former county in northern California.
glosses: A census-designated place in Del Norte County, California, United States.
Derived terms: Klamath coneflower
Klamath County
Klamath Falls
Klamath fawn lily
Klamath Lake sculpin
Klamath-Modoc
Klamath plum
Klamath River
Klamath smallscale sucker
Klamath trillium
Klamath weed
Klamaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Klamath
reprogrammer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reprogrammers
Etymology: From reprogram + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, reprograms.
reprogrammers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reprogrammer
reprographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From reprographic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of reprography.
Eersel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Eersel.
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality of North Brabant, Netherlands.
sigillated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪdʒɪˌleɪtɪd/
Etymology: Latin sigillatus (“adorned with little images”).
Senses: examples: text: sigillated clay
text: sigillated earth
text: sigillated pottery
text: sigillated vases
qualifier: pottery
glosses: Decorated by means of stamps (imprints).
misestimate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misestimates
form: misestimating
form: misestimated
form: misestimated
Etymology: From mis- + estimate.
Senses: examples: text: [W]e shall infallibly bestow a disproportionate attention upon those which our theory takes into account, while we mis-estimate the rest, and probably underrate their importance.
ref: 1846, John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, Rationcinative and Inductive, volume IV, page 560:
text: However, in the absence of real data on actual language use in the aural-oral landscape, there will always exist the possibility to misestimate such impacts.
ref: 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 12:
glosses: To estimate erroneously.
Hyponyms: word: misunderestimate
Derived terms: misestimation
Related terms: word: misextrapolate
word: misproject
misestimate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misestimates
Etymology: From mis- + estimate.
Senses: examples: text: This was due not to pro-German sympathies but to a plain misestimate (not confined to him) of the real relative strengths of the various political forces.
ref: 1956, Carlile Aylmer Macartney, October Fifteenth: A History of Modern Hungary, 1929–1945, volume 1, page 76:
text: To illustrate the nature of this problem, a misestimate of 0.01 on a favorite whose true winning probability is 0.20 is, in percentage terms, quite small compared to a misestimate of 0.01 on a long shot whose true winning probability is 0.04.
ref: 2002, Nick Mordin, Winning Without Thinking: A Guide to Horse Race Betting Systems, →ISBN, page 397:
glosses: An erroneous estimate.
Hyponyms: word: misunderestimation
Related terms: word: misextrapolation
word: misprojection
misestimated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misestimate
misestimates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misestimate
misestimates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misestimate
misestimating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misestimate
furilic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From furile + -ic + acid.
Senses: examples: text: Another example of benzilic acid rerrangement is the rearrangement of furil into furilic acid.
ref: 2005, Rajpal Tyagi, Organic Reactions: Mechanism With Problems, page 54:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A resin, (C₄H₃O)₂C(OH)CO₂H derived from furile by a reaction with aqueous potassium hydroxide and dilute sulfuric acid.
exculpable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exculpable
form: most exculpable
Senses: examples: text: King Richard Exculpable thereof
ref: 1619, George Buck, The History of King Richard the Third:
glosses: Capable of being exculpated; deserving exculpation.
fat fuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fat fucks
Senses: examples: text: We used to get weighed every morning. And pity the fat fucks if they gained weight.
ref: 2003, Michael K. Teehan, Tore a Laura, Laura!, page 26
text: You're so fired and rehired, you're tired, you skinny fat fuck!
ref: 2007, Stephen Miller, Conversation: A History of a Declining Art, page 256
text: Have you seen these fat fucks around here lately? Everyone's a fat fuck . . . aaawnk. . . . Even the kids
ref: 2009, Christopher John Campion, Escape from Bellevue: a dive bar odyssey, page 31
glosses: Alternative form of fatfuck.
incorruptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incorruptive
form: most incorruptive
Etymology: Latin incorruptivus.
Senses: examples: text: To twine the wreath of incorruptive praise
ref: 1744, Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of the Imagination:
glosses: incorruptible; not liable to decay
fat fucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fat fuck
equidiurnal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌɛkwɪdaɪˈɜː(ɹ)nəl/
/ˌiːkwɪdaɪˈɜː(ɹ)nəl/
Etymology: From equi- + diurnal.
Senses: examples: text: The circle which the sun describes in his diurnal motion, when the days and nights are equal, the Greeks called the equidiurnal
ref: 1837, William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences:
glosses: Pertaining to the time of equal day and night; applied to the equinoctial line.
wrathily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more wrathily
form: most wrathily
Etymology: From wrathy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a wrathy manner; with great anger.
calcivorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more calcivorous
form: most calcivorous
Etymology: From calci- + -vorous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Living on, and tending to erode, limestone.
waterness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From water + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being water.
sauls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saul
flinger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪŋə(ɹ)
Forms: form: flingers
Etymology: From fling + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who flings or hurls something.
glosses: One who jeers.
flingers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flinger
matur'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mature
bluff-bowed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bluff-bowed
form: most bluff-bowed
Senses: examples: text: “[...] he thereby may be said to transform himself from a bluff-bowed sluggish galliot into a sharppointed New York pilot-boat."
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, chapter 61, in Moby Dick:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Having broad and flat bows.
entreatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more entreatable
form: most entreatable
Etymology: From entreat + -able.
Senses: glosses: That may be entreated.
offenseful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more offenseful
form: most offenseful
Etymology: From offense + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: an offenseful act
glosses: offensive; displeasing.
phototypic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: phototypic block
text: phototypic reduction
glosses: Of or pertaining to a phototype or phototypy.
plantership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From planter + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The occupation or position of a planter (manager of a plantation, especially in the United States or Caribbean).
bystreets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bystreet
misinstruction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misinstructions
Etymology: From mis- + instruction.
Senses: synonyms: malinstruction
glosses: Wrong or improper instruction.
guess warp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guess warps
Etymology: Because it is necessary to guess at the length to be carried in the boat making the attachment to a distant object.
Senses: examples: text: My foot touched land for the first time for ninety days when I leaped from the rail onto the dolphin at the Dock gates, slipped the end of our guess-warp over the bollard, and sang out to them inboard to take in the slack.
ref: 1912, Kyrle Bellew, Short Stories, How I Got on the Stage:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A rope or hawser by which a vessel is towed or moored.
guess warps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guess warp
floriated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: floriate
Senses: examples: floriated capitals of Gothic pillars
topics: architecture
glosses: Having floral ornaments
Related terms: floriage
unkemmed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unkemmed
form: most unkemmed
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of unkempt.
syncopé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syncopés
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of syncope.
couplant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: couplants
Senses: examples: text: The primary design challenge using fluid couplants is providing proper sealing so that the fluid does not leak out over time. One approach is to pot the lenses into their cells.
ref: 1996, Sandra M. Faber, The design and assembly of camera lens cells for fluid couplants using elastomeric lens mounts:
text: There are many suitable substances that can be used as couplants, the main criteria being the best possible match and no adverse chemical reaction between the couplant and the metal.
ref: 2001, Chuck Hellier, Handbook of Nondestructive Evaluation, pages 7–13:
glosses: a material that facilitates the transmission of ultrasonic energy from the transducer into the test specimen.
footband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: footbands
Etymology: From foot + band.
Senses: glosses: A group of foot soldiers.
footbands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of footband
lexigraphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lexigraph + -ic. Compare French lexigraphique.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to lexigraphy.
Lunarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lunarian
unglorious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəs
Forms: form: more unglorious
form: most unglorious
Etymology: From un- + glorious.
Senses: examples: text: He bringethʸ the prestis of hem vnglorious, and the beste men of wrshipe he supplauntith
ref: c. 1382–1395, John Wycliffe [et al.], edited by Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden, The Holy Bible, […], volume II, Oxford: At the University Press, published 1850, →OCLC, Job XII:19, page 690, column 1:
text: As stoneȝeden vp on hym manye, so vnglorious shal ben among men his siȝte, and the foorme of hym among the sonus of men.
ref: c. 1382–1395, John Wycliffe [et al.], edited by Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden, The Holy Bible, […], volume III, Oxford: At the University Press, published 1850, →OCLC, Isaiah LII:14, page 319, column 1:
glosses: Obsolete form of inglorious.
glosses: Not glorious
decisory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsaɪsəɹi/
Etymology: Compare French décisoire. See decision.
Senses: glosses: Able to decide or determine.
examples: text: decisory oath
text: A decisory oath sworn on an issue decides it absolutely ; no counterproof can overcome the oath.
ref: 2014, Peter E. Herzog, Martha Weser, Civil Procedure in France, page 358:
glosses: Synonym of decisive.
synonyms: word: decisive
heterœcism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heteroecism
Senses: examples: text: Without entering upon the question generally, of whether most superstitions have not a strain, however meagre, of truth underlying them, this sentiment has not been without considerable influence in rendering us chary of accepting the heterœcism of Puccinia graminis.
ref: 1881, Charles B. Plowright, Grevillea, volume X, page 34:
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Development of different stages of the same growth on different host‐plants; production of the æcidiospores or conidia of a fungus on one host, and of its uredospores and teleutospores on another.
imperfectible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From im- + perfectible.
Senses: glosses: Incapable of perfecting.
Derived terms: imperfectibly
nitroquinol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nitroquinols
Etymology: From nitro- + quinol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A hypothetical nitro derivative of quinol or hydroquinone, not known in the free state, but forming a well-defined series of derivatives.
nitroquinols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nitroquinol
soily
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: soilier
form: soiliest
Etymology: From soil + -y.
Senses: examples: text: A woman with a well-to-do south voice told me to wash my soily hands before touching her messages.
ref: 1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage, published 2015, page 9:
glosses: Covered in soil; earthy.
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of soil.
examples: text: Methinks, Miſs, ſaid Sally, you are a little ſoily, to what we have ſeen you.
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CCCXXXIII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume VI, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC, page 151:
glosses: Dirty; soiled.
glosses: Apt to stain.
wooled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English wolled; equivalent to wool + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: a fine-wooled sheep
text: long-wooled sheep
glosses: Having wool of a specified kind.
introducement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: introducements
Etymology: From introduce + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: The first Act is the general preparative, by rendering the chiefest characters of persons, and ending with something that looks like an obscure promise of design. The second begins with an introducement of new persons, so finishes all the characters, and ends with some little performance of that design which was promis'd at the parting of the first Act.
ref: 1651, William Davenant, Gondibert: An Heroick Poem, The Authour's Preface To His Much Honour'd Friend Mr Hobs:
glosses: introduction
introducements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of introducement
prefatorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more prefatorily
form: most prefatorily
Etymology: From prefatory + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: preliminarily
glosses: In a prefatory manner; as a preface.
disconsolacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: a state of extreme penury, baseness, and disconsolacy
ref: a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). An Exposition on the Creed”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:
text: There was a fierce disconsolacy in his expression. I have described him to you as beautiful, which is a senseless description, a space that you will have to fill for yourself with your own picture of beauty
ref: 2011, Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot:
synonyms: disconsolation
disconsolateness
glosses: The state of being disconsolate.
ichthyotomist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ichthyotomists
Etymology: From ichthyotomy + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who carries out ichthyotomy.
ichthyotomists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ichthyotomist
lanigerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪdʒəɹəs
Forms: form: more lanigerous
form: most lanigerous
Etymology: From Latin laniger, from lano (“wool”) + gerere (“to bear”).
Senses: synonyms: laniferous
glosses: Bearing or producing wool.
theodolitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From theodolite + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: theodolitic observations
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or using a theodolite.
non liquet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non liquets
form: non liquent
Etymology: Latin, meaning "it is not clear".
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A verdict given by a jury when a matter is to be deferred to another day of trial.
examples: text: The condition of Scribonius’ text thus raises nagging doubts about the authenticity of “o bone deus.” But even if the digression itself could be accepted as genuine, the situation does not improve, for the near uniqueness of Scribonius’ “o bone deus” makes it vulnerable to any number of possible accidents of transmission. Under these conditions it seems we are forced to set Scribonius aside as a non liquet.
ref: 1997 April, John Rauk, “The Vocative of Deus and Its Problems”, in Classical Philology, volume XCII, № 2, page 141:
glosses: Something about which no clear decision can yet be made.
non liquets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non liquet
vincibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being vincible.
Synonyms: weakness
intransmissible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + transmissible.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of untransmissible (“not capable of being transmitted”).
synonyms: word: untransmissible
extra: not capable of being transmitted
hyperchromatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperchromatisms
Etymology: From hyper- + chromatism.
Senses: glosses: An abnormal intensity of colour
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An elevated level of chromatin in the skin
Related terms: hyperchromic
hyperchromatic
hyperchromatisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperchromatism
barillets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barillet
pinacles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinacle
rustres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rustre
dolorousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dolourousness
Etymology: From dolorous + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Taking old William and Benny with me, I was soon camped in a little hut on the west point of Frigate Bird, in a grove of tall puka trees where the wind moans with a pleasing dolorousness and a dozen species of sea birds squawk discordantly from their perches in the branches.
ref: 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 82:
glosses: The quality of being dolorous.
disquisitional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From disquisition + -al.
Senses: synonyms: disquisitionary
glosses: Pertaining to disquisition; of the nature of disquisition.
osteodentine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osteodentines
Etymology: From osteo- + dentine.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A hard bony substance that is sometimes deposited within the pulp cavity of teeth of certain animals.
osteodentines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of osteodentine
benedictionaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of benedictionary
benedictionary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benedictionaries
Etymology: From benediction + -ary.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A benedictional (book of benedictions).
non assumpsit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non assumpsits
Etymology: Latin, meaning "he did not undertake".
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The general plea or denial in an action of assumpsit.
non assumpsits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non assumpsit
guardianage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guardenage
Etymology: From guardian + -age.
Senses: glosses: guardianship
oxanilate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxanilates
Etymology: From oxanilic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt of oxanilic acid.
oxanilates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxanilate
wairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wair
wairs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wair
obloquious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɒbˈləʊkwiəs/
Forms: form: more obloquious
form: most obloquious
Etymology: From obloquy + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: […] it staved off all emulations which are apt to rise and vent in obloquious acrimonie even against the prince […]
ref: a. 1635, Robert Naunton, Fragmenta regalia:
glosses: Containing obloquy; reproachful.
unicornous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See unicorn.
Senses: examples: text: unicornous beetles
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a single horn.
examples: text: unicornous uterus
glosses: Having a single uterine horn
astoundment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From astound + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: With what astoundment would ye, if ye were alive with your merely human perfections, listen to the creed of our, so called, rational religionists!
ref: 1812, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Omniana:
glosses: amazement
wods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wod
churchkhela
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: churchkhelas
Etymology: Borrowed from Georgian ჩურჩხელა (čurčxela).
Senses: synonyms: sujuk
glosses: A traditional sausage-shaped candy originating from Georgia and made from grape must, nuts and flour.
facepaint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: facepaints
form: face paint
Etymology: From face + paint.
Senses: glosses: Paint used to decorate people's faces.
Goguryeo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəʊˈɡʊəjəʊ/
ipa: /ɡoʊˈɡʊəɹjoʊ/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)jəʊ
Forms: form: Koguryŏ
form: Koguryo
form: Kokwulye
Etymology: From the Revised Romanization of Korean 고구려(高句麗) (Goguryeo). Compare Goryeo and Korea.
Senses: examples: text: During the Goguryeo kingdom (37 B.C. to A.D. 668), the Maek people in the northern Korean Peninsula ate maekjeok, a dish of grilled pork marinated in doenjang, a fermented soybean paste. Years later, maekjeok evolved into neobiani, a dish of broad, thin slices of beef tenderized and grilled over flames. A feature of royal court cuisine during the Joseon dynasty (1392 to 1910), neobiani is considered a predecessor to today’s beloved bulgogi.
ref: 2021 July 23, Eric Kim, “Bulgogi, Any Way You Slice It”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Jul 2021, Food:
glosses: An ancient kingdom in modern Korea, one of the Three Kingdoms, existing from 37 BCE to 668 CE; at its maximum covering all of North Korea, the northern part of South Korea, parts of Manchuria in northeast China, and parts of Primorsky Krai in Russia.
glosses: The language spoken in the Goguryeo kingdom.
Synonyms: sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Gaogouli
word: Kaokouli
word: Kao-kou-li
Coordinate terms: Baekje
Silla
basined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From basin + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: basined rivers
ref: 1742–1745, [Edward Young], The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] [Samuel Richardson] for A[ndrew] Millar […], and R[obert] Dodsley […], published 1750, →OCLC:
glosses: Enclosed in a basin.
examples: text: All golden and lovely it blazed in the sunset, with walls, temples, colonnades and arched bridges of veined marble, silver-basined fountains of prismatic spray in broad squares and perfumed gardens, and wide streets marching between delicate trees and blossom-laden urns and ivory statues in gleaming rows; while on steep northward slopes climbed tiers of red roofs and old peaked gables harboring little lanes of grassy cobbles.
ref: 1926, H. P. Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath:
text: While persons at once broad-shouldered and big-bellied, or broad-basined and big-bottomed, or broad-basined and big-bellied, or broad-shouldered and big-bottomed, or big-bosomed and broad-shouldered, or big-bosomed and broad-basined, would on no account, if they were in their right senses, commit themselves to this trecherous channel.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt:
text: There was also a large-basined sink with spigots for hot and cold water, a broad mirror, soap, towels, and even a hot-air hand dryer.
ref: 2006, Jeremy Mercer, Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.:
text: The molars of Amphitherium have, for a Jurassic mammal, a large talonid, but it is in no way basined.
ref: 2013, D. M. Kermack, The Evolution of Mammalian Characters, page 103:
text: Attractors, in whatever formation (strange, chaotic, periodic, and deeply basined) are described in structural often spatial forms but they are not reified, static objects.
ref: 2008, Adrienne Harris, Gender as Soft Assembly, page 84:
glosses: Having a basin or basins, especially if qualified by the type of basin.
basined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From basin + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of basin
biliteralism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From biliteral + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being biliteral.
bronzite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bronzites
Etymology: From bronze + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A ferriferous variety of enstatite, often with a bronze-like lustre.
bronzites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bronzite
cystotome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cystotomes
Etymology: From cysto- + -tome.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A knife or instrument used in cystotomy.
cystotomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cystotome
deletive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more deletive
form: most deletive
Etymology: from delete + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: lexical deletive rules
text: [T]he obtuſer end [of a style] vvas made more deletive, apt to put out, and obliterate, vvhen they vvould Stylum vertere [turn the style], vvhich our Burniſher (another Tool us'd by Chalcographers) and Poliſher performes.
ref: 1662, J[ohn] Evelyn, “Of Sculpture, how Deriv’d, and Distinguish’d, with the Styles, and Instruments Belonging to It”, in Sculptura: Or The History, and Art of Chalcography and Engraving in Copper. […], London: […] J[ames] C[ottrel] for G. Beedle [i.e., Gabriel Bedell], and T[homas] Collins, […], and J[ohn] Crook […], →OCLC, book I, page 9:
glosses: Tending to delete or obliterate.
dishallow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dishallows
form: dishallowing
form: dishallowed
form: dishallowed
Etymology: From dis- + hallow.
Senses: examples: text: Nor can the unholiness of the priest dishallow the altar.
ref: c. 1623, Thomas Adams, The Temple (sermon preached at Paul's Cross):
text: And so went back and seeing them yet in sleep
Said, "Ye, that so dishallow the holy sleep,
Your sleep is death"[…]
ref: 1875, Alfred Tennyson, “Pelleas and Ettarre”, in Idylls of the King (The Works of Alfred Tennyson; VII), cabinet edition, London: Henry S. King & Co., […], →OCLC, page 26:
text: Every devout soul revolts from it as a dishallowing of most sacred things
ref: 1882, Alfred Edwards Myers, The Sociable, the Entertainment and the Bazar:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: To render unholy; to profane; to desecrate.
dishallowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dishallow
dishallowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dishallow
dishallows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dishallow
fungologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fungologists
Etymology: From fungology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies fungi; a mycologist.
fungologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fungologist
go-outs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of go-out
godroon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: godroons
Etymology: From French godron (“round plait, godroon”).
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: An ornament produced by notching or carving a rounded moulding.
godroon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: godroons
form: godrooning
form: godrooned
form: godrooned
Etymology: From French godron (“round plait, godroon”).
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: To ornament in this style.
godroons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of godroon
gonidial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: gonidial cell
text: gonidial layer
text: gonidial strata
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to, or containing, gonidia (cells).
examples: text: a gonidial groove
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to the gonidium (angles of the mouth of many Anthozoa).
Derived terms: actinogonidial
microgonidial
zoogonidial
gyronny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: gyronné
form: gironné
form: gironnée
Etymology: French gironné.
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Covered with gyrons, or divided into several gyrons, typically eight.
raw_tags: of an escutcheon
illimitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From il- + limitation.
Senses: examples: text: The illimitation of age; and the miſeries that attend it.
ref: 1646, Jos[eph] Hall, “Comforts against the Inconveniences of Old Age”, in The Balme of Gilead: Or, Comforts for the Distressed, both Morall and Divine. […], London: […] M[iles] Flesher, for Nat[haniel] Butter, →OCLC, § 1, page 287:
text: No astronomical fallacy is more untenable, and none has been more pertinaciously adhered to, than that of the absolute illimitation of the Universe of Stars.
ref: 1848 March, Edgar A[llan] Poe, Eureka: A Prose Poem, New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] P[almer] Putnam, of late firm of “Wiley & Putnam,” […], →OCLC, page 100:
glosses: Lack of limitations; freedom from checks or restraints.
incessancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incessancies
Etymology: From incessant.
Senses: examples: text: Or chatter, with incessancy of tongue / Careless, if kind, or cruel, right, or wrong
ref: 1794, Timothy Dwight, Greenfield Hill:
text: Most birds confine their song principally to the morning and evening hours, and if they do not do this entirely, they surely quiet down at midday, when scarcely a sound is to be heard, but not so the Yellow Warbler,–morning, noon, and night, he keeps it up, and the incessancy of his singing has become to be a matter of remark.
ref: 1891, “Incessancy of the Yellow Warbler's Song”, in The Oölogist, volume 9, page 65:
text: What troubled them was its incessancy.
ref: 2003, Richmond Barbour, Before Orientalism: London's Theatre of the East, 1576-1626, page 68:
glosses: The quality of being incessant; unceasingness.
incogitative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + cogitative.
Senses: examples: text: Vegetables are incogitative living things.
text: Incogitative being cannot produce a cogitative
ref: 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Not cogitative; lacking the power of thought.
Derived terms: incogitativity
inveigher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inveighers
Etymology: From inveigh + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Thus these moral and religious reformers and teachers, these professors of high moral ideas, these inveighers against a scriptural practice professedly because it is immoral, have introduced safeguards to protect the libertine, the voluptuary and the harlot, whilst they have made criminals of those who have been observing a law instituted by the Almighty.
ref: 1883, John Taylor, discourse in Salt Lake City, October 8 1882:
glosses: One who inveighs.
inveighers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inveigher
ironbound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ironbound
form: most ironbound
Etymology: From iron + bound.
Senses: glosses: Bound with iron, ironclad.
examples: text: an ironbound coast
text: He rose and went down to the kitchen, where he knew a fire was burning, and there the terrified servants were all assembled, all agreeing, as the blast came roaring down the chimney, they never had witnessed such a storm, and between the gusts, breathing shuddering prayers for those who were “out at sea that night.” The vicinity of Melmoth’s house to what seamen call an iron-bound coast, gave a dreadful sincerity to their prayers and their fears.
ref: 1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 150:
text: Leaving behind us the town at the bottom of its deep bay, we set out to explore a bluff-headed parallelogramical promontory, bounded by Thurso Bay on the one hand, and Murkle Bay on the other, and which presents to the open sea, in the space that stretches between, an undulating line of iron-bound coast, exposed to the roll of the northern ocean.
ref: 1857, Hugh Miller, The Cruise of the Betsey:
glosses: Rugged.
examples: text: ironbound traditions
glosses: Rigid, unyielding.
kafilah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kafilahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cafila.
kafilahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kafilah
kinesiatrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From kinesi- + -iatrics.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The treatment of disease by muscular movements.
Synonyms: kinesitherapy
kinesiotherapy
kinesipathy
Lingism
krameric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Krameria + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to, or derived from, plants of the genus Krameria (rhatany).
Related terms: krameric acid
laniation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin laniatio.
Senses: glosses: The act of tearing to pieces.
Related terms: laniary
laniate
logman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: logmen
Etymology: From log + -man.
Senses: examples: text: To make me slave to it; and for your sake
Am I this patient log-man.
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 III, scene i]:
glosses: A man employed to carry or transport logs.
glosses: A logger
logmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of logman
marlitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more marlitic
form: most marlitic
Etymology: From marlite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to, resembling, or characteristic of marlite.
mislodged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mis- + lodge + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Badly or incorrectly lodged; kept in an unsuitable place.
mordication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mordications
Etymology: From Latin mordicatio.
Senses: examples: text: mordication of the orifices of the parts
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “I. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: The act of biting or corroding.
mordications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mordication
nourice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nourices
Senses: examples: text: Cambden , the nourice of antiquitie
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of nurse.
nourices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nourice
overturnable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overturnable
form: most overturnable
Etymology: From overturn + -able.
Senses: examples: text: overturnable decisions
glosses: Capable of being, or liable to be, overturned or subverted.
stercoranists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stercoranist
tarnisher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tarnishers
Etymology: From tarnish + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, tarnishes.
tarnishers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tarnisher
tellureted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: telluretted
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Combined or impregnated with tellurium.
tetraspermous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tetra- + sperm + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having four seeds.
troll-my-dames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: troll madam
form: troll-madam
form: trou madame
Etymology: From French trou-madame.
Senses: examples: text: A fellow, sir, that I have known to go about with troll-my-dames
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: With his having played tennez the previous morn, followed by troll-my-dames in the afternoon, Suffolk's suggestion to practice weight lifting and wrestling was accepted with good cheer.
ref: 2009, Rona Sharon, Royal Blood:
text: At the far end two women were engaged in a game of troll-my-dames, which involved rolling leather balls toward purpose-made holes in a trolling bench.
ref: 2011, Kathy Lynn Emerson, Face Down beside St. Anne's Well:
glosses: The game of nineholes.
vernish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vernishes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of varnish.
vernish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vernishes
form: vernishing
form: vernished
form: vernished
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of varnish.
vernished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vernish
vernishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vernish
vernishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vernish
weive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: weives
form: weiving
form: weived
form: weived
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of waive.
weived
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of weive
weives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of weive
weiving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of weive
wrester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wresters
Etymology: From wrest + -er.
Senses: examples: text: wrester of power
glosses: Someone who wrests.
wresters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wrester
oscillative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oscillate + -ive.
Senses: examples: c. 1860-1861, Isaac Taylor, Logic in Theology
this oscillative antagonism between incompatible paradoxes
glosses: Tending to oscillate; oscillatory, oscillating.
Derived terms: oscillatively
oscillativity
straight-joint
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Whose boards are laid so that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves.
raw_tags: of a floor
topics: architecture
glosses: Put together without the tongue and groove, the pieces being laid edge to edge.
raw_tags: of flooring or planking
electively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From elective + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an elective manner; by choice.
Derived terms: nonelectively
overchange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + change.
Senses: examples: text: Thou art a shameless Villain, A thing out of the overchange of Nature
ref: c. 1608–1611, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Maid’s Tragedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: Excessive or overly frequent change; fickleness
overchange
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overchanges
form: overchanging
form: overchanged
form: overchanged
Etymology: From over- + change.
Senses: glosses: To transform or transmute
bractlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bractlets
Etymology: From bract + -let.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A bract on the stalk of a single flower, which is itself on a main stalk that supports several flowers
bractlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bractlet
interpetiolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌɪntə(ɹ)ˌpɛtiˈəʊlə(ɹ)/
Etymology: From inter- + petiolar.
Senses: examples: text: interpetiolar glands
text: interpetiolar stipules
text: interpetiolar ridges
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Between petioles.
flintware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flintwares
Etymology: From flint + -ware.
Senses: glosses: A superior kind of earthenware made with flint.
medalet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medalets
Etymology: From medal + -et.
Senses: glosses: A small medal, especially one worn by a Roman Catholic and representing a saint.
medalets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of medalet
unremorseless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unremorseless
form: most unremorseless
Etymology: From un- + remorseless (un- functions as an intensifier).
Senses: examples: text: unremorseless Death
ref: a. 1667, Abraham Cowley, An Elegy on the Death of […] Richard Clarke:
text: 1836-40, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Clockmaker
We are not free; we are slaves: one half of us is tyrants,—unremorseless, onfeelin', overbearin' tyrants, and vile usurpers; and the other half slaves […]
glosses: Utterly remorseless.
Berbice Creole Dutch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An extinct creole language formerly spoken in Guyana.