cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
dogmatician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dogmaticians
Senses: glosses: A dogmatist.
dogmaticians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dogmatician
wolvish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈwʊlviʃ/
Forms: form: more wolvish
form: most wolvish
Etymology: From wolf + -ish, with wolf inflected as in wolves.
Senses: examples: text: When she shall hear this of thee, with her nails
She'll flay thy wolvish visage.
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 I, scene iv]:
text: Good shepherd / Tubby has protected players, beat off wolvish critics for years. How his flock has grown.
ref: 2003 March 20, The Paducah Sun, volume 107, number 79, Paducah, Ky., page 1A:
text: His wolvish teeth now displayed in a gladsome smile, he takes hold of Ali’s arm, that still bears the useless pistol; […]
ref: 2005, John Crowley, Lord Byron’s Novel: The Evening Land, William Morrow, →ISBN, page 23:
text: The sequel to the surprise hit film about vampires and werewolves brings back both unlikely action hero Kate Beckinsale, a vampire, and her wolvish paramour (Scott Speedman).
ref: 2006 February 9, Daily Herald, volume 83, number 193, page 11, column 4:
text: “I felt sorry for Tom, in particular,” confessed Robinson, having seen the Leicester teenager thrown whole into the wolvish lair of the magnificently threatening Tuqiri.
ref: 2006 June 19, Chris Hewett, “Unnatural selection leaves England way behind Wallabies”, in The Independent, number 6,138, page 52, column 3:
text: “You,” Morlock said to the werewolf on the next bench. “What are you, really?” The wolvish face looked on him, its reflective eyes as bright as little moons.
ref: 2015, James Enge (pseudonym; James M. Pfundstein), The Wide World’s End (A Tournament of Shadows; book three), Amherst, N.Y.: Pyr, →ISBN, page 286:
text: This cover illustration for Washington Irving’s tale blends reality – the torn-coated rural New Yorker and his wolvish dog – with fantasy embodied by old Rip, a red-nosed rake with an absurdly plumed hat, sly expression and long white beard.
ref: 2017 April 16, Lawrence Toppman, “9 reasons you must meet the Wyeths at the Mint”, in The Charlotte Observer, volume 148, number 106, page 4C:
glosses: Alternative spelling of wolfish.
erythric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more erythric
form: most erythric
Etymology: From erythrin + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: erythric acid
text: erythric fibres
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling erythrin.
ciliograde
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cilio- + -grade (“means of locomotion”). Compare French ciliograde.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Moving by means of cilia or similar organs, such as ctenophores do.
ciliograde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ciliogrades
Etymology: From cilio- + -grade (“means of locomotion”). Compare French ciliograde.
Senses: glosses: An organims that moves by means of cilia.
extralimitary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more extralimitary
form: most extralimitary
Etymology: From extra- + limitary.
Senses: examples: text: cultivating the extralimitary land between the boundaries of Attica and Megaris
ref: 1784-1810, William Mitford, The History of Greece:
glosses: Beyond the limit or bounds.
invertedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From inverted + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: a pretty landskip of the objects abroad invertedly painted on the paper , on the back of the eye
ref: 1713, W[illiam] Derham, Physico-Theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation. […], London: […] W[illiam] Innys, […], →OCLC:
glosses: In an inverted manner, or reverse order.
glosses: Misspelling of inadvertently.
vitriolize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vitriolizes
form: vitriolizing
form: vitriolized
form: vitriolized
Etymology: Compare French vitrioliser.
Senses: glosses: To convert into a vitriol; to vitriolate.
glosses: To injure (a person) with sulfuric acid, as by throwing it upon the face.
examples: text: Similarly, Something for Everyone was described as “an innocent seeming piece of Bavarian chocolate that has been vitriolized by hypodermic injection.”
ref: 2008, Lincoln Geraghty, Mark Jancovich, The Shifting Definitions of Genre, page 99:
glosses: To poison with vitriol.
vitriolized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vitriolize
vitriolizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vitriolize
vitriolizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vitriolize
wagonry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wagon + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: Let them make ſhews of reforming while they will, ſo long as the Church is mounted upon the Prelatical Cart, and not as it ought, between the hands of the Miniſters, it will but ſhate and totter; and he that ſets to his hand, though with a good intent to hinder the ſhogging of it, in this unlawful Waggonry wherein it rides, let him beware it be not fatal to him as it was to Uzza.
ref: 1642, John Milton, The Reason of Church-Government Urg’d against Prelaty; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 203:
text: In order to maintain themselves, Jewish farmers were compelled to take up supplementary occupations like craftmaking, trade and wagonry.
ref: 1998, Shalom Cholawski, The Jews of Bielorussia During World War II, page xvi:
glosses: Conveyance by means of a wagon or wagons.
falsaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of falsary
falsary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: falsaries
Etymology: From Latin falsarius, from falsus. See false.
Senses: examples: text: by the Ministers of the Church is exhibited in the Person of the whole Church: for euen as he should be accounted a falsary
ref: 1616, Richard Sheldon, A Survey of the Miracles of the Church of Rome, prouing them to be Antichristian. […], London: […] Edward Griffin for Nathaniel Butter:
glosses: A falsifier of evidence.
drainable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more drainable
form: most drainable
Etymology: From drain + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being drained.
Derived terms: undrainable
lapwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lap + work.
Senses: examples: text: A basket […] into which by the Indian-Women are wrought, by a kind of Lap-Work, the Quills of Porcupines
ref: 1681, Nehemiah Grew, Musæum Regalis Societatis. Or A Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and Preserved at Gresham Colledge. […], London: […] W. Rawlins, for the author, →OCLC:
glosses: Work in which one part overlaps another.
decard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: decards
form: decarding
form: decarded
form: decarded
Senses: examples: text: At trump, saint, and such other like, cutting at the neck is a great vantage, so is cutting by a bum card (finely) under and over, stealing the stock of the decarded cards, if there be broad laws beforced aforehand.
ref: 1532, Gilbert Walker, A Manifest Detection of the moste vyle and detestable use of Diceplay, and other practises lyke the same, Democritus:
text: Philocles. Can you decard, madam?
Queen. Hardly, but I must do hurt.
ref: 1608, Lewis Machin, The Dumb Knight:
glosses: To discard (get rid of a card).
examples: text: Therefore these kalendars of doubts I commend as excellent things; so that there be this caution used, that when they be so throughly sifted and brought to resolution, they be from thenceforth omitted, decarded, and not continued to cherish and encourage men in doubting.
ref: 1605, Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, volume 2, page 54:
text: O but when this poore deceaved sot, begins to be beggerd, then his Lordship presently decards him, because hee can not serue more to make vp a full hundreth.
ref: 1609, Simion Grahame, The Anatomie of Hvmors, page 18:
text: You cannot, sir; you have cast those by, decarded P'em; And, in a noble mind, so low and loosely To look back, and collect such lumps, and lick 'em Into new horrid forms again--
ref: 1621, John Fletcher, The Pilgrim:
text: The king therefore sent for Midletoun, his commissioner, decards him, and Sir John Flesser, his advocat, with him; calls for Lord Rothes, and appoints him to be commissioner, and calls a parliament, and sends down Lautherdale to see that act annulled, and matters put in a right order.
ref: 1818, Robert Law, edited by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, Memorialls, page 12:
glosses: To discard (throw away or reject)
decarded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decard
decarding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decard
decards
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decard
hydropsies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydropsy
hydropsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hīʹdrŏpsē
ipa: /ˈhaɪdɹɒpsi/
ipa: /ˈhaɪdɹɑpsi/
ipa: [ˈhaɪ̯dɹɑpsi]
Forms: form: hydropsies
Senses: glosses: Edema, dropsy.
dropsies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dropsy
dropsies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From drop + -sies.
Senses: glosses: The action of dropping something, in certain children's games.
pensileness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pensile + -ness.
Senses: glosses: State or quality of being pensile; pendulousness.
phallicness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phallic + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being phallic.
theologics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: What angels wou'd these be, who thus excel / In theologics
ref: 1725–1728, [Edward Young], “(please specify the page)”, in Love of Fame, the Universal Passion. In Seven Characteristical Satires, 4th edition, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson […], published 1741, →OCLC:
glosses: theology
barometrograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barometrographs
Etymology: From baro- + metro- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: A form of barometer capable of recording the variations of atmospheric pressure onto paper.
barometrographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barometrograph
valerianic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From valerian + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: valerianic ether
text: valerianic alcohol
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to, or obtained from, valerian root.
Related terms: valerianic acid
valeric acid
smokejack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smokejacks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of smoke jack.
smokejacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smokejack
scrubstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scrub + stone.
Senses: glosses: A form of calciferous sandstone.
deputable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more deputable
form: most deputable
Etymology: From depute + -able.
Senses: examples: text: [A]ll these fitted Baillie to be a leader in General Assemblies and conclaves, a man deputable to the London Parliament and elsewhither.
ref: 1841, Thomas Carlyle, Baillee The Covenanter:
glosses: Fit to be deputed; suitable to act as a deputy.
gastroepiploic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gastro- + epiploic.
Senses: examples: text: left gastroepiploic artery
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the stomach and omenta; gastroomental.
whallah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɑˈlɑ/
Forms: form: voila
form: wallah
Etymology: French voilà pronunciation respelling
Senses: examples: text: People back East always thought it was a simple matter: a property, a star, a director — and whallah — a picture.
ref: 1984, Josh Greenfield, The Return of Mister Hollywood, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 23:
text: They were mammoth but if you turned down a random corner then, whallah!—there might be an arts & crafts show.
ref: 2011 November 13, James Altucher, “10 Things Entrepreneurs Don’t Learn in College”, in TechCruch:
glosses: voila; ta-da, presto; lo and behold
evidencer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evidencers
Etymology: From evidence + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who gives evidence.
evidencers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of evidencer
annalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: annalizes
form: annalizing
form: annalized
form: annalized
form: annalise
Etymology: From annal + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: obſerue the miracle deſeruing a Baronius to annalize it
ref: 1616, Richard Sheldon, A Survey of the Miracles of the Church of Rome, prouing them to be Antichristian. […], London: […] Edward Griffin for Nathaniel Butter:
glosses: To record in annals.
annalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of annalize
annalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of annalize
annalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of annalize
dogmaticalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dogmatical + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being dogmatical.
uncreditable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncreditable
form: most uncreditable
Etymology: From un- + creditable.
Senses: examples: text: an uncreditable result
glosses: Not to be credited or believed.
glosses: discreditable
professorialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From professorial + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Another class there is who may receive profit from our humble efforts, and find their home-hours blessed by our monthly professorialism —those who, in the morning of family life, find it their duty to be "stayers at home," and whom even the fascinations of institute life and progress cannot tempt from a wife's side, from child-training, or from the sadder sick couch which demands the silent, loving watchfulness of the untasked hours.
ref: 1863, “Our Collegiate Course”, in The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, page 76:
text: Lynd's great generosity, his disdain of "professorialisms," his eagerness to learn from his students were important but too often unrealized desiderata of effective graduate teaching — as I was to appreciate more fully in later years.
ref: 1982, Charles Hunt Page, Fifty Years in the Sociological Enterprise: A Lucky Journey, page 45:
text: In the interests of academic egalitarianism we decided to approach scholars nearer the beginnings than the ends of their careers: we wanted to encourage free exchange rather than de-haut en-bas professorialism.
ref: 2017, Francis Ames-Lewis, Reactions to the Master:
glosses: The manners or habits of a professor.
examples: text: I don't want to scale the ladder of professorialism towards another goal that's as difficult to attain as the goal at the end of the ladder I've been on for the last fifteen years.
ref: 2010, Colleen Kelli, Fire in the Hole:
text: I determined to observe Bloomsbury—not the totem worshippers of professorialism, but the large-hearted visitors of colour.
ref: 2013, Fellow Passenger, Geoffrey Household:
glosses: The state of being a professor; professorship.
examples: text: The frigid professorialism of Kant's philosophy robbed it of all dynamic principle .
ref: 1873, William Maccall, The Newest Materialism, page 53:
text: His training and practice as Electrical Engineer corrected any tendency towards high-and-dry professorialism, and the wireless section of the Telegraphic Department was established ab initio on those practical progressive lines which have been maintained ever since .
ref: 1917 November, “Personalities in the Wireless World: Captain Rupert Stanley”, in The Wireless World, volume 5, page 519:
text: The point is though that (this is at least my impression) this sort of themes and this sort of humor give some flavor of 'professorialism', or even 'easy professorialism' I would say to Anonym's epigrams which is wholly absent in Luxorius.
ref: 2011, Anna Maria Wasyl, Genres Rediscovered, page 226:
glosses: The quality of being professor-like; didactic, academic, erudite, stuffy, and/or pedantic.
keelyvine pen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keelyvine pens
form: keelavine pen
form: keelivine pen
Etymology: Compare Scottish Gaelic cìl (“ruddle”).
Senses: examples: text: Put up your pocket-book and your keelyvine pen then, for I downa speak out an' ye hae writing materials in your hands
ref: 1816, [Walter Scott], The Antiquary. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
text: This article, if finished at all, must be written with the keelavine pen on the backs of old letters—whereof, thank heaven! we have scores unanswered—by fits and snatches, as we repose from our labours on the gree-sward;.
ref: 1846 November 14, Christopher North, “Wild Sports and Natural History of the Highlands”, in The Anglo American, volume 8, number 4, page 85:
text: A strip of lead in a case of wood or a strong reed, resembling the drawing-pencil to which we are now accustomed, is the Keelyvine-pen of North Britain; and an invention which is probably not older than the commencement of the last century.
ref: 1857, Richard Thomson, A Lecture on some of the most characteristic features of Illuminated Manuscripts from the VIII. to the XVIII. century., page 48:
text: Perhaps he knew that “fules," as the Shepherd says, dreaded his "keelavine pen," and so abstained from a source of offence.
ref: 1897, Andrew Lang, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart - Volume 1, page 342:
glosses: A pencil of black lead.
opinicus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opinici
Senses: examples: text: Two opinici vert, beaked sable, wings gules, support the insignia of the Plasterers’ Company.
ref: 1847, A Glossary of Terms Used in British Heraldry: With a Chronological Table, Illustrative of Its Rise and Progress, Oxford: John Henry Parker, page 233:
text: Urcheons, bagwyns, opinici and musimons, represented statant, sejant or segreant, and in every variety of metal, colour and fur, completed an exhibition which was both boastfully heraldic and pompously powerful.
ref: 1928, Punch, page 612, column 2:
text: No blood need be shed in settling these anatomical problems, as opinici are of little importance, there being barely a dozen examples.
ref: 1963, Julian Franklyn, Shield and Crest: An Account of the Art and Science of Heraldry, page 150:
text: Even when they ascend to the loftiest perch for their kind and earn the right to serve on the Council of Keythongs, the wingless ones are still not permitted the same rights as gryphons and opinici.
ref: 2019, Paula Grover, The Gryphon, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 22:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
coordinate_terms: griffin
glosses: A heraldic imaginary creature with an eagle's head, a short tail, and sometimes wings.
Synonyms: word: epimacus
supervisive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supervisive
form: most supervisive
Etymology: From supervise + -ive.
Senses: glosses: supervisory
antepileptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of antiepileptic.
antepileptic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antepileptics
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of antiepileptic.
antepileptics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antepileptic
rectoress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rectoresses
form: rectress
Etymology: From rector + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: Diſſembling griefe, as one that knevv not ill, / So can ſhe rule the greatneſſe of her mind, / As a moſt perfect Rectoreſſe of her vvill, / Aboue the vſuall vveakneſſe of her kind; […]
ref: 1630, Michaell Draiton [i.e., Michael Drayton], “The First Booke of the Barrons Warres”, in Poems: […], London: […] [Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] Ling, →OCLC, stanza 35, page 13:
glosses: A governess; a rectrix.
examples: text: In this way the worthy Rectoress consoled herself : and her daughters sighed, and sate over the Peerage all night
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
glosses: The wife of a rector.
rectoresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rectoress
dicast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dicasts
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δικαστής (dikastḗs, “judge”).
Senses: qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: A kind of juror.
dicasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dicast
octogamy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From octo- + -gamy. Compare Middle English octogamie.
Senses: examples: text: I regret to say John has never had that pleasure yet; but if the "Honourable" Herbert D'Aulnoy should darken my doors again, I should feel it my duty to communicate certain facts about him to Sir Richard Mayne and Mr. Pollaky, and to ensure his conviction for bigamy, trigamy, quadrigamy, or perhaps octogamy, at the Old Bailey.
ref: 1865 March 25, Vere Haldane, “'Would-Be Wives, Beware!': A Caution Founded On Fact”, in Once A Week, page 378:
text: The best wardmaster in Scutari had eight wives—I mean eight wives alive—at different stations. […] He was tried when he came home at Warwick Assizes for what was euphoniously called bigamy, but was octogamy.
ref: 1888, Florence Nightingale, letter to Maude Verney dated 2 February 1888, published in Lynn McDonald, Florence Nightingale: An Introduction to Her Life and Family (2010), page 713
text: The author devotes almost an entire page of the essay to rewriting [Mary Elizabeth] Braddon's fiction, replacing bigamy with octogamy and inventing a sensation author who, writing between meals, creates three murderous polygamist heroines in one day--including one who, having poisoned twenty-seven lovers, flies off "to sunny Italy ... with the stable boy."
ref: 2011, Joyce E. Kelley, "Beating them to the Punch: satirizing sensation from the 1860s comic journal to Braddon's The Doctor's Wife", Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature, Spring 2011
glosses: The state of having eight spouses simultaneously.
Related terms: monogamy
bigamy
trigamy
quadrigamy
drossless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more drossless
form: most drossless
Etymology: From dross + -less.
Senses: examples: text: OFT tho' thy genius, DARWIN! amply fraught
With native wealth, explore new worlds of mind;
Whence the bright ores of drossless wisdom brought,
Stampt by the Muse's hand, enrich mankind;
ref: 1791, William Bagshaw Stevens, "to the author of the poem on the loves of the plants" (prefixed to Erasmus Darwin's The Botanic Garden)
glosses: Free from dross.
villanella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛlə
Forms: form: villanellas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian villanella (“pretty country girl”).
Senses: glosses: An old Italian rustic dance, usually accompanied by singing.
villanellas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of villanella
beehouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beehouses
form: bee house
form: bee-house
Etymology: From bee + house.
Senses: glosses: A beehive or apiary.
beehouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beehouse
exhalable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɛksˈ(h)eɪləbəl/
Forms: form: more exhalable
form: most exhalable
Etymology: From exhale + -able.
Senses: examples: text: the great rapidity , with which the wheels that serve to cut and polish diamonds must be moved , excites a great degree of heat in the stone ; whereby , perhaps , it loses its exhalable matter so plentifully
ref: 1675, Robert Boyle, On the Mechanical Production of Electricity:
glosses: Capable of being exhaled or evaporated.
Derived terms: inexhalable
kevel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kevels
form: kevil
form: cavel
form: cavil
Etymology: From English dialect kevil, cavel (“rod, pole, a large hammer”), from Middle English kevel, *kavel (“a large stonemason's hammer”), from Old Norse kefli, kafli n (“a cylinder, stick, piece of wood”) and Old Norse kefli, kafli m (“a piece cut off, buoy, piece”). Compare Icelandic kefli (“cylinder, a stick, mangle”), and Danish kievle (“a roller”).
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A strong cleat to which large ropes are belayed.
glosses: A stonemason's hammer.
Related terms: gavel
kevel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kevels
Etymology: From Middle English kevel. More at cavel.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cavel (“gag”).
kevel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kevels
Senses: examples: text: […] the pasan is the most frequent, then the corinne, which differs very little from the kevel, and the proper gazelle […]
ref: 1827, Conrad Malte-Brun, A system of universal geography:
glosses: A gazelle.
kevels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kevel
footbreadth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: footbreadths
Etymology: From foot + breadth. Compare Middle English fote-brede.
Senses: examples: text: Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as a footbreadth; because I have given Mount Seir unto Esau for a possession.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 2:5:
text: Wherewith at a stroke he hewed
The millstone through and through,
And Foot-breadth of Thoralf the Strong,
Were neither so broad nor so long
ref: 1863 November 23, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Sage of King Olaf”, in Tales of a Wayside Inn, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC:
glosses: The breadth of a foot; used as a measure.
kapnomar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of capnomor.
brazen-face
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brazen-faces
Etymology: From brazen + face.
Senses: examples: text: Well said, brazen-face.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
glosses: An impudent or shameless person.
Related terms: brazen-faced
brazenfaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brazenface
semiamplexicaul
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + amplexicaul.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Partially amplexicaul; embracing the stem half or partly round.
raw_tags: of a leaf
tetracoccous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tetra- + coccus + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having four cocci, or carpels.
victoriate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: victoriates
Senses: glosses: Synonym of victoriatus (“silver coin”)
synonyms: word: victoriatus
extra: silver coin
parelii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parelius
quadriennia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadriennium
hydropult
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydropults
Etymology: See hydro- and catapult. Originally a trade name.
Senses: glosses: A hand-powered machine for spraying water, somewhat similar to a fire extinguisher.
hydropults
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydropult
wowf
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaʊf/
rhymes: -aʊf
Forms: form: more wowf
form: most wowf
Senses: examples: text: "[I]t is very odd how Allan, who, between ourselves," said he to Musgrave, "is a little wowf, seems at times to have more sense than us all put together. Observe him now."
ref: 1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter VI, in Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume III (A Legend of Montrose), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 270:
glosses: crazy; deranged.
wowf
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaʊf/
rhymes: -aʊf
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of woof.
stridulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stridulators
Etymology: From stridulate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: Scolytus has lately been described by Dr. Chapman as a stridulator, in the 'Entomologist's Monthly Magazine,' vol. vi. p. 130.
ref: 1871, Charles Darwin, “Secondary Sexual Characters of Insects”, in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, Part II (Sexual Selection), footnote 70, page 379:
glosses: Something which stridulates.
stridulators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stridulator
budlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: budlets
Etymology: From bud + -let.
Senses: examples: text: We have a criterion to distinguish one bud from another, or the parent bud from the numerous budlets which are its offspring.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Erasmus Darwin, Phytologia:
text: As zooid, bud and budlet development is closely coordinated, the stage of a colony during its blastogenetic cycle is univocally defined and expressed by a formula of three numbers separated by slashes
ref: 2009, Baruch Rinkevich, Valeria Matranga, Stem Cells in Marine Organisms:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A smaller or secondary bud, usually growing from a parent bud.
budlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of budlet
old-maidish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more old-maidish
form: most old-maidish
Etymology: From old maid + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: ‘You must forgive me,’ he said. ‘I take a ridiculous pleasure in what I eat and drink. It comes partly from being a bachelor, but mostly from a habit of taking a lot of trouble over details. It’s very pernickety and old-maidish really, but then when I’m working I generally have to eat my meals alone and it makes them more interesting when one takes trouble.’
ref: 1953, Ian Fleming, chapter 8, in Casino Royale, page 48:
text: At thirty-six, I'm no bargain in the marriage market. But Aunt Emily in Toronto, still single at fifty-six, is even more old-maidish than I am and yet she refuses the label.
ref: 1982, Joy Kogawa, Obasan, page 8:
glosses: Like an old maid; prim; precise; particular.
paxillose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paxillose
form: most paxillose
Etymology: Latin paxillus (“a small stake”).
Senses: glosses: Resembling a small stake.
Derived terms: paxillose crab
predesign
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: predesigns
form: predesigning
form: predesigned
form: predesigned
Etymology: From pre- + design.
Senses: examples: text: Tranquillity insued among the people ; and the cart , predesigned by heaven to bring a king, the author of so much good , was , with its appendages , dedicated to the god , and placed in the citadel , where it was carefully preserved
ref: 1784-1810, William Mitford, The History of Greece:
glosses: To design beforehand; to predetermine.
predesigning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of predesign
predesigns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of predesign
unmingle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪŋɡəl
Forms: form: unmingles
form: unmingling
form: unmingled
form: unmingled
Etymology: From un- + mingle.
Senses: examples: text: […] dip the mouth of it within the second glass and remove your finger; continue it in that posture for a time, and it will unmingle the wine from the water […]
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, 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: To separate things that are mixed.
unmingles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unmingle
unmingling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unmingle
misrecital
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misrecitals
Etymology: From mis- + recital.
Senses: glosses: An inaccurate recital.
misrecitals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misrecital
unculpable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unculpable
form: most unculpable
Etymology: From un- + culpable.
Senses: examples: text: Seeing therefore these Canons do bind as they are edicts of Nature, which the Jews observing as yet unwritten, and thereby framing such Churchorders as in their Law were not prescribed, are notwithstanding in that respect unculpable
ref: 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: Alternative form of inculpable.
outflatter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outflatters
form: outflattering
form: outflattered
form: outflattered
Etymology: From out- + flatter.
Senses: glosses: To exceed in flattery, to flatter more or better than.
outflattered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outflatter
outflattering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outflatter
outflatters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outflatter
resolvedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From resolved + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I Muſt confeſs that an ordinary reflexion upon this reſolvedneſs of ſuffering to the utmoſt extremity in perſons that are thus miſtaken in the points they ſuffer for, cannot but make ſuch as are Atheiſtically inclined ſubject to think That there is no Truth nor Certainty at all in Religion; […]
ref: 1662, Henry More, “Enthusiasmus Triumphatus; or, A Brief Discourse of the Nature, Causes, Kinds, and Cure of Enthusiasm. Section LX. That the Resolved Sufferings for Mistaken Points in Religion is No Good Argument against the Truth of All Religion.”, in A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr Henry More […], London: […] James Flesher for William Morden, […], →OCLC, page 42:
glosses: the state of being resolved; determination; resolution.
hoper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hopers
Etymology: From Middle English hoper, equivalent to hope + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Our thoroughsped republick of whigs, which contains the bulk of all hopers, pretenders, expecters, and professors
ref: 1730, Jonathan Swift, A Vindication of Lord Carteret:
glosses: One who hopes.
Related terms: no-hoper
hopers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoper
mewler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mewlers
Etymology: From mewl + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that mewls.
mewlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mewler
destructibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From destructible + -ness.
Senses: antonyms: indestructibleness
glosses: The quality of being destructible; destructibility.
ridgelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ridgelets
Etymology: From ridge + -let.
Senses: glosses: A little ridge.
ridgelets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ridgelet
emissaryship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From emissary + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The status or office of an emissary.
adventureful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more adventureful
form: most adventureful
Etymology: From adventure + -ful.
Senses: glosses: adventurous
ruffianous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ruffianous
form: most ruffianous
Etymology: From ruffian + -ous.
Senses: synonyms: ruffianlike
glosses: Like a ruffian.
dissertationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dissertationists
Etymology: From dissertation + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A writer of dissertations.
dissertationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dissertationist
varicous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of varicose.
lithologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From lithological + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: to consider a stratum lithologically
text: lithologically similar stones
glosses: From a lithological point of view, regarding lithology
whitebeard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whitebeards
Etymology: From white + beard.
Senses: examples: text: According to the whitebeards and coffeehouse celebrities, Mullah Abbas had always been there.
ref: 2008, Massud Alemi, Interruptions: Love, Chaos & Revolution in Iran, page 34:
glosses: An old man; a greybeard.
whitebeards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whitebeard
exemptible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From exempt + -ible.
Senses: glosses: That may be exempted.
Derived terms: unexemptible
extendedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more extendedly
form: most extendedly
Etymology: From extended + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an extended manner.
Synonyms: ceaselessly
incessantly
nonstop
continuously
chorist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chorists
Etymology: French choriste.
Senses: glosses: A singer in a choir; a chorister.
chorists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chorist
prasinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prasinous
form: most prasinous
Etymology: From Latin prasinus, from Ancient Greek πρᾰ́σῐνος (prắsĭnos, “leek-green, light green”).
Senses: glosses: Of a clear, light green color.
Synonyms: leek-green
porraceous
prasine
sieveyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪvjə/
ipa: /ˈsɪvɪə/
Forms: form: sieveyers
form: siveyer
Etymology: From sieve + -yer.
Senses: glosses: A maker of sieves.
discommender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discommenders
Etymology: From discommend + -er.
Senses: examples: text: we would not then be accounted Dispraisers, Discommenders, and Dishonourers of the infinitely good and glorious God
ref: 1722, William Lorimer, A Farewell-sermon to the Church, and to the World:
glosses: One who discommends.
discommenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discommender
faunist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɔːnɪst/
Forms: form: faunists
Etymology: From fauna + -ist.
Senses: examples: 1789, Gilbert White, Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne
SOME future faunist, a man of fortune, will, I hope, extend his visits to the kingdom of Ireland; a new field, and a country little known to the naturalist
glosses: One who describes the fauna of a country.
faunists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faunist
gauderies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gaudery
gaudery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɔːdəɹi/
Forms: form: gauderies
Senses: glosses: finery; ornaments
examples: text: tarnished gaudery
ref: 1674, John Dryden, Prologue Spoken at the Opening of the New House:
glosses: ostentatious display; gaudiness
Related terms: gaudy
ruminantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ruminantly
form: most ruminantly
Etymology: From ruminant + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a ruminant manner; by ruminating, or chewing the cud.
unculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + culture.
Senses: examples: text: Never was there any sterility, whereof there may not be a cause given. Either the season is unkindly parching with drought, or drenching with wet, or nipping with frost, or blasting with pernicious airs, or rotting with mildews: […] or some natural fault in the soil; or misdemeanour of the owners; idleness, ill-husbandry, in mistiming, neglect of meet helps, unculture, ill choice of seed: but, whatever be the second cause, we are sure who is the first; He turneth.
ref: c. 1624, Joseph Hall, Wickedness making a fruitful land barren (sermon)
text: Greed and craft, and even ferocity, are to be read in such faces, but rarely weakness, and never imbecility; roughness, unculture, and coarseness are there, not vulgarity, nor want of energy
ref: 1898, Richard Francis Burton, The Jew, chapter 3:
glosses: A lack of culture.
Related terms: philistinism
thief in law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thieves in law
Etymology: Calque of Russian вор в зако́не (vor v zakóne).
Senses: glosses: A criminal who is respected, has authority and a high ranking status within the criminal underworld in the old Soviet Union, Russia and the republics that formed the former Soviet Union.
beer die
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A drinking game in which players sit at opposite ends of a table and attempt to throw a die into their opponent's cup.
afara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: afaras
Etymology: Borrowed from Yoruba afàrà.
Senses: examples: text: Afara is the common Nigerian name and a British Standard name for the commercial timber.
ref: 1969, B. J. Rendle, World Timbers: Europe and Africa, Afara or Limba [Terminalia superba], page 78:
glosses: The limba tree.
battle buddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: battle buddies
Senses: examples: text: I didn't know why, but I cut through and took a shorter route and I happened to bump into my battle buddy (SSG). As I piece everything together, I remembered my battle buddy telling me that I was scaring him, because I had “that look”
ref: 2011, Yolanda Jones, Scarred, But Not Broken: My Personal Experience as a Single Mom, page 75
text: You don't do anything without your battle buddy. If your battle buddy does something stupid, you pay for it.
ref: 2011, Robert Brock, Turkey Mountain Boys: My Brother's Keeper, page 73
text: To teach you this lesson, your Drill Sergeants will assign you a battle buddy.
ref: 2011, Michael Craig Volkin, The ultimate basic training guidebook: tips, tricks, and tactics, age 41
text: In fact, the system works so well that the Army has expanded the battle buddy system to units other than basic training
ref: 2011, Rod Powers, Basic Training for Dummies, page 172
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Another servicemember assigned to mutually help another under the battle buddy system, and by extension any comrade.
Related terms: brother-in-arms
comrade
blue falcon
battle
battle buddies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of battle buddy
cleft chins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cleft chin
Kamehameha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ka.me.haˈme.ha/
[kə.mɛ.həˈmɛ.hə]
Etymology: From Hawaiian, itself a compound of ka (“the”, definite article) + mehameha (“lonely, solitary, silent”, with an emphasis on notions of taboo in the holy sense).
Senses: glosses: The name of several kings of Hawaii, most notably Kamehameha I.
Derived terms: Kamehameha Day
glory days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From glory + days.
Senses: examples: text: The San Francisco 49ers had their glory days under Joe Montana and may be making a comeback under Alex Smith.
glosses: Period in which an individual or group exhibits great success and wealth
Synonyms: heyday
Related terms: back in the day
out of one's head
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I must be mad thinking I'll be remembered, yes, I must be out of my head!
ref: 1970, Tim Rice, “The Last Supper”, in Jesus Christ Superstar:
glosses: Alternative form of out of one's mind.
semideaf
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + deaf.
Senses: glosses: Very hard of hearing: nearly deaf.
meat curtains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: For instance, a dollar will buy you a bag of chips, a soda, or get you a closer gander at a stripper's meat curtains.
ref: 2010, Forrest Griffin, Erich Krauss, Be Ready When the Sh*t Goes Down: A Survival Guide to the Apocalypse, page 86:
text: Back to Sativa's anatomy: a flashlight was definitely needed to view between the meat curtains. It was a dark hole one could easily lose oneself in . . .
ref: 2010, G. L. Giles, Hearts at Stake, page 39:
text: Revealing a porcelain religious figurine of the Virgin Mary that he intends to insert inside her, the now-enraged attacker instructs Amy to "part them succulent meat curtains, darlin', and get ready for the religious experience of your life."
ref: 2009, Kylo-Patrick R. Hart, Annette Holba, Media and the Apocalypse, page 72:
glosses: The labia majora
tzontli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tzontlis
form: tzontle
Senses: glosses: An Aztec unit of 400 (men, cocoa beans, ears of maize, etc.).
television series
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: television series
form: TV series
Senses: examples: Friends was one of the most successful television series in recent years.
glosses: A television program which consists of several episodes that are broadcast at regular intervals.
glosses: A group of episodes of such a program.
Synonyms: word: teleseries
topics: television
broadcasting
media
word: drama
word: television program
powrefully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more powrefully
form: most powrefully
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of powerfully.
powreful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more powreful
form: most powreful
Etymology: From powre + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of powerful.
powerfuller
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of powerful: more powerful
wonderfuller
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: ‘[A]nd I’ll betcha Ignatz here’d think the top of a cocoanut tree nineteen times wonderfuller.’
ref: 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 19:
qualifier: often deliberately nonstandard
glosses: comparative form of wonderful: more wonderful
gracefuller
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of graceful: more graceful
gracefullest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: graceful + -est
Senses: glosses: superlative form of graceful: most graceful
bashfuller
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of bashful: more bashful
blissfuller
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of blissful: more blissful
bountifuller
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of bountiful: more bountiful
delightfuller
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: delightfuler
Senses: glosses: comparative form of delightful: more delightful
doubtfuller
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of doubtful: more doubtful
dutifuller
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of dutiful: more dutiful
frightfuller
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of frightful: more frightful
fruitfuller
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of fruitful: more fruitful