cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
weasy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more weasy
form: most weasy
Senses: examples: text: The fumes of a long pipe, whose stem she sucked between her toothless gums, occasionally found its way into her weazy lungs.
ref: 1858, Henry John Coke (Hon.), A Will and a Way, volume 1, page 151:
text: “Thee bee'st for sartan too thick and weazy like for them stairs,” said the miner.
ref: 1860, Anthony Trollope, The three clerks, page 107:
text: A little, weazy, shaky laugh, ending with a cough.
ref: 1876, Joyce Emmerson P. Muddock, As the shadows fall, volume 1, page 101:
text: Pellagra is characterized by an erythematous eruption affecting parts chiefly exposed to the sun; it prefers the face and the hands; the skin is swollen, tense, bullous, followed by ulcers; after each acute attack desquamation takes place, and the underlying skin is thickened and pigmented; the parts become atrophied, dry, weazy, as in old age.
ref: 1898, Transactions of the Southern Surgical and Gynecological Association, volume 10:
text: Around and around the plaza the players dodged, Weatherby close behind 'em, pantin' an' laborin' along like a weazy threshin' machine.
ref: 1905, Leo Crane, “The Foreign Fiddler's Fee”, in Out West: A Magazine of the Old Pacific and the New, page 134:
text: Instead a little fellow in overalls (whose greasy hand had spoilt a good coat for him), the tenant of the shed from which the light came and the weasy owner of the weasy old taxi that stood in it.
ref: 1934, Robert Alfred John Walling, The Bachelor Flat Mystery, page 88:
text: Needless to say, woke up the morning of my first flight with what I can only describe as a weasy, queasy, uneasy feeling, or somewhere between a bad case of vertigo and diarrhea.
ref: 2021, James Sibley, Who Cares What You Think? It's All BS Anyway!:
glosses: Alternative form of wheezy.
Related terms: weasiness
weasand
carburetting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of carburet
carburetted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of carburet
Derived terms: carburetted hydrogen
glutinosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare French glutinosité.
Senses: synonyms: glutinousness
glosses: The quality of being glutinous or viscous.
atmolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From atmo- + -lysis.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The separation of mingled gases of unequal diffusibility by transmission through porous substances.
Related terms: atmolyse
atmolyser
atmolytic
decadist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decadists
Etymology: From decade + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Livy was a decadist.
glosses: A writer of a book divided into decades (ten parts).
decadists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decadist
lakeweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lakeweeds
Etymology: From lake + weed.
Senses: glosses: The water pepper, an aquatic plant of the family Polygonaceae.
lakeweeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lakeweed
inobedient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inobedient
form: most inobedient
Etymology: From Middle English inobedient, from Old French inobedient, from Latin inoboediens (“not obedient”), present participle of inoboedire (“to disobey”). Compare French inobedient. See obedient.
Senses: examples: text: [...] I'se near be the ill bird and foul my nest, set apart strong necessity and the skreigh of duty, which no man should hear and be inobedient.
ref: 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter X, in Rob Roy. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 208:
antonyms: obedient
glosses: Not obedient; disobedient.
Derived terms: inobediently
ribauld
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪbɔːld/
Forms: form: ribaulds
Senses: examples: text: When that lewd ribauld with vile lust aduaunst
Layd first his filthy hands on virgin cleene
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Archaic spelling of ribald.
ribaulds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ribauld
affrontedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more affrontedly
form: most affrontedly
Etymology: From affronted + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: his Majesty had observed that ever since his coming to the crown , the popular sort of lawyers have been the men that most affrontedly in all Parliaments have trodden upon his prerogative
ref: 1616, Francis Bacon, Act of Council on Commendam Case:
glosses: shamelessly or in an offended manner
escheatage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: escheatages
Etymology: From escheat + -age.
Senses: examples: text: their goods are not subject to droit Aubaine, that is , they do not fall by Escheatage to the King as other strangers goods do in some Countries
ref: 1664, James Howell, Proedria-Basilike:
glosses: The right of succeeding to an escheat.
peccantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more peccantly
form: most peccantly
Etymology: From peccant + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: sinfully
glosses: In a peccant manner.
refounder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refounders
Etymology: From refound + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who refounds.
refounders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of refounder
synallagmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek συναλλαγματικός (sunallagmatikós).
Senses: examples: a synallagmatic contract
topics: law
glosses: Imposing reciprocal obligations upon the parties; bilateral.
insolidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + solidity.
Senses: examples: text: the insolidity of an argument
text: a demonstration of the insolidity of this Exception
ref: 1660, H[enry] More, An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness; […], London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for W[illiam] Morden […], →OCLC:
glosses: Lack of solidity; weakness.
amorosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amorosities
Senses: examples: text: He whispered to me the warmth of his amorosity: I replied with serene benignity, such things must not be talked of in such ways.
ref: 1849, John Galt, Lawrie Todd: or, the Settlers in the Woods:
glosses: The state or quality of being amorous; amorousness.
pictographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pictographic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a pictographic manner.
geodephagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From geo- + Adephaga + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: When I first searched for insects in the Transvaal, and in a valley beneath high cliffs, I was intensely surprised to find the stones turned over before my arrival. Being positively certain that no other geodephagous coleopterist was in the neighbourhood, I was somewhat inclined, like the Roman missionaries, who, on their arrival in Thibet, found Catholic ritual among the Buddhists, to ascribe the circumstance to occult influence; but this was before I became acquainted with the insect-searching attributes of my friends the Baboons
ref: 1897 January 24, The Zoologist, volume 1, number 667, Notes on the Chacma Baboon:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Living in the earth; applied to the ground beetles.
invirile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈvɪɹaɪl/
Forms: form: more invirile
form: most invirile
Etymology: From in- + virile.
Senses: examples: text: Ovid in Pontus, puling for his Rome
Of men invirile and disnatured dames
That poison sucked from the Attic bloom decayed,
Shrank with a shudder from the blue-eyed race
ref: 1870, James Russell Lowell, The Cathedral:
glosses: Deficient in manhood; unmanly; effeminate.
hydrargochloride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrargochlorides
Etymology: Blend of hydrargyrum + chloride
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound of the bichloride of mercury with another chloride.
hydrargochlorides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrargochloride
ilial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of iliac (“Pertaining to the ilium”).
fibrillose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈfɪbɹɪləʊs/
Forms: form: more fibrillose
form: most fibrillose
Senses: examples: text: lower surface typically with loose dark pink to grayish vinaceous fibrillose patches or sometimes merely white-fibrillose
ref: 1985, Joseph F. Ammirati, Poisonous Mushrooms of the Northern United States and Canada, Agaricus hondensis:
synonyms: fibrillar
fibrillous
glosses: Covered with fibrils, such as fungi or the undersurface of some lichens.
Derived terms: appressed-fibrillose
amphigenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From amphi- + -genous.
Senses: examples: text: amphigenous diaspores
text: amphigenous hyphae
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: growing on all sides of a leaf, as in the lichens
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: bisexual (attracted to both males and females).
Derived terms: amphigenously
amphigenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From amphi- + Ancient Greek γένος (génos, “gender”) + -ous.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: bisexual (attracted to both males and females).
dennet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dennets
Etymology: Perhaps from the maker's surname?
Senses: glosses: A light, open, two-wheeled carriage for one horse; a kind of gig.
dennets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dennet
lithagogue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithagogues
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: examples: text: seeds were formerly used as a lithagogue, or expeller of the stone in the bladder
ref: 1813, John Mason Good, Olinthus Gregory, Newton Bosworth, “LITHOSPERMUM”, in Pantologia: A New Cyclopaedia:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any medicine capable of expelling calculous matter with the urine.
lithagogues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lithagogue
incrustment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incrustments
Etymology: From incrust + -ment.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of incrustation.
synonyms: word: incrustation
incrustments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incrustment
barrator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbæɹətɚ/
Forms: form: barrators
form: barrater
form: barretor
Etymology: From Middle English baratour, from Old French barateor (“deceiver”), from Old French barater, bareter (“to deceive, cheat, barter”). Compare barter (intransitive verb).
Senses: examples: text: But by Hawk. P. C. bk. 1, c. 21, if such suits are merely groundless, and brought only with a design to oppress the defendants, such a man may as properly be called a barrator as if he had stirred up others to bring them.
ref: 1860, Matthew Bacon, A New Abridgement of the Law, volume 2, page 75:
glosses: One who is guilty of barratry, vexing others with frequent and often groundless lawsuits; a brangler and pettifogger.
glosses: One who abuses their office by dealing fraudulently.
One who buys or sells political or ecclesiastic offices.
glosses: One who abuses their office by dealing fraudulently.
A judge who accepts bribes.
topics: maritime
nautical
transport
glosses: One who abuses their office by dealing fraudulently.
A ship's master who commits gross fraud or barratry.
examples: text: I care not though men call me impudent, / Smooth-tongu'd, audacious, petulant, abhominable, / Forger of vvords and lie, contentious Barretour, / Old, vvinding, bragging, teſty, crafty fox.
ref: 1655, Thomas Stanley, “The Clouds of Aristophanes. Added (not as a Comicall Divertisement for the Reader, who can Expect Little in that Kind from a Subject so Antient, and Particular, but) as a Necessary Supplement to the Life of Socrates”, in The History of Philosophy. […], volume I, London: […] Humphrey Moseley, and Thomas Dring, […], →OCLC, 3rd part (Containing the Socratick Philosophers), Act I, scene iii, page 76:
glosses: A quarrelsome person, one who fights, a bully.
barrators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbæɹətə(ɹ)z/
Senses: glosses: plural of barrator
brabble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹæbəl/
Forms: form: brabbles
form: brabbling
form: brabbled
form: brabbled
Etymology: From Middle Dutch brabbelen (“to quarrel, jabber”). Akin to babble. Compare modern Dutch brabbelen, German brabbeln (“to talk confusedly”).
Senses: examples: text: Then next is the Clinke, a gaol or prison for the trespassers in those parts; namely, in old time, for such as should brabble, frey, or break the peace on the said bank, or in the brothel houses, they were by the inhabitants thereabout apprehended and committed to this gaol, where they were straitly imprisoned.
ref: 1598, John Stow, Survey of London, London: J.M. Dent, published 1912, page 362:
text: 1640, George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum; or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, etc., in The Remains of that Sweet Singer of the Temple George Herbert, London: Pickering, 1841, p. 141,
Brabbling curs never want sore ears.
text: 1883, Edward Maunde Thompson, Preface to Diary of Richard Cocks, cape-merchant in the English factory in Japan, 1615-1622, London: Hakluyt Society, p. xxxvi,
And it was not only with the English that the Dutch sailors quarrelled. They were drunken and riotous and “brabbled” in the streets, till at last the long-suffering Japanese lost patience and seizing two of them summarily cut off their heads.
text: "There, let's have no brabbling!" My lord struck in good-humouredly.
ref: 1925, Stanley John Weyman, “XII In Society”, in Queen's Folly:
glosses: To make clamorous noises; to act noisily.
examples: text: Farther on, when they came to a miniature glen between the semblance of two hills, down which, in mockery of a torrent, brabbled a slim brown stream, MacLean stood still […]
ref: 1902, Mary Johnston, chapter 9, in Audrey, New York: Grosset and Dunlap, page 121:
text: Down in the middle, among mossy boulders, the beck brabbled through golden sheets of Draba […]
ref: 1921, Reginald Farrer, chapter 10, in The Rainbow Bridge, London: E. Arnold & Co, page 181:
glosses: To babble (of a stream or other watercourse).
brabble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹæbəl/
Forms: form: brabbles
Etymology: From Middle Dutch brabbelen (“to quarrel, jabber”). Akin to babble. Compare modern Dutch brabbelen, German brabbeln (“to talk confusedly”).
Senses: examples: text: This petty brabble will undo us all.
ref: c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
text: What they, by this their journey to Versailles, do specially want? The twelve speakers reply, in few words inclusive of much: "Bread, and the end of these brabbles […]"
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
glosses: A brawl, or commotion.
Derived terms: brabblement
brabbler
brabbles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brabble
bicycular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to bicycling.
irrevealable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more irrevealable
form: most irrevealable
Etymology: From ir- + revealable.
Senses: synonyms: unrevealable
glosses: Incapable of being revealed.
Related terms: irrevealably
isokinetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From isokinetic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an isokinetic manner.
dynamometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dynamo- + -metry.
Senses: glosses: The measurement of forces doing work.
Derived terms: dynamometric
electrodynamometry
ophthalmodynamometry
Related terms: dynanometric
beef olive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beef olives
Etymology: Probably from the French alouette (“lark”), since the shape resembles a dish of stuffed larks; or possibly from the shape.
Senses: glosses: Thinly sliced beef wrapped around a savoury filling.
countersignal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countersignals
Etymology: From counter- + signal.
Senses: glosses: A signal produced in response to another signal.
countersignal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: countersignals
form: countersignaling
form: countersignalling
form: countersignaled
form: countersignaled
form: countersignalled
form: countersignalled
Etymology: From counter- + signal.
Senses: examples: text: But of course, Silicon Valley is a mecca of counter-signaling—witness the superstatus Zuckerbergian hoodie—and it's no surprise to discover that in the land of the billionaire dropout, an Internet entrepreneur like Thiel sees evidence that higher education inhibits innovation.
ref: 2012, New York Magazine's Most Popular:
text: Just as the logic of signaling attracts New Money to luxury, countersignaling directs the Old Money sensibility toward modesty.
ref: 2022, W. David Marx, chapter 5, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: To send a false or misleading signal.
countersignals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countersignal
cembrene A
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: neocembrene
catch the sun
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: catches the sun
form: catching the sun
form: caught the sun
form: caught the sun
Senses: synonyms: catch some rays
catch some sun
glosses: To sunbathe.
glosses: To become sunburned.
examples: text: A coin on the ground caught the sun and I stooped to pick it up.
glosses: To reflect light from the sun.
examples: text: The sunflowers will catch the sun if they are planted there.
glosses: To be in a sunny position.
crème Chantilly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French crème chantilly.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Chantilly cream.
synonyms: word: Chantilly cream
C-ration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: C-rations
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An individual canned, precooked, or prepared wet ration formerly issued to land forces in the US military.
Synonyms: C-rat
distarch
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪstɑɹt͡ʃ/
ipa: /ˈdaɪstɑːt͡ʃ/
Etymology: From di- + starch.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: monostarch
glosses: Of a cross-linked starch.
Derived terms: acetylated distarch adipate
phosphated distarch phosphate
Zou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zo
Senses: glosses: An indigenous people living along the frontier of India and Burma.
Zou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zo
Senses: glosses: The Kukish language spoken by the Zou people.
Japanazi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Japanazis
Etymology: Blend of Japanese + Nazi
Senses: examples: text: This is not a very merry Christmas for Japanazi leaders. And, that should be a source of great personal satisfaction to you.
ref: 1942, Gas age, volume 90:
text: The members of the Death Dodgers now in the Armed Forces will soon have the Japanazis trying to dodge death. To them we send our warmest regards and affection, and the sincere hope that they'll be back with us soon.
ref: 1942 November 28, Billboard, volume 54, number 48:
glosses: Any citizen of the Axis powers who opposed the Allies in the Second World War.
Japanazis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Japanazi
crystalloidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔɪdəl
Etymology: From crystalloid + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a crystalloid.
Derived terms: crystalloidally
echogenicities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of echogenicity
echotextural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From echotexture + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to echotexture.
firestriker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firestrikers
form: fire striker
Etymology: From fire + striker.
Senses: glosses: A piece of high-carbon steel used for striking a spark, usually kept in a tinderbox with flint and tinder.
Synonyms: firesteel
firestrikers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of firestriker
ergotin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ergotins
Etymology: From ergot + -in.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An extract made from ergot.
battologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: battologists
Senses: glosses: One who battologizes.
battologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of battologist
favourless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈfeɪvə(ɹ)ləs/
Forms: form: more favourless
form: most favourless
form: favorless
Etymology: From favour + -less.
Senses: glosses: unfavoured; having no countenance or support
examples: text: Fortune favourless
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 7:
glosses: unpropitious; unfavourable
loculicidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin loculus (“cell”) + caedere (“to cut”). Compare French loculicide.
Senses: examples: text: loculicidal capsules
text: loculicidal dehiscence
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: dehiscent through the middle of the back of each cell
Derived terms: loculicidally
minow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minows
Senses: examples: text: he gets him into swifter and swifter streams, and there lies at the watch for any flie or Minow that comes neer
ref: 1653, Iz[aak] Wa[lton], The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, […], London: […] T. Maxey for Rich[ard] Marriot, […], →OCLC; reprinted as The Compleat Angler (Homo Ludens; 6), Nieuwkoop, South Holland, Netherlands: Miland Publishers, 1969, →ISBN:
glosses: Archaic spelling of minnow.
minows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minow
Gothamist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gothamists
Etymology: From Gotham + -ist, after Gotham, Nottinghamshire, England, associated with some humorous tales of foolish behaviour.
Senses: examples: text: such Gothamists , such Bedlamites , such mad men are most among us
ref: 1658, John Spencer, Things New and Old:
glosses: A person lacking in wisdom.
Synonyms: Gothamite
Gothamists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gothamist
haggishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more haggishly
form: most haggishly
Etymology: From haggish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of a hag.
recrudency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: recrudescence
rhymic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪmɪk
Etymology: From rhyme + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to rhyme.
glosses: That rhymes
antiquist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiquists
form: antiquitist
Etymology: From antique + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: For the ineffable delight which the sheer antiquist takes in any rusty commodity
ref: 1784, John Pinkerton, An Essay on Medals:
glosses: An antiquary; a collector of antiques.
antiquists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiquist
introductress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From introductor + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female who makes an introduction.
tellership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tellerships
Etymology: From teller + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The office or employment of a teller.
tellerships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tellership
peaklet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːklət/
Forms: form: peaklets
Etymology: From peak + -let.
Senses: examples: text: As viewed from the north, it is an irregular blunt peaklet about ten feet high, fast disappearing before the stormy atmospheric erosion to which it is subjected.
ref: 1877 Sep, John Muir, ‘Snow-Storm on Mount Shasta’, Harper's Monthly:
text: There is a line of jagged peaklets, like an array of dog's teeth, called the Tschingelhorner, and beyond them, the Hole of St Martin.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 91:
glosses: A small peak.
peaklets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peaklet
cymophanous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cymophanous
form: most cymophanous
Etymology: From cymo- + -phanous.
Senses: glosses: Having a wavy, floating light; opalescent; chatoyant.
Related terms: cymophane
infallibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From infallible + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Our schoolmen make distinction of a certainty, evident and inevident. […] Inevident, which arises not so much out of the intrinsical truth of the proposition itself, as out of the veracity and infallibleness of the party that affirms it.
ref: c. 1655, Joseph Hall, Good Security (sermon)
glosses: The quality of being infallible.
Synonyms: infallibility
mirable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mirable
form: most mirable
Etymology: From Latin mīrābilis, from mīrārī (“to wonder”). Compare Old French mirable. See marvel. Doublet of mirabilis.
Senses: examples: text: Not Neoptolemus so mirable.
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:
glosses: wonderful; admirable
lixiviation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lixiviations
Senses: synonyms: leaching
glosses: The process of lixiviating.
lixiviations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lixiviation
mutuation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mutuations
Etymology: From Latin mutuatio, from mutuare, mutuari (“to borrow”), from mutuus. See mutual.
Senses: examples: text: A sheep may teach thee to foot a precipice, a goat to leap a chasm; for there is a mutuation between the great and the little, that the young do not see, and the proud will not own.
ref: 1848, Thomas Hall, Rowland Bradshaw:
text: After the deperdition of Indagator, having an appetency still further to pervstigate the frithy occident; being still an agamist, and not wishing to be any longer a pedaneous viator, nor to be solivagant, I brought about the emption of a yaud, partly by numismatic mutuation, and partly by a hypothecation of my fusee and argental horologe.
ref: 1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 28:
text: He referred to the mutuations of fortune, and how the members of society had an interest in this because the day might come when those rich now might be dependent upon this instrumentality for the education of their children.
ref: 1876, The Eclectic Teacher and Kentucky School Journal:
glosses: An act of borrowing or exchanging.
incalescency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: preserving the ends of the bones from an incalescency, which they, being hard and ſolid bodies, would necessarily contract from a swift and long continuing motion, such as that of running
ref: 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:
glosses: incalescence
lythe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lythe
form: most lythe
Senses: examples: text: His hornes bene as broade as Rainebowe bent ,
His dewelap as lythe as laffe of Kent
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Februarie. Ægloga Secunda.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of lithe (“soft, flexible”).
lythe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lythes
form: laith
form: leet
Senses: examples: text: We caught between us about twenty pounds of cod and lythe
ref: 1915, John Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps, Chapter 10:
glosses: A fish, the European pollock (Pollachius pollachius).
shenai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shenais
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shehnai.
calabarine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Calabar + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkaloid similar to physostigmine, and occurring with it in the Calabar bean.
shenais
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shenai
percarbide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: percarbides
Etymology: From per- + carbide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a series of compounds containing the largest proportion of carbon
percarbides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of percarbide
encrisped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From en- + crisp + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Of laurell levis a cronell on his hede,
With heris encrisped yalowe as the golde,
Lamentyng Daphnes, […]
ref: 1523, John Skelton, A ryght delectable tratyse upon a goodly Garlande or Chapelet of Laurell; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 320, lines 288–290:
glosses: curled
examples: text: Where the lank boar is seen to yawn / His hungered fangs encrisped with gore.
ref: 1857, T Irwin, Goethe’s Death:
glosses: encrusted
chafferer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chafferers
Etymology: From chaffer + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who chaffers; a bargainer.
chafferers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chafferer
megadyne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megadynes
Etymology: From mega- + dyne.
Senses: glosses: A unit of force equal to one million dynes
megadynes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megadyne
phrenograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phrenographs
Etymology: From phreno- + -graph.
Senses: examples: text: Finally, it has been found possible in various ways to record the diaphragmatic movements by the insertion of tn elastic bar connected with a tambour into the abdomen below it (phrenograph) , by the insertion of needles into different parts of its structure, or by recording the contraction of isolated strips of the diaphragm.
ref: 1902, William Senhouse Kirkes, Kirkes': Handbook of Physiology, page 266:
text: Without varying the adjustment of the phrenograph take a tracing while repeatedly interrupting the respiration by holding the nostrils. What does the phrenogram show?
ref: 1904, Winfield Scott Hall, A Manual of Experimental Physiology for Students of Medicine:
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: An instrument for registering the movements of the diaphragm, or midriff, in respiration.
examples: text: The accuracy and value of a phrenograph, therefore, must depend upon the learning, judgment and skill of the person who makes it, and its defects should not be charged to phrenology considered as a system of mental philosophy.
ref: 1895 February, “Regarding Phrenographs”, in The Phrenological Journal:
text: Selina Campbell, who was the one who ordered the phrenograph in the first place, almost certainly read it in a different light.
ref: 2002, Leroy Garrett, The Stone-Campbell Movement, page 268:
glosses: A phrenological profile; a delineation of a person's characteristics based on a phrenological examination.
phrenographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phrenograph
macropolitical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macro- + political.
Senses: antonyms: micropolitical#Adjective
hypernyms: macrolevel#Adjective
coordinate_terms: macroeconomic#Adjective
macrosocial#Adjective
glosses: Relating to macropolitics.
iriscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iriscopes
Etymology: From From iri- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: A philosophical toy for exhibiting the prismatic tints by means of thin films.
examples: text: My overseas savings came in handy because I could buy an iridology hand lens, which I needed for consultations as I could not afford an iriscope costing R40,000 at the time.
ref: 2012, Thabang Molefi, Dollars to Soweto, page 77:
text: It's funny, because people sort of—if they know you're an iridologist they say 'What do you see in my eyes?' And of course I'm never drawn into that, because eye-to-eye —just on a one-to-one—you can't really see very much, whereas under the iriscope...
ref: 2013, Ruth Barcan, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, page 73:
text: Unlike the other types, even with an iriscope, it's very difficult to ascertain the fibre structure as the iris is deeply suffused with pigment.
ref: 2023, Sarah Donoghue, Modern Iridology:
glosses: A device used in iridology to photograph the eye and send the image to a computer.
iriscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iriscope
raffler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rafflers
Etymology: From raffle + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The raffler announced the prizes over the loudspeaker.
glosses: Someone who raffles.
rafflers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raffler
untutoredly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more untutoredly
form: most untutoredly
Etymology: From untutored + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without education; ignorantly.
untutoredness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From untutored + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Lack of education; ignorance.
deserticole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deserticoles
Senses: examples: text: […] "deserticoles", by virtue of retaining their rainforest life style and repertoire of adaptations (transmuted as "fortuitous adaptations") are masquerading as "deserticoles".
ref: 1997, B. Y. Main, Tropical rainforest mygalomorph spiders in the Australian desert: the irony of an adaptive legacy, in Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria
text: Deserticole, inhabits mesic situations with sparse vegetation. […]
ref: 2002, Muhammad Sharif Khan, A Guide to the Snakes of Pakistan:
text: […] arboricoles (= dendrobionts), symbionts of ants or termites, deserticoles etc. are habitually even less conspicuous, […] in Israel and the West Bank) are deserticoles.
ref: 2009, S. I. Golovatch, R. D. Kime, “Millipede (Diplopoda) distributions: A review”, in Soil organisms:
text: […] the most characteristic deserticole among millipedes is Orthoporus ornatus (Spirostreptida) in the southern US and adjacent parts of Mexico. Both these species are rare except in their native environments (Golovatch and Kime, 2009).
ref: 2013 February 5, Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 430:
glosses: A desert-dweller; one who is deserticolous.
nonthin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + thin.
Senses: glosses: Not thin.
saxicole
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of saxicolous.
synonyms: word: saxicolous
icosane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eicosane.
contemptibilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contemptibility
contemptibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contemptibilities
Senses: examples: text: The contemptibilitie and vanitie of this effeminate argument detaines vs longer, then for the qualitie thereof vvere fitting, did not ſo much miſchiefe iſſue out of it.
ref: 1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “Edward the Second, […]”, in The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], London: […] William Hall and John Beale, for John Sudbury and George Humble, […], →OCLC, book IX ([Englands Monarchs] […]), paragraph 10, page 555, column 2:
glosses: The quality of being contemptible.
eikosane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of eicosane.
phlogistick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of phlogistic.
rickettsiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rickettsiology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to rickettsiology.
rickettsiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rickettsia + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The study of rickettsia.
rickettsial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rickettsia + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to rickettsia.
botanologer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From botanology + -er.
Senses: glosses: A botanist.
urachi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urachus
urachus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urachi
form: urachuses
Etymology: From New Latin ūrachus, from Ancient Greek οὐραχός (ourakhós).
Senses: examples: text: A persistent urachus exists if the entire urachal tube remains patent between the bladder and umbilicus.
ref: 2003, Douglas H. Slatter, Textbook of Small Animal Surgery, volume 1, page 1631:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A band of fibrous tissue extending from the bladder to the umbilicus.
Derived terms: urachal
priorly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From prior + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: this single name, whencesoever it be derived, or whensoever it were given, cannot stand as a proof that the name Jehovah was known priorly to Moſes, against so positive a testimony as that of the passage in Exodus[…]
ref: 1800, Alexander Geddes, Critical Remarks on the Hebrew Scriptures: Remarks on the Pentateuch:
glosses: Previously.
overfatigue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overfatigues
form: overfatiguing
form: overfatigued
form: overfatigued
Etymology: From over- + fatigue.
Senses: glosses: To fatigue to excess; to tire out.
overfatigue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + fatigue.
Senses: glosses: Excessive fatigue.
overfatigued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overfatigue
overfatigues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overfatigue
overfatiguing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overfatigue
foamboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foamboards
Etymology: From foam + board.
Senses: glosses: A strong, lightweight material consisting of an inner layer of polystyrene clad with outer facing of either white clay-coated paper or brown kraft paper.
foamboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foamboard
rubish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rubish
form: most rubish
Etymology: From rube + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: I suppose I am a rubish hayseed in some sense, full of down-home notions that contradict the more sophisticated notions of my colleagues.
ref: 1992, Donald Barthelme, Kim A. Herzinger, The teachings of Don B.:
glosses: Like a rube.
supercelebrity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supercelebrities
Etymology: From super- + celebrity.
Senses: glosses: A major celebrity; a very famous person.
supercelebrities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supercelebrity
causticities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of causticity
drowsihead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From drowsy + -head.
Senses: examples: text: The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow. / A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, […]
ref: 1748, James Thomson, The Castle of Indolence: […], London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
glosses: drowsiness
metronomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See metronome.
Senses: glosses: The measurement of time by an instrument, such as a metronome.
terebate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terebates
Etymology: From terebic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt of terebic acid.
terebates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terebate
contrafissure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contrafissures
Etymology: From contra- + fissure.
Senses: examples: text: When the professor's body was opened the next day , the cranium was very entire , having neither fissure nor contrafissure
ref: 1815, James Smith, The Panorama of Science and Art:
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: counterfissure
glosses: A fissure or fracture on the side opposite to that which received the blow, or at some distance from it.
contrafissures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contrafissure
nale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /neɪl/
homophone: nail
Forms: form: nales
Senses: examples: text: They hewe downe a tre in the wod with the hondes of the woꝛke man, and faſhion it with the axe: they couer it ouer with golde oꝛ ſyluer, they faſten it wᵗ nales and hammers, that it moue not.
ref: 1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, Jeremy [Jeremiah] x:[3–4], folio xxviii, verso:
glosses: Obsolete form of nail.
dreggish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dreggish
form: most dreggish
Etymology: From dreg + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: his Urin was Pale, crude, dreggish, and turbid, made at pretty long intervals , and in very small quantities
ref: 1699, Gideon Harvey, The vanities of philosophy and physick:
synonyms: dreggy
;
footy#Etymology_2
glosses: Foul with lees; dirty.
storier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: storiers
Etymology: From Middle English storier; equivalent to story + -er.
Senses: examples: text: c. 1449–1455, Reginald Peacock, Represser of over-much weeting [blaming] of the Clergie
he is not the fundamental storier there of, but that ther of is an other storie bifore him
text: Long through the night the sounds of music and the shouts of laughter were heard on the banks of that starry river; long through the night you might have listened with enchantment to the wild tales of the storier […]
ref: 1833, Benjamin Disraeli, The Wondrous Tale of Alroy:
glosses: A teller of stories; a historian.
storiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of storier
cockets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cocket
dreadingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dreadingly
form: most dreadingly
Etymology: From dreading + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Miſtruſtfully he truſteth, and he dreadingly did dare, / And fortie paſſions in a trice in him conſort and ſquare.
ref: 1586, William Warner, “The Fourth Booke. Chapter XXXIII.”, in Albions England. Or Historicall Map of the Same Island: […], London: […] George Robinson [and R. Ward] for Thomas Cadman, […], →OCLC, page 162:
glosses: With dread.
gentlesse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The savage man, that never till this hour/Did taste of pity, neither gentlesse knew
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: gentilesse; gentleness
monotomous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + -tomous.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having a distinct cleavage in a single direction.
periodicalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: periodicalists
Etymology: From periodical + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who publishes, or writes for, a periodical. A kind of journalist.
periodicalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of periodicalist
dispunishable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dis- + punishable.
Senses: examples: May 3 1740, Jonathan Swift, his will
not dispunishable of waste
glosses: Without risk of punishment; not punishable.
overbending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overbend
overbends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overbend
overbent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overbend
picturize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: picturizes
form: picturizing
form: picturized
form: picturized
Etymology: From picture + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To represent in a picture or a motion picture; to depict.
glosses: To adorn with pictures; to illustrate.
Derived terms: picturization
picturized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of picturize
picturizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of picturize
picturizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of picturize
remissory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more remissory
form: most remissory
Senses: examples: text: remissory power
text: remissory sentence
text: They would have us saved by a daily oblation propitiatory; by a sacrifice expiatory, or remissory.
ref: 1549 January 18, Hugh Latimer, Sermon of the Plough:
glosses: Serving or tending to pardon, or to secure remission.
bicostate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + costate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having two principal ribs running longitudinally, as in a leaf.
glyphography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From glyph + -o- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: A process similar to etching in which, by means of voltaic electricity, a raised copy of a drawing is made, so that it can be used to print from; cerography.
Related terms: glyphograph
glyphographic
floorage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From floor + -age.
Senses: glosses: floorspace
flockling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flocklings
Etymology: From flock + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: […] she takes not so much for curing a thousand mortal People, as I have spent in Turpentine and Tarre to keep my Flocklings cleanly in a Spring time.
ref: 1659, Richard Brome, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: A lamb.
flocklings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flockling
ineffectualness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ineffectual + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The ineffectualness of some men's devotion.
ref: a. 1737, William Wake, The genuine epistles of the apostolical fathers:
glosses: inefficacy
everywhereness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From everywhere + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Men are talking of the allness and everywhereness of God, and the nowness of eternal life
ref: 1897, Theodore Frelinghuysen Seward, Don't Worry; Or, Spiritual Emancipation, page 12:
glosses: ubiquity; omnipresence
partial autocorrelation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: partial autocorrelations
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Remaining correlation of two random variables in a stochastic process after intervening random variables have been accounted for.
partial autocorrelations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of partial autocorrelation