cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
self-existence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + existence.
Senses: examples: text: If a first Body may to any Place
Be not determin'd, in the boundless Space,
'Tis plain, it then may absent be from all;
Who then will this a Self-existence call?
ref: 1712, Richard Blackmore, Creation:
glosses: inherent existence; existence possessed by virtue of a being's own nature, and independent of any other being or cause; an attribute peculiar to God.
Related terms: aseity
imbracement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imbracements
Etymology: From imbrace + -ment.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of embracement.
spanielling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spaniel
photoglyptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfəʊ.təˈɡlɪp.tɪk/
ipa: /ˌfoʊ.təˈɡlɪp.tɪk/
rhymes: -ɪptɪk
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of photoglyphic.
imbracements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imbracement
spanielled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spaniel
matronize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: matronizes
form: matronizing
form: matronized
form: matronized
form: matronise
Etymology: From matron + -ize.
Senses: examples: 1741-1755, Samuel Richardson, The Familiar Letters
Childbed matronizes the giddiest spirits.
glosses: To make a matron of; to make matron-like.
examples: text: to matronize an assembly
glosses: To act the part of a matron toward; to superintend or chaperone.
examples: text: to matronize female artists for sexploitation
glosses: To criticize from a feminist perspective.
glosses: Of a woman: to patronize or be condescending towards.
matronized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of matronize
matronizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of matronize
matronizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of matronize
squint-eyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more squint-eyed
form: most squint-eyed
Senses: examples: text: You are the millions, we are multitude
And multitude and multitude.
Come, fight! Yea, we are Scythians,
Yea, Asians, a squint-eyed, greedy brood.
ref: 1921, Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky (translators), Alexander Blok (original), (Please provide the book title or journal name), The Scythians:
glosses: cross-eyed; having eyes that squint.
examples: text: sqint-ey'd Praise
ref: 1641 (first performance), [John Denham], The Sophy. […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for H[enry] Herringman, […], published 1667, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
text: squint-eyed jealousy
ref: 1754, John Brown, Barbarossa:
text: squint-eyed spite
ref: a. 1839, Robert Fraser, "Vanitas, Vanitatum, Vanitas!" (translated from German, original by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
glosses: malignant.
prelal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹiːləl/
Etymology: Latin prelum (“a press”) + -al.
Senses: examples: text: This is a catalogue of prelal mistakes, committed and confessed in the doctor's book of Animadversions
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The History of the University of Cambridge, since the Conquest, [London]: [[…] Iohn Williams […]], →OCLC:
glosses: Of or relating to printing; typographical.
dismarch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dismarches
form: dismarching
form: dismarched
form: dismarched
Etymology: From dis- + march.
Senses: glosses: To march away; to withdraw.
dismarched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dismarch
dismarches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dismarch
dismarching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dismarch
ship-rigged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ship + rigged.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: full-rigged
Castalian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Kastalian
Etymology: Latin Castalius
Senses: examples: text: Castalian spring
text: Castalian Band
text: that sweet grove Of Daphne by Orontes, and th'inspir'd Castalian spring
ref: 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to Castalia, a mythical fountain of inspiration on Mount Parnassus, sacred to the Muses.
empark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: emparks
form: emparking
form: emparked
form: emparked
Etymology: From em- + park. Compare Old French emparchier, emparkier.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of impark.
emparked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of empark
emparking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of empark
emparks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of empark
candidating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From candidate + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The taking of the position of a candidate; specifically, the preaching of a clergyman with a view to settlement.
candidating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From candidate + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of candidate
connectomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of connectome
mucinogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mucinogens
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mucigen.
mucinogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mucinogen
cogwares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cogware
cogues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cogue
callidities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of callidity
callid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more callid
form: most callid
Etymology: From Latin callidus, from callere (“to be thick-skinned, to be hardened”), from callum, callus (“callous skin, callosity, callousness”).
Senses: glosses: cunning or shrewd; crafty.
Related terms: callidity
starbowline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starbowlines
form: starbolin
Senses: examples: text: So, so, (thrusts his head down the scuttle,) Star-bo-l-e-e-n-s, a-h-o-y! Eight bells there below! Tumble up!
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 40”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Any of the men in the starboard watch.
starbowlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of starbowline
squinters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squinter
spectromagnetographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spectromagnetograph
fanac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæn.æk/
rhymes: -ænæk
Etymology: Shortened fan + activity.
Senses: examples: text: This, however, is only part of the story—just as fanzines and fan activity (Fanac) are only a part of the totality which is fandom.
ref: 1956 September, Robert Bloch, “Some of Best Fans are Friends”, in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, volume 11, number 3, page 57:
text: It must be emphasised that this was genuinely a 'historical' action; letter-writing to the prozines is currently a discouraged area of fanac.
ref: 1977, Brian Ash, The Visual encyclopedia of science fiction, Harmony Books, page 274:
text: The advent of the computer and the modem means that an increasingly large number of fans indulge in most of their fanac online.
ref: 2002, Mike Resnick, Once a Fan..., Wildside Press LLC, page 274:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The activity of fans, particularly of science fiction.
Meronyms: word: apahacking
word: letterhacking
alt: a fanzine
word: pubbing
word: smoffing
Derived terms: crifanac
Related terms: actifan
engyve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: engyves
form: engyving
form: engyved
form: engyved
Etymology: From en- + gyve.
Senses: examples: text: We have enough to doe, to endure the burthen of them, and are so engived and shackled in them, as if we were to fight but with the shocke or brunt of our armes: And as if we were as much bound to defend them, as they to shield us.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 9, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: It is now, to the believer, not a tyrant to be dreaded, but a minister to perform a needed office; not a jailer to engyve us with the fetters of bondage, but a servant to assist us in unrobing for our entrance into the banqueting house[…].
ref: 1887, The Homiletic Review, volume XIV:
glosses: To put in gyves or shackles.
toddle off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: toddles off
form: toddling off
form: toddled off
form: toddled off
Senses: glosses: To leave or depart.
glosses: To die.
handicapitalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of handicap + capitalism.
Senses: glosses: The marketing of products and services to disabled people, particularly products and services that are designed to meet these consumers' unique needs.
clivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Galium aparine, the plant cleavers.
amioid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more amioid
form: most amioid
Senses: glosses: Belonging to, or relating to the Amioidea.
amioid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amioids
Senses: glosses: Any of the Amioidea.
amioids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amioid
pseudologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudology
pseudology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudologies
Etymology: From pseudologue + -y or pseudo- + -logy; compare French pseudologie.
Senses: examples: text: wholly ignorant in the Rules of Pseudology
ref: 1713, John Arbuthnot, The Art of Political Lying:
glosses: falsehood of speech
Related terms: pseudological
nonintentionalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + intentionalistic.
Senses: glosses: Not intentionalistic.
intentionalistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more intentionalistically
form: most intentionalistically
Etymology: From intentionalistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an intentionalistic manner.
intentionalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more intentionalistic
form: most intentionalistic
Etymology: From intentional + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to intentionalism.
Derived terms: intentionalistically
nonintentionalistic
bagnios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bagnio
bandboxy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bandboxy
form: most bandboxy
Etymology: From bandbox + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Fancy Archie Holden, after having all the Rocky Mountains for his workshop, coming back and settling down into one of these bandboxy little towns!
ref: 1902, Anna Chapin Ray, Phebe, Her Profession:
text: The alforjas, or saddle-bags, of the guide were strengthened by a stock of cold provisions, the leathern bota hanging beside it was filled with ripe Granada wine; and now behold me ambling over the Vega, accoutred in a gay Andalusian jacket, a sash woven by Mateo Ximenes, and one of those bandboxy sombreros, which I at first thought so ungainly, but now consider quite picturesque and elegant.
ref: 1863, Bayard Taylor, The Lands of the Saracen:
glosses: resembling a bandbox
tractricoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tractricoids
Etymology: From tractrix + -oid.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A surface formed by revolving a tractrix about its asymptote.
Synonyms: pseudosphere
tractricoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tractricoid
bantery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈbæntəɹi/
Forms: form: more bantery
form: most bantery
Etymology: From banter + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Its wit is very copious, but slashy, bantery, and proceeds mainly by exaggeration and turning topsy-turvy; a rather barren species of wit.
ref: 1858–1865, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
text: His voice clear, harmonious, and sonorous, had something of metallic in it, something almost plangent ... a strange, swift, sharp-sounding, fitful modulation, part of it pungent, quasi latrant, other parts of it cooing, bantery, lovingly quizzical, which no charm of his fine ringing voice (metallic tenor, of sweet tone), and of his vivacious rapid looks and pretty little attitudes and gestures, could altogether reconcile you to, but in which he persisted through good report and bad.
ref: 1857, Thomas Carlyle, “Lord Jeffrey”, in Reminiscences, volume 2, published 1881, page 51:
text: I could really only make a couple other complaints--I would've liked to hear more than just two songs ("Tango Till They're Sore" and "Tom Traubert's Blues") in Waits's bantery solo-piano style, and I wanted more of his monologues.
ref: 2006 August 18, Monica Kendrick, “Older but Wilder”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Full of banter or good-humored raillery.
motty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒti
Forms: form: more motty
form: most motty
form: mottie
Senses: examples: text: the motty dust reek raised by the workmen
ref: 1847, Hugh Miller, First Impressions of England and Its People:
text: Where the motty sunbeam from the pane with its great knob of bottle-green struck him.
ref: 1865, Alexander Smuth, A Summer in Skye:
glosses: Full of, or consisting of, motes.
barege
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bareges
Senses: examples: text: Rose took out an old barege of an ashes-of-roses color.
ref: 1908, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, The Shoulders of Atlas:
text: She moved, a stately high-hipped figure, her severe face almost concealed in a scooping green barege hood, to the centre of the floor, and stood there with a pose that might have answered for a statue of Judgment.
ref: 1900, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Pembroke:
text: "Because her father--ah! bon jour, Madame--excuse me, Monsieur, but I go to pay my respects to Madame la Comtesse!" cried the Belgian, as an elderly red-faced lady, with fuzzy sandy hair, wearing a dingy, many-flounced lilac barege gown, came towards them along the gravel path.
ref: 1871, Eleanor Frances Poynter, My Little Lady:
text: She has on her blue barege dress, which implies her unvarying constancy.
ref: 1852, Mary H. Eastman, Aunt Phillis's Cabin:
glosses: Alternative spelling of barège.
spinyhead
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spiny + head.
Senses: examples: the spinyhead blenny
the spinyhead sculpin
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a head that is spiny.
raw_tags: in the names of fish
roughhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roughheads
Etymology: From rough + head.
Senses: glosses: A fish, the common shiner, Luxilus cornutus.
Derived terms: roughhead grenadier
roughhead shiner
roughhead triplefin
roughheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roughhead
ditolyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ditolyls
Etymology: From di- + tolyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An aromatic hydrocarbon, C₁₄H₁₄, consisting of two radicals or residues of toluene.
ditolyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ditolyl
barometrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: On the 30th, accompanied by Jerome Fay, I made another ascent to make some barometrical observations, the day intervening between the two ascents being devoted to establishing a camp on the extreme edge of the timberline.
ref: 1918, John Muir, Steep Trails:
text: Of course, account must be taken of other than political considerations in estimating the significance of this record, nor do I wish unduly to dwell upon what may be called its barometrical value in the study of contemporaneous French history.
ref: 1890, William Henry Hurlbert, France and the Republic:
text: We do not mean to ask if you have from youth been in the daily practice of rising from your study-chair at regular intervals, and ascertaining the precise point of Mercury's elevation on the barometrical scale.
ref: 1868, John Wilson, Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2:
text: I examined, with great satisfaction, your barometrical estimate of the heights of our mountains; and with the more, as they corroborated conjectures on this subject which I had made before.
ref: 1789, Thomas Jefferson, Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson:
glosses: Relating to, or observed with, a barometer, barometric.
twyblade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twyblades
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of twayblade.
trematoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trematoid
form: most trematoid
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or relating to the Trematoda.
trematoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trematoids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the Trematoda.
baronry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baronries
Etymology: From baron + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: It had done well enough for a thousand years, it would do well enough still; it had stood firm against fierce sieges in the dark ages of the Roman baronry, it could afford to stand unchanged in its monumental strength against the advancing sea of nineteenth-century civilisation.
ref: 1887, F. Marion Crawford, Saracinesca:
text: The order was revoked; but the feeling became even more intense when it was known that the king was getting ready to start for St. Denis, where his principal allies, the King of Bohemia, the Dukes of Hainault and of Lorraine, the Counts of Flanders and of Blois, "and a very great array of baronry and chivalry," were already assembled. "
ref: 1868, Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot, A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times:
glosses: The state or quality of being a baron
baseburner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baseburners
Etymology: From base + burner.
Senses: examples: text: A nickelplated warrior gleamed from the top of a baseburner that showed pink through its mica doors.
ref: 1918, Fannie Hurst, Gaslight Sonatas:
glosses: A type of stove that automatically re-adds coal, when needed, to the base using a hopper.
baronries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baronry
bashlik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bashliks
Senses: examples: text: The purchase of a warm astrachan bonnet, a bourka, [C] and bashlik, [D] completed my outfit.
ref: 1891, Harry De Windt, A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchist:
glosses: Alternative spelling of bashlyk.
baseburners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baseburner
basinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From basin + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The process may be relevant to the early stages of formation of the large sediment-hosted deposits from brines, exhalative fluids, or basinal fluids, and to formation of other low-temperature ZnS deposits.
ref: 2000 December 1, Matthias Labrenz et al., “Formation of Sphalerite (ZnS) Deposits in Natural Biofilms of Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria”, in Science, volume 290, number 5497, →DOI, pages 1744–1747:
text: The transition from freshwater basinal sedimentation to marine deposition was determined by analysis of diatoms from core samples.
ref: 1997 July 4, Heiner Josenhans et al., “Early Humans and Rapidly Changing Holocene Sea Levels in the Queen Charlotte Islands-Hecate Strait, British Columbia, Canada”, in Science, volume 277, number 5322, →DOI, pages 71–74:
glosses: of or relating to a basin
Derived terms: extrabasinal
interbasinal
intrabasinal
bathymetrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From bathymetric + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Bluefin tuna show bathymetrically constrained diving while on the shallow continental shelf in the Carolinas and New England, and much deeper dives (maximum 1000 m) while offshore.
ref: 2001 August 17, Barbara A. Block et al., “Migratory Movements, Depth Preferences, and Thermal Biology of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna”, in Science, volume 293, number 5533, →DOI, pages 1310–1314:
glosses: In a bathymetric way
spermatize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spermatizes
form: spermatizing
form: spermatized
form: spermatized
form: spermatise
Etymology: From Latin spermatizare (“to spermatize”), possibly via French spermatiser, from Ancient Greek σπερματίζειν (spermatízein, “to sow, spread seed upon”), from σπέρμα (spérma, “seed, sperm”).
Senses: examples: text: ... to spermatize; to shed, eiect, or iniect sperme.
ref: 1611, Randle Cotgrave, “Spermatiser”, in A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues:
glosses: To produce or emit sperm.
spermatized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spermatize
spermatizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spermatize
spermatizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spermatize
battaile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: battailes
Senses: examples: text: Therewith they gan to hurtlen greedily, Redoubted battaile ready to darrayne, And clash their shields, and shake their swords on hy, […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Against his foes in battaile shewing force, And after fight in victorie remorse.
ref: 1592, Philippe de Mornay, A Discourse of Life and Death:
text: 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book 10, xii
Withouten battaile, fight, or stroke at all, / Ev'n at noon day I will you safely guide.
text: 1. When ſhall we three meet againe? / In Thunder, Lightning, or in Raine? / 2. When the Hurly-burley's done, / When the Battaile's loſt, and wonne.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 131:
text: Thus Ahab seduced by his false prophets descendeth into the battaile, and is slaine (contemning the words of Michaiah) in[m] whose mouthes the diuell was a lying spirit, who sent of the Lord, perswaded him and prevailed, 1.
ref: 1616, Alexander Roberts, A Treatise of Witchcraft:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of battle.
gospell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gospells
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of gospel.
merled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From merle + -ed.
Senses: examples: a merled dog
glosses: With a coat in a merle pattern.
struthioniform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more struthioniform
form: most struthioniform
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or relating to the Struthioniformes, an order of birds.
bathymetrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Just as the bathymetrical limit of marine life, which was laid down at 300 fathoms by Professor Edward Forbes, is now no longer accepted, so the distance to which light can penetrate may prove to have been misunderstated hitherto, and should, in the interest of truth, be re-examined by physicists.
ref: 1886, Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-76, page 13:
glosses: Alternative form of bathymetric.
do it tough
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does it tough
form: doing it tough
form: did it tough
form: done it tough
Senses: examples: text: Families doing it tough will receive more assistance from the government.
glosses: To be in a desperate situation; to struggle.
Related terms: tough it out
tough times
rough it
bauhinia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bauhinias
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Bauhinia.
Senses: examples: text: Our camp was about four miles above the furthest point attained by Captain Stokes, and consequently in Beagle Valley which we had traversed for more than thirty miles, the greater part of which was well grassed and openly wooded with box, bauhinia, and acacia.
ref: 1884, A C, F T Gregory, Journals of Australian Explorations:
text: I may mention a few common trees which I have observed today--first, on the edges of the river fine large tea-trees, with foliage (melaleuca) like the drooping willow; beautiful Leichhardt-trees, pandanus, and cabbage-palm-trees: on the banks and scattered over the plain, stunted box, bauhinia, white cedar, and bloodwood; with the pandanus I got too intimately acquainted for, while with merely a shirt upon me, leading a restive horse across the river, I fell back and, rolling, got its thorns into all parts of my body.
ref: 1862, William Landsborough, Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria:
text: "The insect (and its secretion) on the leaves of the bauhinia, and which is eaten by the Africans, proves to be a species of Psylla, a genus of small, very active Homoptera, of which we have one very common species in the box; but our species, Psylla buxi, emits its secretion in the shape of very long, white, cotton-like filaments.
ref: 1873, David Livingstone, Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa:
glosses: Any of flowering plants of the Bauhinia genus, some of which are known as orchid trees.
Synonyms: mountain ebony
purple orchid tree
embowelment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embowelments
Senses: glosses: disembowelment
embowelments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of embowelment
manerial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more manerial
form: most manerial
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of manorial.
exoteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exotery
exotery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exoteries
Etymology: See exoteric.
Senses: examples: text: Dealing out exoteries only to the vulgar.
ref: 1763, Abraham Tucker, Free Will, Foreknowledge, and Fate:
glosses: Something obvious or commonplace.
bedrape
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈdɹeɪp/
Forms: form: bedrapes
form: bedraping
form: bedraped
form: bedraped
Etymology: From be- + drape.
Senses: examples: text: We moderns bedeck and bedrape us in all sorts of meretricious togas, till a pair of fine eyes and a dashing manner pass for beauty; but when life tries the metal--when nature applies her inevitable test--the degenerate or neurotic type goes to the wall."
ref: 1910, Grace MacGowan Cooke, The Power and the Glory:
text: Shift and bedeck and bedrape her as they might, she was yet the Burdock; her lights would run down the Channel with no new consciousness in their stare, and there was work and peril for men aboard of her as of old.
ref: 1913, Perceval Gibbon, The Second Class Passenger:
glosses: To dress, clothe.
examples: text: The pink and white may, the clumps of lilac, the leafy hedgerows, the verandahs bedraped with mauve wistaria […]—it was all a sight, I can assure you!
ref: 1886, Gordon Stables, chapter 3, in The Cruise of the Land Yacht “Wanderer”, London: Hodder & Stoughton, page 24:
text: I had to wait in a lofty drawing-room with three long windows from floor to ceiling that were like three luminous and bedraped columns.
ref: 1899 April, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number MII, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part III (Conclusion):
glosses: To drape, cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery.
early childhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: early childhoods
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: A stage in human development, generally including toddlerhood and some time afterwards.
Derived terms: early childhood education
bedrid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Old English bedrida (“bed-rider”) (originally a noun).
Senses: examples: text: Her decrepit, sick, and bedrid father.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: The 'old Gentleman in Oldham is Loyola, as described in Oldham's third satire on the Jesuits, when 'Summon'd together, all th' officious band The orders of their bedrid, chief attend.'
ref: 1891, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3:
text: In a letter from Pepys to his nephew Jackson, April 8th, 1700, there is a reference to the breaking out three years before his death of the wound caused by the cutting for the stone: "It has been my calamity for much the greatest part of this time to have been kept bedrid, under an evil so rarely known as to have had it matter of universal surprise and with little less general opinion of its dangerousness; namely, that the cicatrice of a wound occasioned upon my cutting for the stone, without hearing anything of it in all this time, should after more than 40 years' perfect cure, break out again."
ref: 1669, Samuel Pepys, Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete:
glosses: Bedridden.
early childhood education
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The formal teaching and care of young children by people other than their family, or in settings outside of the home, before the age of normal schooling.
bely
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: belies
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of belly.
bely
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: belies
form: belying
form: belied
form: belied
form: belyed
form: belyed
Senses: examples: text: This woman of whom he writes—whoever she be—or any one, in short, but your own dear self, mama, and Edward, may have been so barbarous to bely me.
ref: 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility:
text: So he'll quickly devour the way, if only He's no booby; for all a snowy maiden Chide imperious, and her hands around him Both in jealousy clasp'd, refuse departure. 10 She, if only report the truth bely not, Doats, as hardly within her own possession. 3.
ref: 1871, Catullus, The Poems and Fragments of Catullus:
text: And here it may be said that Tom Peregrine's name did not bely him.
ref: 1918, J. Arthur Gibbs, A Cotswold Village:
text: ... the cool grey calm of his eyes belying... belying? She found the dictionary under the telephone book, sought for bely and could not find it.
ref: 1985, William Gaddis, chapter 3, in Carpenter's Gothic, page 64:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of belie.
benshi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benshi
form: benshis
Etymology: From Japanese 弁士 (benshi).
Senses: examples: text: Silent Japanese films had explainers and narrators known as benshis, who became so popular that the Japanese commonly went to movies to see their favorite benshi rather than their favorite actor.
ref: 2003 October 3, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “See the World”, in Chicago Reader:
text: The film had its premiere in September at the Toronto International Film Festival with an orchestra, a singer (billed as a castrato), an interlocutor (a tradition derived from the Japanese art of benshi) and sound effects by Foley artists in lab coats.
ref: 2007 May 7, Dennis Lim, “Newfangled Silent Movie With a Bit of Old Barnum”, in New York Times:
glosses: A Japanese performer who provides live narration for silent films.
Motty
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɒti
Senses: glosses: A nickname for someone with the surname Motson.
bieldy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bieldy
form: most bieldy
Etymology: From bield + -y. Cognate with Scots beildy.
Senses: examples: text: His Honour, ye see, being under hiding in thae sair times--the mair's the pity--he lies a' day, and whiles a' night, in the cove in the dern hag; but though it's a bieldy eneugh bit, and the auld gudeman o' Corse-Cleugh has panged it wi' a kemple o' strae amaist, yet when the country's quiet, and the night very cauld, his Honour whiles creeps doun here to get a warm at the ingle and a sleep amang the blankets, and gangs awa in the morning.
ref: 1814, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete:
text: Then it was that they were wont to come over our seven hills and seven waters to help themselves to our cattle when the same were at their fattest and best It would be a skurry of bare knees down pass and brae, a ring of the robbers round the herd sheltering on the bieldy side of the hill or in the hollows among the ripe grass, a brisk change of shot and blow if alarm rose, and then hie! over the moor by Macfarlane's lantern.
ref: 1898, Neil Munro, John Splendid:
text: Even the grass nodding in the wind lent a thin voice to the chorus, a voice such as only the sharp and sea-trained ear may comprehend, that beasts hear long before the wind itself is apparent, so that they remove themselves to the bieldy sides of the hills before tumult breaks.
ref: 1899, Neil Munro, Gilian The Dreamer:
text: The old Cameronian kirk sits on a hill, and is surrounded by trees, a place both bieldy and heartsome.
ref: c. 1900, S. R. Crockett, Bog-Myrtle and Peat:
glosses: Sheltered from the weather; affording shelter.
shmoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shmokes
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of smoke.
shmoke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shmokes
form: shmoking
form: shmoked
form: shmoked
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of smoke.
aphthoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aphthoid
form: most aphthoid
Etymology: From aphtha + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: aphthoid ulcers
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Of, or resembling aphtha (thrush).
aphthae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aphtha
biles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bile
echinodermatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Echinodermata + -ous
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Relating to Echinodermata; echinodermal.
bimorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bimorphs
Etymology: From bi- + -morph.
Senses: examples: text: Rapid solution exchanges were accomplished through a series of flow pipes mounted onto a piezoelectric bimorph to evoke NMDA receptor currents.
ref: 1999 July 2, “Regulation of NMDA Receptors by an Associated Phosphatase-Kinase Signaling Complex”, in Science, volume 285, number 5424, →DOI, pages 93–96:
glosses: A cantilever that consists of two active layers: piezoelectric and metal.
Related terms: unimorph
monomorph
multimorph
binna
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: Sam cow binna browse down deh Sam's cow was browsing down there tuh Bull Head Crick.
ref: 1917, Julian Street, American Adventures:
text: The man's language grew more and more violent as the minutes passed and still I did not reappear, until, having consumed as much time as I thought becoming, I went to the doorway, and said, in the manner of stating a simple fact of no importance, "Key binna hangin' on nail, measter.
ref: 1909, Herbert Strang, Humphrey Bold:
text: "De'il kens," answered Gapey; "gin it binna i' the boddom o' Rob Bruce's wame."
ref: 1900, George MacDonald, Alec Forbes of Howglen:
text: I am sure, had I been to undergo ony thing of that nature,--that's to say that's beyond nature--I would hae skreigh'd out at once, and raised the house, be the consequence what liket--and, I dare say, the minister wad hae done as mickle, and sae I hae tauld him,--I ken naebody but my brother, Monkbarns himsell, wad gae through the like o't, if, indeed, it binna you, Mr. Lovel."
ref: 1816, Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary, Volume 1:
glosses: has been
kabloonat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kabloona
blushfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more blushfully
form: most blushfully
Etymology: From blushful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He retired blushfully to the pavilion, amidst applause, and Stone came out.
ref: 1909, P. G. Wodehouse, Mike:
glosses: In a blushful manner
centripetence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centripetency
Senses: examples: text: […] the man being only a sort of compend of the globe with its centrifugence and centripetence, with its chemistry, with its polarity, with its undulation.
ref: 1858, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Natural Method of Mental Philosophy:
glosses: A tendency towards a center
borned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: born + -ed
Senses: examples: text: "I was borned over there on yon side that there flat-topped mountain, nigh the mouth of Red Creek.
ref: 1919, Harold Bell Wright, The Re-Creation of Brian Kent:
text: Yer 'ain't said nothin' 'bout yo' ma an' de ole black 'oman's baby bein' borned de same day, is yer?
ref: 1897, Ruth McEnery Stuart, Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales:
text: When he had finally effected his object, and, as it were, safely landed his prize in a chair, Mr. McCorkle took off his hat, carefully wiped the narrow isthmus of forehead which divided his black brows from his stubby hair, and with an explanatory wave of his hand toward his reluctant companion, said, "A borned poet, and the cussedest fool you ever seed!"
ref: 1873, Bret Harte, Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands and Other Stories:
text: Women deprived of decency are the damdest creatures that ever were borned. 7th.
ref: 1812, James Reynolds, Journal of an American Prisoner at Fort Malden and Quebec in the War of 1812:
text: They dresses as fine as the Queen o' Sheba, Tom says; but they romp 'round just like they was borned in the country.
ref: 1908, Edith Van Dyne, Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville:
glosses: born
borons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boron
blushfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From blushful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being blushful.
borrowe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: borrowes
form: borrowing
form: borrowed
form: borrowed
Senses: examples: text: One Isaac Medicus a bergomast was the man hee chose to make him a monster, who beeing a courtier and repairing to his house very often, neither for loue of him nor his wife, but onely with a drift to borrowe monie of a pawne of waxe and parchment, when he sawe his expectation deluded, and that Castaldo was too charie for him to close with, he priuily with purpose of reuenge, gaue out amongest his copesmates, that hee resorted to Castaldos house for no other end but to cuckolde him, & doubtfully he talkt that he had and he had not obtained his sute.
ref: 1594, Thomas Nash, The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of borrow.
braggartism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: braggartisms
Etymology: From braggart + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: So sure was the Restoration of Charles now that the only difficulty was in restraining impatience and braggartism among the Royalists themselves.
ref: 1877, David Masson, The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660:
glosses: boasting, boastfulness
Related terms: braggardism
cardol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Anacardium (“generic name of the cashew”) + Latin oleum (“oil”).
Senses: examples: text: The caustic oil of Anacardium is composed of approximately 82% anacardic acid, 13.8% cardol, 2.6% 2-methyl cardol, and 1.6% cardanol (Tyman 1976)
ref: 2013, George E. Burrows, Ronald J. Tyrl, Toxic Plants of North America, page 37:
text: This technical oil is dark colored; even after distillation it darkens again, supposedly due to its cardol content.
ref: 2013, Hans Dressler, Resorcinol: Its Uses and Derivatives, page 410:
text: Even though the source of cardanol and cardol used in the study was not CNSL , it is worthwhile to mention that the observations obtained can be applicable to cardanol from CNSL as well.
ref: 2017, Parambath Anilkumar, Cashew Nut Shell Liquid: A Goldfield for Functional Materials, page 147:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An oily yellow phenolic compound C₂₁H₃₀O3 extracted from the shell of the cashew nut and one of the primary components of CNSL.
brashy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more brashy
form: most brashy
Etymology: From brash + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Several skuas seen--three seals up in our Bay--several off Pram Point in the shelter of Horse Shoe Bay. A great many fish on sea ice--mostly small, but a second species 5 or 6 inches long: imagine they are chased by seals and caught in brashy ice where they are unable to escape.
ref: 1913, Captain R. F. Scott, Scott's Last Expedition Volume I:
text: The sea was little encumbered with ice, it being now late in June, so that our progress was not at all impeded by the few soft, brashy floes that we encountered, none of them hard enough to do a ship's hull any damage.
ref: 1897, Frank T. Bullen, The Cruise of the Cachalot:
glosses: brash, stormy
examples: text: It was after noon, for the sun was past the meridian, and very hot for the time of year, when the face of the country began to change; and instead of the short sward of the open down, sprinkled with tiny white snail-shells, the ground was brashy with flat stones, and divided up into tillage fields.
ref: 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet:
text: On either side the cliffs rose higher, and the walls of Jurassic rock, above the brashy steeps, more towering, precipitous, and fantastic.
ref: 1893, Edward Harrison Barker, Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine:
glosses: brittle, crumbly
Derived terms: brashily
brashiness
terpenylic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terpentic acid
Etymology: From terpene + -yl + -ic + acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid, C₈H₁₂O₄, homologous with terebic acid, and obtained by oxidation of oil of turpentine with chromic acid.
brickish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more brickish
form: most brickish
Etymology: From brick + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: One moment his shoulders and his head stood plain in every detail, even to the brickish redness of his skin and the curve of his fingers about the glasses; the next he was gone.
ref: 1922, Bertrand W. Sinclair, The Hidden Places:
text: "Well, she had a slate-colored, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a feather of a brickish red.
ref: 1909, Various, The Lock And Key Library:
synonyms: bricklike
bricky
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of brick.
examples: text: "It's awfully brickish of you, Worcester," said Acton, as Grim was heard trotting up the corridor "to stand down."
ref: 1901, Frederick Swainson, Acton's Feud:
glosses: Like a brick, a helpful or reliable person.
brek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breks
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: breakfast
Related terms: brekkie
brek
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: "They were goin' to brek into me house, indade," said Mrs. McNamara.
ref: 1897, William O. Stoddard, Crowded Out o' Crofield:
text: At a very early age his shrill voice could be heard calling in admonitory tones, caught from his mother's very lips, "You 'Nelius, don' you let me ketch you th'owin' at ol' mis' guinea-hens no mo'; you hyeah me?" or "Hi'am, you come offen de top er dat shed 'fo' you fall an' brek yo' naik all to pieces."
ref: 1900, Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories:
text: If that's Gavin Stevenson, the muckle nowt, I declare I'll brek his ramshackle blunderbuss owre his thick heid."
ref: 1715, S.R. Crockett, Bog-Myrtle and Peat:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of break.
colleteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colleterium
colleterium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colleteria
Etymology: See colletic.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: The colleterial gland
breakfastlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more breakfastlike
form: most breakfastlike
Etymology: From breakfast + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling breakfast
ingraff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ingraffs
form: ingraffing
form: ingraffed
form: ingraffed
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of engraft.
ingraffed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ingraff
ingraffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ingraff
ingraffs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ingraff
cespitous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛspɪtəs/
Forms: form: more cespitous
form: most cespitous
Etymology: See cespitose.
Senses: glosses: turfy; resembling turf
diffusate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diffusates
Etymology: From diffuse + -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: fresh diffusate
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: dialysate
hypernyms: dialysate
coordinate_terms: dialysate
glosses: Material which, in a process of dialysis, has diffused or passed through the separating membrane.
Related terms: diffuser
diffusible
autolysate
condensate
distillate
eluate
exudate
filtrand
filtrate
filtride
hemolysate
insudate
leachate
lysate
diffusates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diffusate
apologetical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more apologetical
form: most apologetical
Senses: examples: text: Zachariae has drawn the character of Sulla in an apologetical tone.
ref: 1899, Aubrey Stewart, George Long, Plutarch's Lives, Volume II:
text: I shall not attempt to enter on the thorny thicket of Jacob Behmen's polemical and apologetical works.
ref: 1895, Alexander Whyte, Jacob Behmen:
text: The party was by way of being musical--that is to say, a famous pianist had been engaged to let off a lot of rockets from his finger-tips, and a buffo singer from the opera roared out his "Figaro la, Figaro qua," with all the strength of his brazen lungs; while one or two gifted amateurs sang glees in washed-out, apologetical accents, which were nearly lost in the din of the room.
ref: 1886, Arthur Griffiths, The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood:
text: It is on the misconception of the mild apologetical reply of Jesus, indeed, that religious fanatics have really considered, that, to be careless of their dress, and not to free themselves from filth and slovenliness, is an act of piety; just as the late political fanatics, who thought that republicanism consisted in the most offensive filthiness.
ref: 1881, Isaac D'Israeli, Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3):
text: "I would have written to him, but a few words from you will go further than all the apologetical sesquipedalities I could muster on the occasion.
ref: 1854, Thomas Moore, Life of Lord Byron, Vol. III:
text: The poor little Scarabee began fidgeting round about this time, and uttering some half-audible words, apologetical, partly, and involving an allusion to refreshments.
ref: 1832, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist), The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.:
glosses: apologetic