cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
proprietorially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more proprietorially
form: most proprietorially
Etymology: From proprietorial + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: When they left, she paced the house, proprietorially, feeling the feel of each stone in the paving with bare feet.
ref: 2005, Rama Kundu, Anita Desai, Fire on the Mountain, page 115:
glosses: In a proprietorial manner; like an owner.
repavings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repaving
midstroke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midstrokes
Etymology: From mid- + stroke.
Senses: glosses: The midpart of a stroke.
midstroke
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mid- + stroke.
Senses: glosses: During a stroke.
midpart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midparts
Etymology: From mid- + part.
Senses: glosses: middle part
midparts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midpart
booklined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From book + lined.
Senses: examples: text: Carlotta paused at the door. She had spent very little time in the library and was unfamiliar with the booklined shelves.
ref: 2009, Sarah Mallory, The Wicked Baron:
glosses: lined with books
court-martialling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of court-martial
court-martialled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of court-martial
housefront
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: housefronts
Etymology: From house + front.
Senses: glosses: The front of a house, the side that faces the street.
housefronts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of housefront
goddamnedest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of goddamned: most goddamned
kneesock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kneesocks
Senses: examples: text: Emily's head emerged, her eyes wide with panic. She ducked back inside and a kneesock-clad leg appeared over the sill.
ref: 2011, Becky A. Bartness, How to Represent a Ghost, page 335:
glosses: Alternative form of knee sock.
kneesocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kneesock
highbrowed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more highbrowed
form: most highbrowed
Senses: glosses: highbrow; intellectual and cultured
raw_tags: of a person
nondomination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + domination.
Senses: glosses: Absence of domination.
midseventies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + seventies.
Senses: examples: text: In the midseventies, just as the Naughton-Peterson stories were becoming popular, surfers everywhere were becoming familiar with Uluwatu, a glistening temple-fronted break located on the southwest corner of Bali.
ref: 2011, Matt Warshaw, The History of Surfing, page 305:
glosses: The middle years of the 1970s.
examples: text: Teng himself, now in his midseventies, had moved in and out of limbo several times.
ref: 1958, Harold Robert Isaacs, Scratches on Our Minds: American Views of China and India:
glosses: The middle years between 70 and 80 years old.
midsixties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + sixties.
Senses: examples: text: Both began as “reformist” feminist theologians in the optimistic postconciliar mood of the midsixties, that is, they recognized the problems inherent to Christianity but believed, with reform, that Christianity could lead people to justice and liberation.
ref: 2008, Mary J. Henold, Catholic and Feminist:
glosses: The middle years of the 1960s.
reformisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reformism
postconciliar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more postconciliar
form: most postconciliar
form: post-conciliar
form: post-Conciliar
Etymology: From post- + conciliar.
Senses: examples: text: This, as Lebedeff reminds his readers, is no new theory: it was advanced in the last century by Franzelin; while Vincenzi argues that the Creed is a post-Conciliar addition to the book made not by the author, but by another and a less skilful hand.
ref: 1903 January, N. Orloff, “A Russian View of the Creed of Constantinople”, in The Journal of Theological Studies, volume 4, pages 287–288:
text: A theory of the indirect power of the papacy was developed at this time by John of Turrecremata, one of the staunchest opponents of the claims of the conciliarists, but he was the exception to the majority of fifteenth century theologians and jurists in the post-conciliar period.
ref: 1963, Paul E. Sigmund, Nicholas of Cusa and Medieval Political Thought, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Cambridge University Press, →LCCN, page 287:
text: The experience reported by some priests of their postconciliar parishes appears to bear out my thesis. Their people do not turn out for the innovations (discussion groups, Bible vigils), but they have also stopped turning out for the old standbys (novenas, Benediction, Forty-Hour devotions).
ref: 1967 March 3, Daniel Callahan, “The Renewal Mass”, in Commonweal, page 622; quoted in J. Paul Williams, What Americans Believe and How They Worship, 3rd edition, New York: Harper & Row, 1969, →LCCN, pages 84–85:
text: The candidate must be a practicing Roman Catholic with knowledge and understanding of the postconciliar church, have an advanced graduate degree (preferably a Ph.D. or Ed.D.) and a minimum of 5+ years as a teacher or administrator with some experience in Catholic schools.
ref: 2004 February 23, “Classifieds”, in America, volume 190, number 6, New York, →ISSN, page 29:
text: Both began as “reformist” feminist theologians in the optimistic postconciliar mood of the midsixties, that is, they recognized the problems inherent to Christianity but believed, with reform, that Christianity could lead people to justice and liberation.
ref: 2008, Mary J. Henold, Catholic and Feminist: The Surprising History of the American Catholic Feminist Movement, Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 40:
antonyms: preconciliar
glosses: In or of the period following an ecclesiastical council, especially the Second Vatican Council.
conciliarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From conciliar + -ity.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: The adherence of various Christian communities to the authority of ecumenical councils and to synodal church government.
sunbleached
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sunbleached
form: most sunbleached
Etymology: From sun + bleached.
Senses: examples: text: […] hardly have you passed from the Slovak country into the Zips than the hard, baked, blown visage, the sunbleached, wind-dried hair, confront you on the shoulders of every Frau […]
ref: 1862, Georgina Mary Sebright, Adelina Paulina Irby, Across the Carpathians, page 132:
glosses: bleached by the sun
Hypernyms: bleached
Related terms: word: sunbathed
word: sun-drenched
word: sun-dried
word: crazed
word: faded
unparaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + paraded.
Senses: glosses: Not having been paraded.
sophistications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sophistication
cursings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cursing
deepsea
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of deep-sea.
ranchhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ranchhouses
Etymology: From ranch + house.
Senses: glosses: A house on a ranch.
ranchhouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ranchhouse
midmotion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + motion.
Senses: examples: text: He was dancing, but when I entered the room he stopped in midmotion.
glosses: A point in time during motion.
downhome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more downhome
form: most downhome
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of down-home.
longnecked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From long + necked.
Senses: examples: a longnecked turtle
a longnecked wine bottle
glosses: Having a long neck.
godsakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Godsakes.
astral projection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astral projections
Senses: examples: text: A select number of these robbers haunted him through his dreams, and he came to know them quite well. […] [H]e believed in omens and thought-transference, and he deemed these dream-robbers to be the astral projection of real personages who happened at those particular moments, no matter where they were in the flesh, to be harboring designs, in the spirit, upon his wealth.
ref: 1901, Jack London, “The Man with the Gash”, in The God of His Fathers, New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., page 118:
text: Her adventures in astral projection in which she has the sensation of flying over the earth and being connected with everything on the planet are accompanied by prosaic images of mist and stars.
ref: 1998 April 3, Stephen Holden, “Movie Review: Eden (1996)”, in New York Times, retrieved 11 Mar 2014:
text: "Whether it's logic, meditation, channeling, astral projection or ghosts, all are ways of knowing," he wrote.
ref: 2002 May 12, Walter Kim, “Luke Helder's Bad Trip”, in Time, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2016:
topics: parapsychology
pseudoscience
glosses: The ability to deliberately detach one's mind, or a ghost-like replica of one's body (one's astral body), from one's physical body and to send it to distant places or into alternate realities or into people's dreams.
examples: text: [I]f you remain close to your physical body in the first few astral projections by observing the details in your own room, you will have much stronger and clearer consciousness.
ref: 2007, Pane Andov, Extraordinary Powers in Humans, →ISBN, page 101:
topics: parapsychology
pseudoscience
glosses: An instance of using this ability.
Related terms: astral body
astral plane
out-of-body experience
subtle body
quirking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quirk
talced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of talc
talcing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of talc
brain-melting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more brain-melting
form: most brain-melting
Senses: examples: text: And I was already suffering from a brain-melting lack of sleep anyway. But despite all that, I was actually feeling surprisingly fresh.
ref: 2009, Kevin Brooks, Black Rabbit Summer, page 22:
glosses: overwhelming in a way that prevents coherent thought
whitecollar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: For a whitecollar worker who is paid once or twice a month, the ratio of cash to income would be larger.
ref: 2012, J. J. Polak, Jan Tinbergen, Dynamics of Business Cycles:
glosses: Alternative form of white-collar.
pulsebeats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pulsebeat
workworn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more workworn
form: most workworn
Etymology: From work + worn.
Senses: examples: text: He blames everything on that farmer with glasses and two shirts. The man mocked, whether out of his mouth or in the paced motions of his work-worn hands or through his hairy ears, somewhere out of his body he mocked the furtive wordless hopes that at moments give Harry a sensation of arrival.
ref: 1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', pages 33–34:
text: The woman held a silver ring out in a workworn hand. It trembled.
ref: 2009, Greer Gilman, Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter's Tales, page 315:
glosses: worn as a result of manual labour
stonefaced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stonefaced
form: most stonefaced
Etymology: From stone + faced.
Senses: examples: text: The old man's telling had been ceremonious: a form of words, a feat of memory, a mask. This was otherwise. A stonefaced woman; a bewildered man.
ref: 2009, Greer Gilman, Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter's Tales, page 315:
glosses: Having a cold and emotionless facial expression.
junketings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of junketing
knobbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of knobble
knobbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of knobble
knobbled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more knobbled
form: most knobbled
Senses: glosses: Possessing a bumpy surface; knobbly.
fieldglasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of field glasses.
boinking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: text: Audio (US)
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of boink
boinks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of boink
windowshopping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Although it may simplify matters to the point of naivete and vulgarization, such windowshopping may also tell us roughly what is on the market.
ref: 1959 November, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, volume 15, number 9, page 368:
glosses: Alternative form of window-shopping.
cheilectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: cheilectomies
Etymology: From cheilo- + -ectomy, in reference to the dorsal osteophytic lip.
Senses: glosses: A surgical procedure that removes bone spurs from the base of the big toe.
cheilectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cheilectomy
lonesomest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of lonesome: most lonesome
ziplock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ziplocks
Senses: examples: text: a ziplock bag
glosses: Alternative form of Ziploc.
lifeforce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lifeforces
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of life force.
sweetnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sweetness
chimbly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chimblies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chimbley.
chimblies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chimbly
stovewood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stove + wood.
Senses: glosses: Cut wood for burning in a stove.
ruin'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ruin
open'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of open
chang'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of change
vanish'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vanish
littlenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of littleness
lock'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The door, however, proved not to be lock’d, and they were all agreed in turning joyfully through it, and leaving the unmitigated glare of day behind.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IX, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 189:
glosses: simple past and past participle of lock
charm'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of charm
alter'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of alter
order'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of order
parchmentlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more parchmentlike
form: most parchmentlike
Etymology: From parchment + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of parchment.
Synonyms: parchmental
parchmenty
discover'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of discover
doom'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of doom
doom'd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more doom'd
form: most doom'd
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of doomed.
long'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of long
perform'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of perform
remember'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of remember
genteelest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of genteel: most genteel
express'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of express
miss'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of miss
view'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of view
rear'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rear
conquer'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of conquer
inform'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inform
stain'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stain
stain'd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stain'd
form: most stain'd
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of stained.
finish'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of finish
confess'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of confess
inclin'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of incline
believ'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of believe
wash'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wash
bedcurtain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedcurtains
Etymology: From bed + curtain.
Senses: examples: text: The loathly lady pulls aside the bedcurtain, revealing herself transformed into a beautiful and true wife for having had her sovereigntee conferred by her husband and lord.
ref: 2004, Diane P. Freedman, Olivia Frey, Autobiographical Writing Across the Disciplines: A Reader, page 91:
glosses: One of the curtains around the sides of an old-fashioned bed.
bedcurtains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bedcurtain
unprotestingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unprotestingly
form: most unprotestingly
Etymology: From unprotesting + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The suspect unprotestingly allowed the police to lead him away.
text: The blowfly was her next victim, but an unexciting one. Pulling off its legs, she placed it with the hornet, and both lay side by side unprotestingly.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 168:
glosses: Without protest.
pleas'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of please
pleas'd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pleas'd
form: most pleas'd
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of pleased.
rebraid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rebraids
form: rebraiding
form: rebraided
form: rebraided
Etymology: From re- + braid.
Senses: examples: to rebraid one's hair, or a frayed rope
glosses: To braid again.
rebraids
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rebraid
rebraiding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rebraid
rebraided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rebraid
beflowering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beflower
beflowered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of beflower
beflowers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beflower
unshoulder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unshoulders
form: unshouldering
form: unshouldered
form: unshouldered
Etymology: From un- + shoulder.
Senses: examples: text: The soldier unshouldered his gun.
text: The schoolboy unshouldered his backpack.
glosses: To remove (a burden) from one's shoulder.
unshoulders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unshoulder
unshouldering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unshoulder
unshouldered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unshoulder
unshouldered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: an unshouldered oar
glosses: Not furnished with a shoulder-shaped joint or protrusion.
midword
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mid- + word.
Senses: examples: text: Wengelin (2005) found that her sample of adult dyslexic writers were more likely to pause midword[…]
ref: 2008, Charles A. MacArthur, Steve Graham, Jill Fitzgerald, Handbook of Writing Research, page 74:
glosses: Within a word.
dash'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dash
swell'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of swell
convey'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of convey
dropp'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of drop
hush'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hush
wander'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wander
burn'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of burn
scorn'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scorn
enjoy'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enjoy
deem'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deem
condemn'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of condemn
remain'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of remain
wing'd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of winged.
pray'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pray
gather'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gather
conceal'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of conceal
stretch'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stretch
betray'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of betray
watch'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of watch
stay'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stay
reach'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reach
talk'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of talk
answer'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of answer
Apartheid Wall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: geopolitics
government
politics
glosses: A separation barrier built by the Israeli government in the West Bank
footrail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: footrails
Etymology: From foot + rail.
Senses: examples: text: By removing the marble counters, brass footrails and high stools in the coffee shop adjunct of the main dining room, and replacing them by colorful tables and chairs, and soda fountain and snack bar, the room has been made more attractive […]
ref: 1943, Canadian Transportation, volume 46, page 623:
text: People clung in dense swaying masses, like clusters of insects, to the platforms and footrails of the battered streetcar trains, groaning and jangling their way through the confusion.
ref: 1989, George Frost Kennan, The Decision to Intervene, page 11:
glosses: A rail serving as a support for the foot.
footrails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of footrail
firescreen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firescreens
form: fire screen
Etymology: From Middle English fire screnne; equivalent to fire + screen.
Senses: glosses: A screen placed in front of a hearth to shield the rest of the room from the fire.
firescreens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of firescreen
woodyard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woodyards
Etymology: From wood + yard.
Senses: glosses: A yard where wood is stored and processed.
woodyards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woodyard
roundeye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roundeyes
Etymology: From round + eye.
Senses: examples: text: American women were roundeyes, and American allies were friendlies[…]
ref: 2011, Meredith H. Lair, Armed with Abundance, page 195:
antonyms: slant
slope
glosses: A Westerner (from the purported point of view of an Asian or other person with naturally narrower eyes).
Synonyms: white person
roundeyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roundeye
lanternlight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lanternlights
Etymology: From lantern + light.
Senses: glosses: The light of a lantern.
lanternlights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lanternlight
poulticing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of poultice
poulticed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Treated with a poultice.
Derived terms: unpoulticed
poulticed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of poultice
prettinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prettiness
dustball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dustballs
Etymology: From dust + ball.
Senses: glosses: A ball of dust.
examples: text: Long residence in lime districts had furnished the experience, that phosphatic calculi are not even as common as among the horses and ponies of coal-mines; and, further, that both phosphatic calculi, and more generally mixed or the dustball kind, are very prevalent in those pits, and even districts above ground, where no lime-water whatever can be obtained.
ref: 1885, George Armatage, Every Man His Own Horse Doctor, page 336:
glosses: A ball of grain-dust formed in the intestine of a diseased horse.
dustballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dustball
dustbag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dustbags
form: dust bag
form: dust-bag
Etymology: From dust + bag.
Senses: examples: text: These may contain filters manufactured without the use of harmful materials and may not require a dustbag. Dyson vacuum cleaners are examples of designs with such characteristics.
ref: 2002, Patrick W. Jordan, Designing Pleasurable Products, page 80:
glosses: The bag inside a vacuum cleaner where collected dust is stored.
examples: text: […] old textbooks and dusty encyclopedias, clothing hanging from rafters in dustbags, and all the other useless and superfluous stuff usually found in attics.
ref: 2005, J. C. Morris, The End of Arrogance, page 304:
glosses: A bag in which clothing can be protected from damage.
Derived terms: dustbagged
dustbags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dustbag
tranquillising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tranquillise
poohpooh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: poohpoohs
form: poohpoohing
form: poohpoohed
form: poohpoohed
Senses: examples: text: How often he had poohpoohed it, this danger of tiring himself further.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of pooh-pooh.
poohpoohs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of poohpooh
poohpoohing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of poohpooh
poohpoohed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of poohpooh
snakepit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snakepits
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of snake pit.
snakepits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snakepit
snake pit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snake pits
form: snakepit
Senses: glosses: A pit filled with snakes.
examples: text: Her friends try to persuade her, even fool her, into taking her medication; when she refuses, they try to commit her. She leaves for Ireland, where she has scheduled a speaking tour. There, she is arrested and incarcerated in a real snake-pit: the Our Lady of Clare rest home. And as she tries to figure out how to get out she realizes […]
ref: 1990 August 31, Amy Hoffman, “"Crazy" Or Just Crazy?”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 7, page 8:
text: He says he wants to bring “free speech” to the platform, but it’s a mystery what exactly that means, and how he would do so while preventing the service from devolving into a snake pit of hate and harassment even more venomous than it already is.
ref: 2022 April 28, Farhad Manjoo, “Is Elon Musk Really That Bad?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Any institution (such as a school, prison, hospital, etc.) run in an inept or inhumane way, or full of hostile or treacherous people.
snake pits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snake pit
nightrobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnaɪt.ɹəʊb/
ipa: /ˈnaɪt.ɹoʊb/
Forms: form: nightrobes
Etymology: From night + robe.
Senses: glosses: A robe to be worn at night; a nightgown.
nightrobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nightrobe
solemnest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of solemn: most solemn
solemner
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of solemn: more solemn
could'st
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of couldst.
did'st
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of didst.
windowboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of windowbox
gaslamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaslamps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gas lamp.
gaslamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gaslamp
mideighties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + eighties.
Senses: examples: text: Jerry started his career as a sportswriter in the late sixties, held titles like editor and publisher for various print publications during the seventies, was promoted to vice president of Moody Publishing in the mideighties[…]
ref: 2013, Amanda Jenkins, Confessions of a Raging Perfectionist, page 14:
glosses: The middle years of the 1980s.
bitternesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bitterness
gen'ral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gen'ral
form: most gen'ral
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of general.
gen'ral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gen'rals
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of general.
gen'rals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gen'ral
canefield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canefields
form: cane field
Etymology: From cane + field.
Senses: glosses: A field where sugar cane is grown.
Derived terms: canefield fever
canefields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canefield
hallow'd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hallow'd
form: most hallow'd
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of hallowed.
forewarnings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forewarning
chockfull
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chockfull
form: most chockfull
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chock full.
dar'st
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of darest.
undertunic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undertunics
Etymology: From under- + tunic.
Senses: glosses: A tunic worn under other clothing.
undertunics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undertunic
tunicked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tunic + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing a tunic.
sleddable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sleddable
form: most sleddable
Etymology: From sled + -able.
Senses: examples: a sleddable hill
glosses: Capable of being traversed by sled.
unsoled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + soled.
Senses: examples: an unsoled shoe
glosses: Not having been soled.
unheeled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + heeled.
Senses: examples: text: The dress of these people at the market is strange, too, from the unheeled wooden shoes of the farmers' wives to the round caps and white forehead bands of the blue dressed fish women.
ref: 1907, Eleanor Atkinson, Francis B. Atkinson, Lewis A. Convis, The World's Chronicle:
glosses: Without a heel.
soleless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsəʊl.ləs/
ipa: /ˈsoʊl.ləs/
ipa: [ˈsoʊɫ.ləs]
homophone: soulless
Etymology: From sole + -less.
Senses: examples: a soleless shoe
glosses: Without a sole.
namecalling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: namecallings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of name-calling.
namecallings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of namecalling
fidgetted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fidget
fidgetting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fidget
fidgetting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fidgettings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fidgeting.
fidgettings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fidgetting
tealeaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tealeaf
oppress'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oppress
wonder'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wonder
newmade
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: new-made
Etymology: From new + made. Compare newmake.
Senses: examples: text: The stricken bell with clangour makes / The arches of a vault resound: / Each downcast monk in silence takes / His place a newmade grave around, / Each one his brother sadly eying.
ref: 1859, Fraser's Magazine, volume 60, page 671:
glosses: Newly made.
see'st
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of seest.
mean'st
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of meanest.
gossamers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gossamer
saw'st
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of sawest.
seaboot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seaboots
form: sea-boot
Etymology: From sea + boot.
Senses: examples: text: There was a low rumbling of heavy sea-boots among the benches, and a still slighter shuffling of women's shoes, and all was quiet again, and every eye on the preacher.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: Doubtless he had a middle because there was a shrivelled little voice pickled away somewhere in his vitals, but his sou'wester came so low and his sea-boots so high, the rest of him seemed negligible.
ref: 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 18, in Klee Wyck:
text: "[…] You saw the body. He didn't even have time to kick off his seaboots."
ref: 1956, William Golding, chapter 14, in Pincher Martin, Faber & Faber, published 2012:
glosses: A waterproof boot for use on ships in bad weather.
seaboots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seaboot
sideslip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sideslips
form: side-slip
Etymology: From side + slip.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A flight manoeuvre that uses opposing rudder and aileron inputs to move the aircraft sideways without turning it.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A flight manoeuvre that uses opposing rudder and aileron inputs to move the aircraft sideways without turning it.
A flight maneuver to rapidly lose speed and/or altitude whilst not altering the aircraft's ground track.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A flight condition where an aircraft's longitudinal axis is not aligned with its direction of motion relative to the surrounding air.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The angle between an aircraft's longitudinal axis and its direction of motion relative to the surrounding air.
sideslip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sideslips
form: sideslipping
form: sideslipped
form: sideslipped
form: side-slip
Etymology: From side + slip.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To perform, or place an aircraft in, a sideslip.
sideslips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sideslip
unmanoeuvrable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmanoeuvrable
form: most unmanoeuvrable
form: unmanœuvrable
form: unmanœuvreable
form: unmanoeuvreable
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unmaneuverable.
unmanoeuvrability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + manoeuvrability.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unmaneuverability.
had'st
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of hadst.
unmaneuverability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unmanoeuvrability
Etymology: From un- + maneuverability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unmaneuverable.
seem'st
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of seemest.
call'st
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of callest.
giv'st
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of givest.
liv'st
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of livest.
tak'st
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of takest.
seek'st
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of seekest.
hear'st
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of hearest.
fingerhold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fingerholds
Etymology: From finger + hold.
Senses: examples: text: He'd jump up, get a fingerhold, and then dirt would give way and he'd slip back down. Jump up, get a fingerhold, slip back down.
ref: 2012, Mary Hamilton, Kentucky Folktales: Revealing Stories, Truths, and Outright Lies:
glosses: A grip with the fingers.
fingerholds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fingerhold
bring'st
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of bringest.
sweetfaced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sweetfaced
form: most sweetfaced
Etymology: From sweet + faced.
Senses: glosses: Having a sweet face.
know'st
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of knowest.
would'st
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of wouldst.
appliquéd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of appliqué
bedclothing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bed + clothing.
Senses: glosses: bedclothes
witchdoctor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: witchdoctors
Etymology: From witch + doctor.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of witch doctor.
witchdoctors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of witchdoctor
intimidations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intimidation
say'st
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Fal. Thou ſay'ſt true Lad: is not my Hoſteſſe of the Tauerne a moſt ſweet Wench? / Prin. As is the hony, my old Lad of the Caſtle: and is not a Buffe Ierkin a moſt ſweet robe of durance?
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 49, column 2:
glosses: Obsolete form of sayest.
gruffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gruff
gruffed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gruff
gruffs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gruff
unexpectant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unexpectant
form: most unexpectant
Etymology: From un- + expectant.
Senses: glosses: Not expectant.
think'st
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of thinkest.
lov'st
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of lovest.
mak'st
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of makest.
hollowpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hollowpoints
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hollow point.
hollowpoints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hollowpoint
blueblooded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blueblooded
form: most blueblooded
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blue-blooded.
Derived terms: bluebloodedness
fettucine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of fettuccine.
lackwit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lackwits
Etymology: From lack + wit.
Senses: examples: text: Fear flashed through Tom's eyes as the lackwit looked to the housekeeper.
ref: 1996, Denise Domning, A Love for All Seasons, page 82:
text: “Enunciation, Piper. Enunciation. Don't make people think you're a lackwit.”
ref: 2007, Glen Cook, Lord of the Silent Kingdom:
glosses: A witless person; a fool.
lackwit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lackwit
form: most lackwit
Etymology: From lack + wit.
Senses: examples: text: An evil, however, accompanied the benefit; shoals of worthless authors sprang up, and you may still perceive the garreteer drawing upon his lackwit brain for some production, the labour of which he expects will be paid by the declaration of his country, that a second Boileau, a Montesquieu, or a Racine has at length appeared.
ref: 1818, Peter Hervé, How to enjoy Paris, page 257:
text: One wall was painted with the story of St Robert the hermit and his persecution by Sir William de Stuteville, while the other depicted the cowherd Caedmon, albeit looking too lackwit to herd a hen let alone wax lyrical.
ref: 2016, Isolde Martyn, The Knight and the Rose:
text: Your fault for bein' so lackwit, ours for givin' you leave.
ref: 2018, Chris Claremont, George Lucas, Shadow Dawn:
glosses: Foolish; idiotic or simple-minded.
speak'st
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of speakest.
lackwits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lackwit
look'st
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of lookest.
gunfighting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gun + fighting.
Senses: glosses: combat with guns
Related terms: gunfight
gunfighter
need'st
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of needst.
primest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of prime: most prime
perusals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perusal
ricochetting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ricochet
ricochetted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪkəʃɛtɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ricochet
keep'st
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of keepest.
unperused
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + perused.
Senses: examples: text: The telephone rang during breakfast, so I left the newspaper unperused and went to answer it.
glosses: Not perused.
unrich
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrich
form: most unrich
Etymology: From un- + rich.
Senses: glosses: Not rich.
toss'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of toss
steppable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From step + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being traversed or controlled by steps.
prevail'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prevail
homegoing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homegoings
Etymology: From home + going.
Senses: examples: text: On reaching the fresh air he was sufficiently unsteady to incline the row of three at one moment as if they were marching to London, and at another as if they were marching to Bath - which produced a comical effect, frequent enough in families on nocturnal homegoings; and, like most comical effects, not quite so comic after all.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 47:
glosses: A voyage or journey home.
homegoings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homegoing
starstudded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more starstudded
form: most starstudded
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of star-studded.
destroy'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of destroy
rascalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rascality
dream'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dream
pluck'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pluck
highmindedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From high-minded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: It was a Victorian concept and its life force perished with the Victorian Age. Victorian in pomp and grandeur, Victorian in the public-school code of its Government, its Philistinism, its middle-class standards of virtue, its creaming of the large Victorian families for its administrators and soldiers, Victorian in the commercialism that mingled with highmindedness in Anglo-Indian relations, Victorian in its Gladstonesque view of the functions of Government, it was above all Victorian in its faith in the rule of law and political liberalism...
ref: 1948, Henry Vincent Hodson, Twentieth-century Empire, page 102:
glosses: Quality of being high-minded.
moneybox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moneyboxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of money box.
moneyboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moneybox