cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
woolsack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woolsacks
Etymology: From wool + sack.
Senses: examples: text: We shall never beat the French says one, why truly replied I, 'tis like kicking at a Woolsack—there is perpetual Resistance made, & a strange Elasticity […].
ref: 1794 January 23, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Thraliana:
glosses: A bag or bale of wool.
examples: text: “O rare-painted portrait!” exclaimed Rashleigh, when I was silent—“Vandyke was a dauber to you, Frank. I see thy sire before me in all his strength and weakness, loving and honouring the King as a sort of lord mayor of the empire, or chief of the board of trade;—venerating the Commons, for the acts regulating the export trade;—and respecting the Peers, because the Lord Chancellor sits on a wool-sack.”
ref: 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter [XI], in Rob Roy. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, pages 265–266:
text: On entering the House, he is described to have appeared abashed and pale: he passed the woolsack without looking round, and advanced to the table where the proper officer was attending to administer the oaths.
ref: 1830, John Galt, The Life of Lord Byron:
text: Well, Dick," rejoined Sir Wynston, merrily, "if both are to be fulfilled, or neither, I trust you may never sit upon the woolsack of England."
ref: 1895, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, The Evil Guest:
text: But when the Lord Chancellor left the woolsack to congratulate him, and with a smiling face extended his hand, the embittered young peer bowed coldly and stiffly, and simply held out two or three of his fingers,--an act of impudence for which there was no excuse.
ref: 1902, John Lord, Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIII:
glosses: A seat made of wool; (specifically) the traditional seat of the British Lord Chancellor (since 2006 of the Lord Speaker of the House of Lords); hence (by metonymy) the post of Lord-Chancellor.
glosses: Synonym of corestone.
synonyms: word: corestone
buck rarebit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buck rarebits
form: buck rabbit
Senses: glosses: A Welsh rarebit topped with a poached egg.
retherm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: retherms
form: retherming
form: rethermed
form: rethermed
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: To rethermalize.
retherming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retherm
rethermed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retherm
woundily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more woundily
form: most woundily
Etymology: From woundy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Taking up the tongs, as if to arrange the wood, but rather perhaps to conceal his own confusion, the butler observed, “it was burning clear now, but had smoked woundily in the morning.”
ref: 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter XI, in Rob Roy. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 303:
text: [']Well, at that moment the Frenchman lifted for'ard on a heavy swell, and let drive at us, with all his forecastle guns, fired as it might be with one priming—'" / "That was bad gunnery," growled Tom Sponge, "as it racks a ship woundily."
ref: 1842, J[ames] F[enimore] Cooper, chapter XXIII, in The Two Admirals. A Tale of the Sea (Collection of British Authors; XV), Tauchnitz edition, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, →OCLC, page 341:
text: Well, I did not like such usage at all, and was woundily frightened, and tried to keep as much out of his way as possible, going anywhere but where I thought I was likely to meet him; and sure enough for several months I contrived to keep out of his way.
ref: 1851, George Borrow, chapter I, in Lavengro; the Scholar—the Gypsy—the Priest. […], volume III, London: John Murray […], →OCLC, page 11:
text: "Tut, sir, this O'Flaherty has not been three weeks among us," spluttered out the General, who was woundily jealous of the honour of his corps.
ref: 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “Lieutenant Puddock Receives an Invitation and a Rap over the Knuckles”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 171:
glosses: Excessively; greatly.
woodward
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woodwards
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English wodeward, from Old English wuduweard; equivalent to wood + ward.
Senses: examples: text: A sergeantry, called woodward of the Lee Baile, was then held by John Throckmorton, Esq. In the reign of Henry VIII. the office of Bleysbale and forestership of fee was filled by William Alberton.
ref: 1858, H. G. Nicholls, The Forest of Dean:
text: And he is not a comely man, but on the contrary he is exceedingly ill favoured; and he is the woodward of that wood.
ref: 1902, The Mabinogion Vol. 1 (of 3):
glosses: A warden of a wood.
woodwards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woodward
Woodward
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Occupational surname from woodward.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A small city in Dallas County, Iowa, United States.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Woodward County, Oklahoma, United States.
glosses: A census-designated place in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States.
glosses: Three townships, in Clearfield County, Clinton County and Lycoming County, Pennsylvania.
Derived terms: Woodward County
woodbin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woodbins
Etymology: From wood + bin.
Senses: examples: text: They said down at market to-day, Mrs. Scogin, that Addie Fitton knocked herself against the woodbin and has water on the knee." "
ref: 1918, Fannie Hurst, Gaslight Sonatas:
text: Ordinarily Jerry and Rachel were able to keep the woodbin filled with driftwood gathered along the shore.
ref: 2001, Eleanor Estes, Ginger Pye:
glosses: A bin in which wood is stored.
driftwoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of driftwood
woodbins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woodbin
woode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woodes
Senses: examples: text: In woode and stone, not the softest, but hardest, be alwaies aptest, for portrature, both fairest for pleasure, and most durable for proffit.
ref: 1570, Roger Ascham, The Schoolmaster:
text: The second member or part of the Plough, is called the skeath, and is a peece of woode of two foote and a halfe in length, and of eight inches in breadth, and two inches in thicknesse: it is driuen extreamly hard into the Plough-beame, slopewise, so that ioyned they present this figure.
ref: 1613, Gervase Markham, The English Husbandman:
glosses: Obsolete form of wood.
woodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woode
unwontedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unwonted + -ness.
Senses: examples: 1924: ARISTOTLE. Metaphysics. Translated by W. D. Ross. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001. ARISTOTLE. Metaphysics. Book 1, Part 5.
… we demand the language we are accustomed to, and that which is different from this seems not in keeping but somewhat unintelligible and foreign because of its unwontedness.
glosses: The quality of being unwonted or unusual; deviation from custom or habit.
wontedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wonted + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Over all, there is that deft, subtle knowledge of place displayed by its busy inmate, a lifelong wontedness to surroundings, indefinable and unconscious, which fascinates us, and which reminds us that the same scene may be to one habituated to it the most iterated of commonplace and to new-comers often alive with novelty and interest.
ref: 1890, Edwin Asa Dix, A Midsummer Drive Through The Pyrenees:
text: At home we keep constantly in mind the great importance of inculcating in them a love of books and a wontedness in their use.
ref: 1913, Elizabeth McCracken, The American Child:
glosses: habit; custom
wirehaired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wirehaired
form: most wirehaired
Etymology: From wire + haired.
Senses: examples: text: When a neighbor's rottweiler (loose) began mauling her small wirehaired terrier (tied up) for the second time in eight months, Miki Meyer of suburban LaPorte, Indiana, grabbed her video camera and started filming.
ref: 1990 August 31, Harold Henderson, “The City File”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Having wiry hair.
cowboy shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cowboy shots
Etymology: From the framing of cinema shots in Westerns, where the holster and gun needed to be in view along with the actor's face.
Senses: examples: text: In Europe, the term plán americain or plano americano refers to a shot framed from mid-leg up, basically a cowboy shot. Beyond this we are into the realm of close-ups.
ref: 2002, Blain Brown, Cinematography, page 12:
text: One drawback to following an actor on stairs is that you are looking at the actor's back (and worse, emphasizing his or her behind if you are climbing the stairs in a cowboy shot).
ref: 2009, Jerry Holway, Laurie Hayball, The Steadicam Operator's Handbook, page 148:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A shot framed to include a region from the actor's head to mid-thigh.
wingy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wingy
form: most wingy
Etymology: From wing + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The path that leads, where, hung ſublime, / And ſeen afar, youth's gallant trophies, bright / In Fancy's rainbow ray, invite / His wingy nerves to climb.
ref: 1780, James Beattie, “Ode to Hope”, in Poems on Several Occasions, 4th edition, London: […] T. Strahan, T. Crowder, S. Becket, J. Lownds, T. Robinson, G. Clarke, →OCLC, stanza II.I., page 52:
text: —and I ran up and down in the scale of semibreves and minims that I had heard, with the one long, sweet trill transfusing life on earth into heavenly existence, and I felt very wingy, very much as if I could take up the tower, standing high and square out there, and carry it, "like Loretto's chapel, through the air to the green land," where my spirit would go singing evermore.
ref: 1862, Various, Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 61, November, 1862:
text: The later Pythagoreans and Platonists seem to have believed that the same numerical ethereal body with which the soul was at first created adhered to it inseparably during all its descents into grosser bodies, a lucid and wingy vehicle, which, purged by diet and catharms, ascends again, bearing the soul to its native seat.
ref: 1880, William Rounseville Alger, The Destiny of the Soul:
glosses: Winged, or as if winged; inclined to fly.
Derived terms: left-wingy
right-wingy
wingy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wingies
Etymology: From wing + -y.
Senses: examples: text: He was crippled in one leg, which fact accounted for his moniker, for on the Road a lame man is a gimpy; even as a one-armed man is a wingy.
ref: 1925, Glen Hawthorne Mullin, Adventures of a Scholar Tramp, page 187:
text: All the golfers shown played in the N.Z. Annual "wingies" and "limbies" tournament, total number of competitors, 40.
ref: 1968, George Bremner Abel, Walking Skills for Amputees, page 57:
text: Many of the cricketers were amputees, yet they were not without resources. The "wingies" did the running for the "stumpies," and the "stumpies" did the batting for the "wingies."
ref: 1976 -, Victor Cohn, Sister Kenny: The Woman Who Challenged the Doctors, →ISBN, page 63:
text: Although I knew comparatively little of matronship, as such, I did know a great deal of mothering, and for "wingies and stumpies" as they called themselves, the blind and the maimed who had given so much, all the service and devotion of which I was capable was only too little.
ref: 2004, Daisy Bates, Peter J. Bridge, My Natives and I, page 154:
glosses: One who has an amputated arm or arms.
examples: text: Wingies, don't you love the lead who immediately rudders you out to route at 500 feet and then turns into you while giving a channel change.
ref: 1985, TAC Attack, page 19:
text: Damn it all, I know you're right, Dar, but I've never lost a wingy before.
ref: 2000, David Corbett, Shield of Lantius, →ISBN, page 151:
text: My wingies tried to pep-talk me into believing that I could do better in the next test.
ref: 2014, L Suresh, The Pilani Pilgrims, →ISBN:
glosses: One who has a wing position.
wimpled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From wimple + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Two are figures of cross-legged knights in chain armour and surcoats: one is a female figure wimpled.
ref: 1853, Various, Notes and Queries, Number 190, June 18, 1853:
text: She put on a white wrapper of Susy's, and, looking like a wimpled nun, followed Polly down stairs.
ref: 1868, Sophie May, Dotty Dimple at Her Grandmother's:
glosses: Wearing a wimple.
wimpled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From wimple + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wimple
wimpishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wimpish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being wimpish.
cowboy shots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cowboy shot
wifish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wifish
form: most wifish
form: wivish
Etymology: From wife + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Lastly, by all means keep the body warm, and remember that the more careful you are of yourself, even at the risk of being thought "old wifish," you will, humanly speaking, be enabled to enjoy the sport to a greater age than you might otherwise do.
ref: 1882, William Senior, AKA Black Palmer, Scotch Loch-Fishing:
text: But when I press anything, it is always with a true wifish submission to your judgment and inclination.
ref: 1890, Elizabeth Robins Pennell, Mary Wollstonecraft:
text: And we were wedded: for she, too, bowed the knee with me under the jovial blue sky; and under her eyes were the little moist semicircles of dreamy pensive fatigue, so dear and wifish: and God was there, and saw her kneel: for He loves the girl.
ref: 1901, M.P. Shiel, The Purple Cloud:
synonyms: wifely#Adjective
wifey#Adjective
uxorial#Adjective
glosses: Like a wife.
Related terms: old-wifish
whereso
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Middle English whereso; equivalent to where + so; compare Old English hwǣr swā.
Senses: examples: text: Thrand answered that whereso he was, he would still be deemed a brave man, "And now it is meet for thee to settle down and get married, and I would put forth my word and help, if I but knew whereto thou lookest."
ref: 1900, Translated by Eirikr Magnusson and William Morris, The Story of Grettir The Strong:
text: But when Commercial and Colonial expansion became a definite and avowed object of the former's policy, she found, whereso she might look, that Britain was there, in the way--"everywhere British colonies, British coaling stations, and floating over a fifth of the globe the British flag."
ref: 1915, Edward Carpenter, The Healing of Nations and the Hidden Sources of Their Strife:
glosses: wheresoever; regardless of which place
werena
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: "I've been thinking this long time that ye or Duncan would see that sunbonnets werena braw enough for a woman of my standing, and ye're a guid laddie to bring me this beautiful hat."
ref: 1904, Gene Stratton-Porter, Freckles:
text: Corp's face shone, but Gavinia said at once, "You werena sic great friends as that; were you, man?"
ref: 1912, J.M. Barrie, Tommy and Grizel:
glosses: Alternative form of werenae.
weller
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Emma is looking weller and handsomer (as you say) than ever.
ref: 1822, Charles and Mary Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Vol. 6):
text: He forgot the Huns; forgot John the Baptist; forgot even his sick, till one of the weller of them (as we may assume) knocked memorially upon his door....
ref: 1913, Henry Sydnor Harrison, V. V.'s Eyes:
text: Now we come home he is already weller.
ref: 1922, Samuel Hopkins Adams, From a Bench in Our Square:
text: “I’m not ill. I’m weller than you,” said Michael rudely.
ref: 1934, P[amela] L[yndon] Travers, “Bad Tuesday”, in Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins; 1), London: Gerald Howe Ltd […], →OCLC, page 85:
glosses: comparative form of well: more well
wellest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of well: most well
perfectionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From perfection + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The section closes with an interesting denial that real fusion is possible; the dream and the act always remain apart in this perfectionless earth.
ref: 1975, Elton Edward Smith, The angry young men of the thirties:
glosses: Devoid of perfection.
weedling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weedlings
Etymology: From weed + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: The vegetation was withered to pallid rags: even the tiniest weedling in the rock crevices had been poisoned by the devastating blast.
ref: 1907, Stewart Edward White, Samuel Hopkins Adams, The Mystery:
text: In early spring, it takes time and scrutiny to decipher the newly emerging weedlings from my precious, rising seedlings.
ref: 2009, Jean Coleman, I Met Him in My Overalls, page 72:
glosses: A small weed.
weedlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weedling
weatherworn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more weatherworn
form: most weatherworn
Etymology: From weather + worn.
Senses: examples: text: His hair, gray as the underwing of the owl whose note he forged, straggled in uncut disarray from under the drooping rim of a battered and weatherworn hat.
ref: 1915, James Oliver Curwood, The Hunted Woman:
text: Old Heck said again, his weatherworn features working convulsively, "it's more than a mortal man can endure and stand!"
ref: 1920, Earl Wayland Bowman, The Ramblin' Kid:
text: A weather-worn Vauxhall thirty landaulette was awaiting us, and bumped us for six or seven miles over by-paths and lanes which, in spite of their natural seclusion, were deeply rutted and showed every sign of heavy traffic.
ref: 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed:
glosses: Synonym of weather-beaten.
synonyms: word: weather-beaten
warrantably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more warrantably
form: most warrantably
Etymology: From warrantable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: None of those who defend the adoring of the humanity of Christ with divine worship, do well and warrantably express their opinion.
ref: 1846, George Gillespie, The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2):
text: The sentence of execution passed upon the murderer may be warrantably passed by the State of the future or its officers upon a monstrous birth, a baby riddled with congenital syphilis or some such horrible fruit of our present carelessness and wickedness in such matters.
ref: 1911, C. W. Saleeby, Woman and Womanhood:
glosses: In a way that is justified; reasonably.
wande
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wandes
Senses: examples: text: And with that (as he sayde) the deuill brake the white wande, and immediatly vanished foorth of his sight.
ref: 1597, King James I, Daemonologie.:
glosses: Obsolete form of wand.
wandes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wande
vowe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vowes
Senses: examples: text: And his discreete father, being safe according to his vowe, hanging vp his wings in the temple of Appollo.
ref: 1592, R.D., Hypnerotomachia:
glosses: Obsolete form of vow.
vowe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: I vse to kisse all them that I loue to God I vowe.
ref: 1504, Nicholas Udall, Ralph Roister Doister:
glosses: Obsolete form of vow.
vowes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vowe
vocality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vocalities
Etymology: From vocal + -ity. Compare Latin vocalitas (“euphony”).
Senses: examples: text: The admiral, fearing she might not confine herself to vocality, but begin to beat time with her fists, thought it right to take up a position; he therefore very dexterously took two steps in the rear, and mounted on a sofa[…]
ref: 1895, Captain Frederick Marryat, Frank Mildmay:
text: 'On what special subject of the theorems and topics does your desire for vocality seem to be connected with?'
ref: 1919, O. Henry, The Gentle Grafter:
glosses: The quality or degree of being vocal.
glosses: The quality of being a vowel; vocalic character.
Derived terms: polyvocality
vitrinitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vitrinitic
form: most vitrinitic
Etymology: From vitrinite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to vitrinite.
unvitrified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + vitrified.
Senses: glosses: Not converted into glass.
nonvirtualized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + virtualized.
Senses: glosses: Not virtualized.
nonvitrified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + vitrified.
Senses: glosses: Not converted into glass.
vitrinite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vitrinites
Senses: glosses: One of the primary components of coals and most sedimentary kerogens, with a shiny appearance resembling glass.
Hypernyms: maceral
Hyponyms: huminite
Derived terms: vitrinitic
Related terms: vitreous
vitrinites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vitrinite
maceral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macerals
head_nr: 2
Etymology: From Latin mācerō (“macerate”) + -al, after mineral. Coined by British birth control campaigner and paleontologist Marie Stopes in 1935.
Senses: examples: text: Inertinite, vitrinite and liptinite are macerals.
head_nr: 2
glosses: A component of coal or oil shale.
macerals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maceral
inertinitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inertinitic
form: most inertinitic
Etymology: From inertinite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to inertinite.
liptinitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more liptinitic
form: most liptinitic
Etymology: From liptinite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to liptinite.
liptinite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liptinites
Senses: glosses: The finely-ground and macerated remains found in coal deposits.
Synonyms: exinite
Derived terms: liptinitic
liptinites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liptinite
inertinite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inertinites
Senses: glosses: Oxidized organic material or fossilized charcoal, found as tiny flakes within sedimentary rocks.
Derived terms: inertinitic
inertinites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inertinite
resinitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more resinitic
form: most resinitic
Etymology: From resinite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to resinite.
ambrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From amber + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A form of resinite found in New Zealand coal seams.
resinite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resinites
Etymology: From resin + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A form of amber occurring in coal seams.
Hyponyms: ambrite
resinites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resinite
lipsynched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lipsynch
lipsynching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lipsynch
lipsynchs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lipsynch
lipuric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lipuric
form: most lipuric
Etymology: From lipuria + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to lipuria.
lipsyncs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lipsync
lipsyncing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lipsync
lipsynced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lipsync
sporinite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sporinites
Senses: glosses: An exinite maceral found in coal formed from spores and pollen.
Derived terms: sporinitic
sporinites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sporinite
sporinitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sporinitic
form: most sporinitic
Etymology: From sporinite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to sporinite.
exinitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exinitic
form: most exinitic
Etymology: From exinite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to exinite.
alginitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alginitic
form: most alginitic
Etymology: From alginite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to alginite.
cutinitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cutinitic
form: most cutinitic
Etymology: From cutinite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to cutinite.
alginite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alginites
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
petrology
glosses: A component of some types of kerogen, consisting of organic-walled marine microfossils.
Hyponyms: lamalginite
telalginite
Derived terms: alginitic
alginites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alginite
cutinite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cutinites
Etymology: From cutin + -ite.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
petrology
glosses: A liptinite maceral formed from terrestrial plant cuticles.
Derived terms: cutinitic
cutinites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cutinite
sapropelic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sapropelic
form: most sapropelic
Etymology: From sapropel + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to sapropel.
lamalginite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lamalginites
Etymology: Blend of lamina + alginite?
Senses: glosses: An alginite found in sapropel and composed of thin-walled colonial or unicellular algae that occur as distinct laminae, cryptically interbedded with mineral matter.
lamalginites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lamalginite
telalginite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telalginites
Senses: glosses: An alginite found in sapropel and composed of large, discretely occurring colonial or thick-walled unicellular algae.
telalginites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telalginite
buck rabbit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buck rabbits
Senses: glosses: A male rabbit.
glosses: Alternative form of buck rarebit.
aurichalcites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aurichalcite
vagabondish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vagabondish
form: most vagabondish
Etymology: From vagabond + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: But, in the same domains and at the end of the same century, his grandson William VII. was the most vagabondish, dissolute, and violent of princes; and his morals were so scandalous that the bishop of Poitiers, after having warned him to no purpose, considered himself forced to excommunicate him.
ref: 1868, Robert Black, A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times:
text: It is hardly necessary, perhaps, to mention Mr. Lindsay's loyalty to the people of his place and hour, or the training in sympathy with their aims and ideals which he has achieved through vagabondish wanderings in the Middle West.
ref: 1931, Vachel Lindsay, The Congo and Other Poems:
glosses: Like a vagabond.
nonvolcaniclastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + volcaniclastic.
Senses: glosses: Not volcaniclastic.
vitric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vitric
form: most vitric
Senses: examples: text: This flow overlies fossil vertebrate-bearing volcaniclastic sediments that include a grayish-black vitric tuff that may be correlative with the unit A1 tuff at Dmanisi.
ref: 2000 May 12, Leo Gabunia et al., “Earliest Pleistocene Hominid Cranial Remains from Dmanisi, Republic of Georgia: Taxonomy, Geological Setting, and Age”, in Science, volume 288, number 5468, →DOI, pages 1019–1025:
glosses: glassy; vitreous
vitreal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Many mitogenic effects of GH are mediated by IGF-I. In some studies of diabetic patients, serum IGF-I levels or vitreal IGF-I levels are associated with proliferative retinopathy (6 ).
ref: 1997 June 13, “Essential Role of Growth Hormone in Ischemia-Induced Retinal Neovascularization”, in Science, volume 276, number 5319, →DOI, pages 1706–1709:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the vitreous humor
Derived terms: transvitreal
visuality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: visualities
Etymology: From visual + -ity, from Latin visualitas.
Senses: examples: text: Not the general whole only; every compartment of it is worked out, with intense earnestness, into truth, into clear visuality.
ref: 1840, Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship:
text: The scope of his mental visuality no longer included the figure of the agent from the private detective bureau.
ref: 1912, Frederic Stewart Isham, A Man and His Money:
text: We are now in the middle of a second Gutenberg shift — from book fluency to screen fluency, from literacy to visuality.
ref: 2008 November 23, Kevin Kelly, “Becoming Screen Literate”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being visual
examples: text: After all, her "visuality" is that of a "narrative image" — the bruised, abused, and overused but essentially young and sensuous, primitively vital female figure that carries the burden of the narrative movement and whose consumption brings about the narrative closure.
ref: 1997, Sheldon H. Lu, Transnational Chinese Cinemas: Identity, Nationhood, Gender (page 353)
glosses: Physical appearance.
glosses: vision (mental picture)
visualizability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From visualize + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being visualizable.
visored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From visor + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Afterward he took his smart visored cap off the hook and limped down town, his boots and leggings and uniform very spick and span from Ma Werner's expert brushing and rubbing.
ref: 1918, Edna Ferber, Cheerful--By Request:
glosses: Fitted with a visor.
examples: text: The outlines of the hovering planes showed by his side, and Lannes called in a loud voice to shrouded and visored men.
ref: 1928, Joseph A. Altsheler, The Forest of Swords:
glosses: Wearing a visor.
viscountship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: viscountships
Etymology: From viscount + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: Louis persisted in struggling for the preponderance of the crown against the great vassals; succeeded in taming Peter Mauclerc, the turbulent Count of Brittany; wrung from Theobald IV., Count of Champagne, the rights of suzerainty in the countships of Chartres, Blois, and Sancerre, and the viscountship of Chateaudun, and purchased the fertile countship of Macon from its possessor.
ref: 1868, Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot, A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times:
text: HARDINGE, HENRY, VISCOUNT, a distinguished soldier and Governor-General of India […] was appointed Governor-General of India, and later distinguished himself under Gough in the first Sikh War; a viscountship and pension followed in 1845[…]
ref: 1907, Edited by Rev. James Wood, The Nuttall Encyclopaedia:
glosses: The role or status of viscount.
viscountships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of viscountship
vintager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vintagers
Etymology: From vintage + -er, cognate to French vendangeur.
Senses: examples: text: The sun, treading the earth like a vintager, drew from it heady fragrances, crushed out of it new colours.
ref: 1913, Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country:
text: Matured in all the graces, he is like the ripened Chian clusters that await the vintager in the autumn days.
ref: 1922, Arthur Benton Sanford, An Easter Disciple:
glosses: One who gathers the vintage, i.e. a grape harvester.
vintagers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vintager
villadom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: villadoms
Etymology: From villa + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: At present that convenience is still needlessly expensive in Great Britain, and a scandalously stupid business conflict between telephone company and post-office delays, complicates, and makes costly and exasperating all trunk communications; but even under these disadvantages the thing is becoming a factor in the life of ordinary villadom.
ref: 1902, Herbert George Wells, Anticipations:
text: […]turning to the right again, but more sharply, the wayfarer found himself once more in villadom, but a villadom more ornate, more costly, with gardens to be measured in acres—or nearly.
ref: 1919, Hope, Anthony, The Secret of the Tower:
glosses: The world of suburban villas.
smartassery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From smartass + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: 'Is that the best you can do with all your big-talk smartassery? Aspirin?' Harold stuffed his hands into his pockets and looked at her miserably, accepting the rebuke.
ref: 1978, Stephen King, The Stand:
glosses: The behaviour of a smartass.
vigilancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vigilancies
Etymology: From Latin vigilantia.
Senses: examples: text: this infinit confusion of opinions and sentences, which this goodly humane reason, by her certainty and cleare-sighted vigilancie brings forth in whatsoever it medleth withal […].
ref: vigilancy, II.12
text: When thou seest justice executed on any, thou maist inwardly take delight in his vigilancy, to punish offenders, because it tends to publique quiet, yet shew pity to the offender, and ever Constitute the defect of his morality, thy precaution.
ref: 1890, Moncure D. Conway, George Washington's Rules of Civility:
text: Any simple, improvident, and foolish youth would be stirred up to vigilancy by a few experiences with "the subtlety of spies, the wonderful cunning of Inn-keepers and baudes and the great danger of his life."
ref: 1914, Clare Howard, English Travellers of the Renaissance:
text: Thus the vigilancy and care of Captain Morgan was not sufficient to prevent every accident.
ref: 1922, Various, Great Pirate Stories:
glosses: Vigilance.
vigilancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vigilancy
vidiot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vidiots
Etymology: Blend of video + idiot
Senses: examples: text: You are a vidiot if you watch music videos for any period of time without stopping to think about what they are saying.
ref: 1989, Mike Yaconelli, Scott Koenigsaecker, Get 'em talking: 104 great discussion starters for youth groups, page 118:
text: Cynics might say that any show based on television--like, say, The Real Live Brady Bunch--is bound to be popular among the nostalgic vidiot generation.
ref: 1994 March 4, Jack Helbig, “Schoolhouse Rock Live!”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Featuring witty wordplay--Therriault could be David Mamet and John Patrick Shanley's long-lost love child raised in the wild by William Burroughs-- and a story and characters simple enough to be understood by your average vidiot play reader, Battery is just challenging enough to appeal to a young actor's ego but not so challenging as to scare her off.
ref: 1995 July 28, Jack Helbig, “Battery”, in Chicago Reader:
text: We're raising a generation of vidiots, and it's going to be a problem when they get older.
ref: 2009, Lori Sullivan, Overcoming Autism: A Parent's Guide, page 115:
glosses: A passive, undiscriminating consumer of video media.
vidiots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vidiot
vidette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: videttes
Senses: examples: text: I told him not to shoot, as I was a scout from Fort Hays; and then, calling the sergeant of the guard, I went up to the vidette of the post, who readily recognized me.
ref: 1879, William F. Cody, The Life of Hon. William F. Cody:
text: Convinced that this would prove to be either a cavalry vidette, or a Federal foraging party, it made me more anxious to get quickly down into the town, hopeful they might have a spare horse with them, and I pointed out the dust spirals to my companion.
ref: 1911, Randall Parrish, Love Under Fire:
glosses: Alternative form of vedette.
videttes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vidette
villainage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: villainages
Senses: examples: text: In any suit against his lord the proof of his condition of villainage was sufficient to put him out of court, and his only recourse was the local court of the manor, where the lord himself or his representative presided.
ref: 1916, Edward Potts Cheyney, An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England:
glosses: Alternative form of villeinage.
villanage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: villanages
Etymology: From villan + -age.
Senses: examples: text: Even during the Dark Ages, even in its most corrupted form, Christianity wrought for the practical extinction of serfdom. Mr. Newman says that it was Christians, not men, that the church sought to enfranchise; it little matters; she sought to abolish all villanage.
ref: 1854, Henry Rogers, The Eclipse of Faith:
glosses: Alternative form of villeinage.
instaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: instaunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of instance.
villeinages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of villeinage
villainages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of villainage
villanages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of villanage
maintenaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maintenaunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of maintenance.
vexedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more vexedly
form: most vexedly
Etymology: From vexed + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "What made you harp upon the war, man, knowing what his opinions are?" the doctor asked vexedly, as he stumbled along the uneven stone passage towards the hall.
ref: 1906, Mrs. Henry De La Pasture, Peter's Mother:
text: If only Dr. Spiller had sent me a wire yesterday," he exclaimed vexedly, "he had my address in the country, I should have been saved a useless visit to London!"
ref: 1921, Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, From Out the Vasty Deep:
glosses: In a vexed manner; annoyedly.
vexedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vexed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being vexed; irritation or annoyance.
ordinaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ordinaunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of ordinance.
glosses: Obsolete form of ordnance.
performaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: performaunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of performance.
perseveraunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of perseverance.
vertebrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: There is not a single class of vertebrated animals which, when it first appears, is represented by analogues of the lowest known members of the same class.
ref: 1894, Thomas H. Huxley, Discourses:
text: And they think I'm going to crawl about on my stomach--on my vertebrated stomach!
ref: 1901, H. G. Wells, The First Men In The Moon:
glosses: vertebrate; having vertebrae
benzoporphyrins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of benzoporphyrin
remembraunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remembraunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of remembrance.
repentaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repentaunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of repentance.
verisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verism
resemblaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resemblaunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of resemblance.
verist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verists
Etymology: From verism. By surface analysis, Latin vērus (“true”) + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: It is the creation of a verist, of a naturalist, founded on a clear and intimate perception of nature.
ref: 1903, David Lindsay, Earl of Crawford, Donatello:
text: He is, nevertheless, a realist—a verist, as he prefers to be called.
ref: 1910, James Huneker, Promenades of an Impressionist:
glosses: One who subscribes to verism.
verists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verist
repugnaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repugnaunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of repugnance.
resistaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resistaunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of resistance.
verie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: verier
form: veriest
Senses: glosses: Early Modern spelling of very.
verie
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: At that time liued likewise a worthie Gentleman, whose many verie famius deeds (wherof I am sorie I may here make no rehearsal, because neither time nor occasion will permitte me) renowne his name to all ensuing posterities: he, being called sir Richard Whittington, the founder of Whittington Colledge in London, and one that bare the office of Lord Maior of this Citie three seuerall times.
ref: 1592, R. G., The Third And Last Part Of Conny-Catching. (1592):
glosses: Early Modern spelling of very.
romaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: romaunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of romance.
semblaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semblaunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of semblance.
severaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: severaunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of severance.
verdureless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From verdure + -less.
Senses: examples: text: There were not then, as now, upon some of them, great dead trees reaching out their long bare arms in verdureless desolation above a stinted undergrowth, and piled up trunks charred and blackened by the fire that had revelled among them, but all were green, and thrifty, and glorious in their robes of beauty.
ref: 1857, S. H. Hammond, Wild Northern Scenes:
text: At three o'clock in the morning we stopped forty minutes at Tchertchen, almost at the foot of the ramifications of the Kuen Lun. None of us had seen this miserable, desolate country, treeless and verdureless, which the railway was now crossing on its road to the northeast.
ref: 1893, Jules Verne, The Adventures of a Special Correspondent:
text: To east and west the valley, now scarcely more green than those upper plains, bounded by its verdureless bluffs, ran crookedly, following the river course, its only sign of white dominion the rutted trail.
ref: 1912, Randall Parrish, Molly McDonald:
glosses: Devoid of verdure.
commaund
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commaunds
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of command.
commaund
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: commaunds
form: commaunding
form: commaunded
form: commaunded
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of command.
verdured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From verdure + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: About midway in the short vista which my dreamy vision took in, one small circular island, profusely verdured, reposed upon the bosom of the stream.
ref: 1850, Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works:
text: After a time, fully two miles away, he saw sheep grazing on a thinly verdured slide.
ref: 1918, James Oliver Curwood, The Grizzly King:
synonyms: word: bosky
word: lavish
word: bosky
word: greenly
word: lavish
word: lush
word: verdant
word: verdured
word: verdurous
word: virid
word: viridescent
glosses: Covered with verdure; green and lush; verdant.
substaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: substaunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of substance.
sufferaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sufferaunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of sufferance.
temperaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: temperaunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of temperance.
ventosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ventosity
utteraunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: utteraunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of utterance.
ventosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ventosities
Etymology: From ventose + -ity, from Latin ventositas.
Senses: examples: text: On the one hand, a sternness and a coarseness of structure which changes its stem into a stake, and its leaf into a spine; on the other, an utter flaccidity and ventosity of structure, which changes its stem into a riband, and its leaf into a bubble.
ref: 1888, John Ruskin, Proserpina, Volume 1:
glosses: The quality or state of being windy or flatulent; windiness or flatulence.
examples: text: Both of them were youths of a Sprightly Genius, and of an Alert Apprehension, attended, in the case of GRANDOLPH, with a mighty heat and ebullition of Fancy, which led early to a certain frothiness or ventosity in speech.
ref: 1891, Various, Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, November 7, 1891:
text: And surely no small number of those who are of a solid nature, and who, from the want of this ventosity, cannot spread all sail in pursuit of their own honour, suffer some prejudice and lose dignity by their moderation."
ref: 1907, John Morley, Studies in Literature:
text: Seek something better than ventosity beneath the sky.
ref: 1925, Honore de Balzac, Droll Stories, Volume 1:
glosses: vainglory; pride.
venially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more venially
form: most venially
Etymology: From venial + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The Antients venially delighted in flouriſhing Gardens; […]
ref: 1658, Thomas Browne, “To My Worthy and Honored Friend Nicholas Bacon of Gillingham [i.e., Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1st Baronet, of Gillingham] Esquire”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC:
text: With regard to all the failings and offences which fall under this head, it may be remarked that, from their false show of generosity, society is apt to treat them too venially, except where they entail degradation or disgrace.
ref: 1884, Thomas Fowler, Progressive Morality:
text: And a person may sin venially by the inversion of the Hours, The obligation binds sub veniali only.
ref: 1920, Rev. E. J. Quigley, The Divine Office:
glosses: In a venial manner.
venialness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From venial + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being venial (pardonable).
Synonyms: veniality
variaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: variaunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of variance.