cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tubipore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tubipores
Etymology: Compare French tubipore.
Senses: glosses: Any member of the alcyonoid genus Tubipora.
tubipores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tubipore
conominee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conominees
Etymology: From co- + nominee.
Senses: examples: text: derived from the same source as that of my learned Co-nominee
ref: 1835, William Kirby, William Spence, On the Power Wisdom and Goodness of God. As Manifested in the Creation of Animals and in Their History, Habits and Instincts:
glosses: One nominated in conjunction with another; a joint or fellow nominee.
conominees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conominee
dephosphorization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dephosphorisation
Etymology: From de- + phosphorization.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The act of freeing from phosphorus.
beldams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beldam
Osages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Osage
isoperimetrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + perimetrical.
Senses: glosses: isoperimetric
waiwode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waiwodes
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of voivode.
waiwodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waiwode
equivocatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more equivocatory
form: most equivocatory
Senses: glosses: Indicating, or characterized by, equivocation; having a double meaning.
ioqua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ioquas
Etymology: A variant of hiaqua, from Chinook Jargon, from Nootka.
Senses: synonyms: dentalium
glosses: The shell of Antalis pretiosa, formerly used as money and ornaments (hiaqua) by Native American and Aboriginal people of the western United States and Canada.
ioquas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ioqua
stringpiece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stringpieces
Etymology: From string + piece.
Senses: topics: architecture
business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
synonyms: stringboard
string
stringer
glosses: A long piece of timber, forming a margin or edge of any piece of construction; especially one of the longitudinal pieces supporting a flight or run of stairs.
stringpieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stringpiece
disportment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disportments
Etymology: From disport + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: These young girles, the Nymphs of Diana, called and carried away the old Wizzard to the enjoyment of those disportments and pleasures that such ludicrous Spirits, together with old Hags and others of the fraternity, use to make with one another
ref: 1660, H[enry] More, An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness; […], London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for W[illiam] Morden […], →OCLC:
glosses: Act of disporting; fun or play.
disportments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disportment
Valentinian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Valentinians
Etymology: From Valentinus + -ian, named after the founder.
Senses: glosses: One of a school of Judaizing Gnostics in the second century.
Valentinian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Valentinianus.
Senses: glosses: a Roman cognomen
Valentinians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Valentinian
thegns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thegn
homomallous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From homo- + Ancient Greek μαλλός (mallós, “lock of wool”) + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Uniformly bending or curving to one side; said of leaves that grow on several sides of a stem.
schismless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From schism + -less.
Senses: glosses: Free from schisms; intact.
stipuled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stipuled
form: most stipuled
Etymology: From stipule + -ed.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: having stipules (leaf appendages).
non est factum
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Latin, meaning "it is not (his) deed".
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A defence in contract law that allows a signing party to escape performance of an agreement that is fundamentally different from what they intended to execute or sign.
temporoauricular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪkjʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From temporo- + auricular.
Senses: examples: the temporoauricular nerve
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to both the temple and the ear.
aswoon
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈswuːn/
rhymes: -uːn
Etymology: From a- + swoon.
Senses: examples: text: 'This is your daughter whom you so commended / As wife for me; the other on my oath / Shall be my heir as I have long intended, / They are the children of your body, both.' [...] / On hearing this Griselda fell aswoon / In piteous joy, but made recovery / And called her children to her.
ref: 1951, Geoffrey Chaucer, translated by Nevill Coghill, The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English (Penguin Classics), Penguin Books, published 1977, page 369:
text: Anyhow, he came right over, and I was near aswoon but breathed real deep and gripped hold of the cash tray and managed not to tumble to the floor-even if the quarters did a little dance in their bin with me tugging to stay up.
ref: 2003 Summer, Nicole Louise Reid, “Honeydew”, in The Southern Review, volume 39, number 3, page 596:
glosses: In a swoon; swooningly.
negotiosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of negotiosity
negotiosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: negotiosities
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin negōtiōsitās. By surface analysis, negotious + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: But there is yet a Third Atheistick Objection against Providence behind; That is^([sic]) is impossible, any One Being should Animadvert and Order all things in the Distant places of the world at once; and were this possible, yet would such Infinite Negotiosity be very Vneasie and Distractious to it, and altogether Inconsistent with Happiness.
ref: 1678, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe […], pages 883–84:
text: His “negotiosity” may very well be an aid to Villa's escape from our punitive expedition and at any time the amour propre of his party may be offended to the point of making common cause with Villa against the foreign invaders.
ref: 1916 April 1, William Marion Reedy, “The "Drive" after Villa”, in Bruno's Weekly, volume 2, number 14, page 590:
text: 3. The ‘negotiosity’ of irony
ref: 2001, Edda Weigand, Marcelo Dascal, Negotiation and Power in Dialogic Interaction, page 142:
glosses: The ability to negotiate many things at once.
immask
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: immasks
form: immasking
form: immasked
form: immasked
Etymology: From im- + mask.
Senses: examples: text: immaske our noted outward garments
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]:
text: The thick, dark mists of hell
Which envelop gaunt envy and hate
Thus immask'd, and in seeming security
ref: 1806, Andrew Becket, Socrates (poem):
glosses: To cover, as with a mask; to disguise or conceal.
immasked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of immask
immasking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of immask
immasks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of immask
cornshuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cornshucks
Etymology: From corn + shuck.
Senses: glosses: The husk covering an ear of corn.
cornshucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cornshuck
oquassa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oquassas
Etymology: Possibly from a Penobscot word.
Senses: glosses: A type of blueback trout, Salvelinus oquassa, specifically those found in the Rangeley Lakes Region of Maine. Now considered to be the same species as the Sunapee trout.
respirational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From respiration + -al.
Senses: examples: text: respirational difficulties
glosses: respiratory
forecloser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foreclosers
Etymology: From foreclose + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who forecloses.
Related terms: foreclosee
foreclosers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forecloser
real estate owned
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Real estate that is owned by a forecloser.
Synonyms: REO
intercartilaginous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + cartilaginous.
Senses: examples: text: intercartilaginous ossification
text: intercartilaginous membrane
text: intercartilaginous incision
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Within cartilage.
Synonyms: endochondral
orrach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orrachs
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of orach.
orrachs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orrach
nowed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French noué, past participle of nouer (“to knot”), from Latin nodare. See nodated.
Senses: examples: a serpent nowed
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Knotted; tied in a knot.
Synonyms: nowy
prothoracic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prothoracic
form: most prothoracic
Etymology: From prothorax + -ic. Influenced by thoracic.
Senses: examples: text: prothoracic gland
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: Of or pertaining to the prothorax.
Derived terms: prothoracic gland
fourché
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: cross fourché
glosses: Alternative form of fourche (“forked”).
hexone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexones
Etymology: From hex- + -one.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A liquid hydrocarbon, C₆H₈, of the valylene series, obtained from distillation products of certain fats and gums.
paralysation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paralysations
form: paralyzation
Etymology: From paralyse + -ation.
Senses: glosses: paralysis.
paralyzation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paralyzations
Etymology: From paralyze + -ation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paralysation.
electrolysation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of electrolyzation.
catalysation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catalysations
form: catalyzation
Etymology: From catalyse + -ation.
Senses: glosses: catalysis.
catalyzation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catalyzations
Etymology: From catalyze + -ation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of catalysation.
hyalotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyalotypes
Etymology: From hyalo- + -type.
Senses: examples: text: […]Hyalotypes. These are positive pictures , copied on glass from negatives, obtained upon the same material
ref: 1853, Robert Hunt, A Manual of Photography:
glosses: A photographic picture copied from the negative on glass.
Related terms: hyalotypy
hyalotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyalotype
intertarsal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + tarsal.
Senses: examples: text: intertarsal articulations
text: intertarsal joints
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Between the tarsal bones.
zombic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more zombic
form: most zombic
Etymology: From zombie + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: For a time I wasn't sure of their purpose—neither, it seemed, were they—and I dreaded the possible need for another zombic performance.
ref: 1991, C. S. Friedman, The Madness Season, New York: Daw, →ISBN:
text: […]there has been a gradual process of distillation, leaving just about all the reactionaries, for all their disagreements among themselves, united in the conviction that there is a real difference between a conscious person and a perfect zombie–let's call that intuition the Zombic Hunch–leading them to the thesis of Zombism: that the fundamental flaw in any mechanistic theory of consciousness is that it cannot account for this important difference.
ref: 1999 November 28, Daniel Dennett, “The Zombic Hunch: Extinction of an Intuition?”, in Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness, Cambridge, London: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, published 2005, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, LCC B945.D393S94 2005, page 14:
text: The atoms are in a superposition of both possibilities, and the poor cat, too, is hanging on in a zombic combination of life and death.
ref: 2010 November 9, Martin Bojowald, Once Before Time: A Whole Story of the Universe, Knopf, →ISBN, →LCCN, LCC QB981.B684 2010:
glosses: Relating to zombies.
examples: text: As fortune and custom's use would have it, few were the witnesses to my zombic march, and none to see this gaunt-eyed ghost slip inside his Pilot's cabin, though not through any worldly care of mine.
ref: 1984, Norman Spinrad, The Void Captain's Tale, page 111:
text: She explained to me instantly that it was normal for children to develop intense attachments to pets, even “zombic” ones that did not reciprocate affection, and that a pair of Japanese psychologists, Hatano and Inagaki, had done studies of how children develop intuitive theories of biology by having pets.
ref: 2007 November 6, Adam Gopnik, Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York, Random House, →ISBN:
text: I've always thought it more sensible than the zombic passivity we associate with Caucasian moviegoing—not unlike the difference between a staid Presbyterian church service and a rip-roaring Baptist get-down.
ref: 2008 May 1, Gary Buslik, A Grump in Paradise Discovers that Anyplace It's Legal to Carry a Machete is Comedy Just Waiting to Happen, Palo Alto: Travelers' Tales, →ISBN, →LCCN, LCC F2171.3.B87 2008, page 2:
glosses: Resembling a zombie.
Derived terms: zombically
luller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lullers
Etymology: From lull + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that lulls.
lullers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of luller
tyrannously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tyrannously
form: most tyrannously
Etymology: From tyrannous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He finds out, soon enough for his weal and his bane, that he is stronger than Nature: and right tyrannously and irreverently he lords it over her, clearing, delving, dyking, building, without fear or shame.
ref: 1866, C[harles] Kingsley, “Prelude. Of the Fens.”, in Hereward the Wake, “Last of the English.” […], volume I, London; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 4:
text: 1894, Arthur S. Way, Hecuba, lines 282–283, page 211 in The Tragedies of Euripides, Vol. I.
Not tyrannously the strong should use their strength,
Nor they which prosper think to prosper aye.
synonyms: despotically
glosses: In a tyrannous or despotic manner.
Related terms: tyrannical
tyrannous
tyrant
ghole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gholes
Senses: examples: text: So now all sense re-stretching to the full,
I felt the approach of this accursed hull, —
Leviathan in size, with ghosts and gholes
Employed on board in torturing other souls: […]
ref: 1842, Matthew Bridges, Babbicombe, Or Visions of Memory: With Other Poems, page 14:
glosses: Archaic form of ghoul.
ghole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gholes
Senses: examples: quoted in 1851, James Baillie Fraser, Military Memoir of Lieut.-Col. James Skinner
Both gholes attempted to turn his flanks, but the men behaved ill, and we were repulsed.
glosses: Alternative form of gole (“troops”).
gholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghole
agrammatical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + grammatical.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Not grammatical; ungrammatical.
hollow-hearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hollow-hearted
form: most hollow-hearted
form: hollowhearted
Senses: examples: text: Had I, through the weakness and doting fondness of this poor woman, come upon the one link which would yet lead us to identify this hollow-hearted, false and most vindictive man of great affairs with the wandering and worthless husband of the nodescript Bess, whose hand I had touched and whose errand I had done, little realizing its purport or the influence it would have upon our lives?
ref: 2013, Anna Katherine Green, The Mayor's Wife, →ISBN:
glosses: insincere; deceitful; treacherous; hypocritical.
examples: text: Their fingers tightened with a sweet fury, and they sat still and breathless and crazy with love, their eyes drowsy with tenderness, hollow-hearted with wanting each other, and wanting to put their mouths together.
ref: 2011, J. R. Salamanca, The Lost Country, →ISBN:
glosses: Yearning.
examples: text: Just like a bamboo is hollow-hearted, he ought to open his heart to accept whatsoever of help and not ever have conceit either bias.
ref: 2015, Donna Rivas, Bamboo 222 Success Secrets - 222 Most Asked Questions On Bamboo, →ISBN:
glosses: Having a hole at the center.
Derived terms: hollow-heartedly
hollow-heartedness
Related terms: half-hearted
recureless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more recureless
form: most recureless
Etymology: From recure + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile if chance some desp'rate patient die / […] / Whether ill-tendment, or recureless pain, / Procure his death […]
ref: 1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC:
glosses: Incapable of cure.
Gladstonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlædˈstəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ɡlædˈstoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Gladstonian
form: most Gladstonian
Etymology: From Gladstone + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Their guiding light is the Gladstonian ideal of a low tax, laissez-faire, “night-watchman state”.
ref: 2011 February 1, Tristram Hunt, “The coalition holds Britain's cultural fabric in contempt”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Of or pertaining to William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898), British prime minister four times between 1868 and 1894.
Gladstonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlædˈstəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ɡlædˈstoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Gladstonians
Etymology: From Gladstone + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A political supporter of William Ewart Gladstone.
felsitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more felsitic
form: most felsitic
Etymology: From felsite + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: a felsitic aplite
text: a felsitic lava
text: a felsitic rock
glosses: Relating to, or containing, felsite.
flirtigig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flirtigigs
Senses: examples: text: if a maid like that might some day marry such a man! Never an ill piece of a flirtigig will she be
ref: 1914, Alber Hale Plumb, When Mayflowers Blossom:
glosses: A flirtatious or cheeky girl.
flirtigigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flirtigig
inburst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inbursts
Etymology: From in + burst.
Senses: examples: text: In every alluvial mine which in the opintion of an inspector is liable to any inundation or inburst of water such additional rises chambers drives and other workings or any of them shall be constructed as may seem necessary and as may be ordered by the Governor in Council for the escape of workmen from the lower workings or to ensure their safety in every such mine during the period of any inundation or inburst of water in such mine.
ref: 1901, Henry J. Armstrong, A Treatise on the Law of Gold-mining in Australia and New Zealand, page 581:
text: It is necessary, in soft country especially, to exercise great care not to bore the hole too large for the tube, as the water would then get outside the tube, and should there be much pressure, the water would scour the hole large enough to permit an inburst of sand.
ref: 1901, Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Transactions of the Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers, page 66:
text: The circumstances attending an inburst of waste-water, which took place at Wallyford colliery, near Musselburgh, on September 24th, 1903, are somewhat unusual, and it is thought that it might be of interest to put them on record.
ref: 1906, Robert Thomas Moore, “An Inburst of Waste-Water at Wallyford Colliery”, in Transactions of the Institution of Mining Engineers, page 10:
text: Then there is a second inburst of sunburnt sickle-men or reapers, as if in harvest-time; and the nymphs and the reapers join in a graceful dance.
ref: 1914, David Masson, Rosaline Masson, Shakespeare Personally, page 188:
text: It is an inburst or irruption that characterizes the appearance of anything belonging to the Mind.
ref: 1956, William S. Haas, The Destiny of the Mind, East and West, page 122:
synonyms: inbursting
glosses: A bursting in or into.
inbursts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inburst
inerrable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈɜːɹəbəl/
Forms: form: more inerrable
form: most inerrable
Etymology: From Latin inerrabilis. Compare Portuguese inerrável. See in- (“not”) + err + -able.
Senses: examples: text: We have conviction from reason, or decisions from the inerrable and requisite conditions of sense.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
text: Not that their statements are inerrable; but they constitute the best working material in our possession
ref: 1890, William Ewart Gladstone, The impregnable rock of Holy Scripture:
glosses: Incapable of error; infallible, unerring.
Derived terms: inerrableness
inerrably
selah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːlə/
ipa: /ˈseɪ̯lɑ/
Forms: form: selahs
form: Selah
Etymology: From Biblical Hebrew סֶלָה (sélā), of unknown origin.
Senses: examples: text: At times, we too, need to experience a "Selah" in our lives, a time when we pause and rest. To be still and rest is good therapy for today's fast pace of living. The heart strings may be taut, even on the verge of snapping. Suddenly, God inserts a "Selah," a rest, that we might pause and calmly think of Him.
ref: 1981, Millie Stamm, Be Still and Know, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan Publishing House, →ISBN, page 14:
text: Unless the musicians themselves develop a prophetic lifestyle, the selah will be only an irritating piece of ritual. But if the musicians have an ear to hear, a selah will be a highly creative interlude that opens the door for the Holy Spirit to take the church into a higher level of inspiration.
ref: 2003, Stan Smith, Prophetic Song: Gateway to Glory, [s.l.]: Xulon Press, →ISBN, page 142:
text: Your crossroads moment is often a transition time, or Selah, for him as well. Two Selahs happening at once can create added stress.
ref: 2004, Nancie Carmichael, Selah: Your Moment to Stop, Think, and Step into Your Future, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Fleming H. Revell Company, →ISBN, page 133:
text: Maybe this is a good time for a Selah. Lol. It is for me. Selah means “pause, and think about that” or a more literal definition, “God had spoken.”
ref: 2014, Joshua Woods, A Song for the Lonely: The Missing Key to Once and for All Seal Your Pact With God, Bloomington, Ind.: Balboa Press, →ISBN, page 200:
topics: Christianity
glosses: A pause or rest of a contemplative nature.
multisensorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more multisensorily
form: most multisensorily
Etymology: From multisensory + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a multisensory way.
electrotyper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrotypers
Etymology: From electrotype + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who electrotypes.
electrotypers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrotyper
keir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keirs
Senses: examples: text: The keirs, becks, washing machines, etc., are placed sufficiently low to allow of being fed from the water supply by gravitation, and the outlets placed just sufficiently high to reach the water line of the river a little above its normal flow.
ref: 1902, House of Commons of the United Kingdom, Sessional Papers, Volume 34, Part 2, page 7:
text: Also fine clothes require longer treatment in the keir in order to secure good penetration by the chemie.
ref: 1919, Society of Dyers and Colourists, Journal of the Society of Dyers and Colourists, volume 35, page 35:
text: The cloth was singed to remove superfluous fluff by being passed over heated copper plates and then boiled in bleaching keirs with lime or caustic soda.
ref: 1975, Owen Ashmore, The Industrial Archaeology of Stockport, page 31:
glosses: Alternative form of kier.
kiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kier
keirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keir
affreighted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of affreight
affreighting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of affreight
affreights
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of affreight
affreight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: affreights
form: affreighting
form: affreighted
form: affreighted
Senses: glosses: To hire (a ship etc.) for the transportation of freight.
Derived terms: affreighter
affreightment
evaporometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evaporometers
form: evaporimeter
Etymology: From Latin evaporare (“to evaporate”) + -meter. Compare French évaporomètre.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for measuring evaporation; an atmometer.
evaporometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of evaporometer
wheen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ʍiːn/
/wiːn/
Forms: form: wheens
form: whean
form: whin
Etymology: From Middle English *wheen, quhein (also hwan, hwon, quhon), from Old English hwēne, hwǣne (“somewhat, a little”), instrumental form of hwōn (“little, few, a little, trifle, somewhat, a little while”).
Senses: glosses: A little; a small number.
examples: text: I have six terriers at hame, forbye twa couple of slow-hunds, five grews, and a wheen other dogs.
ref: 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: She never seemed to want for siller; the house was as bright as a new preen, the yaird better delved than the manse garden; and there was routh of fowls and doos about the small steading, forbye a wheen sheep and milk-kye in the fields.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
glosses: A quantity; a goodly number.
wheens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wheen
gustless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɡʌstləs/
Forms: form: more gustless
form: most gustless
Etymology: From Latin gustus (“a tasting”), and suffix -less.
Senses: examples: text: […] they might after give the expressed and less useful part of the cods and remaining pulp unto their swine: which, being no gustless or unsatisfying offal, might be well desired by the prodigal in his hunger.
ref: 1683, Sir Thomas Browne, Observations Upon Several Plants Mentioned In Scripture:
text: Again, it is a base abject temper, speaks a mind sunk and lost in carnality, and that, having dethroned and abjured reason, hath abandoned itself to the hurry of vile appetite and sold its liberty and sovereignty for the insipid, gustless pleasures of sense.
ref: 1870, The living temple:
text: Graceful and smooth-tongued, the model wife moves through her two scenes with the level charm belonging to Mr. Phillips's gustless but mellow blank verse, to the accentless but even-knit pattern of his plot.
ref: 1902, Gabriele D'Annunzio, The Dream of a Spring Morning, page 132:
text: She placed her hands on her hips and her stout boots wide apart and bent her body and gaped her mouth and stared at this man who was as gustless as skimmed milk and unsatisfying as water.
ref: 1933, Caradoc Evans, Wasps, page 16:
glosses: tasteless; insipid
Related terms: degustation
disgust
gustless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɡʌstləs/
Forms: form: more gustless
form: most gustless
Etymology: From gust + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Except in broken country, the sand cloud seems to glide steadily over the desert like a moving carpet, and the wind is comparatively gustless.
ref: 1954, Ralph Alger Bagnold, The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes, page 11:
text: Unlike fixed-wing aircraft, the rotor experiences oscillatory aerodynamic effects even in steady, gustless forward flight.
ref: 1957, Journal of the Aeronautical Sciences, page 81:
text: The bland East blows with gustless blast, And constant as this heart to thee, The Hurricane's dread months are past ;
ref: 1866, George H Strutt, Poems, chiefly lyrical, compiled and arranged by G. H. Strutt, page 187:
text: A wind sock lay gustless upon a pole.
ref: 1992, Jennifer Finney Boylan, James Finney Boylan, The planets, →ISBN, page 32:
glosses: Without gusts (of wind).
trichromatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trichromatisms
Etymology: From tri- + chromatism.
Senses: synonyms: trichromacy
glosses: The quality, state, or phenomenon of being trichromatic.
Related terms: monochromatism
bichromatism
dichromatism
disquietment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From disquiet + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: […] you stand in need of continual quickening-grace, to actuate and excite those lumps of lead, that lie heavy within your breasts: and it is the greatest disquietment of your lives, that you find your hearts so heartless and listless to what is holy and spiritual […]
ref: a. 1690, Ezekiel Hopkins, The Blessedness of them that die in the Lord:
glosses: State of being disquieted; uneasiness.
aflicker
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + flicker.
Senses: examples: text: with age are limbs a-shake / And force a-flicker!
ref: 1875, Robert Browning, “Herakles”, in Aristophanes’ Apology,, Boston: James R.Osgood, page 202:
text: the long cave of the fort dining room, with tall candles of buffalo tallow wildly aflicker, and fiddle bows sawing,
ref: 1978, Conrad Richter, “As It Was in the Beginning”, in The Rawhide Knot and Other Stories, New York: Knopf, page 182:
text: whole families grouped around tables, young heads bent over homework, dens aflicker with TV,
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections, London: Fourth Estate, published 2007, page 309:
glosses: Flickering.
aflicker
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From a- + flicker.
Senses: glosses: Flickering.
Mandingos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mandingo
Mandingoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mandingo
melenite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μέλι (méli, “honey”), from its honey-like colour, + -ite.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of melinite (“explosive”).
mole rats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mole rat
impostrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more impostrous
form: most impostrous
Senses: examples: 1846-56, George Grote, A History of Greece
Rhetoric (argues Plato in the dialogue called Gorgias) is no art whatever, but a mere unscientific knack, enslaved to the dominant prejudices, and nothing better than an impostrous parody on the true political art.
glosses: Characterized by imposture; deceitful.
palpocil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palpocils
Etymology: See palpus and cilium.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A minute soft filamentary process springing from the surface of certain hydroids and sponges.
Related terms: english: may be synonymous
translation: may be synonymous
word: synocil
palpocils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palpocil
fauchion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fauchions
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of falchion.
kaw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɔː
Forms: form: kaws
form: kawing
form: kawed
form: kawed
Senses: examples: text: […]difficult to separate Raven the demigod, from the sable, kawing, cunning bird so conspicuous all over northern Canada[…]
ref: 1968, Ernest Ingersoll, Birds in legend, fable, and folklore:
glosses: Alternative form of caw.
kaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔː
Forms: form: kaws
Senses: examples: text: Over half of the crows anticipated the feeder, and peered in the window of the building from whence the crow feeder would emerge prior to a feeding session. A majority also called loudly with a short staccato sequence of 3–5 kaws at the start of the feeding session.
ref: 2013, Guenther Witzany, Biocommunication of Animals, page 197:
glosses: Alternative form of caw.
kawed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kaw
kaws
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kaw
allochroite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From allo- + Ancient Greek χρώς (khrṓs) + -ite. Cf. allochroic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a type of Garnet.
anneloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anneloids
Etymology: annelid + -oid
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any animal resembling an annelid.
anneloids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anneloid
eyesplice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eyesplices
Etymology: From eye + splice.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eye splice.
eyesplices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eyesplice
fruticant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fruticant
form: most fruticant
Etymology: From Latin fruticans, present participle of fruticare (“to become bushy”), from frutex, fruticis (“shrub”).
Senses: examples: text: These we shall divide into the Greater and more Ceduous , Fruticant and shrubby ; Feras and wild ; or more Civiliz'd and domestique
ref: 1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Full of shoots.
sphericle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: spherical
Forms: form: sphericles
Senses: glosses: A small sphere.
sphericles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sphericle
glozer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡləʊzə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: glozers
Etymology: From gloze + -er.
Senses: glosses: A glosser; one who covers things in gloss.
examples: text: To toss the buckler and the blade,
Lewd women to entice:
Are not these virtues most esteemed
And had in greatest price:
To lend each man a friendly look,
And use the glozer's art,
In outward show to bear good will,
And hate him with our heart
ref: 1580, Humphrey Gifford, A Posie of Gilloflowers Each Differing from Other in Colour and Odour, Yet All Sweet:
glosses: A flatterer.
glozers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glozer
overrigorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overrigorous
form: most overrigorous
Etymology: From over- + rigorous.
Senses: glosses: Excessively rigorous.
Derived terms: overrigorously
aliner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aliners
Senses: examples: text: as every Tree must answer exactly to two ranks, there must be two Aliners, viz. one for each rank
ref: 1676, John Evelyn, A Philosophical Discourse of Earth […] :
glosses: Archaic form of aligner.
aliners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aliner
Brabantine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Brabantine
form: most Brabantine
Etymology: From Brabant + -ine.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Brabantian.
synonyms: word: Brabantian
red-tapist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red-tapists
Etymology: From red tape + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: And the Lansmere interest need not be beaten , if you'll put up another man instead of this red-tapist
ref: 1853, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, My Novel, or Varieties in English Life:
glosses: One who strictly adheres to official formalities.
red-tapists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red-tapist
trochometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trochometers
Etymology: From trocho- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: A device for counting the revolutions of a wheel; an odometer.
trochometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trochometer
brigge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brigges
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of bridge.
electorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Senses: examples: text: they would soon erect themselves into an electorial college
ref: 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:
glosses: electoral
Derived terms: electorially
heteropodous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Heteropoda + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Heteropoda (any of the zoological subdivisions).
illustrable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more illustrable
form: most illustrable
Etymology: From illustrate + -able, imitating a pattern of omitting -ate when adding -able, a pattern probably derived from words derived from Latin adjectives that are derived from Latin verbs which entered English via a form derived from the past participle.
Senses: examples: text: Mechanicks make uſe hereof in forcipall Organs, and Inſtruments of Inciſion; vvherein vvho can but magnifie the povver of decuſſation, inſervient to contrary ends, ſolution and conſolidation, union, and diviſion, illuſtrable from Ariſtotle in the old Nucifragium or Nutcracker, and the Inſtruments of Evulſion, compreſſion, or inciſion; […]
ref: 1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter II.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, pages 112–113:
synonyms: illustratable
glosses: Capable of illustration.
mortifiedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mortified + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being mortified; humiliation; mortification
photologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photologists
Etymology: From photo- + -logist.
Senses: glosses: An expert in photology
photologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photologist
strombite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strombites
Etymology: Strombus + -ite
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A fossil shell of the genus Strombus.
strombites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strombite
kive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kiv/
/kɪv/
Forms: form: kives
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of keeve.
ischiorectal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ischio- + rectal.
Senses: examples: text: ischiorectal abscess
text: ischiorectal fossa
text: ischiorectal sex
text: ischiorectal space
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the region between the rectum and the ischial tuberosity.
riveret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riverets
Etymology: From river + -et?
Senses: examples: text: Of Cranburn that is call’d; who greatly joyes to see
A Riveret borne of her, for Stours should reckned bee,
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 2 p. 27:
glosses: A rivulet, a small river.
riverets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of riveret
trickest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of trick: most trick
hypernet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypernets
Etymology: From hyper- + net.
Senses: glosses: The Internet, inclusive of smartphones and WiFi networks.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A kind of collection of linked Petri nets.
hyperweb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperwebs
Etymology: From hyper- + web.
Senses: glosses: the software infrastructure for the hypernet, which provides access to data and application storage points in the cloud.
sugar walls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the suggestive 1984 song "Sugar Walls", written by Prince and performed by Sheena Easton.
Senses: examples: text: She asked if I would mind dipping in the sugar walls / I said it ain't no thang for Super Balls
ref: 1996 June 11, Insane Clown Posse, “Super Balls” (track 3), in Tunnel of Love:
text: Some women need a little more preparation before you go entering the sugar walls.
ref: 1998, Kim Coles, I'm Free, But It'll Cost You: The Single Life According to Kim Coles, Hyperion Books, →ISBN, page 126:
glosses: The vagina.
examples: text: In retrospect, during the '80s, when I could have been fucked by half of the gay ghetto, I took care of myself by loving a supportive, nurturing partner. He was far from perfect. He had a bad temper and knew nothing about the arts. Even more importantly, my sugar walls went unappreciated by him — and by the many Greenwich Village men I hid from and desperately wanted during hundreds of lifeless evenings spent watching television with my passive lover in Brooklyn.
ref: 1992 April 13, Christopher Street, volume 14, number 20, page 36:
glosses: The rectum, especially in relation to anal sex.
squish mitten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squish mittens
Senses: examples: text: Gregory House: Okay. Then why did you take her to a play?
James Wilson: She's a friend.
Gregory House: A friend with a squish mitten.
ref: 2007 April 17, Sara Hess et al, "Act Your Age", episode 3-19 of House, 00:20:12
text: Coop shakes his head. "Oh, you poor, naive little boys. That's a shot of her squish mitten."
ref: 2012, Don Calame, Call the Shots, Candlewick Press, →ISBN, page 334:
text: She warned them that unless they wanted to see a lot of gushing birth fluids and a pregnant woman's squish-mitten, then they would stay outside. Both men looked a little green at that warning, or maybe it was her vagina euphemism, […]
ref: 2015, Sarah Leyton, Defending Nora, Siren Publishing, →ISBN, page 102:
glosses: The vagina.
football pool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: football pools
Senses: glosses: A competition in which people try to predict the results of football matches and win money
karate chops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of karate chop
jus sanguinis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʒʌs ˈsæŋɡwɪnɪs/
ipa: /juːs-/
Etymology: From Latin iūs (“law”) + sanguinis (“of blood”).
Senses: examples: text: In the system of state, a relation between individual and the state is showed with nationality that based on two principles: jus soli (bond of the soil) and jus sanguinis (bond of blood). Vatican City has an exceptional system in relation with its citizens. The constitution of Vatican City is not recognise Vatican City’s nationality, and only admit Vatican City’s citizenship that granted based on jus officii (a bond arising from office holding)
ref: 2010/2011, Ajeng Tri Wahyuni, “STATE RESPONSIBILITY OF VATICAN CITY STATE (HOLY SEE) IN INTERNATIONAL LAW FOR THE SEXUAL ABUSE CASES INVOLVING CHILDREN (PERPETRATED BY CATHOLIC CLERGYMEN) THAT SETTLED WITH CANON LAW”, in Tilburg University, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2022, page 26:
text: “A shift from jus soli to jus sanguinis has been witnessed in Asia in the course of the twentieth century,” wrote Olivier Vonk at the Maastricht Centre in a 2017 paper.
ref: 2021 March 15, Jessie Yeung, “These Asian countries are giving dual citizens an ultimatum on nationality – and loyalty”, in CNN:
coordinate_terms: jus officii
jus soli
glosses: The right of citizenship in a nation acquired by being born to a parent or parents with citizenship in that nation.
carite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carites
Senses: glosses: Cero (a type of fish).
GIIPS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of PIIGS.
cistophorus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cistophoruses
form: cistophori
Senses: glosses: an Asiatic coin, worth about four drachmas, on which was stamped a cista
Related terms: cistophoric
cistophori
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cistophorus
decuries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decury
anagogics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀναγωγικός (anagōgikós), derived from ἀναγωγή (anagōgḗ, “lifting up of the soul”).
Senses: examples: text: As is to be seen Novella 146, where the Notes upon that Conſtitution ſay , that the Miſna Torab was Compoſed out of the Caballiſticks and Anagogicks of the Jews, or ſome allegorical interpretations, pretended to be derived from Moses.
ref: 1675, Lancelot Addison, The Present State of the Jews:
glosses: Mystical interpretations or studies, especially of the Scriptures.
Related terms: anagoge
anagogy
diaphote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diaphotes
Etymology: From dia- + Ancient Greek φώς (phṓs, “light”).
Senses: glosses: A supposed instrument designed for transmitting pictures by telegraph. It turned out the device was a hoax.
diaphotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diaphote
separatistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more separatistic
form: most separatistic
Etymology: From separatist + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: separatistic leaders
text: separatistic movement
text: separatistic tendency
glosses: Of or pertaining to separatists; schismatical; pro-separatism
supratrochlear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsu.pɹəˈtɹɑk.li.ɚ/
rhymes: -ɒkliə(ɹ)
Etymology: From supra- + trochlear.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
antonyms: infratrochlear
glosses: Situated over or above a trochlea or trochlear surface.
Derived terms: supratrochlear artery
supratrochlear nerve
veratrina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of veratrine.
caudad
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈkɔːdæd/
Etymology: From Latin cauda (“tail”) + ad (“to”). By surface analysis, caudo- + -ad.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: backwards; toward the tail or posterior part
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: towards the feet (only in humans); inferior.
Coordinate terms: cephalic
caudal
caudo-
Derived terms: mesocaudad