cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cunt-whore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cunt-whores
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cuntwhore.
cunt whore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cunt whores
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cuntwhore.
cuntwhores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuntwhore
cunt whores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cunt whore
cunt-whores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cunt-whore
overweened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overween
overweens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overween
loover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loovers
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of louver.
loovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loover
fannel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fannels
Etymology: Diminutive, from same source as fanon.
Senses: glosses: fanon (religious garment)
glosses: A vexillum or banner.
fannels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fannel
churrus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charras
form: churus
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani छरस (charas) / چھَرَس (charas).
Senses: glosses: A narcotic gum resin which exudes from the flower heads, seeds, etc., of Indian hemp.
churrus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: churruses
form: charras
form: churus
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani छरस (charas) / چھَرَس (charas).
Senses: glosses: A device used in India for drawing water from wells and discharging it into irrigation channels by means of pulley ropes and a large bag of hide.
epithetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛpɪˈθɛtɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Etymology: From epithet + -ic. Cognate with Ancient Greek ἐπῐθετῐκός (epĭthetĭkós) and Greek επιθετικός (epithetikós).
Senses: examples: text: epithetic names for the gods
text: In epithetic measur'd prose.
ref: a. 1764, Robert Lloyd, On Rhyme:
glosses: Of or relating to epithets.
examples: text: an epithetic vowel
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to epithesis.
Derived terms: epithetically
epitheses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epithesis
epithesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛpɪˈθiːsɪs/
rhymes: -iːsɪs
Forms: form: epitheses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐπίθεσις (epíthesis).
Senses: examples: text: Some linguists distinguish between epenthesis, addition within a word, and epithesis, addition at the end.
ref: 1972, Bruce L. Liles, Linguistics and the English Language: A Transformational Approach:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The addition of a letter or sound at the end of a word, without changing its meaning.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The surgical correction of deformity or of crooked limbs.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A splint or other appliance to be worn.
Related terms: epithetic
epenthesis
gynaecian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: rare spelling of gynecian
prosenchyma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From proso- + -enchyma.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: atractenchyma
prosoplectenchyma
glosses: The tissues formed of elongated cells, especially those with pointed or oblique extremities, such as the principal cells of ordinary wood.
counite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: counites
form: couniting
form: counited
form: counited
Etymology: From co- + unite.
Senses: glosses: To bring together; to unite.
couniting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of counite
counites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of counite
counited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of counite
biotaxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + Ancient Greek τάξις (táxis, “arrangement”) + -y.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The classification of living organisms according to their structural character; taxonomy.
arew
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /əˈɹəʊ/
Etymology: See arow, row.
Senses: examples: text: all her teeth arew
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 29:
text: Twelve lodgings of like stone, like height, were likewise built arew.
ref: [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of arow (“in a row”).
bifurcous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin bifurcus, from bis (“twice”) + furca (“fork”).
Senses: examples: text: The feet of the Prong Buck are bifurcous, considerably smaller than those of the deer , slim and sharply pointed , strongly convex on top , having the outer edges slightly concave
ref: 1877, John Dean Caton, The Antelope and Deer of America:
glosses: bifurcate
espacements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of espacement
estafettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of estafette
discoverture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈkʌ.və.tjʊə/
ipa: /dɪsˈkʌ.və.tʃʊə/
ipa: /dɪsˈkʌ.və.tʃə/
ipa: /dɪsˈkʌvɚˌt͡ʃʊɚ/
ipa: /dɪsˈkʌvɚˌt͡ʃɚ/
Forms: form: discovertures
Etymology: From Old French descoverture.
Senses: glosses: discovery
topics: law
glosses: A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband.
discovertures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discoverture
schizocoele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊl
Forms: form: schizocoeles
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σχίζω (skhízō, “I split”) + κήλη (kḗlē, “tumour”; especially “hernia”; “rupture””).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A body cavity that forms by the splitting of mesodermal tissue to create a coelomic cavity.
schizocoeles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schizocoele
salaeratus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of saleratus.
disponge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈpʌnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ʌndʒ
Forms: form: disponges
form: disponging
form: disponged
form: disponged
form: dispunge
Etymology: From dis- + sponge.
Senses: examples: text: The poisonous damp of night disponge upon me.
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ix]:
glosses: To sprinkle, as with water from a sponge.
disponged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disponge
disponges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disponge
disponging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disponge
retecious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈtiːʃəs/
ipa: /ɹəˈtiːʃəs/
ipa: /ɹəˈtiːʃəs/
ipa: /ɹiˈtiːʃəs/
Forms: form: more retecious
form: most retecious
Etymology: Apparently from Latin rēte (“a net”) + -acious.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:retecious.
glosses: Resembling netting; retiform.
dogshore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dogshores
Etymology: From dog + shore.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: One of several shores used to prevent a ship from moving while the blocks are knocked away before launching.
dogshores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dogshore
divedapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: divedappers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of didapper.
divedappers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of divedapper
midwive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: midwives
form: midwiving
form: midwived
form: midwived
Etymology: From Middle English *midwiven, *mydwyven, suggested by the verbal noun mydwyvyng (“midwivery”, literally “midwiving”).
Senses: examples: text: “Midwiving the relationship” is a descriptive term covering a variety of sensitive and often subtle techniques, interventions, and other actions and stances taken by the therapist in order to help the marital partners attempt the following: […]
ref: 1996, William C. Nichols, Treating People in Families, page 155:
text: He had midwived Inkatha and drafted most of the ANC's policy concerning it, and now at the meeting, he – rather than others who were senior to him – played the key role as Tambo's second.
ref: 2013, Mark Gevisser, Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred:
text: Despite Richard's efforts to midwive his own narrative of legitimacy, the source of this legendary one cannot be controlled because it has moved from the mouths of nurses, midwives and gossips into the public domain.
ref: 2017, Caroline Bicks, Midwiving Subjects in Shakespeare’s England, page 123:
glosses: Alternative form of midwife (verb).
Monandrian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Dated form of monandrous.
misentreat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misentreats
form: misentreating
form: misentreated
form: misentreated
Etymology: From mis- + entreat.
Senses: examples: text: A clerke‥sayd it was not hones […]to mysentrete the holy body by vyolente hondes.
ref: 1483, Jacobus (de Voragine), William Caxton, Frederick Startridge Ellis, The golden legend, or, Lives of the saints
glosses: To treat wrongfully.
misentreated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misentreat
misentreating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misentreat
diglottism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈɡlɒtɪzəm/
Forms: form: diglottisms
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δίγλωττος (díglōttos, “speaking two languages”), from δι- (di-, “two”) + γλῶττα (glôtta, “tongue”).
Senses: examples: text: there are two of these diglottisms in a single line
ref: 1871, John Earle, The Philology of the English Tongue:
glosses: bilingualism
Related terms: diglossia
diglottisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diglottism
stag-evil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The disease called by the farriers stag evil is one of the most obstinate and fatal that takes place , and appears to arise from some cause operating on the nervous system
ref: 1802, Delabere Blaine, The Outlines of the Veterinary Art Or the Principles of Medicine:
glosses: tetanus in the jaw of a horse
myeloidin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From myelin + -oid + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A substance present in the protoplasm of the retinal epithelium cells, and resembling, if not identical with, the myelin that forms the medullary sheaths of nerve fibres.
sesquialter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛskwɪˈaltər/
ipa: /sɛskwɪˈaltə/
Etymology: From Latin sēsquialter, from sēsqui- (“a half and a”) + alter (“another, a second”).
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Synonym of sesquialterate, 1½ times.
synonyms: word: sesquialterate
word: 1½ times
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Synonym of sesquialteral, of or relating to 1½ notes.
synonyms: word: sesquialteral
word: of or relating to 1½ notes
sesquialter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛskwɪˈaltər/
ipa: /sɛskwɪˈaltə/
Forms: form: sesquialters
Etymology: From Latin sēsquialter, from sēsqui- (“a half and a”) + alter (“another, a second”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Synonym of sesquialtera, a 1½ note.
synonyms: word: sesquialtera
extra: a 1½ note
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Synonym of sesquialtera, an organ stop.
synonyms: word: sesquialtera
extra: an organ stop
despecification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + specification.
Senses: examples: text: […] Brooten's despecification of the term "tribade" and her tendency to understand it as if it were a generic designation for a woman possessed of a lifelong homoerotic orientation.
ref: 2002, Martha Craven Nussbaum, Juha Sihvola, The Sleep of Reason, page 267:
glosses: The act of generalizing, or making less specific.
glosses: discrimination
Synonyms: sense: act of generalizing
word: generalization
word: universalization
word: generalization
Related terms: despecificate
perquisited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From perquisite + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: perquisited varlets frequent stand.
ref: 1737, Richard Savage, On Public Spirit in Regard to Public Works:
glosses: Supplied with perquisites.
Savagean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Savagean
form: most Savagean
Etymology: From Savage + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Leonard Jimmie Savage (1917–1971), American mathematician and statistician.
chirm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɜː(ɹ)m/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)m
Forms: form: chirms
form: churm
form: churme
Etymology: From Middle English chirmen (“to chirp, twitter”), from Old English ċirman (“to make a noise, cry out, shout”), from Proto-West Germanic *karmijan (“to make a sound”).
The noun is from Middle English chirm (“the call of various birds; chirping”), from Old English ċirm, ċyrm, ċierm (“noise, cry, alarm”), from Proto-West Germanic *karmi, *karm, from Proto-Germanic *karmaz, *karmiz. Doublet of charm (“sound, voices; group, flock”).
Senses: glosses: A din or confused noise, as of many voices, birdsong, etc.
chirm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɜː(ɹ)m/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)m
Forms: form: chirms
form: chirming
form: chirmed
form: chirmed
form: churm
form: churme
Etymology: From Middle English chirmen (“to chirp, twitter”), from Old English ċirman (“to make a noise, cry out, shout”), from Proto-West Germanic *karmijan (“to make a sound”).
The noun is from Middle English chirm (“the call of various birds; chirping”), from Old English ċirm, ċyrm, ċierm (“noise, cry, alarm”), from Proto-West Germanic *karmi, *karm, from Proto-Germanic *karmaz, *karmiz. Doublet of charm (“sound, voices; group, flock”).
Senses: examples: text: Chyrme or chur, as byrdes do.
ref: 1552, Richard Huloet, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: To chirp or to make a mournful cry, as a bird does.
chirmed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chirm
chirming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chirm
chirms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chirm
sameliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From samely + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: the sameliness of the melody, its majestic uniformity
ref: 1859, Peter Bayne, Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Miscellaneous:
glosses: sameness; similarity; monotony
Synonyms: sameness
halter-sack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halter-sacks
Senses: examples: text: Away! you halter-sack!
ref: 1612 January 5 (first performance, Gregorian calendar; published 1619), Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “A King, and No King”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii:
glosses: Someone fit to be hanged i.e. a scoundrel.
halter-sacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halter-sack
corrivalship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corivalship
Etymology: From corrival + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: As alſo, how by the corrivalſhip of Sha-gad his falſe friend, Ruſtan was deſtroy’d by falling into a pit covered with boughs and Earth;
ref: 1677, Tho[mas] Herbert, Some Yeares Travels into Divers Parts of Africa, and Asia the Great. […], 4th edition, London: […] R. Everingham, for R. Scot, T. Basset, J[ohn] Wright, and R. Chiswell, →OCLC, page 149:
glosses: joint rivalry
Synonyms: corrivalry
esplees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin expletia, Old French espleit. Compare exploit.
Senses: examples: text: in a writ of Eſchete, in a writ of right ſur diſclaimer, and ſuch like, which are founded vpon the ſeigniory, and not vpon any ſeiſin of the land it ſelfe, no eſplees ſhall be alledged
ref: 1627, Henry Finch, Lavv: Or, A Discovrse Thereof, in Foure Bookes:
topics: law
glosses: The full profits or products yielded by land, such as hay, pasturage, grain, rents, services, and the like.
dewarra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: cowrie shells formerly used as currency in parts of Papua New Guinea
poecilopod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poecilopods
Etymology: Compare French poecilopode.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the Poecilopoda, a former order of arthropods including king crabs, trilobites and horseshoe crabs.
poecilopods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poecilopod
almagra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: almagras
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish almagra (more commonly almagre), from Arabic الْمُغْرَة (al-muḡra, “red clay or earth”).
Senses: glosses: ruddle (red ochre found in Spain)
surcle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surcles
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin surculus. Doublet of surculus.
Senses: examples: text: And even that seeds themselves in their rudimentall discoveries appear in foliaceous surcles, or sprouts within their coverings, in a diaphanous gellie, before deeper incrassation, is also visibly verified in Cherries, Acorns, Plums.
ref: 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus:
glosses: A little shoot or branch; a twig; a sucker.
surcles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surcle
shootlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shootlets
Etymology: From shoot + -let.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A small shoot.
shootlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shootlet
cryopreservative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryopreservatives
Etymology: From cryo- + preservative.
Senses: glosses: Any substance used for cryopreservation.
cryopreservatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryopreservative
countervote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkaʊntə(ɹ)ˈvəʊt/
ipa: /ˈkaʊntə(ɹ)ˌvəʊt/
Forms: form: countervotes
form: countervoting
form: countervoted
form: countervoted
Etymology: From counter- + vote.
Senses: glosses: To vote against.
examples: 1697-1698, John Scott, Practical Discourses upon Several Subjects
he would doubtless have been more a Friend to himself and a Father to his Family than to have countervoted God in his Choice and Election for him.
glosses: To balance or overcome by voting.
countervote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkaʊntə(ɹ)ˈvəʊt/
ipa: /ˈkaʊntə(ɹ)ˌvəʊt/
Forms: form: countervotes
Etymology: From counter- + vote.
Senses: glosses: A vote that goes against another.
countervoted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of countervote
countervotes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of countervote
countervoting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of countervote
sharpling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sharplings
Etymology: From sharp + -ling. Compare German Schärfling (“stickleback”).
Senses: glosses: A stickleback.
sharplings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sharpling
puddle bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puddle bars
Senses: topics: arts
crafts
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
metallurgy
metalworking
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An iron bar made at a single heat from a puddle ball, by hammering and rolling.
puddle bars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puddle bar
pelma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pelmata
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πέλμᾰ (pélmă).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: The undersurface of the foot.
Synonyms: sole
Kurdophones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kurdophone
glyptodon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glyptodons
Etymology: From the New Latin genus name Glyptodon (from Ancient Greek Ancient Greek γλυπτός (gluptós, “sculptured”) + -odon (“tooth”), 'grooved or carved tooth').
Senses: examples: text: The more striking phenomena first and most strongly impress the mind, which contrasts for example, the great Cave-Bears of Europe with the actual Brown Bear, the Megatheriods of South America with the small existing sloths, and the gigantic Glyptodons with the Armadillos.
ref: 1851 June 11, The Geelong Advertiser, Victoria, page 1, column 2:
text: Statues of beasts stood with their backs to the four walls of the court, eyes turned to watch the canted dial: hulking barylambdas; arctothers, the monarchs of bears; glyptodons; smilodons with fangs like glaives.
ref: 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter IV, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 43:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A member of the genus Glyptodon of extinct giant armadillos.
glosses: Synonym of glyptodontid.
synonyms: word: glyptodontid
glyptodons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glyptodon
hypernoea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypernea
Etymology: From Ancient Greek over + breath.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: abnormal breathing, due to slightly deficient arterialization of the blood.
Related terms: dispnoea
eupnoea
girrock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: girrocks
Etymology: Compare Provençal French chicarou.
Senses: glosses: |(archaic) A garfish.
girrocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of girrock
Mauresque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Mauresque
form: most Mauresque
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Moresque.
camphoric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid, C₁₀H₁₆O₄, obtained from camphor.
Related terms: campholic acid
campholic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid with chemical formula C₁₀H₁₈O₂, obtained from camphor.
Related terms: camphoric acid
camphoronic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid, C₉H₁₂O₅, obtained from camphor.
himselve
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of himself.
choltries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of choltry
choltry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choltries
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of choultry.
siliquiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more siliquiform
form: most siliquiform
Etymology: From silique + -form: compare French siliquiforme.
Senses: examples: text: siliquiform capsule
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the form of a silique.
monochord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monochords
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin monochordon, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek μονόχορδον (monókhordon). By surface analysis, mono- + chord.
Senses: examples: text: If a musician were going to give a lecture upon the mathematical part of his art, he would find a very elegant substitute for the monochord in the Chinese kin.
ref: 1840, Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams, The Chinese Repository, page 40:
glosses: A musical instrument for experimenting with the mathematical relations of musical sounds, consisting of a single string stretched between two bridges, one or both of which can be moved, and which stand upon a graduated rule for the purpose of changing and measuring the length of the part of the string between them.
glosses: A stringed instrument with only one string.
glosses: A bass note on a piano that has a single string.
Synonyms: english: used in the context of ancient Greek music
translation: used in the context of ancient Greek music
word: kanon
Derived terms: monochordist
monochords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monochord
splenotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of splenotomy
splenotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: splenotomies
Etymology: From spleno- + -tomy.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: dissection of, incision into, or anatomy of the spleen.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: splenectomy
calorifacient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪʃənt
Forms: form: more calorifacient
form: most calorifacient
form: calorificient
Etymology: From calori- + -facient.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: heat-producing; applied to foods which, being rich in carbon, as the fats, are supposed to give rise to heat in the animal body by oxidation.
sacramentaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sacramentary
alouatte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alouattes
Etymology: From French alouatte, alouate, from a Cariban language; compare Kari'na arawata, Trió arawata, Wayana alawata, Ye'kwana adawa'ta, Apalaí arauta, Akawaio arawta, Pemon arauta, Macushi arauta. Compare araguato.
Senses: examples: text: I understood what he meant, and said, ‘Alouattes are shot every day.’
ref: 1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter XI, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 91:
glosses: A South American howler monkey (of the genus Alouatta).
alouattes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alouatte
tithymal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tithymals
Etymology: From Latin tithymalus.
Senses: glosses: Any kind of spurge, especially Euphorbia cyparissias.
tithymals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tithymal
gastness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of ghastness.
fillipeen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪlɪpiːn/
homophone: Philippine
Forms: form: fillipeens
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of philopena.
fillipeens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fillipeen
grakle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grakles
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of grackle.
grakles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grakle
deloul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delouls
Etymology: Probably of Bedouin Arabic origin.
Senses: examples: text: We had a seven hours' ride on the delouls, leaving the caravan to follow, to the large ruin of Abou Maria.
ref: 1853, Austen Henry Layard, Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon:
glosses: A fast-running dromedary camel.
delouls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deloul
housling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See houselling.
Senses: examples: text: The housling fire did kindle and provide
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: sacramental
housling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: houslings
Etymology: See houselling.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A communicant.
parquette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parquettes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of parquet.
parquette
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: parquettes
form: parquetting
form: parquetted
form: parquetted
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of parquet.
parquettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parquette
parquettes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of parquette
crampit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crampits
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crampet.
crampits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crampit
Twelfth cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwɛlfθ ˌkeɪk/
Forms: form: Twelfth cakes
Senses: examples: text: Set the cake you intend to Ice in an oven or warm place five minutes, — then spread over the top and sides with the mixture as smooth as possible; — if for a Wedding Cake, only plain ice it; if for a Twelfth Cake, ornament it with Gum Paste, […]
ref: 1836, William Kitchiner, Cook's Oracle: Containing Receipts for Plain Cookery, Robert Cadell/Whittaker and Co. London/John Cumming (1836), page 363
text: They had holidays, too, and Twelfth cakes, and parties where they danced all night till midnight, and real theatres where they saw palaces of gold and silver rise out of the real earth, and saw all the wonders of the world at once.
ref: 1853, Charles Dickens, "The Child's Story", in A Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire, Ward, Stringer & Townsend (1853), page 9
text: As supper ended, the Twelfth Night entertainments began. […] The "Twelfth Cake" was carried in. The sides of this massive concoction were sculptured like desert dunes, and on top rode a miniature procession of figures representing the three Magi and their camels.
ref: 2007, Helen Halstead, Mr. Darcy Presents His Bride, Ulysses Press, published 2007, →ISBN, page 54:
synonyms: epiphany cake
king cake
king's cake
kings' cake
three kings' cake
twelfth day cake
glosses: A decorative cake distributed among friends or visitors on the festival of Twelfth Night (which is either the evening of January 5th or of January 6th, depending on interpretation).
Twelfth cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Twelfth cake
dionaea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdaɪəˈniːə/
rhymes: -iːə
Forms: form: dionaeas
Etymology: From translingual Dionaea, from Ancient Greek Διωναία (Diōnaía), a name of Aphrodite.
Senses: examples: text: He managed, in his enthusiasm, to kill several dionaeas by closing the traps with the tip of a pencil as soon as they opened, eventually exhausting them.
ref: 2001, The Garden, volume 126, page 258:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Venus flytrap
dionaeas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dionaea
psychism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychisms
Etymology: Compare French psychisme.
Senses: examples: text: PSYCHISM […]is the word to denote the doctrine that there is a fluid, diffused throughout all nature[…]
ref: 1858, William Fleming, The Vocabulary of Philosophy:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The old doctrine that there is a fluid (continuity) universally diffusing, and equally animating all living beings, the difference in their actions being due to the difference of the individual organizations.
Derived terms: word: infrapsychism
word: panpsychism
Related terms: psychist
chrysosperm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χρυσός (khrusós, “gold”) + σπέρμα (spérma, “seed, semen”), equivalent to chryso- + sperm.
Senses: examples: text: Of your elixir, your lac Virginis, Your stone, your med'cine , and your chrysosperm
text: How sir! When you have not tried my chrysosperm and marchesyte?
ref: 1857, Thomas (of Swarraton, armiger, pseud.), The Noble Traytour, page 232:
text: This substance was the original principle of all matter, the alpha and omega, the general solvent, the universal menstruum, the mighty mastery, the great king, the fiery tincture, the helmeted hero, the bird of Hermes, the seal of Solomon, the powder of projection, the chrysosperm, the subject of the sages, the flower of the sun, the elemental soul, the perfect ruby, the red hyacinth, the fire of nature, the water of life, in a word, the philosopher's stone.
ref: 1893, “The Black Art”, in The Pall Mall Magazine, volume 1, page 54:
text: For our most excellent celestial fixed water will open up the fiery volatile body and draw out a secret running white sulphur which the philosophers call chrysosperm ['gold seed'], that is, the soul of the metals.
ref: 2007, Patrick Harpur, Mercurius, Or, the Marriage of Heaven & Earth, page 165:
topics: alchemy
pseudoscience
glosses: The seed of gold; an alchemical means of creating gold.
examples: text: Of dusky light escaped the journeying clouds That hid the ample sun and left his beams A deeper hue of topaz, chrysosperm To milt the earth with harvest;
ref: 1904, John Davidson, Testaments: The testament of a prime minister, page 50:
text: The chrysosperm in sunbeams pent A largesse squandered.
ref: 1909, John Davidson, “Liverpool Street Station”, in Fleet Street: And Other Poems, page 49:
glosses: Sunlight, which turns the world golden.
eame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eames
Senses: examples: text: Three times the shape of my dear mother came, / Pale, sad, dismay'd, to warn me in my dream: // Alas! how far transformed from the same, / Whose eyes shone erst like Titan's glorious beam.— // Daughter, she says, fly, fly, behold thy dame, / Foreshows the treasons of thy wretched eame.
ref: 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book IV, xlix
glosses: Obsolete form of eam (“an uncle”).
presentaneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more presentaneous
form: most presentaneous
Etymology: From Latin praesentaneus. See present (adjective).
Senses: examples: text: in the manner of a most presentaneous poyson, they enecate in two or three hours
ref: 1673, Gideon Harvey, A Discourse of the Plague:
glosses: ready; quick; immediate in effect
Mercatorian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Mercatorian
form: most Mercatorian
Etymology: From Mercator + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Gerardus Mercator, 16th-century Flemish cartographer who invented the Mercator projection.
camel jockey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camel jockeys
form: camel-jockey
Senses: glosses: An athlete who rides camels in races.
examples: text: The government thinks these stupid camel jockeys are going to come to America and take revenge.
ref: 2008, Nelson DeMille, The Lion's Game:
glosses: An Arab.
radiowaste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiowastes
Etymology: From radio- + waste.
Senses: glosses: radioactive waste
radiowastes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radiowaste
tetrodont
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tetrodont
form: most tetrodont
form: tetradont
form: tetraodont
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or relating to the tetrodons.
tetrodont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetrodonts
form: tetradont
form: tetraodont
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A tetrodon.
tetrodonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetrodont
pinedrops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pine + drops.
Senses: glosses: A reddish herb (Pterospora andromedea) of the United States. It is mycoheterotrophic, and found in coniferous or mixed forests.
holothure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holothures
Etymology: Latin holothuria, plural, a sort of water polyp, from Ancient Greek.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sea cucumber.
synonyms: word: sea cucumber
holothures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holothure
amidin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amidins
Etymology: Borrowed from French amidine, from amido (“starch”), from Latin amylum.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Starch modified by heat so as to become a transparent mass, like horn. It is soluble in cold water.
amidins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amidin
étourderie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪˈtɔːd(ə)ɹi/
Forms: form: étourderies
Etymology: From French étourderie.
Senses: examples: text: [S]ome sudden etourderie not at all in harmony with my feelings; some trait, in the character of her country, has suddenly dissolved the charm, and awakened me to a full sense of the folly I was guilty of.
ref: 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 119:
text: Henry is blameless, and in spite of a moment's étourderie thinks of nobody but you.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], Mansfield Park: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
text: His love affairs appeared as the étourderies of a much younger man.
ref: 1958, Iris Murdoch, The Bell:
glosses: Thoughtlessness, carelessness; a thoughtless act.
enouncement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enouncements
Etymology: From enounce + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of enouncing or something enounced; a proclamation.
enouncements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enouncement
consertion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin consertio, from conserere, consertum (“to connect”), from con- + serere (“to join”).
Senses: examples: text: Consertion of design, how exquisite.
ref: 1745, [Edward Young], “Night the Ninth and Last. The Consolation. Containing, among Other Things, I. A Moral Survey of the Nocturnal Heavens. II. A Night-Address to the Deity. To which are Annex’d, Some Thoughts, Occasioned by the Present Juncture, …”, in The Complaint, London: […] , →OCLC:
glosses: junction; adaptation
cutose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin cutis (“skin”) + -ose.
Senses: examples: text: Oxidation of cutose yields suberic acid.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A variety of cellulose, occurring as a fine transparent membrane covering the aerial organs of plants, and forming an essential ingredient of cork.
pigeonfoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pigeon + foot.
Senses: glosses: A dovesfoot geranium (Geranium molle).
openwork stockings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of openwork stocking
open wounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of open wound
Simonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪˈməʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /sɪˈ-/
ipa: /saɪˈmoʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /sɪˈ-/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Simonians
Etymology: From Simon + -ian. See simony.
Senses: examples: text: It is no coincidence that the Gospel of John portray's Jesus in terms analogous to the Simonians' depiction of Simon. Could the first converts among the Children of LIght have been Simonians who transferred their Gnostic mythology from Simon Magus to Jesus?
ref: 2016, April D. DeConick, The Gnostic New Age:
text: The church fathers who attacked heresies took this up and made Simon Magus not only the founder of the Simonians, but of gnosis as a whole
ref: 2003, Hans-Josef Klauck, Magic and Paganism in Early Christianity, page 16:
text: Simonians used sex to pollute women in imitation of their founder .
ref: 2021, Alberto Ferreiro, Simon Magus in Patristic, Medieval and Early Modern Traditions:
glosses: One of the followers of Simon Magus.
examples: text: The Simonians did not truly follow the Roman gods, but instead venerated their order's founders—Simon and his wife, Helena—in the guises of Zeus and Minerva.
ref: 2016, Mark Latham, The Cthulhu Campaigns: Ancient Rome, page 25:
text: He considered the Simonian veneration of Simon to be blasphemy. He never seems to have examined why Simonians honored Simon's reputed icon.
ref: 2022, M. David Litwa, Found Christianities:
text: Simonians associate Helena, Simon's consort, with Athena, who sprung from the head of Zeus, just as Thought, particularly associated with Helena, emanates from Mind..
ref: 2022, Daniel B. Glover, Patterns of Deification in the Acts of the Apostles, page 113:
glosses: An adherent of an early Christian heretical sect that worshiped Simon of Samaria (Simon Magus) as divine.
Simonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪˈməʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /sɪˈ-/
ipa: /saɪˈmoʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /sɪˈ-/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Simonian
form: most Simonian
Etymology: From Simon + -ian. See simony.
Senses: examples: text: The Justin account is the nucleus of the huge Simonian legend which was mainly developed by the cycle of Pseudo-Clemenine literature of the third century, based on the second century Circuits of Peter.
ref: 1906, George Robert Stow Mead, Fragments of a Faith Forgotten, page 167:
text: If we agree that HSim was not a forgery, it remains to ask whether it is actually Simonian. For this question the identity and teachings of the historical Simon Magus — in any case irrecoverable —are not important.
ref: 2020, Frank Williams, Mental Perception, page 243:
text: The amalgam of paganism and Christianity, especially obvious in the Simonian system , is readily explicable in the teachings of Simon Magus.
ref: 2024, David K. Hebert, A Kingdom of the Truth or Deception?::
glosses: Pertaining to the legends surrounding and teachings of Simon Magus.
examples: text: Yet it must be acknowledg'd, that although a Pagan-like Mundane Magistracy of the Holy Angels was entertain'd by several of the Learned Theologers of the three first Ages of the Church, yet no such thang as Church-Demonolatry appeareth in those early Days, save only amongst the Simonian Gnosticks and the ancient Angelici or Angelits condemn'd by S Paul (Col. 2.18), which I suppose to have been a distinct sort of Gnosticks from the Simonian, who had their origin from Simon Magus.
ref: 1706, Richard Brocklesby, An Explication of the Gospel-Theism and the Divinity of the Christian Religion, page 46:
text: Luke's choice of words appear to be subtle but also sharp and effective critiques of Simonian claims to Simon's divity.
ref: 2022, Daniel B. Glover, Patterns of Deification in the Acts of the Apostles, page 115:
text: He considered the Simonian veneration of Simon to be blasphemy. He never seems to have examined why Simonians honored Simon's reputed icon.
ref: 2022, M. David Litwa, Found Christianities:
glosses: Pertaining to the heretical sect that worshiped Simon of Samaria (Simon Magus).
examples: text: Suppose you are a serious Christian and you come to recognize that Simonian science endorses conclusions incompatible with certain Christian beliefs; and suppose you also hold science in high regard.
ref: 2011, Alvin Plantinga, Where the Conflict Really Lies, page 168:
text: On the other hand, Simonian entrepreneurs are non-alert individuals who search for alternatives that are good enough for them.
ref: 2018, Shinji Teraji, The Cognitive Basis of Institutions, page 162:
text: The result is a prism providing a spectrum of Simon's work and offering the reader a glimpse into how their own ideas can be seen through a Simonian lens.
ref: 2024, Gerd Gigerenzer, Shabnam Mousavi, Riccardo Viale, Elgar Companion to Herbert Simon, page 3:
glosses: Pertaining to the theories of Herbert A. Simon.
Simonian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪˈməʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /sɪˈ-/
ipa: /saɪˈmoʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /sɪˈ-/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Simonians
Etymology: From Armenian Սիմոնյան (Simonyan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Simonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Simonian
Montanist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Montanists
Etymology: From Montanus + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A follower of Montanism.
Related terms: Montanistic
Montanistical
Montanists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Montanist
faham
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The orchid (Jumellea fragrans), from the islands of Réunion and Mauritius, whose leaves were once used in France as a substitute for China tea.
Lieberkuhnian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lieberkuhnian
form: most Lieberkuhnian
form: Lieberkühnian
Etymology: From Lieberkühn + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Johann Nathanael Lieberkühn (1711-1756), German physician.
Bourbon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊə(ɹ).bən/
ipa: /ˈbɔː(ɹ).bən/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)bən
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)bən
ipa: /ˈbɜː(ɹ).bən/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)bən
Etymology: The French Bourbon dynasty is named for the lordship of Bourbon l'Archambault. The town's name derives from Gaulish Borvo, a local Celtic deity associated with hot springs, from Proto-Celtic *borvo (“froth, foam”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁- (“to be hot, boil”). Compare brew and fervent.
The subsidiary senses derive from the dynasty's name.
Senses: glosses: A European dynasty which reigns in Spain and formerly ruled the Kingdom of France.
glosses: A surname from French.
examples: text: It was "a fundamental impossibility" for a black person to be a Bourbon, white-supremacist Democrat, but a black individual could very well become a "progressive Democrat."
ref: 1988, Herbert Shapiro, White Violence and Black Response: From Reconstruction to Montgomery, →ISBN:
text: 1992, West's Federal Supplement (first series), vol. 787, p. 1090.
As a practical matter, blacks had been denied a fair vote and a fair count even before the 1901 Constitution, because the Black Belt Bourbon white politicians used fraud and intimidation to manipulate the black vote to support conservative Democratic candidates.
glosses: A Bourbon Democrat.
examples: text: For the Bourbon White elite and their allies, the intimidation of the Black laborers and farmers was necessary to prevent their political involvement and to maintain their subjugated location in the economy.
ref: 2014, Akinyele Omowale Umoja, We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement, →ISBN:
glosses: A Bourbon Democrat.
A white conservative, particularly in the context of opposition to equal rights for black people.
qualifier: especially Mississippi
glosses: A county in Kentucky, see Bourbon County.
glosses: A street in New Orleans, Louisiana; in full, Bourbon Street.
glosses: The island of Réunion.
glosses: A town in Indiana.
glosses: A city in Missouri.
Derived terms: Bourbon County
Bourbonesque
Bourbonian
Bourbonish
Bourbonize
bourbon whiskey
Old Bourbon
oxbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxbirds
Etymology: From ox + bird.
Senses: glosses: The dunlin.
glosses: The sanderling.
glosses: An African weaverbird (Bubalornis albirostris).
oxbirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxbird
bob wig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bob wigs
Senses: examples: text: Upon our way from hence we saw a young fellow riding towards us full gallop, with a bob wig and a black silken bag tied to it.
ref: 1711 August 8 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “SATURDAY, July 28, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 129; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: A short wig with bobs or short curls.
Synonyms: bob jerom
bobtail wig
bob wigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bob wig