cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
flamiche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flamiches
Etymology: From French flamiche.
Senses: examples: text: North of Paris, in villages around the cities of Amiens and Lille, traditional favorites include the tarte au Maroilles, a rich, briochelike dough topped with a pungent local cow's milk cheese, and flamiche, a dense, full-flavored vegetable tart filled with a blend of leeks, cheese, eggs and ham.
ref: 1987 October 4, Patricia Wells, “Food: After Quiche”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Apr 2014:
text: I start with a delicious, fluffy flamiche, a round tart of goat cheese and leeks from northern France.
ref: 1999 August 26, S. Irene Virbila, “In Venice, Lilly’s Cozy Patio Cafe Exudes an Aura of France”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Jul 2025:
text: Leeks are sometimes sautéed in dark, abbey-style beers, especially as an ingredient in the flamiche. This is a rich, cheesy, counterpart to the quiche of Lorraine, south across the border in France. The finest of flamiches is cooked over a wood fire. A flamiche festival is held in early September in the town of Dinant, near Namur, on the river Meuse, but this lovely town is worth visiting at any time of year.
ref: 2006 April 1, Michael Jackson, “The Traveller’s Guide to Food & Drink in Wallonia”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2024:
text: Everyone becomes addicted to my tomato flamiche, my far breton made with figs and also my Croatian pepper biscuits.
ref: 2013, Barbara Unković, “Visitors”, in Weeds in the Garden of Eden: A Journey Back to Family Roots, and Life in a Traditional Croatian Village, London: Austin Macauley Publishers, →ISBN, page 138:
glosses: A French savoury tart made with leeks and cream.
syncarp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syncarps
Etymology: From syn- + -carp, New Latin syncarpium. See syncarpous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A kind of aggregate fruit in which the ovaries cohere in a solid mass, with a slender receptacle, as in the magnolia.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A similar multiple fruit, such as a mulberry.
syncarps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syncarp
snapweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snapweeds
Etymology: From snap + weed?
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Certain species of Impatiens.
glosses: Cardamine spp. (bittercress, shotweed)
Derived terms: taxonomic: Impatiens pallida
word: pale snapweed
taxonomic: Impatiens capensis
word: spotted snapweed
taxonomic: Impatiens balsamina
word: sultan snapweed
snapweeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snapweed
phanerogamian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: phanerogamic
comptrol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comptrols
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of control.
comptrol
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comptrols
form: comptrolling
form: comptrolled
form: comptrolled
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of control.
comptrols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comptrol
terebinthic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more terebinthic
form: most terebinthic
Etymology: From terebinth + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: terebinthic odor
text: terebinthic taste
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: turpentiny
glosses: Resembling or relating to turpentine.
confervaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Confervae + -aceous
Senses: glosses: Belonging to the Confervae, a former group of various freshwater algae.
perpent stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perpent stones
Senses: glosses: A perpend stone.
perpent stones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perpent stone
epencephala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epencephalon
epencephalon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epencephala
Etymology: From New Latin epencephalon, from ep-, prevocalic form of epi- + encephalon.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: the hindbrain.
Derived terms: epencephalic
discompt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: discompts
form: discompting
form: discompted
form: discompted
Senses: examples: text: Whachum had neither cross nor pile ,
His plunder was not worth the while ;
All which the conqueror did discompt,
To pay for curing of his rump
ref: 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:
glosses: To discount.
discompted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of discompt
discompting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of discompt
discompts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of discompt
Pehlevi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: And David's Lips are lock't; but in divine
High piping Péhlevi, with "Wine! Wine! Wine!
Red Wine!" — the Nightingale cries to the Rose
That yellow Cheek of her's to'incarnadine.
ref: 1859, Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia, page 2:
glosses: Alternative form of Pahlavi.
palsywort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palsyworts
Etymology: From palsy + wort, from its supposed medicinal powers.
Senses: glosses: The cowslip (Primula veris).
palsyworts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palsywort
clubfist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clubfists
Etymology: From club + fist.
Senses: glosses: A large, heavy fist.
examples: text: The rascall rude, the roag, the clubfist griepte / My sclender arme, and pluckt mee on in hast: / And with my robes the bloudy ground hee sweepte: / As I drue backe hee hal'd mee on full fast.
ref: 1574, John Higgins, “How the Lady Sabrine, daughter of King Locrinus and Elstride, was drowned by Queen Guendoline. Ant. C. 1064.”, in Joseph Haslewood, editor, Mirror for Magistrates, London: Lackington, Allen, and Co., published 1815, page 79:
glosses: A coarse, brutal fellow.
clubfists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clubfist
spurrey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spurreys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spurry.
cornbind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From corn + bind.
Senses: glosses: A weed that binds stalks of corn, such as field bindweed, Convolvulus arvensis or black bindweed, Fallopia convolvulus
spurreys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spurrey
spit curl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spit curls
Senses: glosses: kiss curl
spit curls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spit curl
subacrid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + acrid.
Senses: glosses: Moderately acrid.
mhorr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː
Forms: form: mhorrs
form: mohr
Etymology: From Moroccan Arabic مهر (mhor).
Senses: examples: text: Aoudads, korins, mhorrs and mambas. Hartebeests. Wild asses. Rats the size of piglets […]
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 64:
glosses: A large gazelle native to the Sahara desert, Nanger dama, formerly Gazella dama.
Synonyms: dama gazelle
addra
mhorrs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mhorr
syderolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The manufacture in Austria of pottery, syderolite ware, Wedgwood ware, terra cotta, bricks, &c., has made considerable progress within the last ten years, and has now become of importance. […] Huffzky's Widow, Vincenz, Hohenstein, near Toplitz, Bohemia—Manufacturer. […] The quality of the articles manufactured in that description of earthenware which resembles the pottery called Wedgwood ware (syderolite, terralite, stone-clay), is constantly improving. […] Schiller & Gerring, Bodenbach, near Tetschen-on-the-Elbe, Bohemia—Manufacturers. Syderolite ware:—Centre-pieces, flower-vases, […]
ref: 1851, Robert Ellis, Official descriptive and illustrated catalogue of the Great exhibition of the works of industry of all nations, 1851, Рипол Классик, →ISBN, page 1038:
text: […] Austria sent several specimens of syderolite, or terralite, or stone clay, in small articles. Prussia seemed to me to display the best taste in the application of a union of silvering and gilding to clay ornamentation.
ref: 1852, The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal, volume 15, page 21:
text: The time after Permian is the main development period of intercontinental ridge and basin during which the energy resource minerals, bentonite, syderolite and salt minerals formed. The representative minerals cover gold, iron, maganese and copper of […]
ref: 1996, Abstracts: 30th International Geological Congress, Beijing, China, 4-14 August 1996:
glosses: A kind of Bohemian earthenware resembling Wedgwood; the material from which it is made.
protend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /pɹəʊˈtɛnd/
Forms: form: protends
form: protending
form: protended
form: protended
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin protendere, from pro (“before, forth”) + tendere (“to stretch”).
Senses: examples: text: Amongst the which, as the most Noble Qualities, Heat and Moisture are the active formative in Nature, Calidity and Humidity equally proportionately joyn'd, compose the most superlative constitution , fully protending and dilating the parts, but if Heat much exceed moisture in composition, so that it passe into a siccity, it much protends the body, but little dilates it, causing a long slender meager form, even as frigidity mixt with Humidity products a Body spread bread but short, but heat and moisture predominating, confer to the body a due ongitude and latitude of parts.
ref: 1664, Richard Sanders, Palmistry, the secrets thereof disclosed:
text: With his protended lance he makes defence.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Tenth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: the said city of London-Derry aforesaid, and the circuit, precinct, compass, bounds, liberties, limits, franchises, and jurisdictions of the same may henceforth for ever be extended and protended, and be able and capable to extend and protend itself within and through the space and circuit of three thousand Irish paces, to be measured and limited from all and every part of the said city whatsoever as aforesaid for ever;
ref: 1814, George Vaughan Sampson, A Memoir, page 19:
glosses: To hold out; to stretch forth.
examples: text: At the moment that the first beat is sounded, if the listener is to hear it as a division of a larger temporal unit, he or she must concretely protend the other beats of the bar; that is, the listener must experience, in the temporal "space" of the near future, three more beats while he or she is hearing the present beat in the now-point.
ref: 2000, Michael Thomas Carroll, Eddie Tafoya, Phenomenological Approaches to Popular Culture, page 129:
text: Instead, our retentions are made up of al the words I have spoken, and we protend toward the completion of my sentence or idea.
ref: 2003, Donn Welton, The New Husserl: A Critical Reader, page 133:
text: Dann may actively think "I am going to go to the G chord"; he may prepare his hand to grasp the G, or may even protend the G chord but insulate the C chord from it —none of these will make the C a IV. Only if he protends the G and conjoins the C to it will the C be a IV chord, because to hear the C as a IV means to perform that organization of the living present.
ref: 2012, Harris M. Berger, Metal, Rock, and Jazz, page 227:
text: Consciousness may not protend everything in the horizon; there is too much.
ref: 2023, Mitchell Atkinson III, Alterity and the Flint Water Crisis, page 152:
topics: human-sciences
phenomenology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: To consciously experience in anticipation; to experience protention.
Related terms: protension
protensive
protention
protended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of protend
protending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of protend
protends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of protend
stowce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stowces
Etymology: The OED, mentioning the variant forms stose, stoce, stowse, and stow, says it is "of obscure origin; possibly a contraction of stothes pl. of stothe" i.e. stooth; however, compare stow.
Senses: examples: text: When a person discovers a vein, and has no means to possess it for want of stowces, he marks the ground with crosses and holes, by which means he possesses it until he can procure stowces.
ref: 1848, Journal of the Franklin Institute, page 301:
text: Legal possession of a mine was kept only by erecting stows or stowces, which must be "set in all men's sight." The stow is a machine for drawing up the ore in tubs from the mine. It is constructed of seven pieces of timber fastened together by wooden pins. If nails or any metal is used in[…]
ref: 1910, Derbyshire Archaeological Journal, page 175:
text: A miner established his claim to a vein which he had discovered by placing a stowce on the spot.
ref: 1969, Frank Nixon, The Industrial Archaeology of Derbyshire:
glosses: A windlass, a device for drawing ore up from a mine, also formerly used (when made entirely of wood) to indicate possession of mining land.
Related terms: english: mark with a stowce or stowces
translation: mark with a stowce or stowces
word: stowse
stowces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stowce
periscian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek περίσκιος (perískios, “throwing the shado all round”), from περί (perí, “around”) + σκιά (skiá, “shadow”); compare French périscien.
Senses: glosses: Having the shadow moving all around.
periscian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: periscians
Etymology: From Ancient Greek περίσκιος (perískios, “throwing the shado all round”), from περί (perí, “around”) + σκιά (skiá, “shadow”); compare French périscien.
Senses: glosses: One of those who live within a polar circle, whose shadows, during some summer days, will move entirely round, falling toward every point of the compass.
allocatur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allocaturs
Etymology: From Latin allocātur (“it is allocated”), from allocāre (“to allocate”).
Senses: examples: text: The taxing-masters had done their work like any respectable gunsmith conscientiously preparing the musket, that, duly pointed by a brave arm, will spoil a life or two. Allocaturs, filing of bills in Chancery, decrees of sale, are legal chain-shot or bomb-shells that can never hit a solitary mark, but must fall with widespread shattering.
ref: 1860, George Eliot, chapter 7, in The Mill on the Floss, volume 2, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, page 97:
topics: law
glosses: The allowance of a proceeding, writ, order, etc., by a court, judge, or judicial officer.
glosses: Permission for an appeal to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
allocaturs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allocatur
bride-ale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bride-ales
form: bridal
Etymology: From Middle English brydale, from Old English brȳdealo (“wedding feast”), equivalent to bride + ale.
Senses: examples: text: here was a bride-ale broke In the nick
ref: 1633 (first performance), Ben Jonson, “A Tale of a Tub. A Comedy […]”, in The Works of Beniamin Jonson, […] (Third Folio), London: […] Thomas Hodgkin, for H[enry] Herringman, E. Brewster, T. Bassett, R[ichard] Chiswell, M. Wotton, G. Conyers, published 1692, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: A rustic wedding feast; a bridal.
glosses: The warmed, sweetened, and spiced ale presented to a wedding party on its return from church.
bride-ales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bride-ale
knockbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knockback
crudle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crudles
form: crudling
form: crudled
form: crudled
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cruddle.
crudled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crudle
crudles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of crudle
crudling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crudle
lepadoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lepadoids
Etymology: From Lepas (“genus name”) + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A stalked barnacle of the genus Lepas or family Lepadidae; certain goose barnacles.
Synonyms: lepadite
lepas
lepadoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lepadoid
circumdenudation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circumdenudations
Etymology: From circum- + denudation.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: denudation around an object
Related terms: circumerosion
circumdenudations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circumdenudation
unke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From German Unke.
Senses: glosses: The European fire-bellied toad (Bombina bombina).
rhetizite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rhaetizite.
autonomasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autonomasy
Senses: glosses: antonomasia
pomwater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pomwaters
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of pomewater.
pomwaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pomwater
sokemanries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sokemanry
sokemanry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sokemanries
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of socmanry.
apertion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apertions
Senses: glosses: The act of opening.
examples: text: by ruption or apertion
ref: 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], →OCLC:
glosses: An opening; an aperture.
Related terms: apert
aperture
apertions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apertion
perineorrhaphies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perineorrhaphy
perineorrhaphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perineorrhaphies
Etymology: From perineo- + -rrhaphy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The operation of sewing up a ruptured perineum.
Derived terms: colpoperineorrhaphy
vaginoperineorrhaphy
elutriator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elutriators
Senses: examples: text: Jurkat cells (1 × 10⁹) were suspended in 5 ml of cell dissociation solution (Sigma Chemical) and elutriated at 25°C with a Beckman elutriator rotor (model J2-MI) in RPMI medium containing 1% fetal bovine serum.
ref: 1997 September 5, “Mitotic and G2 Checkpoint Control: Regulation of 14-3-3?Protein Binding by Phosphorylation of Cdc25C on Serine-216”, in Science, volume 277, number 5331, →DOI, pages 1501–1505:
glosses: A simple device used for elutriation.
orfray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orfrays
Etymology: From French orfraie. Compare osprey, ossifrage.
Senses: glosses: The osprey.
glosses: Alternative spelling of orphrey.
orfrays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orfray
scroddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scroddles
form: scroddling
form: scroddled
form: scroddled
Senses: glosses: To mottle (pottery) with scraps of differently coloured clays.
scroddled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scroddle
scroddles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scroddle
scroddling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scroddle
dodmans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dodman
subahdar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subahdars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of subadar.
subahdars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subahdar
cruives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cruive
neofeudalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neo-feudalism
Etymology: From neo- + feudalism.
Senses: examples: text: The founding fathers of the American Republic understood this point perfectly well when they built a system of checks and balances into the American Constitution in an attempt to confine neofeudalism to the Old World.
ref: 2001, Ken Binmore, “8: The Breakdown of Social Contracts”, in Steven N. Durlauf, H. Peyton Young, editors, Social Dynamics, page 230:
text: Neofeudalism is rhetorically pitted against a purer, romanticized form of capitalism characterized by small and medium-sized enterprise operating in a “free,” but disciplining market.
Neofeudalism is also used by activists critical of capitalism itself.
ref: 2013, Majia Holmer Nadesan, “Chapter 3: Neofeudalism and the Financial Crisis: Implications for Occupy Wall Street”, in Renee Guarriello Heath, Courtney Vail Fletcher, Ricardo Munoz, editors, Understanding Occupy: from Wall Street to Portland, page 39:
text: Neoliberalism therefore is the default position of capitalism to which it reverts unless restrained by popular struggles against its institutionalized rule in political systems such as neofeudalism, managed democracy and inverted totalitarianism.
ref: 2013, Tatah Mentan, Democracy for Breakfast? Unveiling Mirage Democracy in Contemporary Africa, page viii:
topics: government
human-sciences
politics
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The contemporary rebirth of policies of governance, economy and public life reminiscent of those present in many feudal societies.
Synonyms: sense: rebirth of policies reminiscent of feudal societies
word: new feudalism
Related terms: neofeudal
neofeudalist
neofeudalistic
vatos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vato
companion cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: companion cells
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A specific type of parenchyma cell located in the phloem that assists the sieve-tube cell in its function.
vilipender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vilipenders
Etymology: From vilipend + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] a Chicago daily paper which was one of the chief vilipenders of the miners on strike.
ref: 1894, John Swinton, Striking for Life, page 198:
glosses: Someone who vilipends.
FIT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FITs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of feed-in tariff.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel-industry
glosses: Initialism of fully inclusive tour.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel-industry
glosses: Initialism of fully independent travel.
FIT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: file format
glosses: Initialism of flexible and interoperable data transfer, a format used by Garmin devices.
bitchloads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bitchload
parklet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parklets
Etymology: From park + -let.
Senses: examples: text: The Bison system has been used for parklets in San Francisco and New York City.
ref: 2012 April 24, Lisa P. White, “Martinez council to review outdoor dining proposal next month”, in Contra Costa Times:
text: District 11 Supervisor Ahsha Safai is proposing to waive new, initial curbside parklet permit fees and offer a rebate for businesses that may have already paid them.
ref: 2023 March 14, Mario Cortez, “S.F. parklet fees could be slashed under new proposal”, in San Francisco Chronicle:
glosses: An area of around the size of a parking space, used for recreation or as scenery.
Synonyms: micropark
Coordinate terms: pocket park
parklets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parklet
sciage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French sciage.
Senses: glosses: A back-and-forth sawing movement of the hand in massage.
deflesh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: defleshes
form: defleshing
form: defleshed
form: defleshed
Etymology: From de- + flesh.
Senses: examples: text: Bifacially retouched knives used to deflesh hides and to cut meat or skin can be distinguished by their edge angle and partially by their shape.
ref: 1982, Christopher Carr, Handbook on soil resistivity surveying, page 284:
glosses: to remove the flesh from
hydrophilid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrophilids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the water beetles of the family Hydrophilidae.
death warmed up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A person who appears pale or sickly.
raw_tags: in similes
becastled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈkæsəld/
ipa: /bɪˈkɑːsəld/
Etymology: From be- + castle + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: As long as you were living in Edinburgh I did not venture to seek you out, for how could I hope, in that becastled town (which, spite of many descriptions, always perplexes me), to find out a quiet friend.
ref: 1887, Correspondence between Goethe and Carlyle (ed. Charles Eliot Norton; pub. Macmillan), page 135
glosses: Fortified by or furnished with a castle or castles.
disconsonant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /dɪsˈkɒnsənənt/
Forms: form: more disconsonant
form: most disconsonant
Etymology: From dis- + consonant.
Senses: glosses: Not consonant; discordant.
Related terms: disconsonance
sieve plate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sieve plates
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A structure of tiny apertures present in adjacent sieve walls that enable the movement of fluids inside the phloem.
sieve-tube element
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sieve-tube elements
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A type of sclerenchyma cell located in the phloem that is involved in the movement of carbohydrates.
fleabites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fleabite
subaudi
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aʊdi
Etymology: From the Latin subaudī, the second-person singular present active imperative form of subaudiō (“I understand, I supply a word”), from sub (“under”) + audiō (“I hear, I listen”).
Senses: examples: text: the grass is always greener [subaudi on the other side of the fence] — other circumstances seem more desirable than one’s own, but in reality are often not
text: That sole remaining sense is, “the bed (let it) be undefiled;” subaudite ἔστω in the verse is, “Let marriage be honourable in all” (men or things), “and the bed be undefiled; but (or for) whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.”
ref: 1852, Theophylact [pseud.], “Marriage of Ecclesiastics” in Notes and Queries IV:cix, page 428
text: The Czar…expressed his intention to go on fighting for the honour of Russia, “and the command of the waters of the Pacific Ocean, so urgently necessary for the consolidation of the peaceful prosperity not only of Russia, but of other Christian nations” (? subaudite Germany).
ref: 1905, The Spectator, XCIV, page 355:
glosses: Mentally supply (something which has not been expressed); scilicet.
Synonyms: english: used when directing more than one person
translation: used when directing more than one person
word: subaudite
subaudi
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: -aʊdi
Etymology: From the Latin subaudī, the second-person singular present active imperative form of subaudiō (“I understand, I supply a word”), from sub (“under”) + audiō (“I hear, I listen”).
Senses: examples: text: We ought not to say that a scorn of popular favour betrays itself — as if subaudite — in these deliverances of a message from the Almighty; yet it is almost so.
ref: 1861, Isaac Taylor, The Spirit of the Hebrew Poetry, page 54:
text: By the ‘watchers’ are intended subaudité the guardians of the composer.
ref: 1907, Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, page 5:
glosses: By or relying upon mental suppletion.
subaudi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aʊdi
Etymology: From the Latin subaudī, the second-person singular present active imperative form of subaudiō (“I understand, I supply a word”), from sub (“under”) + audiō (“I hear, I listen”).
Senses: examples: text: His aim is to give to the ordinary English reader, who has a reasonable interest in ‘Literature and Life’ — to which in Scotland ‘Philosophy’ is a subaudite third term, always implied and quickly felt — an account of Stoicism.
ref: 1908, Journal of Theological Studies, IX, page 619:
glosses: Mentally supplied.
Related terms: subaudition
NGST
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NGSTs
Senses: topics: NASA
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Initialism of New Generation Space Telescope.
JWST
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Unlike the Hubble telescope, which orbits a few hundred miles above the Earth’s surface and is relatively accessible for servicing missions, the JWST will be located at what is called the L2 point, a location about a million miles farther away from the sun than the Earth.
ref: 2021 December 24, Don Lincoln, “The telescope that will replace Hubble will launch on Christmas. Here’s why it matters”, in CNN:
topics: NASA
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Initialism of James Webb Space Telescope.
foufou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foufous
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fufu.
dermabrase
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dermabrases
form: dermabrasing
form: dermabrased
form: dermabrased
Etymology: Borrowed from French dermabraser, from derme (“skin”), + abraser (“to abrade”).
Senses: examples: text: Cosmeticians abroad are known as aestheticians. They understand the superficialities of dermatology. They know how to work an unbelievable variety of little machines that peel, exfoliate, dermabrase, and claim to dewrinkle and smooth facial skin
ref: 1976, Clara Pierre -, Looking Good: The Liberation of Fashion, page 106:
text: Also prevalanet are actinic karatoses, small, scaly, whitish patches. Do not dermabrase any suspect areas.
ref: 1982, Irma Shorell, Julie Davis, A Lifetime of Skin Beauty: The Irma Shorell Program, page 92:
text: When your face is full of wrinkles — and a million little puckers He'll flatten out those lines-and dermabrase those little suckers!
ref: 2003, Maureen Dunn O'Keefe, A Rhyme for All Reasons, page 47:
topics: dermatology
medicine
sciences
glosses: To perform dermabrasion.
dermabrase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dermabrases
Etymology: Borrowed from French dermabraser, from derme (“skin”), + abraser (“to abrade”).
Senses: examples: text: The bone-powder acts as a natural dermabrase, wearing away epithelial cells and helping in ironing out lines.
ref: 1975, Eve's Weekly - Volume 29, page 42:
glosses: A substance that exfoliates through abrasion.
dermabrases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dermabrase
dermabrases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dermabrase
flamiches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flamiche
foufous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foufou
diadrom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdaɪədɹəm/
Forms: form: diadroms
Etymology: From Ancient Greek διάδρομος (diádromos, “a running through”).
Senses: examples: text: an inch one-tenth of a philosophical foot, a philosophical foot one-third of a pendulum, whose diadroms, in the latitude of forty-five degrees, are each equal to one second of time
ref: 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A complete course or vibration, as of a pendulum.
diadroms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diadrom
evolation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evolations
Etymology: Latin evolatio.
Senses: examples: text: Upon the wings of this Faith , is the soul ready to mount up toward that heaven , which is open to receive it ; and , in that act of evolation , puts itself into the hands of those blessed angels
ref: a. 1656, Bishop Joseph Hall, The Christian : Laid Forth in His Whole Disposition and Carriage:
glosses: A flying out or up, such as evaporation.
evolations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of evolation
choke damp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chokedamp
Senses: glosses: An asphyxiant found in enclosed places such as mines and sewers; a mixture of several gases left after oxygen is removed from the air, typically nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and water vapor.
Synonyms: blackdamp
stythe
Related terms: canary in a coal mine
blackdamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blackdamps
Etymology: From black + damp.
Senses: glosses: Choke damp.
stythe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /staɪð/
rhymes: -aɪð
Senses: glosses: choke damp
fraternizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fraternizable
form: most fraternizable
Etymology: From fraternize + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Even the worst enemy could prove fraternizable.
glosses: That can be fraternized with.
tephrosia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tephrosias
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Tephrosia.
Senses: examples: text: Though the tephrosia is a powerful agent, and, if carried too far beyond the antagonistic action of the poison, is, I presume, not entirely without danger, I have never known any bad symptoms to arise from its use.
ref: 1866, American Journal of Pharmacy and the Sciences Supporting Public Health:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Tephrosia of leguminous shrubby plants and herbs.
tephrosias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tephrosia
inaugur
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inaugurs
form: inauguring
form: inaugured
form: inaugured
Etymology: Compare French inaugurer. See inaugurate.
Senses: examples: text: Numa Pompilius (who was inaugured and created king of the Romans next after Romulus) was far more careful and busier in grounding of idolatrous religion (as upon rites, ceremonies, sacrifices and superstitions) than we are in the promoting of christian religion, […]
ref: 1549, Hugh Latimer, “The Second Sermon of Master Hugh Latimer, which He Preached before the King’s Majesty [Edward VI], within His Grace’s Palace at Westminster, the Fifteenth Day of March, 1549. To the Reader.”, in George Elwes Corrie, editor, Sermons by Hugh Latimer, Sometime Bishop of Worcester, Martyr, 1555 (The Parker Society for the Publication of the Works of the Fathers and Early Writers of the Reformed English Church; 27), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] University Press, published 1844, →OCLC, page 104:
glosses: To inaugurate.
inaugured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inaugur
inauguring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inaugur
inaugurs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inaugur
weet-weet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weet-weets
Etymology: So called from its piping cry when disturbed.
Senses: glosses: The common European sandpiper.
glosses: The chaffinch.
weet-weets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weet-weet
dijudication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dijudications
Etymology: Latin dijudicatio.
Senses: examples: text: Dijudication of Histories
ref: 1651, Richard Braithwaite, History Surveyed in a Brief Epitomy:
glosses: The act of dijudicating; judgement.
Synonyms: proairesis
dijudications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dijudication
subconcave
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + concave.
Senses: examples: text: the inner surface and margins are red, the rest yellowish with red spots, when uninjected: the outer surface is subconcave and uneven, the inner surface convex and tubercular
ref: 1866, Richard Owen, Anatomy of Vertebrates:
glosses: Slightly concave.
coccygeous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From coccyx + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: By sweeping the finger from side to side through an arc of 180 degrees at successfully higher levels, the examiner can palpate all of the fibers of the leva- tor ani and of the coccygeous muscle.
ref: 2000, Fred M. Howard, Pelvic Pain: Diagnosis and Management, page 342:
glosses: Synonym of coccygeal.
synonyms: word: coccygeal
pruniferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more pruniferous
form: most pruniferous
Etymology: From Latin prunum (“a plum”) + -ferous.
Senses: examples: a pruniferous tree
glosses: Bearing plums.
parotoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From parotid + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: the parotoid region
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or related to the parotid gland; applied especially to cutaneous glandular elevations above the ear in many toads and frogs.
parotoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parotoids
Etymology: From parotid + -oid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A parotoid gland.
parotoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parotoid
substantials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of substantial
squattering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From squatter + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of squatter
squattering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more squattering
form: most squattering
Etymology: From squatter + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: It is a language (as are many others round about me) like to that of Poitou, Xaintonge, Angoulesme, Limosin, and Auvergne, squattering, dragling, and filthie.
ref: , II.17
glosses: Straggling; messy.
solidungular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From solid + ungular.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: solipedous.
crimosin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crimosins
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of crimson.
crimosin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of crimson.
crimosins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crimosin
phasings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfeɪzɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of phasing
hemipenile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hemi- + penile.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a hemipenis
Synonyms: hemipenal
hemipenial
Smale's paradox
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: First proven in 1957 by Stephen Smale.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: The non-intuitive fact that it is possible to turn a sphere inside out in a three-dimensional space with possible self-intersections but without creating any crease.
wikipedia: Stephen Smale
anchoritess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anchoritesses
Etymology: From anchorite + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female anchorite; an anchoress.
anchoritesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anchoritess
hard-favoured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hard-favoured
form: most hard-favoured
form: hard-favored
Senses: examples: text: Vulcan […] was so hard-favoured, that both his parents frowned on him, and Jupiter threw him out of heaven.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “Pastoral 4”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Having hard or stern features; unattractive.
podurid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: podurids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any in the family Poduridae of springtails.
podurids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of podurid
lintseed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lintseeds
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of linseed.
osteocolla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From osteo- + Ancient Greek κόλλα (kólla, “glue”).
Senses: glosses: A kind of glue obtained from bones.
glosses: A cellular calc tufa, found as incrustations on plant stems, once believed to have the power to unite fractured bones.
rameous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin rameus, from ramus (“branch, bough”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: ramal; relating to a branch or branching
forecloseable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of foreclosable.
foreclosable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From foreclose + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being foreclosed.
cranch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cranches
form: cranching
form: cranched
form: cranched
Senses: examples: text: His path soon became encumbered, and first he stumbled over a slimy skull, then trod upon some bones that cranched under his feet, while strange whisperings seemed to spread around him, till, with no light joy, he saw the farther wall of the vault, with an open arch leading out into some place beyond.
ref: 1847, George Payne Rainsford James, The Castle of Ehrenstein, page 6:
text: And before the army of the land-folk was riding a huge witch-wife upon a wolf; the worlf had a man's carcase in his mouth, and the blood was dripping and dropping from his jaws; and when the wolf had eaten up that carcase, the witch-wife threw another into his jaws; and so, one after another; and the wolf cranched and swallowed them all .
ref: 1848, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Harold, The Last of the Saxon Kings, page 268:
text: He need not have been alarmed, for no one came for any, and he munched and cranched his portion in peace.
ref: 1854, Robert Smith Surtees, Handley Cross, page 398:
text: They then burned one finger, and cranched another with their teeth, and pressed and twisted those which were already mangled, with the rage of demons.
ref: 1873, Cunningham Geikie, Life in the Woods: A True Story of the Canadian Bush, page 245:
glosses: Alternative form of craunch.
pibloktoq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of piblokto.
pedage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedages
Etymology: From Latin pedagium, for pedaticum.
Senses: examples: text: He^([Richard III]) also excused them from danegeld, aids, scutage, or a tax of 40/s. payable out of every knight's fee; pontage, or a toll for the reparation of bridges; pedage, or money collected from foot passengers for passing through a forest or county; carriage, tolls for repairing of castles or cleaning of fosses; stallage, or a fee paid for erecting stalls in a fair or market; and talliage, or taxes in general; forbidding every man from arresting any person within their premisses, without license from the abbott and convent.
ref: 1784, Francis Grose, The Antiquities of England and Wales, volume 6, page 99:
text: This charter specifies that "New Saresbury" shall be for ever a free city, enclosed with ditches, or trenches; that the citizens shall be quit throughout the land of toll, pontage, passage, pedage, lastage, stallage, carriage, and all other customs;[…].
ref: 1814, John Britton, editor, The History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury, page 26:
text: 1819, "Pedage", entry in Abraham Rees (editor), The Cyclopædia: Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature, Volume 26, unnumbered page,
Pedage is uſually levied for the repairing of roads, bridges, and cauſeways, the paving of ſtreets, &c. Anciently, thoſe who had the right of pedage were to keep the roads ſecure, and anſwer for all robberies committed on the paſſengers between ſun and ſun; […] .
glosses: A toll or tax paid by passengers travelling through a specific place, entitling them to safe conduct and protection.
pedages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedage
numby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnʌmi/
rhymes: -ʌmi
Forms: form: more numby
form: most numby
Etymology: From numb + -y.
Senses: examples: text: My hands are so stiffe and nummie, that I can hardly write for my selfe, so that what I have once scribled, I had rather frame it anew than take the paines to correct it; and I reade but little better.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: The pains extend down the legs, with a numby, burning feeling.
ref: 1868, The London Lancet:
glosses: Somewhat numb; numbed.
hoodooed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hoodoo
hoodooing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hoodoo
rootwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From root + work.
Senses: glosses: hoodoo
Derived terms: rootworker
lucuma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lucumas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lúcuma.
lucumas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lucuma
sapotaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Sapotaceae + -ous
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Belonging to the family Sapotaceae of tropical trees.
vessel element
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vessel elements
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A cell that is linear in form and is responsible for the conduction of water and minerals in the xylem.
primogenitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more primogenitive
form: most primogenitive
Senses: examples: text: This left Henry de Bourbon, the Huguenot King of Navarre, as the primogenitive heir to the French throne, an eventuality the Catholic League in France was unwilling to accept.
ref: 2014, Roland Mushat Frye, The Renaissance Hamlet, page 68:
text: The primogenitive male line is said here to carry with it possession of the state—the patrimony of the primogenitive male ancestors.
ref: 2017, Simon Pearse Brodbeck, The Mahabharata Patriline:
glosses: Firstborn.
examples: text: The system of primogenitive inheritance utterly destroys this salutary principle ; and for the following reasons:
ref: 1834 May, C.C.P., “The Evils of Primogenitive Inheritance”, in The Monthly Repository, volume 8, page 349:
text: If a society must be absolutely primogenitive before the word patrilineal is applied to it, then no society has ever been patrilineal.
ref: 1985, Albion - Volume 17, page 394:
glosses: Based on or pertaining to primogeniture.