cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cannoneering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cannoneer + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: From the earlieſt Davvnings of Policy to this Day, the Invention of Men has been ſharpening and improving the Myſtery of Murder, from the firſt rude Eſſays of Clubs and Stones, to the preſent Perfection of Gunnery, Cannoneering, Bombarding, Ruining, and all theſe Species of artificial, learned, and refined Cruelty, […]
ref: 1756, [Edmund Burke], A Vindication of Natural Society: Or, A View of the Miseries and Evils Arising to Mankind from Every Species of Artificial Society. […], London: […] M. Cooper […], →OCLC, page 33:
glosses: The use of cannon.
basnet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basnets
Senses: examples: text: Green hazels o'er his basnet nod:
ref: 1805, Walter Scott, “(please specify the page)”, in The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: […] [James Ballantyne] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], and A[rchibald] Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: Archaic form of bascinet.
basnets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basnet
mannitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mannite + -ic.
Senses: examples: mannitic ferments
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, resembling, or derived from mannite.
Derived terms: mannitate
mannitic acid
nucleocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nucleo- + -centric.
Senses: glosses: Centred on a nucleus.
stemson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stemsons
Etymology: See stem and keelson, and compare sternson.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A piece of curved timber bolted to the stem, keelson, and apron in a ship's frame near the bow.
stemsons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stemson
staphylotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of staphylotomy
staphylotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staphylotomies
Etymology: From staphylo- + -tomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The removal of a staphyloma.
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The amputation of the uvula.
Copperopolis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏ'pərŏʹpŏlĭs
ipa: /ˌkɒpəˈɹɒpɒlɪs/
Etymology: From copper + -o- + -polis (“city”).
Senses: glosses: The formal name or nickname of many settlements established around, or dominated by, a copper-mining industry.
glosses: The formal name or nickname of many settlements established around, or dominated by, a copper-mining industry.
A census-designated place in Calaveras County, California, United States.
sukotyro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: After a single traveler's sighting in 1563.
Senses: glosses: A legendary quadruped mammal, with elephant and oxen features, reported from Java.
jetpacking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jetpack
jetpacked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jet-packed
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jetpack
jetpacked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: jet-packed
Senses: examples: text: He was sidestepping carefully along a narrow portion of the ledge, looking down, when he saw another jetpacked troll flying up at them.
ref: 2007, Bruce Golden, Better Than Chocolate, Austin, Tex.: Zumaya Otherworlds, →ISBN:
text: La Reina and her jetpacked warriors were the only troops to take to the skies, but they formed only a small contingent of Argent’s amassing might.
ref: 2015, Alyc Helms, The Dragons of Heaven, Angry Robot, →ISBN:
text: This video game, which is as much a writing exercise as a game that the player wins, appears, at first glance, to be a Metroid-style side-scrolling exploration game, as your jetpacked, spacesuited character descends into alien caverns, discovers ancient ruins, and overlooks interplanetary vistas, similar to the ones generated in Oases.
ref: 2016, Lucas John Jensen, Daisyane Barreto, Keri Duncan Valentine, “Toward Broader Definitions of “Video Games”: Shifts in Narrative, Player Goals, Subject Matter, and Digital Play Environments”, in Keri Duncan Valentine, Lucas John Jensen, editors, Examining the Evolution of Gaming and Its Impact on Social, Cultural, and Political Perspectives (Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology), Information Science Reference, →ISBN, page 19:
text: Silver and black jetpacked police personnel descended from the dark sky around the men.
ref: 2017, Austin Dragon, NeuroDancer, Well-Tailored Books, →ISBN:
text: That jetpacked Pau’an fool was still blasting toward them, letting off shot after shot from his hand cannons.
ref: 2018, Daniel José Older, Star Wars: Last Shot: A Han and Lando Novel, Del Rey, →ISBN:
glosses: Wearing a jetpack.
ectoantigen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ectoantigens
Etymology: From ecto- + antigen.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any antigen that is attached to the outside of a bacterium
Synonyms: exoantigen
exoantigen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exoantigens
Etymology: From exo- + antigen.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: ectoantigen
ectobronchium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ectobronchia
Etymology: From ecto- + bronchium.
Senses: glosses: A dorsal branch of the avian mesobronchium or prolongation
ectocardia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ecto- + -cardia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A congenital displacement of the heart
gone down the wrong way
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of go down the wrong way
ectocervical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪkəl
Etymology: From ecto- + cervical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the ectocervix
ectochoroidea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ecto- + Latin choroidea.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Loose, pigmented connective tissue that forms the outer layer of the choroid
Synonyms: suprachoroid lamina
ectocornea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ecto- + cornea.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The outer layer of the cornea
ectothrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ectothrices
Senses: glosses: A sheath of conidia, on the outside of a hair, caused by a parasitic fungus
ectothrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ectothrix
chlorhydrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chlorhydrins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of chorohydrin.
Derived terms: iodhydrin
chlorhydrins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chlorhydrin
trappean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trappean
form: most trappean
Etymology: Compare French trappéen. See trap (“a kind of rock”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to trap; of the nature of trap.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to, or composed of basalt or other igneous rock
Synonyms: trappous
trappy
binucleations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of binucleation
stirpiculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin stirps, stirpis (“stem, stock, race”) + cultura (“culture”).
Senses: glosses: The breeding of special stocks or races; eugenics.
convicinity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From con- + vicinity?
Senses: examples: text: the convicinity and contiguity of the two parishes
ref: 1782, Thomas Warton, The History and Antiquities of Kiddington:
glosses: Immediate vicinity; neighbourhood, the state of being neighbouring.
peakish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈpiːkɪʃ/
Forms: form: more peakish
form: most peakish
Etymology: From peak + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: her peakish spring
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for M[athew] Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, →OCLC:
text: his peakish dialect
ref: 1646, Jos[eph] Hall, The Balme of Gilead: Or, Comforts for the Distressed, both Morall and Divine. […], London: […] M[iles] Flesher, for Nat[haniel] Butter, →OCLC:
glosses: Of or relating to a peak or peaks; belonging to a mountainous region.
glosses: Having peaks; peaked.
synonyms: peaky
glosses: sick; sickly
Derived terms: peakishness
neighborlier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of neighborly: more neighborly
neighborliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of neighborly: most neighborly
adesmy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a- + Ancient Greek δεσμός (desmós, “bonds”) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: heterologous adesmy
text: homologous adesmy
text: adesmy of carpels
text: adesmy of the corolla
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The division or defective coherence of an organ that is usually whole.
Puseyism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Pusey + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: [Deacon Mushrat to Pogo:] The reason I'd never be a member of the public is because they are all heading for Daedalian Doom! Oh yes! They'd like me to back their puny Puseyism. Join the gum-feathered fancies of their flimsy flight – An Icarian end!
ref: 1959 April 22, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 34:
glosses: The principles of Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800–1882), English churchman and one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement.
earthdin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɜːθˌdɪn/
ipa: /ˈɝθˌdɪn/
Forms: form: earth-din
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English erthe dyne, erthedyn, from Old English eorþdyne (“earthquake”), equivalent to earth + din.
Senses: examples: text: While the earthdin is but a seismal shock of a rheumatic condition in the diversified stratas seeking new positions to reach their centre of gravity.
ref: 1904, Levi Griffin Meushaw, The plea of the toiler:
glosses: An earthquake.
passival
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪvəl
Etymology: From passive + -al.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An archaic progressive construction in middle voice (syntactically active but semantically passive), replaced by the passive progressive in modern English. For example, "the house is building", "the meal was eating", "the trunks were carrying down" (today "the house is being built", "the meal is being eaten").
esodic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek εἴσοδος (eísodos, “way in”) + -ic.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Conveying impressions from the surface of the body to the spinal cord; said of certain nerves.
slowth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sləʊθ/
ipa: /slɔθ/
ipa: /sloʊθ/
rhymes: -əʊθ
Etymology: From Middle English slouthe, slewthe, from Old English slǣwþ (“sloth, indolence, laziness, inertness, torpor”), from Proto-Germanic *slaiwiþō (“slowness, lateness”), equivalent to slow + -th. Cognate with Scots sleuth (“sloth, slowness”).
Senses: examples: October 15, 1777, George Washington, to Governor George Clinton
[…] but such was the reduced state of our Continental regiments, after the battle of Brandywine, and such the slowth and difficulty of procuring reinforcements of militia from the southward, […] (1890 edition)
December 14, 1813, Thomas Jefferson, letter to Alexis Marie Rochon
[…] are so many and great, that it is wonderful to me, that in a course of 30 years, it is not yet brought into general use. it is one of the remarkable proofs of the slowth with which improvements in the arts & sciences advance.
glosses: Alternative form of sloth (“slowness, slothfulness”).
Related terms: sloth
slowth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sləʊθ/
ipa: /slɔθ/
ipa: /sloʊθ/
rhymes: -əʊθ
Etymology: Blend of slow + growth
Senses: examples: text: Slowth lies behind the difficulties each of us faces in achieving the standard of living we desire.
ref: 1980, Martin Kupferman, Maurice D. Levi, Slowth, the changing economy and how you can successfully cope:
text: Unfortunately, with slowth it becomes progressively more difficult to escape from the rigours of scarcity
ref: 1984, George Lermer, Thomas J. Courchene, Probing leviathan: an investigation of government in the economy:
text: it is realized that the slowth context is making that activity less than might be considered desirable.
ref: 1985, Lee H. Radebaugh, Earl H. Fry, David M. Kennedy, Canada/U.S. trade relations: problems and prospects:
glosses: Slow economic growth.
slowth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sləʊθ/
ipa: /slɔθ/
ipa: /sloʊθ/
rhymes: -əʊθ
Etymology: Recoinage from slow + -th (abstract nominal suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Good old-fashioned slowth is being looked at with new interest, as is exemplified by such old antiques as the old Douglas Skyraider. And, of course the helicopter, slowest of all, so slow you can easily make one go backwards.
ref: 1966, Flying Magazine:
text: The tempo of the introduction, which Mahler has marked to be slow and dragging, is of the utmost "slowth" (if I may use such a word to denote the creepy, crawling atmosphere thus created).
ref: 1983, High fidelity Musical America:
text: The slowth may have been caused by various software issues rather than anything to do with hardware.
ref: 2006, CPU speed: new computer necessary?
glosses: The state or condition of being slow; slowness.
Purvey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
latakia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /latəˈkiːə/
Forms: form: latakias
Etymology: From Latakia (“the Syrian port from where the tobacco is shipped, and near where it is produced”), from Arabic اللَاذِقِيَّة (al-lāḏiqiyya).
Senses: glosses: A type of pungent Turkish tobacco.
latakias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of latakia
tomrigg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tomriggs
Etymology: See tomboy and rig.
Senses: examples: text: And yet in the very next Canto she appears an arrant Ramp and a Tomrigg;[…]
ref: 1728, John Dennis, Remarks on Mr. Pope's Rape of the lock. In several letters to a friend. With a preface, occasion'd by the late Treatise on the profound, and the Dunciad., London: J. Roberts, page 16:
synonyms: hoiden
hoyden
tomboy
glosses: A rude, wild, wanton or masculine girl
tomrigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tomrig
frutage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɹuːtəd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: frutages
Etymology: Compare fruitage.
Senses: examples: text: The cornices above consist of frutages and festoons.
ref: 1644 November 27 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for November 17 1644]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC:
glosses: A picture of fruit; decoration by representation of fruit.
examples: text: With wyld foull, venisoun, and wyne,
With tairt, and flam, and frutage fyne
ref: a. 1555, David Lyndsay, The Historie and Testament of Squyer Meldrum:
text: Upon this Chariot was finely and artificially deviſed, a ſumptuous covered Table, decked with all Sorts of exquisſite Delicates and Dainties, of Patiſſerie, Frutages, and Confections.
ref: 1603, A true Accompt […] of the Baptism […] of Prince Henry Frederick […] :
glosses: A confection made of fruit.
frutages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frutage
antepast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antepasts
Etymology: From ante- + Latin pastus (“pasture, food”). Compare repast and Italian antipasto.
Senses: examples: text: 1664-1667, Jeremy Taylor, Dissuasive from Popery
antepasts of joy and comforts
text: this antepast of heaven
ref: 1782, John Wesley, Hymn to the Holy Ghost:
text: antepasts of endless blessedness
ref: 1850, Timothy Alden Taylor, Zion's Pathway:
glosses: A foretaste.
antepasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antepast
contextural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From contexture + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Again, the contextural expressions are of the self-same nature, both those that follow in the allegory, namely, the silver cord, and the golden bowl: and also those that immediately precede, namely, the grasshopper, and the almond-tree […]
ref: 1666, Dr. John Smith, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: Relating to contexture or arrangement of parts; producing contexture; interwoven.
neurenteric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + enteric.
Senses: examples: text: In many vertebrates, the neurenteric canal connects the medullary tube and the primitive intestine.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the neuron and the enteron (the nervous system and the gastrointestinal tract)
Derived terms: neurenteric canal
postponence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From postpone + -ence.
Senses: examples: text: 18. Noting preference, or poſtponence. / Your highneſs ſhall repoſe you at the Tovver. / —I do not like the Tovver of any place. / Shakesp[eare].
ref: 1755 April 15, Samuel Johnson, “Of”, in A Dictionary of the English Language: […], volume II (L–Z), London: […] J[ohn] and P[aul] Knapton; […], →OCLC, column 1:
antonyms: preference
glosses: The act of deeming less important or of a lower rank.
examples: text: […] he hastened to relieve her anxieties, by briefly stating the postponence of his trial […]
ref: 1826, Miss Crumpe, Geraldine of Desmond: or Ireland in the Reign of Elizabeth, volume 2, page 26:
synonyms: postponement
glosses: The act of postponing.
beneficential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to beneficence.
terreen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terreens
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of tureen.
terreens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terreen
compaternities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compaternity
compaternity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compaternities
Etymology: From Latin compaternitas, from compater (“godfather”), from com- + pater (“father”).
Senses: examples: text: The relation […]of gossipred or compaternity by the cannon law is a spiritual affinity.
ref: 1612, John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued:
glosses: The relationship of a godparent to their godchild.
Related terms: compagination
baubee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baubees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bawbee.
baubees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baubee
spinigerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪdʒəɹəs
Etymology: From Latin spiniger, from spina (“spine”) + gerere (“to bear”).
Senses: examples: text: spinigerous appendage
text: spinigerous setae
glosses: Bearing a spine or spines; thorn-bearing.
hexylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexylenes
Etymology: From hex- + -yl + ethylene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A colourless liquid hydrocarbon, C₆H₁₂, of the ethylene series, produced artificially, and found as a natural product of distillation of certain coals.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several isomers of hexylene proper.
Synonyms: hexene
hexylenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hexylene
parallelless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From parallel + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a parallel or equal; matchless.
stakehead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stakeheads
Etymology: From stake + head.
Senses: topics: arts
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
nautical
ropemaking
transport
glosses: A horizontal bar on a stake, used for supporting the yarns which are kept apart by pins in the bar.
stakeheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stakehead
ropemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ropeman
parosteal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: parosteal ossification
text: parosteal osteosarcoma
text: parosteal myxoma
text: parosteal sarcoma
text: bizarre parosteal osteochondromatous proliferation
glosses: Relating to parostosis.
pittacal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek pitch + beautiful: compare French pittacale.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A dark blue dyestuff obtained from wood-tar oil, the first to be commercially produced.
Related terms: eupittone
mousetail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mousetails
Etymology: From mouse + tail.
Senses: glosses: Any plant of the genus Ivesia, in the rose family.
glosses: Any plant of the genus Myosurus, in the buttercup family.
mousetails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mousetail
Targumist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Targumists
Etymology: From Targum + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A writer of a targum.
glosses: Someone versed in the targums.
Targumists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Targumist
pseudohaltere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudohalteres
Etymology: From pseudo- + haltere.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the club-like front wings of certain insects (stylops), resembling the halteres, or rudimentary hind wings, of Diptera.
pseudohalteres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudohaltere
doomage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doomages
Senses: glosses: A penalty or fine for neglect.
doomages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doomage
canulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: canulates
form: canulating
form: canulated
form: canulated
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cannulate.
canulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of canulate
canulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of canulate
gloriation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gloriations
Etymology: From Latin gloriatio, from gloriari (“to glory, boast”), from gloria (“glory”). See glory (noun).
Senses: examples: text: Glory, or internal gloriation or triumph of the mind, is the passion which proceedeth from the imagination or conception of our own power above the power of him that contendeth with us […]
ref: 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan:
glosses: A boast; a triumphing.
gloriations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gloriation
racial spoils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The State Senate recently voted to adopt a racial spoils system whereby at least 25% of construction contracts must be awarded to minority-owned businesses.
text: Ricci [v. DeStefano] may be the rock upon which America's racial spoils system finally founders.
ref: 2009, George F. Will, “The Wreck of the Racial Spoils System”, in The Washington Post:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Preferential treatment of minorities in source selection for government contracts.
leftwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From left + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: and doing so they say that they do it themselves rightwise and the Hellenes leftwise.
ref: 1890, G. C. Macaulay, The History of Herodotus, translated into English:
text: Similarly, his "doubling procedure" consists in the same random starting interval […] whose length is doubled (leftwise or rightwise at random) recursively till both ends are outside the slice.
ref: 2004, Christian P. Robert, George Casella, Monte Carlo statistical methods, page 336:
glosses: By a leftward path; leftwards, leftwardly; anticlockwise, counterclockwise.
leftwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From left + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: The leftwise action aims at what drifts out of the nunka domain of the nefarious. Similarly for mortuary arrangements, what is leftwise is more momentous than what is rightwise.
ref: 2006, Arne Røkkum, Nature, ritual, and society in Japan's Ryukyu Islands, page 151:
glosses: Leftward, on the left side.
Related terms: rightwise
unipeg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈjuː.nɪ.pɛɡ/
Forms: form: unipegs
Etymology: Blend of unicorn + pegasus.
Senses: examples: text: The balck^([sic]) and silver unipeg lands and folds his wings remebering^([sic]) the big earth drac.
ref: 1999 January 27, Twyligtsky, “Re: the inn”, in alt.mythology.mythic-animals (Usenet), message-ID <19990126223406.16200.00003652@ng126.aol.com>:
text: But, I think it will be too risky to try and steal horses, unipegs, pegasi, or unicorns. There are spells cast on the animals to keep track of them.
ref: 2004, Myles Brandon Hibbett, Zephyr Spheres and the Lost Spell, Lincoln: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 49:
text: As she whistled the horse, which Aries said was a Unipeg, which was a combination of a Pegasus and a unicorn landed right there smack in front of Mary it just landed and stared her right in the eyes.
ref: 2011 October 24, Mercedes Burgos-Diaz, Meenah, the Mystical Princess of Zantel, Bloomington: iUniverse, →ISBN, →OL, page 20:
glosses: A winged unicorn.
Synonyms: word: pegacorn
word: unisus
word: alicorn
Meronyms: alicorn
unipegs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unipeg
bleedier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of bleedy: more bleedy
pegacorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pegacorn
bleediest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of bleedy: most bleedy
move forward
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: moves forward
form: moving forward
form: moved forward
form: moved forward
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see move, forward.
examples: text: Meanwhile, with the Olympics approaching, the Greek government has grown increasingly heavy-handed in its efforts to move the project forward.
ref: 2004 January 18, Fred A. Bernstein, “Greece's Colossal New Guilt Trip”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To cause to make progress.
examples: text: This meeting is intended to help us move forward on the new project.
glosses: To make progress.
glosses: To modernize.
examples: text: They decided to move the meeting forward by a day so that Aisha could attend before her vacation.
synonyms: bring forward
move up
antonyms: move back
glosses: To reschedule (something) to an earlier date or time.
get ahead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets ahead
form: getting ahead
form: got ahead
form: got ahead
form: gotten ahead
Senses: glosses: To advance toward success.
MWR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of morale, welfare, and recreation.
Related terms: R&R
mythomane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪθəˌmeɪn/
ipa: /ˈmɪθəʊˌmeɪn/
Forms: form: mythomanes
Etymology: Etymology tree
French mytho-
French -mane
French mythomanebor.
English mythomane
Borrowed from French mythomane. By surface analysis, mytho- + -mane.
Senses: examples: text: Maybe because I was working on the programmes at the same time, I found myself thinking about parallels between Jimmy Savile and L. Ron Hubbard. Both were mythomanes, inventing and exaggerating to embellish their own careers and pedigrees.
ref: 2019, Louis Theroux, Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times in Television, London: Macmillan, page 384:
glosses: Someone who suffers from mythomania.
Synonyms: mythomania
mythomaniac
mythomanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mythomane
bathorhodopsin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From batho- + rhodopsin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A transient intermediate produced from photorhodopsin when rhodopsin is irradiated with light; it immediately forms lumirhodopsin and other products
Synonyms: prelumirhodopsin
prelumirhodopsin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + lumirhodopsin.
Senses: glosses: bathorhodopsin
lumirhodopsin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin lumen (“light”), and rhodopsin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A pigment formed when rhodopsin is irradiated with light; it undergoes further degradation to retinal and opsin
Derived terms: prelumirhodopsin
photorhodopsin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + rhodopsin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The initial compound formed when rhodopsin is irradiated with light; it immediately produces bathorhodopsin
retinylamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A diterpene amine related to retinol
cystogastrostomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cystogastrostomies
Etymology: From cysto- + gastrostomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The drainage of a pancreatic cyst into the stomach
musculotendinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From musculo- + tendinous.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to both muscle and tendon tissue.
nanobody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanobodies
Etymology: From nano- + antibody.
Senses: glosses: An antibody having a single, monomeric domain
nanobody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanobodies
Etymology: From nano- + body.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A nanoscale body.
peripherin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From peripheral + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An intermediate filament protein expressed mainly in neurons of the peripheral nervous system
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A photoreceptive glycoprotein
adenoacanthoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adenoacanthomas
form: adenoacanthomata
Etymology: From adeno- + acanthoma.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An adenocarcinoma characterised by the presence of squamous cells
adenoameloblastoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adenoameloblastomas
Etymology: From adeno- + ameloblastoma.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A benign adenomatoid odontogenic tumour
adenoblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adenoblasts
Etymology: From adeno- + -blast.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: An embryonic cell that can develop to form glandular parenchyma
covert baron
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman couverte baroun, alteration of earlier coverte de baron (“covered by a husband”).
Senses: examples: text: The Surrender by a woman covert Baron, being of the age of one and twenty years, made together with her ſband of the Lands
ref: 1617, The free Customes, Benefits and Priviledges of the Copyhold Tennants of the Mannors of Stepney and Hackney:
topics: law
glosses: Covert, under coverture; married.
covert baron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman couverte baroun, alteration of earlier coverte de baron (“covered by a husband”).
Senses: examples: text: to put himself under covert-baron [translating à couvert], he tooke him a wife from out that place, where all men may have them for mony[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 374:
glosses: The protection of a husband; a married state, the condition of a feme covert or (loosely) any married person.
raw_tags: with under
lithaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithaemias
form: lithæmia
form: lithemia
Etymology: From lith- + -aemia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: uricemia
lithaemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lithaemia
caravaneer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caravaneers
Etymology: Compare French caravanier.
Senses: glosses: The leader of a caravan (of animals, especially camels).
caravaneer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: caravaneers
form: caravaneering
form: caravaneered
form: caravaneered
Etymology: Compare French caravanier.
Senses: glosses: To travel with a caravan (of animals)
caravaneers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caravaneer
adenocellulitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From adeno- + cellulitis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: inflammation of a lymph node and the surrounding connective tissue
adenochondroma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adenochondromas
Etymology: From adeno- + chondroma.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A hamartoma consisting of glandular and cartilaginous tissue
Hasidean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hasideans
form: Assidean
Senses: glosses: One of a Jewish religious party involved in the Maccabean wars.
Hasideans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hasidean
Assidean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Assideans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hasidean.
Assideans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Assidean
balloter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balloters
Etymology: From ballot + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Though anyone can participate by commenting on the draft, only eligible members of the balloting group can vote. Ballots usually last 30–60 days, during which balloters can approve, disapprove or abstain with or without comments.
ref: 2018, Saad Asif, 5G Mobile Communications: Concepts and Technologies:
glosses: Someone who votes by ballot.
balloters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balloter
Mosaism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mosaisms
Senses: glosses: Attachment to the system or doctrines of Moses.
glosses: Any of the principles that make up Moses' doctrines.
Mosaisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mosaism
adenocystoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adenocystomas
Etymology: From adeno- + cystoma.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An adenoma in which the neoplastic glandular epithelium forms cysts
Synonyms: word: cystadenoma
alt: if malignant
word: cystadenocarcinoma
cystoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cystomas
form: cystomata
Etymology: From cysto- + -oma.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A cystic tumour
Derived terms: adenocystoma
enterocystoma
escribing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of escribe
escribed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of escribe
insition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insitions
Etymology: From insitio, from inserere, insitum (“to sow or plant in, to ingraft”), from in- (“in”) + serere, satum (“to sow”).
Senses: examples: text: No Tillage or Agriculture ; no Reaping or Mowing ; no Plowing or Digging ; no Pruning or Lopping ; Grafting or Insition
ref: 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The insertion of a scion in a stock; engraftment.
insitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insition
adenocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adenocytes
Etymology: From adeno- + -cyte.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A secretory cell of a gland
pitchwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pitch + work.
scopiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin scōpa + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: examples: text: scopiferous tarsus
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Bearing a tuft of brush-like hairs.
thretteen
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: thirteen
raw_tags: in Scotland
deprehension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deprehensions
Etymology: From Latin deprehensio. See deprehend.
Senses: examples: text: The act of adultery was her crime : to be taken in the very act , was no part of her sin , but the proof of her just conviction ; yet her deprehension is made an aggravation of her shame.
ref: 1612–1626, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volume (please specify |volume=II, V, or VI), London, →OCLC:
glosses: A catching in the act; discovery (of a misdeed)
Related terms: deprehend
deprehensions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deprehension
adenodiastasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From adeno- + diastasis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The ectopia of a gland
adenodynia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From adeno- + -odynia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: pain in a gland; adenalgia
adenoepithelioma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adenoepitheliomas
Etymology: From adeno- + epithelioma.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A glandular epithelioma
heppen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: heppener
form: more heppen
form: heppenest
form: most heppen
Etymology: Compare Old English ġehæp (“fit”), Icelandic heppinn (“lucky”) lucky, English happy.
Senses: examples: text: Brid. Thou says vara reight, poor as weer, we sud be far warse wor he to come; for he wad, naa doubt, mack a sad derse amang us; Joan an me ha’ not michto crack on, bud we can mack shift to live ina gradely, menceful, heppen way, an I wad be waa to soap it for awt’ French freedom they make sike frap about.
ref: 1824, William Carr, “Dialogue I”, in Horæ Momenta Cravenæ, or The Craven Dialect, […], London: Hurst, Robinson and Co. Cheapside, page 24:
text: Wee give usually to a spaught for holdinge of the oxe plough fower nobles or perhapps 30s. per annum, if hee bee such an one as have beene trained and beene brought up att the plough, and bee a wigger and heppen youth for loadinge of a waine, and goinge with a draught.
ref: 1857, Henry Best, “For Hyringe of Servantes”, in Charles Best Robinson, editor, Rural Economy in Yorkshire, in 1641, […], Durham: George Andrews, page 133:
text: ’Cawse Bessy, his wife, thof i’ nowt bud print goons,
Was heppenest woman you'd finnd i’ ten toons;
ref: 1889, Geo. Lancaster, “Riding the Stang”, in John Nicholson, editor, The Folk Speech of East Yorkshire, London: Simpkin, Marshall & Company, page 38:
qualifier: southwest Lincolnshire
glosses: neat, fit, or comfortable
Derived terms: unheppen
lymphangeitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin lympha (“lymph”) + Ancient Greek ἀγγεῖον (angeîon, “vessel”) + -itis.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of lymphangitis.
overpoise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + poise.
Senses: examples: text: And I hope, the known avowed use and experience of such great Men, and those in so great a number, is an abundant overpoise to the contrary Affirmation of this, or any other Novel Author whatsoever.
ref: 1693, Robert South, chapter 7, in Animadversions upon Dr. Sherlock’s book, entituled A vindication of the holy and ever-blessed Trinity, London: Randal Taylor, pages 222–223:
text: I recognised
The moths, with that great overpoise of wings
Which makes a mystery of them how at all
They can stop flying: […]
ref: 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh, Book 7, p. 272:
text: Without swallowing whole all the warnings one could readily hear and read about the spiritual dangers of intellectual arrogance and literary freebooting, there was menace in the overpoise that high education and a rich way of living could confer on a young girl. Unknowingly, she could exceed her own strength.
ref: 1964, Flann O’Brien, chapter 6, in The Dalkey Archive, London: Pan Books, published 1976, page 56:
glosses: That which outweighs; excessive weight.
overpoise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overpoises
form: overpoising
form: overpoised
form: overpoised
Etymology: From over- + poise.
Senses: examples: text: 1587, Raphael Holinshed et al., Holinshed's Chronicles, London: John Harrison et al., Volume 2, “A Treatise conteining a plaine and perfect description of Ireland,” p. 36,
But sith it pleased your maiestie, with so indifferent balance to ponder both our tales, I am throughlie persuaded, that my loiall innocencie shall be able, to ouerpoise his forged treacherie.
text: To render a thing fit for rational belief, there is no more requir’d but that the motives for it do over-poise those against it […]
ref: 1678, Richard Allestree, The Lively Oracles Given to Us, Oxford, Section 2, p. 24:
text: 1791, William Cowper (translator), The Iliad, Book 1, lines 710-711, in The Works of William Cowper, London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1837, Volume 11, p. 26,
[…] thus we speed
Ever, when evil overpoises good.
synonyms: outweigh
glosses: To exceed in importance, strength or value.
examples: text: Tis time [f]or me to stirre when such young boyes,
Shal haue their weake neckes ouer poisd with crownes
ref: 1598, George Chapman, The Blind Beggar of Alexandria, London: William Jones:
text: 1658, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: N. Ekins, 3rd edition, Book 4, Chapter 6, p. 168,
Whether cripples and mutilated persons, who have lost the greatest part of their thighs, will not sink but float, their lungs being abler to waft up their bodies, which are in others overpoised by the hinder legs, we have not made experiment.
synonyms: overburden
glosses: To place excessive weight on (someone or something).
examples: text: […] the Stone in my Fathers Body was so immense, that I’ve wonder’d it did not bunch up behind, and make him have a Hump-back, or at least overpoise him in walking, and drag him backward with its incredible weight.
ref: 1691, John Dunton, chapter 6, in A Voyage Round the World, London: Richard Newcome, page 122:
text: […] Harry, perceiving his Instructor a little overpoised, suddenly gave him an inside Foot, and a Push at the same Instant toward the Part to which he inclined.
ref: 1770, Henry Brooke, The Fool of Quality, volume 5, Dublin, page 146:
synonyms: overbalance
glosses: To throw (someone or something) off balance.
imprejudicate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more imprejudicate
form: most imprejudicate
Etymology: From im- + prejudicate.
Senses: examples: text: Thus in Law both Civil and Divine: that is onely esteemed a legal testimony, which receives comprobation from the mouths of at least two witnesses; and that not only for prevention of calumny, but assurance against mistake; whereas notwithstanding the solid reason of one man, is as sufficient as the clamor of a whole Nation; and with imprejudicate apprehensions begets as firm a belief as the authority or aggregated testimony of many hundreds.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
text: imprejudicate and uncorrupted persons
ref: a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “Sermon LXXIII”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume II, London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: disinterested
word: indifferent
word: candid
word: cold
word: clinical
word: detached
word: egal
word: equal
word: equitable
word: evenhanded
word: fairhanded
word: fair-minded
word: disinterested
word: dispassionate
word: impartial
word: imprejudicate
word: indifferent
word: indistinguishing
word: neuter
word: neutral
word: nonaligned
word: nonpartial
word: nonpartisan
word: nonpersonal
word: objective
word: unbiased
word: unbigoted
word: uninterested
word: unpartial
word: unpartisan
word: unprejudiced
word: unprepossessed
glosses: Without prejudice; impartial.
adenofibroma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adenofibromas
form: adenofibromata
Etymology: From adeno- + fibroma.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A benign glandular and fibrous (connective) neoplasm
Derived terms: adenocarcinofibroma
induplicate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the edges bent abruptly toward the axis; said of the parts of the calyx or corolla in aestivation.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the edges rolled inward and then arranged about the axis without overlapping; said of leaves in vernation.
Synonyms: induplicative
Derived terms: induplicative
athermanous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Ancient Greek privative + to heat: compare French athermane.
Senses: examples: text: We see also why in an athermanous body an increase of thickness does not augment the radiation, —the reason being that, since it is already athermanous, this increase cannot possibly make it absorb more heat, and therefore cannot make it radiate more.
ref: 1862, British Association for the Advancement of Science, Report of the Annual Meeting, page 100:
text: Substances which admit of radiation taking place through them are called Diathermanous. Those which do not allow heat to pass through them without becoming themselves hot are called Athermanous.
ref: [1871, James Clerk Maxwell, Theory of Heat, page 13:
text: Substances which are transparent to visible light waves are not necessarily transparent to radiant heat waves. Thus glass is distinctly athermanous.
ref: 1915, Sir Richard Gregory, Harry Edwin Hadley, A Manual of Mechanics and Heat, page 281:
text: A closed hollow solid whose athermanous sides have the same temperature (thermodynamic equilibrium) , is filled with "black-body radiation“.
ref: 2005, Axel von Starck, Alfred Mühlbauer, Carl Kramer, Handbook of Thermoprocessing Technologies:
glosses: Not transmitting heat.
adenofibromyoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adenofibromyomas
Etymology: From adeno- + fibromyoma.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An adenomatoid tumour
surcloy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: surcloys
form: surcloying
form: surcloyed
form: surcloyed
Senses: glosses: To fill to excess; to stuff
Related terms: cloy
surcloyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of surcloy
surcloying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of surcloy
surcloys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of surcloy
spathal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈspeɪðəl/
Etymology: From spathe + -al.
Senses: examples: text: spathal flowers
ref: 1855, William Howitt, Land, Labour and Gold; or, Two Years in Victoria:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Furnished with a spathe.
tatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tatches
Etymology: From French tache (“spot”). See techy and tache.
Senses: glosses: A spot or stain.
glosses: A trick.
glosses: A quality (appearance or feel).
tatches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tatch
fibromyoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fibromyomas
form: fibromyomata
Etymology: From fibro- + myoma.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A benign uterine tumour; a fibroid.
Derived terms: adenofibromyoma