cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
overstream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊvəˈstɹiːm/
ipa: /oʊ.vɚˈstɹim/
Forms: form: overstreams
Etymology: From over- + stream.
Senses: examples: text: I must have a definite mark by which to locate him in that rugged territory overstream.
ref: 1942, Pennsylvania Game News 1942-06: Volume 13, Issue 3, Pennsylvania Game Commission, →ISBN, page 9:
text: Water temperature can be altered with the removal of overstream canopy. Water temperatures can increase in summer and decrease in winter encouraging lethal anchor ice problems.
ref: 1989, The Greater Yellowstone Postfire Assessment, Greater Yellowstone Coordinating Committee, page 84:
text: The day had open fair, but they had not sailed an hour before the sky was darkened, noisy wind was blowing in changing ways, and an overstream of air came down that was stinging, numbing cold.
ref: 2001, Ernest Thompson Seton, Wild Animal Ways, International Law & Taxation Publishers, →ISBN, page 199:
glosses: An excessive, steady flow, succession of something.
overstreamed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overstream
overstreams
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overstream
overstreaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overstream
erysimums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of erysimum
whatzisname
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whatzisnames
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whatsisname.
whatzisnames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whatzisname
infuscating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of infuscate
infuscates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of infuscate
subtenanted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of subtenant
subtenanting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of subtenant
Samosatenian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Samosatenians
Senses: glosses: A follower of Paul of Samosata, Bishop of Antioch from 260 to 268.
Samosatenians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Samosatenian
opisthobranchism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From opisthobranch + -ism.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The property of being an opisthobranch.
Damoclean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Damoclean
form: most Damoclean
Senses: examples: text: [...] but so long as huge accumulated deficits are made to hang like a Damoclean sword over every Regional headquarters, detail improvements that promise savings have unfortunately rather more prospect of achievement than those that offer a chance of making money.
ref: 1959 August, “Talking of Trains: Businessmen and B.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 348:
glosses: Of or relating to Damocles or the sword of Damocles.
abintestate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ab- + intestate.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: inheriting the estate of someone who died without having made a will
overhends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overhend
overhending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overhend
overhair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overhairs
Etymology: From over- + hair.
Senses: glosses: The long hair overlying the fur of many animals.
beside the mark
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: In reference to a mark that would be aimed at e.g. in archery.
Senses: glosses: beside the point, irrelevant, neither here nor there
uninodal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + nodal.
Senses: glosses: Having a single node.
arrow-hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arrow-holes
Etymology: From arrow + hole.
Senses: examples: text: There were arrow-holes in the battlements, from which archers were shooting.
glosses: Synonym of arrowslit.
synonyms: word: arrowslit
examples: text: There was an arrow-hole in his abdomen, from which blood was seeping.
glosses: A hole of puncture in a body, the result of being shot with an arrow.
Trumpster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹʌmpstɚ/
Forms: form: Trumpsters
Etymology: From Trump + -ster.
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, for the past two days Paul Manafort and other Trumpsters had aggressively insisted that there was no plagiarism, revealing the spokespeople of the Trump campaign as liars and hypocrites who modify their party line […]
ref: 2016, Douglas Kellner, American Nightmare:
text: These Trumpsters were bamboozled into believing that all of the economic ills of our society can be attributed to the poor who depend on government assistance to survive.
ref: 2017, Paul Schwartz, A Citizen’s Perspective: Society, Hypocrisy and the 2016 Election Season:
glosses: A political supporter of Donald Trump.
Trumpster
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹʌmpstɚ/
Forms: form: the Trumpster
Etymology: From Trump + -ster.
Senses: examples: text: Phineas Taylor Barnum, godfather of the modern age of hot press and selfpromotion, was Donald's direct precursor, the man who anticipated the Trumpster more than a century before the Trumpster was born.
ref: 2005, Timothy L. O'Brien, TrumpNation: The Art of Being The Donald, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
text: How long before he grew his thinning hair long enough to comb it over his receding hairline in the Trumpster's signature style?
ref: 2016, Andrew Shaffer, The Day of the Donald: Trump Trumps America, Crooked Lane Books, →ISBN, page 105:
text: This guy, who sounds like what we might call a “Scottish redneck”, adamantly refused to knuckle under to the Trumpster, and sell out, or even clean up his “eyesore” property.
ref: 2012, Jeff Foulk, Jay A. Blum, Over the Ocean and to the Links: A Golfer's Journey, Malcolm Press, →ISBN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Nickname for Donald Trump (born 1946), president of the United States (2017–2021, 2025–present).
Related terms: Trumper
Trumpet
Trumpster diving
Trumpster fire
Trumptard
Trumpsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Trumpster
unreciprocation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + reciprocation.
Senses: glosses: Absence of reciprocation.
gentleman usher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gentleman ushers
Senses: glosses: An usher in the British royal household.
glosses: A high-ranking servant responsible for overseeing the work of other servants.
Derived terms: Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod
gentleman ushers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gentleman usher
intrainstitutional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + institutional.
Senses: glosses: Within an institution.
extrainstitutional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + institutional.
Senses: examples: text: At the same time, individuals trapped within institutional structures become increasingly nonadept at navigating extrainstitutional locations.
ref: 2015, David T. Mitchell, Sharon L. Snyder, The Biopolitics of Disability, page 121:
glosses: Outside of an institution.
myitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: By surface analysis, my- + -itis.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of myositis.
synonyms: word: myositis
Related terms: myoma
break wedlock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: breaks wedlock
form: breaking wedlock
form: broke wedlock
form: broken wedlock
Senses: glosses: To commit adultery.
direct rule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Unionists have demanded a full public inquiry into the "Stormontgate" affair which began in October 2002 when allegations of an IRA spying operation at Stormont prompted suspension of the Northern Ireland assembly and three years of direct rule.
ref: 2005 December 19, Angelique Chrisafis, “Adams should resign over spy scandal, urges SDLP”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: The Catalan parliament will meet over the coming days to agree its response to the Spanish government’s unprecedented decision to impose direct rule as speculation mounts that the regional president, Carles Puigdemont, is planning to press ahead with a unilateral declaration of independence.
ref: 2017 October 22, Sam Jones, “Catalonia weighs up declaration of independence”, in the Guardian:
qualifier: particularly in Northern Ireland
glosses: Control by the central government of an area that has had its own governing body in the past.
neurohypnotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: hypnotic
for the love of all that is good
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of for the love of God.
synonyms: word: for the love of God
for the love of all that is holy
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: -əʊli
Senses: glosses: Synonym of for the love of God.
synonyms: word: for the love of God
enubilates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enubilate
Torricellian vacuum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The vacuum in the Torricellian barometer.
Torricellian tube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Torricellian tubes
Senses: glosses: The Torricellian barometer.
Torricellian tubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Torricellian tube
misrememberings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misremembering
tivers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tiver
torn up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of tear up
tearing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tear up
tears up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tear up
teared up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tear up
repentable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From repent + -able.
Senses: glosses: Of which one may repent.
unrepentable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + repent + -able.
Senses: examples: text: an unrepentable sin
glosses: That cannot be repented of.
pass one's word
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: passes one's word
form: passing one's word
form: passed one's word
form: passed one's word
Senses: glosses: To make a promise.
Londony
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Londony
form: most Londony
Etymology: From London + -y.
Senses: glosses: Marked by or tending to suggest characteristics of London, United Kingdom.
karack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A very large naan, intended for sharing by a group eating balti food.
grubstaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grubstakers
Senses: glosses: One who provides a prospector with a grubstake.
grubstakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grubstaker
quintessentialness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From quintessential + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: For starkness of vision, "quintessentialness" of expression, boldness and solidity of thought, and freedom of form, a New England spinster who flourished between 1830 and 1886 in an elm-shaded college town above the Connecticut valley, might give the imagists “pointers”: here is a discovery to quicken the modern New England heart.
ref: 1915, The New Republic 1915-08-14: Volume 4 Issue 41, New Republic, page 52:
text: His quintessentialness made them aware that they were in France.
ref: 2013, Gabrielle F. Culmer, Arrive by Dusk:
text: The animation may have improved, but the essence, the heart, the quintessentialness of anime and manga, is gone. The creators are just pandering to their audience.
ref: 2015, Derek Padula, Dragon Soul: 30 Years of Dragon Ball Fandom:
glosses: The quality of being quintessential.
misgets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misget
butt fusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Infrared butt fusion is quite similar to butt fusion with the key difference that the heating plate is considerably hotter (> 900°F, 480°C) and heat transfer is done entirely by radiation rather than by conduction.
ref: 1997, Thomas Sixsmith, Reinhard Hanselka, Handbook of Thermoplastic Piping System Design, →ISBN, page 179:
text: Polyethylene pipe can be joined using a butt fusion process, which creates a reliable leak-free joint.
ref: 2002, Arun K. Deb, Decision Support System for Distribution System Piping Renewal, →ISBN:
text: This would not include butt fusion joints but would include failures in the mold seams of molded plastic fittings.
ref: 2016, Michael D. Holloway, Spend Analysis and Specification Development Using Failure Interpretation, →ISBN, page 143:
glosses: A technique for joining pipes by heating the pipe ends and then fusing them through pressure.
boweling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bowel
boweled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bowel
'Arry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 'Arrys
form: 'Arries
Etymology: From the name Harry, in reference to the Cockney habit of dropping initial /h/ sounds in speech.
Senses: glosses: A Cockney man.
Coordinate terms: 'Arriet
Derived terms: 'Arryese
'Arryish
'Arryism
'Arrys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 'Arry
'Arries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 'Arry
'Arriet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 'Arriets
Etymology: From the name Harriet, in reference to the Cockney habit of dropping initial /h/ sounds in speech.
Senses: glosses: A Cockney woman.
Coordinate terms: 'Arry
'Arriets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 'Arriet
unnotorious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unnotorious
form: most unnotorious
Etymology: From un- + notorious.
Senses: glosses: Not notorious.
thalassophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thalassophiles
Etymology: From thalasso- + -phile.
Senses: glosses: Someone who loves the sea.
Related terms: hydrophile
pelagophil
thalassophile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thalassophile
form: most thalassophile
Etymology: From thalasso- + -phile.
Senses: glosses: Tending to accumulate in the sea.
Varyag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Varyags
Etymology: Related to Russian варя́г (varjág).
Senses: glosses: A Varangian.
Varyags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Varyag
orsellate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orsellates
Etymology: From orsellic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of orsellic acid.
orsellates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orsellate
the good doctor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the good doctors
Senses: examples: text: The technique in the rendition of the texture of the robes is there, but the face is painted in so low a color key as to give the impression that the good doctor has been undergoing the nitrate of silver treatment.
ref: 1910, "Penn. Academy display", American Art News 8(16):4–6 (29 January 1910) - via JSTOR, page 6, column 4
text: In 1746, some months after his 36th birthday, Samuel Johnson, that great literary figure of the 18th century, affectionately referred to as the Good Doctor, began work on his monumental Dictionary of the English Language.
ref: 2005, Beryl Bainbridge (1 April 2005), "Words count", Guardian (UK) (retrieved 2017-10-23; archived from the original 2017-04-23)
text: It’s lucky for you he got himself assassinated before the good Pope’s Vatican’s ratline and America’s CIA high level Nazi SS scientists lifelines who operatively could smuggle him along with his two pals Eichmann and the good doctor Mengele, the SS Angel of Death, to Argentina.
ref: 2011, Arthur T. White (2011), The 2012 Black Hole Killer, Bloomington, Indiana, USA: AuthorHouse, page 275
text: We are presented with the orthodox view of the good Doctor as Tory Anglican, enemy of Whig and radical, Catholic and dissenter, alike.
ref: 2014, Jonathan Bate (13 December 2014), "Samuel Johnson: A Life by David Nokes: review", Daily Telegraph (UK) (retrieved 2017-10-22; archived from the original 2017-03-21)
text: Well, almost no one: according to one story, a polite lady commended the good doctor for not including swear words in the dictionary. “I see you have been looking for them,” he is said to have replied.
ref: 2015, R.L.G. Berlin (15 April 2015), "Happy birthday to Johnson's dictionary", Economist, (retrieved 2017-10-23; archived from the original 2016-04-15)
glosses: An honorific for a doctor, especially for a doctor of medicine (a physician) or for Dr. Samuel Johnson.
Hypernyms: doctor
Related terms: good doctor
telephotometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telephotometers
Etymology: From tele- + photometer.
Senses: glosses: A kind of photometer that incorporates a telescope.
telephotometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telephotometer
tritheistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From tritheistic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: To understand what is said about the Spirit and the Son tritheistically, however, would be a Mormon mistake. No apostolic writer thinks of the Father, Son, and Spirit tritheistically.
ref: 1987, Kenneth S. Kantzer, Applying the Scriptures, page 60:
glosses: In a tritheistic manner.
henotheistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From henotheistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a henotheistic manner.
mondayne
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mondayne
form: most mondayne
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of mundane.
hakka noodle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hakka noodles
form: Hakka noodle
Senses: examples: text: Vegetarian Hakka noodles are held forth as a dish from the Hakka region of China that has been re-created in India's Chinatowns for at least a century. It's just that somehow, they've become Indian.
ref: 2014, Brian Yarvin, A World of Noodles, page 196:
text: Hakka noodles are made from plain or egg noodles, stir-fried with sauces and crunchy vegetables.
ref: 2016, Harminder Singh Magon, My Epicurean Journey: Elegant and Inspirational Recipes for Life:
glosses: A kind of stir-fried rice or egg noodle dish in Indo-Chinese cuisine.
the good doctors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “The good doctors tell us he is better of the wound,” resumed the mother.
ref: 1882, Inde (June 1882), "The letter “S”; or, The Jocelyn sin", chapters 5–8, Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly 13(6):705–718, page 708
text: According to the U.S. National Library of Medicine, in reality, this “independent” surveying was conducted by R.J. Reynolds’ ad agency, the William Esty Co., who would send staff to query physicians about their smoking habits at medical conferences and in their offices. They’d ask about their cigarette brand of choice, most of the time, after just having provided the good doctors with free cartons of Camels.
ref: 2012, Rupal Parekh (13 August 2012), Rewind: 1949 cigarette spot declares ‘Doctors smoke Camels’, Advertising Age (retrieved 2017-10-24; archived from the original 2017-07-01)
text: With all respect to the good doctors at the university-based institute who evaluated him, they were not up on the literature on mental giftedness.
ref: 2013, Enrico Gnaulati (21 September 2013), "That’s not autism: It’s simply a brainy, introverted boy", Salon (retrieved 2017-10-23; archived from the original 2017-08-13)
glosses: plural of the good doctor. An honorific for a group of doctors, especially for a group of doctors of medicine (physicians).
chicken 65
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chicken 65
form: chicken-65
form: Chicken-65
Etymology: Supposedly originated at a restaurant in Chennai in 1965.
Senses: examples: text: Anup replied, "I like veg but I don't want to spoil my non-vegetarian menus, especially chicken-65."
ref: 2017, Satish Kumar, Campus Plus: Dreams, Friends And Challenges, page 110:
text: Finally, all of us unanimously agreed to go to the Chinese bandi because the thought of chicken in the chicken 65 […]
ref: 2017, Shruti Malviya, The Night Sky:
glosses: An Indo-Chinese dish consisting of deep-fried chicken and red chillies.
wikipedia: Chennai
enumeratively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From enumerative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of, or by means, of enumeration.
countwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From count + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In terms of the count, or thickness, of yarn.
vulvate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or having the form of, a vulva.
overcolouring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From over- + colouring.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overcolour
overcolouring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overcolourings
Etymology: From over- + colouring.
Senses: glosses: Excessive use of colour; (chiefly in extended use) exaggeration in description; an instance of this.
overcolours
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overcolour
interaulic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + aulic.
Senses: glosses: Existing between royal courts.
hyperemetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + emetic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to hyperemesis.
vauted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vaut
vauting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vaut
Sobranye
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sobranje.
kiss the rod
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kisses the rod
form: kissing the rod
form: kissed the rod
form: kissed the rod
Senses: glosses: To submit to punishment.
Related terms: kiss someone's ring
claviharp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈklævɪhɑː(ɹ)p/
Forms: form: claviharps
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A 19th-century musical instrument combining a harp with a keyboard.
claviharps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of claviharp
astronomical transient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astronomical transients
Etymology: From astronomical + transient. From being a traditional astronomical source (optical astronomy, and star-like) of an ephemeral nature.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A localized discrete transient optical spectrum event at astronomical distances.
Derived terms: word: AT
raw_tags: for naming of events of such a nature
astronomical transients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of astronomical transient
dumbek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dumbeks
form: dumbek
form: dumbec
form: doumbek
form: dumbeg
form: dumbelek
form: doumbec
form: dumbelek
Etymology: From Modern Turkish dümbek, from Ottoman Turkish دنبك (dümbek), from Persian دنبک (donbak). Doublet of tombak.
Senses: examples: text: The Middle Eastern jar shaped drum generally referred to as the dumbek is gaining enormous popularity among today's hand percussionists.
ref: 2000, John Marshall, Hand Drums for Beginners: An Easy Beginning Method, →ISBN, page 33:
text: Dumbek are used in a wide range of ensembles in both classical and folk music.
ref: 2010, Randy Raine-Reusch, Play The World: The 101 Instrument Primer, →ISBN:
text: Behind her, a band of drummers hesitated in mid-beat over now-silent dumbeks.
ref: 2014, Robin Wayne Bailey, Swords Against the Shadowland, →ISBN:
glosses: A Middle Eastern goblet drum.
dumbeks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dumbek
WIAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of WIA
MIAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MIA
LIAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LIA
re-hearing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: re-hearings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rehearing.
graniculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian granicoltura.
Senses: examples: text: The industries of the Sacramento basin include mining, smelting, lumbering, dairying, grazing, orchard farming, graniculture, sugar manufacture, and fishing.
ref: 1912, U.S. Government Printing Office, Congressional Serial Set:
text: He said, "A large cultural unit, and an agrarian rotation which permits the soil to lie fallow: these are the two salient characteristics of the latifundium and of Sicilian graniculture. If the rains were more abundant we should have rich pastures, plenty of manure, and a totally different agrarian rotation. The want of rains and the scarcity of flowing water thus potently and invincibly influence the entire agrarian economy of Sicily."
ref: 1919, Robert Franz Foerster, The Italian Emigration of Our Times, volume 20:
text: Euhemerists who believed that Ceres was deified for having taught graniculture to grateful Greeks were now informed that this event had taken place in 1030 B.C.
ref: 1976, K. K. Ruthven, Myth:
glosses: Wheat growing.
geniza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genizas
form: genizot
form: genizoth
Senses: examples: text: The rule of burying the old Scrolls which became spoiled or torn was in course of time extended to all Hebrew books which became torn or spoiled. This, indirectly, probably led to the well-known practice of having special places called Geniza, where such books were temporarily kept before being buried[…]. In almost all Jewish centers, there are Genizot in the synagogues—under the Bima, within the walls, or in the garrets. As the place grew overcrowded, the content was carried to the cemetery for burial.
ref: 1983, Jacob Z[allel] Lauterbach, “73. Ritual for Disposal of Damaged Sefer Torah (Vol. XXXIV, 9124, pp. 74–75)”, in Walter Jacob, editor, American Reform Responsa: Collected Responsa of the Central Conference of American Rabbis 1889–1983, New York, N.Y.: Central Conference of American Rabbis, →OCLC, page 243:
glosses: Alternative spelling of genizah.
genizas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geniza (alternative spelling of genizahs).
duck race
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duck races
Senses: glosses: A charity fundraising event where numbered plastic ducks are released in a river, with the winner being the person whose duck floats to the finish line first.
Batangas knife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Batangas knives
Etymology: Named after the province of Batangas, where the knife is traditionally made.
Senses: glosses: A butterfly knife.
thorinum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of thorium.
oogeny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: oogenesis
ineunts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ineunt
Baphometic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbæfəˈmɛtɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Forms: form: more Baphometic
form: most Baphometic
Etymology: From Baphomet + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: "Spiritualism, with its very real and awful mysteries, is, to him, a vulgar thing because it brought consolation to common folk, but he loves to read papers on the Palladian Cultus, ancient and accepted Scottish rites, and Baphometic figures."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: Relating to Baphomet.
lad's love
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: southernwood
sock it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: socks it
form: socking it
form: socked it
form: socked it
Senses: glosses: To blow away, to impress (someone).
raw_tags: followed by the preposition to
examples: text: Fish + Broccoli
The benefit: You can sock it to cancer with this one-two punch.
ref: 2007 November, Elizabeth Drake, “Combine and conquer: Use these winning food pairings to protect your health”, in Men's Health, volume 22, number 9, →ISSN, page 124:
glosses: To deliver a crippling blow to.
neptunate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neptunates
Etymology: From neptunium + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any oxyanion of neptunium; any salt containing such an ion.
neptunous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to trivalent neptunium
Related terms: neptunic
neptunic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to tetravalent neptunium.
Related terms: neptunous
cat train
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cat trains
Etymology: From cat + train. From having a caterpillar-drive tractor unit pulling a train of cargo.
Senses: glosses: An off-road frozen-surface cargo train pulled by a cat (caterpillar-drive truck) with a trail of ski trailers and sledges
Related terms: snowcat
cat skiing
nitranilate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nitranilates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of nitranilic acid
nitratation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nitratations
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The conversion of nitrite into nitrate, typically be means of the enzyme nitrite oxidoreductase
nitrilate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nitrilates
form: nitrilating
form: nitrilated
form: nitrilated
Etymology: From nitrile + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To introduce one or more nitrile groups into a molecule.
French Academy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the French Academy
Senses: glosses: An academy dedicated to the perfection of the French language and standards of usage, founded in the 17th century.
latifolious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more latifolious
form: most latifolious
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Broad-leaved; latifoliate.
fillibustered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fillibuster
fillibustering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fillibuster
flimp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flimps
form: flimping
form: flimped
form: flimped
Senses: examples: text: Not worth flimping, eh?
ref: 1985 October 24, Martin Banham, Plays by Tom Taylor: Still Waters Run Deep, The Contested Election, The Overland Route, The Ticket-of-Leave Man, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 166:
text: I don't go to say that what with flimping, and with cly-faking, […]
ref: 1862, Macmillan's Magazine, page 111:
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: To steal; to commit petty theft.
flimped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flimp
flimps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flimp
flimping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flimp
nonacontane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonacontanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon that has 19 carbon atoms, but especially n-nonacontane
neodymate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neodymates
Etymology: From neodymium + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any oxyanion of neodymium; any salt containing such an ion.
gombeenism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gombeen + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The practice of depending on gombeens, or money-lenders.
tremellose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: trem-ĕ-lōs
ipa: /ˈtɹɛm.ɛɹˌləʊz/
Forms: form: more tremellose
form: most tremellose
Etymology: From Latin tremulus (“shaking; trembling; quivering”) + -ose. See also English tremulous.
Senses: examples: text: Simple, solitary, somewhat tremellose, yellow; clubs incrassated, obtuse, compressed; stem round.
ref: 1871, Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, “Clavariei”, in Handbook of British Fungi, volume 1, 998. Calocera glossoides, page 340:
text: 'Where did you pick up this little souvenir?' he asked, turning to stare at Craig, who was in a state of sudden tremellose agitation, his hands shaking, his head quivering above his shoulders as though his neck muscles had ceased their normal supporting function.
ref: 1969, Leonard Gribble, Cash My Chips, Croupier:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of jelly.
Synonyms: gelatinous
gombeenman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gombeenmen
Etymology: From gombeen + -man.
Senses: glosses: A gombeen, or money-lender.
gombeenmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gombeenman
imprecateth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: imprecate + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of imprecate
imprecatorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more imprecatorily
form: most imprecatorily
Etymology: From imprecatory + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an imprecatory manner.
miscolorings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miscoloring
miscolourings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miscolouring
picrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From picrate + -ed.
Senses: examples: picrated gelatine
glosses: Mixed with a picrate.
gabbronite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gabbronites
Etymology: From gabbro + -n- + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A compact variety of scapolite, resembling gabbro.
gabbronites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gabbronite
animalculine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more animalculine
form: most animalculine
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or resembling animalcules.
supercanopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supercanopies
Etymology: From super- + canopy.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: An upper arch or gable above a lesser or lower one.
glosses: The section of a forest above the canopy.
supercanopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supercanopy
mismannered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mismannered
form: most mismannered
Etymology: From mis- + mannered.
Senses: glosses: Having bad manners; impolite.
mismanners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mis- + manners.
Senses: glosses: bad manners
widershins
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of widdershins.
devizee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: devizees
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of devisee.
glosses: Obsolete form of devisee.
whisting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of whist
whister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whisters
Etymology: From whist + -er.
Senses: glosses: A player of the card game whist.
whisters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whister
devizees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of devizee
frankalmoin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of frankalmoign.
decategorification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decategorifications
Etymology: From de- + categorification.
Senses: examples: text: For the n-levels systems approach we may associate categorification with increasing the level and decategorification with decreasing the level of complexity.
ref: 2013, Octavian Iordache, Polytope Projects, →ISBN, page 6:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The reverse process of categorification: The mapping of a category theoretic category to a set by using a systematic process in which isomorphic objects in a category are identified as equal.
Hobbesism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hobbism.
Hobbesist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hobbesists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hobbist.
Hobbesists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hobbesist
seirosporic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From seirospore + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to seirospores.
sumphishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sumphish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being sumphish.
Josephology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Joseph + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The theology of Saint Joseph.
Related terms: Josephological
Josephologist
Josephologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Josephologists
Etymology: From Josephology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies the theology of Saint Joseph.
Josephological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Josephology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the theology of Saint Joseph.
Josephologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Josephologist
siccates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of siccate
siccating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of siccate
siccated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of siccate
sammed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sam
subthoracic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + thoracic.
Senses: glosses: Situated below the thorax.
Becka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Rebecca.
trilateralness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From trilateral + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being trilateral.
akamatsu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: akamatsu
Etymology: From Japanese あかまつ.
Senses: glosses: The Japanese red pine, Pinus densiflora.
spacesickness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From space + sickness. By analogy with seasickness and airsickness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of space sickness.
Garn scale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Garn scale
Etymology: After Senator Jake Garn, said to have experienced severe space sickness during his flight in 1985.
Senses: glosses: An informal scale supposed to measure the severity of space sickness.
bawded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bawd
nasarde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nasardes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nasard.
nasardes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nasarde
Muscovy glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: [It] may be perhaps very much concerned in the business of its hardening and tempering: of which somewhat is said in the Description of Muscovy-glass.
ref: 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia:
glosses: Muscovite, especially as used to make windows.
incoronated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: crowned
Naples yellows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Naples yellow
afared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of afare
Hindustanee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hindustanees
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Hindustani.
Hindustanee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: His Hindustanee was very limited, and the ruffled and disgusted Kim intended to keep to the character laid down for him.
ref: 1900 December – 1901 October, Rudyard Kipling, Kim, London: Macmillan and Co., published 1901, →OCLC:
glosses: Archaic form of Hindustani.
Hindoostani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hindoostanis
Etymology: From Hindoostan + -i.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Hindustani.
Hindoostani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hindoostan + -i.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Hindustani.
Hindustanees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hindustanee
Hindoostanis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hindoostani
nidge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪdʒ
Forms: form: nidges
form: nidging
form: nidged
form: nidged
Etymology: From a voiced variant of nitch (“notch”).
Senses: glosses: To dress the face of (a stone) with a sharp-pointed hammer.
nidging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nidge
nidging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nidging
form: most nidging
Senses: glosses: trifling
Related terms: nidget
nidged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nidge
nidges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nidge
alphaglobins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alphaglobin
betaglobins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of betaglobin
fusegate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fusegates
Etymology: From a brand name.
Senses: examples: text: The amount of ballast in each fusegate and the elevation of the intake well determine the pool elevation at which a fusegate will tip, that is, rotate downstream.
ref: 1990, Golden State Floodlight: California Floodplain Management Newsletter, page 70:
text: One or more prefabricated fusegate units are positioned within a precast concrete frame on an overflow spillway crest, held in place by gravity forces. Additional reservoir storage is provided to the fusegate crest.
ref: 1994, Task Committee on Overtopping Protection, Alternatives for Overtopping Protection of Dams, →ISBN, page 42:
text: The purpose of these physical model tests were mainly to measure water pressure distribution into the chamber and on the fusegate structure for a given upstream water head above the fusegate crest.
ref: 2000, U. Maione, B. Majone-Lehto, R. Monti, New Trends in Water and Environmental Engineering for Safety and Life, →ISBN:
text: Ordinary floods spill over the fusegate barrier. Larger floods cause the chamber to fill as the water spills over the well lips (Fig. 9.24 (b)).
ref: 2013, M.M. Dandekar, K. N.Sharma, Water Power Engineering, →ISBN, page 280:
glosses: A modular spillway sill invented in 1989 to improve dam safety by increasing water storage.
ophecleide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ophecleides
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ophicleide.
guaiacan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guaiacans
Senses: examples: text: The wood, bark, gum, and rosin, are the parts of guaiacan used in medicine. Guaiacan is a warm stimulant, diaphoretic, and corroborant. The resin, improperly called gum, is attenuant, stimulant, expectorant, aperient, and purgative.
ref: 1801, Samuel Stearns, The American Herbal, Or, Materia Medica:
text: Perhaps the most interesting early description of one of the many variants of the guaiacan treatment is that of Nicholas Monardes who wrote of the cure in 1574.
ref: 1975, Peter Richard Jutro, Lignumvitae Key: the history, natural history and politics of the preservation of a unique natural area:
text: Seizing an axe, Aguirre began madly chopping at the rollo; but it was of the dense wood called lignum vitae, or guaiacan, and "the steel flew from the hatchets, while the rollo received no particular harm, and some prognosticated that it would remain there, as representing justice, and the name of the king, by whom it had been erected; and not by traitors.
ref: 1996, Robert Silverberg, The golden dream: seekers of El Dorado, page 237:
glosses: Alternative form of guaiacum.
Bugtong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Calbayog, Samar, Philippines.
Derived terms: Bugtong na Pulo
grockle box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grockle boxes
form: grockle-box
Etymology: From the fact that it is a container for grockles.
Senses: examples: text: Mind, there were a good few grockle boxes around this weekend, so maybe things are picking up a bit ;)
ref: 2001 April 17, Sue H, “Meet - 21st April- The Crumplehorn Inn”, in uk.local.southwest (Usenet):
text: Well said. Get rid of the grockle box's and a the pikey mutha farker's who tow them.
ref: 2003 July 3, Groid, “OT - Caravan owners”, in : uk.radio.amateur (Usenet):
text: What is a Winnebago? Think grockle box but 10 times worse.
ref: 2011 January 27, Brian Howie, “OT:Radio 4 News Item”, in uk.radio.amateur (Usenet):
text: Are you thinking of getting a grockle box then Markyboy?
ref: 2015 February 21, charles, “Not more retuning”, in uk.tech.digital-tv (Usenet):
glosses: A caravan; a trailer that is used as holiday accommodation.
grockle-box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grockle-boxes
Senses: examples: text: An occupant of a grockle-box. They proliferate in the West Country between Easter and September.
ref: 2003 April 26, J, “One "L" or two?”, in uk.radio.amateur (Usenet):
text: You can get an awful lot of night's B&B for the cost of the smallest grockle-box, you get a proper bog *AND* someone else cooks yer breakfast.
ref: 2003 August 13, BaldiePete, “I'm so proud!”, in alt.music.rush (Usenet):
text: Personally it's fucking tourists towing fucking grockle-boxes up and down the country that piss me right off.
ref: 2003 August 14, anne_uumellmahaye, “I'm so proud!”, in alt.music.rush (Usenet):
glosses: Alternative form of grockle box.
Paragas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Paragases
Etymology: Borrowed from Pangasinan Paragas.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Pangasinan.
Sangalang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sangalangs
Etymology: From Tagalog Sangalang and Kapampangan Sangalang.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Tagalog.
glosses: A surname from Kapampangan
octacontane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon that has 80 carbon atoms, but especially n-octacontane
octacyclic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From octa- + cyclic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having eight rings (of atoms)
Lacap
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lacaps
Etymology: Borrowed from Kapampangan Lacap.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Kapampangan.
Labastida
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Labastidas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Labastida, from la + Basque Bastida.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish [in turn from Basque].
octomerize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: octomerizes
form: octomerizing
form: octomerized
form: octomerized
Etymology: From octomer + -ize.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To polymerize to form an octomer
octovalent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of octavalent.