cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pretendingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pretendingly
form: most pretendingly
Etymology: From pretending + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The disagreement starts with the species capable of pretend play, which necessarily entails disagreement over what the minds involved do in order to play pretendingly, and when.
ref: 2013, Radu J. Bogdan, Mindvaults: Sociocultural Grounds for Pretending and Imagining:
glosses: So as to pretend.
examples: text: I have a particular Reason to look a little pretendingly at present; therefore I hope you will excuse it
ref: 1697, Jeremy Collier, Essays upon Several Moral Subjects:
glosses: As if by right or title; arrogantly; presumptuously.
tarsometatarsal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tarso- + metatarsal.
Senses: examples: text: the tarsometatarsal articulations
text: tarsometatarsal joint
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to both the tarsus and metatarsus.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the tarsometatarsus.
sarcenet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarcenets
Senses: examples: text: No, vvhy art thou then exaſperate, thou idle, / immaterial ſkeine of ſleiue ſilke; thou greene ſacenet flap for a ſore eye, thou toſſell of a prodigalls purſe— […]
ref: c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. […] (First Quarto), London: […] G[eorge] Eld for R[ichard] Bonian and H[enry] Walley, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], signature K, recto:
text: There is one exception however in this case, and that is, when you are so fortunate a fellow, as to have had your jerkin made of a gum-taffeta, and the body-lining to it, of a sarcenet or thin persian.
ref: 1759–1767, [Laurence Sterne], The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume (please specify |volume=I to IX), London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […]:
glosses: Alternative spelling of sarsenet.
sarcenets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarcenet
pregnance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pregnances
Senses: examples: text: Only in the passage following, I cannot but admire the ripenes, and the pregnance of his native trechery, endeavouring to bee more a Fox then^([sic]) his wit will suffer him.
ref: 1645, John Milton, Colasterion:
glosses: Obsolete form of pregnancy.
ozokerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ozokerites
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ozocerite.
ozokerites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ozokerite
symphyseal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to symphysis
Derived terms: postsymphyseal
synodist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪnədɪst/
Forms: form: synodists
Etymology: From synod + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: These synodists thought fit in Latin as yet to veil their decrees from vulgar eyes.
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: An adherent to, or member of, a synod.
synodists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synodist
pedatifid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pedate + -fid, from -fidus, from Latin findere (“to split”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Cleft in a pedate manner, but having the lobes distinctly connected at the base.
raw_tags: of leaves
recumbence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recumbences
Senses: examples: text: sternal recumbence
text: supine recumbence
text: lateral recumbence
text: anal recumbence
synonyms: word: recumbency
glosses: The act of leaning, resting, or reclining; the state of being recumbent.
seether
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːðə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: seethers
Etymology: From seethe + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Like burnished gold the little seether shone.
ref: 1717, Samuel Croxall, John Dryden, Vernon, “Book VIII”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A pot for boiling things; a boiler.
examples: text: The following strategies can help a seether gain control of angry feelings.
ref: 1994, Working Mother, volume 17, number 1:
text: Oh, she is not born like other girls / But I know how to conceive her / Oh, she may not look like other girls / But she's a snarl-toothed seether, seether!
ref: 1994, “Seether”, performed by Veruca Salt:
glosses: A person who seethes.
seethers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seether
angelize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪnd͡ʒəlaɪz/
Forms: form: angelizes
form: angelizing
form: angelized
form: angelized
form: angelise
Etymology: From angel + -ize.
Senses: examples: W. Taylor
It ought not to be our object to angelize, nor to brutalize, but to humanize man.
glosses: To raise to the state of an angel; to render angelic.
Synonyms: angelify
Derived terms: angelization
Related terms: angelification
Los Angelization
Los Angelize
angelized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of angelize
angelizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of angelize
angelizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of angelize
pleurapophysial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the pleurapophysis.
perispomenon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɛɹɪˈspəʊmənɒn/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek περισπώμενον (perispṓmenon).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
related: word: perispomene#Adjective
coordinate_terms: properispomenon
oxytone
paroxytone
proparoxytone
barytone
glosses: Having a circumflex accent on the last syllable.
raw_tags: of a word
perispomenon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɛɹɪˈspəʊmənɒn/
Forms: form: perispomena
Etymology: From Ancient Greek περισπώμενον (perispṓmenon).
Senses: examples: text: All contract forms of these adjectives are perispomena; except ώ for έω and όω in the dual
ref: 1893, William Watson Goodwin, A Greek Grammar:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: properispomenon
oxytone
paroxytone
proparoxytone
barytone
glosses: A word with a circumflex accent on the last syllable.
Derived terms: perispome
fatherlasher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fatherlashers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of father lasher.
fatherlashers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fatherlasher
reillume
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reillumes
form: reilluming
form: reillumed
form: reillumed
Etymology: From re- + illume.
Senses: examples: text: Thou must reillume its spark.
ref: 1835, Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay:
text: 1712, Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Mother and Son"
The vital fire seemed reillumed within
By this sweet unexpected welcoming
text: November 5 1910, J. K. Bangs, "Hallow'en", Harpers's Weeklyhttps://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Book_of_Halloween/Four_Poems
Tis night for revel, set apart
To reillume the darkened heart,
glosses: To relight; to reilluminate.
reillumed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reillume
reillumes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reillume
reilluming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reillume
misliker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mislikers
Etymology: From mislike + -er.
Senses: examples: December 20, 1576, Edmund Grindal, letter to the Queen concerning suppressing the prophecies, and restraining the number of preachers
Some there be also, that are mislikers of the godly reformation in religion now established; wishing indeed that there were no preachers at all […]
glosses: One who mislikes.
mislikers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misliker
textuist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: textuists
Senses: examples: text: the crabbed textuists of his time
ref: 1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC:
text: And as a close and correct textuist generally, few perhaps ever excelled him .
ref: 1872, John Berry M'Ferrin, History of Methodism in Tennessee: 1804 to 1818, page 44:
glosses: A textualist; a textman.
examples: text: Gerhard Joseph as a textuist is philologically sound .
ref: 2002, Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux, Neil Fraistat, Reimagining Textuality: Textual Studies in the Late Age of Print:
text: In the interwaves of Greetham's Transgressions, the textuist-turned-autobiographer writes of his private experience of belatedness, otherness, anomie, absence.
ref: 2003, W. Speed Hill, Edward M. Burns, Text 15: An Interdisciplinary Annual of Textual Studies, page 347:
text: Two particular developments have helped to shift the emphasis in textual criticism and, more cautiously, in critical editing in the last three decades from ideal stasis to historical metastasis, and to suggest at the same time a potential synergy or area of cooperation between the textually engaged literary critic and the critically engaged textuist.
ref: 2016, Kathryn Sutherland, Marilyn Deegan, Text Editing, Print and the Digital World:
glosses: One who analyzes the structure, meaning, and context of texts.
textuists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of textuist
preestablishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preëstablishment
Etymology: From pre- + establishment.
Senses: glosses: The act of establishing or settling something beforehand.
Bosjesman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bosjesmans
form: Bosjesmen
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Bosjesman.
Senses: glosses: A Bushman of southern Africa.
Bosjesmans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bosjesman
maleficient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪʃənt
Forms: form: more maleficient
form: most maleficient
Etymology: Modification of maleficent; compare beneficient.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of maleficent.
disputacity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See dispute.
Senses: examples: text: […] lest they should dull the wits, and hinder the exercise of reasoning, [and] abate the disputacity of the nation.
ref: 1674, Bishop Ward, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: Proneness to dispute.
subcranial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + cranial.
Senses: examples: text: subcranial approach
text: subcranial division
text: subcranial lesions
text: subcranial margin
text: subcranial surgery
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated, or occuring under, or on the ventral side of, the cranium.
brickleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From brickle + -ness.
Senses: glosses: brittleness
facundious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more facundious
form: most facundious
Etymology: Latin facundiosus.
Senses: glosses: eloquent; wordy
Related terms: facundity
vigonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vigonias
Etymology: Compare French vigogne (“vicuña”).
Senses: examples: text: The Peruvians showed great skill in the manufacture of different articles for the royal household from this delicate material, which, under the name of vigonia wool, is now familiar to the looms of Europe
ref: 1847, William H. Prescott, A History of the Conquest of Peru:
glosses: Alternative form of vicuña.
vigonias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vigonia
remandment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remandments
Etymology: From remand + -ment.
Senses: glosses: A remand.
remandments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of remandment
peccability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peccabilities
Senses: examples: text: the common peccability of mankind
ref: 1667, attributed to Richard Allestree, The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety. […], London: […] R. Norton for T. Garthwait, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The state or quality of being peccable; liability to sin.
collusory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more collusory
form: most collusory
Etymology: From Latin collusorius.
Senses: examples: text: collusory bidding
text: collusory practice
glosses: collusive
distractious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more distractious
form: most distractious
Senses: examples: 1678?, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe
And thus may the slow and imperfect wits of mortals be satisfied, that Providence to the Deity is no moliminous, laborious, and distractious thing.
glosses: distractive; distracting
withinforth
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Middle English withinforth, from withinne + forth, equivalent to within + forth.
Senses: examples: text: And I sawȝ, and loo! an hoond was sent to me, in whom was a boke foldyn. And he leide it abrood before me, the which was writen withinforth and withoutforth. And lamentaciouns, and dite, or soong, and woo, was writen in it.
ref: c. 1382–1395, John Wycliffe [et al.], edited by Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden, The Holy Bible, […], volume III, Oxford: At the University Press, published 1850, →OCLC, Ezekiel 2:9–10, page 505, column 1:
english: And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein; And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
translation: And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein; And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
bold_translation_offsets: 139
145
text: [It is much greater] labour for to withinforth call into mind, without sight of the eye withoutforth upon images, what he before knew and thought upon.
ref: c. 1449-1455, Reginald Pecock, Represser of over-much weeting [blaming] of the Clergie:
glosses: Within; inside; inwardly.
Coordinate terms: withoutforth
interjunction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interjunctions
Etymology: From Latin interjunctus, past participle of interjungere (“to join together”). See inter- and join, and compare interjoin.
Senses: glosses: A place where two or more things join or cross.
interjunctions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interjunction
pisciculturist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pisciculturists
Etymology: From pisciculture + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who breeds fish.
pisciculturists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pisciculturist
spirable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spirable
form: most spirable
Etymology: Latin spirabilis.
Senses: examples: text: spirable matter
text: ...but the spirable odor & pestilent steame ascending from it, put him out of his bias of congruity...
ref: 1599, Thomas Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe:
glosses: Capable of being breathed; respirable.
subturriculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + turriculate.
Senses: examples: text: subturriculate species
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Somewhat turriculate.
postulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɒstjʊˈleɪtəɹi/
ipa: /ˌpɑstjʊˈleɪtəɹi/
ipa: /ˈpɑstjʊləˌtɔɹi/
Forms: form: more postulatory
form: most postulatory
Etymology: Latin postulātōrius.
Senses: examples: text: Whoever shall peruse the phytognomy of Porta and strictly observe how vegetable realities are forced into animal representations, may perceive the semblance is but postulatory.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Of the nature of a postulate.
glosses: Supplicatory.
cylindriform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cylindriform
form: most cylindriform
Etymology: From Latin cylindrus + -iform.
Senses: glosses: cylindrical
biopsic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From biopsy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a biopsy.
Synonyms: bioptic
potamography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ποταμός (potamós, “river”) + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: An account or description of a river, or rivers.
Related terms: potamology
potamological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to potamology.
antevert
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /æntɪˈvɜː(ɹ)t/
Forms: form: anteverts
form: anteverting
form: anteverted
form: anteverted
Etymology: From Latin antevertere, from ante + vertere (“to turn”).
Senses: examples: text: antevert some great danger to the public
ref: 1649, Joseph Hall, Resolutions and Decisions of Divers Practicall cases of Conscience:
glosses: To prevent, to avert.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To displace by anteversion, or make anteverted
anteverting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of antevert
anteverts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of antevert
streakline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: streaklines
Etymology: From streak + line.
Senses: examples: text: Dye steadily injected into the fluid at a fixed point extends along a streakline.
glosses: A locus of points of all the fluid particles that have passed continuously through a particular spatial point in the past.
streaklines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of streakline
bilboquet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɪl.bəˈkɛt/
Forms: form: bilboquets
Etymology: Borrowed from French bilboquet.
Senses: synonyms: cup-and-ball
glosses: A traditional children's toy consisting of a wooden cup with a handle, and a ball attached to the cup by a string.
glosses: The game in which the player attempts to catch the ball in the cup of such a toy.
Related terms: kendama
bilboquets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bilboquet
crookbill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crookbills
Etymology: From crook + bill.
Senses: glosses: wrybill (Anarhynchus frontalis).
crookbills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crookbill
fullmart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fullmarts
Senses: examples: text: Was ever such a full-mart for an huisher
ref: 1633 (first performance), Ben Jonson, “A Tale of a Tub. A Comedy […]”, in The Works of Beniamin Jonson, […] (Third Folio), London: […] Thomas Hodgkin, for H[enry] Herringman, E. Brewster, T. Bassett, R[ichard] Chiswell, M. Wotton, G. Conyers, published 1692, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: Obsolete form of foumart.
fullmarts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fullmart
infeoffment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infeoffments
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of enfeoffment.
infeoffments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infeoffment
dernful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈdɜː(ɹ)nfəl/
Forms: form: more dernful
form: most dernful
Etymology: From dern + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: dernful noise
ref: 1595, Edmund Spenser, The Mourning Muse of Thestylis:
glosses: secret; lonely, sad, mournful
monticles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monticle
termon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: termons
Etymology: From Irish tearmann, from Middle Irish termonn (“church land affording right of sanctuary”), from Latin terminus (“limit”). Doublet of term and terminus.
Senses: examples: text: Another time, when Patrick was at rest in the end of night, at Tiprad-Cernai, in Tir-Tipraid, the angel went to him and awoke him. Patrick said to him: "Is there anything in which I have offended God, or is His anger upon me?" "No," said the angel; "and you are informed from God," added the angel, "if it is it you desire, that there shall be no share for any else in Eriu, but for you alone. And the extent of the termon of your see from God is to Droma-Bregh, and to Sliabh-Mis, and to Bri-Airghi."
ref: 1874, James O'Leary translating Saint Patrick, Tripartite Life:
text: Hugh MacMahon out of the way, he in October 1591 partitioned Monaghan (with the exception of Donnamyne, which belonged to the Earl of Essex) among the principal gentlemen of the MacMahons, the termon or ecclesiastical lands being reserved for English officials.
ref: c. 1900, Robert Dunlop, Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900 : Fitzwilliam, William (1526-1599)
synonyms: termon land
glosses: An area of land belonging to a church or monastery
termwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From term + -wise.
Senses: glosses: by terms, term by term
termwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From term + -wise.
Senses: examples: the termwise differentiability of a sequence of generalized functions
glosses: term by term
discandied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of discandy
discandies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of discandy
discandy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: discandies
form: discandying
form: discandied
form: discandied
Senses: examples: text: The hearts That spanieled me at heels, to whom I gave their wishes, do discandy, melt their sweets.
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene xii]:
text: As doth this clay grow hard, and as this wax Discandies at the one and the same fire , — So Daphnis by our love.
ref: 1855, Robert Corbet Singleton, The Works of Virgil closely rendered into English rhythm:
text: At 9:37 on a Friday evening , she let the present melt, discandy, and, by insensible chromatic yieldings, give way to the past.
ref: 1955, Kansas Magazine, page 44:
text: Until some meaning tongue discandy and dissolve, its new vogue hidden face down beneath the bed.
ref: 1991, Stephen Rodefer, Passing Duration, page 53:
text: In sum, this was an arena where rigid role definitions discandied, on stage and off, reflecting—and stirring—the anxiety of an age when social mobility reared up from an emerging market economy.
ref: 2003, Alisa Solomon, Re-Dressing the Canon: Essays on Theatre and Gender, page 28:
text: If Freud's reading here — his progress on the "royal road to ... the unconscious" — is halted, and he finds himself unable to advance further along the way, this point of blockage is at the same time a point of branching -out or divergence: a point from which, says Freud, the thoughts of the dream discandy and disperse unreachably "in every direction into the intricate network of our world of thought" .
ref: 2017, Steven Vine, “Introduction: Literature in Psychoanalysis”, in Steven Vine, editor, Literature in Psychoanalysis, page 13:
text: The Great Compromise of 1850, which was negotiated through Congress by Stephen Douglas, would discandy, revealing deepening sectional divisions over slavery that were splitting the Whigs and threatening to break up the Democrats.
ref: 2020, John Channing Briggs, Lincoln's Speeches Reconsidered, page 132:
glosses: To melt; to dissolve or thaw.
examples: text: Beads of liquid fat in my tea discandy me with fear of ballooning out again.
ref: 1978, The Miscellany - Issues 85-90, page 10:
text: Proust's memory of a sweet crumb leads to the redemption of time; Gass's history as the history of things leads to the decay of a discandied world. Kohler presents a tour de force of memory in an account of a childhood candy shop; but, whatever beauty follows is contaminated by his anti-Semitism toward the store's owners.
ref: 1998, Steven G. Kellman, Irving Malin, Into The Tunnel: Readings of Gass's Novel, page 45:
text: Or the broken deals. Proposing to exchange my toys for shares of the Halloween spoils he hoarded, I would discandy him first, swallow hard, then renege.
ref: 2001, Arthur Michael Saltzman, Objects and Empathy: Essays, page 208:
glosses: To take or remove candy from.
discandying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of discandy
Fourier sine series
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fourier sine series
Senses: glosses: a Fourier series consisting solely of sine functions
Fourier cosine series
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fourier cosine series
Senses: glosses: a Fourier series consisting solely of cosine functions
assistantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From assistant + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to assist or aid.
noughth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɔtθ/
ipa: /nɑtθ/
ipa: /nɔːtθ/
ipa: /noːtθ/
rhymes: -ɔːtθ
rhymes: -ɒtθ
Etymology: From nought + -th (ordinal suffix).
Senses: examples: text: By that, the value of the successive places, counting from right to left, being equal to the successive powers of the base, beginning with the noughth power, each figure in the combination is multiplied in value by the power of the base proper to its place, and the value of the whole is equal to the sum of those products.
ref: 1860, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 5, page 130:
glosses: Before the first; zeroth.
Derived terms: noughth week
entoil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: entoils
form: entoiling
form: entoiled
form: entoiled
Etymology: From en- + toil.
Senses: examples: text: It seem'd he never, never could redeem, / From such a stedfast spell his lady's eyes; / So mus'd awhile, entoiled in woofed phantasies.
ref: 1819, John Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, stanza XXXII, page 99:
glosses: To capture with, or as if with, toils or nets; to ensnare or catch out.
entoiled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of entoil
entoiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of entoil
entoils
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of entoil
blocked shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blocked shots
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A shot that is grabbed or batted away by an opposing player before it reaches the basket, goal, etc.
Synonyms: block
blocked shots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blocked shot
indigogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From indigo + -gen.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: indigo white
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: indican
antephialtic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + ephialtes + -ic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Acting against nightmares.
backstager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backstagers
Etymology: From backstage + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who works backstage.
glosses: A drama dealing with the lives and relationships of actors.
backstagers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backstager
retagger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retaggers
Etymology: From retag + -er.
Senses: glosses: A criminal who fraudulently changes the serial numbers of automobiles.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A program or algorithm that updates or changes tags.
retaggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retagger
NBD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iː
Senses: glosses: Initialism of next business day.
examples: text: The really astonishing thing about watching this scene is its nonchalance. NBD, I’m fucking a high schooler.
ref: 2017 November 20, Claire Dederer, “What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?”, in The Paris Review:
text: We know nail art generally is NBD at this point, but trust us - these are next level attention to detail.
ref: 2018 November 19, Ashitha Nagesh, “From beard lights to tree hair, are these the weirdest Christmas beauty trends?”, in BBC Three, BBC, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2018:
text: No, because one of the richest men in the world just confirmed what we all sort of already suspected: Nudes are officially NBD.
ref: 2019 February 7, Claire Reilly, “Jeff Bezos just confirmed what we all knew: Nudes are no big deal”, in CNET News, CNET:
glosses: Initialism of no big deal.
saponifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saponifiers
Etymology: From saponify + -er.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any reagent used for saponification.
saponifiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saponifier
subprior
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subpriors
Etymology: From sub- + prior: compare French sous-prieur.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: The assistant or deputy of a prior
Related terms: subprioress
subpriors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subprior
tripinnate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + pinnate.
Senses: examples: text: tripinnate leaf
text: tripinnate panicle
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having bipinnate leaflets arranged on each side of a rachis.
calcitration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calcitrations
Senses: glosses: The act of kicking.
Related terms: calcitrate
recalcitrant
calcitrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calcitration
metallical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more metallical
form: most metallical
Senses: glosses: metallic
chafferies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chaffery
chaffery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃæfəɹi/
Forms: form: chafferies
Etymology: See chaffer.
Senses: examples: text: Of the second be all Sciences, and those which be called Liberal Arts. Of the third is Merchandise and Chaffery, that is, Buying and Selling
ref: 1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:
glosses: trade; bargaining; buying and selling
appetibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌæpətɪˈbɪlɪti/
Etymology: Compare French appétibilité.
Senses: examples: text: tempting the object or end by its appetibility
ref: 1655, John Bramhall, Vindication of True Liberty:
glosses: The quality of being desirable.
Synonyms: desirability
featherfoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: featherfoots
form: featherfeet
Etymology: From feather + foot.
Senses: glosses: An Aboriginal sorcerer.
featherfeet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of featherfoot
as I was saying
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Used to refer back to one's own previous statement in a discourse.
Related terms: you were saying
permittance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: permittances
Etymology: From permit + -ance.
Senses: examples: text: Thus we see how this unclean permittance defeats the sacred and glorious end both of the moral and judicial law
ref: 1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC:
glosses: The act of permitting; allowance; permission; leave.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The power of a dielectric to permit or enhance induction.
permittances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of permittance
centre-forward
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centre-forwards
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Alternative form of centre forward.
villanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: villanizes
form: villanizing
form: villanized
form: villanized
Senses: examples: text: Were virtue by descent, a noble name
Could never villanize his father's fame.
ref: 1700, John Dryden, The Wife of Bath:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of villainize.
villanized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of villanize
villanizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of villanize
villanizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of villanize
cat-and-mouse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: From a cat-and-mouse sequence at a busy airport to a long car chase through Rome to a grand finale aboard a runaway train, each action scene tops the one before it.
ref: 2023 July 5, Murtada Elfadl, “Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One review: Tom Cruise runs, jumps, and delivers again”, in AV Club:
text: Does that produce a different dynamic when they meet in battle?
‘It does,’ said Hoy. ‘I tell myself that it doesn’t matter who you race against, you try to expose their weaknesses. The only difference is that they know your weaknesses. It just makes it a bit more of a mind game, a cat-and-mouse strategy.
ref: 2012 February 15, Jonathan McEvoy, “Hoy and Kenny keep it friendly but barnstorming Olympic battle looms at the Velodrome”, in Daily Mail:
text: A cat-and-mouse thriller with delusions of grandeur, The Statement arrives wrapped in an intimidating mystique of high-minded solemnity that makes its vagueness and incoherence all the more disappointing when the pieces don't add up.
ref: 2003 December 12, Stephen Holden, “The Statement (2003) FILM REVIEW; A Frenchman on the Run From His Vichy Past”, in New York Times:
glosses: suspenseful, involving alternating roles of attack and defence.
cat-and-mouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cat and mouse.
cat-and-mouse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cat-and-mouses
form: cat-and-mousing
form: cat-and-moused
form: cat-and-moused
Senses: examples: text: The Cinque Ports' navy had torn up and down the Channel harassing any marauding French; smugglers had cat-and-moused with revenue men over the marshes, into the woods.
ref: 1975, Elizabeth Bowen, Pictures and conversations, page 26:
text: You have actually "gone to contract" after months of cat-and-mousing with an editor who had to be convinced and who had to convince an editorial group of your punishability.
ref: 2000, Arthur Plotnik, Elements of Authorship:
text: Light-headed we cat-and-moused, throttled down and sped up, weaving figure eights until ten miles from Biarritz, when we learned that even a Lightning Rocket is mortal.
ref: 2014, Robert Wintner, 1969 and Then Some:
text: From the very start of caput 48, Caesar and Ariovistus no longer seem to communicate by means of speech but by means of military actions and reactions and the narrative of their cat-and-mousing does not contain many speeches.
ref: 2017, Suzanne M. Adema, Speech and Thought in Latin War Narratives: Words of Warriors:
glosses: To engage in a game of cat and mouse.
To mutually monitor and challenge each other in an attempt to gain advantage.
examples: text: But previously it has only cat-and-moused him, trying to achieve the delicate balance of injuring him and yet not having to eat him alive, he then being too big in popularity to swallow.
ref: 1955, The New Yorker - Volume 30, Part 5, page 197:
text: Victor listened and smiled, teased and cat-and-moused me, but finally agreed to grounding my folly-in-the-air.
ref: 1979, Diana Cooper, Autobiography, page 560:
text: This is the reason too for the cat-and-mousing of Wilmarth: the Plutonians must spend hours making hintful revelations to him after they have him in their power, simply because this will maximize his scare. Lovecraft must cat-and-mouse with us as well, interminably exploiting the hesitations and reluctances of his narrator to tell us what the basic horror is.
ref: 2004, Fritz Leiber, Ben J. S. Szumskyj, S. T. Joshi, Fritz Leiber and H.P. Lovecraft: Writers of the Dark, page 301:
glosses: To engage in a game of cat and mouse.
To toy with (one's victim).
nucin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin nux, nucis (“a nut”) + -in.
Senses: glosses: juglone
tamkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tamkins
Senses: examples: text: The superabundant wax is next removed, and two coats of paint laid over the entire surface of both plate and letters, the projecting letters being afterwards painted, by the aid of a tamkin or rubber, in a different colour or shade from that of the plate, the whole being finally coated with copal or caoutchouc varnish.
ref: 1868, Great Britain Patent Office, Bennet Woodcroft, Patents for Inventions:
text: But he do say that people do complain of Sir Edward Spragg, that he hath not done extraordinary; and more of Sir W. Jenings, that he came up with his tamkins in his guns.
ref: 1887, Samuel Pepys, Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys:
text: Charges, moreover, shall be made for storage, warehousing, and porterage ; for wharfage, cranes, locks, tamkins, sealing of packages, raftiehs, keshfs, declarations, measuring, etc., according to special regulations.
ref: 1910, Congressional Serial Set, page 449:
glosses: A tampion.
examples: text: Its course was punctuated by tamkins, small brick buildings whose name, a variant of the word "tompion," still in use for the plug closing the muzzle of a gun, denoted their purpose: an access point for plugging off sections which required isolation so that repairs could be carried out.
ref: 1959, Surrey Archaeological Society, Surrey Archaeological Collections: Relating to the History and Antiquities of the County, page 1:
text: The tamkins were access points where Wolsey's water engineers could isolate sections of the pipeline which were in need of attention.
ref: 2010, Stephen Smith, Underground London: Travels Beneath the City Streets, →ISBN:
text: Sluice valves, the medieval forerunner of stop valves, were installed and to avoid tampering were protected within brick housings called tamkins.
ref: 2017, Julian McCarthy, Kingston upon Thames in 50 Buildings:
glosses: A brick housing that protects an access point where pipes beneath London could be plugged for maintenance.
tamkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] concepts such as tamkin (woman's duty to submit to her husband's will) and nushuz (her refusal to submit, rebellion), which legitimate women's subordination in marriage, but instead they add two qualifiers.
ref: 1996, Mai Yamani, Feminism and Islam: Legal and Literary Perspectives, page 294:
text: It's a wife's lack of tamkin that causes such a thing. Why aren't you prepared to be in tamkin?
ref: 2002, Donna Lee Bowen, Evelyn A. Early, Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East, →ISBN, page 140:
text: Since Islam claims to be opposed to injustice, any law that upholds injustice is anti-Islamic — and if a law is anti-Islamic, it must change. Reformist Islamist women have also proposed to modify the issue of tamkin.
ref: 2002, Hammed Shahidian, Women in Iran: Emerging voices in the women's movement, page 56:
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A woman's duty to submit to her husband's will.
tamkins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tamkin
unalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unalists
Etymology: Latin unus one.
Senses: examples: text: I do not deny but there are pluralists of great ecclesiastical merit; but I do deny that in general pluralists have greater merit than unalists […]
ref: 1795, Vicesimus Knox, The Spirit of Despotism:
glosses: A churchman who holds only one benefice.
Related terms: pluralist
unalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unalist
shamefastly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more shamefastly
form: most shamefastly
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English schamefastli, equivalent to shamefast + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a shamefast manner.
inflictest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: inflict + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of inflict
inspirest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: inspire + -est
Senses: examples: text: It is thou that inspirest tyrants with rage against the innocent saints of God, and actuatest their hellish cruelty.
ref: 1646, Joseph Hall, Satan's Fiery Darts Quenched:
glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of inspire
inspireth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: inspire + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inspire
psychopannychism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From psycho- + Ancient Greek παννύχιος (pannúkhios, “all night long”) + -ism.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The doctrine that the soul falls asleep at death, and does not wake until the resurrection of the body.
Related terms: soul sleep
cat cracker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cat crackers
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: catalytic cracker
cat hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cat holes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cathole.
cat-hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cat-holes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cathole.
catholicise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: catholicises
form: catholicising
form: catholicised
form: catholicised
Etymology: From catholic + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Catholicize.
Derived terms: uncatholicise
catholicize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: catholicizes
form: catholicizing
form: catholicized
form: catholicized
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Catholicize.
cat litter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Fuller's earth, clay pellets, wood chips, or similar loose absorbent materials used for the waste of pet cats.
Synonyms: litter
kitty litter
mopeful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mopeful
form: most mopeful
Etymology: From mope + -ful.
Senses: glosses: mopey; inclined to mope.
cellular telephone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cellular telephones
Senses: glosses: A wireless telecommunication device that enables voice and data transmission through a network composed of geographically distributed radio cells. Each cell is served by a fixed transmitter and receiver, allowing the device to maintain communication while moving between coverage areas.
Synonyms: cellphone
cell-phone
cell phone
cellular phone
mobile telephone
mobile phone
mobile
wireless phone
Hypernyms: radiotelephone
radio-telephone
radio telephone
telecommunication device
Hyponyms: feature phone
smartphone
Derived terms: cell
cell phone
cellular
cellular network
cellular phone
cellular service
vergencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vergency
vergency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒənsi
Forms: form: vergencies
Etymology: verge + -ency, cf. New Latin vergentia (16th century), French vergence (18th century) and later English vergence (20th century).
Senses: examples: text: s.v. hanker: "vergency, incline"
ref: 1668, John Wilkins, An Alphabetical Dictionary: Wherein All English Words According to Their Various Significations, are Either Referred to Their Places in the Philosophical Tables, Or Explained by Such Words as are in Those Tables, J.M
text: the Earth is moved about the Sun by its Inclination and Vergency towards it
ref: 1704, Plutarch's Morals, volume 3, London: Thomas Braddyll, page 155
text: 1721 Nathan Bailey, An Universal Etymological English Dictionary, E. Bell, London.
"VERGENCY [of vergere, L.] a bending or declining away, from or to, inclining."
glosses: The act of verging or approaching; tendency, inclination towards something.
examples: text: When, by the pencil becoming oblique to the surface, the vergency produced on the pencil becomes changed, the primary and secondary focal points, V and H, separate […]
ref: 1863, The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal:
glosses: The reciprocal of the focal distance of a lens, used as a measure of the divergence or convergence of a pencil of rays.
Synonyms: vergence
cellar dweller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cellar dwellers
Senses: examples: text: A publicity stunt has gone horribly wrong for Gold Coast United after the A-League cellar dwellers suspended their coach Miron Bleiberg indefinitely over comments regarding teenager Mitch Cooper's appointment as skipper.
ref: 2012 February 16, “Gold Coast United suspend coach”, in ESPN Australia:
text: Cellar dwellers Gold Coast United will not be turned into a travelling road show to combat poor home support according to the club's owner Clive Palmer.
ref: 2012 February 12, “No Travelling Road Show For United”, in Australian four Four Two, archived from the original on 05 Sep 2012:
text: Defending champs downed by cellar dweller
ref: 2006 November 8, “Defending champs downed by cellar dweller”, in Vancouver Sun:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A team at the bottom of a league, or in a lower league.
Related terms: basement-dweller
doronicums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doronicum
leopardsbane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leopardsbanes
form: leopard's bane
form: leopard's-bane
form: libbard's bane
Etymology: From leopard + -s- + bane.
Senses: glosses: Any of various plants, including Arnica montana, Senecio doronicum, Paris quadrifolia, and species of genus Doronicum.
leopardsbanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leopardsbane
sinapate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sinapates
Etymology: From sinapic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of sinapic acid.
sinapates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sinapate
trynna
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tryna.
center forward
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: center forwards
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of centre forward.
popeye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɒp.aɪ/
Forms: form: popeyes
form: pop-eye
Etymology: From pop + eye.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Exophthalmia.
glosses: Coryphaenoides cinereus (syn. Macrurus cinereus), a deep sea fish.
Related terms: popeye blacksmelt
exophthalmia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exophthalmias
Etymology: From exo- + ophthalmo- + -ia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Protrusion of the eyeball so that the eyelids will not cover it, in consequence of disease.
Synonyms: popeye
exophthalmias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exophthalmia
semicolumnar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more semicolumnar
form: most semicolumnar
Etymology: From semi- + columnar.
Senses: glosses: Like a semicolumn; flat on one side and round on the other; imperfectly columnar.