cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Geocentric Co-ordinate Time
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: In 1991, the International Astronomical Union defined the Terrestrial Time (TT) in terms of the Geocentric Co-ordinate Time.
ref: 2007, Pranab Ghosh, World Scientific Series in Astronomy and Astrophysics X: Rotation and Accretion Powered Pulsars (World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.; →ISBN, 9789810847447), chapter 7: “Properties of Rotation Powered Pulsars”, subchapter 7.2: ‘Timing Properties’, section 7.2.3: “Irregular Period Changes”, subsection 7.2.3.2: ‘Millisecond pulsars as stable clocks’, page 338
glosses: Alternative spelling of Geocentric Coordinate Time.
I'm confused
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: I am confused
Senses: glosses: Indicates that the speaker is confounded by something.
set the bar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sets the bar
form: setting the bar
form: set the bar
form: set the bar
Senses: examples: text: to set the bar high; to set the bar low
text: She set the bar at an hour of exercise a day.
text: “I do feel like we should be setting the bar higher for review,” said one adviser, Dr. Amanda Cohn, the director of the division of birth defects and infant disorders at the C.D.C., adding that more data might help clarify questions about the effects on preterm birth.
ref: 2023 May 18, Christina Jewett, “F.D.A. Panel Recommends R.S.V. Vaccine to Protect Young Infants”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: put the bar
glosses: To set specific standards or expectations.
Related terms: raise the bar
rollicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rollickers
Etymology: From rollick + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who rollicks.
atmidometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atmidometers
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: examples: text: We are likewise here presented with a very accurate account of an Atmometer, or Atmidometer, invented by the author
ref: 1795, The British Critic and Quarterly Theological Review:
glosses: An instrument for measuring the evaporation from water, ice, or snow.
atmidometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atmidometer
multocular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of multiocular.
determinabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of determinability
determinability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: determinabilities
Etymology: From determine + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: One of the wisest of uninspired men has not hesitated to declare the dog a great mystery, on account of this dawning of a moral nature unaccompanied by any the least evidence of reason, in whichever of the two senses we interpret the word—whether as the practical reason, that is, the power of proposing an ultimate end, the determinability of the Will by ideas; or as the sciential reason, that is, the faculty of concluding universal and necessary truths from particular and contingent appearances.
ref: 1826, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “On Instinct in Connection with the Understanding (in Comment on Aphorism IX)”, in Aids to Reflection:
text: This absolute determinability of our mind by abstractions [pg 057] is one of the cardinal facts in our human constitution. Polarizing and magnetizing us as they do, we turn towards them and from them, we seek them, hold them, hate them, bless them, just as if they were so many concrete beings.
ref: 1902, William James, “Lecture 3”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: The quality of being determinable.
evomition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evomitions
Senses: examples: text: An ass's head was placed so conveniently, that the party affected might easily with his mouth accost either of the animal's ears; which he was to apply close for a certain space, and by a fugitive faculty, peculiar to the ears of that animal, receive immediate benefit, either by eructation, or expiration, or evomition.
ref: 1697, Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub, section IV:
glosses: The act of spewing forth i.e.vomiting, or erupting.
bodiced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bodice + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Braided is her hair, / Soft her look and modest, / Slim her little waist / Comfortably boddiced.
ref: 1843, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, “Peg of Limavaddy”, in The Irish Sketch Book, London; Glasgow: Collins’ Clear-type Press, →OCLC, page 388:
glosses: Wearing or having a bodice.
biplicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin bi- (“twice”). Bailey (1736) suggests borrowing from Latin biplicitas, but this is not well attested. Compare duplicity, from Latin duplicare (“double”).
Senses: examples: text: […]that certain characteristic properties of the bacterial flagellum can be imitated in a wire coil model. These properties are: (1) the arc which is visible frequently at the end of a flagellum (Figs. 10 and 11), and (2) the phenomenon of “biplicity,” that is, the sudden appearance of one-half the usual pitch (Fig. 12).
ref: 1964, Robert Day Allen, Noburō Kamiya, Primitive Motile Systems in Cell Biology, page 610:
glosses: The state of being twice folded; reduplication.
examples: text: The integration and differentiation of vital function on the one hand, and the preparation and composition of food-material on the other hand form — as we will become fully aware further on — the two great divisions in the subject-matter of the science of organization, divisions corresponding to the fundamental biplicity of all advanced organization, its animal and its vegetative life.
ref: 1878, Edmund Montgomery, “Monera, and the problem of life”, in The Popular Science Monthly, volume XIII, page 680:
text: He who reads them will see that Mr. Darwin by no means minces matters with Lyell[…] There may be a certain biplicity of kindness and courtesy in Mr. Darwin ; but there is no duplicity of his essential manhood and truth.
ref: 1894, James Hutchison Stirling, Darwinianism: Workmen and Work, pages 111-12:
glosses: Doubleness, the state of being double.
stealingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From stealing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: if they were divers motions, they did so stealingly slip one into another as the latter part was ever in hand before the eye could discern the former was ended.
ref: a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:
english: The New Arcadia
translation: The New Arcadia
glosses: By stealing (moving stealthily); furtively or sneakily
bisilicate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bisilicates
Etymology: From bi- + silicate.
Senses: glosses: A salt of metasilicic acid, in which the ratio of the oxygen of the silica to the oxygen of the base is two to one.
bisilicates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bisilicate
ditrochee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ditrochees
Etymology: Latin ditrochaeus, from Ancient Greek.
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A double trochee; a metrical foot made up of two trochees.
ditrochees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ditrochee
guiacum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of guaiacum.
evangelian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: evangelian sacrifice
glosses: Rendering thanks for favours.
espousement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: espousements
Etymology: Compare Old French espousement.
Senses: glosses: betrothal; espousal.
espousements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of espousement
debruised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See debruise. Compare Old French debruisier (“to shatter, break”). Compare bruise.
Senses: examples: text: A lion is debruised when a bend or other ordinary is placed over it.
text: The lion of England and the lilies of France without the baton sinister, under which, according to the laws of heraldry, they were debruised in token of his illegitimate birth.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter II, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
text: Serpent, embowed, the head debruised, or surmounted of the tail; also blazoned, […]
ref: 1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica, Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry, page 5:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Surmounted by an ordinary (or something else).
aneal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: aneals
form: anealing
form: anealed
form: anealed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anneal.
glosses: Alternative form of anele.
ticklenburg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ticklenburgs
Senses: glosses: A coarse, mixed linen fabric made to be sold in the West Indies
ticklenburgs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ticklenburg
civilizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: civilizers
Etymology: From civilize + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that civilizes.
civilizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of civilizer
superchemical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superchemical
form: most superchemical
Etymology: From super- + chemical.
Senses: examples: text: We trace physics and chemistry to a certain point, but as we pursue the investigation we find something superphysical and superchemical, or else a physics and a chemistry far higher than any we yet know.
ref: 1895, Joseph LeConte, Sight: An Exposition of the Principles of Monocular and Binocular Vision:
glosses: Above or beyond chemistry; not explainable by chemical laws.
horopteric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From horopter + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the horopter.
orthomyxoviral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the orthomyxoviruses.
orangeroot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From orange + root.
Senses: glosses: The plant goldenseal (Hydrastis canadensis).
devilship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: devilships
Etymology: From devil + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: Thy airy devilship to remove
From this circle here of love
ref: 1647, Abraham Cowley, The Mistress:
glosses: The character or person of a devil or Satan.
Romic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Rome + -ic.
Senses: glosses: A phonetic alphabet based on the Roman alphabet; a precursor of the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Related terms: Glossic
sidecasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sidecast
sidecasting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The practice of dumping excavated material alongside the line being excavated.
twiggen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From twig + -en (“made of”).
Senses: examples: text: But I'll beat the knave into a twiggen bottle.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: Made of twigs; wicker.
equivalue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: equivalues
Etymology: From equi- + value.
Senses: glosses: The putting of an equal value upon
equivalued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of equivalue
equivalues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of equivalue
rafte
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: When the French vaward was thus brought to confusion, the english archers rafte away their bowes, and tooke into their handes, axes, mastes, swords, billes, and other hand weapons
ref: 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “King Henrie the fifth”, in The Laste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume II, London: […] for Iohn Hunne, →OCLC, page 1181:
text: […]and Mounsieur Baccalaure the Ensigne bearer of Monsieur de Brion was slayne, and Hugh Earle of Pepoli, had his legge shot through with an harquebusse, the Frenche guidons were rafte and torne[…]
ref: 1578, John Polemon, “The Battell of Bicona”, in All the famous battels that haue bene fought in our age throughout the worlde […] , page 157:
text: But Colin Clout rafte me of his brother
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “August. Ægloga Octaua.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 31, verso:
glosses: simple past and past participle of reave
odourants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of odourant
gnast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æst
Forms: form: gnasts
Etymology: From Middle English gnast, knast, from Old English *gnāst (“spark”) (attested in fȳrgnāst (“spark of fire”)), from Proto-Germanic *gahnaistô (“spark”), from Proto-Germanic *ga- + Proto-Germanic *hnaistô (“spark”), perhaps from the ultimate (imitative) source of German knistern (“to crackle”).
Cognate with German dialectal Ganster (“spark”), Danish gnist (“spark, sparkle”), Swedish gnista (“spark”), Icelandic gneisti, neisti (“spark”), German Gneis (“spark, gneiss”) (whence English gneiss).
Senses: glosses: A spark; a dying or dead spark, as of a snuffed candle.
gnast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -æst
Forms: form: gnasts
form: gnasting
form: gnasted
form: gnasted
Etymology: From Middle English gnasten, gnaisten, from Old English *gnǣstan, from Proto-Germanic *gnaistijaną, causative of *gnīstijaną (“to grind”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰneydh-, *gʰneyd- (“to gnaw, scratch, rub”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian knasterje (“to gnash”), German Low German gnatschen (“to knead, gnash”), German knastern (“to gnash”), Icelandic gnesta (“to crack”).
Senses: glosses: To gnash.
Derived terms: gnasting
correal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kərēʹəl
ipa: /kəˈɹiːəl/
Etymology: Latin corre(us) + English -al
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Under joint obligation (applied to an obligation in which the parties are severally liable).
Related terms: topics: law
word: correus debendi
physicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: physickers
Etymology: From physic + -er.
Senses: glosses: A physician; a doctor.
physickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of physicker
gomuti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Malay.
Senses: synonyms: ejoo
sagoweer
glosses: A black, fibrous substance resembling horsehair, obtained from the leafstalks of palms of species Metroxylon sagu and Arenga pinnata (syn. Arenga saccharifera, of the Indian islands, and used for making cordage.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Arenga pinnata
word: gomuti palm
galligu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Term used in Widnes (historically part of Lancashire), of unknown origin. Possibly onomatopoeic or sound-symbolic.
Senses: examples: text: Most of what is now south-central Widnes is probably underlain by galligu[…]
ref: 1967, Geographical Association, Geography, volumes 51-52:
text: Of the technical improvements in the Leblanc process, some of the most important were concerned with the treatment of galligu to recover sulphur.
ref: 1993, Thomas Kingston Derry, Trevor Illtyd Williams, A short history of technology: from the earliest times to A.D. 1900, page 540:
glosses: The insoluble waste products of the Leblanc process.
wikipedia: Lancashire
Widnes
steelie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstiːli/
homophone: steely
homophone: stele
rhymes: -iːli
Forms: form: steelies
Etymology: From steel + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: the jewel of his collection, a steelie from 1943
glosses: A zinc-coated steel one-cent (penny) coin, produced during World War II because of copper shortages.
examples: text: the heaviest in his collection, an old steelie from the junkyard
text: The steelies were just balls of steel, industrially ugly and not part of most girls' collections. There were four sizes of marbles and we called them boulders, biggies, regulars, and teenies.
ref: 2006, Carol Benson, The Old Lonesome, page 84:
glosses: A steel bearing ball used as a marble.
examples: text: old Mopars wearing steelies with dog dishes
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A steel wheel.
examples: text: Better wear your steelies when he's around. [implying that he is clumsy]
glosses: A steel-toe boot.
Related terms: steely
steelies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steelie
magicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magickers
Etymology: From magic + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Better magickers were given fragments of the ball he'd rescued and used them as foci to deflect incoming shots.
ref: 2002, Michael A. Stackpole, When dragons rage:
text: Those who blasphemed in a holy place; those who spouted heresies; those who sought the services of a magicker[…]
ref: 2010, David Farland, The Wyrmling Horde:
topics: fantasy
glosses: One who does magic; a sorcerer or magician.
magickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magicker
magickly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more magickly
form: most magickly
Etymology: From magick + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a magick manner.
musicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: musickers
Etymology: From Middle English musiker. Equivalent to music + -er (with -k- added to retain the “hard c”). Compare German Musiker etc.
Senses: glosses: A musician.
musickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of musicker
cylindroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cylindroids
Etymology: From cylinder + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: The intrados of a simple vault is generally formed of the portion of the surface of a cylinder, cylindroid, or sphere, never greater than that of half the solid; and the springing lines of the coussinet, which terminate the walls from which the vault rises, are generally straight lines, parallel to the axis of the cylinder or cylindroid.
ref: 1830, Sir David Brewster, The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, page 523:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A cylinder with elliptical cross-section.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A certain three-dimensional surface described by a moving straight line, used to illustrate the motions of a rigid body and the forces that act upon it.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A ribbon-like mucous cast frequently found in the urine in cases of mild irritation of the kidney.
cylindroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cylindroid
traitourly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more traitourly
form: most traitourly
Etymology: From traitour + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of traitorly.
traitourly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more traitourly
form: most traitourly
Etymology: From traitour + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of traitorly.
megaceros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megaceroses
Etymology: New Latin, from Ancient Greek, meaning "great horn".
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Irish elk
Related terms: Megaloceros
megacerotine
trewth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trewths
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of truth.
tiki bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tiki bars
Etymology: From tiki (“carved talisman”) + bar (“drinking establishment”). From Maori tiki (“figurine”).
Senses: examples: text: Say you want to escape the doldrums of daily life — but you can't quite afford a trip to Hawaii. Why not to head to your local tiki bar for a sample of the South Seas? These faux-Polynesian, palm-thatched rum palaces that were all the rage in the 1960s are now making a comeback.
ref: , “Let's Talk Tiki Bars: Harmless Fun Or Exploitation?”, in NPR.org:
text: The dish was probably invented by Victor Bergeron, best known as the namesake founder of the Trader Vic's chains of tiki bars.
ref: 2020, Dan Nosowitz, “What the Heck is Crab Rangoon Anyway?”, in J. Kenji López-Alt, editor, The Best American Food Writing 2020, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 227:
glosses: A drinking establishment or restaurant with an exotic tropical theme, serving elaborate cocktails.
Related terms: tiki culture
biacuminate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + acuminate.
Senses: examples: text: biacuminate lobe
text: biacuminate ligula
text: biacuminate spindle
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having points in two directions.
indebt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: indebts
form: indebting
form: indebted
form: indebted
Etymology: From Middle English endetten, Old French endetter, from en- + detter, from dette (“debt”), by surface analysis, in- + debt. See debt.
Senses: glosses: To bring into debt; to place under obligation.
Hypernyms: obligate
Derived terms: indebted
indebting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of indebt
indebts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of indebt
untrew
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untrew
form: most untrew
Etymology: From un- + trew.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of untrue.
tragedious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tragedious
form: most tragedious
Etymology: From tragedy + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Being or causing a tragedy; tragic.
respirative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: respirative organs
text: respirative phase
glosses: Of or pertaining to respiration.
Synonyms: respiratory
bambocciade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bambocciades
Etymology: From Italian bambocciata, from Bamboccio (“a nickname of Pieter van Laer, a Dutch genre painter; properly, a child, simpleton, puppet”), from bamboccio (“chubby child”).
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: A bambocciante painting, depicting a scene from lower-class or rustic life.
bambocciades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bambocciade
maikong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maikongs
Etymology: Likely from Macushi maikang (“fox”).
Senses: examples: text: The Maikong (Canis cancrivorus) is a crab-eating fox-wolf, found in Guiana, where it runs in small packs.
ref: 1891, James William Buel, The Living World:
text: The Crab-Eating Wolf, Canis cancrivorus, or Maikong, is a slender, long-legged, jackal-like animal, with a short, broad, blunt-nosed head, rounded ears of moderate size, placed wide apart, oblique eyes with oblong pupils, and a tail nearly touching the ground.
ref: 1897, Hugh Craig, The Animal Kingdom, page 254:
text: What is one to think of a theory which does not allow the fox to pass as an ancestor of the dog, when in our own day South American Indians tame the Maikong jackal-fox into a domestic animal much resembling a dog?
ref: 1959, Richard Katz, Solitary Life, page 43:
text: Those licking their stamps are thus confronted with a (according to experts) Malaysian bearded swine instead of a wild boar, and exotic white-winged woodpecker and not the great spotted woodpecker, an Indian four-horn antilope instead of a deer and not a fox but a maikong from Central and South America.
ref: 2004, Aad Krol, Timo de Rijk, editors, Yearbook Dutch Design 03/04:
glosses: Synonym of crab-eating fox (Cerdocyon thous)
synonyms: word: crab-eating fox
extra: Cerdocyon thous
maikongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maikong
untruely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more untruely
form: most untruely
Etymology: From untrue + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of untruly.
ichthyophthalmite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek [Term?]
Senses: glosses: apophyllite
tumultuarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tumultuarily
form: most tumultuarily
Etymology: From tumultuary + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a tumultuary manner.
decompound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkɒmpaʊnd/
Forms: form: decompounds
Etymology: From de- + compound.
Senses: glosses: A decomposite.
decompound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkɒmpaʊnd/
Etymology: From de- + compound.
Senses: glosses: Compound of what is already compounded; compounded a second time.
compound_of: word: what is already compounded
extra: compounded a second time
examples: text: decompound leaf/stem
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: decomposite
glosses: Several times compounded or divided
decompound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkɒmpaʊnd/
Forms: form: decompounds
form: decompounding
form: decompounded
form: decompounded
Etymology: From de- + compound.
Senses: glosses: To compound or mix with that which is already compound; to recompound.
examples: text: It divides and decompounds objects into […] parts.
ref: 1817, William Hazlitt, The Round Table:
glosses: To reduce to constituent parts; to decompose.
Derived terms: decompoundable
decompoundly
supradecompound
undecompounded
decompounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decompound
thermotension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thermo- + tension.
Senses: glosses: A process of increasing the strength of wrought iron by heating it to a determinate temperature, and giving to it, while in that state, a mechanical strain or tension in the direction in which the strength is afterward to be exerted.
nithings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nithing
toyful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more toyful
form: most toyful
Etymology: From toy + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: It quickened next a toyful ape, and so Gamesome it was, that it might freely go
From tent to tent, and with the children play
ref: a. 1631 (date written), J[ohn] Donne, “The Progresse of the Soule. The First Song.”, in Poems, […] with Elegies on the Authors Death, London: […] M[iles] F[lesher] for Iohn Marriot, […], published 1633, →OCLC:
glosses: Full of trifling play.
unpublick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + publick.
Senses: examples: text: Virgins must be retired and unpublick: for all freedom and looseness of society is a violence done to Virginity.
ref: 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of unpublic.
suprarational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æʃənəl
Forms: form: more suprarational
form: most suprarational
Etymology: From supra- + rational.
Senses: glosses: above, yet including the rational; encompassing a truth of scope greater than ordinary logic or reason.
raw_tags: of thought etc.
retransform
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: retransforms
form: retransforming
form: retransformed
form: retransformed
Etymology: From re- + transform.
Senses: glosses: To transform again, or transform back.
Related terms: retransformation
retransformed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retransform
retransforming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retransform
retransforms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retransform
tricurvate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + curvate.
Senses: examples: text: a tricurvate spicule
text: a tricurvate ridge
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Curved in three directions.
uncharacterizability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + characterizability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being uncharacterizable.
forebeams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forebeam
varec
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: French varech; of Teutonic origin. See wrack and compare vraic.
Senses: examples: text: Potash was scarce because of the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815), and Bernard Courtois had resorted to varec imported from the Brittany and Normandy seacoasts [5].
ref: 2015, James L. Marshall, Virginia R. Marshall, “9: History of Iodine”, in Tatsuo Kaiho, editor, Iodine Chemistry and Applications, page 203:
glosses: The calcined ash of coarse seaweed, used for the manufacture of soda and iodine.
glosses: The seaweed itself; fucus; wrack.
whelked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From whelk + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: He had a thousand noses, / Horns whelked and waved like the enragèd sea. / It was some fiend.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi]:
glosses: Having whelks; whelky.
sphacelation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sphacelations
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The process of becoming or making gangrenous; mortification.
Related terms: sphacel
sphacelate
sphacelus
sphacelations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sphacelation
frolickingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more frolickingly
form: most frolickingly
Etymology: From frolicking + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With frolics.
slopingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more slopingly
form: most slopingly
Etymology: From sloping + -ly.
Senses: glosses: At a slope; slantwise; obliquely.
insta-call
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insta-calls
form: instacall
Etymology: From insta- + call.
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A call made right after the last player bets or raises.
insta-call
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: insta-calls
form: insta-calling
form: insta-called
form: insta-called
form: instacall
Etymology: From insta- + call.
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: To call right after the last player bets or raises.
subnormals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subnormal
panickingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more panickingly
form: most panickingly
Etymology: From panicking + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With panic.
phenomenist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenomenists
Senses: glosses: Synonym of phenomenalist.
synonyms: word: phenomenalist
phenomenists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phenomenist
subinvolution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subinvolutions
Etymology: From sub- + involution.
Senses: examples: text: subinvolution of the uterus or placental bed
text: The symptoms gradually improved until, on the fifth day from her delivery, I was pleased to find the erysipelas rapidly defervescing, the lochia natural, no subinvolution of the uterus, nor abdominal tenderness.
ref: 1875 July 31, W. R. Smith, “[Notes, Short Comments, and Answers to Correspondents.] Erysipelas during Parturition.”, in James G. Wakley, editor, The Lancet: A Journal of British and Foreign Medicine, Physiology, Surgery, Chemistry, Public Health, Criticism, and News, volume II, number 2709, London: Published by John James Croft, […
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Partial or incomplete involution (usually of the uterus).
subinvolutions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subinvolution
umbrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: umbrates
form: umbrating
form: umbrated
form: umbrated
Etymology: Latin umbratus, past participle of umbrare (“to shade”), from umbra (“a shade”).
Senses: glosses: To shade; to shadow or foreshadow.
umbrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of umbrate
umbrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: This window consists of three lights, with trefoil arches in their heads. There remained, in the seventeenth century, a shield of stained glass in this window, bearing a lion rampant umbrated, over all a bend gules, Sutton.
ref: 1840, George Poulson, The History and Antiquities of the Seigniory of Holderness, in the East-Riding of the County of York: Including the Abbies of Meaux and Swine, With the Priories of Nunkeeling and Burstall, page 260:
text: He then introduces some fanciful remarks about arms being umbrated or shadowed, an idea apparently arising from their […]
ref: 1865, The Herald and Genealogist, page 96:
text: 3 dolphins bowed and umbrated—Caldicote.
ref: 1894, Samuel Tymms, Charles Harold Evelyn-White, East Anglian, Or, Notes and Queries on Subjects Connected with the Counties of Suffolk, Cambridge, Essex and Norfolk, page 373:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Adumbrated.
umbrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of umbrate
umbrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of umbrate
ogdoastich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ogdoastichs
Etymology: Ancient Greek. See ogdoad, stich.
Senses: examples: text: answer in an ogdoastich, hexameters and pentameters
ref: 1612, John Selden, Notes upon, Poly-Olbion:
glosses: A poem of eight lines.
ogdoastichs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ogdoastich
panicless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From panic + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Sober citizens were becoming persuaded that a panicless, depressionless era had begun.
ref: 1935, Frederick Lewis Allen, The Lords of Creation:
text: This may also prevent sensational reports and make people panicless about nuclear events.
ref: 2007, OECD Nuclear Energy Agency, Transparency of nuclear regulatory activities, page 88:
glosses: Free from panic.
instacall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: instacalls
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of insta-call.
instacall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: instacalls
form: instacalling
form: instacalled
form: instacalled
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of insta-call.
subrational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æʃənəl
Forms: form: more subrational
form: most subrational
Etymology: From sub- + rational.
Senses: glosses: Below or not fully rational; almost logical or reasonable.
raw_tags: of thought etc.
Derived terms: subrationally
Alpestrine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: alpestrine
Etymology: Latin Alpestris.
Senses: examples: text: Alpestrine diseases
glosses: Pertaining to the Alps, or other high mountains; Alpine.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Growing on the elevated parts of mountains, but not above the tree-line; subalpine.
bergeret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bergerets
Etymology: Old French bergerete, French berger (“a shepherd”).
Senses: glosses: A pastoral song.
bergerets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bergeret
insta-calls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insta-call
insta-calls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of insta-call
Huyghenian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Huyghenian
form: most Huyghenian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Huygenian.
anthracometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthracometers
Etymology: From anthraco- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for measuring the amount of carbonic acid in a mixture, usually in air
anthracometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anthracometer
wurmal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wurmals
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wormil.
wurmals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wurmal
instacalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of instacall
instacalls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of instacall
insta-calling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of insta-call
porpus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɔː(ɹ)pəs/
Forms: form: porpuses
Senses: examples: text: […] he's as fat as a Porpus[…]
ref: 1731 (date written), Simon Wagstaff [pseudonym; Jonathan Swift], “Dialogue III”, in A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, […], London: […] B[enjamin] Motte […], published 1738, →OCLC, page 194:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of porpoise.
porpuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porpus
instacalling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of instacall
enfeebler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enfeeblers
Etymology: From enfeeble + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, enfeebles or weakens.
enfeeblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enfeebler
longsomeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English *langsumnesse, from Old English langsumnes (“length; patience, long-suffering”), equivalent to longsome + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being longsome; lengthiness.
Synonyms: enduringness
protractedness
lastingness
instacalled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of instacall
insta-called
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of insta-call
kavalactone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æktəʊn
Forms: form: kavalactones
Etymology: From kava + lactone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of lactone compounds found in the kava shrub.
Hyponyms: dehydrokavain
dehydromethysticin
desmethoxyyangonin
dihydrokavain
dihydromethysticin
dihydroyangonin
hydroxykavain
kavain
methoxyyangonin
methysticin
tetrahydroyangonin
yangonin
Related terms: kavapyrone
kavalactones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kavalactone
methysticin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular kavalactone.
Derived terms: dihydromethysticin
yangonin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular kavalactone.
kavain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From kava + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A kavalactone with anticonvulsive properties.
desmethoxyyangonin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From des- + methoxy + yangonin.
Senses: glosses: A particular kavalactone.
dihydromethysticin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + hydro- + methysticin.
Senses: glosses: A particular kavalactone.
thunderbolt beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thunderbolt beetles
Etymology: Named in reference to the zigzag pattern on its back.
Senses: glosses: A long-horned beetle (Sarosesthes fulminans) whose larva bores in the trunks of oak and chestnut trees.
thunderbolt beetles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thunderbolt beetle
rhodizonic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek [Term?]
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A colorless crystalline substance obtained from potassium carbonate and from certain quinones, which forms brilliant red, yellow, and purple salts.
Synonyms: carboxylic acid
dramseller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dramsellers
Etymology: From dram + seller.
Senses: glosses: Someone who sells distilled liquors by the dram or glass.
dramsellers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dramseller
ovariole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ovarioles
Etymology: From ovary + -ole.
Senses: examples: text: The oocytes develop in the ovarioles. The ovaries of Collembola are probably not homologous with those of insects, but are sac-like with a lateral germarium and no ovarioles.
ref: 1998, Reginald Frederick Chapman, The Insects:
glosses: a tubular component of the insect ovary, a basic unit of egg production
Derived terms: ovariolar
ovarioles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ovariole
cystolith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cystoliths
Etymology: From cysto- + -lith.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A concretion of mineral matter within a leaf or other part of a plant.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A urinary calculus.
cystoliths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cystolith
stagecoachman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stagecoachmen
Etymology: From stagecoach + -man.
Senses: glosses: A man who drives a stagecoach.
stagecoachmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stagecoachman
antiparalytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + paralytic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Acting against paralysis.
antiparalytic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiparalytics
Etymology: From anti- + paralytic.
Senses: glosses: A medicine to treat paralysis.
antiparalytics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiparalytic
forejudgment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forejudgments
form: forejudgement
Etymology: From fore- + judgment.
Senses: examples: text: For to entrap the careless Clarion , But seldom seen , forejudgment proveth true
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
glosses: prejudgment
penitentiaryship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From penitentiary + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: the penitentiaryship, or the prebend of St. Pancras
ref: 1691, [Anthony Wood], Athenæ Oxonienses. An Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops who have had Their Education in the Most Ancient and Famous University of Oxford from the Fifteenth Year of King Henry the Seventh, Dom. 1500, to the End of the Year 1690. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Tho[mas] Bennet […]:
glosses: The office or condition of a penitentiary of the papal court.
deaconries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deaconry
deaconry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deaconries
Etymology: From deacon + -ry.
Senses: glosses: deaconship
Derived terms: subdeaconry
Related terms: archdeaconry
forejudgement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forejudgements
Etymology: From fore- + judgement.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of forejudgment.
irremissive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more irremissive
form: most irremissive
Etymology: From ir- + remissive.
Senses: glosses: Not remitting; unforgiving.
forejudgements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forejudgement
embryotroph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embryotrophs
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The material from which an embryo is formed and nourished, mostly consisting of secretions from the uterine glands.
Derived terms: embryotrophic
embryotrophs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of embryotroph
owch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: owches
Senses: examples: text: She wore, with crownes and owches garnished
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 13:
glosses: Obsolete form of ouch (“a jewel”).
owches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of owch
glosses: plural of owche
runghead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rungheads
Etymology: From rung + head.
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
shipbuilding
glosses: The upper end of a floor timber in a ship.
rungheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of runghead
seabeach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seabeaches
Etymology: From sea + beach.
Senses: examples: text: At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, / A fisherman stood aghast, / To see the form of a maiden fair, / Lashed close to a drifting mast.
ref: 1840 January 10, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “[Ballads.] w:The Wreck of the Hesperus.”, in Ballads and Other Poems, 2nd edition, Cambridge, Mass.: […] John Owen, published 1842, →OCLC, stanza 20, page 47:
glosses: A beach lying along the sea.
Derived terms: seabeach amaranth
seabeaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seabeach
ditheist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdaɪ.θi.ɪst/
Forms: form: ditheists
Etymology: From di- + theist.
Senses: examples: text: he was before called by us a Ditheist. Plutarch was also a Worshipper of the Many Pagan Gods
ref: 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:
glosses: One who holds the doctrine of ditheism; a dualist.
ditheists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ditheist
swordbill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swordbills
Etymology: From sword + bill.
Senses: glosses: The sword-billed hummingbird, Ensifera ensifera, with a slender bill longer than the length of its bird.
swordbills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swordbill
antihypnotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + hypnotic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Tending to prevent sleep.
antihypnotic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antihypnotics
Etymology: From anti- + hypnotic.
Senses: glosses: Something that prevents sleep.
antihypnotics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antihypnotic
carpetway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carpetways
Etymology: From carpet + way.
Senses: glosses: A carpeted way or route.
carpetways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carpetway
lupanarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: lupinarian
Etymology: From Latin lupanar ("brothel"), from lupa ("prostitute"; literally "she-wolf"), from lupus ("wolf").
Senses: examples: text: Le Populaire told what at least was wrong with Saigon; a feature story headlined Saigon as "THE CHICAGO OF THE FAR EAST" and described it as complete with lupanarian dance halls and dens of vice and a Hotel Continental whose French boss had apparently just celebrated with a champagne dinner his second billion francs of profit.
ref: 1950 July 1, Janet Flanner, “Letter from Paris”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: Pertaining to a brothel or prostitution; characteristic of illicit sexual desire or activity.
archdeaconship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archdeaconships
Etymology: From archdeacon + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The rank or office of an archdeacon.
archdeaconships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archdeaconship
compunctionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more compunctionless
form: most compunctionless
Etymology: From compunction + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without compunction.