cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
grass tops
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɑːstɒps/
ipa: /ˈɡɹæstɑps/
Forms: form: grass-tops
form: grasstops
Etymology: From grass + tops, by analogy with grassroots.
Senses: examples: text: Along with the ads, industry worked to mobilize local politicians and business executives in what business groups called a "grass tops" campaign.
ref: 1998, Dan Clawson, Alan Neustadtl, Mark Weller, Dollars and Votes: How Business Campaign Contributions Subvert Democracy, Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press, →ISBN, page 12:
text: "Some of the work is grassroots," he said, "and some of it is grass-tops – like this summit."
ref: 2003 November 6, Cara Gardner, “Prepping for surgery”, in The Pacific Northwest Inlander, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2015:
text: [Mitchell] Schwartz said [Hillary] Clinton's campaign in California – which has been heavy on endorsements and organization – is more "grasstops" than "grassroots," while the Illinois senator [Barack Obama] has "a campaign of inspiration and not obligation."
ref: 2007 November 12, Carla Marinucci, “Obama’s team oozes optimism”, in San Francisco Chronicle, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2016:
text: In recent years, groups have made considerable use of "outside lobbying" techniques, which try to persuade ordinary citizens to serve as their frontline advocates. Prominent here are "grass-roots" and "grass-tops" lobbying. […] Grass-tops lobbying strives to favorably energize an elite rather than the masses.
ref: 2015, James E. Anderson, “The Policy-makers and Their Environment”, in Public Policymaking: An Introduction, 8th edition, Stamford, Ct.: Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 64:
antonyms: grassroots
glosses: Of, related to, or involving local influential figures.
grass tops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɑːstɒps/
ipa: /ˈɡɹæstɑps/
Forms: form: grass-tops
form: grasstops
Etymology: From grass + tops, by analogy with grassroots.
Senses: examples: text: They also had important connections to advocacy groups and the local "grass tops."
ref: 2007, David G. Smith, Judith D. Moore, Medicaid Politics and Policy, 1965–2007, New Brunswick, N.J.; London: Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 234:
text: "We are grassroots, not grass-tops," Kaplan said, meaning Common Sense Action seeks the opinions of all members regardless of leadership status within the group.
ref: 2012 December 3, Sophie Yan, “New group seeks to incite political action”, in The Brown Daily Herald, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2019:
antonyms: grass roots
glosses: People in a position of power or influence at a local level.
grass tops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɑːstɒps/
ipa: /ˈɡɹæstɑps/
Forms: form: grass-tops
form: grasstops
Etymology: From grass top + -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of grass top.
grasstops
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: grass tops
Etymology: Perhaps modelled on grassroots.
Senses: glosses: Of, related to, or involving local influential figures.
grasstops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grass tops
Etymology: Perhaps modelled on grassroots.
Senses: glosses: plural of grasstop
grasstops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grass tops
Etymology: Perhaps modelled on grassroots.
Senses: examples: text: Or, when just the 'grasstops' are needed, we recruit just a few of a target's key friends or contributors to join us.
ref: 2010, Wendell Potter, Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR IS Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans, Bloomsbury Press, published 2010, →ISBN, page 35:
glosses: People in a position of power or influence at a local level.
reprimandable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reprimandable
form: most reprimandable
Etymology: From reprimand + -able.
Senses: glosses: Fit to be reprimanded.
backbond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backbonds
Etymology: From back + bond.
Senses: qualifier: Scots law
glosses: An instrument which, in conjunction with another making an absolute disposition, constitutes a trust.
backbonds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backbond
sciscitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sciscitations
Etymology: From Latin sciscitatio, from sciscere (“to seek to know”), verb inchoate from scire (“to know”).
Senses: examples: text: There is not a more noble proof of our faith than to captivate all the powers of our understanding and will to our Creator, and without all sciscitation to go blindfold whither he will lead us.
ref: 1612–1626, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volume (please specify |volume=II, V, or VI), London, →OCLC:
glosses: The act of inquiring; inquiry; demand.
sciscitations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sciscitation
courter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)
Forms: form: courters
Etymology: From court + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […]whyle they thee courters outwarde gayly go
ref: 1515, Alexander Barclay, Here begynneth the Egloges of Alexader Barclay prest wher of the fyrst thre conteyneth the myseryes of courters a. courtes of all prynces in generall:
glosses: One who courts; one who plays the lover, or solicits in marriage.
Related terms: all-courter
clay courter
courters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of courter
cenotaphies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cenotaphy
cenotaphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cenotaphies
Senses: examples: text: Lord Cobham honoured him with a cenotaphy.
ref: 1841, Thomas Macaulay, Lord Byron and The Comic Dramatists of the Restoration:
glosses: A cenotaph.
backster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backsters
Etymology: See baxter.
Senses: glosses: A baker.
Derived terms: backstress
backsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backster
phthisiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌθaɪsiˈɒlədʒi/
Etymology: From phthisis + -logy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The care, treatment, and study of tuberculosis of the lung.
yakky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjæki/
rhymes: -æki
Forms: form: yakkier
form: yakkiest
Etymology: From yak + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I notice my husband and Ken are not talking to each other, most unusual in such a yakky family.
ref: 2011, Candida Lawrence, Fear Itself:
text: A little skinny kid had started working behind the bar, and I'd swear he was James Joyce's great grandson: thin face, thick glasses and a frail physique. He was yakky and a bit snappy and thoroughly entertaining
ref: 2009, Jesse Lovelace, Keep to the Left!: Freewheeling Through Ireland, published 2002:
text: Perfectly charming and at ease on stage, he's equally rambling and yakky in an interview.
ref: 1999, Deb Schwarz, the Rufus on Fire, Out - January 1999 issue page 66
glosses: chatty, talkative
Synonyms: talkative
Derived terms: yakkily
yakkiness
simulfixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of simulfix
Manam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island near New Guinea.
glosses: A language spoken mainly on the island of Manam.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Manam terms
Tolomako
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An Austronesian language spoken in Vanuatu.
quadrals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadral
yacker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yackers
Etymology: From yack + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Watch Those Lengthy Conversations: Stick to the 5-minute rule. How many times have you heard yackers say, "Well, I guess we've used up our five" when they've been talking for an hour.
ref: 1961, Electronics world: Volume 65:
glosses: One who talks at length.
Derived terms: pit-yacker
yackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yacker
podagrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more podagrous
form: most podagrous
Etymology: From podagra + -ous.
Senses: synonyms: podagric
glosses: gouty
sheld
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shelds
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of shield.
hagiographal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: hagiographical (relating to the Hagiographa)
tangledness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tangled + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being tangled.
tangledly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tangledly
form: most tangledly
Etymology: From tangled + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a tangled manner.
sternebra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sternebrae
Etymology: Blend of sternum + vertebra
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of the segments of the sternum.
Hyponyms: sense: in humans
english: corpus
translation: corpus
word: body
sense: in humans
word: manubrium
sense: in humans
word: xiphoid process
Related terms: sternebral
sternebrae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sternebra
sternebral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the sternebrae.
telary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈtiːləɹi/
Etymology: Latin telaris, from Latin tela (“web”). See toil (“a snare”).
Senses: examples: text: pictures of telary spiders
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: retiary
glosses: Of or relating to a web, or that spins webs
clarifyingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more clarifyingly
form: most clarifyingly
Etymology: From clarifying + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to clarify.
clarifiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clarifier
descensional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From descension + -al.
Senses: examples: text: To find the sun's oblique descension, descensional difference, western amplitude, and of setting, on any given day, at any given place[…]
ref: 1810, Edward Bruce, An Introduction to Geography and Astronomy:
text: When this ascensional force loses its force, it is no longer venerated, causing it to lose its momentum further, to stagnate and then becomes descensional.
ref: 2017, Patrick West, Get Over Yourself: Nietzsche for Our Times:
glosses: Relating to descension.
destinating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: As an antonym for originating, based on destination.
Senses: examples: text: Some of this mail consists of destinating mail from other offices, while some of it originated locally.
ref: 1992, Michael A. Crew, Paul R. Kleindorfer, The economics of postal service, page 10:
text: All containers of mail whose respective destination postal code is less than 200 miles (US Postal Services) away from the originating mail processing center is transported directly to the destinating mail processing center.
ref: 2007, Gerrit Bleumer, Electronic postage systems: technology, security, economics, page 34:
glosses: arriving at its destination; incoming
Jewhatred
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We are inclined to seek out the character of Jewhatred at the phenomenological and historical levels regarding both its origins and its historical recurrences.
ref: 1984, Robert J. Loewenberg, An American idol: Emerson and the "Jewish idea", page 2:
text: Its representatives distanced themselves from the crass, plebeian, materialistic Jewhatred of the "simple people."
ref: 1992, Herbert Arthur Straus, Hostages of Modernization: studies on modern antisemitism, 1870-1933/39, →ISBN, page 25:
text: […] this Christian anti-Semitism prepared the ground for the more radical Nazi Jewhatred that produced the Holocaust.
ref: 1998, George H. Guthrie, The NIV Application Commentary: Hebrews:
glosses: Alternative form of Jew-hatred.
clitorally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From clitoral + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: My husband stimulates me clitorally.
ref: 1973, Seymour Fisher, The female orgasm: psychology, physiology, fantasy:
glosses: In terms of, or by means of, the clitoris.
almuce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: almuces
Etymology: Related to amice. Doublet of mutch.
Senses: examples: text: It was alleged, for example, that in 1435, when many pilgrims were in the cathedral, the Dean, with an armed band, had made a personal attack on the Chancellor Peter Partrich, whom the soldiers dragged away by his almuce.
ref: 1994, Dorothy Owen, A History of Lincoln Minster, page 159:
glosses: A hood or cape.
almuces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of almuce
dioeciousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dioecious + -ness.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The state or quality of being dioecious.
chiroplast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkaɪɹəplæst/
/ˈkaɪɹəplɑːst/
Forms: form: chiroplasts
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + πλάσσω (plássō, “to shape”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A sliding wooden frame clamped above the keys of the piano, into which the hands and fingers of a pianist are placed. It was used for learners of the piano in the early 19th century.
chiroplasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chiroplast
subopercula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suboperculum
suboperculum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subopercula
Etymology: From sub- + operculum.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: subopercular
glosses: The lower opercular bone in fishes.
superstruct
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˌsuːpə(ɹ)ˈstɹʌkt/
Forms: form: superstructs
form: superstructing
form: superstructed
form: superstructed
Etymology: Latin superstrūctus, past participle of superstruō (“to build upon”); super (“over”) + struō (“to build”). See super- and structure.
Senses: examples: text: This is the only proper basis on which to superstruct first innocency and then virtue.
ref: 1667, attributed to Richard Allestree, The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety. […], London: […] R. Norton for T. Garthwait, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To build over or upon (another structure); to erect upon (a foundation).
superstructed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of superstruct
superstructing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of superstruct
superstructs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of superstruct
throat latch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: throat latches
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of throatlatch.
symmetrist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: symmetrists
Etymology: From symmetry + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who believes in the symmetry of parts, social roles, etc.
Related terms: symmetrism
symmetrists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of symmetrist
multipede
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: multiped
Etymology: From Latin multipeda, multipēs; equivalent to multi- + -pede.
Senses: glosses: Having many feet.
multipede
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multipedes
form: multiped
Etymology: From Latin multipeda, multipēs; equivalent to multi- + -pede.
Senses: examples: text: XLVI. THE Ambua, ſo the Natives of Brazil call the Millepedes and the Centipedes Serpents. […]
IN theſe Multipedes, the Mechaniſm of the Body is very curious; […]
ref: 1742, Charles Owen, An essay towards a natural history of serpents, page 107:
text: In the course of two weeks there developed in all the aquaria minute crustaceans (shell insects, flea lobsters, water multipedes, infusoria, green algae), a felted mass […]
ref: 1804, W. Kochs, Experiments with Artificial Propagation of Minute Crustaceans, published in the Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, volume 14, page 307
text: Animals exhibit differences in the number of their feet, and accordingly have been distributed into classes, consisting of bipeds, quadrupeds, and multipedes.
ref: 1832, William Percivall, The anatomy of the horse, embracing the structure of the foot, page 418:
glosses: A creature with many feet, especially a centipede, millepede or similar creature.
examples: text: The stability of the mesophases for the polypedes and multipedes is reported in Table 17.
ref: 2006, Bertrand Donnio, Akira Harada, Akihito Hashidzume, editors, Supramolecular polymers, polymeric betains, oligomers:
text: As noted in Section 15.1, the design of multipedes allows the incorporation of functional moieties into self-assembling and/or self-organizing states of matter.
ref: 2011, Takashi Nakanishi, Supramolecular Soft Matter: Applications in Materials and Organic Electronics, page 314:
glosses: A branching structure with many separate termini.
multipedes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multipede
huxter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: huxters
Senses: glosses: Dated form of huckster.
huxter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: huxters
form: huxtering
form: huxtered
form: huxtered
Senses: glosses: Dated form of huckster.
huxters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of huxter
huxtering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of huxter
huxtered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of huxter
superserviceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superserviceable
form: most superserviceable
Etymology: From super- + serviceable.
Senses: examples: text: a superserviceable, finical rogue
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 II, scene ii]:
synonyms: overofficious
glosses: doing more (usually, more work) than is required or desired.
security theater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: security theatre
Etymology: Attributed to Bruce Schneier.
Senses: examples: text: But some countermeasures provide the feeling of security instead of the reality. These are nothing more than security theater.
ref: 2003 July 28, Bruce Schneier, Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World, Springer, page 38:
text: I do care about security. I survived the attack on the World Trade Center and I believe 9/11 was allowed to occur through a failure of intelligence. I thank TSA agents for searching me: applause for security theater.
ref: 2013 August 22, Jeff Jarvis, “As a Democrat, I am disgusted with President Obama”, in The Guardian:
text: [Bruce] Schneier agrees that Covid-19 has ushered in an era of hygiene theatre. “Like security theatre,” he says, “hygiene theatre comes from bad risk analysis – really, from ignorance.”
ref: 2021 July 12, Sirin Kale, “Hygiene theatre: how excessive cleaning gives us a false sense of security”, in The Guardian:
coordinate_terms: hygiene theater
glosses: Security measures which are intended to, or do, provide a feeling or illusion of improved security, while doing little or nothing to actually improve security.
wikipedia: Bruce Schneier
grass top
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grass tops
form: grasstop
Senses: examples: text: There was nothing to shoot at; but a moment afterward I saw a pair of horns through the grass tops, in such a position that it was evident the owner was looking at me.
ref: 1910, Theodore Roosevelt, African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist, Charles Scribner's Sons, published 1910, page 521:
glosses: The tip of a blade or stalk of grass.
examples: text: She glides along, her skirt touching the grass top as she sways to the beat of unwritten songs.
ref: 2008, Chris Fabry, Dogwood, Tyndale, →ISBN, page 154:
glosses: An expanse covered in grass.
minidiscs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minidisc
grasstop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grasstops
Senses: examples: text: How close he didn't realize until the machine slipped over the grasstops, coming into view just two meters away.
ref: 1987, David Brin, The Uplift War, Bantam Spectra, published 1995, →ISBN, page 295:
glosses: Alternative form of grass top.
panel pin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panel pins
Senses: glosses: A very thin short nail used in furniture.
pulmonary toilet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulmonary toilets
Senses: examples: text: Is the patient alert enough to protect his or her airway and participate in pulmonary toilet? Does the patient have a cough effective enough to clear secretions. and are the secretions neither copious nor tenacious?
ref: 1999, Gerald S. Davis, Elizabeth A. Seward, Theodore W. Marcy, editors, Medical management of pulmonary diseases, →ISBN, page 424:
text: Finally, perfluorocarbon may aid in pulmonary toilet and decrease infection rates.
ref: 2002, E. Edward Bittar, editor, Pulmonary biology in health and disease, →ISBN, page 358:
text: Adequate analgesia is paramount and allows aggressive pulmonary toilet and early mobilization.
ref: 2010, Paige M. Porrett, John R. Frederick, Robert E. Roses, Larry R. Kaiser, editors, The Surgical Review: An Integrated Basic and Clinical Science Study Guide:
text: Excellent pulmonary toilet is the cornerstone of care for the inhalational injury; […]
ref: 2011, George C. Velmahos, Elias Degiannis, Dietrich Doll, editors, Penetrating Trauma: A Practical Guide on Operative Technique and Peri-Operative Management, →ISBN, page 490:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The cleaning of secretions from the airways of a person (as part of pulmonary hygiene).
objective correlative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: objective correlatives
Senses: examples: text: Neil Young invented strung-out country-rock in 1975 with his album Tonight's the Night, its bittersweet desolation finding an objective correlative in the setting of America's south-western desert states.
ref: 2007 February 2, Mat Snow, The Guardian:
text: Eleven years later, in 586, after another senseless revolt, Jerusalem was destroyed and Yahweh's temple, his objective correlative on earth, was burned to the ground.
ref: 2009, Karen Armstrong, The Case for God, Vintage, published 2010, page 46:
glosses: A physical representation or manifestation of an abstract concept; especially, a symbolic artistic representation of a particular emotion, feeling etc.
objective correlatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of objective correlative
stream cipher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stream ciphers
Senses: topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: a symmetric-key cipher in which plaintext digits are combined with a pseudorandom cipher digit stream
grocerant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grocerants
form: groceraunt
Etymology: Blend of grocery + restaurant.
Senses: examples: text: This is the grocerant concept in shopping and dining that was introduced by Jaya Grocer in its latest outlet at the Empire Shopping Gallery, the new mall in Subang Jaya.
ref: 2010 June 27, Aida Ahmad, “A spot of convenience”, in The Star, Malaysia:
glosses: A grocery store that sells prepared meals, either for eating on site or taking home.
grocerants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grocerant
simple fruit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: simple fruits
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A fruit that develops from either a single or compound ovary within a flower with a single pistil.
groceraunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: groceraunts
Senses: examples: text: The variety of products and services is so wide that company marketers have dubbed the new store a "groceraunt," a combination grocery store and restaurant.
ref: 2008 February 26, Astrid Galvan, “Whole Foods to open 'groceraunt'”, in The Arizona Republic:
glosses: Alternative spelling of grocerant.
groceraunts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of groceraunt
correption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: correptions
Etymology: From Latin correptio (“seizure”), from corripere (“to seize”).
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A shortening in pronunciation.
examples: text: That I use all mildness or mansuetude in admonishing; the angry passionate correption being rather apt to provoke, than to amend.
ref: 1647, Henry Hammond, Of Fraternal Admonition Or Correption, page 5:
glosses: A chiding, scolding; telling off
crescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See crescent.
Senses: examples: text: And toward the moon's attractive creſcence bend.
ref: 1735, Henry Brooke, Universal Beauty:
text: There are found to be many superfluous Crescences.
ref: 1660, unknown, transl., Paracelsus' Archidoxis:
glosses: increase; enlargement or growth
precisianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: precisianisms
Etymology: From precisian + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: they who in other matters express so little feare either of God or man , should in this one particular outstripp all precisianism with thir scruples and cases
ref: 1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: pedantry
Puritanism
glosses: The quality or state of being a precisian
precisianisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of precisianism
precisians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of precisian
burggrave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burggraves
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of burgrave.
burggraves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burggrave
perflation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pə(ɹ)ˈfleɪʃən/
Forms: form: perflations
Etymology: Latin perflatio.
Senses: examples: text: That as these Damps are caused by Heat , so they are remedy'd by withdrawing that Heat , and by conveying forth the mineral Steams ; which the Miners effect by Perflations with large Bellows
ref: 1695, John Woodward, “(please specify the page)”, in An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth: And Terrestrial Bodies, Especially Minerals: […], London: […] Ric[hard] Wilkin […], →OCLC:
glosses: The act of perflating, or blowing through.
perflations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perflation
thermochromy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thermo- + Ancient Greek χρῶμα (khrôma, “colour”).
Senses: glosses: The property possessed by heat of being composed, like light, of rays of different degrees of refrangibility, which are unequal in rate or degree of transmission through diathermic substances.
Related terms: thermochrome
smickering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of smicker
rokelay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rokelays
form: rockelay
form: rocklay
Etymology: Compare roquelaure.
Senses: glosses: A short cloak worn mostly by ladies in the 18th century.
rokelays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rokelay
penible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more penible
form: most penible
Etymology: From Middle English penyble, from Old French peinible. Compare painable.
Senses: examples: text: The encroachments of these men, who are aware of their power, often has rendered the residence of a European among the tribes, the most penible state of existence.
ref: 1840, Joel Samuel Polack, Manners and Customs of the New Zealanders:
text: This was the most "penible" portion of the walk, for although not very steep, the loose and slippery boulders, which covered the surface, made it so insecure that great care was necessary.
ref: 1862, Mrs. Henry Freshfield, A Summer Tour in the Grisons and Italian Valleys of the Bernina:
glosses: painstaking; assiduous
unemarginated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unemarginated
form: most unemarginated
Etymology: From un- + emarginated.
Senses: glosses: Not emarginated.
eluxated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eluxate (“dislocate”) (a rare, synonymous variant of luxate), from Latin eluxātus.
Senses: glosses: Dislocated.
cicurate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪkjʊɹeɪt/
Forms: form: cicurates
form: cicurating
form: cicurated
form: cicurated
Etymology: From Latin cicurare (“to tame”), from cicur (“tame”).
Senses: examples: text: even after carnal conversion, poisons may yet retain some portion of their natures; yet are they so refracted, cicurated, and subdued
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To tame, domesticate.
Related terms: cicuration
cicurated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cicurate
cicurates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cicurate
cicurating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cicurate
omander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare calamander
Senses: glosses: The wood of Diospyros ebenum (syn. Diospyros ebenaster), a kind of ebony found in Ceylon.
Synonyms: sense: Diospyros ebenum
word: Ceylon ebony
sense: Diospyros ebenum
word: India ebony
mesoplast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesoplasts
Etymology: From meso- + -plast.
Senses: examples: 1857-1862, Louis Agassiz, Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America
We have already mentioned , that there is no constant size at which the ectoblast develops its mesoblast . A minute ectoblast may be seen with a well defined mesoblast
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The nucleus of a cell; mesoblast.
mesoplasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesoplast
measled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more measled
form: most measled
Etymology: From measle + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: measled condition
text: measled pork
synonyms: measly
glosses: Infected with measles.
detrusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: detrusions
Etymology: From Latin detrusio. See detrude.
Senses: glosses: The act of thrusting or driving down or outward; outward thrust.
Related terms: detrusive
exquisitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exquisitive
form: most exquisitive
Etymology: From Latin exquīsītus + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: they were overpowered by numbers, captivated, and put to the most exquisitive tortures
ref: 1811, Archibauld Loudon, A Selection of Some of the Most Interesting Narratives:
glosses: Eager to discover or learn; curious.
Derived terms: exquisitiveness
Related terms: exquisitively
swelldom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From swell + -dom.
Senses: synonyms: high society
glosses: High-class people; the class of swells, collectively.
buffel duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buffel ducks
Senses: glosses: A kind of duck, the bufflehead.
buffel ducks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buffel duck
hemadynamics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hemodynamics.
tristitiate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tristitiates
form: tristitiating
form: tristitiated
form: tristitiated
Etymology: From Latin tristitia (“sadness”), from tristis (“sad”).
Senses: examples: text: Calamitie doth so much tristitiate, as that he neuer sees the flashes of some warming ioy
ref: 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
synonyms: word: attrist
word: contristate
word: aggrieve
word: attrist
word: begloom
word: begrieve
word: besorrow
word: grieve
word: bring down
word: contristate
word: dash
word: deject
word: depress
word: desolate
word: dispirit
word: engrieve
word: forset
word: get down
word: grieven
word: moan
word: oppress
word: rue
word: sadden
word: sadden up
word: tristitiate
word: ungladden
word: unhappy
word: upset
glosses: To sadden.
tristitiated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tristitiate
paludine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈpælədaɪn/
/ˈpæljʊdaɪn/
Forms: form: more paludine
form: most paludine
Etymology: From Latin palus, paludis (“a marsh”).
Senses: examples: text: paludine deposits
text: prevent the slumbers of the lords and ladies being broken by their paludine neighbors
ref: 1860, Francis Buckland, Curiosities of Natural History:
glosses: Of or relating to a marsh.
bullfaced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bullfaced
form: most bullfaced
Etymology: From bull + faced.
Senses: glosses: Having a large face
glosses: having a face resembling a bull.
gastroporn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gastro- + porn.
Senses: examples: text: Half-competent amateurs quickly learn not to cook from volumes with full-page glossy gastroporn pix, because their own culinary productions will never attain such lustre.
ref: 1998 September 21, Julian Barnes, “Deceptively Simple”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: Enticing food imagery, typically found in books, magazines, social media , and television programs related to food and cooking.
Synonyms: foodporn
Related terms: foodtography
dishumour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dishumours
form: dishumouring
form: dishumoured
form: dishumoured
form: dishumor
Etymology: From dis- + humour.
Senses: examples: text: O, how I do feed vpon this now, and fat my ſelf? here were a couple vnexpectedly diſhumor'd: […]
ref: 1599 (first performance), B. I. [i.e., Ben Jonson], The Comicall Satyre of Euery Man out of His Humor. […], London: […] [Adam Islip] for William Holme, […], published 1600, →OCLC, Act V, scene ii, signature P ij, recto:
glosses: To deprive of humour or desire; to put out of humour.
dishumour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dishumor
Etymology: From dis- + humour.
Senses: glosses: ill humour; bad temper
dishumoured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dishumour
dishumouring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dishumour
dishumours
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dishumour
fulsamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fulsamic
form: most fulsamic
Etymology: From fulsome + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Oh filthy Mr. Sneer; he's a nauſeous Figure, a moſt fulſamick Fop, foh— […]
ref: 1693 (first performance), [William] Congreve, The Double-Dealer. A Comedy, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], published 1735, →OCLC, Act III, scene x, page 60:
glosses: Fulsome
otorrhoea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: otorrhoeas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of otorrhea.
otorrheas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of otorrhea
otorrhoeas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of otorrhoea
closed ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: closed balls
Senses: examples: In the set of 3-adic numbers, the closed ball of radius 1/3 "centered" at 1 is the set x|∃n∈ℤ.,x=3n+1. This closed ball partitions into exactly three smaller closed balls of radius 1/9, e.g., x|∃n∈ℤ.,x=4+9n. Then each of those balls partitions into exactly 3 smaller closed balls of radius 1/27, and the sub-partitioning can be continued indefinitely, in a fractal manner.
topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A ball which contains its boundary, i.e., a ball which is a closed set.
indignified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of indignify
indignifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of indignify
indignify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: indignifies
form: indignifying
form: indignified
form: indignified
Etymology: From Latin indignus (“unworthy”) + -fy.
Senses: examples: text: Therefore , in closure of a thankful mind , I deem it best to hold eternally Their bounteous deeds and noble favours shrin ' d , Than by discourse them to indignify
ref: 1595, Ed. Spencer [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “Colin Clouts Come Home Againe”, in Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To treat with disdain or indignity; to contemn.
indignifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of indignify
acrotarsia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acrotarsium
acrotarsium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acrotarsia
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The instep of the foot (front of the tarsus)
Related terms: acrotarsial
parotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See parotid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: parotid
smock-faced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more smock-faced
form: most smock-faced
Senses: examples: text: A smock-faced amoroso.
ref: 1933, Montague Summers, The Werewolf:
text: That counter-casting, smock-faced boy.
ref: 1830, Auchindrane, Walter Scott:
text: None of your smock-faced young fellows.
ref: 1732, Henry Fielding, The Miser:
glosses: Having a feminine expression or appearance; smooth-faced; girlish-faced.
Related terms: smock-face
clothes lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clothes line
clothes line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clothes lines
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of clothesline.
catheretic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catheretics
Etymology: From Ancient Greek καθαιρετικός (kathairetikós, “reducing”), from καθαιρέω (kathairéō, “take down”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A mild caustic used to reduce warts and other excrescences.
catheretics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catheretic
frank-marriage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frank-marriages
form: frankmarriage
Etymology: frank (“free”) + marriage
Senses: examples: text: an estate given with her in frank marriage by her ancestor
ref: 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
topics: law
glosses: A form of conditional marriage-gift of land under English law, often from father to daughter.
frank-marriages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frank-marriage
superframe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superframes
Etymology: From super- + frame.
Senses: topics: communications
computing
electrical-engineering
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
telecommunications
glosses: A frame (chunk of data) comprising several subframes.
superframes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superframe
midframe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midframes
Etymology: From mid- + frame.
Senses: examples: the midframe of a kayak
glosses: The central part of a frame.
midframe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + frame.
Senses: topics: communications
computing
electrical-engineering
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
telecommunications
glosses: During a frame; before the completion of a discrete chunk of data.
midframes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midframe
corody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corodies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of corrody.
corodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corody
corrodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corrody
brond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bronds
Etymology: See brand.
Senses: glosses: A sword.
bronds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brond
septaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: septæmia
form: septemia
Etymology: From New Latin septaemia, from Ancient Greek σηπτός (sēptós), verbal adjective of σήπω (sḗpō, “make rotten”), + αἷμα (haîma, “blood”) + -ia.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of septicemia.
synonyms: word: septicemia
Synonyms: sepsis
septicemia
helotries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of helotry
helotry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helotries
Etymology: From helot + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: Apparently influenced by Montesquieu's judgment that Spartan helotry combined the worst features of slavery and serfdom, Dew credited the Athenians with treating their slaves gently.
ref: 2005, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Eugene D. Genovese, The Mind of the Master Class, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 289:
qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: Collectively, the helots (slaves or bondsmen).
metensomatoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metensomatosis
metensomatosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metensomatoses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μετενσωμᾰ́τωσῐς (metensōmắtōsĭs).
Senses: glosses: A change of body by the soul, reincarnation, metempsychosis.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The assimilation by one body or organism of the elements of another.
doulocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dulocracy.
siphonobranchiate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From translingual Siphonobranchiata (see -ate), from siphono- + branchia + -ata.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a siphon or siphons to convey water to the gills (said of gastropods of the former order Siphonobranchiata.
Hills Hoists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hills Hoist
Hills Hoist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hills Hoists
form: Hills hoist
Etymology: From genitive of Hill (“a surname”) (with elided apostrophe) + hoist (“lift”); from the trade name of the product manufactured from 1945 by Lance Hill of Adelaide, South Australia.
Senses: examples: text: A Hills Hoist was set into the concrete. It was covered with a lush choko vine. Hazel always claimed the Hills Hoist was the perfect plant support. “If you want to do some pruning, you just wind it up and spin it round.”
ref: 1989, Helen Townsend, Miranda′s Album, page 52:
text: Like most Australians I have spent much of my life in the suburbs. I was raised in the Perth suburb of Karrinyup. A quarter acre, a terracotta roof, a facade knocked out by some bored government architect, a Hills Hoist in the back yard and picket fences between us and the neighbours.
ref: 1993, Tim Winton, Land's Edge, page 8:
text: 2002, Meanjin, Volume 61, Melbourne University Press, page 165,
I watched them glistening over the tiled rooftops and Hills hoists and waited, in awe, for the shadow to reach our Lower Templestowe back yard.
text: Even the sight of a Hills Hoist still gave her a Pavlovian response of calm and comfort.[…]There were no Hills Hoists here in the caravan park, just bright cords pulled tight between caravans and trees, easily extended and retracted.
ref: 2010, Emma Hardman, Nine Parts Water, page 119:
glosses: A rotary clothes line with adjustable height by means of a rotating handle.
shekhinah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shekhinahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shechinah.
teaze-hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teaze-holes
Etymology: Corrupted from French tisard fire door.
Senses: glosses: The opening in a glass furnace through which fuel is introduced.
Related terms: tisar
teaze-holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teaze-hole
Persism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Persisms
Senses: glosses: A Persian idiom.
Persism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: This system we shall call 'Persism', in order to free ourselves of the popular associations still connected with such terms as magism, Parseeism, and so forth; meaning by 'Persism' the teaching of Zarathustra as it affected the Greek and Latin world.
ref: 1911, Edward Vernon Arnold, Roman Stoicism:
glosses: Ancient Persian religion, especially as represented by the Magi.
Persisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Persism
roytelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roytelets
Etymology: From French roitelet, diminutive of roi (“king”).
Senses: examples: text: The chief Roytelet amongst the Mohawks now living, is a Dutchmans Bastard
ref: 1674, John Josselyn, Account of Two Voyages to New-England:
text: hire troops of the roytelets of Brunswick and Hesse - Cassel
ref: 1834–1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume (please specify |volume=I to X), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company [et al.], →OCLC:
glosses: A little king.
roytelets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roytelet
coryphei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corypheus
corypheus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corypheuses
form: coryphei
form: coryphæus
form: coryphaeus
form: koryphaios
Etymology: From Latin coryphaeus, from Ancient Greek κορυφαῖος (koruphaîos, “leader”), from κορυφή (koruphḗ, “head”).
Senses: examples: text: In this work Homer and Virgil already appear beside Cicero and Plato as doctrinal authorities. The four corypheuses are infallible; any contradiction between them is wholly out of the question.
ref: 1953, Ernst Robert Curtius, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, page 443:
topics: broadcasting
drama
dramaturgy
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
glosses: The conductor or leader of the dramatic chorus in Ancient Greece.
examples: text: That noted corypheus of the Independent faction.
ref: a. 1716, Robert South, Discourse:
text: Let us blithely hail, throughout the whole universe, these disciples of Christ, these two Coryphei, Peter and Paul : O Peter, the Foundation-stone and Rock ; and thou also, O Paul, Vessel of Election.
ref: 1800, Prosper Guéranger, translated by Laurence Shepherd, The Liturgical Year: The Time after Pentecost, volume 3, page 443:
text: Then Corypheus Marat, author of the Friend of the People, constantly denounced him as the traitor Lafayette.
ref: 1824, John Foster, A Sketch of the Tour of General Lafayette, on His Late Visit to the United States, 1824, page 27:
text: Chauncey Wright, something of a philosophical celebrity in those days, was never absent from our meetings. I was about to call him our corypheus; but he will better be described as our boxing-master whom we—I particularly—used to face to be severely pummelled.
ref: 1940, Charles Sanders Peirce, Philosophical Writings of Peirce, page 270:
text: The Gnostic depreciation of the cosmos and its creator aroused the ire of the founder and corypheus of the Neoplatonic School, Plotinus (205-70), who presided over an academia in Rome and possibly had a private mystical practice.
ref: 1992, Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos, The Celestial Tradition: A Study of Ezra Pound's The Cantos, page 36:
glosses: The chief or leader of a party or interest.
Synonyms: sense: chief or leader of a party or interest
word: coryphe
corypheuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corypheus
rock tripe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rock tripes
Senses: synonyms: tripe de roche
glosses: An edible lichen of the genus Umbilicaria that grows on rocks.