cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Greekling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Greeklings
Etymology: From Greek + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: Which of the Greeklings durst ever give precepts to Demosthenes!
ref: 1635, Ben Jonson, Timber, or Discoveries made upon men and matter:
glosses: A little Greek, or one of small esteem or pretensions.
Greeklings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Greekling
fish-bellied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fish-bellied
form: most fish-bellied
Senses: examples: text: a fish-bellied rail
ref: 1840, American Railroad Journal and Mechanics' Magazine:
glosses: Bellying or swelling out on the underside.
protuberancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protuberancies
Etymology: From protuberant + -cy.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being protuberant.
glosses: A protuberance.
forcement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From force + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: It was imposed upon us by constraint; and will you count such forcement treachery?
ref: 1607, John Webster, Thomas Dekker, Sir Thomas Wyat:
glosses: The act of forcing; compulsion.
mirksome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: note: rhotic
enpr: mûrk'səm
ipa: /ˈmɜɹksəm/
note: rhotic
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈmɜːksəm/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ksəm
Forms: form: more mirksome
form: most mirksome
Etymology: From mirk + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Then to her yron wagon she betakes, / And with her beares the fowle welfavourd witch: / Through mirksome aire her ready way she makes.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, book 1, canto 5, verse 28:
text: And there, in silence deaf and mirksome shade, / His characters and circles vain he made.
ref: 1600 [1581], Edward, trans. Fairfax, Jerusalem Delivered, book XIII, verse v, translation of La Gerusalemme liberata by Torquato Tasso:
glosses: Dark; gloomy; murky.
Synonyms: cimmerian
dingy
tenebrous
dark
Related terms: mirksomeness
overdoer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overdoers
Etymology: From overdo + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who overdoes something.
overdoers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overdoer
perversed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of perverse
aquatile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin aquatilis: compare French aquatile (obsolete).
Senses: examples: text: By Frogges I understand not such as arising from putrifaction, are bred without copulation, and because they subsist not long, are called Temporariae; nor doe I meane hereby the little Frogge of an excellent Parrat-green, that usually sits on trees and bushes, and is therefore called Ravunculus viridis, or Arboreus; but hereby I understand the aquatile or water Frogge whereof in ditches and standing plashes, wee may behold many millions every Spring in England;
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: E. Dod, Book 3, Chapter 13, p. 138:
text: Wd have spoken of the Inanimate World: now I proceed to that which is Animate, viz. those Creatures which belong to the Sensitive and Animal Kingdom. […] Here chiefly the Hand of an Intelligent and Divine Author is discernable. Especially if we consider the wonderful Variety and Diversity of this sort of Beings: for they are either Terrestrial, Aquatile or Aerial.
ref: 1696, John Edwards, chapter 9, in A Demonstration of the Existence and Providence of God, London: Jonathan Robinson and John Wyat, page 183:
synonyms: aquatic
glosses: Inhabiting the water.
heliacally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From heliacal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Ceylon has this one disadvantage for purposes of theatrical effect; she is like a star rising heliacally, and hidden in the blaze of the sun: any island, however magnificent, becomes lost in the blaze of India.
ref: 1843 November, Thomas De Quincey, “Ceylon”, in Speculations Literary and Philosophic: With German Tales and Other Narrative Papers (De Quincey’s Works; XII), London: James Hogg & Sons, →OCLC, page 37:
glosses: In a heliacal manner; spirally.
stylomastoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌstaɪ.loʊˈmæˌstɔɪd/
rhymes: -æstɔɪd
Etymology: From stylo- (“relating to the styloid process”) + mastoid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the styloid and mastoid processes of the temporal bone.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the stylomastoid foramen.
Derived terms: stylomastoid foramen
glutinative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more glutinative
form: most glutinative
Etymology: Latin glutinativus: compare French glutinatif.
Senses: examples: text: The wounds of the liver, which are caused by violence, and cured, by venesedics, if need, clysters, rhubarb, astringent and glutinative potions , troches of spodium, roses, and rhubarb, myrtine syrup with bole, & using outwardly, aftringent and glutinative plaisters, ointments of bole, mumy and turpentine, and cataplasmes; so in the contusion of the liver, using dissolvers, rhubarb, parmacity, mumy, bole, sealed earth with vineger, with myrrh and other roborants, thin diet, & glutinative, rice, jujube water, and sugar of roses, & c.
ref: 1661, Robert Lovell, Sive Panzoologicomineralogia. Or a Compleat History of Animals and Minerals, page 378:
text: That is a glutinative medicine, which couples together by drying and binding, the sides of an ulcer before brought together.
ref: 1835, Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal, page 393:
text: To form a jelly it is necessary to have among the ingredients some glutinative or mucilaginous substance, such as we find, in a greater or less degree, in the fruits and berries usually "put up" in the jelly form.
ref: 1887 August 6, Eriphyle R. Whiting, “Jellies”, in Good Housekeeping, volume 5, number 7, page 167:
text: Usually the preventives are of a cementitious or glutinative character , and if these act to accrete the dust into masses too large to be moved under the forces acting, they succeeed in their object.
ref: 1909, Ward's Automobile Topics, page 792:
text: Both ideal cases, whether the expression of grammatical meanings is extremely glutinative or extremely cumulative, are easy to analyse: grammatical meanings are either expressed by respective segments, or by one segment which is not further analysable.
ref: 1997, Yaron Matras, Peter Bakker, Hristo Kyuchukov, The Typology and Dialectology of Romani, page 28:
text: This mixture, the learned Dr. Salmon says, is lenitive, dissolutive, aperative, strengthening, and glutinative.
ref: 2009, Edward Deering Mansfield, Memoirs of Daniel Drake, page 200:
glosses: Having the quality of cementing or binding together; agglutinative
largition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: largitions
Etymology: From Latin largitio, from largiri, past participle largitus (“to give bountifully”).
Senses: examples: text: largition of money
ref: 1517 February 8, Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 2, 1515-1518:
glosses: The bestowment of a largess or gift.
conferree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conferrees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of conferee (“person on whom something is conferred”).
conferrees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conferree
boroughmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boroughmasters
Etymology: From borough + master. Compare burgomaster.
Senses: examples: text: In the House, members are supposed to speak the sentiments of their electors: everywhere else they are supposed to speak the sentiments of the boroughmaster who puts them in.
ref: 1842, The Westminster Review, volume XXXVII:
coordinate_terms: borough council
glosses: The mayor, governor, or bailiff of a borough.
Synonyms: boroughreeve
boroughmasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boroughmaster
butcherliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From butcherly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being butcherly.
hypnologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypnologists
Etymology: From hypnology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: someone versed in hypnology.
hypnologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypnologist
tenant saw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenant saws
Senses: glosses: A tenon saw.
tenant saws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenant saw
hyperbatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperbatic
form: most hyperbatic
Senses: examples: text: hyperbatic word order
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a hyperbaton; transposed; inverted.
Derived terms: hyperbatically
intermention
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: intermentions
form: intermentioning
form: intermentioned
form: intermentioned
Etymology: From inter- + mention.
Senses: glosses: To mention among other things, or casually or incidentally.
intermentioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of intermention
intermentioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of intermention
intermentions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of intermention
pedaneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin pedaneus (“of the size of a foot”).
Senses: examples: text: After the deperdition of Indagator, having an appetency still further to pervstigate the frithy occident; being still an agamist, and not wishing to be any longer a pedaneous viator, nor to be solivagant, I brought about the emption of a yaud, partly by numismatic mutuation, and partly by a hypothecation of my fusee and argental horologe.
ref: 1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 28:
glosses: Going on foot; pedestrian.
plethysmographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to plethysmography.
glosses: Using a plethysmograph
Derived terms: photoplethysmographic
plethysmographically
endoplastule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endoplastules
Etymology: From endoplast + -ule.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A nucleolus.
endoplastules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endoplastule
gabert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaberts
Etymology: Compare French gabare, Breton kobar, gobar.
Senses: examples: text: In a block or pully, near the head of the mast of a gabert, now lying at the Broomielaw, there is chaffinch's nest
ref: 1793, anonymous author, Buckinghamshire Herald:
glosses: A lighter, or vessel for inland navigation.
gaberts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gabert
reliquian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of relics.
squamellate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more squamellate
form: most squamellate
Senses: examples: text: squamellate pappus
glosses: Having small scales; squamulose.
bilcock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bilcocks
Senses: glosses: The water rail.
bilcocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bilcock
interlapse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interlapses
Etymology: From inter- + lapse.
Senses: examples: text: […] after a short interlapse of time [the salts] produce Coughs, Ptisicks, and at last a Pulmonique Consumption.
ref: 1666, Gideon Harvey, chapter 28, in Morbus Anglicus: or, The Anatomy of Consumptions, London: Nathaniel Brook, page 160:
text: A part of the time they spent in senseless intoxication; and the lucid interlapse of sobriety was occupied only in mourning over the recollection of past importance, and trembling at the prospect of speedy annihilation.
ref: 1819, Ezekiel Sanford, A History of the United States before the Revolution, section III, Philadelphia: Anthony Finley, page cxc:
text: It is the interlapse between the correct aim and the touch of the trigger, or impulse of the shot, which is the secret of many a miss at a rapidly flying object.
ref: 1860, “Marksman” (pseudonym), “Finishing Lessons”, in The Dead Shot or Sportsman’s Complete Guide, London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, page 68:
text: These from early boyhood had been trained to the sea, and knew no other home than was to be had upon her heaving breast, except indeed, by the brief glimpses which the interlapses conjoined to it afforded, embracing a fortnight or so on land, after having been paid off, and before getting shipped again.
ref: 1878, Joseph P. Faulkner, chapter 7, in Eighteen Months on a Greenland Whaler, New York: for the author, page 188:
synonyms: word: gap
word: interval
word: between-time
word: gap
word: interim
word: interlapse
word: lapse
word: meantime
word: meanwhile
glosses: The time between two events.
examples: text: There is an exquisite continuous gradation and interlapse of hue between the silver-grays, the reddish-browns, and the dull yellows of the honeysuckles, the ruddy apple, the auburn tresses of Venus, her lips and eyes, the red and pink roses, the yellow butterflies, and the dark-green background.
ref: 1882, William Sharp, chapter 3, in Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Record and a Study, London: Macmillan, page 207:
synonyms: word: gap
word: separation
word: break
word: gap
word: interlapse
word: interspace
word: interstice
word: interstitium
word: opening
word: separation
word: space
glosses: The distance between two things.
interlapse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: interlapses
form: interlapsing
form: interlapsed
form: interlapsed
Etymology: From inter- + lapse.
Senses: examples: text: the space of time that interlapsed betwixt the overthrow of Hamilton, and our solemne denouncing against them for that hostilitie
ref: 1651, Henry Parker, “Of the Scoch Warre”, in Scotlands Holy War, London, p:
text: 1821, The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States, Sixteenth Congress—Second Session, Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1855, “South American States,” p. 1050,
But the time which has interlapsed since the adoption of the resolution has given us indubitable evidence of the course of policy which the President is resolved to pursue.
text: Many a week would frequent interlapse
Ere yet a letter came—
ref: 1858, George M. Ryder, “Gillian”, in Gillian; and Other Poems, Philadelphia: Charles Desilver, page 37:
text: 1916, Illinois Public Utilities Commission, Public Utilities Report, in Public Utilities Reports Annotated, Rochester, NY: The Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, p. 310,
We must at every step of the way outline to ourselves the necessary lengths of interlapsing time to do all these things, as well as the amount of labor to design, contract for, and actually build each structure.
synonyms: intervene
glosses: To elapse (between two events).
examples: 1895, William Sharp (as Fiona Macleod), The Mountain Lovers, London: John Lane, Chapter 1, p. 13,
But when the pool, save for the margins, was all one wave of interlapsing gold and silver, the shadow-shape at last raised a shaggy peaked head.
glosses: To be situated between.
interlapses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interlapse
interlapses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of interlapse
chronogrammatist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chronogrammatists
Senses: glosses: A writer of chronograms.
chronogrammatists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chronogrammatist
puppyism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puppyisms
Etymology: From puppy + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Marianne was spared from the troublesome feelings of contempt and resentment, on this impertinent examination of their features, and on the puppyism of his manner in deciding on all the different horrors of the different toothpick-cases presented to his inspection, by remaining unconscious of it all; for she was as well able to collect her thoughts within herself, and be as ignorant of what was passing around her, in Mr. Gray's shop, as in her own bedroom.
ref: 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility 33
text: I think him a very handsome young man, and his manners are precisely what I like and approve—so truly the gentleman, without the least conceit or puppyism.
ref: 1816, Jane Austen, Emma:
text: There is a puppyism in infidelity for which I have no patience.
ref: 1847, Thomas Chalmers, sermon:
glosses: Extreme meanness, affectation, conceit, or impudence.
examples: text: Lounging near the doors, and in remote corners, were various knots of silly young men, displaying various varieties of puppyism and stupidity; amusing all sensible people near them with their folly and conceit; and happily thinking themselves the objects of general admiration--a wise and merciful dispensation which no good man will quarrel with.
ref: 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers 35
glosses: Youthful folly.
feather-headed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more feather-headed
form: most feather-headed
Senses: examples: text: ... some feather-headed gentleman or lady whom in passing we regret to take as legal tender for a human being may be acting as a melancholy theory of life in the minds of those who live with them,
ref: 1876, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 54, in Daniel Deronda, volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:
text: “You may be a feather—headed imbecile but is it a crime to be a feather-headed imbecile? What could you have possibly done to deserve this?”
ref: 2003, James C. Ferguson, Context Clues: A Basil Coventry Misadventure:
text: Lucky wondered as he stood if there was anything worse than some foolishly romantic, feather headed old maid?
ref: 2010, Barri Bryan, Bridget's Secret:
glosses: foolish or frivolous
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: having feathers on one's head.
hematherm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hematherms
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any warm-blooded animal.
hematherms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hematherm
paparchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paparchy
paparchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paparchies
Etymology: From Latin papa (“bishop”) + -archy.
Senses: glosses: papacy
dehusk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dehusks
form: dehusking
form: dehusked
form: dehusked
Etymology: From de- + husk.
Senses: examples: text: thy neghbour should haue more
Wheate (by the dowrie of his wyfe) dehuskd vpon the flore
ref: 1567, Thomas Drant, Horace his arte of poetrie, pistles, and satyrs Englished and to the Earle of Ormounte by Tho. Drant addressed.:
text: Cost of nut transportation to the kiln can be reduced by dehusking the nuts under the trees , so that only the unopened shells have to be transported to the kiln reducing weight by about 40 per cent and volume by about 60 per cent .
ref: 1999, J. G. Olher, Modern Coconut Management: Palm Cultivation and Products:
glosses: To remove the husk from (a coconut or cereal grain).
Derived terms: dehusker
undehusked
dehusked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dehusk
dehusking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dehusk
dehusks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dehusk
frible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more frible
form: most frible
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of fribble.
Boodhist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Boodhists
Etymology: From Boodha + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Buddhist.
Boodhists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Boodhist
fluxionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fluxion + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: apply the rules of the fluxionary method
ref: 1734, George Berkeley, The Analyst:
glosses: fluxional
examples: a fluxionary hemorrhage
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to, or caused by, an increased flow of blood to a part; congestive.
gargol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɑː(ɹ)ɡəl/
homophone: gargle
Senses: examples: text: For the Gargol in Hogs. The Signs of which are hanging down of the Head, and carrying it on one side, moist Eyes, staggering and loss of Appetíte
ref: 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:
glosses: A distemper in swine; garget.
thaneship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thaneships
Etymology: From thane + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The state or dignity of a thane; thanehood.
glosses: The seignioralty of a thane.
thaneships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thaneship
glaireous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more glaireous
form: most glaireous
Etymology: From glair + -eous.
Senses: glosses: slimy
glossoepiglottic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From glosso- + epiglottic.
Senses: examples: text: glossoepiglottic folds
text: glossoepiglottic fossae
text: glossoepiglottic vallecula
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: glossoepiglottidean
glosses: Pertaining to the tongue and epiglottis.
technologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more technologic
form: most technologic
Senses: examples: text: technologic paper
glosses: technological
triformity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From triform + -ity, from Latin triformitas.
Senses: glosses: The state of being triform, or having three different shapes.
deobstruct
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deobstructs
form: deobstructing
form: deobstructed
form: deobstructed
Etymology: From de- + obstruct.
Senses: examples: text: […] we humbly desire of God […] [that] he will be pleas’d to convey to them [the people of Ireland] the notices of their danger, and their sin, and to deobstruct the passages of necessary truth to them,
ref: 1664, Jeremy Taylor, A Dissuasive from Popery to the People of Ireland, Dublin: John Crooke, Preface to the Reader:
text: […] such as carry off the Foeces and Mucus, deobstruct the Mouths of the Lacteals, so as the Chyle may have a free Passage into the Blood.
ref: 1732, John Arbuthnot, Practical Rules of Diet, London: J. Tonson, Chapter 1, section 19, p. 274:
text: […] he exhibited an instrument which he had invented for deobstructing the Fallopian tubes in such cases.
ref: 1850, Edward Tilt, chapter 5, in On Diseases of Menstruation and Ovarian Inflammation, London: John Churchill, page 144:
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: unblock
glosses: To clear (something) of obstructions.
Related terms: deobstruction
deobstructive
deobstructed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deobstruct
deobstructing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deobstruct
deobstructs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deobstruct
inarticulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + articulated.
Senses: glosses: Not articulated; not connected by a joint.
examples: text: inarticulated prejudices
text: It is within the realm of the inarticulated assumptions that many of the real clashes concerning social policy occur.
ref: 1959, Joseph Alton Jenkins, Problems of Labor in a Free Society, page 11:
glosses: Unarticulated; not explicitly expressed.
blastoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blastoids
Etymology: From blast- + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A member of an extinct class of echinoderms, the Blastoidea.
topics: medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: embryoid
glosses: A blastocyst grown in-vitro.
Derived terms: megaloblastoid
trophoblastoid
blastoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From blast- + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to blastoids.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of blastic.
synonyms: word: blastic
blastoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blastoid
fervence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of fervency.
irremission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ir- + remission.
Senses: examples: text: for in all those three Euangelists, where this fearfull denunciation is interminated, still it is in a phrase, of somewhat more mildnesse, then so; It is, It shall not be forgiven, It is not, it cannot be forgiven: It is an irremission, it is not an irremissiblenesse.
ref: a. 1631 (date written), John Donne, “(please specify the chapter or sermon)”, in LXXX Sermons Preached by that Learned and Reverend Divine Iohn Donne […], London: Richard Royston, […], and Richard Marriot […], published 1640, →OCLC:
glosses: Refusal of pardon.
sythe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sythes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of scythe.
sythe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sythes
form: sything
form: sythed
form: sythed
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of scythe.
sythes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sythe
deliverness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From deliver + -ness.
Senses: glosses: nimbleness or agility
interbranchial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + branchial.
Senses: examples: text: interbranchial septum
text: interbranchial ridge
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Between the branchiae.
hydrophlorone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hydro- + phlorone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A benzene derivative, C₈H₁₀O₂, obtained by the reduction of phlorone.
off the grid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: off-the-grid
Senses: examples: text: [T]his 1,250-square-foot earth-covered house relies on solar power and is off the grid.
ref: 2005 March 18, Bethany Lyttle, “Energy-Efficient Houses: Lowering the Long-Term Cost”, in New York Times, retrieved 06 Dec 2011:
topics: business
qualifier: or the occupants thereof
glosses: Not using electricity from the public electrical supply system.
raw_tags: of a home
examples: text: He has no desire to be found. His place was off the grid. The cabin had no television, phone, or computer.
ref: 2009, J. Gale Morrison, We Were the Zonks!, →ISBN, page 263:
text: The Nobel committee has been unable to reach a winner of this year’s prize for medicine who is “living his best life” on an “off the grid” hiking foray. […] But the laureate’s digital detox means the Nobel committee has been unable to reach him and break the news.
ref: 2025 October 6, “Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid”, in The Guardian, sourced from Agence France-Presse, →ISSN:
glosses: Not reachable via a publicly available communication system, such as the Internet or a mobile telephone network.
examples: text: The beach looked like a small swatch of an industrial wasteland. […] He had promised me a crowd-free break that was off the grid, and here it was.
ref: 2008 May 4, Julia Chaplin, “Riding the Waves of Peru”, in New York Times, retrieved 06 Dec 2011:
text: They were off the grid—no IDs, no homes, no names, nothing.
ref: 2011, James Knapp, Element Zero, Penguin, →ISBN:
synonyms: off-grid
incommunicado
glosses: Isolated; in a remote location; in seclusion; not participating in some official process or system.
Derived terms: off-the-gridder
off the grid
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: off-the-grid
Senses: examples: text: Imagine a future in which millions of families live off the grid, powering their homes and vehicles with dirt-cheap portable fuel cells.
ref: 2010 March 11, Reihan Salam, “The Dropout Economy”, in Time:
text: Those city properties did not go completely off the grid, but they sharply reduced the amount of power they drew from it, he said.
ref: 2011 July 22, Patrick McGeehan, “Energy Use Soars in City Under Grip of Scorcher”, in New York Times, retrieved 06 Dec 2011:
glosses: In or into a situation or place in which electricity from the public electricity system is not used.
examples: text: If you're annoying folks, you'll essentially cease to exist, as those you annoy drop you off the grid.
ref: 2007 August 23, Lev Grossman, “Nerd World: Why Facebook Is the Future”, in Time:
text: [T]he government of a country with 80 million people and a modernizing economy cut off nearly all access to the network and shut down cellphone service. . . . Egypt, to an unprecedented extent, pulled itself off the grid.
ref: 2011 January 28, Matt Richtel, “Egypt Cuts Off Most Internet and Cell Service”, in New York Times, retrieved 06 Dec 2011:
glosses: In or into a clandestine or isolated situation or place, especially one in which public communication is curtailed.
examples: text: “You have to have an awful lot of energy and passion to make films with no funding and no prospect of having them seen in public in your home country except under the radar and off the grid,” said Sally Berger, the curator of the festival, who visited China last fall.
ref: 2011 February 17, Larry Rohter, “Indie Films From a Land Short on Independence”, in New York Times, retrieved 06 Dec 2011:
glosses: Secretly; in a clandestine manner.
fillibuster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fillibusters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of filibuster.
fillibuster
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fillibusters
form: fillibustering
form: fillibustered
form: fillibustered
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of filibuster.
fillibusters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fillibuster
lobcock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lobcocks
Senses: glosses: A large, flaccid penis.
synonyms: lubber
lob
glosses: A dull or sluggish person
lobcocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lobcock
free liver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: free livers
form: free-liver
Senses: examples: text: A gentleman, a free liver, indulging in the pleasures of the table, had suffered from symptoms of gastritis for many months, accompanying which he had a large hepatic tumour
ref: 1838, Samuel William Langston Parker, The Stomach in Its Morbid States:
text: He was a large corpulent man, who had been a free liver, and had drunk much wine and spirits
ref: 1885, Charles Murchison, Clinical lectures on diseases of the liver, jaundice and abdominal dropsy:
synonyms: glutton
glosses: A voracious eater and drinker; someone who indulges themselves in eating and drinking.
free-livers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of free-liver
eponymist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eponymists
Etymology: From eponym + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One whose name is used as an eponym; a person after whom something is named.
eponymists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eponymist
Grangerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Granger + -ism. See grangerize.
Senses: glosses: The practice of illustrating a book with engravings collected from other books.
Related terms: scrapbook
misrepute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misreputes
form: misreputing
form: misreputed
form: misreputed
Etymology: From mis- + repute.
Senses: glosses: To disrepute
misreputed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misrepute
misreputing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misrepute
oxbane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ox + bane.
Senses: synonyms: century plant
tumbleweed
glosses: A poisonous bulbous plant, Boophone toxicaria.
disavowment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disavowments
Etymology: From disavow + -ment.
Senses: examples: January 17 1637, Henry Wotton, letter to the Right Worthy Provost and Professor Regius of Divinity in Cambridge
For as touching the Tridentine History, His Holiness (ayes the Cardinal ) will not press you to any disavowment thereof, though you have an Epistle before the Original Edition
glosses: disavowal
disavowments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disavowment
lignitiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more lignitiferous
form: most lignitiferous
Etymology: From lignite + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: glosses: Producing or containing lignite; lignitic
receptible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin receptibilis.
Senses: glosses: receivable
engrail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪŋˈɡɹeɪl/
Forms: form: engrails
form: engrailing
form: engrailed
form: engrailed
Etymology: From en- + grail.
Senses: glosses: To make rough.
examples: text: Fine gold engrail'd adorns the figur'd floor
ref: a. 1718, Thomas Parnell, Solomon:
glosses: To form an edging or border; to run in curved or indented lines.
engrail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪŋˈɡɹeɪl/
Forms: form: engrails
form: engrailing
form: engrailed
form: engrailed
Etymology: French engrêler
Senses: examples: text: a caldron new engrailed with twenty hues
ref: [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:
glosses: To variegate or spot, as with hail.
examples: text: He crossed through the high grass and went up the slope, climbing with handholds in the new turf until he gained the crest and turned to look down on the river and the city beyond, casting a gray glance along that varied world, the pieced plowland, the houses, the odd grady of the small metropolis against the green and blooming hills and the flat bow of the river like a serpentine trench poured with dull slag save where the wind engrailed its face and it shimmered lightly in the sun.
ref: 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 120:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: To indent with small curves.
Derived terms: engrailment
engrailing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of engrail
engrails
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of engrail
hoiden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoidens
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hoyden.
Derived terms: hoidenhood
hoiden
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hoiden
form: most hoiden
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hoyden.
hoiden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hoidens
form: hoidening
form: hoidened
form: hoidened
Senses: examples: text: get a scratch, but we always discovered upon examining, that they had been hoidening with the young apprentices.
ref: January 1710, Jonathan Swift, Tatler Number 5
glosses: To romp rudely or indecently.
hoidened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hoiden
hoidening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hoiden
hoidens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hoiden
lentiginose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See lentiginous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Bearing numerous dots resembling freckles.
disbase
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /dɪsˈbeɪs/
Forms: form: disbases
form: disbasing
form: disbased
form: disbased
Etymology: From dis- + base. Compare debase.
Senses: examples: text: Nor you nor your house were so much as spoken of before I disbased myself.
ref: 1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii:
glosses: To debase or degrade.
disbased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disbase
disbases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disbase
disbasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disbase
violascent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more violascent
form: most violascent
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of violescent.
blastule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blastules
Etymology: Doublet of blastula
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blastula.
blastules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blastule
ischiocerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɪskiəʊˈsɪəɹaɪt/
Etymology: From ischio- + cerite.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The third segment of the antennae of a crustacean.
Coordinate terms: basicerite
merocerite
disfigurer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disfigurers
Etymology: From disfigure + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who disfigures.
disfigurers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disfigurer
extermination camps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extermination camp
conine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of coniine.
Derived terms: conylene
paraconine
dronepipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dronepipes
Etymology: From drone + pipe.
Senses: glosses: One of the low-toned tubes of a bagpipe.
dronepipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dronepipe
esteemer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: esteemers
Etymology: From esteem + -er.
Senses: examples: text: the proudest esteemer of his own parts
ref: a. 1705, John Locke, “Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, in Posthumous Works of Mr. John Locke: […], London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], published 1706, →OCLC:
glosses: One who esteems; one who sets a high value on something.
esteemers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of esteemer
roturer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roturers
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of roturier.
roturers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roturer
insusceptibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + susceptibility.
Senses: glosses: Lack of susceptibility (most senses),
isomeromorphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From isomer + -morphism.
Senses: topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: isomorphism between substances that are isomeric
multiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more multiferous
form: most multiferous
Etymology: From Latin multifer, from multus (“much, many”) + ferre (“to bear”).
Senses: examples: text: Thus, in the present digressive and droll performance, [for Peter is ever digressive as well as diverting,] every thing finds a place that seems, in random succession, to have occureed to the multiferous mind of the playful poet, when he sat down to write .
ref: 1791, Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths, The Monthly Review, page 465:
text: Since Michael O'Donovan of Cork, Ireland took the pen name of Frank O'Connor in 1925, he has been a multiferous writer of short stories as well as of novels, poems, translations from the Irish, biographies, criticisms, travel books and plays.
ref: 1958, “The Editor's Guest Book”, in Harper's Bazaar, volume 92, page 67:
text: On the basis of our multiferous study of the Gaddi tribe, it is considered that the following suggestions for its uplift, welfare and progress may prove helpful.
ref: 1977, Shyam Singh Shashi, The Shepherds of India, page 58:
glosses: Bearing or producing much or many; fruitful.
examples: text: There is, notwithstanding, a sort of Manicheism in genius, as there is the antinomy in science, as there are light and shade in art, as there are opposite and similarly appearing movements in life, as there are diverse and simultaneous springs in the human conscience, as there are attraction and repulsion in the sidereal worlds, as there are multiferous and heterogeneous forces that resolve themselves into astonishing antithetic duality .
ref: 1888, José M. Aguirre, An Open Letter to James G. Blaine, page 27:
text: The growing of neem because of its multiferous uses and insecticidal value seems to be a profitable preposition, as production of azadirachtin alone can give remunerative dividend (Martin, 1993).
ref: 1999, O. P. Shukla, Omkaro, A. K. Kulshretha, Pesticides, Man and Biosphere, page 92:
text: In recernt years, the significant of use of artifically produced inoculum of mycorrhizal fung has increased due to its multiferous role in plant growth and yield and resistance against climatic stresses and pests.
ref: 2003, P.C. Trivedi, Advances in Microbiology, page 69:
glosses: Many and varied; multifarious.
laminiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lamina + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: examples: text: laminiferous coral
text: laminiferous shell
glosses: Having a structure consisting of laminae, or thin layers.
apogeotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From apo- + geotropic.
Senses: examples: text: apogeotropic movement of cotyledons
ref: 1880, Charles Darwin, The Power of Movement in Plants:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Opposite to geotropic
Bending away from the ground; said of leaves, etc.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Opposite to geotropic
Tending skyward, as with apogeotropic nystagmus.
Derived terms: apogeotropically
snakish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more snakish
form: most snakish
form: snakeish
Etymology: From snake + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Having the qualities or characteristics of a snake; snaky.
remorsed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more remorsed
form: most remorsed
Etymology: From remorse + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Feeling remorse; remorseful.
littery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more littery
form: most littery
Etymology: From litter + -y.
Senses: examples: text: She passed along unknown streets, over dusty littery ways, between long rows of fronts not enhanced by the August light; she felt good for miles and only wanted to get lost....
ref: 1902, Henry James, The Wings of the Dove:
glosses: Covered or encumbered with litter.
glosses: Consisting of or constituting litter.
glosses: Misspelling of literary.
appliedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From applied + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in an applied manner
revolutionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From revolution + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The state of being in revolution or a revolutionist.
glosses: Revolutionary beliefs
famoused
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more famoused
form: most famoused
Etymology: From famous + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The painful warrior famoused for fight
Afer a thousand victories once foil'd
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 25”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
glosses: famed; renowned
umbril
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: umbrils
Senses: examples: text: Helmets round, with barred convex umbrils; heraldick crests and the cointise floating behind, […]
ref: 1825, Thomas Dudley Fosbroke, Encyclopædia of Antiquities: And Elements of Archaeology, Classical and Mediæval, page 791:
text: […] their eyes angrily flashing under the umbrils of their helmets. […]
“I came not here to ask idle questions,” replied Scarthe, with a laugh that rang ironically through the bars of his umbril.
ref: 1868, Mayne Reid, The White Gauntlet: A Novel, pages 32 and 242:
text: "[…] if you will lift the umbril of your helmet, we shall all three know your face." Upon this the knight without more ado lifted his umbril as King Arthur had.
ref: 2018, Howard Pyle, King Arthur and His Knights, The Champions of the Round Table & Sir Launcelot and His Companions: Complete Camelot Series: Collection of Tales & Myths about the Legendary British King, e-artnow, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of umbrel.
umbrils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of umbril
miscompute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪskəmpjuːt/
ipa: /ˌmɪskəmˈpjuːt/
Forms: form: miscomputes
Etymology: From mis- + compute.
Senses: examples: text: Buddeus de Asse correcting their miscompute
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: An erroneous computation.
miscompute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪskəmpjuːt/
ipa: /ˌmɪskəmˈpjuːt/
Forms: form: miscomputes
form: miscomputing
form: miscomputed
form: miscomputed
Etymology: From mis- + compute.
Senses: synonyms: miscalculate
glosses: To compute erroneously.
miscomputed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of miscompute
miscomputes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of miscompute
miscomputing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of miscompute
gonoblastidia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gonoblastidium
gonoblastidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gonoblastidia
Etymology: From gono- + blasto- + -idium.
Senses: glosses: A blastostyle.
ophthalmite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ophthalmites
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: An eyestalk.
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A migmatite that is characterized by the presence of concentric or lenticular aggregates of newly formed minerals that reflect post-anatectic processes.
ophthalmites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ophthalmite