cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sceneful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sceneful
form: most sceneful
Etymology: From scene + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Clad in the verdure of unnumber'd isles, Where scepter'd William's massy bulwarks stand, The guard and glory of the sceneful land.
ref: 1842, William McCarty, Songs, Odes, and Other Poems, on National Subjects: Patriotic:
text: He never came to view the sceneful world with the minuteness and understanding of a later poet who could describe The Man who slices lemons into drink, The coffee-roaster's brasier, and the boys That volunteer to help him turn its winch.
ref: 1937, Edward Gay Ainsworth, Poor Collins: his life, his art, and his influence, page 83:
text: In proper midcentury fashion, Collins “view[s] that Oak, the fancied Glades among,” views the indolent, sightless Milton, views the whole Edenic mount in his wildly sceneful fancy.
ref: 2007, Poetry Criticism - Volume 72, page 172:
glosses: Having much scenery; scenic.
sceneful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scenefuls
form: scenesful
Etymology: From scene + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Not even the heart of one of the delectable slim-legged ponlettes who high-heel in swarms wherever the celluloid Napoleons decree a sceneful of "extras, female"; no, nothing but a downy, cuddly chick that eventually grows up into a cackling, flowerbed-scratching Biddy, with no ambition beyond inspiring omelets and eventually herself becoming casserole filling.
ref: 1932, Science News - Volumes 21-22, page 178:
text: She cannot resist a sceneful of scathing remarks for one final humiliation of her husband before she leaves.
ref: 1943, New York Theatre Critics' Reviews - Volume 4, page 308:
text: I only get a sceneful of sorrow.
ref: 2006, Anna M. Shields, Crafting a Collection:
glosses: A quantity contained in a scene.
planiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more planiform
form: most planiform
Etymology: From plane + -iform.
Senses: examples: text: The articulations of the second row of the carpus, which constitutes what may be named the pro-carpus, are likewise of the planiform kind, and are completed by palmar, dorsal and interosseous ligaments, that between the os magnum and unciform being very strong.
ref: 1890, John Marshall, J. S. Cuthbert, Anatomy for Artists, page 240:
text: Some computer models allow periods of convection dominated by plumes, and others dominated by overturning planiform cells similar to the present Earth.
ref: 2014, Timothy M. Kusky, Encyclopedia of Earth Science, page 94:
text: Towards the end of the seventeenth century, a new style of planiform carving emerged on church exteriors in the Andean altiplano from Arequipa to Lake Titicaca and across the Bolivian highlands.
ref: 2022, Sara Castro-Klaren, A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture, page 157:
text: a planiform, gliding, or arthrodial articulation
glosses: Having a plane surface.
punchin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: punchins
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of puncheon.
punchins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of punchin
retortive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more retortive
form: most retortive
Etymology: From retort + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Containing, or acting as, a retort.
hortus siccus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin hortus (“garden”) + siccus (“dry”).
Senses: examples: text: It would certainly be a valuable addition of nondescripts to the ample collection of known classes, genera and species, which at present beautify the hortus siccus of dissent.
ref: 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford, published 2009, page 13:
glosses: A collection of specimens of plants, dried and preserved and arranged systematically; a herbarium.
petitionarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more petitionarily
form: most petitionarily
Etymology: From petitionary + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But this doth but petitionarily infer a dextrality in the heavens, and we may as reasonably conclude a right and left laterality in the ark or naval edifice of Noah.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: By way of petition
translucid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more translucid
form: most translucid
Etymology: From Latin translucidus, from trans (“across, through”) + lucidus (“lucid”). Compare French translucide. See translucent.
Senses: examples: text: The cause is , for that in anger the spirits ascend and wax eager ; which is most easily seen in the eyes , because they are translucid ; though withal it maketh both the cheeks and the gills red
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “IX. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
text: This insight, which expresses itself by what is called Imagination, is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuit of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.
ref: 1844, Emerson, The Poet:
text: Overcoming the gravity of representation and the figurative, automatism and acquired reflexes, she mixes brute force and translucid emotions to paint an ontological, disquieting, enigmatic human figure free from artifice, universal in its expression.
ref: 2013, Alice Fabre, Metal Language:
glosses: Translucent.
slidegroat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From slide + groat.
Senses: glosses: The game of shuffleboard.
contrariantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more contrariantly
form: most contrariantly
Etymology: From contrariant + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a contrary fashion; contrarily, opposingly
shovelboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shovelboard
mansionry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mansion + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: This Gueſt of Summer, / The Temple-haunting Barlet does approue, / By his loued Manſonry, that the Heauens breath / Smells wooingly here: […]
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene vi], page 134, column 2:
text: Love’s corpse lies quiet therefore, / Only Love’s ghost plays truant, / And warns us have in wholesome awe / Durable mansionry; that’s wherefore / I weave but trellis-work, pursuant / —Life, to law.
ref: 1876, Robert Browning, “St. Martin’s Summer”, in Pacchiarotto and How He Worked in Distemper: With Other Poems, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, stanza 10, page 113:
glosses: The state of dwelling or residing; occupancy.
carpetings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carpeting
oriency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From orient + -cy.
Senses: examples: text: So our Lord Chrift having ſet down ſeveral qualifications of a Chriſtin […] ſets the magnificent crown of reward upon them, that by this oriency, he might the more ſet forth their unparallel'd beauty, and entice holy love.
ref: 1671, Thomas Watson, The Beatitudes, page 41:
text: one worthy man whoſe Juſtice has the oriency of a Carbuncle
ref: 1663, Edward Waterhouse, Fortescutus Illustratus:
text: 'Tis granted that the picture has lost its gloſſe and beauty, the oriency of its colours, the elegancy of its lineaments, the comelineſſe of its proportion; muſt it therefore be totally defac'd?
ref: 1654, Nathan Culverwell, An Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature:
glosses: Brightness or strength of colour.
sea lark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea larks
Senses: glosses: The rock pipit (Anthus petrosus).
glosses: Any of various small seabirds, like sandpipers and plovers, such as the ringed plover, the turnstone, the dunlin, and the sanderling.
sea larks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea lark
collisive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more collisive
form: most collisive
Senses: glosses: Colliding; clashing.
stuntpersons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stuntperson
dedentition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + dentition.
Senses: examples: text: […] We consume anti-hair-shedding pills that cause dedentition instead. […]
ref: 2006, Neuro (video game), Warden-Avatar, mission 6
glosses: The shedding of teeth; tooth loss
warkloom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warklooms
Etymology: From wark + loom.
Senses: glosses: A tool; an implement.
warklooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of warkloom
furial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more furial
form: most furial
Etymology: From Middle English furial, from Old French furial, from Latin furiālis (“furious, frenzied”).
Senses: glosses: Furious; raging; tormenting.
cephalalgic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin cephalalgicus, from Ancient Greek.
Senses: examples: text: the cephalalgic phase of simple migraine
ref: 1993, Frederick Andermann, Occipital Seizures and Epilepsies in Children:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to, or affected with, headache.
Derived terms: anticephalalgic
cephalalgic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cephalalgics
Etymology: Latin cephalalgicus, from Ancient Greek.
Senses: synonyms: anticephalalgic
glosses: A remedy for the headache.
cephalalgics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cephalalgic
alchemistries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alchemistry
alchemistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alchemistries
Senses: glosses: alchemy
totipalmate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin totus (“all, whole”) + English palmate.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: steganopodous
glosses: Having all four toes united by a web, as in the pelican.
Related terms: totipotent
monopsychism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mono- + psyche + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The first concerns the problem that Latin Averroism presented to Western philosophy in connection with its doctrine that there is only one mind for all human beings—a doctrine that has come to be called monopsychism.
ref: 2014, Markus Führer, Echoes of Aquinas in Cusanus's Vision of Man, page 115:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The doctrine that human beings share the same intellect.
ladyclock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ladyclocks
Etymology: Possibly from lady cloak.
Senses: examples: text: You're not turning your head to look after more moths, are you? That was only a lady-clock, child, 'flying away home.'
ref: 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter VIII, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: A ladybird.
ladyclocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ladyclock
leucadendron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leucadendrons
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Leucadendron of evergreen shrubs or trees.
leucadendrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leucadendron
centumvirate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centumvirates
Etymology: From Latin centumvirātus, from centumvirī (“centumvirs, centumviri”) + ātus (abstract noun-forming suffix). Equivalent to centumvir + -ate (forms nouns denoting a rank or office, here the group of people performing it).
Senses: glosses: A group of one hundred people, especially (politics) a council of about 100 men who share power or rule, particularly (historical) such a group in ancient Rome.
Synonyms: government
Coordinate terms: government
centumvirates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centumvirate
tressful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tressful
form: most tressful
Etymology: From tress + -ful.
Senses: glosses: tressy; having tresses
cometaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cometarium
cometarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒmɪˈtɛəɹi.əm/
ipa: /ˌkɑməˈtɛɹi.əm/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm
Forms: form: cometaria
Etymology: Latin
Senses: examples: text: we have their [comets'] path marked in cometariums formed on the imaginary law of attraction
ref: 1791, Thomas Vivian, Cosmology. An Enquiry Into the Cause of what is Called Gravitation, Etc.:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: An instrument intended to represent the revolution of a comet around the Sun.
beadleries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beadlery
beadlery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beadleries
form: bedelry
Etymology: From Middle English bedelarie, bedlarie; equivalent to beadle + -ry.
Senses: glosses: The office or jurisdiction of a beadle.
ripienist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ripienists
Etymology: From ripieno + -ist.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A musician in the ripieno portion of an orchestra, especially as opposed to a soloist or concertino section.
ripienists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ripienist
rubican
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: French
Senses: examples: text: There are other mixt kind of colours, such as the Rubican; which is when a black or sorrel Horse hath white Hairs here and there scattered upon his Body, but especially upon his Flanks.
ref: 1729, Jacques de Solleysel, translated by William Hope, The Compleat Horseman: or, Perfect Farrier, page 65:
text: The grayish and the flea-bitten differ from the rubican, in that the white hairs which form these markings are sufficiently numerous to change, locally, the nature of the base of the coat.
ref: 1904, Armand Goubaux, Gustave Barrier, translated by Simon J.J. Harger, The Exterior of the Horse, page 788:
text: When both parents are brown, foals may be of any colour, also gray if one parent is rubican. The majority of foals, however, will likewise be brown.
ref: 1909, Burchard von Oettingen, Horse Breeding in Theory and Practice, page 331:
synonyms: rabicano
glosses: Colored mostly red, bay, or black, with flecks of white or grey especially on the flanks.
raw_tags: of a horse
emerited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪˈmɛɹɪtɪd/
Etymology: See emeritus, + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: emerited professor
text: emerited teacher
text: He gave to the Trinity Corporation that land in Deptford on which are built those alms-houses for twenty-four widows of emerited seamen.
ref: 1683 February 22 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for 12 February 1683]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC:
glosses: Considered as having done sufficient public service, and therefore honourably discharged.
adipocerated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of adipocerate
adipocerated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: adipocerated bodies
glosses: Converted into adipocere.
bayardly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bayardly
form: most bayardly
Etymology: From bayard + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: a formal and bayardly round of duties
ref: a. 1693, John Goodman, Winter-Evening Conference […] :
glosses: blind, foolish or stupid
discriminal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin discriminalis (“serving to divide”).
Senses: glosses: Involved in discrimination.
qualifier: palmistry
glosses: Applied to the line which marks the separation between the hand and the arm.
sapientious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sapientious
form: most sapientious
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of sapiential.
commeasure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmɛʒə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛʒə(ɹ)
Forms: form: commeasures
form: commeasuring
form: commeasured
form: commeasured
Etymology: From com- + measure.
Senses: examples: text: Dangers, and deeds, until endurance grow / Sinew'd with action and the full-grown will, / Circled thro' all experiences, pure law, / Commeasure perfect freedom.
ref: 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “Œnone”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 126:
glosses: To be commensurate with; to equal.
commeasure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmɛʒə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛʒə(ɹ)
Forms: form: commeasures
Etymology: From com- + measure.
commeasured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of commeasure
commeasures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of commeasure
commeasuring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of commeasure
imbrown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: imbrowns
form: imbrowning
form: imbrowned
form: imbrowned
Senses: examples: text: […] Nature boon / Powrd forth profuſe on Hill and Dale and Plaine, / Both where the morning Sun firſt warmly ſmote / The open field, and where the unpierc't ſhade / Imbround the noontide Bowrs: […]
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 242–246:
text: For time ſhall with his ready pencil ſtand; / Retouch your figures with his ripening hand; / Mellow your colors, and imbrown the teint; / Add every grace, which time alone can grant; / To future ages ſhall your fame convey, / And give more beauties than he takes away.
ref: a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “Epistle the Fourteenth. To Sir Godfrey Kneller, Principal Painter to His Majesty.”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume II, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, →OCLC, page 201:
text: [O]n the board diſplay'd / The ready meal before Ulyſſes lay'd. / (VVith flour imbrovvn'd) next mingled vvine yet nevv, / And luſcious as the Bee's nectareous devv: […]
ref: 1725, Homer, “Book XIV”, in [Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume III, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC, page 238, lines 91–94:
text: Under theſe Auſpices, Jamblicus compoſed the Book juſt before mentioned, Of the Mytſeries; meaning the profound and recondite Doctrines of the Egyptian Philoſophy: VVhich, at Bottom, is nothing elſe but the genuine Greek Philoſophy, imbrovvned vvith the Fanaticiſm of Eatſern Cant.
ref: 1738, William Warburton, “Section IV”, in The Divine Legation of Moses […], volume I, London: […] Fletcher Gyles, […], →OCLC, book III, page 405:
text: The mountain-moss by scorching skies imbrown'd, […]
ref: 1812, Lord Byron, “Canto I”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, stanza XIX, page 17:
text: A greater opening ofttimes hedges up / With but a little forkful of his thorns / The villager, what time the grape imbrowns, […]
ref: 1867, Dante Alighieri, “Canto IV”, in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, transl., The Divine Comedy, volume II (Purgatorio), Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 21, lines 19–21:
glosses: Archaic spelling of embrown.
imbrowned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of imbrown
imbrowning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of imbrown
imbrowns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of imbrown
cleavelandite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cleavelandites
form: clevelandite
Etymology: From Cleaveland + -ite, after Professor Parker Cleaveland.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A white lamellar variety of albite.
cleavelandites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cleavelandite
stalactiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stalactiform
form: most stalactiform
Senses: examples: text: stalactiform rust
synonyms: stalactitiform
glosses: Resembling a stalactite.
plagioclasic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plagioclasic
form: most plagioclasic
Etymology: From plagioclase + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to plagioclase.
skysail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skysails
Etymology: From sky + sail.
Senses: examples: text: Never, in the whole voyage, did our crew spring to it in more lively fashion. And lively fashion was needed to save our gear. As it was, they cut away the remnants of the mizzen-lower-topsail with their sheath-knives, and they loosed the main-skysail out of its bolt-ropes.
ref: 1914, Jack London, The Mutiny of the Elsinore, Chapter XLVI:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: On historical square-rigged ships, the sail above the royal. Normally it is the uppermost sail, but in some cases it is below the moonraker.
skysails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skysail
stuntness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stunt + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: things we incline to curtness and stuntness
ref: 1871, John Earle, The Philology of the English Tongue:
glosses: The quality of being stunted; brevity.
perversedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more perversedly
form: most perversedly
Etymology: From perversed + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a perverse manner.
physico-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek; see physical.
Senses: glosses: physical; pertaining to physics
glosses: natural; having or relating to or depending upon natural causes
Derived terms: physicochemical
gentisic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: 2,5-dihydroxybenzoic acid produced by carboxylation of hydroquinone
Synonyms: gentianic acid
Derived terms: homogentisic acid
Related terms: gentisate
gentianic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: gentisic acid
cycloganoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cycloganoids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the obsolete taxon Cycloganoidei, a group of fishes which included the bowfin.
cycloganoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cycloganoid
gentisin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: gentianin
Derived terms: isogentisin
ingerminate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ingerminates
form: ingerminating
form: ingerminated
form: ingerminated
Etymology: From in- + germinate.
Senses: synonyms: sprout
glosses: To cause to germinate.
ingerminated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ingerminate
ingerminates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ingerminate
ingerminating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ingerminate
mispoint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mispoints
form: mispointing
form: mispointed
form: mispointed
Etymology: From mis- + point.
Senses: examples: text: a mispointed antenna
glosses: To point wrongly
glosses: to punctuate wrongly.
mispointed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mispoint
mispointing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mispoint
mispoints
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mispoint
layland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lay (“meadow”) + land.
Senses: examples: text: places where rubbiſh lies, layland or ground, new broke up
ref: 1630, John Stanbridge, Stambrigi Embryon Relimatvm:
hypernyms: farmland
<
land
ground
glosses: Land lying untilled; fallow ground.
Derived terms: Leyland
Layland
Related terms: lay system
headland
illiteral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more illiteral
form: most illiteral
Etymology: From il- + literal.
Senses: examples: text: Descending under the earth, is a translation most of all unexact and illiteral.
ref: 1765, Benjamin Dawson, An Illustration of several Texts of Scripture, particularly those in which the Logos occurs:
text: […] did from erroneous conceptions speak false, slanderous and illiteral things of JACOB TORIAN tending to implicate him in some degree with certain horse-thieves by representing him as being favourably disposed towards them […]
ref: 1990, Genealogical Committee of the Kentucky Historical Society, Kentucky Ancestors, volume 25, part 3
glosses: Not literal.
Derived terms: illiterally
interpupil
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + pupil.
Senses: examples: the interpupil relationships in a school
glosses: Between pupils.
reauction
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reauctions
form: reauctioning
form: reauctioned
form: reauctioned
form: re-auction
Etymology: From re- + auction.
Senses: examples: text: We will be reauctioning the unsold goods in a few weeks' time.
glosses: To auction again.
reauctioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reauction
reauctions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reauction
reauctioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reauction
bowmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbəʊmeɪkɪŋ/
Etymology: From bow + making.
Senses: synonyms: bowyery
glosses: The manufacture of bows for archery.
glosses: The manufacture of bows for musical instruments.
bow maker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bow makers
form: bowmaker
Etymology: From bow + maker.
Senses: glosses: One who manufactures bows for use in archery.
glosses: One who manufactures bows for use with bowed stringed instruments.
Synonyms: topics: archery
martial-arts
sports
military
war
government
politics
hobbies
lifestyle
word: bowyer
topics: music
entertainment
lifestyle
word: archetier
bowmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bowmaker
unbenignant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbenignant
form: most unbenignant
Etymology: From un- + benignant.
Senses: glosses: Not benignant.
unbendingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unbending + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unbending.
centrifugence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centrifugences
Senses: examples: text: […] the man being only a sort of compend of the globe with its centrifugence and centripetence, with its chemistry, with its polarity, with its undulation.
ref: 1858, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Natural Method of Mental Philosophy:
glosses: The property or quality of being centrifugal.
centrifugences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centrifugence
Goulard's extract
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after French surgeon Thomas Goulard (1697–1784).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An aqueous solution of the subacetate of lead, formerly used as a lotion to treat inflammation.
transvasate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: transvasates
form: transvasating
form: transvasated
form: transvasated
Etymology: See transvasation.
Senses: examples: text: the Father and Son are not , as they suppose , transvasated and poured out one into another
ref: 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To pour out of one vessel into another.
transvasated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of transvasate
transvasates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of transvasate
transvasating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of transvasate
hogeschools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hogeschool
plotful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plotful
form: most plotful
Etymology: From plot + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Abounding with plots (deception); scheming.
plotful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plotfuls
Etymology: From plot + -ful.
Senses: glosses: The amount contained in a plot (e.g. for gardening)
procuratory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more procuratory
form: most procuratory
Etymology: From Latin procuratorius.
Senses: examples: text: Procuratory action against George Scot, Gilbert Makkeppet and Thomas McKeine for spoliation of four oxen, price 30 s. apiece, from the lands of Drumganis within the provostry of Linclowdane.
ref: 1918, Scotland. Privy Council, The Acts of the Lords of Council in Civil Causes - Volume 2, page 302:
text: He told the deputies that the procuratory work had been improved during the past year, but as a whole was still a weak branch of the state legal system.
ref: 1956, United States. Consulate General, Survey of China Mainland Press - Issues 1300-1320, page 6:
text: After this is the procuratory order, which we read mentioned in the book of Job: “If the angel will speak for him, he will pray to the Lord and He will be pleased.”
ref: 2021, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, page 123:
glosses: Tending to, or authorizing, procuration.
procuratory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: procuratories
Etymology: From Latin procuratorius.
Senses: examples: text: But instruments following theron, after the death of either party, must, under the sanction of nullity, deduce the connecting titles of the party using the procuratory.
ref: 1882, Alexander Montgomerie Bell, Lectures on Conveyancing - Book 74, Volume 2, page 785:
text: Further, the procuratory of resignation was the procuratory of the last entered vassal, and it directed infestment to be granted to the series of heirs therin mentioned.
ref: 1885, Scotland. Court of Session, Cases Decided in the Court of Session, page 33:
text: Limitations of procuratory relative to its range as laid down by the law are inoperative towards third parties .
ref: 1968, Legal Problems of Yugoslavia's International Economic Relations, page 39:
topics: law
glosses: An authorization to act on behalf another person in matters of civil law.
coreferences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coreference
indevote
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more indevote
form: most indevote
Etymology: From Latin indevotus. Compare French indévot and English indevout.
Senses: examples: a. 1742, Richard Bentley, letter to Dr. E. Bernard
There are so many of the same arguments , and so indevote an age
synonyms: undevoted
glosses: Not devoted.
earthbred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more earthbred
form: most earthbred
Etymology: From earth + bred.
Senses: examples: text: And (flapping his blue wings along) scorch up / All earthbred glory like a sapless reed.
ref: 1841, George Stephens, The Hungarian daughter, a dramatic poem, page 227:
text: And bound to earth, their earthbread habits ply
ref: 1850, John Antes Latrobe, “The Senses”, in Sacred Lays and Lyrics, page 67:
text: She recollected that even while he still sang, she had felt the keen earthbred eyes search her out, as it were, from all the pressing crowd, and mark her for their own; remembered that once his song finished, she had known neither surprise nor chagrin when Lady Ashleigh had brought him up and presented him to Mrs. Paignton and her niece.
ref: 1899, Frances Aymar Mathews, A Married Man: A Novel, page 72:
glosses: Low; grovelling; vulgar.
subtreasuries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subtreasury
subtreasury
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subtreasuries
Etymology: From sub- + treasury.
Senses: examples: text: The last of the United States' subtreasuries in New York were closed in 1920.
glosses: A subordinate treasury, or place of deposit.
trachytoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trachytoid
form: most trachytoid
Etymology: From trachyte + -oid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Resembling trachyte.
marined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From marine + -ed; compare French mariné.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of marine
marined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From marine + -ed; compare French mariné.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: mer-
text: Some other of the marined animals deserve special attention. Sea-horses in the earliest heraldic examples closely resemble the queer fish known by that name (the hippocampus), but classic art had furnished quite another type: the forequarters of a horse, with mane and hoofs, and the hindquarters replaced by a fish's tail.
ref: 1915, Guy Cadogan Rothery, A. B. C. of Heraldry, page 76:
text: The menagerie of blazonry has been enlarged by representing nearly all of the animals at times with fish-tails, when they are said to be marined.
ref: 1924, Clark Barnaby Firestone, The Coasts of Illusion: A Study of Travel Tales, page 67:
text: He was a marined, a merman, neither one thing nor the other.
ref: 2012, Paul Doherty, The Poison Maiden:
text: The capitals of the four columns that support the wall between the pronaos and the naos (Ilieș, 1969) are decorated with acanthus leaves, with the following sculptures: the eagle holding the lamb in its claws (it symbolizes the simple man, innocence, kindness), with an angel on its flanks (the messenger of God, the guardian who watches over each man in order to keep him away from evil and to incite him to goodness) with his arms clasped onto his chest (fig. 16); a fantastic animal – marined "lion" (with the lower part of the body terminated in a fish tail, like that of the mermaids) (Pastoureau, 2008) (fig. 17).
ref: 2020, Laurentiu Stefan Szemkovics, Camelia Teodorescu, “Zoomorphic Shields and Motifs From the Colțea Church in Bucharest”, in Quaestus:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Having the lower part of the body like a fish.
personeities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of personeity
personeity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: personeities
Senses: glosses: personality
drawshave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drawshaves
Etymology: From draw + shave.
Senses: glosses: A drawknife.
Synonyms: drawing knife
Related terms: spokeshave
drawshaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drawshave
singlesticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of singlestick
carrytale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carrytales
Etymology: From carry + tale.
Senses: examples: text: 'This sour informer, this bate-breeding spy, / This canker that eats up Love's tender spring, / This carrytale, dissentious Jealousy, / That sometime true news, sometime false doth bring,
ref: 1593, William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, lines 655–658:
glosses: An indiscreet person who spreads gossip.
Synonyms: blabbermouth
gossip
rumormonger
talebearer
gossiper
carrytales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carrytale
similative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Implying or indicating likeness or resemblance.
Derived terms: similative case
similative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: similatives
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: simulative
glosses: A grammatical case expressing similarity; the similative case.
dealth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From deal + -th (abstract nominal suffix), modelled after health, stealth, wealth, etc.
Senses: examples: text: Then know, Bellama, since thou aim'st at wealth
Where Fortune has bestowed her largest dealth, […]
ref: 1921, original 1638, Nathaniel Whiting, George Saintsbury, Minor Poets of the Caroline Period: Albino and Bellama:
glosses: A share dealt out; a portion or division.
brokenheartedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From brokenhearted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being brokenhearted (describes a patient).
Related terms: english: describes an agent, a heartbreaker
translation: describes an agent, a heartbreaker
word: heartbreakingness
discoure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: discoures
form: discouring
form: discoured
form: discoured
Senses: examples: text: That none might her discoure.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 20:
glosses: Obsolete form of discover.
discoured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of discoure
discoures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of discoure
discouring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of discoure
selenograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selenographs
Etymology: From seleno- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: A picture or delineation of the Moon's surface.
Related terms: selenography
selenographer
selenographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of selenograph
houseline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: houselines
Etymology: From house + line.
Senses: examples: text: […]marled on to the sail with marline or houseline, as far as it is sewed
ref: 1796, David Steel, The Art of Sail-making, as Practised in the Royal Navy:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A small line of three strands used for seizing.
Synonyms: housing
houselines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of houseline
pulpitical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pulpitical
form: most pulpitical
Etymology: From pulpit + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: pulpitical discourse
glosses: Relating to, or suitable for, the pulpit.
Related terms: pulpitically
forespeak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔːˈspiːk/
ipa: /fə-/
ipa: /fɔɹˈspik/
ipa: /fɚ-/
homophone: forspeak
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: forespeaks
form: forespeaking
form: forespoke
form: forespake
form: forespoken
Etymology: An alteration of forspeak.
Senses: examples: text: Thou haſt foreſpoke my being in theſe warres, / And ſay'ſt, it is not fit.
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vii], page 354, column 2:
text: How are my powres fore-spoke? what strange distaste is this?
ref: [1617?], Thomas Campian [i.e. Thomas Campion], “So Tyr’d are All My Thoughts”, in The Third and Fovrth Booke of Ayres, London: Thomas Snodham, →OCLC, cantus V:
text: "I take ye a' to witness, gude people," said Mortheugh, "that she threatens me wi' mischief, and forespeaks me. If onything but gude happens to me or my fiddle this night, I'll make it the blackest night's job she ever stirred in. […]"
ref: 1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter VII, in Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume III (The Bride of Lammermoor), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 98:
text: "Dinna forespeak them, woman! dinna forespeak them!" said the man with a dark frown, and with equal earnestness, but with a tinge of superstitious alarm in his voice and manner. "They wud fain hae your good word, an' no your evil tongue with them; and so come, good wife, tell us what ken ye—what's biding them?—come, what have they to do?"
ref: 1835, James Baillie Fraser, “An Alarm”, in The Highland Smugglers. […] In Three Volumes, volume II, Philadelphia, Pa.: E[dward] L[awrence] Carey & A[braham] Hart, →OCLC, page 115:
text: When a healthy child suddenly becomes sickly, and no one can account for the change, the child is said to be "forespoken." Or when a stout man or woman becomes hypochondriac, or affected with nervous complaints, he or she is "forespoken." Some one has perhaps said "He's a bonny bairn," or "Thou ar' lookin weel the day;" but they have spoken with an ill tongue. They have neglected to add, "God save the bairn," or, "Safe be thou," &c.
ref: 1854 September 16, “F.”, “Orkney Charms”, in Notes and Queries, volume X, number 225, London: George Bell, →OCLC, page 221:
glosses: Alternative spelling of forspeak.
forespeaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From forespeak + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forespeak
forespeaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forespeakings
Etymology: From forespeak + -ing.
Senses: glosses: A foretelling; a prediction.
glosses: A preface.
forespeaks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forespeak
forespoke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of forespeak
forespoken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more forespoken
form: most forespoken
Etymology: From Middle English forsprecen, from Old English foresprecen (“spoken or mentioned before; forespoken”), past participle of Old English foresprecan (“to forespeak”), equivalent to fore- + spoken; also, as the past participle of forespeak, equivalent to forespoke + -n.
Senses: glosses: Spoken beforehand or in advance; foretold; predicted.
forespoken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English forsprecen, from Old English foresprecen (“spoken or mentioned before; forespoken”), past participle of Old English foresprecan (“to forespeak”), equivalent to fore- + spoken; also, as the past participle of forespeak, equivalent to forespoke + -n.
Senses: glosses: past participle of forespeak.
forespake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: See spake.
Senses: glosses: simple past of forespeak
foreslashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foreslash
foresmelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of foresmell
forespores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forespore
foresightfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more foresightfully
form: most foresightfully
Etymology: From foresightful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With foresight.
foresightlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From foresightless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Lack of foresight.
forespent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forespend
superizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superization
superjects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superject
elwand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elwands
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of ellwand.
elwands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elwand
eupittonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eupittone + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Only used in eupittonic acid
Hicksite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hicksites
Etymology: From Hicks + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A member or follower of the liberal party, headed by Elias Hicks, which, because of a change of views respecting the divinity of Christ and the Atonement, seceded from the conservative portion of the Quakers in 1827.
Hicksites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hicksite
dispauperize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dispauperizes
form: dispauperizing
form: dispauperized
form: dispauperized
Etymology: From dis- + pauperize.
Senses: examples: text: Thomas Whately, of Cookham, a clergyman, to whom the country is much indebted for the example he has set in dispauperizing that parish, gave me a list of books, forming a tolerable library, which were in circulation amongst his parishioners of the labouring classes, by whom they are eagerly read […]
ref: 1834, Evidence on Drunkenness: Presented to the House of Commons:
text: In all our more recent reports from the dispauperized parishes, it is stated that the wages are improved, and that the amount paid is greater than in the adjacent pauperized parishes.
ref: 1835, The Farmer's Magazine, volume 3, page 301:
text: How unsatisfactory would have been that attempt to dispauperize the labourer, if the operation of the Act had been limited to some of the worst regulated parishes!
ref: 1836, John Stuart Mill, “Municipal reform, as required for the metropolis”, in The London and Westminster Review, volume 25, page 72:
glosses: To free from pauperism, or from paupers.
dispauperized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dispauperize
dispauperizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dispauperize
dispauperizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dispauperize
shewer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shewers
Etymology: From shew + -er.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of shower.
shewers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shewer
freedstool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freedstools
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of frithstool.
insultment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insultments
Etymology: From insult + -ment?
Senses: examples: text: He on the ground, my speech of insultment ended on his dead body, and when my lust hath dined, which, as I say, to vex her, I will execute in the clothes that she so praised, to the court I'll knock her back, foot her home again.
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:
glosses: Insolent treatment; insult.
insultments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insultment
patellula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pəˈtɛljʊlə/
Forms: form: patellulae
form: patellulæ
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin patellula.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A cup-like sucker on the feet of certain insects.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A flat, disk-like structure found on some plants (especially bryophytes), algae, and fungi, often aiding in reproduction or attachment to substrates.
Related terms: patella
patellulate
patellulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patellula