cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hound's tongue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hound's tongues
form: houndstongue
form: hound's-tongue
Etymology: From Middle English houndestonge, from Old English hundes tunge (“hound's tongue (cynoglossum officinale)”, literally “hound's tongue”). Compare Dutch hondstong (“hound's tongue”), German Hundszunge (“plant of the genus Cynoglossum”, literally “hound's tongue”).
Senses: synonyms: dog's tongue
glosses: A biennial weed (Cynoglossum officinale) with soft tongue-shaped leaves and an offensive odour. It bears nutlets covered with barbed or hooked prickles.
Synonyms: english: plant
translation: plant
word: rib
Whitworth gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Whitworth guns
Etymology: Invented by Sir Joseph Whitworth of Manchester, England.
Senses: examples: text: THE WHITWORTH GUN. — Mr. Whitworth, of Manchester, has succeeded in constructing several rifled breech-loading cannon of various calibres: his 3-pounder gun, 208 lbs. in weight, with a calibre of 1½ inches, a charge of 8 oz. of powder,[…]
ref: 1863, Henry Lee Scott, Military Dictionary:
glosses: A form of rifled cannon and small arms. The bore has a polygonal section, and the twist is rapid. The ball, which is pointed in front, is made to fit the bore accurately, and is very much elongated, its length being about three-and-a-half times its diameter.
Whitworth guns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Whitworth gun
clives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clivis
compactions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compaction
ancistroid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ænˈsɪstɹɔɪd/
Forms: form: more ancistroid
form: most ancistroid
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄγκιστρον (ánkistron) + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: ancistroid spicules
glosses: Hook-shaped.
infumation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infumations
Senses: examples: text: The conspicuous dark maculation of the otherwise light tegmina and the feeble infumation of the apex of the wings, with the nearly uniformly colored dorsum of the prothorax and the relatively small size, are the distinctive marks of Duncan Island forms.
ref: 1895, Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, page 14:
text: I am sure Frederick Smith has correctly named a pair in the British Museum, with the whole upper and to a less extend the lower basal cells infumate and the apical alar infumation approaching closely to the stigma; one probably came from Bates and the female, which lacks the single black marks on the second and third segments, was acquired about 1839 through Mr. Mornay from Brazil.
ref: 1915, Claude Morley, A Revision of the Ichneumonidae Based on the Collection in the British Museum, page 20:
text: The character and the degree of infumation is of value in the separation of species.
ref: 1917, John Bernard Parker, A Revision of the Bembicine Wasps of America North of Mexico, page 58:
glosses: The quality of being infumate (translucent with a smoky appearance.)
Related terms: infumate
eclaircise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈklɛːˌsaɪz/
ipa: /eɪ-/
ipa: /ɪˈklɛɹˌsaɪz/
Forms: form: eclaircises
form: eclaircising
form: eclaircised
form: eclaircised
Etymology: Back-formation from eclaircissement, borrowed from French éclaircissement.
Senses: examples: text: Passage O soul to India! / Eclaircise the myths Asiatic, the primitive fables.
ref: 1870, Walt Whitman, “Passage to India”, in Leaves of Grass […], Philadelphia, Pa.: David McKay, publisher, […], published 1892, →OCLC, stanza 2, page 316:
glosses: To make clear; to clarify, to explain.
eclaircised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of eclaircise
eclaircises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of eclaircise
eclaircising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of eclaircise
monish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒnɪʃ/
Forms: form: monishes
form: monishing
form: monished
form: monished
Etymology: From Old English monesten. See admonish, monition.
Senses: examples: text: monish him gently
ref: a. 1569 (date written), Roger Ascham, edited by Margaret Ascham, The Scholemaster: Or Plaine and Perfite Way of Teaching Children, to Vnderstand, Write, and Speake, the Latin Tong, […], London: […] John Daye, […], published 1570, →OCLC:
glosses: To admonish; to warn.
Derived terms: monishment
remonish
monished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of monish
monishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of monish
monishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of monish
interminated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more interminated
form: most interminated
Etymology: From in- + terminated.
Senses: examples: text: Th' interminated ocean, he beholds
Cursed with abhorrence by his doom severe.
ref: 1746, Mark Akenside, Hymn to the Naiads:
glosses: interminable; endless
Synonyms: interminate
nidulant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin nidulans, compare French nidulant.
Senses: glosses: Nestling, as a bird in its nest.
examples: text: nidulant seeds
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Lying loose in pulp or cotton within a berry or pericarp.
Aonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪˈəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /eɪˈoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Aonian
form: most Aonian
Etymology: From Aonia + -an.
Senses: examples: text: The Aonian fount stood at the foot of Mount Helicon, not far from Thebes, and was sacred to the Muses.
qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: Pertaining to Aonia, or to the Muses, who were supposed to dwell there.
Aonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪˈəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /eɪˈoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Aonians
Etymology: From Aonia + -an.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of Aonia.
mettled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mettled
form: most mettled
Etymology: From mettle + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The mettled ſteeds, when from their noſtrils flows / The ſcorching fire, that in their entrails glows.
ref: a. 1720 (date written), Joseph Addison, The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume I, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], published 1721, →OCLC, page 154:
text: She looked, and saw one of the most graceful cavaliers that ever reined in a mettled horse.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 123:
glosses: Having mettle; pithy, spirited
immechanical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more immechanical
form: most immechanical
Etymology: From im- + mechanical.
Senses: examples: text: But ev'n the admiſſion of ſuch an Hypotheſis removes us but one Step further from Immechanical Principles, for the Cauſe of the Motion of this ſubtile Fluid, vvhich is the Cauſe of Gravity, is it ſelf Immechanical.
ref: 1705, George Cheyne, “Of the Physical Laws, and the Uniform Appearances of Nature. Law III.”, in Philosophical Principles of Natural Religion: […], London: […] George Strahan […], →OCLC, § XXVII, page 51:
glosses: Not mechanical.
Derived terms: immechanically
rememberable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rememberable
form: most rememberable
Etymology: From remember + -able.
Senses: examples: text: You will be struck with the combinations of vivid greenery, and water, and building; but everything is so distinct and rememberable, that you would not improve your conception by visiting the country a hundred times over.
ref: 1830 May 4, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Holland and the Dutch”, in H[enry] N[elson] C[oleridge], editor, Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge. […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], published 1835, →OCLC, page 113:
synonyms: word: memorable
word: memorious
word: nameable
word: rememberable
word: remembersome
word: unforgettable
glosses: Capable or worthy of being remembered.
Related terms: rememberably
tithonometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tithonometers
Senses: glosses: An instrument or apparatus for measuring or detecting tithonicity; an actinometer.
tithonometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tithonometer
subumbonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + umbonal.
Senses: examples: text: subumbonal teeth
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Beneath or forward of the umbos of a bivalve shell.
bandoline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bandolines
Etymology: Perhaps related to band.
Senses: glosses: A glutinous pomatum for the hair.
bandoline
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bandolines
form: bandolining
form: bandolined
form: bandolined
Etymology: Perhaps related to band.
Senses: glosses: To apply bandoline to (the hair).
bandolines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bandoline
copist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒpɪst/
Forms: form: copists
Etymology: From French copiste. See copy.
Senses: examples: text: […] whether the Writer be Poet, Philosopher, or of whatever kind, he is in truth no other than a copist after NATURE.
ref: 1710, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, Soliloquy: or, Advice to an Author:
glosses: A copier; one who copies.
glosses: Misspelling of copyist.
Related terms: copyist
copists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copist
decerp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: decerps
form: decerping
form: decerped
form: decerped
form: decerpt
Etymology: From Latin decerpere, from de- + carpere (“to pluck”).
Senses: glosses: To pluck off, to pick out, extract or gather.
Related terms: decerption
decerped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decerp
decerping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decerp
decerps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decerp
wag-halter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wag-halters
Etymology: From wag + halter.
Senses: examples: text: I can tell you, I am a mad waghalter.
ref: 1613, John Marston, William Barksted, The Insatiate Countess, I.1:
glosses: Someone who is likely to swing in a halter; someone likely to be hanged.
Synonyms: gallows bird
hangdog
wag-halters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wag-halter
cravates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cravate
dulcifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dulcify
embusqué
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embusqués
Etymology: From French embusqué.
Senses: examples: text: A woman was recently fined for calling a policeman an embusqué, even in the heat of argument.
ref: 1917, The New York Times Current History of the European War:
glosses: One who avoids military service; a draft dodger.
microborrower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microborrowers
Etymology: From micro- + borrower.
Senses: glosses: A person who borrows a microloan.
escoffions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of escoffion
indisposes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of indispose
alaite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rare hydrous arsenate sulfate mineral with the chemical formula V₂O₅·H₂O.
opinant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opinants
Senses: examples: text: Could Mr. Sayers have held out for three minutes, for five minutes, for ten minutes more? He says he could. So we say we could have held out, and did and had beaten off the enemy at Waterloo, even if the Prussians hadn't come up. The opinions differ pretty much according to the nature of the opinants.
ref: 1860, The Cornhill Magazine, volumes 1-2, page 757:
glosses: One who offers an opinion.
persiflant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Engaging in persiflage; bantering.
potassions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potassion
reckful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reckful
form: most reckful
Etymology: From reck + -ful. Compare reckless.
Senses: examples: text: Man, in fact, should be reckless in nothing, but reckful in every thing; […]
ref: 1845, Allan Freer, The North British review:
text: […] it's tough to call when it's in that gray area between reckless stupidity and reckful insanity.
ref: 1994 October 24, InfoWorld:
synonyms: attentive
audient
heedful
glosses: Full of careful heed or attention; careful; cautious.
Derived terms: reckfulness
intercurrence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intercurrences
Etymology: See intercurrent.
Senses: examples: text: […] I have observed in grinding of glasses […] sometimes the convex surface of one body being ground upon the concave surface of another, the two surfaces will happen to be so closely and exactly fitted to one another, (their immediate contact in all their parts, or at least in innumerable of them, hindering the intercurrence of the air) that a man is not able without breaking one or both of them to pull them directly asunder […]
ref: 1661, Robert Boyle, “The History of Fluidity and Firmness”, in The Works of Robert Boyle, volume I, London: A. Millar, published 1744, page 255:
text: It is an interesting fact that certain diseases are sometimes benefited if not cured, by the intercurrence of erysipelas.
ref: 1892, Henry M. Lyman, A Text-Book of the Principles and Practices of Medicine, Philadelphia: Lea Brothers, Part 2, Chapter 15, p. 224:
glosses: A passing or running between; occurrence.
intercurrences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intercurrence
intersocial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + social.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to social interaction
Derived terms: intersocially
reckfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From reckful + -ness. Compare recklessness.
Senses: examples: text: Edward the Fourth reclining luxuriously upon his tottering throne, like a child lulled by its rocking, displaying that rare combination of deep duplicity and heartless gaiety which so seldom exist together, the reckfulness of the one being like a noxious vapour to the recklessness of the other: […]
ref: 1843, The metropolitan:
text: When you reply that your reckfulness can be taken as read, he'll confide: 'I know, I know. I'm talking to myself.'
ref: 2009, Gideon Haigh, The Vincibles: A Suburban Cricket Season:
glosses: The state or quality of being reckful or careful; heedfulness; caution.
Seceder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Seceders
Senses: glosses: A follower of the 18th-century secession movement from the Church of Scotland.
topics: Christianity
Protestantism
qualifier: can be derogatory
glosses: A member of the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland.
Related terms: Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland
United Presbyterian Church of Scotland
Seceders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Seceder
feodaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feodary
glosses: plural of feodarie
feodary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feodaries
Senses: examples: text: Art thou a feodary for this act?
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 ii]:
glosses: An accomplice.
topics: law
glosses: An ancient officer of the Court of Wards
metamere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metameres
Etymology: From meta- + -mere.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: One of successive or homodynamous parts in animals and plants; one of a series of similar parts that follow one another in a vertebrate or articulate animal, as in an earthworm; a segment or somite.
Related terms: metamerism
metameres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metamere
disprison
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disprisons
form: disprisoning
form: disprisoned
form: disprisoned
Etymology: From dis- + prison.
Senses: examples: text: Away—away, over lands, and seas, and space, on the rushing desire flies the disprisoned mind!
ref: 1842, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter VII, in Zanoni. […], volume III, London: Saunders & Otley, […], →OCLC, book the sixth (Superstition Deserting Faith), page 80:
glosses: To release from prison; to set at liberty.
disprisoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disprison
disprisoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disprison
disprisons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disprison
cosherer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cosherers
Etymology: From cosher + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who coshers.
cosherers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cosherer
servitorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: servitorships
Etymology: From servitor + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: He could not promise to do more; but would undertake for the servitorship
ref: 1785, James Boswell, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D:
glosses: The office, rank, or condition of a servitor.
servitorships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of servitorship
floytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of floyte
catling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkætlɪŋ/
Forms: form: catlings
Etymology: From cat + -ling. Compare kitling, catkin. According to the OED, the sense of a surgical knife may be an independent word.
Senses: examples: text: For never cat nor catling I shall find, / But mew shall they in Pluto's palace blind.
ref: a. 1649, William Drummond of Hawthornden, Phillis:
text: Abel was a lover of the worst type: when he was with a catling he hardly ever laughed . If the catling came back again, he never did.
ref: 1992, Yves Navarre, A Cat's Life, page 32:
text: "Have you seen the ship's catling, Little Mistress?" he called, crossing to Hisvet, the kitten almost hidden in his big hands.
ref: 2014, Fritz Leiber, The Swords of Lankhmar:
text: The brewer's wife was heard to say She'd cleave the catling's tail in twae So Bully raoed and ran away
ref: 2021, Christopher Buehlman, The Blacktongue Thief Sneak Peek:
glosses: A little cat; a kitten.
examples: text: but, I am sure, none, unless the fiddler Apollo get his sinews to make catlings on.
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
text: If you have a two-string lute, where one string is made with iron and the other with catling (made of sheep guts), and you tune it so that it produces the best unison, you shall lose it as soon as you move the keys, while looking for a new common chord. In practical terms, if an iron string and a catling string with the same length vibrate in unison , this does not mean they will do the same if you cut them by half .
ref: 2018, Pietro Greco, Galileo Galilei, The Tuscan Artist, page 76:
text: Festing's bill suggests that a catling could be used to make or improve the handle of a bow.
ref: 2023, Colin Timms, Music, Books and Theatre in Eighteenth-Century Exton:
glosses: catgut; a catgut string
examples: text: the amputation is competed by passing the catling between the separated bones, dividng the flexor tendons, &c., and forming a flap of about equal size to the superior from the integument on the sole of the foot.
ref: 1825, Sir Astley Cooper, Frederick Tyrrell, The Lectures of Sir Astley Cooper, page 323:
text: The operator […] grasping the soft parts immediately below, raises them so as to facilitate the passage of a double-edged knife or catling across the face of the bones […]
ref: 1852, Joseph Pancoast, A Treatise on Operative Surgery:
text: […] after Esmarch we hold back the bloody torrent which once gushed forth after the catling; and Listerizing with Lister's spray we bar all passage into gaping wounds of motes that people the sunbeam and breed havoc in the tract of the sanguineous life stream.
ref: 1878, Maryland Medical Journal: Medicine and Surgery, volume 4, page 284:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A double-edged, sharp-pointed dismembering knife.
Synonyms: sense: knife
word: catlin
Related terms: kitling
catlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catling
nightman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nightmen
form: night-man
form: night man
Etymology: From night + -man.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: shit-carter
1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London: E. Nutt (etc.), p. 54,
That the Laystalls be removed as far as may be out of the City, and common Passages, and that no Nightman or other be suffered to empty a Vault into any Garden near about the City.
1825, Robert Mudie, London and Londoners; or, A Second Judgment of “Babylon the Great”, London: H. Colburn, 2nd edition, 1836, p. 197,
Still [the rats] are an organized race, and can combine together for the purposes both of attack and defence; as the nightmen who clean the sewers and cesspools of Babylon often find. The travels of a nightman have never been published; but they would make a very curious book. As they worm their way along those dismal passages, they often find an army of rats drawn up to oppose their farther progress […]
1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, London: G. Woodfall & Son, Volume II, The Street-Folk, p. 193,
I have met with nightmen who have told me that there was “nothing particular” in the smell of the cesspools they were emptying; they “hardly perceived it.” One man said, “Why, it’s like the sort of stuff I’ve smelt in them ladies’ smelling-bottles.”
glosses: A person whose job is cleaning cesspools or sewers, or emptying privies by night.
examples: text: Most men who are of sufficient intelligence and moral character to make thoroughly satisfactory block signalmen will naturally seek a respite occasionally from such a confining routine, and if they cannot accomplish this without securing a substitute at their own expense they are under constant temptation to “change off”—the day man working for the nightman and the nightman for the day.
ref: 1907 April 5, The Railroad Gazette, volume 42, number 14, page 482:
text: Doorman John Healy comes to work Sunday morning bringing a partly finished bottle of whiskey. He greets his colleague, George Tiernan, nightman, with the suggestion that they “kill the quart” before Mr. Tiernan goes home.
ref: 1927 December 11, “Vandals”, in Time:
hypernyms: workman
<
worker
<
person
glosses: A male night shift worker.
hypernyms: watchman
<
guard
<
workman
<
worker
<
person
glosses: A nightwatchman; a guard who works at night.
Synonyms: sense: person who cleans cesspools
word: gong farmer
Related terms: be on nights
night job
night soil
day man
nightmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nightman
scavage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scavages
Etymology: From Middle English scavage, schevage, schewage, from Anglo-Norman escavage, escauwage, alteration of earlier escauvinghe (“scavage”), from Middle English shewing, schewing (“inspection, examination, show”), from Old English sċēawung (“a looking at, seeing, contemplation, consideration, respect, regard, reconnoitering, surveying, inspection, examination, scrutiny, a spectacle, show, appearance, pretence, a showing, exhibiting, manifestation, toll on exposure of goods”), equivalent to show + -ing. Doublet of shewage.
Senses: glosses: A tax on non-resident merchant goods by city officials for resident merchant advantage, similar to a tariff.
scavage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scavages
form: scavaging
form: scavaged
form: scavaged
Etymology: Back-formation from scavager.
Senses: glosses: To act as a scavenger, to scavenge.
clubfisted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clubfisted
form: most clubfisted
Etymology: From club + fisted.
Senses: examples: text: Baxter gripped the handle with his free hand and straightened his ball-hand in front of him, resembling a club-fisted Superman.
ref: 2014, Edward W. Robertson, Titans:
text: As Skena, once again, started to go by the stout woman, Ella met her, the club-fisted hands shoving at her so hard, it knocked her back several steps.
ref: 2009, Deborah MacGillivray, One Snowy Knight:
glosses: Having a large fist.
examples: text: I will defend it against any Collian, or clubfisted Usurer of them all, there is no immortalitie can be given a man on earth like unto Playes.
ref: 1592, Thomas Nashe, Piers Penniless his Supplication to the Devil:
text: As Logic is clubfisted and crabbed, so she is terrible at first sight
ref: 1655, James Howell, “To my cousin, Mr. St. Geon […] ”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:
text: Tomorrow night was graduation, and guess who was chairman of the decoration committee? None other than clubfisted, not a single artistic bone in her body, Allie Emerson.
ref: 2012, Marilee Brothers, Midnight Moon:
glosses: Crude and blunt, lacking finesse.
glyconin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An emulsion of glycerine and egg yolk, used as an ointment, as a vehicle for medicines, etc.
guze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɡjuːz/
Forms: form: guzes
Etymology: Uncertain. Attested since at least 1562. According to "A Glossary of Terms used in Heraldry" by James Parker (published in 1894) it comes from Turkish göz, meaning “eye”.
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A roundlet of the sanguine tincture, which is blazoned without mention of the tincture.
guzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guz
glosses: plural of guze
accommodability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality or degree of being accommodable.
bodrage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bodrages
Etymology: Probably of Celtic origin. Compare bordrage.
Senses: glosses: A raid across a border.
bodrages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bodrage
wholesomest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of wholesome: most wholesome
wholesomer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: As there is no wholesomer, so perhaps there are few stronger, sleeping potions than fatigue.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
glosses: comparative form of wholesome: more wholesome
advancive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more advancive
form: most advancive
Etymology: From advance + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: advancive motion
text: advancive development
text: advancive interest
glosses: Tending to advance.
impartible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɑː(ɹ)tɪbəl/
Etymology: From im- + partible.
Senses: examples: text: impartible estate
ref: 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
glosses: not partible; not subject to partition; indivisible
impartible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɑː(ɹ)tɪbəl/
Forms: form: more impartible
form: most impartible
Etymology: From impart + -ible.
Senses: examples: text: impartible knowledge
text: impartible information
glosses: capable of being imparted or communicated; impartable.
Derived terms: impartibly
unimpartible
clerisies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clerisy
semiellipse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semiellipses
Etymology: From semi- + ellipse.
Senses: glosses: A half ellipse.
Related terms: semielliptical
semicircle
semioval
semiellipses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semiellipse
right-hand rule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A very convenient method for determining this relation is the Fleming right-hand rule. In this rule the fingers of the right hand are utilized as follows[…]
ref: 1920, Chester Laurens Dawes, A Course in Electrical Engineering, page 218:
glosses: A common mnemonic for understanding notation conventions for vectors in three dimensions.
examples: text: Worse yet, the right-hand rule does not work for all mazes.
ref: 1989, William Poundstone, Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge:
glosses: The systematic use of right-hand turnings to solve a maze.
Derived terms: Fleming's right-hand rule
Owenian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Owenian
form: most Owenian
Etymology: From Owen + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Robert Owen (1771–1858), Welsh social reformer and one of the founders of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement.
Related terms: Owenism
Owenist
Owenite
atlantal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the atlas.
examples: text: […] when the scapula is moved directly atlantad, the atlantal forces acting on the base and acromion are the motors, the dorsa-mesial and ster-mesi-lateral the directors, and the sacral forces the moderators […]
ref: 1808, John Barclay, The Muscular Motions of the Human Body:
glosses: anterior; cephalic
Derived terms: occipitoatlantal
Related terms: Atlantic
uncharioted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + chariot + -ed.
Senses: examples: 1715, Alexander Pope, a letter to a lady
The poor distressed Roman Catholicks, now unhorsed and uncharioted.
synonyms: chariotless
glosses: Deprived of a chariot.
tithingman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tithingmen
form: tithing-man
form: tything-man
form: titheman
form: tithe-man
Etymology: From tithing + -man.
Senses: examples: text: [...] We that are wisely mounted higher
Than constables, in curule wit,
When on tribunal bench we sit,
Like speculators, should foresee,
From Pharos of authority,
Portended mischiefs farther than
Low proletarian tything-men [...]
ref: 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part 1, canto 1:
topics: law
glosses: The chief of a tithing.
glosses: A ruler or leader of ten men; a decurion.
topics: law
glosses: A peace officer; an underconstable.
qualifier: Maryland and New England dialect
glosses: A parish officer elected annually to preserve good order in the church during divine service, to make complaint of any disorderly conduct, and to enforce the observance of the Sabbath.
glosses: A tithe proctor: a collector of tithes.
Synonyms: sense: chief of a tithing
word: headborough
sense: chief of a tithing
word: decener
sense: chief of a tithing
word: borsholder
sense: peace officer
word: underconstable
sense: collector of tithes
word: tithe proctor
tithingmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tithingman
underconstable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underconstables
Etymology: From under- + constable.
Senses: glosses: A lower or subordinate constable.
Synonyms: tithingman
deputy constable
petty constable
underconstables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underconstable
canonists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canonist
fillock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fillocks
form: fyllock
Etymology: From filly + -ock (diminutive suffix).
Senses: glosses: A wanton girl.
swooshy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more swooshy
form: most swooshy
Etymology: From swoosh + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The children drew swooshy patterns in the wet sand.
glosses: Like or suggesting a swooshing sound or movement.
androphore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: androphores
Etymology: From andro- + -phore.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: androphorum
glosses: A support or column on which stamens are raised.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The part which, in some Siphonophorae, bears the male gonophores.
androphores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of androphore
intermede
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intermedes
Etymology: From French intermède, from Latin inter (“between”) + medius (“middle”). Compare Italian intermedio. Doublet of intermezzo.
Senses: glosses: A short musical dramatic piece, of a light, pleasing, and sometimes burlesque character.
glosses: An interlude between the acts of a play or opera.
intermedes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intermede
brattishing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brattishings
Senses: glosses: A brattice.
topics: architecture
glosses: Carved openwork, as of a shrine, battlement, or parapet.
brattishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of brattish
brattishings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brattishing
encephalology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From encephalo- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The science of the brain and its structure and function.
heroship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heroships
Etymology: From hero + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: three years of heroship
ref: 1782–1785, William Cowper, “(please specify the page)”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC:
synonyms: heroism
glosses: The character or personality of a hero.
heroships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heroship
addlepatedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From addlepated + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being addlepated.
antilanguage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antilanguages
Etymology: From anti- + language.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A language used by a social group to prevent outsiders from understanding it.
antilanguages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antilanguage
drugster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drugsters
Etymology: From drug + -ster.
Senses: examples: text: minerals, that may be found profitable to the physician , the drugster, or the mineralist
ref: 1664, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours:
glosses: A druggist.
drugsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drugster
VZV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VZVs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of varicella zoster virus.
glosses: Initialism of varicella zoster vaccine.
overnoise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overnoises
form: overnoising
form: overnoised
form: overnoised
Etymology: From over- + noise.
Senses: glosses: To overpower with noise.
overnoised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overnoise
overnoises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overnoise
overnoising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overnoise
lepidine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Composed of scales.
Derived terms: eulepidine
isolepidine
multilepidine
nephrolepidine
trybliolepidine
lepidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lepidines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: 4-methylquinoline, a heterocyclic aromatic organic compound used in the preparation of certain dyes.
lepidines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lepidine
spurgall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spurgalls
Etymology: From spur + gall.
Senses: glosses: A gall caused by use of the spur.
spurgall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spurgalls
form: spurgalling
form: spurgalled
form: spurgalled
Etymology: From spur + gall.
Senses: glosses: To gall or wound with a spur.
glosses: To bother, harass, or insult
spurgalled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spurgall
spurgalling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spurgall
spurgalls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spurgall
tripetalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + petalous: compare French tripétale.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having three petals.
Related terms: tripetaloid
balsamous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈbɔːlsəməs/
Forms: form: more balsamous
form: most balsamous
Etymology: From balsam + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: an oily and balsamous substance
ref: 1759–1767, [Laurence Sterne], The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume (please specify |volume=I to IX), London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […]:
glosses: balsamic.
memorializer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: memorializers
Etymology: From memorialize + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who provides or writes a memorial.
memorializers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of memorializer
munity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmjuː.nɪ.ti/
Etymology: See immunity.
Senses: examples: text: […] I might ſhevv them hovv Devotion comming and poſſeſſing our mindes, doth rather compoſe the munity, then infringe the true liberty of our affections.
ref: 1648, Walter Montagu, “The Fourth Treatise. Of Devotion. §. II. Devotion Described a More Familiar Way, and the Best Naturall Temper in Order thereunto.”, in Miscellanea Spiritualia: Or, Devout Essaies, London: […] W[illiam] Lee, D[aniel] Pakeman, and G[abriel] Bedell, […], →OCLC, page 35:
glosses: Immunity; freedom; security.
instinctivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: instinctivities
Etymology: From instinctive + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: There is growth only in plants; but there is irritability, or, a better word, instinctivity, in insects.
ref: 1830 September 23, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Logic”, in H[enry] N[elson] C[oleridge], editor, Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge. […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], published 1835, →OCLC, page 111:
glosses: The quality of being instinctive, or prompted by instinct.
overlashing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overlash
overlashing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overlashings
Senses: glosses: excess; exaggeration
examples: overlashing of copper wires
glosses: The process of physically tying additional cables to the cables that are already attached to a utility pole.
overlashings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overlashing
retene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retenes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ῥητίνη (rhētínē, “pine resin”) + -ene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydrocarbon, polymeric with benzene, that is extracted from pine tar and also found in certain fossil resins.
gallin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A substance obtained by the reduction of gallein.
tritozooid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tritozooids
Etymology: From trito- + zooid.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A zooid of the third generation in asexual reproduction.
Related terms: protozooid
deuterozooid
tritozooids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tritozooid
gallocyanin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A certain synthetic dye.
dignification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dignifications
Etymology: From dignify + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act of dignifying; exaltation.
dignifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dignification
gladiatorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gladiatorships
Etymology: From gladiator + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The behaviour, state, or art of a gladiator.
gladiatorships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gladiatorship
inrunning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + running.
Senses: examples: text: an inrunning current has at last become enabled to flow out by its old path again
ref: 1890, William James, The Principles of Psychology, Chapter 2:
text: “Long Wharf,” said Ericsson, jamming the wheel over as the tug churned past the outside dolphins, and putting the engines ahead. He clipped open a speaking-tube and conversed briefly with invisible authority below. The Wonder squatted down duckwise, stuck her battered nose up and scuttered across the course of the inrunning stream of the tide at top speed.
ref: 1917, John Fleming Wilson, The Ex-Husband:
glosses: Running or flowing inward.
inrunning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inrunnings
Etymology: From in- + running.
Senses: glosses: The act or the place of entrance
examples: text: And Lancelot answer'd nothing, but he went, / And at the inrunning of a little brook / Sat by the river in a cove
ref: 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Elaine”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 220:
text: On either side the woodland moved slowly back. The morning mist had not yet vanished, but floated against the trees in silver drifts, and veiled every inrunning of the shores with bright mystery.
ref: 1917, Frederick Schiller Faust, The Gambler and the Stake:
glosses: an inlet.
inrunnings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inrunning
undignifiedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more undignifiedly
form: most undignifiedly
Etymology: From undignified + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an undignified manner; without dignity.
dignifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dignify + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Russian River flows through a country of hill ridges, which in many places are dignifiable with the appellation of mountains.
ref: 1925, Alfred Louis Kroeber, Handbook of the Indians of California, page 225:
glosses: Capable of being dignified.
Related terms: undignifiable
counterchanged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: counter-changed
Etymology: From counter- + changed.
Senses: examples: text: ... both sides re-engaging with exactly counterchanged fronts and positions. Again did the stern valor of the Roundheads prove irresistible : Goring was swept from the field, after a furious struggle,[…]
ref: 1875, James DAVIES (of Sandringham School, Southport.), History of England, 1640-1660, page 17:
glosses: Exchanged.
examples: text: If the field is divided palewise, or and azure, and cross is borne counterchanged, that part of the cross which comes on the azure side will be or, and that on the or side will be azure.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Having the tinctures exchanged mutually.
Synonyms: countercharged
villanel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: villanels
Etymology: See villanelle.
Senses: examples: c. 1685-1686, Charles Cotton, the Essays of M. de Montaigne
she may come into comparison with the greatest beauty of poetry perfected by art: as we see in our Gascon villanels and the songs that are brought us from nations that have no knowledge of any manner of science
glosses: A ballad.
villanels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of villanel
clubbish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clubbish
form: most clubbish
Etymology: From club + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: For had not ſhe bene mercifull, my ſhip had ruſht on Rocks,
And ſo decayed amids the ſtormes, through force of clubbiſh knocks
ref: 1599, anonymous author, Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a club (weapon).
examples: text: She remembered a long-ago dinner they shared at Chasen's, one of Hollywood's most clubbish and exclusive restaurants […]
ref: 2009, Shawn Levy, Paul Newman: A Life:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a club (social establishment).
examples: text: Some of the Centered Workshops get very clubbish, even encounter-groupish, I was told, and some don't. Ours didn't, although we certainly had a good time together.
ref: 1978, Skiing, volume 30, number 5, page 68:
text: A clubbish man, Duyckinck liked to discuss his plans for the Libraries with his close circle of friends, two of whom […] he hoped to enlist as contributors to the American Library.
ref: 2010, Ezra Greenspan, George Palmer Putnam: Representative American Publisher, page 168:
text: […] the "bon vivants of a 1930's clubbish set" […]
ref: 2019, Robert Sawyer, Shakespeare Between the World Wars: The Anglo-American Sphere, page 196:
synonyms: clubby
glosses: Disposed to club together.
glosses: Rustic and uncultured.
Derived terms: unclubbish
electroballistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + ballistics.
Senses: glosses: The art or science of measuring the force or velocity of projectiles by means of electricity.
myrmicine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɜː(ɹ)mɪsaɪn/
ipa: /ˈmɚmɪsin/
Forms: form: more myrmicine
form: most myrmicine
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Myrmicinae.
Senses: examples: text: The discovery of tandem calling with pheromones in Leptothorax throws considerable light on the evolution of chemical recruitment techniques in myrmicine ants generally.
ref: 1990, Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson, The Ants, page 274:
text: The chemistry of the myrmicine genus Solenopsis is so aberrant that it reduces generalizations about ant venoms to the absurd.
ref: 2012, Murry Blum, Chemical Defenses of Arthropods, page 329:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to the ant subfamily Myrmicinae.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to the ant genus Myrmica.