cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
brambled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more brambled
form: most brambled
Etymology: From bramble + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Forlorn she sits upon the brambled floor.
ref: 1777, Thomas Warton, Ode III:
synonyms: brambly
glosses: Overgrown with brambles.
glosses: Rough or thorny.
Derived terms: brambled-up
unbrambled
depreciator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: depreciators
Etymology: From depreciate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: Any advantage gained from depreciation is usually temporary because prices in the depreciator's market tend to rise if for no other reason than the increase in international demand for its goods. The reduction in purchasing power of[…]
ref: 1961, Charles Lee Prather, Money and Banking:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Someone who depreciates.
depreciators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of depreciator
endower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endowers
Etymology: From endow + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who endows.
endower
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: endowers
form: endowering
form: endowered
form: endowered
Etymology: Compare Old French endouairer.
Senses: examples: text: This once renowned church was gloriously deckt with the jewels of her espousals[…]and frankly endowered.
ref: 1653, Edward Waterhouse, A humble Apologie for Learning and Learned Men:
glosses: To endow.
endowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endower
notarially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From notarial + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: a notarially-certified will
glosses: In a notarial manner; by a notary.
outcept
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: examples: text: Look not so near, with hope to understand, Out-cept, sir, you can read with the left hand.
ref: a. 1638 (date written), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Under-woods. Consisting of Divers Poems. (please specify the poem)”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640, →OCLC:
glosses: except; unless
plaguer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plaguers
Etymology: From plague + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that plagues or annoys.
examples: text: PLAGUER wis painted on the heavy plywood-enforced door in big, black letters. Also HIVER and JUNKY.
ref: 1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 315:
glosses: One infected with HIV.
plaguers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plaguer
sea mud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: sea ooze
glosses: A rich slimy deposit in salt marshes and along the seashore, sometimes used as a manure.
tyrannicidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tyrannicidal
form: most tyrannicidal
Etymology: From tyrannicide + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The Jeſuits and Janſeniſts of France, although they differed in almoſt every other reſpect, agreed in their hoſtility to temporal deſpotic power: and one of the greateſt charges, brought againſt the former, was their tyrannicidal doctrine.
ref: 1799, Alexander Geddes, A Sermon, Preached on the Day of General Fast, February 27, 1799:
glosses: Of or pertaining to tyrannicide, or the murder of a tyrant.
heorshe
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Forms: form: they
Etymology: From he + or + she.
Senses: examples: text: I heard ghastly rumors about some faculty actually destroying a student's video because heorshe didn't feel it was art. . . even if a rumor it sounds like a pretty terrible environment for expression.
ref: 1994 May 4, Mary Flanagan, “Savannah College of Art and Design”, in alt.artcom (Usenet):
text: Why doesn’t Argonut come out of the closet (where heorshe is having an affair with hisorher Filter Queen) and identify himorherself? It would be more fun to persecute himorher if we actually knew who heorshe is. ;-)
ref: 1996 September 16, Jon LeBlanc, “Argonut's special game report. (Argos/Sask)”, in rec.sport.football.canadian (Usenet):
text: Perhaps heorshe started out by investigating the scientific validity of all those house remedies and more esoteric healing methods which fall into the stereotypical Verbena paradigm.
ref: 1998 May 20, CML, “Mages playing out of Paradigm”, in rec.games.frp.storyteller (Usenet):
glosses: Alternative form of he or she: they (singular); used as a gender-neutral reference to the third person singular.
national emblem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: national emblems
Senses: glosses: The official emblem that represents a nation.
national emblems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of national emblem
check digit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: check digits
form: checkdigit
Senses: examples: text: The last digit of the barcode is a check digit, calculated from the others.
glosses: A single-digit checksum.
emeraud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emerauds
Senses: examples: text: Some [wines] deep empurpled as the Hyacine,
Some as the rubine, laughing sweetly red,
Şome like fair emerauds, not yet well ripened
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of emerald.
emerauds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emeraud
idolism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: idolisms
Etymology: From idol + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The worship of idols.
glosses: idolization
Synonyms: idolatry
idolisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of idolism
uriniparous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From urine + -parous.
Senses: examples: the uriniparous tubes in the cortical portion of the kidney
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Producing or preparing urine.
expenseless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From expense + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without cost or expense.
Orkneyan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Orkneyan
form: most Orkneyan
Etymology: From Orkney + -an.
Senses: examples: text: The Orkneyan skerries
ref: 1845 January, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Seaweed”, in Graham's Magazine:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Orkney Islands.
Synonyms: Orcadian
Orkneyan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Orkneyans
Etymology: From Orkney + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the Orkney Islands.
Synonyms: Orcadian
depainter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: depainters
Etymology: From depaint + -er.
Senses: examples: Gawin Douglas, Dawn
Welcome, welfare of husbands at the ploughs;
Welcome, repairer of woods, trees, and boughs;
Welcome, depainter of the bloomit meads;
Welcome, the life of everything that spreads.
glosses: One who depaints.
depainters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of depainter
russety
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more russety
form: most russety
Etymology: From russet + -y.
Senses: glosses: Of a russet colour.
snarer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnɛəɹə/
note: General American, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈsnɛɹɚ/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈsneɹɚ/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈsnɛəɹɚ/
ipa: /ˈsneːɹə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈsniəɹə/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈsneəɹə/
ipa: /ˈsneɹəɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ˈsnɜːɹə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛəɹə(ɹ)
homophone: sneerer (cheer–chair merger)
Forms: form: snarers
Etymology: From snare + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who catches animals with a snare.
examples: text: Florence's innocence is also used to underline the fallen nature of Edith, who has been made into a snarer of men by her mother, but whose situation is entirely without the humour or playfulness of Becky Sharp's in Vanity Fair.
ref: 1998, K. Lesnik-Oberstein, Children in Culture: Approaches to Childhood, Palgrave Macmillan UK, page 130:
glosses: One who snares or entraps others.
snarers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snarer
wailful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪlfəl/
Forms: form: more wailful
form: most wailful
Etymology: From wail + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Farre better I it deeme to die with speed / Then waste in woe and waylfull miserye […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: You must lay Lime, to tangle her desires / By walefull Sonnets, whose composed Rimes / Should be full fraught with seruiceable vowes.
ref: c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: Sorrowful; mournful.
melancholious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more melancholious
form: most melancholious
Etymology: From Middle English malencolious, from Middle French melancolieus.
Senses: examples: text: however flat and melancholious it [marriage] be
ref: 1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC:
text: O, a’ ye Bards on bonie Doon! / An’ vvha on Ayr your chanters tune! / Come, join the melancholious croon / O’ Robin’s reed! / His heart vvill never get aboon! / His Mailie’s dead!
ref: 1793, Robert Burns, “Poor Mailie’s Elegy”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. […], 2nd edition, volume I, Edinburgh: […] T[homas] Cadell, […], and William Creech, […], published 1793, →OCLC, page 115:
glosses: melancholy
Derived terms: melancholiously
pickpurse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pickpurses
form: pick-purse
Etymology: From Middle English pikepurse, pykeporse, equivalent to pick + purse.
Senses: examples: text: Down with Christ's cross, up with purgatory pickpurse, up with him, the popish purgatory, I mean.
ref: 1548 January 18, Hugh Latimer, Sermon of the Plough, quoted in Sermons by Hugh Latimer, Cambridge University Press, published 1884, page 71:
text: No, it is false, if it is a pickpurse.
ref: 1602, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, act 1, scene 1:
glosses: Someone who steals purses, or money from purses.
Synonyms: pickpocket
Related terms: cutpurse
pickpurses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pickpurse
ambulatorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌam.bjə.ləˈtoɹ.i.əl/
ipa: /-bjʊ-/
ipa: [-ˈto̞ɹ-]
note: without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˌam.bjə.ləˈto(ː)ɹ.i.əl/
note: without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /-bjʊ-/
rhymes: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: more ambulatorial
form: most ambulatorial
Etymology: From Latin ambulator (“walker or wanderer”) + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: Gulls average much larger than terns, with stouter build; the feet are larger and more ambulatorial, the wings are shorter and not so thin; the birds winnow the air in a steady course unlike the buoyant dashing flight of their relatives.
ref: 1872, Elliott Coues, Key to North American Birds:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: ambulatory; adapted for walking; gressorial
Related terms: ambulatory
cursorial
fossorial
gressorial
natatorial
raptorial
saltatorial
scansorial
deutoplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: deutoplasmic (pertaining to, or composed of, deutoplasm).
Orkneyans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Orkneyan
outsat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outsit
outsit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪt
Forms: form: outsits
form: outsitting
form: outsat
form: outsat
Etymology: From out- + sit.
Senses: examples: text: No Scotch government will take him at his own, or rather his wife's extravagant valuation; and betwixt his indecision and her insolence, from all I can guess, he will outsit his market, and be had cheap when no one will bid for him.
ref: 1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
text: Without a note for his sermon he stepped into his pulpit and, buoyed up by the happiness that surged within him, he signified his intention to begin. Landy and the new Mrs. George sat in the front row—she fussily settling to outsit the ordeal and he striking at once an attitude of absorbed interest.
ref: 1901, Fred Schultz Lincoln, An Indiana Girl, Chapter 12:
text: While she had been speaking he had made up his mind what course to take, and now, having outsat everybody else, he decided that it was time for the interview to cease.
ref: 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, Bulldog Drummond:
text: Billy said nothing. Captain Powell sat tight, and Billy tried to outsit him. He probably would have failed in this had not some crony of the captain's, living near by, reminded him over the telephone that he had a chess engagement.
ref: 1923, Bertrand W. Sinclair, The Popular Magazine, Twice in the Graveyard Watch:
glosses: To remain sitting, waiting, or in session, longer than, or beyond the time of; to outstay.
outsits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outsit
outsitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outsit
unsatiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsatiable
form: most unsatiable
Etymology: From un- + satiable.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of insatiable.
Derived terms: unsatiably
unsatiableness
siscowet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪs.kəˌwɛt/
Forms: form: siscowets
form: ciscoette
form: ciscovet
form: siskawitz
form: siskiwit
form: siskowet
Etymology: From an Ojibwe word, given by some English dictionaries as pemitewiskawet ("fish with oily meat") (compare bimide (“grease”), -skaw- (“meat of a fish”), -e (“an incorporating final”)), perhaps via French ciscoette.
Senses: glosses: A freshwater fish from Lake Superior in the Great Lakes, a variety of the lake trout.
reincrease
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹiːɪŋˈkɹiːs/
Forms: form: reincreases
form: reincreasing
form: reincreased
form: reincreased
Etymology: From re- + increase.
Senses: examples: text: Tho when they did perceave
 Their wounds recur'd, and forces reincreast,
 Of that good Hermite both they tooke their leave […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To increase again.
reincrease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹiːɪŋˈkɹiːs/
Forms: form: reincreases
Etymology: From re- + increase.
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent increase.
reincreasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reincrease
reincreases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reincrease
reincreased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reincrease
beleaguerer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beleaguerers
Etymology: From beleaguer + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who beleaguers.
beleaguerers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beleaguerer
distancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: There is a distancy
In empty space
ref: 1647, Henry More, Democritus Platonissans, on an Essay upon the Infinity of Worlds:
glosses: distance (state of being distant)
Derived terms: indistancy
monophyllous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + -phyllous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: unifoliate
glosses: Having a single leaf, or a leaf consisting of only one piece.
oppositisepalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See opposite and sepalous.
Senses: examples: text: oppositisepalous stamens
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Facing a sepal.
outcourt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈaʊtkɔː(ɹ)t/
Forms: form: outcourts
Etymology: From out + court.
Senses: examples: text: the skirts and outcourts of heaven
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
text: There is an outcourt or quadrant, whereof one side is a gallery to walk in, being in length six hundred feet.
ref: 1852, Agnes Strickland, Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses, page 52:
text: If it is made up of those who shall persevere in holiness to the end of life, and be saved with an everlasting salvation, the church on earth being, as it werre, the outcourt and emblem of the church in heaven, and the church militant composed of those who shall form the church triumphant, then infants have properly no place in it.
ref: 1890, Ford's Christian Repository & Home Circle, page 416:
text: About the middle of June, 1642, the Residence of the Fathers at St. Marys-on-the-Wye, its outcourt and surrounding buildings, slept in dreamy, peaceful slumber.
ref: 1912, William Richard Harris, Pioneers of the Cross in Canada, page 131:
glosses: An outer or exterior court.
examples: text: Offensive player in the middle of the outcourt receives a pass from one of his teammates.
ref: 1951, Blair Gullion, Techniques and Tactics of Basketball Defense, page 60:
text: For Calvin it was Rog Postmus with 18, mostly from outcourt, Duane Rosendahl with 16, Stu Sisco with 15, and Preston "Butts" Kool had 10.
ref: 1992, Gordon M. Brewer, --But how You Played the Game!: 1862-1955, page 169:
text: […] shows that all shots are taken from outcourt, this is not necessarily true because it is possible, by reversing direction, for the dribbler to catch his guard overplaying him and drive in for a layup.
ref: 1970, William Albert Healey, Joseph W. Hartley, Ten Great Basketball Offenses, page 132:
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
handball
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The other half of the court from the goal one is aiming for.
outcourt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈaʊtkɔː(ɹ)t/
Etymology: From out + court.
Senses: examples: text: Special mention is due Abadie, 03, Heyman, 04, whose outcourt playing is excellent, and Roos, '04, who has shown good judgment in placing the ball.
ref: 1883, “College Sports”, in The Occident, page 244:
text: The middle man normally will be the outcourt defensive man, away from the rebound.
ref: 1969, Robert J. Buck, The Shuffle and Press Offense for High School Basketball, page 29:
text: It should also be remembered that the outcourt shots are all taken from behind the screen.
ref: 1970, William Albert Healey, Joseph W. Hartley, Ten Great Basketball Offenses, page 132:
text: Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the goal of the other team.
ref: 2018, Ace Banking And Static Awareness, page 273:
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
handball
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Playing or played on the outcourt.
examples: text: As Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat apologises for having published the claims originally published by The Sunday Telegraph regarding Mr. Rached Ghannouchi who has won a court case against the paper. It publishes this clarification in its insistance upon objective truth and the rights of readers and of Mr. Ghannouchi, after having reached an outcourt settlement with Mr. Ghannouchi, and expresses its regret for what the news item has caused him.
ref: 1997, Tunisia Insight, page 9:
topics: law
glosses: Occurring outside the courtroom; adjudicated outside of a trial.
outcourt
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈaʊtkɔː(ɹ)t/
Etymology: From out + court.
Senses: examples: text: Many coaches are of the opinion that high school teams attempt too many rebound shots but would profit by dribbling or passing the ball outcourt more often and starting their offensive attack over again.
ref: 1946, Athletic Journal - Volume 27, page 22:
text: Jack felt a warm glow of pride as he watched his brother smoothly carry the ball outcourt and then turn to drive in with flashing legs and lace the leather through the net.
ref: 1953, Leon E. Burgoyne, Jack Davis, Forward, page 52:
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
handball
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: On the outcourt.
outcourt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈaʊtkɔː(ɹ)t/
Forms: form: outcourts
form: outcourting
form: outcourted
form: outcourted
Etymology: From out- (“surpass”) + court.
Senses: examples: text: I came of a very robust family; I'll agree now to outcourt any two girls in this town if you give me likely material—a-hem!
ref: 1914, Sol Smith Russel, “The Proposal”, in The Speaker's Garland and Literary Bouquet, volume 1, page 134:
text: I knew from the beginning that I would have to move fast to keep Minnie to myself. Kansas City was full of rakehell bachelors, all of whom I had to outcourt.
ref: 1982, Roy Wilkins, Tom Mathews, Standing Fast: The Autobiography of Roy Wilkins - Volume 10, page 79:
text: Any American can outcourt any weakling Englishman.
ref: 2004, Jude Deveraux, Lost Lady, page 236:
text: It shows the peahens that the peacock is strong. And it shows other males that this peacock can outstrut, outfly, outcourt, and generally outcompete them.
ref: 2014, Bill Nye, Corey S. Powell, Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation:
glosses: To woo or court in a better, more successful or more assiduous manner.
outcourts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outcourt
provokable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more provokable
form: most provokable
Etymology: From provoke + -able.
Senses: glosses: That may be provoked.
reeden
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiːdən/
rhymes: -iːdən
Etymology: From Middle English reeden, reden, from Old English *hrēoden, *hrīeden (attested in placenames), from Proto-West Germanic *hriudīn (“made of reed”), equivalent to reed + -en (“made of”). Cognate with West Frisian reiden (“made of reed”), Dutch rieten (“made of reed”).
Senses: examples: text: Through reeden pipes convey the golden flood.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Fourth Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Made from reeds.
unprofited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unprofited
form: most unprofited
Etymology: From un- + profited.
Senses: examples: text: Be clamorous and leap all civil bounds rather than make unprofited return.
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:
text: 1797-1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Destiny of Nations
Ah! why , uninjured and unprofited,
Should multitudes against their brethren rush ?
glosses: profitless
asseveratory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more asseveratory
form: most asseveratory
Senses: glosses: asseverative
frightless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more frightless
form: most frightless
Etymology: From fright + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Reggie woke her from a frightless slumber years ago with a tarantula in a shoebox, disappointed when it didn't make her scream.
ref: 2001, Stephen Beachy, Distortion:
text: Yes, yes, yes, even as he'd tried to sleep next to her, agonizing over the plight of the frightless union, [...]
ref: 2005, B. Elwin Sherman, Toolkit in Paradise:
text: Elliot put his frightless eyes near mine and gave an equine snort.
ref: 2015, Steve Toltz, Quicksand:
glosses: Free from fright; fearless.
gelatiniform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gelatin + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of gelatin.
disprivilege
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disprivileges
form: disprivileging
form: disprivileged
form: disprivileged
Etymology: From dis- + privilege.
Senses: glosses: To deprive of a privilege or privileges.
disprivilege
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dis- + privilege.
Senses: glosses: The state of lacking privileges, or being underprivileged.
disprivileged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disprivilege
disprivileges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disprivilege
disprivileging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disprivilege
outthrew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of outthrow
outthrow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outthrows
form: outthrowing
form: outthrew
form: outthrown
Etymology: From out- + throw.
Senses: glosses: To throw out.
examples: text: But now, ten years later, after his recent shipwreck, he cannot compete as a runner, though he can outthrow the slighter Phaeacians with the heaviest discus.
ref: 2002, Eva Brann, Homeric Moments, page 48:
glosses: To surpass in throwing.
outthrowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outthrow
outthrown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of outthrow
outthrows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outthrow
illusiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From illusive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being illusive.
underpull
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underpulls
form: underpulling
form: underpulled
form: underpulled
Etymology: From under- + pull.
Senses: examples: text: His Lordship, while he was a Student, and during his Incapacity to practise aboveboard, was contented to underpull, as they call it, and managed diverse Suits for his Country Friends and Relations[…]
ref: a. 1734, Roger North, The Life of the Right Honourable Francis North:
text: It may have been that the lower ranks of the apprenticii, in the words of The Compleat Solicitor, underpulled causes during the long term of study then necessary before the rank of utter barrister was attained.
ref: 1896, Edmund Brown Viney Christian, A Short History of Solicitors:
glosses: To exert one's influence secretly.
examples: text: The common failing is to underpull in these early hours because of fear of overpull .
ref: 1941, The Year Book of Industrial and Orthopedic Surgery, page 236:
text: The tendency is usually to underpull, rather than to exceed the standard tension.
ref: 1965, Harry Bouchard, Francis H. Moffitt, Surveying, page 25:
text: DOE regs allow customers to underpull one month and make up for it the next year, so long as it all events out within the year.
ref: 1980, U.S. Oil Week, page 4:
text: One point to keep in mind is never to underpull in a headwind.
ref: 1983 April, John McElyea, “Head/Tail Winds”, in Skiing, page 22:
glosses: To pull (any sense) insufficiently.
underpull
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underpull
form: most underpull
Etymology: From under- + pull.
Senses: examples: text: One-piece white vitreous china flush pipe cover and white vitreous china bolt caps. White Vitreous china swelled front low down tank with underpull lever.
ref: 1918, Sweet's Architectural Catalog File, page 839:
text: […] underpull lever with china handle, elevated, high pressure compound cover ball cock, standard pattern flush valve with 14 " overflow tube, tinned copper float, […]
ref: 1919, The American Architect Specification Manual - Volume 1, page 138:
text: Vitreous China Straight Front Tank with Underpull Lever with China Handle, Elevated High Pressure Compound Lever Ball Cock with Glass Float, Rubber Ball Flush Valve with 114-inch Overflow Pipe, […]
ref: 1921, Cochran-Sargent Company, Plumbing and Heating Supplies, page 169:
glosses: Designed to be pulled and mounted on the underside.
underpulled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underpull
underpulling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underpull
underpulls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underpull
emblematist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emblematists
Senses: examples: text: Thus began the descriptions of griffins, basilisks, phenix, and many more; which emblematists and heralds have entertained with significations answering their institutions
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: emblemist
glosses: A writer or inventor of emblems.
emblematists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emblematist
outblush
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outblushes
form: outblushing
form: outblushed
form: outblushed
Etymology: From out- + blush.
Senses: examples: T. Shipman
Each rose did in native scarlet appear, / Yet every rose was outblushed by her.
glosses: To exceed in blushing; to surpass in rosy colour.
outblushed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outblush
outblushes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outblush
outblushing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outblush
overharden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overhardens
form: overhardening
form: overhardened
form: overhardened
Etymology: From over- + harden.
Senses: examples: text: [I]t has acquir'd ſuch a hardneſs, that being throvvn againſt the floor it vvould rebound, and vvas brittle like over-harden'd Steel.
ref: 1661, Robert Boyle, “[Some Specimens of an Attempt to Make Chymical Experiments Useful to Illustrate the Notions of the Corpuscular Philosophy.] The History of Fluidity and Firmnesse. The Second Part. Of Firmnesse.”, in Certain Physiological Essays and Other Tracts; […], 2nd edition, London: […] Henry Herringman […], published 1668, →OCLC, page 286:
glosses: To harden too much.
overhardened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overharden
overhardening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overharden
overhardens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overharden
undersparred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undersparred
form: most undersparred
Etymology: From under- + sparred.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Having spars smaller than the usual dimension, or not enough spars.
oculary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See ocular.
Senses: examples: text: Eie-salues, and other ocularie medicines.
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book II.]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the eye.
unplained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unplained
form: most unplained
Etymology: From un- + plained.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of unplaned.
enthusiasticke
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more enthusiasticke
form: most enthusiasticke
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of enthusiastic.
outmanœuvers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outmanœuver
outmanœuvering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outmanœuver
numerally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From numeral + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: children were able to access non-isomorphic interpretations of sentences containing numerally quantified objects in an adult-like fashion.
ref: 2006, Veerle van Geenhoven, Semantics in Acquisition:
glosses: According to number; in number; numerically.
underpuller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underpullers
Etymology: From underpull + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Underpullers to these are the Shopkeepers, whose Mercurial Parts are fitted to put off the worst Wares, by making appearance of the best, either by false Lights, or crafty obtruding the Choisest to the view on their Stalls, and foisting Goods disagreable to the Patterns of the Chapmen.
ref: 1698, John Fryer, A new account of East-India and Persia, page 388:
text: These Concessions were very material to the Quiet and Well-being of the Subject, who before was exposed to the arbitrary Decisions of Officers, that suffered their Underpullers to oppress the Neighbourhood by Informations and Encroachments, and made them the most abject Slaves.
ref: 1728, Nathaniel Salmon, A New Survey of England, page 149:
text: These yielding profit from his Country Chaps, filled his Coffers, and raised his Credit, whilst Journeymen and Underpullers did all the business, the Master's name only set to the printed Bills, vouching his Wares to be Neat and Good.
ref: 1731, Nathaniel Salmon, The lives of the English bishops from the Restauration to the Revolution, page 89:
text: But I that came into the front of Chancery business per saltum, all at once, wanted the skill of an underpuller, as they call the drawer of pleadings, and therefore without some extraordinary felicities to recommend, which I had not, I must needs, as I did, seem less or unequal to the post I was in, and consequently when my bladders that held me up were gone, sink down into a place fitter for me, and that with disadvantage more than falls to the share of a fresh young beginner, whose face is to the sunshine advancing, and mine would be from it declining.
ref: 1890, Roger North, Augustus Jessopp, The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, page 164:
text: For though we are both of a trade (brothers of the quill) I make no doubt but we may cross the proverb and agree very well, since the nature of our employment will be different, you being a man of war, and I only an underpuller at politics.
ref: 1932, Yale Historical Publications: Miscellany - Issue 21, page 410:
text: Yet, now that Stepney had become used to an independent command, it is difficult to believe that he would have settled happily into the role of 'underpuller'.
ref: 1997, Susan Spens, George Stepney, 1663-1707: Diplomat and Poet, page 115:
glosses: An assistant or underling.
examples: text: These Underpullers in Distraction, are such implicit Mortals as are not to be matched upon any other Occasion: A perfect Stranger shall Engage them at the first Word.
ref: 1703, Jeremy Collier, Essays upon Several Moral Subjects, page 139:
glosses: One who underpulls.
underpullers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underpuller
bangest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of bang
puggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌɡi/
rhymes: -ʌɡi
Forms: form: puggier
form: puggiest
Etymology: From pug + -y.
Senses: examples: text: a puggy nose
text: Mr Macgregor was a large, heavy man, rather past forty, with a kindly, puggy face, […]
ref: 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC; republished as chapter 2, in Burmese Days (ebook no. 0200051h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, November 2015:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a pug dog.
glosses: sticky, claylike
Synonyms: sense: sticky
word: claggy
word: tenacious
word: adhesive
Derived terms: pugginess
puggy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌɡi/
rhymes: -ʌɡi
Forms: form: puggies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pagi (“Indian tracker”).
integral equations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of integral equation
sceleton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sceletons
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of skeleton.
sceletal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sceletal
form: most sceletal
Etymology: From sceleton + -al.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of skeletal.
straitest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of strait: most strait
Gorgias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gorgia
Gorgias
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɔɹd͡ʒi.əs/
Senses: glosses: Greek sophist, pre-Socratic philosopher and rhetorician.
lamrim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Tibetan.
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The stages in the path to Buddhist enlightenment.
pergula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pergulas
form: pergulae
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pergola.
peristylum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin peristylum.
Senses: examples: text: A particularity in this house is the irregular form of the peristylum, and that from each of the columns that surround it projects a small bronze water-pipe, forming with the fountain and small waterfall a handsome system of artificial waterworks.
ref: 1868, A Handbook for Travellers in Southern Italy, 6th edition, London: John Murray, page 263, column 2:
text: The women gathered together about the little font in the centre of the peristylum, and debated together in low tones.
ref: 1903, Warwick Deeping, Uther and Igraine, New York, N.Y.: The Outlook Company, page 14:
text: We crossed the atrium and reached another open-air space, the peristylum, where bronze sculptures peered from the shadows.
ref: 2009, Michelle Moran, Cleopatra's Daughter, London: Quercus, →ISBN, page 74:
text: The porter must have seen me gawking, for he said pleasantly, "This is the atrium, the room Lady Julia uses for entertainment. The next room, the peristylum, is for the family."
ref: 2013, Joan Wolf, Daughter of Jerusalem, Brentwood, T.N.: Worthy Publishing, →ISBN, page 74:
synonyms: peristylium
glosses: A peristyle.
raw_tags: in ancient Roman contexts
Protagoras
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Πρωταγόρας (Prōtagóras).
Senses: glosses: A pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, who famously said "man is the measure of all things".
Protagorean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Greek philosopher Protagoras and his thought.
acronycally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From acronycal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: the planet rises acronycally
glosses: In an acronycal manner; rising when the sun sets, and vice versa; not with the sun.
outcheat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outcheats
form: outcheating
form: outcheated
form: outcheated
Etymology: From out- + cheat.
Senses: examples: text: In fact, when the definition of infidelity includes not only “sexual intercourse” but also romantic involvement, kissing, and other sexual contact, female college students significantly outcheat their male counterparts.
ref: 2017, Esther Perel, The State of Affairs:
glosses: To exceed in cheating; to cheat more than.
outcheated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outcheat
outcheating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outcheat
outcheats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outcheat
overgross
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈɡɹəʊs/
Forms: form: more overgross
form: most overgross
Etymology: From over- + gross.
Senses: examples: text: […] and to say we may not have images and call them idols, when they represent Christ and his saints, be overgross opinions to enter into your learned head, whatsoever the unlearned would tattle.
ref: 1737-1742, Charles Dodd, The Church History of England from 1500 to 1688
glosses: Excessively gross.
overgross
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈɡɹəʊs/
Forms: form: overgrosses
form: overgrossing
form: overgrossed
form: overgrossed
Etymology: From over- + gross.
Senses: examples: text: Not a problem. Not enough weight to overgross the plane.
ref: 1999, Dana Stabenow, So Sure of Death, page 32:
text: Unalakleet was the only good fuel stop available as my outbound load from Kotzebue for that long leg was already far overgrossing my poor 145 h.p. Cessna 172.
ref: 2010, CloudDancer, Clouddancer's Alaskan Chronicles, Volume III: The Tragedies, →ISBN:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To load (a plane) with too much weight, thereby impairing its ability to fly.
unquick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unquick
form: most unquick
Etymology: From un- + quick.
Senses: examples: text: His Senses droop, his ſteddy Eyes unquick
ref: 1595, Samuel Daniel, “(please specify the folio number)”, in The First Fowre Bookes of the Ciuile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke, London: […] P[eter] Short for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:
glosses: Not quick.
vengers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of venger
dragees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dragee
nutjobber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nutjobbers
Etymology: From nut + jobber. Compare nuthacker, nutcracker.
Senses: glosses: A bird of family Sittidae; a nuthatch.
nutjobbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nutjobber
outsettler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outsettlers
Etymology: From out + settler.
Senses: glosses: Someone who settles at a distance from others, i.e. in a periphery area.
outsettlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outsettler
overprompt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overprompt
form: most overprompt
Etymology: From over- + prompt.
Senses: glosses: Too prompt or eager; precipitate.
Derived terms: overpromptness
underlooker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underlookers
Etymology: From under- + looker.
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A daily inspector of a mine.
Synonyms: underviewer
underlookers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underlooker
balmily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑːmɪli/
ipa: /ˈbɔ(l)məli/
ipa: /ˈbɑ(l)məli/
homophone: barmily (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: more balmily
form: most balmily
Etymology: From balmy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Sleep, sweet babe! my cares beguiling:
Mother sits beside thee smiling:
Sleep, my darling, tenderly!
If thou sleep not, mother mourneth,
Singing as her wheel she turneth:
Come, soft slumber, balmily.
ref: 1811, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Virgin's Cradle-hymn:
glosses: In a balmy manner.
black-hearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more black-hearted
form: most black-hearted
form: blackhearted
Etymology: From black + hearted.
Senses: glosses: Having a wicked, malignant disposition; morally bad.
geometral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more geometral
form: most geometral
Etymology: Compare French géométral.
Senses: glosses: geometric
glosses: Relating to projective geometry
Derived terms: geometrally
outreign
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outreigns
form: outreigning
form: outreigned
form: outreigned
Etymology: From out- + reign.
Senses: examples: text: On 9 September 2015, Queen Elizabeth II became Britain's longest-serving monarch, having outreigned Queen Victoria.
text: In wretched prison long he did remain ,
Țill they outreigned had their utmost
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To surpass in reigning; to reign through the whole of, or longer than.
outreigned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outreign
outreigning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outreign
outreigns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outreign
outsparkle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outsparkles
form: outsparkling
form: outsparkled
form: outsparkled
Etymology: From out- + sparkle.
Senses: examples: text: Her eyes outsparkled the jewels she wore.
ref: 1850 January, D.E.N., “The 'Thousand Islands'”, in The Knickerbacker, volume 35umber=1passage=It seems necessary to hold up to men's minds, apart from Holy Writ, something that may outsparkle the gilded lucre that so exclusively controls the energies of our times.:
text: I want you to know about Tully because he is the epitome of good health, good habits, and a great disposition with a twinkle in his eye that will outsparkle the most precious diamond.
ref: 2022, Bill Turiace, Restaurant Adventures:
text: Her cheeks were as round and red as lore-apples, and she had dancing blue eyes that appeared for ever engaged in good-natured efforts to outsparkle each other.
ref: 2022, Marie Corelli, Thelma:
glosses: To exceed in sparkling.
examples: text: a youthful wight Smiling beneath a coral diadem Outsparkling sudden like an upturn'd gem.
ref: 1818, John Keats, Endymion:
text: Or did they rise, thus rude, And curl their uncouth ring in that same age Which saw the fair-proportioned Parthenon In its first finish of Pentelic marble, Outsparkle from the hand of Phidias?
ref: 1838, John Kenyon, “Moonlight”, in Poems: For the Most Part Occasional:
text: A flushing font, a sure upheaving well, Which now outsparkled from its fountain-head To freshen even her trampled virgin wreath , Making her move aside to weep for death.
ref: 1867, George Henry Calvert, Ellen: a Poem for the Times, page 19:
glosses: To sparkle outwards.
outsparkled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outsparkle
outsparkles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outsparkle
outsparkling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outsparkle
pentagonally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pentagonal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he flovvers before explication are pentagonally vvrapped up, vvith ſome reſemblance of the blatta or moth from vvhence it hath its name: […]
ref: 1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter III.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, page 139:
glosses: In the form of a pentagon; with five angles.
unburrow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unburrows
form: unburrowing
form: unburrowed
form: unburrowed
Etymology: From un- + burrow.
Senses: synonyms: unearth
glosses: To force or lure out from a burrow.
unburrowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unburrow
unburrowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unburrow
unburrows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unburrow
pergulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pergula
pergulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pergula