cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hinters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hinter
Ahola
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Aholas
Etymology: Borrowed from Finnish Ahola.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Finnish.
Koskela
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Koskelas
Etymology: Borrowed from Finnish Koskela.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Finnish.
Niemi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Niemis
Etymology: Borrowed from Finnish Niemi.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Finnish.
Scotch arguses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Scotch argus
Salo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Salò
Etymology: From Italian Salò.
Senses: glosses: A city and municipality of Southwest Finland.
glosses: A town in Lombardy, Italy.
glosses: Ellipsis of Salo Republic.
small blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: small blues
Senses: glosses: A very small butterfly, Cupido minimus, of the lycaenid subfamily Polyommatinae, the blues
glosses: A very small butterfly, Philotiella speciosa, of the lycaenid subfamily Polyommatinae, the blues
small blues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of small blue
small copper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: small coppers
Senses: glosses: A small, copper and dark brown butterfly, Lycaena phlaeas, of the family Lycaenidae
small coppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of small copper
Laakso
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Laaksos
Etymology: Borrowed from Finnish Laakso.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Finnish.
small heath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: small heaths
Senses: glosses: A small, orange and yellow butterfly, Coenonympha pamphilus, of the family Nymphalidae.
small heaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of small heath
Lehto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lehtos
form: Lehtoes
Etymology: From Finnish Lehto.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Finnish.
Nurmi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nurmis
Etymology: Borrowed from Finnish Nurmi.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Finnish.
powder cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: powder caps
Senses: glosses: A parasitic fungus, Asterophora lycoperdoides, that lives on other mushrooms.
powder caps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of powder cap
hoatzins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoatzin
parrotlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parrotlets
Etymology: From parrot + -let.
Senses: glosses: A miniature parrot of the New World of the genera Forpus, Nannopsittaca and Touit.
Synonyms: parrotling
parrotlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parrotlet
onfall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: onfalls
Etymology: From Middle English onfal, onfalle, equivalent to on- + fall. Cognate with Dutch aanval (“an attack, assault”), German Anfall (“an attack, seizure, fit”), Swedish anfall (“an attack, offensive, assault”). Compare also Middle English onfallynge (“an onslaught, attack”).
Senses: examples: text: Are we to have military onfall; and death also by starvation?
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
text: The onfall of the bishops had helped to wreck this possibility, [...]
ref: 1906, William Henry Fitchett, Wesley and his century: a study in spiritual forces:
text: Along with your 'brethren, Get ready your scaling ladders, And your engines of onfall and assault, To attack the walls of Khung.
ref: 2004, James Legge, The Shih King:
text: Six great land battles I count, with four upon the sea, and seven-and-fifty onfalls, skirmishes and bushments.
ref: 2008, Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company:
glosses: A falling on or upon; an attack, onset, or assault.
glosses: A fall of rain or snow.
glosses: The fall of the evening.
onfall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: onfalls
form: onfalling
form: onfell
form: onfallen
Etymology: From Middle English onfal, onfalle, equivalent to on- + fall. Cognate with Dutch aanval (“an attack, assault”), German Anfall (“an attack, seizure, fit”), Swedish anfall (“an attack, offensive, assault”). Compare also Middle English onfallynge (“an onslaught, attack”).
Senses: examples: text: [...] have been formed and ripened in large numbers, especially on the shaded ower sides of the leaves, the mycelium is practically exhausted, and as these processes are completed towards the end of the summer, the leaf so onfalls.
ref: 1889, Harry Marshall Ward, Diseases of plants:
text: 'the temple caught fire from the onfallen lightning' [...]
ref: 1992, Edgar C. Polomé, Werner Winter, Reconstructing languages and cultures:
text: Quasivertical and quasihorizontal faults filled with crushed rocks can substantially change the amplitude of a seismic wave behind the fault in comparison with the amplitude of an onfalling wave [...]
ref: 2008, V. V. Adushkin, Ivan Nemchinov, Catastrophic events caused by cosmic objects:
glosses: To fall on or upon.
glosses: To assault, attack.
go-away-bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: go-away-birds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of go-away bird.
go-away-birds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of go-away-bird
stinkbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stinkbirds
Etymology: From stink + bird, referring to the strong smell of the bird.
Senses: glosses: The hoatzin.
stinkbirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stinkbird
nonconnotative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-connotative
Etymology: From non- + connotative.
Senses: examples: text: Barthes describes the punctum (the nonconnotative or denotative meaning) of the photograph (or movie still) in such a manner; the detail relevant or not relevant to the image's overall meaning becomes the focus of an otherwise forgettable picture […]
ref: 2012, Jeff Rice, Digital Detroit: Rhetoric and Space in the Age of the Network, page 160:
text: We will use the name, as the ancient Hebrews did, simply as a nonconnotative proper name referring to that individual who in fact was, and is, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
ref: 2019, William Hasker, God, Time, and Knowledge, page 92:
glosses: Not connotative.
onsend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: onsends
form: onsending
form: onsent
form: onsent
Etymology: From Middle English onsenden, from Old English onsendan (“to send out, send forth, transmit, yield up, offer to”), equivalent to on- + send.
Senses: examples: text: Through machines' capacity to store and forward, the packet of information or file can sit wherever it is until the machine is able to onsend it.
ref: 2001, Julia Rosalyn Baird, Copyright and the Internet:
text: […] to be routed through Reichsmarschall Goering's liaison to Party Leader Bormann for permission to onsend to Sicherheitsdienst/OKW/appropriate Luftforschungsamt […]
ref: 2009, Brendan Howley, John J. Loftus, The Witness Tree:
glosses: To send; send on; send out; forward; transmit.
rootworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rootworms
Etymology: From root + worm.
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Ostlie, at the University of Minnesota, said he had permission from three companies in 2007 to compare how well their insect-resistant corn varieties fared against the rootworms found in his state.
ref: 2009 February 20, Andrew Pollack, “Crop Scientists Say Biotechnology Seed Companies Are Thwarting Research”, in New York Times:
glosses: A worm that tunnels through the roots of young plants.
rootworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rootworm
biodynamically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From biodynamic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Aside from a preference for wines from grapes grown organically or biodynamically, Ms. Feiring has one major rule for pairing wine with highly spiced foods: “Oak and high alcohol don’t work,” she said.
ref: 2009 February 25, Eric Asimov, “Asian Fusion, via the Wine List”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a biodynamic manner.
undercelebrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undercelebrated
form: most undercelebrated
Etymology: From under- + celebrated.
Senses: examples: text: In “The Recognitions,” the famously undercelebrated doorstop by William Gaddis, the virtuosity of a painter who makes counterfeit “undiscovered” paintings by Flemish masters is the vehicle through which Gaddis questions the genuineness of other forms of art, life and religion.
ref: 2009 February 26, Cintra Wilson, “When Your Clothes Have a Backstory”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not having received as much fame as one deserves.
appendaged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From appendage + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having appendages.
Derived terms: unappendaged
deployer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deployers
Etymology: From deploy + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Ross is one of New York’s most prominent developers, the chairman of the Real Estate Board of New York, and a prolific campaign contributor and deployer of lobbyists in Albany.
ref: 2009 February 27, David M. Halbfinger, “Paterson Adviser Has Private Clients and Public Ties”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who, or that which, deploys.
deployers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deployer
gammaherpesvirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gammaherpesviruses
Senses: glosses: Any of the subfamily Gammaherpesvirinae of herpesviruses that reproduce at a relatively variable rate.
gammaherpesviral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the gammaherpesviruses.
benorth
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: "No, no, landlord," answered a strong deep voice behind him, "it's e'en because your English gaugers and supervisors, that you have sent down benorth the Tweed, have taen up the trade of thievery over the heads of the native professors."
ref: 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy:
glosses: North of.
dysgammaglobulinemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dysgammaglobulinemias
Etymology: From dys- + gamma globulin + -emia.
Senses: glosses: An immune disorder characterized by a reduction in some (but not all) types of gamma globulins.
dysgammaglobulinemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dysgammaglobulinemia
EEHV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus.
endotheliotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Senses: examples: text: Researchers say the disease, elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus, has killed one of five Asian elephant calves born in North American zoos since 2000.
ref: 2009 February 27, Malcolm Gay, “U.S. Zookeepers Wary of Herpes Virus Attacking Asian Elephants”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having an affinity for endothelial cells.
fampridine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Ron Cohen, Acorda’s chief executive, said fampridine, if approved, would sell for about $5,000 to $10,000 a year.
ref: 2009 February 27, Andrew Pollack, “In Trial, Drug Eases a Symptom of MS”, in New York Times:
glosses: The drug dalfampridine.
multidisciplined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multidisciplined
form: most multidisciplined
Etymology: From multi- + disciplined.
Senses: examples: text: PERFORMANCE MIX FESTIVAL (Friday, Saturday and Tuesday through Thursday) The Joyce’s Web site says that this festival, presented by the New Dance Alliance, offers “over 35 multidisciplined artists.”
ref: 2009 February 27, The New York Times, “Dance Listings”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of multidiscipline.
dalfampridine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dælˈfæmpɹɪdiːn/
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: 4-aminopyridine, one of the three isomeric amines of pyridine, used in research and to manage symptoms of multiple sclerosis.
Synonyms: fampridine
nannydom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nanny + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: […]some of the aspects of nannydom that are sheer drudgery: changing diapers and washing bottles and singing nonsense songs over and over.
ref: 2009 February 27, Susan Dominus, “Becoming a Nanny: Less Money, More Joy”, in New York Times:
glosses: The realm or sphere of nannies.
prehumans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prehuman
miniorchestra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miniorchestras
Etymology: From mini- + orchestra.
Senses: examples: text: The seven-member Bell Orchestre was indeed a miniorchestra, with strings, brass, woodwinds and percussion along with occasional guitar and analog electronic noise.
ref: 2009 February 28, Jon Pareles, “Turf-Sharing, When Indie Met Classical”, in New York Times:
glosses: A small orchestra.
night lizard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: night lizards
Etymology: These lizards were once (wrongly) thought to be nocturnal.
Senses: glosses: Any of the family Xantusiidae of very small, viviparous lizards.
Synonyms: xantusiid
night lizards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of night lizard
small skipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: small skippers
Senses: examples: text: Researchers found that 15 of 17 species which commonly live on farmland – including the small tortoiseshell, small skipper and wall butterfly – show declines associated with increasing neonic use. […] The Essex skipper declined by 67% between 2000 and 2009 and the small skipper declined by 62% in the same period.
ref: 2015 November 24, Patrick Barkham, “Pesticide may be reason butterfly numbers are falling in UK, says study”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A small, bright orange and brown butterfly, Thymelicus sylvestris, of the family Hesperiidae.
antinaturalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antinaturalist
form: most antinaturalist
Etymology: From anti- + naturalist.
Senses: examples: text: Ms. Callaghan, 36, is a genre-scoffing playwright whose antinaturalist works (“Dead City,” “Crawl, Fade to White”) have earned a downtown following.
ref: 2009 March 1, Erik Piepenburg, “Play as Provocation (Jell-O Included)”, in New York Times:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Opposing or rejecting naturalism.
antinaturalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antinaturalists
Etymology: From anti- + naturalist.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: One who opposes or rejects naturalism.
antinaturalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antinaturalist
hubcapped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hubcap + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The man driving the now-three-hubcapped car didn't notice and kept driving to his destination, which turned out to be Wal-Mart.
ref: 2009, Jenni Schaefer, Goodbye Ed, Hello Me, page 200:
text: While I was waiting, a gold-hubcapped car full of guys playing ridiculously loud rap music pulled up at the curb in front of me.
ref: 2010, Mika Brzezinski, Daniel Paisner, All Things at Once, page 86:
glosses: Having hubcaps (of a specified number or kind).
small skippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of small skipper
dismembrator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dismembrators
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Arnold, mop-headed and boyish at 37, is spectacularly fond of his toys: the rotary evaporator he uses in a makeshift still, for instance, or the sonic dismembrator he used to make a hot buttered rum devoid of the fatty slick on its surface.
ref: 2009 March 1, Jonathan Miles, “Baptism of Fire”, in New York Times:
glosses: A device that removes the membrane from liquid.
dismembrators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dismembrator
envisionings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of envisioning
envisionment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: envisionments
Etymology: From envision + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: Wallace Berman’s “Aleph,” made and frequently revised between 1956 and 1966, uses shaky newsreel and home-movie footage obscured by paint, scratches and Letraset symbols applied directly to the celluloid to evoke a more hardcore experience, one that Mr. Brakhage described as “the only true envisionment of the ’60s I know.”
ref: 2009 March 1, Dave Kehr, “Marching Backward Into the Avant-Garde”, in New York Times:
glosses: The process or result of envisioning.
envisionments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of envisionment
recreatest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: recreate + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of recreate
intrazonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + zonal.
Senses: glosses: Within a single zone.
linework
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From line + work.
Senses: examples: text: Dalrymple’s linework, tremulous and twitchy, and Paul Hornschemeier’s muted colors don’t look much like any other superhero comics; there’s a sense of human frailty to their characters that inverts the muscles-and-action tradition.
ref: 2009 March 1, Douglas Wolk, “The First Action Heroes”, in New York Times:
topics: art
arts
glosses: The technique of drawing lines.
midcry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + cry.
Senses: examples: text: Nobody had flown beside an osprey, painted by Audubon as if seen aloft by a companion bird, gripping a fish in its talons and opening its beak in midcry.
ref: 2009 March 1, Jonathan Rosen, “The Fledgling Ornithologist”, in New York Times:
glosses: A point in time during a cry.
midcourters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midcourter
Highland Gaelic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Scottish Gaelic language, as distinguished from the now defunct dialects of Lowland Gaelic.
mugham
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /muˈɡɑm/
Forms: form: mughams
form: mugam
Etymology: From Azerbaijani muğam. Doublet of maqam, muqam, and makam.
Senses: examples: text: But the more complicated issue was that the sections composed for orchestra and chorus, in the style of a 19th-century Italian opera, seemed entirely separate from the mugham sections, long improvisations in which Mr. Qasimov interprets the plight of Majnun using one of the 24 different mughams specified by Hajibeyov.
ref: 2009 March 1, Meline Toumani, “For the Love of Layla”, in New York Times:
glosses: A musical composition of Azerbaijan in a complex form that blends classical poetry and musical improvisation.
Derived terms: jazz mugham
mughams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mugham
dhrupad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi ध्रुपद (dhrupad).
Senses: examples: text: Sitar prodigy Kartik Seshadri, now in his late 30s, began studying with Ravi Shankar in 1974, immersing himself in senia and dhrupad, a couple of distinctive northern Indian performing traditions.
ref: 1996 September 20, Ted Shen, “Kartik Seshadri”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: A vocal genre in Hindustani classical music
nonzealot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonzealots
Etymology: From non- + zealot.
Senses: examples: text: But like all zealots, Jindal is oblivious to how nonzealots see him.
ref: 2009 March 1, Frank Rich, “The Ecstasy and the Agony”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who is not a zealot.
nonzealots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonzealot
dignifiedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dignifiedly
form: most dignifiedly
Etymology: From dignified + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: As for the mulatto waiter, after a moment more of hesitation, he took Ford's order, and walked dignifiedly away, muttering,-- "Nebber seen de like afore.
ref: 1884, William O. Stoddard, Dab Kinzer:
text: The morning after the perfection of the invention Simpson called upon Mr. Grampus and calmly, coldly, and dignifiedly announced that his lock was complete, and that he was now about to install it in the Grampus front door.
ref: 1899, Stanley Waterloo, The Wolf's Long Howl:
text: The tea had been poured and handed around the table by the Portuguese girl, Marie, and the sugar-bowl was going after, when she settled herself and her ruffles daintily between Grant and a braided, green-blanketed, dignifiedly loquacious Indian.
ref: 1912, B. M. Bower, Good Indian:
glosses: in a dignified manner
disburthen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disburthens
form: disburthening
form: disburthened
form: disburthened
Etymology: From dis- + burthen.
Senses: examples: text: He told me he did not come as ordinary of the place, whose business it is to extort confessions from prisoners, for private ends, or for the further detecting of other offenders; that his business was to move me to such freedom of discourse as might serve to disburthen my own mind, and furnish him to administer comfort to me as far as was in his power; and assured me, that whatever I said to him should remain with him, and be as much a secret as if it was known only to God and myself; and that he desired to know nothing of me, but as above to qualify him to apply proper advice and assistance to me, and to pray to God for me.
ref: 1722 (indicated as 1721), [Daniel Defoe], The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c. […], London: […] W[illiam Rufus] Chetwood, […]; and T. Edling, […], published 1722, →OCLC:
text: The desert Pelican had built her nest / In that deep solitude. / And now returned from distant flight / Fraught with the river stream, / Her load of water had disburthened there. / Her young in the refreshing bath / Sported all wantonness; […]
ref: 1801, Robert Southey, “The Fifth Book”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume I, London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], →OCLC, pages 258–259:
text: I heard my sister's sobs, and thought, happy are women who can weep, and in a passionate caress disburthen the oppression of their feelings; shame and habitual restraint hold back a man.
ref: 1826, [Mary Shelley], The Last Man. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
text: I waited now his return; eager to disburthen my mind, and to seek of him the solution of the enigma that perplexed me.
ref: 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: When we have new perception we shall gladly disburthen the memory of the hoarded treasures as old rubbish.
ref: 1914, Margaret Bird Steinmetz, Leaves of Life:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of disburden.
disprofit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disprofits
form: disprofiting
form: disprofited
form: disprofited
Etymology: From dis- + profit.
Senses: glosses: To be, or to cause to be, without profit or benefit.
disprofit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dis- + profit.
Senses: examples: text: And whereas he sought profit, he fell into double disprofit, that neither with good men he could avoid secret shame
ref: 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC:
text: Adjectives signifying profit or disprofit, likeness or unlikeness govern the dative.
ref: 1851, Goold Brown, The Grammar of English Grammars:
glosses: Loss; damage.
dividedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dividedly
form: most dividedly
Etymology: From divided + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: If God be omnipresent, he cannot be so dividedly, a part of him here and a part 28 Ibid. pp. 1, 16. 29 Ibid. pp. 48, 142, 174. 30 Vishnu Purana, p. 57. 31 Ibid. p. 651. 32 Rammohun Roy, Translations from the Veda, 2d ed., London, 1832, pp. 69, 39, 10. of him there; but the whole of him must be in every particle of matter, in every point of space, in all infinitude.
ref: 1880, William Rounseville Alger, The Destiny of the Soul:
text: She was dividedly conscious of a desire to laugh and of the notion that she must remain outwardly serious, because though this horrible Pemberton man was talking abject nonsense, she would presently be having him as a dinner-guest.
ref: 1915, James Branch Cabell, The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck:
glosses: in a divided manner
recolorization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recolorizations
Etymology: From re- + colorization.
Senses: examples: text: ASHES OF TIME REDUX The Hong Kong stylist Wong Kar-wai has retrofitted his 1994 martial arts fantasia with a digital recolorization, some re-editing and a new score featuring Yo-Yo Ma.
ref: 2009 March 1, Dave Kehr, “Marching Backward Into the Avant-Garde”, in New York Times:
glosses: The process or result of recolorizing.
recolorizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recolorization
rusalka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rusalkas
form: rusalky
form: rusalki
Etymology: From Russian руса́лка (rusálka, “mermaid, siren”). Doublet of rosalia.
Senses: examples: text: She is now a rusalka, a water spirit; in revenge she sends their daughter, a rusalochka, to lure him into the water.
ref: 2009 March 1, Alastair Macaulay, “What Do Aquawomen Want?”, in New York Times:
qualifier: Slavic mythology
glosses: A female water spirit that leads handsome men to their deaths underwater.
Hypernyms: siren
Related terms: english: Ukrainian folklore
translation: Ukrainian folklore
word: mavka
word: naiad
topics: mythology
mysticism
philosophy
human-sciences
sciences
word: nymph
rusbanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rusbank
rusalki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rusalka
rusalky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rusalka
rusalkas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rusalka
unholdable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + holdable.
Senses: examples: text: Huldebrand wants Undine because she’s unholdable, impalpable.
ref: 2009 March 1, Alastair Macaulay, “What Do Aquawomen Want?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Impossible to hold.
doubtsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more doubtsome
form: most doubtsome
Etymology: From doubt + -some.
Senses: examples: text: But to returne to the purpose, as these formes, wherein Sathan oblishes himselfe to the greatest of the Magicians, are wounderfull curious; so are the effectes correspondent vnto the same: For he will oblish himselfe to teach them artes and sciences, which he may easelie doe, being so learned a knaue as he is: To carrie them newes from anie parte of the worlde, which the agilitie of a Spirite may easelie performe: to reueale to them the secretes of anie persons, so being they bee once spoken, for the thought none knowes but GOD; except so far as yee may ghesse by their countenance, as one who is doubtleslie learned, inough in the Physiognomie: Yea, he will make his schollers to creepe in credite with Princes, by fore-telling them manie greate thinges; parte true, parte false: For if all were false, he would tyne credite at all handes; but alwaies doubtsome, as his Oracles were.
ref: 1597, King James I, Daemonologie.:
text: But such is the liberal doctrine of the boasted Roman Catholic Church, and such the sandy foundation of that "general and doubtsome faith" which the witnesses renounce.
ref: 1870, David Steele, Notes On The Apocalypse:
text: Well, I got along to me room, sick an' sorry enough, an' doubtsome whether I might get in wid no key.
ref: 1894, Arthur Morrison, Martin Hewitt, Investigator:
text: That since the Popish faith abjured is a doubtsome faith, the Protestant faith, sworn to be maintained, is an assured faith, as we heard before from the Old Confession, to which the covenant refers.
ref: 1828, Edward Fisher, Thomas Boston, The Marrow of Modern Divinity:
text: Where he sees the law doubtsome or rigorous, he may interpret or mitigate the same, lest otherwise summum jus be summa injuria [the greatest right be the greatest wrong]: and therefore general laws made publicly in parliament may upon.
ref: 2003, Marvin Perry, Joseph R. Peden, Theodore Hermann Von Laue, Sources of the Western Tradition:
glosses: Characterised or marked by doubt; doubtful.
unhousedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unhoused + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: To provide a focus for this concept, George Steiner introduces the idea of extra-territoriality, explained in the foreword and the first essay as the emergence of linguistic “unhousedness” in great writers.
ref: 1972, The Tablet, volume 226, page 546:
text: There is not only an unhousedness in language — how to convey, to say nothing of converge — but an unhousedness of place.
ref: 2009 March 1, The Editors, “Up Front: Joy Williams”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being unhoused.
drabby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: drabbier
form: drabbiest
Etymology: From drab + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The ground-colour is a pale drabby stone-colour, and all about the large end is a broad dense zone of dull brownish purple.
ref: 1889, Allan O. Hume, The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1:
text: Oh, there was no warmth in the sunlight, and the sky was a drabby gray, and he was filled with bitterness unutterable. "
ref: 1921, William Patterson White, The Heart of the Range:
glosses: pale, lacking color.
drabbier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of drabby: more drabby
drabbiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of drabby: most drabby
dragge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dragges
form: dragging
form: dragged
form: dragged
Senses: examples: text: Away with him, cut of his head and handes, And send them for a present to the Pope: And when this just revenge is finished, Unto mount Faucon will we dragge his coarse: And he that living hated so the crosse, Shall being dead, be hangd thereon in chaines.
ref: 1594, Christopher Marlowe, Massacre at Paris:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of drag.
wellknown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wellknown
form: most wellknown
Senses: examples: text: Elie Wiesel has become so wellknown a crusader against hatred, violence and persecution that one can forget he has also been, from the beginning, a writer.
ref: 2009 March 1, Mike Peed, “The Persistence of Guilt”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of well-known.
drawly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɔː.li/
Forms: form: drawlier
form: drawliest
Etymology: From drawl + -y.
Senses: examples: text: They generly had on yellow straw hats most as wide as an umbrella, but didn't wear no coats nor waistcoats, they called one another Bill, and Buck, and Hank, and Joe, and Andy, and talked lazy and drawly, and used considerable many cuss words.
ref: 1884, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Complete:
text: She heard his deep, drawly voice urging the unwisdom of sleeping with calked boots on, and Beaton's hiccupy response.
ref: 1916, Bertrand W. Sinclair, Big Timber:
glosses: Having a drawling sound.
raw_tags: of a voice
sprawly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɹɔː.li/
Forms: form: sprawlier
form: sprawliest
Etymology: From sprawl + -y.
Senses: glosses: sprawling.
mistelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mistell
mistelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mistellings
Senses: examples: text: The story's original meaning has become lost after years of mistellings.
glosses: An incorrect telling.
akonting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: akontings
form: ekonting
Etymology: Borrowed from Jola-Fonyi.
Senses: examples: text: But there’s no less spirit in the singing and thumb piano playing of Ruth Akello, an unheralded Ugandan, or in the banjo-like akonting playing of the Jatta family, in Gambia.
ref: 2009 March 2, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in New York Times:
glosses: A folk lute of the Jola people of West Africa; a banjo-like instrument with a skin-headed gourd body, two long melody strings, and one short drone string.
coua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: couas
Etymology: From French coua, from Malagasy koa, an onomatopoeia for its cry.
Senses: glosses: A terrestrial bird of the genus Coua, in the cuckoo family.
mistold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mistell
couas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coua
dreamful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dreamful
form: most dreamful
Etymology: From dream + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Give us long rest or death, dark death or dreamful ease!
ref: 1832 December (indicated as 1833), Alfred Tennyson, “The Lotos-Eaters”, in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, stanza IV, page 113:
glosses: Dreamy
Derived terms: dreamfully
dreamfulness
dreamful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dreamfuls
form: dreamsful
Etymology: From dream + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: It is filled with dreamfuls of Genii, and Houris, and beautiful slave girls, and the almost unimaginable pomp of the Commander of the Faithful, with his black banner; and oh! such moonlight nights, and illuminated pavilions, and sleeping boats upon silent streams, and the mufti, and the minaret, and the call to prayer, and the pilgrimages to Mecca, and the prodigious endurances of persecution and privation volunteered for what in our occidental selfishness of superstition is condemned as monstrous and madness, but what, if only by means of the medium of poetry through which we behold it, enforces a feeling that cannot be profane to call reverence, while we deny it our worship, and the creed, like the country,has with all its loveliness, its darkened places, and its many a tale of terror.
ref: 1968, John Sullivan Dwight, Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature, page 82:
text: Or Mistral, after the dry wind and for her who wished a fisher's daughter a dreamful of fish, leaping and aglow.
ref: 1993, Bomb, page 83:
text: Last night I gathered dreamsful, a brown shopping bag tearing under their weight.
ref: 2009, Patricia Goodrich, Red Mud, page 25:
glosses: As much as one can dream about.
mistelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˈstɛl/
enpr: mĭ-stĕlʹ
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: mistelles
form: mistella
Etymology: From French mistelle, Spanish mistela, from Italian mistella, from misto (“mixed”).
Senses: glosses: A drink produced by adding alcohol to grape juice.
mistelles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mistelle
lehendakari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lehendakaris
Etymology: Borrowed from Basque lehendakari.
Senses: examples: text: A vote to choose the new Basque leader, or lehendakari, is expected this week.
ref: 2009 March 2, Victoria Burnett, “Nationalists in Basque Losing Vote in Assembly”, in New York Times:
glosses: The president of the Basque government.
emendatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more emendatory
form: most emendatory
Senses: examples: text: We can judge of the probable success of this course, by the various laws passed to alter, or amend, or repeal, previous emendatory acts.
ref: 1831, Various, The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831:
text: I do so in the hope that perhaps I may recall something which they have forgotten to make known, or that what I say may elicit from them available emendatory remarks.
ref: 1924, Various, Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting:
glosses: Pertaining to emendation; corrective
allomothering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of allomother
allomothering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: They’re so big (read: hungry) and so slow to grow to independence, that allomothering – infant care from other than the mother – not only from a baby’s grandmother, maternal aunts and sisters, but also from the baby’s brothers, father and his kin, enabled us to continue and maybe even thrive under these conditions.
ref: 2017 August 9, Holly Dunsworth, Anne Buchanan, “Sex makes babies”, in Aeon:
glosses: The provision of infant care from someone other than the mother.
allomothered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of allomother
entozoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entozoa
form: entozoons
Senses: examples: text: The discovery that a disorder known as "the staggers," of which many thousands of sheep have died annually, is caused by an entozoon which presses on the brain, and that if the creature is extracted through the softened place in the skull which marks its position, the sheep usually recovers, is another debt which agriculture owes to biology.
ref: 1903, Herbert Spencer, Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects:
glosses: Any of various microscopic parasitic worms previously classified together under the grouping Entozoa.
Derived terms: entozoology
entozoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entozoon
entozoa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entozoan
glosses: plural of entozoon
enthusiastical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more enthusiastical
form: most enthusiastical
Etymology: From enthusiastic + -al.
Senses: examples: text: --The conversation we have had, as well as the reflections of my own mind on past events, would, if I were condemned to my body again, teach me great moderation in my judgments of persons who might happen to differ from me in difficult scenes of public action; they would entirely cure me of the spirit of party, and make me think that as in the Church, so also in the State, no evil is more to be feared than a rancorous and enthusiastical zeal.
ref: 1889, Lord Lyttelton, Dialogues of the Dead:
glosses: enthusiastic
hypersociality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + sociality.
Senses: examples: text: “I’m not comfortable accepting this idea that the origins of hypersociality can be found in warfare, or that in-group amity arose in the interest of out-group enmity,” she said in a telephone interview.
ref: 2009 March 3, Natalie Angier, “In a Helpless Baby, the Roots of Our Social Glue”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being hypersocial.
epibranchial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From epi- + branchial.
Senses: examples: text: 1920, Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, Volumes 8-9, Royal Society of South Africa, page 92,
According to T. J. Parker, they probably represent the epibranchial region of the second branchial arch, and Beddard also refers them to the same arch.
text: We demonstrate that in the chick head, integration between the epibranchial placodes and the hindbrain is achieved as the neuroglial hindbrain crest cells guide the epibranchial neuronal cells inward to establish their central connections.
ref: 2001 October 19, Jo Begbie, Anthony Graham, “Integration Between the Epibranchial Placodes and the Hindbrain”, in Science, volume 294, number 5542, →DOI, pages 595–598:
topics: anatomy
biology
embryology
fish
ichthyology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to a segment, below (more ventral than) the pharyngobranchial segment and above (more dorsal than) the ceratobranchial segment, on either side of a branchial arch (in a fish) or of a pharyngeal arch (in the embryo of a vertebrate).
Derived terms: epibranchial organ
Related terms: epihyal
epibranchial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epibranchials
Etymology: From epi- + branchial.
Senses: examples: text: The fourth and fifth epibranchials of other genera have the same tendency as these clupeids and salmonids.
ref: 1969, Gunnar Bertmar, B. G. Kapoor, Robert Victor Miller, “Epibranchial Organs in Lower Teleostean Fishes-An Example of Structural Adaptation”, in William J. L. Felts, Richard J. Harrison, editors, International Review of General and Experimental Zoology, Volume 4, Academic Press, page 41:
text: In the place where Howes's (1985b) fig. 9 identifies epibranchial 4, our Gonorynchus specimen has both epibranchials 4 and epibranchial 5, not in contact except at their dorsal fusion and ventral articulation, as illustrated in Monad (1963, fig. 40) (epibranchial 5 identified as "cartilage semilunaire").
ref: 1996, Sarah V. Fink, William L. Fink, “Chapter 11: Interrelationships of Ostariophysan Fishes (Teleostei)”, in Melanie L.J. Stiassny, Lynne R. Parenti, G. David Johnson, editors, Interrelationships of Fishes, Academic Press, page 231:
text: Branchial abductors move the epibranchials apart, opening the gill slits.
ref: 2000, Stephen M. Deban, David B. Wake, “Chapter 3: Aquatic Feeding in Salamanders”, in Kurt Schwenk, editor, Feeding: Form, Function and Evolution in Tetrapod Vertebrates, Academic Press, page 74:
topics: anatomy
biology
fish
ichthyology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: An epibranchial cartilage or bone.
Related terms: epihyal
nondeadly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + deadly.
Senses: examples: text: Deputy Rackard’s lawyers, in an appeals court brief last year, said the use of “moderate nondeadly force in the face of spirited, though nonviolent, resistance was a reasonably proportionate response.”
ref: 2009 March 3, Adam Liptak, “Supreme Court Enters the YouTube Era”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not deadly.
equiponderant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: æquiponderant
Senses: examples: text: In an absolute government there can be no such equiponderant parties.
ref: 1803, Thomas Jefferson, Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson:
text: Thus, the scales of my philosophical balance remain eternally equiponderant, and I see no reason to say of either of them, OICHETAI EIS AIDAO[15.1]."
ref: 1837, Thomas Love Peacock, Headlong Hall:
glosses: Having equal weight.
Related terms: equipoise
bourride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /bəˈɹiːd/
Forms: form: bourrides
Etymology: French
Senses: examples: text: Place 2 baguette toast slices in each of 4 soup plates, spoon in bourride and top with another slice of toast and minced fennel fronds.
ref: 2009 March 4, Florence Fabricant, “Scallop Bourride”, in New York Times:
glosses: A dish made with monkfish, mayonnaise, and a vegetable brunoise.
bourrides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bourride
esclandre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: esclandres
Etymology: French. Doublet of slander and scandal
Senses: examples: text: The simple truth, if adhered to, might not have answered the purposes of the narrator, because lapses from conjugal fidelity are unhappily not crimes unknown or unpardonable in Italy; but when to it were added exaggerated representations of the disgraceful esclandre of a public elopement, and the death of the deserted husband, stated to have been caused by the misconduct of the wife, the utmost indignation was excited.
ref: 1835, Countess of Blessington, chapter XLVI, in The Two Friends:
text: "Not a word to my mother!" Pen cried out, in a state of great alarm. "She would never get over it. An esclandre of that sort would kill her, I do believe. […]"
ref: 1850, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter XVI, in Pendennis:
text: One might suppose that this flood of summonses caused consternation. It did not, because the boodlers were too strongly entrenched to fear an attack; bribery had been too long rampant to expect a sudden pruning and too many prominent St. Louisans were involved to permit the esclandre going very far.
ref: 1904, Claude Hazeltine Wetmore, chapter IV, in The Battle Against Bribery: Being the Only Complete Narrative of Joseph W. Folk's Warfare on Boodlers, Including Also the Story of the Get-rich-quick Concerns and the Exposure of Bribery in the Missouri Legislature:
text: Castlereagh and Emily took Frederick under their care and tried to provide a steady influence for the boy. AfterEton he had initially attended Oxford, where—according to Walter Scott—"there was some esclandre or other which forced him to move to Edinburgh University […]
ref: 2012, John Bew' Castlereagh: A Life, Chapter 19
glosses: An incident that occasions much disapproving talk; scandalous conduct; a scene.
examples: text: The old Lord had, wisely enough, settled in his will that Lucia was to enjoy the interest of her fortune from the time that she came out, provided she did not marry without her guardian's leave; and Scoutbush, to avoid esclandre and misery, thought it as well to waive the proviso, and paid her her dividends as usual.
ref: 1901, Charles Kingsley, Two Years Ago, Volume I:
glosses: Infamy.
gruntlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gruntlike
form: most gruntlike
Etymology: From grunt + -like.
Senses: examples: text: “Haa mmm,” Mr. Serundori says, emitting a special gruntlike gorilla greeting that miraculously stops Kabirizi in midcharge.
ref: 2009 March 4, Jeffrey Gettleman, “In Congo, With Rebels Now at Bay, Calm Erupts”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a grunt.
gruntingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gruntingly
form: most gruntingly
Etymology: From grunting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With a grunting sound.
estimably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more estimably
form: most estimably
Etymology: From estimable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The name of the sisters Frank stood estimably at the head of this useful establishment; but it is a question whether it would have prospered to such an extent, whether it would have developed itself so beautifully and well without the assistance of a person who, however, has carefully concealed his activity from the eye of the public, and whose name, for that reason, was never praised.
ref: 1853, Fredrika Bremer, The Home:
text: He had turned her adrift, neither a wife, widow, nor maid, and here she was, one of the most estimably lovable and noble women I have ever met.
ref: 1901, Miles Franklin, “Aunt Helen’s Recipe”, in My Brilliant Career, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 70:
text: Director Breillat, screenwriter for Maurice Pialat's estimably gritty Police (1985), thoroughly demolishes every trace of prurience, instead focusing on the almost dizzying conflict within Lili--her confusion over her hunger for life and her anger at it.
ref: 1989 April 7, Kurt Jacobsen, “Losing It”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: In an estimable manner; deserving of esteem.
gruntings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹʌntɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of grunting