cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
epithalamiums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epithalamium
epithalamia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epithalamium
squinancywort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From squinancy + wort.
Senses: glosses: Asperula cynanchica, a perennial plant with small pink or white flowers, formerly used as a medicinal herb against quinsy.
Synonyms: quinsywort
quinsywort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From quinsy + wort.
Senses: glosses: squinancywort
squinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squink
squinks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of squink
quininic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A nitrogenous acid obtained as a yellow crystalline substance by the oxidation of quinine.
Moorhead
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈmɔːrhɛd/
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A city in Monona County, Iowa, United States.
examples: text: Between 2000 and 2019, North Dakota and South Dakota both experienced a rapid increase in the Asian American population, said Minnesota State University Moorhead marketing professor Hyun Sang An.
ref: 2024 March 19, Amy Felegy, “Food for everyone: Fargo international market serves diversifying population”, in MPR News:
glosses: A city, the county seat of Clay County, Minnesota, United States.
glosses: A city in Sunflower County, Mississippi, United States.
quinoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quinoid
quinogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From quinine + -gen.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hypothetical radical of quinine and related alkaloids.
quinquevir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quinquevirs
form: quinqueviri
Etymology: From Latin quīnquevir.
Senses: glosses: One of five commissioners appointed for some special object.
Related terms: quinqueviral
quinquevirate
quinquevirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quinquevir
quinquevalence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being quinquevalent.
quinquethiophenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quinquethiophene
quinquesyllable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quinquesyllables
Etymology: From quinque- + syllable.
Senses: glosses: A word of five syllables.
Synonyms: pentasyllable
Related terms: quinquesyllabic
quinquesyllables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quinquesyllable
quinquesyllabic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quinque- + syllabic.
Senses: glosses: Having five syllables.
Synonyms: pentasyllabic
Related terms: quinquesyllable
quinquesyllabic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quinquesyllabics
Etymology: From quinque- + syllabic.
Senses: glosses: A word of five syllables.
quizzism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From quiz + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: What quizzism could he have been afraid of, adopting the language of the hero victors? Lord Burleigh had not this fear when he made his reply to Walsingham.
ref: 1838, Robert Isaac Wilberforce, Samuel Wilberforce, The life of William Wilberforce: Volume 3, page 241:
text: Look intelligent, penetrating, and vivacious, with a shade of quizzism, and, at times, of severity.
ref: 1865, Mariano Aguirre de Venero, New system of physiognomony, ^([sic]):
glosses: The act or habit of quizzing.
quitchgrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quitch grass
Etymology: From quitch + grass.
Senses: examples: text: If your Hops are old and ill-husbanded, or worn out of heart, then about the beginning of Winter dig about them, and take away as much of the old barren Earth as you can, and apply good fat Mould or Compost to their Roots: If you cannot do it so soon, do not neglect it longer than January, or February, if the Weather be open, such Winter-dressings being a principal Renewal of decayed Hops; it will likewise kill the Weeds, Quitchgrass, &c.
ref: 1708, John Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry, Or, The Way of Managing and Improving Land, London, page 135:
text: 1840, Robert Browning, Sordello, Book IV, in Sordello; Strafford; Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1863, p. 112,
The thoroughfares were overrun with weed
— Docks, quitchgrass, loathly mallows no man plants.
text: 1888, Hawaiian Planters’ Monthly, Honolulu: Planters’ Labor and Supply Co., Volume VII, p. 486,
[…] the weed called honohono in Hawaiian, popularly known abroad as Quitchgrass—a weed which every planter in wet districts on our islands has been troubled with and found to be a costly enemy.
text: Other enemies, like the smaller weeds, he could overcome, but injustice, that quitch grass of life, was what stung him to fury.
ref: 1917, Hiram Alfred Cody, chapter 5, in Under Sealed Orders, Toronto: McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, page 47:
glosses: A species of grass, Elymus repens.
nonisomerized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + isomerized.
Senses: glosses: Not isomerized.
quoil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quoils
Senses: examples: text: […]a kettle or iron pot with a quoil or two of inch rope faſtened to its bale[…]
ref: 1763, A new and complete dictionary of arts and sciences: Volume 1, page 823:
text: The sooner the grass can be got into quoils the better, for not only does the quoil stage give temporary protection but hay makes a good deal in quoil.
ref: 1945, Frank Fraser Darling, Crofting agriculture: its practice in the West Highlands and islands:
glosses: Archaic form of coil.
quoils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quoil
quohogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quohog
unhypnotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌn.hɪpˈnɒ.tɪk/
rhymes: -ɒtɪk
Forms: form: more unhypnotic
form: most unhypnotic
Etymology: From un- + hypnotic.
Senses: glosses: Not hypnotic.
quiritation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin quiritatio, from quiritare, "to raise a plaintive cry".
Senses: examples: text: How is it then with thee, O Saviour, that thou thus astonishest men and angels with so woeful a quiritation ?
ref: 1612–1626, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volume (please specify |volume=II, V, or VI), London, →OCLC:
glosses: A crying for help.
quinological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quinology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to quinology.
quinologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quinologists
Etymology: From quinology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies quinology.
quinologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quinologist
quinology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From quinine + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The science of the cultivation of cinchona and its use in medicine as quinine.
Related terms: quinological
quinologist
quinquepartite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quinque- + partite.
Senses: glosses: Consisting of five parts.
quinnat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪnət/
ipa: /ˈkwɪnət/
Forms: form: quinnat
form: quinnats
form: quinnet
Etymology: From Chinook ikʷanat.
Senses: synonyms: quinnat salmon
glosses: Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, the chinook salmon.
quinnats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quinnat
Thainess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Thai + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being Thai.
Cambodianness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Cambodian + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being Cambodian.
quinquenerved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quinque- + nerved.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having five nerves; said of a leaf with five nearly equal nerves or ribs rising from the end of the petiole.
overwrapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overwrap
overwrapping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overwrappings
Senses: glosses: A secondary outer wrapping around an item.
overwrapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overwrap
overwrapped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overwrapped
form: most overwrapped
Senses: examples: text: Make sure the baby's not overwrapped and hot. When in doubt, babies should be underwrapped rather than overwrapped.
ref: 2013, Dr Howard Chilton, Baby on Board: Understand Your Baby's Needs in the First Twelve months, →ISBN:
text: As a result, your toddler might fall on her face, your infant might eat dirty sand, and your overwrapped or underwrapped newborn might wail unnoticed in the stroller.
ref: 2015, Jacalyn S. Burke, The Nanny Time Bomb: Navigating the Crisis in Child Care, →ISBN:
glosses: Having too many wrappings.
wantingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more wantingly
form: most wantingly
Etymology: From wanting + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: This may be a tough pill to swallow but what Christ is saying is if you look wantingly, powerfully, or lustfully after someone, you have committed adultery. This is true for the married person reading this and the single person.
ref: 2008, Ryan Dalgliesh, Love Notes, page 86:
glosses: With desire; yearningly.
watchingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more watchingly
form: most watchingly
Etymology: From watching + -ly.
Senses: glosses: While watching; with watchful attention.
watchkeeping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From watch + keeping.
Senses: glosses: The duties of a watchkeeper, i.e. keeping a lookout.
quinoxyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: quinone, oxygen, -yl
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The hypothetical radical of certain quinone derivatives related to rhodizonic acid.
cottageless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cottage + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a cottage.
liquorless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From liquor + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without liquor.
pierless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pier + -less.
Senses: examples: text: BRIGHTON, that peerless (and in future maybe pierless) resort, has a railway station, controlled by an organisation called British Rail.
ref: 1981, New Scientist (volume 92, page 80)
glosses: Without a pier.
multitabbed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + tabbed.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having multiple tabs.
Synonyms: multitab
blindless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From blind + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Blindless and carpetless, it was a bleak bedroom even in summer.
ref: 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 1, in Klee Wyck:
text: a blindless window
glosses: Without blinds.
Kaycie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kacee
form: Kacie
form: Kaycee
Senses: glosses: A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Casey.
Kaycee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kacee
form: Kacie
form: Kaycie
Senses: glosses: A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Casey.
Kacie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kacee
form: Kaycee
form: Kaycie
Senses: glosses: A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Casey.
Kacee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kacie
form: Kaycee
form: Kaycie
Senses: glosses: A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Casey.
psychobiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From psycho- + biological.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to psychobiology.
psychobiographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From psycho- + biographical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to psychobiography.
Shaelyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage.
relaxingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more relaxingly
form: most relaxingly
Etymology: From relaxing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner that relaxes.
spacelikeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spacelike + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being spacelike.
timelikeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From timelike + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being timelike.
sublimable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sublime + -able.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Capable of being sublimed or sublimated.
Related terms: sublimability
sublimableness
sublimableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sublimable + -ness.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The quality of being sublimable.
sublimability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sublime + -ability.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The quality of being sublimable.
slabby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: slabbier
form: slabbiest
Etymology: From slab (“mud, sludge”) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The Pope in sending Relicks to Princes, does as Wenches do by their Wassels at New-years-tide, they present you with a Cup, and you must drink of a slabby stuff; but the meaning is, you must give them Moneys, ten times more than it is worth.
ref: 1696, John Selden, “Pope”, in Table-Talk, London: Jacob Tonson, page 127:
glosses: Of a liquid: thick; viscous.
examples: text: When waggiſh Boys the ſtunted Beeſom ply, / To rid the ſlabby Pavement; paſs not by / E’er thou haſt held their Hands; ſome heedleſs Flirt / Will over-ſpread thy Calves with ſpatt’ring Dirt.
ref: [1716], [John] Gay, “Book II. Of Walking the Streets by Day.”, in Trivia: Or, The Art of Walking the Streets of London, London: […] Bernard Lintott, […], →OCLC, page 27:
text: I went down into the garden, intended to be prim and quaint, with avenues, and terraces, and orange-trees, and statues, and water in stone basins; and everything was green, gaunt, weedy, straggling, under grown or over grown, mildewy, damp, redolent of all sorts of slabby, clammy, creeping, and uncomfortable life.
ref: 1846, Charles Dickens, “Genoa and its Neighbourhood”, in Pictures from Italy, London: […] Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC, page 48:
glosses: Of a surface: sloppy, slimy.
examples: text: 1581, John Studley (translator), Hercules Oetaeus, Act I, in Seneca his Tenne Tragedies, Translated into Englysh, London: Thomas Marsh,
To Virgo, Leo turnes the time, and in a reaking sweate.
He buskling vp his burning Mane, doth dry the dropping south.
And swallowes vp the slabby cloudes in fyry foming mouth.
text: […] I am only to caution our labourer as to the present work, that he do not stir the ground in over-wet and slabby weather […]
ref: 1676, John Evelyn, A Philosophical Discourse of Earth, London: John Martyn, page 58:
glosses: Rainy, wet. (of weather)
Derived terms: slabbily
slabbiness
slabby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: slabbier
form: slabbiest
Etymology: From slab (“solid object that is large and flat”) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Then he set up another shop an’ hired some of us ’round here to go an’ make them big, slabby art-chairs.
ref: 1905, Robert W. Chambers, Iole, New York: D. Appleton, page 3:
text: He was big and pink and slabby with muscle, but not very hairy, for a white man.
ref: 1962, Richard McKenna, The Sand Pebbles, New York: Harper & Row, Chapter:
text: The papers were full yesterday morning, you see, of the iPad. […] a million fidget-fingered twits were salivating for the chance to show off their slabby electro-tablets […]
ref: 2010 May 30, Euan Ferguson, “Hay’s unmissable (if you can get there...)”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Composed of slabs; resembling a slab or slabs; inelegant, cumbersome, clunky.
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Characterized by smooth relatively low-angle rock face or slab that lacks significant vertical features.
slabby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slabbies
Etymology: From slab (“solid object that is large and flat”) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The employer shall supply the sawyer and tailer-out at breast bench, workers operating goose-saws, and slabbies with suitable leather aprons for use while so employed. When requested by the worker a suitable apron shall be supplied to timber stackers, lorry drivers, and machinists.
ref: 1982, New Zealand. Arbitration Court, Awards, Agreements, Orders, and Decisions Made Under the Industrial Relations Act, the Apprentices Act, and Other Industrial Legislation for the Year ..., volume 82, number 3, page 2167:
text: 'My husband worked in a sawmill,' said Gran. […] 'And his brother. Slabbies, both of them. What sort of work was that for men with brains?'
ref: 2018, Kate De Goldi, Love, Charlie Mike:
glosses: A worker who deals with timber in the form of slabs.
slabbier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of slabby: more slabby
slabbiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of slabby: most slabby
slabbering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slabber
slabbered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slabber
quinquina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quinquinas
Etymology: From New Latin quinquina, variant of cinchona.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cinchona in all its senses.
synonyms: word: cinchona in all its senses
Peruvian bark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the origin of cinchonaceous trees in the forests of Peru.
Senses: examples: text: [H]e will soon begin to like & wish for this refreshment, & will with the use of Peruvian Bark & Steel, regain his Tranquillity of Mind & Body.
ref: 1789 January 17, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana:
glosses: Cinchona bark, chiefly as used in medicine.
telecipher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teleciphers
Etymology: From tele- + cipher.
Senses: examples: text: The reason was a cipher machine known as the telecipher.
ref: 1983, James Bamford, The puzzle palace: a report on America's most secret agency:
text: In addition to the Enigma ciphers, a number of other telecipher machines were used for high-level communication.
ref: 1993, Lauren S. Bahr, Bernard Johnston (M.A.), Collier's encyclopedia: with bibliography and index: Volume 7
text: Initially, the attention was focused on the development of a telecipher machine in collaboration with Gretener.
ref: 2007, Karl de Leeuw, J. A. Bergstra, The history of information security: a comprehensive handbook, page 14:
glosses: A cipher machine that works in conjunction with a teletypewriter.
quinible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quinibles
Etymology: Latin quīnī (“five each”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An interval of a fifth, or a part sung with such intervals.
quinicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quinicines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: quinatoxine
quinotoxine
glosses: An uncrystallizable alkaloid obtained by the action of heat from quinine, with which it is isomeric.
quinicines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quinicine
uncrystallizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + crystallizable.
Senses: glosses: Not crystallizable.
quinizine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quinizines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a series of nitrogenous bases derived from quinoline, some of which are used as antipyretics.
quinizines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quinizine
quinazolinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quinazolinones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A heterocyclic chemical compound with two isomers, used as a sedative.
Hyponyms: afloqualone
cloroqualone
diproqualone
quinazolinones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quinazolinone
halofuginone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A coccidiostat used in veterinary medicine; a synthetic halogenated derivative of febrifugine.
febrifugine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Dichroa febrifuga (“the plant from which it was first isolated”) + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A quinazolinone alkaloid with antimalarial properties.
phthalazone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phthalazones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A keto-hydro derivative of phthalazine
phthalazones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phthalazone
phthalimidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phthalimidines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A derivative of phthalazine 2,3-dihydro-3-oxo-1H-isoindole
phthalimidines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phthalimidine
quinquarticular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quinque- + article + -ar.
Senses: examples: the quinquarticular controversy between Arminians and Calvinists
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: Relating to the five articles of Remonstrance.
quincuncially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: quincunxially
Etymology: From quincuncial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a quincuncial fashion.
quinia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: By saponification there is naturally formed from this compound neither quinia nor quinicia, but quinidia.
ref: 1881, American Journal of Pharmacy, volume 53, page 107:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: quinine
quiddany
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quiddanies
Etymology: From Latin cydoneum, related to quince.
Senses: glosses: A confection of quinces, in consistency between a syrup and marmalade.
quiddanies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quiddany
quickwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quickworks
Etymology: From quick + work.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: All of the submerged section of a vessel's planking.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The planking between the spirketing and the clamps.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The short planks between the portholes.
quinqueviri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quinquevir
quadrumvir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadrumvirs
Etymology: From quadri- (“four”) + morphologically the second part of triumvir (“rule by three men”). Cf. Latin quattuorvir.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of quattuorvir.
synonyms: word: quattuorvir
Related terms: quadrumvirate
quadrumvirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadrumvir
quinquevirate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quinquevirates
Etymology: From Latin quīnquevirātus, from quīnquevirī (“quinquevirs”) + -ātus (“-ate”).
Senses: glosses: An official group of five people, especially a council of five men sharing office or rule.
Synonyms: government
Coordinate terms: government
Related terms: quinquevir
quinqueviral
quinquevirates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quinquevirate
quinsied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quinsied
form: most quinsied
Etymology: From quinsy + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Afflicted with quinsy.
malphemism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malphemisms
Etymology: Blend of mal- + euphemism
Senses: glosses: dysphemism
malphemisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malphemism
quantitively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From quantitive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: quantitatively
quannet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quannets
Senses: glosses: A flat file having the handle at one side, so as to be used like a plane.
qualificators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of qualificator
insertest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: insert + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of insert
inserteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: insert + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of insert
qualificative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qualificatives
Senses: glosses: That which qualifies, modifies, or restricts; a qualifying term or statement.
qualificatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of qualificative
hieracosphinx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hieracosphinxes
Etymology: Ancient Greek ἱεράκων (hierákōn, “hawk”) and Σφίγξ (Sphínx, “Sphinx”), from σφίγγω (sphíngō, “to squeeze”)
Senses: glosses: A mythical beast found in Egyptian sculpture and European heraldry, being a lion with the head of a falcon.
Related terms: androsphinx
criosphinx
hieracosphinxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hieracosphinx
Hibernicize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /hɪˈbɜː(ɹ)nɪsaɪz/
/haɪ-/
Forms: form: Hibernicizes
form: Hibernicizing
form: Hibernicized
form: Hibernicized
form: Hibernicise
Senses: glosses: To make Irish.
Related terms: Hibernicization
Hibernicizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Hibernicize
Hibernicizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Hibernicize
Hibernicized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Hibernicize
Mozela
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mozella
Senses: examples: text: A native of Nansemond County, Va., he was the widower of Mrs. Mozela Holliman Ashe and a son of the late Bennie and Meddie Ann Lawrence Ashe.
ref: 1968 December 2, “Lonnie Ashe”, in Suffolk News-Herald, volume 46, number 290, page 10:
text: Addie Mozela Sneed, daughter of Sherman and Inez Ross, was born on June 28, 1933.
ref: 2018 April 14, “Sneed, Addie Mozela”, in Chicago Tribune, page 2-6:
text: Aunt Luella Bailey was Grandpa and Grandma’s oldest living daughter. The oldest daughter, named Mozella, died in infancy.
ref: 2020, Joice Christine Bailey Lewis, My Ancestral Voices, →ISBN:
glosses: A female given name.
glosses: A surname.
quartene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of quartane + ethylene
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: butylene
quandy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quandies
Senses: examples: text: Many were the coots, quandies, sheldrakes and loons that my father and the captain brought home from the Gurnet gunning trips.
ref: 1916, Edmund Brownell Weston, In memoriam, my father and my mother:
glosses: The long-tailed duck.
quandies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quandy
oldsquaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oldsquaws
form: old squaw
Etymology: From old + squaw.
Senses: glosses: A medium-sized seaduck (Clangula hyemalis), a long-tailed duck.
Synonyms: long-tailed duck
calloo
old wife
quandy
oldsquaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oldsquaw
Hibernicization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hibernic + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of making something Irish.
Related terms: Hibernicize
Vosges
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /voʊʒ/
rhymes: -əʊʒ
Etymology: From French Vosges, from Latin Vosagō, Vosegō, Vogesus, from Vosegus, name of a Celtic god, from Proto-Celtic *uɸo- (“sub-, under”) and *segos (“force, victory”) (compare Middle Irish seg (“strength”), Welsh hŷ (“bold, brave”), and the place name Segovia).
Senses: glosses: A mountain range in eastern France.
glosses: A department of Grand Est, France. Capital: Épinal.
quarrellous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quarrellous
form: most quarrellous
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quarrelous.
Quapaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Quapaw
quarl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɔː(ɹ)l/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)l
Forms: form: quarls
Etymology: From German Qualle.
Senses: examples: text: The jellied quarl that flings / At once a thousand streaming stings.
ref: 1819, Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay:
text: The quarl wraps around him his long arms.
ref: 1839, American Quarterly Review, volume 19:
glosses: A medusa or jellyfish.
quarl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɔː(ɹ)l/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)l
Forms: form: quarls
Senses: glosses: A fire-resistant channel for a burner in a boiler or furnace.
quarls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quarl
boyloving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From boy + loving; compare boylove, boylover.
Senses: examples: text: Boy love was a common and accepted practice throughout much of Roman history, especially amongst the aristocracy. However, it was still "not done" to talk about boyloving in public in Rome, even though many Emperors (and, earlier, Kings) indulged in more than their share of it - including Gaius Marius, who founded some of the greatest reforms in the Roman Empire.
ref: 1997, falcor14, “NAMBLA”, in sci.psychology.psychotherapy (Usenet):
glosses: Paedophilic or hebephilic love towards boys.
quarterpace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarterpaces
Etymology: From quarter + pace.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A platform of a staircase where the stair turns at a right angle only.
Related terms: halfpace
quassation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quassations
Etymology: From Latin quassatio; related to quash.
Senses: glosses: A shaking or agitation.
quassations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quassation
subprovince
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subprovinces
form: sub-province
Etymology: From sub- + province.
Senses: glosses: A province making up part of a larger province.
Related terms: subprovincial
subprovinces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subprovince
subsumers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subsumer
cough button
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cough buttons
Etymology: So called because the radio presenter might push the button when having to cough.
Senses: examples: text: Mucho pressed his cough button a moment, but only smiled. It seemed odd. How could they hear a smile?
ref: 1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 5, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 103:
text: "Al pushed his cough button, stood up, punched the guy and knocked him flat on his back," recalls Gordon. "He absolutely poled the man. Then he pushed the button again and continued on with his newscast. People watching never knew anything happened."
ref: 1987 March, Cincinnati Magazine, volume 20, number 6, page 51:
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: A button that temporarily stops the recording and transmission of a radio show.
cough buttons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cough button
quadribasic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quadri- + basic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: tetrabasic
quadriads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadriad
searcht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: search + -t
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of search
windfarming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wind + farming.
Senses: glosses: The generation of electricity by means of an array of wind turbines.
Related terms: windfarm
wind farm
quadrifid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin quadrifidus, from quadri- + -fidus, from findere (“to split”).
Senses: examples: text: a quadrifid perianth
a quadrifid leaf
glosses: Divided, or deeply cleft, into four parts.
Coordinate terms: bifid
trifid
quinquefid
sexfid
sexifid
octofid
novemfid
decemfid
duodecimfid
centifidous
multifid
multifidous
quadrilocular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quadri- + locular.
Senses: examples: a quadrilocular heart
glosses: Having four cells or compartments.
quadrijugous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: quadrijugate
quadrijugate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quadri- + jugate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Pinnate, with four pairs of leaflets.
queenhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: queenhoods
Etymology: From queen + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: I—who have 'gone the gamut' from an almost angry rejection of my dark skin by some of my brainwashed brothers and sisters to a surprised queenhood in the new black sun—am qualified to enter at least the kindergarten of the new consciousness now. New consciousness and trudge-toward-progress.
ref: 1972, Gwendolyn Brooks, “Report from Part One”, in Report from Part One, page 86:
glosses: The state, rank, or status of a queen.
examples: text: This focusing upon our own oppression is embodied in the concept of identity politics. We believe that the most profound and potentially most radical politics come directly out of our own identity, as opposed to working to end somebody else's oppression. In the case of Black women this is a particularly repugnant, dangerous, threatening, and therefore revolutionary concept because it is obvious from looking at all the political movements that have preceded us that anyone is more worthy of liberation than ourselves. We reject pedestals, queenhood, and walking ten paces behind. To be recognized as human, levelly human, is enough.
ref: 1977, The Combahee River Collective, "A Black Feminist Statement" (better known as the Combahee River Collective Statement), in Zillah R. Eisenstein, editor, Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism, published 1979:
glosses: Racially charged pedestalization of Black women, often as an extension of Afrocentric idealization, that is in fact damaging to gender equality; a particular type of "benevolent" sexism.
examples: text: "[…] They say my House loves beauty—they did and they do—and there's a kind of beauty in dying beautifully … in wasting away … half-alive, half-dead, with the very queenhood of your power."
ref: 2024, Tamsyn Muir, chapter 26, in The Locked Tomb Series: Gideon the Ninth, Harrow the Ninth, Nona the Ninth:
glosses: An apex or pinnacle.
quaternity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwəˈtɜː(ɹ)nɪti/
Forms: form: quaternities
Etymology: From quatern + -ity, from Latin quaternitās, from quaternus (“fourfold, in fours”).
Senses: glosses: A group or set of four.
glosses: The state of being four.
Synonyms: sense: a group of four
word: quartet
word: tetrad
word: quartet
topics: state
word: fourness
raw_tags: of being four
word: fourness
Related terms: word: quaternary
english: oneness
translation: oneness
word: unity
alt: twoness
word: duality
alt: threeness
word: trinity
alt: fiveness
word: quinity
quaternities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quaternity
quellio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quellios
Etymology: From Spanish cuello.
Senses: glosses: A ruff for the neck.
quellios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quellio
quartridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quartridges
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of quarterage.
quartridges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quartridge
Quartodecimans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Quartodeciman
Quartodecimanism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Quartodeciman + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The doctrines of the Quartodecimans.
quarterfoil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarterfoils
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of quatrefoil.
quarterfoils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quarterfoil
quartenylic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From quartene + -yl + -ic + acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid of the acrylic acid series, metameric with crotonic acid.
Synonyms: isocrotonic acid
querimonious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɛɹɪˈməʊnɪəs/
Forms: form: more querimonious
form: most querimonious
Etymology: From querimony + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: When he spoke, too, his voice was like an old man's, harsh, yearning, querimonious.
ref: 1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate, published 2012, page 190:
glosses: Complaining; querulous.
Derived terms: querimoniously
querimoniousness
querimoniousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From querimonious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being querimonious, of tending to complain.
querier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: queriers
Etymology: From query + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, queries.
hyponyms: knuller
glosses: A chimney sweep who goes door to door looking for work.
queriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of querier
paræsthesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paræstheses
Etymology: From para- + -æsthesis.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of paraesthesis.
roof square
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roof squares
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
roofing
qualifier: renovation
glosses: 100 square feet
Synonyms: square
roof squares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roof square
quadripennate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quadri- + pennate.
Senses: examples: text: The quadratus femoris is partly bipennate and partly quadripennate.
ref: 1975, Zoological Society of London, Journal of zoology, volume 177:
text: The shortest fibres are in the plantaris which has a remarkable quadripennate structure.
ref: 1976, D. Lister, Meat animals: growth and productivity:
glosses: Having four wings.
ZSL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of zero-shot learning.
ZSL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Zoological Society of London.
quadrinodal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quadri- + nodal.
Senses: examples: quadrinodal curves
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having four nodes.
quereles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of querele
paræstheses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paræsthesis
querulential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more querulential
form: most querulential
Senses: glosses: querulous; complaining
quenouille training
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: French quenouille (“distaff”).
Senses: examples: text: The French quenouille training is performed with dwarf stocks, but the trees are mor thrifty and durable when grafted on their own stocks, and kept within proper bounds by root pruning, after Mr. Rivers' method, explained in a previous page.
ref: 1849, Andrew Jackson Downing, The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America, page 37:
glosses: A method of training trees or shrubs in the shape of a cone or distaff by tying down the branches and pruning.
quenchingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more quenchingly
form: most quenchingly
Etymology: From quenching + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to quench or extinguish.
questmonger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: questmongers
Etymology: From quest + monger.
Senses: glosses: One who encourages petty lawsuits.
questmongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of questmonger
kinæsthesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kinæstheses
Etymology: From kine- + -æsthesis.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of kinesthesis.
kinæstheses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Do you observe in yourself or others kinæstheses serving as an aid ?
ref: 1927, Linus Ward Kline, Frances Littleton Kline, Psychology by Experiment, page 248:
glosses: plural of kinæsthesis
quindecemviri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quindecemvir
quindecemvirate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Alternative form of quindecimvirate under the influence of Latin decem &c.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quindecimvirate.
quinate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kwīʹnət
ipa: /ˈkwaɪnət/
enpr: kwīʹnāt
ipa: /ˈkwʌɪneɪt/
enpr: kwīʹnāt'
ipa: /ˈkwaɪˌneɪt/
Etymology: First attested in 1760. From the post-Classical Latin quīnātus, from the distributive numeral quīnī (“five each”, “five at a time”); compare binate, ternate, and quaternate, as well as the French quiné.
Senses: examples: text: They are termed Binate, Ternate, or Quinate, growing two, three, or five together, according to the number of Folioles, of which the digitate Leaf consists.
ref: 1760, James Lee, An Introduction to Botany, Containing an Explanation of the Theory of That Science, and an Interpretation of Its Technical Terms, Extracted from the Works of Linnæus, book 3, chapter 6, page 183:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Featuring five leaflets growing from a single point; quinquefoliolate.
raw_tags: of a compound leaf
quinate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kwīʹnət
ipa: /ˈkwaɪnət/
enpr: kwīʹnāt
ipa: /ˈkwʌɪneɪt/
enpr: kwīʹnāt'
ipa: /ˈkwaɪˌneɪt/
enpr: kwĭʹnət
ipa: /ˈkwɪnət/
enpr: kwĭʹnāt
enpr: kĭʹnāt
ipa: /ˈkwɪneɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɪneɪt/
enpr: kwĭʹnāt'
enpr: kĭʹnāt'
ipa: /ˈkwɪˌneɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɪˌneɪt/
enpr: kwīʹnət
ipa: /ˈkwaɪnət/
enpr: kwīʹnāt
ipa: /ˈkwʌɪneɪt/
enpr: kwīʹnāt'
ipa: /ˈkwaɪˌneɪt/
Forms: form: quinates
form: kinate
Etymology: First attested in 1810. Either from quin(a) + -ate (“salt or ester”) or quinic acid + -ate, in either case perhaps after the French quinquinate; compare the French kinate, quinate.
Senses: examples: text: Kinates. Hitherto only one species of this genus of salts has been examined, the kinate of lime, which exists in a species of Peruvian bark.
ref: 1810, Thomas Thomson, A System of Chemistry, 4th edition, volume 3, page 106:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An ester or a salt of quinic acid.
quinates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quinate
kinic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of quinic acid.
kinate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kinates
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quinate.
kinates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kinate
besing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: besings
form: besinging
form: besang
form: besung
Etymology: From Middle English besingen, from Old English besingan (“to sing of, bewail, sing charms, enchant”), from Proto-West Germanic *bisingwan (“to sing about”), equivalent to be- (“of, about”) + sing. Cognate with Saterland Frisian besjunge (“to sing about”), West Frisian besjonge (“to sing about, praise”), Dutch bezingen (“to sing of, chant”), German besingen (“to sing of, sing the praises of”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål besynge (“to sing of”), Swedish besjunga (“to sing of”).
Senses: examples: text: I have read Stories, (I fear, too true ones;) how young Lords, like you, Have thus besung mean Windows, rhymed their Sufferings Ev'n to th' Abuse of Things Divine, set up Plain Girls, like me, the Idols of their Worship, Then left them […]
ref: 1728, William Shakespeare, Mr. Theobald (Lewis), John Fletcher, Double falshood:
text: Let him dwindle into a modish balladmonger; let him worship and besing the idols of the time, and the time will not fail to reward him.
ref: 1854, Thomas Carlyle, Burns:
text: And in the meanwhile, how can a poet better employ himself (provided he does not confine his subject-matter to the Greeks, who have already besung themselves far better than we can sing them, and to the Romans, who were besung by our Elizabethan poets better than they ever will be sung again), [...]
ref: 1972, Isobel Armstrong, Victorian scrutinies:
text: […] Blanckenburg pointed out that one of the differences between the epic and the novel was that the classic epic was a "heroic poem" besinging the "public acts and events", the "actions of the citizen"; […]
ref: 2001, Jørgen Bruhn, Jan Lundquist, The novelness of Bakhtin: perspectives and possibilities:
glosses: To sing of or sing about; celebrate in song or poetry; sing the praises of; praise; laud.
glosses: To sing to.
Derived terms: besinging
besung
besung
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more besung
form: most besung
Etymology: From besing. Compare Dutch bezongen, German besungen.
Senses: examples: text: Better to him seemed that victorious crown, / That midst the reverent silence of the town / He oft would set upon some singer's brow / Than was the conqueror's diadem, blest now / By lying priests, soon, bent and bloody, hung / Within the thorn by linnets well besung, / Who think but little of the corpse beneath, / Though ancient lands have trembled at his breath.
ref: 1868, William Morris, “June: The Love of Alcestis”, in The Earthly Paradise: A Poem, parts [I and II], London: F[rederick] S[tartridge] Ellis, […], →OCLC, page 490:
text: O fair midspring, besung so oft and oft, How can I praise thy loveliness enow?
ref: 1897, The Virginia Spectator, University of Virginia:
glosses: Sung of; sung about; glorified or praised in song.
besung
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From besing. Compare Dutch bezongen, German besungen.
Senses: glosses: past participle of besing
dyspnœal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Leyden thinks it not improbable that these crystals are the direct causes of the dyspnœal seizure in bronchial asthma, his hypothesis being that they irritate the terminations of the vagus in the mucous membrane of the air‐passages, and in that way, by reflex action, give rise to spasm of the finer bronchi; the remissions would thus follow the expectoration of the crystals, and the patient would have ease till the renewed formation of crystals produced another attack.
ref: 1879, Paul Guttmann, Alex. Napier, A Handbook of Physical Diagnosis, The New Sydenham Society, page 183:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of dyspneal (Obsolete form of dyspnoeal).
dyspnoeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dyspnoea + -al.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dyspneal.
apnœal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of apnoeal.
apnoeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: apnœal
form: apneal
Etymology: From apnoea + -al.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Of or characterized by apnoea.
Synonyms: apnoeic
Koh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Hokkien 許／许 (Khó͘), Hokkien 高 (Ko), Hokkien 古 (Kó͘), Hokkien 辜 (Ko͘), Korean 고(高) (Ko) in McCune–Reischauer romanization., etc.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
wikipedia: McCune–Reischauer
Related terms: Koh Kong
curiousity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of curiosity.
Ngerulmud
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Palau in which the government offices are located.
compromize
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of compromise.