cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
decrustation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈkɹʌsteɪʃən/
ipa: /diːˈkɹʊsteɪʃən/
Forms: form: decrustations
Etymology: Noun of action from the Latin dēcrustō (“I peel off [a crust or outer layer]”), from dē + crustō (“I crust”, from crusta, “crust”). Compare the Old French décrustation.
Senses: examples: text: Decrustation occurs quickest in varicella, slower in variola modificata, and slowest in variola vera. Or, in other words, the greater the amount of eruption the slower the decrustation, and the reverse.
ref: 1860 January 5, B. Joy Jeffries, “Report of Prof. Ferdinand Hebra's Lectures on Variola”, in Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 61, number 23, →OCLC, page 455:
text: Stage of Decrustation.—At the end of the third week the scabs begin to loosen and to fall off, leaving brownish, pigmented areas or scars behind.
ref: 1917, Lewellys F. Barker, “Smallpox”, in Monographic Medicine: The Clinical Diagnosis of Internal Diseases, volume 2, New York: D. Appleton & Co., →OCLC, page 430:
text: From January 1970 to December 1979, 40 cases of severely burned hands were treated with Chinese medicinal decrustation. […] The medicine was applied to the burn wounds from the day of injury until the third day after injury. Decrustation took place 7–10 days after use of medicine. Narcotic tissue fell off on decrustation, pus was abundant and skin islands were visible.
ref: 1991, Z. L. Lin, J. Y. Li, J. Y. Wu, “Application of Chinese Medicinal Decrustation Treatment to Deep Burns of the Hand”, in P.C. Leung et al., editors, Burns: Treatment And Research, Singapore: World Scientific, →ISBN, page 113:
glosses: The removal of a crust (various senses).
decrustations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decrustation
residentiaryship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: residentiaryships
Etymology: From residentiary + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The rank or office of a residentiary.
residentiaryships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of residentiaryship
stull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stulls
Etymology: Related to German Stollen (“stull”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *stullô (“support, post, beam”), but its route into English is uncertain. Perhaps borrowed from Middle High German stolle. Doublet of stollen. Compare also stum.
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A framework of timber covered with boards to support rubbish or to protect miners from falling stones.
glosses: Any timber prop to support a structure.
Related terms: Stull
stulls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stull
denay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: denays
Senses: examples: text: Forget not yet the gret aſſays
the cruell wrong the ſkornfull ways
the paynfull pacyence in denays […]
ref: a. 1542, Thomas Wyatt, “Forget not yet the tryde entent” in the Devonshire Manuscript, folio 54 verso
text: Duke Orsino: My love can give no place, bide no denay.
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
glosses: denial; refusal
denay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: denays
form: denaying
form: denayed
form: denayed
Senses: examples: text: That with great rage he stoutly doth denay.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 15:
text: Preserve this babe, whose mother must denay / To nourish it, preserve this harmless child.
ref: 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XII, xxvii
glosses: To deny, refuse.
sciopticon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sciopticons
Etymology: From scio- (“shadow”) + Ancient Greek ὀπτικός (optikós, “visual”). Compare scioptic.
Senses: glosses: A kind of magic lantern.
sciopticons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sciopticon
Slavonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sləˈvəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /sləˈvoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Slavonians
Etymology: From Slavonia + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Slavonia.
Slavonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sləˈvəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /sləˈvoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Slavonian
form: most Slavonian
Etymology: From Slavonia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Slavonia or its inhabitants.
glosses: Of or relating to the Slavs or their language.
Slavonian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /sləˈvəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /sləˈvoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Etymology: From Slavonia + -an.
Senses: glosses: A Slavic dialect spoken in Slavonia.
Related terms: Sclavonian
Slavonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Slavonian
denominationalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: denominationalists
Etymology: From denominational + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: I am first a Christian, and after that in no sense a denominationalist.
ref: 1876, “Protestant Vaticanism”, in Scribner's Monthly Magazine:
glosses: One imbued with a denominational spirit.
Related terms: denominationist
denominationalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of denominationalist
margarous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of margaric.
Limenean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Limenean
form: most Limenean
Senses: glosses: Relating to the city of Lima in Peru.
Limenean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Limeneans
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Lima.
Limeneans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Limenean
inerrably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inerrably
form: most inerrably
Etymology: From inerrable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without making errors; infallibly; unerringly.
meloplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meloplasty + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to meloplasty.
planoblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planoblasts
Etymology: From plano- + -blast.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any free-swimming gonophore of a hydroid; a hydroid medusa.
planoblasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planoblast
infraaxillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: infra-axillary
Etymology: From infra- + axillary.
Senses: examples: text: an infraaxillary bud
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Situated under the axil.
recognitory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From recognit(ion) + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: A pun, and its recognitory laugh, must be co-instantaneous.
ref: 1823, Charles Lamb, “Distant Correspondents”, in Essays of Elia, London: Moxon, published 1836, page 244:
text: […] two dogs, with a snarling sort of bark, made their appearance from a neighbouring pig-stye, but, instead of following up the attack, came forward whimpering and whining a recognitory welcome to Jim, while they described sundry circles around him expressive of their joy at the meeting.
ref: 1852, Mrs. Lorenzo N. Nunn, chapter 4, in The Militia Major, volume 2, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, page 64:
text: Glancing across to our corner, he nodded to Francis, a flashing-eyed, recognitory nod, as from one power to another.
ref: 1970, C. P. Snow, chapter 5, in Last Things, New York: Scribner, page 43:
text: […] we must be cautious about inferring the same recognitory processes are going on in infancy as in adulthood. The fact that an infant dishabituates to a male face after seeing a series of female faces, tells us nothing about whether any of these stimuli seem familiar to the infant, or carry the conceptual meaning involved in the judgment, “Oh, that’s not a woman.”
ref: 1990, Jean Matter Mandler, “Recall of Events by Preverbal Children”, in Adele Diamond, editor, The Development and Neural Bases of Higher Cognitive Functions, The New York Academy of Sciences, page 488:
glosses: Pertaining to, or connected with, recognition.
Pertaining to recognizing (matching a current perception with a memory).
examples: text: […] there is not one decisive intimation, not one conclusive sentence in those authors, nor one decree in those councils, recognitory of the existence or explanatory of the duties of such a body.
ref: 1841, Archibald Boyd, chapter 8, in Episcopacy and Presbytery, London: S. Seeley and W. Burnside, page 293:
glosses: Pertaining to, or connected with, recognition.
Pertaining to recognizing (acknowledging the existence, status or validity of something).
Synonyms: recognitive
propodia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of propodium
propodium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: propodia
form: propodeum
Etymology: From pro- + -podium.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The anterior portion of the foot of a mollusk.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The first abdominal segment, when it forms a unit with the thorax of a hymenopterous insect in the group Apocrita.
ommatea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ommateum
ommateum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɒməˈtiː.əm/
Forms: form: ommatea
Etymology: From New Latin ommateum, from Ancient Greek ὄμμα (ómma, “eye”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A compound eye, found on, for example, insects and crustaceans.
Derived terms: ommateal
convincer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: convincers
Etymology: From convince + -er.
Senses: synonyms: persuader
antonyms: persuadee
glosses: One who, or that which, convinces; one who wins over by proof.
convincers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of convincer
muciform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more muciform
form: most muciform
Etymology: From muci- + -form.
Senses: synonyms: mucuslike
coordinate_terms: mucous
mucousy
mucusy
glosses: Resembling mucus.
Related terms: mucosity
semiopaque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + opaque.
Senses: glosses: Partially opaque.
retrusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈtɹuːʒən/
Forms: form: retrusions
Etymology: From Latin retrūsiō, from retrūdō (“to push back”).
Senses: examples: 11 February, 1826, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, notes on Luther's Table Talk
in virtue of an endless remotion or retrusion of the constituent cause
glosses: The act of retruding, or the state of being retruded.
Related terms: retrude
retrusive
ineloquently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ineloquently
form: most ineloquently
Etymology: From ineloquent + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: uneloquently
glosses: Without eloquence.
cookmaid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cookmaids
Etymology: From cook + maid.
Senses: glosses: A female servant who assists the cook.
cookmaids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cookmaid
outvenom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outvenoms
form: outvenoming
form: outvenomed
form: outvenomed
Etymology: From out- + venom.
Senses: examples: text: 'Tis slander,
 Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue
 Outvenoms all the worms of Nile.
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:
glosses: To exceed in venom.
outvenomed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outvenom
outvenoming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outvenom
outvenoms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outvenom
transvertible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From transvert + -ible.
Senses: examples: text: In the little nebbe or fructifying principle, the motion is regular, and not tranſvertible, as to make that ever the leaf, vvhich nature intendeth the root; obſervable from their converſion, until they attain their right poſition, if ſeeds be ſet inverſedly.
ref: 1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter III.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, page 130:
glosses: Capable of being transverted.
pinnock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinnocks
Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps from a base pin, of unknown origin + -ock (diminutive suffix).
Senses: glosses: The hedge sparrow.
glosses: The bearded tit.
pinnocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinnock
catelectrotonus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cata- + electrotonus.
Senses: glosses: The condition of increased irritability of a nerve in the region of the cathode or negative electrode when a current is passed through it.
Derived terms: catelectrotonic
escambio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: escambios
Etymology: From Latin escambium, excambium. See excamb.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A licence formerly required for the making over a bill of exchange to another person overseas.
escambios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of escambio
monocephalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek μονοκέφαλος (monoképhalos). By surface analysis, mono- + -cephalous.
Senses: examples: text: monocephalous branches
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: bicephalous
tricephalous
tetracephalous
pentacephalous
glosses: Having a single head.
said of unbranched composite plants.
examples: text: monocephalous presidency
coordinate_terms: bicephalous
tricephalous
tetracephalous
pentacephalous
glosses: Having a single head.
Having one leader.
salsuginous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin salsugo, salsuginis (“saltness”), from salsus (“salted, salt”). Compare French salsugineux.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Growing in brackish places or in salt marshes.
ephoralty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ephoralties
Senses: glosses: The rank or office of an ephor.
glosses: The body of ephors collectively.
porraceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /pɔːˈɹeɪʃəs/
Forms: form: more porraceous
form: most porraceous
Etymology: From Latin porrāceus, from porrum, porrus (“a leek”).
Senses: examples: text: If the lesser Intestines be wounded, he will be troubled with poraceous Vomiting, and what he eats or drinks will pass out of his Wound in less than half an hour[.]
ref: 1676, Richard Wiseman, Several Chirurgical Treatises, page 432:
text: During the night she vomited porraceous matter.
ref: 1914, Georges Dieulafoy, A Text-Book of Medicine, page 880:
text: [B]ut [I] had to say that the "foliage" was "emerald" or indeed (I discovered this in a Victorian book of verse by a gentleman called Bradford) that the "verdure" was "porraceous".
ref: 1956, Paul Dehn, For Love and Money, page 79:
text: My pignoration, see, is this smaragd, of porraceous hue. Bless my tripudiation, stellify my verses.
ref: 1986, Les Murray, editor, The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse, page 214:
glosses: Resembling the leek in colour; greenish.
Synonyms: leek-green
prasine
prasinous
beggable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From beg + -able.
Senses: examples: text: I was going to ask him if he could make me a bit lame in one leg during the middle of the week. You know, something beggable, but not leprosy, which is a pain in the arse, to be blunt.
ref: 1979, Monty Python's Life of Brian, spoken by Ex-Leper (Michael Palin):
glosses: Capable of being begged.
calorification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calorifications
Etymology: Compare French calorification.
Senses: glosses: The production of heat, especially animal heat.
calorifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calorification
appliment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: appliments
Etymology: From apply + -ment?
Senses: examples: text: Yet there are a ſort of diſcontented creatures that beare a ſtingeleſſe envie to great ones, and theſe will wreſt the doings of any man to their baſe malitious appliment: […]
ref: c. 1603 (date written), Iohn Webster, “The Induction to the Malecontent, and the Additions Acted by the Kings Maiesties Servants”, in Iohn Marston, The Malcontent. […], revised edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for William Aspley, […], published 1604, →OCLC:
glosses: Application
fringent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: [W]hen a shower of meteors / Cross the orbit of the earth, / And, lit by fringent air, / Blaze near and far, / Mortals deem the planets bright / Have slipped their sacred bars, / And the lone seaman all the night / Sails, astonished, amid stars.
ref: 1847, R[alph] W[aldo] Emerson, “Initial, Dæmonic, and Celestial Love”, in Poems, Boston, Mass.: James Munroe and Company, →OCLC, part II (The Dæmonic and the Celestial Love), page 168:
text: […] the fringent saltmarshes and wetlands […]
ref: 2011, Oscar Grillo, Gianfranco Venora, Ecosystems Biodiversity, page 38:
text: The optical beam entering from the top is reflected at the bottom of the superstrate coated by a dielectric mirror and thus samples the fringent electric field between the electrodes which penetrates into the crystal.
ref: 2012, Walter E. Bron, Ultrashort Processes in Condensed Matter, page 154:
glosses: Encircling like a fringe; bordering.
getter-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡɛtəˈʌp/
ipa: /ˌɡɛtɚˈʌp/
ipa: [-ɾɚ-]
Forms: form: getters-up
Senses: examples: text: After considering him attentively, I recongised in him a diligent getter up of miscellaneous works, that bustled off well with the trade.
ref: 1819 July 31, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “The Art of Book Making”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., number II, New York, N.Y.: […] C[ornelius] S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC, page 160:
glosses: One who organises, sets up or arranges for anything.
Related terms: fixer
getters-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of getter-up
poriform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more poriform
form: most poriform
Etymology: From Latin porus (“pore”) + -form. Compare French poriforme.
Senses: examples: text: poriform glands
glosses: Resembling a pore
apogeotropism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: As soon as the faintest ray of light reaches a seedling, heliotropism will guide it through any crack in the soil, or through an entangled mass of overlying vegetation; for apogeotropism by itself can direct the seedling only blindly upwards.
ref: 1880 November 6, Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin, chapter XII, in The Power of Movement in Plants, page 555:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: zenotropism
glosses: An apogeotropic tendency; the tendency to bend away from the ground.
dilatedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dilatedly
form: most dilatedly
Etymology: From dilated + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: he hath dilatedly tumbled himselfe
ref: 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
glosses: In a dilated manner.
supernaturalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supernaturality
supernaturality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supernaturalities
Etymology: From supernatural + -ity.
Senses: synonyms: supernaturalness
glosses: The quality or state of being supernatural.
examples: text: filling the Gospels with supernaturalities
ref: 1848, Arthur O'Connor, Monopoly the Cause of All Evil:
text: the cottage of the miller, and which was once known as the scene of one of those supernaturalities that belong to the times of the witch and the fairy
ref: 1869, Hugh Miller, The Cruise of the Betsey:
glosses: Anything supernatural.
goggler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gogglers
Etymology: From goggle + -er.
Senses: examples: text: In the front room, Podson had sped to the mirror, vastly affronted at the bearded goggler staring back at him.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 145:
glosses: One who or that which goggles.
glosses: A carangoid marine fish (Selar crumenophthalmus) with large, prominent eyes.
Synonyms: goggle-eye
big-eyed scad
cicharra
gogglers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goggler
sentiently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sentiently
form: most sentiently
Etymology: From sentient + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a sentient manner; knowingly.
potableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From potable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being drinkable; potability.
temperable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more temperable
form: most temperable
Etymology: From temper + -able.
Senses: examples: text: the fusible, hard, and temperable texture of metals
ref: 1841, Emerson, History:
glosses: Capable of being tempered.
monaxial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: monaxial joint
glosses: Alternative spelling of monoaxial.
coincider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coinciders
Etymology: From coincide + -er.
Senses: synonyms: agreer
glosses: One who coincides with another in an opinion.
examples: text: The economic time series can be segregated into leaders, laggers and coinciders in relation to movements in aggregate economic activity.
ref: 1984, Wisconsin Economic Planning Information, page 75:
glosses: That which coincides.
coinciders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coincider
palliobranchiate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See pallium and branchia.
Senses: examples: text: palliobranchiate shells
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Belonging to the former class Palliobranchiata; having the pallium, or mantle, acting as a gill, as in certain brachiopods.
discommendation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discommendations
Etymology: From dis- + commendation.
Senses: examples: text: And Tully assigns three several Motives, whereby, without any Discommendation in those Times, a Man might be drawn to become an Accuser of others.
ref: 1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani:
text: 1990, Drew Deighan, Sins of the Fatherhttps://web.archive.org/web/20200108064733/https://www.st-minutiae.com/resources/scripts/165.txt, Star Trek: The Next Generation
WORF: Allow my brother to return to his life. Only you need know his true bloodline.
DURAS: Not acceptable. His honor would demand revenge.
WORF: If you allow him to live, I will give you something that will serve your purpose far more than my death. I will accept...discommendation.
glosses: blame; censure; reproach; shunning
half seas over
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Many of my readers will recollect the memorable night, on which William Pitt and his ingenious friend and jovial compotator, Harry Dundas, went into the House of Commons, in a condition usually described by the phrase "of being half seas over."
ref: 1830, Richard Warner, “chapter XIII”, in Literary Recollections, volume II, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, →OCLC, page 6, footnote:
text: They strutted into the box department at the English Opera House, on the preceding night at half price, and half-seas-over — whether with cape, blackstrap, or blue ruin, did not appear. Two of them were particularly half-seas-over, viz. — Mr. Bob Dodd and Mr. Will. Wood; the other, Mr. Fred. Hughes, was but so so.
ref: 1823, anonymous author, The Spirit of the Public Journals for the Year MDCCCXXIII:
glosses: Slightly drunk, or, possibly in meiosis, very drunk.
Synonyms: drunk
imputabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imputability
corolline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From corolla + -ine?
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a corolla
rantingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rantingly
form: most rantingly
Etymology: From ranting + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In short, these are only two different Species of Distraction: The Enthusiast is deeply and sullenly out of his Wits, and the Atheist is merrily and rantingly mad, and both are owing to the same general Cause[…]
ref: 1738, Thomas Morgan, The Moral Philosopher:
glosses: With ranting; speaking loudly and angrily.
distichously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From distichous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a distichous manner.
missingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more missingly
form: most missingly
Etymology: From missing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Sir, it is three dayes since I saw the Prince: what
his happier affayres may be, are to me vnknowne: but I
haue (missingly) noted, he is of late much retyred from
Court, and is lesse frequent to his Princely exercises then
formerly he hath appeared.
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
glosses: With a sense of loss.
micri-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: In the metric system, multiplies the attached unit by 10⁻¹⁴.
calcarate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: calcarated
Etymology: From Latin calcarātus (“spurred”).
Senses: examples: text: calcarate auricle
text: calcarate corolla
text: calcarate petal
text: calcarate nectary
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a spur; spurred.
Derived terms: bicalcarate
ecalcarate
unicalcarate
duplicandos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duplicando
orbicularis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːˌbɪk.jʊˈlɑː.ɹɪs/
ipa: /ɔɹˌbɪk.jəˈlɛɹ.ɪs/
rhymes: -ɑːɹɪs
rhymes: -æɹɪs
Forms: form: orbiculares
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin orbiculāris, clipping of mūsculus orbiculāris (“orbicular muscle”). Doublet of orbicular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A muscle surrounding an opening.
orbiculares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔɹˌbɪk.jəˈlɛɹˌiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of orbicularis
dactylozooid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dactylozooids
Etymology: From dactylo- + zooid.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A kind of zooid of Siphonophorae with an elongated or even vermiform body, with one tentacle, but no mouth.
dactylozooids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dactylozooid
Elohist
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of four sources of the Torah described by the documentary hypothesis, characterized by an abstract view of God.
Elohist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Elohists
Senses: examples: text: The third author, who lived in the time of Uzziah, though more mythological than the Elohists, was less formal. His standpoint is prophetic.
ref: 1877, Samuel Davidson, The Canon of the Bible:
glosses: The writer, or one of the writers, of the passages of the Old Testament, notably those of Elohim instead of Jehovah, as the name of the Supreme Being; distinguished from Jehovist.
huntmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: huntmasters
Etymology: From hunt + master.
Senses: topics: fantasy
glosses: The leader of a hunt.
huntmasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of huntmaster
sammier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sammiers
Etymology: From sammy + -er.
Senses: glosses: A machine for pressing the water from skins in tanning.
sammiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sammier
sumner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sumners
Senses: examples: text: A sumner, / That cites her to appear
ref: 1610–1614, John Fletcher, “The Tragedie of Valentinian”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: Obsolete form of summoner.
sumners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sumner
Rose of Tralee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An international festival of Irish culture held annually in County Kerry.
Rose of Tralee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Roses of Tralee
Senses: glosses: The young woman who wins a personality contest at this annual festival.
epipubic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From epi- + pubic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the epipubis.
Derived terms: epipubic bone
iliacal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈlaɪəkəl/
rhymes: -aɪəkəl
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of iliac.
tinger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪndʒə(ɹ)
Forms: form: tingers
Etymology: From tinge + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that tinges.
tingers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tinger
block book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: block books
Senses: glosses: A book printed from engraved wooden blocks instead of movable type.
block books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of block book
pupelo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: their carol consisted of oaths , smirks , songs ; for ale they had an abundance of pupelo
ref: 1845, Sylvester Judd, Margaret:
glosses: cider brandy; applejack
shrowd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shrowds
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of shroud.
shrowds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: plural of shrowd
forehearth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forehearths
Etymology: From fore- + hearth.
Senses: examples: text: The lintel of the forehearth of the furnace bears the date 1753.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 373, about Taynuilt:
glosses: The forward extension of the hearth of a blast furnace under the tymp.
forehearths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forehearth
ovicapsule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ovicapsules
Etymology: From ovum and capsule.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The outer layer of a Graafian follicle.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: An ootheca.
ovicapsules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ovicapsule
sternocoracoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sterno- + coracoid.
Senses: examples: text: sternocoracoid joint
text: sternocoracoid depression
text: sternocoracoid ligament
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the sternum and the coracoid.
muriculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more muriculate
form: most muriculate
Etymology: See -ule.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Minutely muricate.
strangleable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more strangleable
form: most strangleable
Etymology: From strangle + -able.
Senses: examples: text: I am glad that the capital strangler should , in his turn , be strangleable , and now and then strangled ; for I know of no brute so fierce , nor criminal so guilty , as the creature called a Sovereign
ref: October 19 1753, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, in Letters to His Son, published in 1774
glosses: Capable or deserving of being strangled.
prangos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the native name in the vicinity of Tibet, northern India, or Pakistan.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Prangos of umbelliferous plants.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Prangos pabularia
flatlong
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: flat-long
Etymology: From alternation of the original flatling, by assimilating to long. More at flatling.
Senses: examples: text: Antonio: What a blow was there given!
Sebastian: An it had not fall'n flat-long.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
text: Yet the pittiless sword had such pity of so precious an object, that at first it did but hit flatlong
ref: a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:
english: The New Arcadia
translation: The New Arcadia
glosses: With the flat side downward; not edgewise.
sea pudding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea puddings
Senses: glosses: Any of various sea cucumbers.
sea puddings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea pudding
tupman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tupmen
Etymology: From tup + -man.
Senses: glosses: A man who breeds, or deals in, tups (rams)
tupmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tupman
decrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkɹaɪ(j)ə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: decriers
Etymology: From decry + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who decries.
decriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decrier
manducatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin mandūcāt- + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: manducatory organs
text: […] they hadn’t just been killed but annihilated, and more especially their thumbs, teeth and feet. That their functional, spiritual and manducatory organs had been systematically destroyed.
ref: 2011, Fred Vargas, translated by Siân Reynolds, An Uncertain Place: A Commissaire Adamsberg Mystery, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 344:
glosses: Pertaining to, or employed in, chewing.
Related terms: manducate
manducation
manducator
Hippocratism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hippocrates + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The medical philosophy or system of Hippocrates.
longiroster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒndʒiɹɒstə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: longirosters
Etymology: From Latin longus (“long”) + rostrum (“beak”). Compare French longirostre.
Senses: glosses: One of the Longirostres, a former family of long-billed birds, such as the snipe.
longirosters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of longiroster
suffraganship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suffraganships
Etymology: From suffragan + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The rank or office of a suffragan.
suffraganships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suffraganship
unpromise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unpromises
Etymology: From un- + promise.
Senses: examples: text: So I was a writer of early unpromise. All my stories from the age of twelve until I was at least twenty-two were pretty bad.
ref: 2004, Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis, Conversations with Ray Bradbury, page 25:
text: The resulting brew did not smell promising, and the taste more than lived up to the unpromise.
ref: 2009, Liza Dalby, East Wind Melts the Ice: A Memoir Through the Seasons, page 222:
text: To be sure, scholars have noted that occasionally heroines of the Cinderalla plot, known through folkloric classification as ATU 510, "gain all the time in determination and strength" through their sufferingg and "begin to lose their tag of unpromise and start shaping their lives and futures, at times, not without a little deception.”
ref: 2016, Christine A. Jones, Mother Goose Refigured:
text: I had God's promise that he was there to bring us into the land of promises, or unpromises.
ref: 2016, Dr. Minerva Santerre, A Bridge That Hugged Tomorrow:
glosses: Lack of promise; poor prospects; unpromising outlook.
unpromise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unpromises
form: unpromising
form: unpromised
form: unpromised
Etymology: From un- + promise.
Senses: examples: text: Promises are no fetters: with that tongue
Thy promise past, unpromise it again.
ref: 1605, George Chapman, All Fools:
text: "But I promised Annie we'd take them, Joseph." " Well , you're just going to have to unpromise her!"
ref: 2015, Ruth Price, Before An Amish Country Calamity:
text: It wouldn't be a promise if you could just unpromise it.
ref: 2024, Sylvia Bishop ·, On Silver Tides:
glosses: To revoke or annul (something promised before).
cantharidin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cantharidins
Senses: examples: text: Cantharidin, although readily decomposed by chemical agents, is so permanent in the body that it has been detected in the corpse of a cat eighty-four days after death.
ref: 1885, Alexander Wynter Blyth, Poisons, Their Effects and Detection: A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts, volume I, New York: William Wood and Co., page 430:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A volatile organic compound secreted by blister beetles.
Derived terms: norcantharidin
storeship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: storeships
Etymology: From store + ship.
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: A vessel used to carry naval stores.
storeships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of storeship
armrack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: armracks
Etymology: From arm + rack.
Senses: examples: text: 1803, General Standing Orders for Third, or Prince of Wales’s Dragoon Guards, Edinburgh: R. Allan, Instructions for the Guard, Article 16, pp. 162-163,
The Carbines must be regularly place in the arm rack, according to each man’s number in the Guard.
text: [The carbines] disappeared mysteriously from locked arm-racks, and in the hot weather when all the barrack doors and windows were opened they vanished like puffs of their own smoke.
ref: 1890 May 17, Rudyard Kipling, “The Man Who Was”, in Littel’s Living Age, volume 185, number 2394, page 443:
text: It was a long time since Tunku Allang had had ammunition for the score or so of old muskets rusting in their arm-racks in the audience-hall.
ref: 1900, Joseph Conrad, chapter 40, in Lord Jim, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, page 403:
glosses: A frame, generally vertical, for holding small arms.
armracks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of armrack
uncuth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncuth
form: most uncuth
Etymology: See uncouth.
Senses: glosses: unknown; strange
uncuths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uncuth
tressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹɛst/
ipa: /ˈtɹɛsɪd/
rhymes: -ɛst
rhymes: -ɛsɪd
Etymology: From tress + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having tresses.
examples: text: Now hath this younker torn his tressed locks
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: One of thy tressed curls there falling down
ref: 1597, Michael Drayton, England's Heroical Epistles:
glosses: Formed into ringlets or braided.
inamiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inamiable
form: most inamiable
Etymology: From in- + amiable.
Senses: glosses: Not amiable; unfriendly.
Related terms: inamiableness
incultivated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incultivated
form: most incultivated
Etymology: From in- + cultivated.
Senses: examples: text: the air exceeding good and the ſoil, though incultivated, ſo full of vigour that it procreates without ſeed
ref: 1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC:
glosses: uncultivated
participable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: the very Essence of God, as variously imitable or participable
ref: 1690, John Norris, Reflections upon the conduct of Human Life:
glosses: Capable of being participated in or shared.
Derived terms: imparticipable
rogueship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rogueships
Etymology: From rogue + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: Say, in what nasty cellar under ground
Or what church porch your rogueship may be found?
ref: 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Third Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
glosses: The quality or state of being a rogue.
rogueships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rogueship
attemperament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attemperaments
Etymology: From Old French attemprement.
Senses: glosses: A tempering, or mixing in equal proportion.
Related terms: attemperance
attemperate
attemperly
attemperaments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attemperament
ostracoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to the ostracods
ostracoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ostracoids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: ostracod
ostracoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ostracoid
conterminant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From con- + terminant.
Senses: examples: text: if haply your dates of life were conterminant
ref: 1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Having the same limits; ending at the same time; conterminous.
tophaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tophaceous
form: most tophaceous
Etymology: From Latin tophaceus, tofaceus.
Senses: examples: text: tophaceous colour
text: tophaceous concretion
text: tophaceous matter
glosses: gravelly; sandy; rough; stony
examples: text: tophaceous gout
glosses: Relating to tophus.
wern
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: weren
form: wurn
Etymology: From Middle English weren, equivalent to were + -en.
Senses: examples: text: Her name was Agape whoſe children werne
All three as one, the firſt hight Priamond,
The ſecond Dyamond, the youngeſt Triamond.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IIII, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, page 32:
text: T. Oi've yerd em sey, yo' wern aw lung-woinded at that teyme; wur it so, Rafy?
ref: 1843, John Ward, “Chapter XI. Burslem-(Continued.)”, in The Borough of Stoke-upon-Trent in the Commencement of the Reign of Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria […] , London: W. Lewis & Son, A Burslem Dialogue, page 230:
text: Through the falseness of that lither lad
These three lives wern all gone.
ref: 1910, “Glasgerion”, in Arthur Quiller-Couch, editor, The Oxford Book of English Verse:
glosses: plural simple past of be
werned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wern
werning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wern
werns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wern
assuetude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.swɪˌtjuːd/
other: /ˈæ.swəˌtud/
rhymes: -æswɪtjuːd
Forms: form: assuetudes
Etymology: From Latin assuetudo, from assuetus (“accustomed”).
Senses: examples: text: Assuetude of things hurtful doth make them lose their force to hurt.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: Accustomedness; habit.
examples: text: The boy had been his companion for years: and from assuetude had become, as it were, a part of himself.
ref: 1836, Frederick Marryat, The Pirate, Chapter VII:
text: My flesh writhed like the glutinous flesh of a serpent. Slowly moved, and stopped: -- then was a sweep -- and a swirl -- and a pause! then a swirl -- and a sweep -- and a pause! -- then steady industry of labour on the monstrous brazen axis, as the husbandman plods by the plough; then increase of zest, assuetude of a fledgeling to the wing -- then intensity -- then the last light ecstasy of flight.
ref: 1896, Matthew Phipps Shiel, Vaila:
glosses: The condition of an organism that has acquired tolerance of a drug or poison.
Derived terms: unassuetude
folious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈfəʊliəs/
Forms: form: more folious
form: most folious
Etymology: See foliose.
Senses: examples: text: folious appearances , and not the central and vital interiors of truth
ref: c. 1670s (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “(please specify the section)”, in John Jeffery, editor, Christian Morals, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] [A]t the University-Press, for Cornelius Crownfield printer to the University; and are to be sold by Mr. Knapton […]; and Mr. [John] Morphew […], published 1716, →OCLC:
glosses: Like a leaf; thin; insubstantial.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: foliose
hebenon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hebon
form: hebona
Senses: examples: text: In few, the blood of Hydra, Lerna's bane,
 The juice of hebon, and Cocytus' breath.
ref: c. 1592, Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta:
text: […]vpon my ſecure houre
 Thy vncle came, with iuyce of Hebona
 In a viall[…]
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shake-speare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and Iohn Trundell, published 1603, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:
text: Vpon my ſecure hower thy Vncle ſtole
 With iuyce of curſed Hebenon in a Violl[…]
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v], page 258, column 1:
text: Grim Mancinella haunts the mossy bed,
 Brews her black hebenon, and stealing near
 Pours the curst venom in his tortured ear.
ref: 1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 103:
text: Tree of many names, and under any of them, of ill repute, was the hebenon, hebona, hebenus, hebon or heben. At best, poets wrote of its narcotic effects. As early as 1386, John Gower wrote in Confessio Amantis, of 'Hebenus, that slepy tre'.
ref: 1977, Lesley Gordon, Green Magic: Flowers, Plants, & Herbs in Lore & Legend, page 99:
text: From a compartment in his pouch, ranveer produces the dark glass vial of hebenon solution and gives it a few quick shakes. If there were a handbook for such things, it would advise that hebenon is best used in circumstances where the subject is in a very deep sleep or a coma.
ref: 2021, Christian Cantrell, Scorpion:
glosses: A plant or flower used in Elizabethan times to make a poison (compare with John Gower's hebenus).