cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
spider strap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spider straps
Etymology: From the resemblance to a spider's many legs.
Senses: glosses: A system of connected straps (for example on luggage or for equine use).
examples: text: "SPIDER STRAPS" provide a very quick and efficient way to secure a patient to a long backboard.
ref: 1995, Nancy L. Caroline, Nancy L. Caroline, Emergency care in the streets, link:
text: She secured the straps, pulling them tight to let the weight settle to her shoulder and back muscles. Fanning the spider straps of the face mask, she took a deep breath and donned it chin first, then straps at the neck, temple,
ref: 2005, Dee Henderson, The Protector, link:
text: “Hey,” Beverly said, looking with dismay at the spider straps that secured Frankie to the backboard. “Dr. Bower, how can I get an EKG with him strapped down?”
ref: 2009, Sacred Trust, page 152:
topics: emergency-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of a ten-armed system of straps used by responders in backboard immobilization.
ZWNBSP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ZWNBSPs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
sciences
typography
glosses: Initialism of zero-width non-breaking space.
excisability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From excise + -ability.
Senses: glosses: Suitability or potential for being excised.
harmonizabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harmonizability
neuration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurations
Etymology: From neuro- + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Some examples are very dark in colour, and then the pale neurations on the elytra become almost obsolete.
ref: 1891, George Bowdler Buckton, Monograph of the British Cicadae or Tettigidae, volume 2, page 81:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The arrangement or distribution of veins (nerves), as in the leaves of a plant or the wings of an insect.
Synonyms: nervation
neurations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuration
geminy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See Gemini.
Senses: examples: text: I have grated upon my good friends for three reprieves for you and your coach-fellow Nym; or else you had looked through the grate, like a geminy of baboons.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: twins; a pair; a couple
geminy
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jiminy.
spider straps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spider strap
vengeaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vengeaunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of vengeance.
rendrynge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of rendering.
entrynge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of entering.
encountrynge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of encountering.
heterostyled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hetero- + styled.
Senses: examples: text: The family of the Rubiaceæ contains not far short of as many heterostyled genera as all the other thirteen families together ; and hereafter no doubt other Rubiaceous genera will be found to be heterostyled
ref: 1860, Charles Darwin, The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: heterostylous
educatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more educatively
form: most educatively
Etymology: From educative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner that is educative.
violuric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From violet and barbituric.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A complex nitroso derivative of barbituric acid, with formula HON=C(CONH)₂CO, that forms characteristic yellow, blue, and violet salts.
Related terms: violurate
preventatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more preventatively
form: most preventatively
Etymology: From preventative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner that is preventative.
clangourous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clangourous
form: most clangourous
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of clangorous.
hydrotelluric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hydro- + telluric.
Senses: examples: text: hydrotelluric fluorosis
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Formed by hydrogen and tellurium.
Derived terms: hydrotellurate
Related terms: hydrotelluric acid
vulpic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The methyl ester of pulvinic acid methyl (2E)-2-(3-hydroxy-5-oxo-4-phenylfuran-2-ylidene)-2-phenylacetate
emolumental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛntəl
Etymology: From emolument + -al.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to an emolument
examples: text: emolumental knowledge
text: emolumental office
text: emolumental profession
text: in all that is laudable and truly emolumental of this Nature . IT is not therefore that I here presume to instruct Him in the Management of that great and august Enterprize of resolving to Plant and repair his ample Forests
ref: 1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
glosses: profitable; money-making.
dissipativities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dissipativity
dissipativity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dissipativities
Etymology: From dissipative + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The rate at which palpable energy is dissipated away into other forms of energy.
helmette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helmettes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of helmet.
helmettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of helmette
PBGM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of property-based game management.
The Ditch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Tasman Sea, separating Australia and New Zealand.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Any sea.
bejape
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bejapes
form: bejaping
form: bejaped
form: bejaped
Etymology: From Middle English bejapen, bijapen, equivalent to be- + jape. Cognate with Scots bejaip (“to befool”).
Senses: glosses: To play a trick on; trick or befool.
divestible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From divest + -ible.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being divested.
voltagraphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From voltaic and -graphy.
Senses: glosses: In galvanoplasty, the act or art of copying, in metals deposited by electrolytic action, a form or pattern which is made the negative electrode.
alkalifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From alkalify + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being alkalified, able to be converted into an alkali.
tisicky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tisicky
form: most tisicky
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of phthisicky.
apprehensibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: 1826-1827, Thomas De Quincey, "Lessing", in Blackwood's Magazine
Even Lessing is too palpably infected by the error which he combats ; the poetic being too frequently in his meaning nothing more than that which is clothed in a form of sensuous apprehensibility
glosses: The quality of being apprehensible.
rulemonger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rulemongers
Etymology: From rule + monger.
Senses: glosses: A stickler for rules.
rulemongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rulemonger
forerecited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fore- + recited.
Senses: examples: text: the forerecited practices
ref: 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
glosses: Named or recited before; aforementioned.
envisagement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: envisagements
Etymology: From envisage + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of envisaging.
Derived terms: reenvisagement
envisagements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of envisagement
inextinguishably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inextinguishably
form: most inextinguishably
Etymology: From inextinguishable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a way that cannot be extinguished; immortally.
Romeward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Rome + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: to analyze the crisis in its Anglican rather than in its Romeward aspect
ref: 1875, William Ewart Gladstone, Life of the Prince Consort:
glosses: Tending, directed, or headed toward Rome, or toward the Roman Catholic church.
malacostracous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Malacostraca + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Belonging to the Malacostraca.
Related terms: malacostracan
nup
Language: English
Part of speech: particle
Pronunciation: ipa: /nʌp/
rhymes: -ʌp
Senses: examples: text: I've suggested many jobs she could do but nup no way. She just was happy getting her freeloading money. I realised what a freeloader she really was when she started ranting about losing money when she got married to a guy with a job.
ref: 2013 December 4, u/singloud, “Did anyone else have chronically unemployed parents or even parents who were just always at home?”, in Reddit, r/raisedbynarcissists, archived from the original on 28 Sep 2023:
antonyms: yep
yup
glosses: No, nope.
Related terms: sense: not etymologically related
word: post-nup
sense: not etymologically related
word: pre-nup
inextinguishability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + extinguish + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The state of not being extinguishable.
witcraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wit + -craft. 1573 by Ralph Lever, The Arte of Reason, rightly termed, Witcraft, teaching a perfect way to argue and dispute.
Senses: examples: text: In its pure form, witcraft can be seen as a democratic art. because it does not depend upon technical expertise. Within an ideal context of pure witcraft, the powerful and the powerless meet upon equal terms.
ref: 1996, Michael Billig, Arguing and thinking: a rhetorical approach to social psychology:
glosses: Mental skill; the art of wit.
examples: text: It argues that a rhetorical approach maintains space for agency on the behalf of employees (through the witcraft of argument) […]
ref: 2008, Gillian Symon, “Developing the Political Perspective on Technological Change Through Rhetorical Analysis”, in Management Communication Quarterly, volume 22, number 1:
glosses: The art of reasoning; logic.
Related terms: sense: not to be confused with
word: witchcraft
misreligion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misreligions
Etymology: From mis- + religion.
Senses: glosses: False or wrong religion.
Related terms: misreligious
misreligions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misreligion
hyalography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From hyalo- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: The art of writing or engraving on glass using a hyalograph.
Derived terms: hyalographic
apothegmatist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æpəʊˈθɛɡmətɪst/
ipa: /æpoʊˈθɛɡmətɪst/
Forms: form: apothegmatists
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀποφθέγματος (apophthégmatos) (the genitive of ἀπόφθεγμα (apóphthegma, “a thing uttered; especially, a terse, pointed saying, an apothegm”)) + English -ist (suffix forming nouns denoting people who practise or study particular disciplines).
Senses: examples: text: Novv each man applying his vvhole time and genius upon his particular Figure, vvould doubtleſs attain to perfection; and vvhen each became incorporated and ſvvorn into the Society (as hath been propoſed) a Poet or Orator vvould have no more to do but to ſend to the particular Traders in each Kind, to the Metaphoriſt for his Allegories, to the Simile-maker for his Compariſons, to the Ironiſt for his Sarcaſms, to the Apothegmatiſt for his Sentences, etc. […]
ref: 1727 (date written), Martinus Scriblerus [pseudonym; Alexander Pope], “ΠΕΡΙ ΒΑΘΟΥΣ [Peri Bathous]: Or, Of the Art of Sinking in Poetry. […]”, in The Works of Alexander Pope Esq. […], volume VI, London: […] J[ohn] and P[aul] Knapton […], published 1751, →OCLC, chapter XIII (A Project for the Advancement of the Bathos), page 211:
glosses: A collector or maker of apothegms.
apothegmatists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apothegmatist
drollingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more drollingly
form: most drollingly
Etymology: From drolling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a jesting manner; humorously or jokingly.
oratorially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more oratorially
form: most oratorially
Etymology: From oratorial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an oratorial way.
flamboyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flamboyers
Etymology: Borrowed from French flamboyer (“to be bright”).
Senses: glosses: Any of various trees in the East and West Indies with brilliant blossoms, probably species of Caesalpinieae, especially of Delonix and Caesalpinia, all of which were formerly in the obsolete genus Poinciana.
flamboyers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flamboyer
foreknowable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From foreknow + -able.
Senses: examples: text: And ſuch are the Actions of all thoſe that are deeply lapſed into Corruption, and of thoſe fevv that are grovvn to a more Heroicall ſtate of Goodneſs: It is certainly foreknovvable vvhat they vvill do in ſuch and ſuch circumſtances.
ref: 1668, Franciscus Euistor the Palæopolite [pseudonym; Henry More], “The First Dialogue”, in Divine Dialogues, Containing Sundry Disquisitions & Instructions Concerning the Attributes of God and His Providence in the World. […], London: […] James Flesher, →OCLC, paragraph XX, page 84:
text: 1911, J. A. Smith (translator), Aristotle (original), Nicomachean Ethics, "Introduction
antonyms: unforeknowable
glosses: That may be known in advance.
Derived terms: unforeknowable
pholades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pholas
aqueity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈkwiːɪti/
Etymology: From aque(ous) + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The aqueity, Terreity, and sulphureity
Shall run together again, and all be annulled
ref: 1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
synonyms: wateriness
glosses: The quality of being watery.
bijugous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin bijugus (“yoked two together”), from bis (“twice”) + jugum (“yoke, pair”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: bijugate
raw_tags: of a leaf
reagree
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reagrees
form: reagreeing
form: reagreed
form: reagreed
Etymology: From re- + agree.
Senses: glosses: To agree again; to become reconciled.
reagreed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reagree
ootype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈəʊətaɪp/
Forms: form: ootypes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek; corresponding to oo- + -type.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The part of the oviduct of certain trematodes in which the ova are completed by being furnished with yolk, and, by secretion from the Mehlis glands, with a shell.
ootypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ootype
balneary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balnearies
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin balnearium, from balneum (“bath”), from Ancient Greek βαλανεῖον (balaneîon).
Senses: glosses: A room for bathing.
intertraffic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inter- + traffic.
Senses: glosses: Mutual traffic or trade back and forth between two or more entities.
reagreeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reagree
balnearies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balneary
fouth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Variant of fulth, from Middle English fulthe; equivalent to full + -th (abstract nominal suffix).
Senses: glosses: Abundance; plenty.
Derived terms: at fouth
fouthy
fouth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fouth
form: most fouth
form: fowth
form: foulth
Etymology: Variant of fulth, from Middle English fulthe; equivalent to full + -th (abstract nominal suffix).
Senses: glosses: Abundant; copious; plenteous.
fouth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fourth.
redemptible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: redemptible material
text: redemptible world
glosses: redeemable
diffidencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diffidency
diffidency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diffidencies
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of diffidence.
ringhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ringheads
Etymology: From ring + head.
Senses: examples: text: The ringheads and 4 feet of the soffit from the face of the arch are faced with blue Staffordshire bricks .
ref: 1901, Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, Transactions, page 235:
glosses: The top of a ring-shaped construction.
glosses: An instrument used for stretching woollen cloth.
examples: text: In the figure only the top and bottom cylinder heads have been replaced by ringheads, with the side heads remaining conventional so that rounded corners can be produced on the planed planks.
ref: 1974, Richard A. Horn, Morphology of Wood Pulp Fiber from Softwoods and Influence on Paper Strength, page 3:
text: Variables were examined: Moisture content, angle of knives in ringhead, angle of cutting edge, position of ringhead in relation to centerline of piece being planed, and cutting speed.
ref: 1975, Bruce G. Heebink, Producing Flakes for Structural Particleboard on a Ringhead Planer:
topics: arts
business
carpentry
construction
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
woodworking
glosses: A cutting tool or assembly that consists of a circular head which houses multiple cutting knives or blades arranged in a ring formation.
examples: text: That's a lesson my friend and fellow ringhead ( Olympic journalist ) Elliott Almond and I learned one day long ago on the slopes of Mount Hood .
ref: 2009, Jack C. Harris, The Winter Olympics, page 166:
text: A few of the Ringheads made a statement by refusing to watch the Dream Team play, so it must've made them gag when International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samaranch, sho didn't know a three-point shot from a three-card monte, was a conspicuous Dream Team observer at the Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona.
ref: 2012, Jack McCallum, Dream Team:
glosses: A journalist who covers Olympic sports.
examples: text: It appears that, as he rode towards the outspan place and saw the concourse, six ringheads or warriors stepped out to meet him, and one of them, laying down his weapons, advanced holding a white shield before him to show that his errand was peaceful.
ref: 1946, Thomas Baines, John Peter Richard Wallis, The Northern Goldfields Diaries of Thomas Baines, page 162:
text: They were "ringheads" of Manukosi's own white shield regiment and before the encounter was over ten of Mashakatsi's men were dead and he himself and six others were wounded.
ref: 1959, Oswald Pirow, Shangani, page 44:
text: They demanded of him to know where more Bushman children were to be had, and took him away and as they heard from the servants, he had led them in the night close to the kraal of 'ringheads' ( Zulus or Amaswazi ) upon which they [ the Boers ] had killed him for alleged treachery .
ref: 2019, Elizabeth Eldredge, Fred Morton, Slavery In South Africa:
glosses: A warrior of the Zulu or Amaswazi tribe.
ringhead
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ring + head.
Senses: examples: text: In their archeological excavations, the Ingstads found eight turf-and-stone Norse dwellings similar to those in Greenland, and artifacts including a bronze Viking ringhead pin, a spindle whorl of soapstone, corroded iron rivets, an anvil, and a charcoal kiln and smithy.
ref: 2010, Bob Braithwaite, Smitten by Canada!: Another %!@^! Travel Memoir, page 15:
text: The basic design had been finalised by the spring of 1897, once a ringhead hammer had replaced the original spur and a second lug had been added to the locking piece, but the design did not stabilise until the adoption in 1912 of the neue Sicherung ('New Safety', 'N.S.') that moved upward to lock only when the hammer was cocked.
ref: 2016, John Walter, Guns of The Third Reich:
text: The measurements have been made in the vertebral canal close to lig. longitudinale int. by means of a ringhead bow divider and the measures have been set off on a transverse scale which is accurate to tenths of millimetres .
ref: 1952 ·, Acta Orthopaedica Scandinavica, page 22:
glosses: Having a circular or ring-shaped head.
ringheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ringhead
temporofacial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪʃəl
Etymology: From temporo- + facial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to both the temple and the face
behope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: behopes
form: behoping
form: behoped
form: behoped
Etymology: From be- + hope.
Senses: glosses: To hope.
launcet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: launcets
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of lancet.
aproctous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + proct- + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: aproctous gut
text: aproctous nematode
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Without an anal orifice.
beglammer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beglammers
form: beglammering
form: beglammered
form: beglammered
Etymology: From be- + glammer, Scottish variant of glamour (“to bewitch”), equivalent to be- + glamour.
Senses: glosses: To bewitch; deceive; hoodwink.
befangled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more befangled
form: most befangled
Etymology: From be- + fangled.
Senses: glosses: Smartly dressed or decorated; bedizened.
bedone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English bedon, from Old English bedōn, past participle of bedōn (“to shut”). More at bedo.
Senses: glosses: past participle of bedo.
bedone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bedone
form: most bedone
Etymology: From be- + done.
Senses: glosses: Outwitted.
bedrip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bedrips
form: bedripping
form: bedripped
form: bedripped
Etymology: From be- (“on, about, all over”) + drip.
Senses: examples: text: "And bold Aneurim, all bedripped with gore Bursting by force from the beleaguered glen, Arrogant, haughty, fierce, of fiery mood, Not meek and mean, as Gray misunderstood. […]"
ref: 1825, Thomas Gray, The works of Thomas Gray:
text: Wine shall break in sparkles o'er our lips bedripping; We are wise, and know we're by it gladden'd!
ref: 1851, Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt, translated by Richard Waddington, The morning-land:
text: But in that dark camp was a dauntless Emir, A levin of battle, they call'd him Zobir, In irefullest mood, His rattling spurs all bedripping with blood, He sped to his leader, and cried, "Thou essayest, Abdallah, the battle no more! […] "
ref: 1862, Poems from the German
text: And when the grewsome work was finished, she thought it not ill to walk slowly to her palace through the open streets in her blood bedripped garments, that Ahab's subjects might perceive Jezebel took horrible vengeance on those who […]
ref: 1919, Florence Willingham Pickard, Between scarlet thrones:
glosses: To drip about or all over; drip onto (something).
bedrip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedrips
form: bederup
form: bederepe
form: bidrepe
Etymology: From Middle English bedrip, from Old English bedrīp (“compulsory service rendered to a landowner at harvest time, the reaping of corn on request”), from a compound of bed (“prayer, supplication, religious ordinance, service”) + rīp (“reaping, harvest”). More at bead, reap.
Senses: glosses: A band of harvesters.
glosses: A crowd.
bedole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bedoles
form: bedoling
form: bedoled
form: bedoled
Etymology: From be- + dole, from Middle English dollen, variant of dullen (“to make dull”), equivalent to be- + dull.
Senses: glosses: To stupefy with pain or grief.
Derived terms: bedoled
bedoling
bedizzen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bedizzens
form: bedizzening
form: bedizzened
form: bedizzened
Senses: examples: text: [T]he whole [group] had been bedizzened out, into a burlesque imitation of an antique masque.
ref: 1820 January 1, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “Christmas Day”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., number V, New York, N.Y.: […] C[ornelius] S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC, page 440:
glosses: Alternative spelling of bedizen.
free, white, and twenty-one
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: “Free, white, and twenty-one!” sang Emma, cheerily.
ref: 1856, Marion Harland, Alone, J.C. Derby, page 359:
text: "There are no musts in my life - I'm free, white, and twenty-one."
ref: 1932, Helen Vinson, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang:
text: "I'm free, white, and twenty-one. I love to dance and I'm going to dance."
ref: 1934, Ruby Keeler (Barbara Hemingway), Dames:
synonyms: free, white, and eighteen
glosses: Beholden to no one; master of one's own destiny.
raw_tags: used by and usually of white people
dizen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪzən/
Forms: form: dizens
form: dizening
form: dizened
form: dizened
form: disen
form: dysyn
form: dizzen
Etymology: From dialectal dize (“to put tow on a distaff”), from Middle English *disen, from Old English *disan, *disian, from *dise, *disen (“bunch of flax on a distaff”), from Proto-Germanic *disanō (“distaff”), of unknown origin, equivalent to dize + -en. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Diezene (“bundle of flax, distaff”), Middle Low German dise, disene (“distaff”).
Senses: glosses: To dress with flax for spinning.
examples: text: Like a tragedy queen he has dizen'd her out, / Or rather like tragedy giving a rout.
ref: 1774, Oliver Goldsmith, “Retaliation”, in The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, published 1906:
glosses: To dress with clothes; attire; deck; bedizen.
examples: text: I tell you, these Englishwomen have either no life at all in them, or they're nothing but animal life. 'Gad, how they dizen themselves! They've no other use for their fingers. The wealth of this country's frightful!'
ref: 1871, George Meredith, chapter XXXIX, in The Adventures of Harry Richmond:
glosses: To dress showily; adorn; dress out.
Derived terms: bedizen
bedaff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bedaffs
form: bedaffing
form: bedaffed
form: bedaffed
form: bedaft
Etymology: From Middle English bedaffen, bidaffen, equivalent to be- + daff.
Senses: glosses: To befool; make a fool of.
glosses: To confound or stupefy.
Derived terms: bedaft
daffock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæfək/
Forms: form: daffocks
Etymology: From daff + -ock.
Senses: glosses: A dirty slattern.
incommensurableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From incommensurable + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: In view of this incommensurableness of most numbers and their respective logarithms, only an approximate definition can be given of a logarithm in general.
ref: 1865, John Spare, The Differential Calculus, Boston: Bradley, Dayton & Co., page 175:
text: The incommensurableness and mystery of the world, which are, perhaps, even more necessary to the very life of religion than the right to regard it teleologically, reassert themselves afresh in the all-too-comprehensible and mathematically-formulated world.
ref: 1907, chapter 9, in J. Arthur Thomson, Margaret R. Thomson, transl., Naturalism And Religion:
text: The non-correspondence between meaning and working begins in the process of conception, as incommensurableness between objects and interests.
ref: 1984, William Ernest Hocking, “Action and Certainty”, in John Dewey: The later works, 1925-1953, Volume 5, →ISBN, page 466:
glosses: Incommensurability.
increditable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more increditable
form: most increditable
Etymology: From in- + creditable.
Senses: examples: text: Increditable as it may seem, we suspect the Constitution of irony.
ref: 1860 July 11, "The President, Mr. Vanderbilt, and the Pacific Mails" (editorial), New York Times (retrieved 26 Nov 2011)
text: [T]he shopmen . . ., increditable as it may sound, used to demand of us upon our entrance, like banditti, if we came with money or with empty hand.
ref: 1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 13, in Memories and Portraits:
glosses: Incapable of being believed; not creditable.
Synonyms: incredible
unbelievable
devilkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: devilkins
Etymology: From devil + -kin. Compare German Teufelchen.
Senses: glosses: A little devil.
poor diddums
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of diddums.
finger-fumblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of finger-fumbler
uniquities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uniquity
perfricate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: perfricates
form: perfricating
form: perfricated
form: perfricated
Etymology: From Latin perfricatus, past participle of perfricare.
Senses: examples: text: […] they differ from embrocations, only in not being intended, like them, to be copiously used in washing or perfricating the part on which they are applied […]
ref: 1761, Robert Dossie, Theory and Practice of Chirurgical Pharmacy:
glosses: To rub over.
monitorer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monitorers
Etymology: From monitor + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, the high monitorers reported less improvement in stress-related/psychological problems. Interestingly, even though the high monitorers had less severe diagnoses, they demanded more tests and requested more information from the doctors, yet they desired less active involvement in their care than the low monitorers.
ref: 2012, Thomas H. Ollendick, Ronald J. Prinz, Advances in Clinical Child Psychology, volume 18:
text: Having since honed its monitoring skills in numerous subsequent FTAs, Mexico is today arguably the most seasoned monitorer of free trade agreements in the Americas, if not in the world.
ref: 2016, Antoni Estevadeordal, Philippe De Lombaerde, Governing Regional Integration for Development, page 256:
synonyms: monitor
glosses: One who monitors something.
thank-yous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thank-you
up the pole
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: In favour or good repute; strait-laced.
glosses: In confusion or error.
examples: text: The world 'as got me snouted jist a treat; Crool Forchin's dirty left 'as smote me soul. An' all them joys o' life I 'eld so sweet Is up the pole.
ref: 1915, C.J. Dennis, The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, published 1916, page 13:
glosses: In trouble or difficulty.
glosses: Drunk.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Teetotal; not drinking any alcohol.
glosses: Crazy; at one's wits' end.
glosses: Pregnant.
coaleries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coalery
coalery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coaleries
Etymology: From coal + -ery.
Senses: glosses: A colliery.
overprize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overprizes
form: overprizing
form: overprized
form: overprized
Etymology: From over- + prize. See overpraise.
Senses: examples: text: […] a very pardonable facility in the Parents themselves to overprize their own Children, while thy behold them through the vapors of affection which alter the appearance […]
ref: 1651, Henry Wotton, “A Surveigh of Education”, in Reliquiae Wottonianae, London: R. Marriot, page 320:
text: 1777, Granville Sharp, A Tract on the Law of Nature, and Principles of Action in Man, London: B. White and E. & C. Dilly, p. 120, note 42,
A Man apt to over-prize himself, and jealous withal of contempt, of wrong, or of gross abuse, is not so easily appeased with streams of blood, as a calm and gentle spirit is with an ingenuous acknowledgment of wrongs done, or with a courteous answer for wrongs suspected.
text: [Mr. Balfe] has the gift—now rare, in late days—of melody, and a certain facile humour for the stage, which can hardly be over-prized.
ref: 1862, Henry Chorley, “The Year 1838”, in Thirty Years’ Musical Recollections, volume I, London: Hurst & Blackett, pages 141–142:
text: 1983, John Gardner (American writer), On Becoming a Novelist, Open Road Media, 2010, Part II,
Another reason workshops become “workshoppy” is that often teachers slide unconsciously into overprizing the kind of narrative writing that teaches well, undervaluing and even dismissing work that does not.
glosses: To prize excessively; to overvalue.
overprized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overprize
overprizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overprize
overprizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overprize
reshipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reshippers
Etymology: From reship + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who reships.
reshippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reshipper
buffoonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buffoonisms
Etymology: From buffoon + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The actions of a buffoon; buffoonery.
Moabitesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Moabitess
pneumatologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pneumatologists
Etymology: Compare French pneumatologiste.
Senses: glosses: One versed in pneumatology.
pneumatologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pneumatologist
duskish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈdʌskɪʃ/
Forms: form: more duskish
form: most duskish
Etymology: From dusk + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: duskish smoke
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 44:
text: For though Contraria iuxta ſe poſita magis illuceſcunt [opposites placed next to each other shine more brightly] (by an olde Rule) yet it hath beene ſubtilly, and indeede truely noted that our Sight, is not vvell contented, vvith thoſe ſudden departments, from one extreame to another; Therefore let them haue, rather a Duskiſh Tincture, then an abſolute blacke.
ref: 1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC, II. part, page 104:
glosses: Somewhat dusky.
Derived terms: duskishly
duskishness
lowbred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lowbred
form: most lowbred
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of low-bred.
coryzae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coryza
nucamentaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: nucumentaceous
Etymology: From nucament + -aceous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: nut-like
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: bearing one-seeded nut-like fruits.
implicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From implicit + -y.
Senses: examples: text: the generality and implicity of this faith
ref: 1629, Henry Burton, Truth's Triumph over Trent:
glosses: The quality of being implicit.
Synonyms: implicitness
gonidia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gonidium
gonimia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gonimium
gonimium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gonimia
Etymology: From New Latin gonimium, possibly from Ancient Greek γόνιμος (gónimos, “productive”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
lichenology
natural-sciences
glosses: One of the bluish-green granules that replace the more usual gonidia in certain lichens.
monomachist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monomachists
Etymology: From monomachy or monomachia + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: These colors, falling upon the throng of monomachists and loungers much as we see the aureate beams of divine favor fall on hierarchs in art, lent them an appearance insubstantial and thaumaturgic, as though they had all been produced a moment before by the flourish of a cloth and would vanish into the air again at a whistle.
ref: 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXVII, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 236:
glosses: One who fights in single combat; a duellist.
monomachists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monomachist
extirpable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extirp + -able.
Senses: examples: text: an extirpable plant
text: a Plant not easily extirpable
ref: 1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Capable of being extirpated or eradicated.
Derived terms: inextirpable
procuratorates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of procuratorate
termitaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of termitarium
prosternation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prosternations
Etymology: French. See prostration.
Senses: examples: text: a Prosternation of Spirit
ref: 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: word: melancholy
word: misery
word: blueness
word: mirthless
word: blues
word: crestfallenness
word: dejection
word: depression
word: despondency
word: distress
word: dolefulness
word: downheartedness
word: drearihead
word: forlornness
word: grief
word: heartsore
word: ill-being
word: infelicity
word: melancholia
word: melancholy
word: misery
word: mishappiness
word: mourn
word: prosternation
word: regret
word: rue
word: ruth
word: sadness
word: sorrow
word: sorrowfulness
word: tristfulness
word: undelight
word: unhappiness
word: woe
word: woefare
word: wretchedness
glosses: dejection; depression
I've never heard it called that before
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: The word "it" refers to a sex act, bodily organ, etc. for which the speaker's phrase might be construed as a euphemism.
Senses: synonyms: is that what the kids are calling it these days
glosses: Used to draw attention to a possible, and usually unintentional, double entendre in the immediately preceding utterance of another speaker.
Related terms: that's what she said
atechnic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + technic.
Senses: examples: text: atechnic presentations of proof
text: It may be difficult to convey to the atechnic reader that full apprehension of the wonder of such work as this, which will seize upon every etcher when he examines it.
ref: 1866, Philip Gilbert Hamerton, Etching & Etchers, Boston: Roberts Brothers, published 1876, pages 399–400:
qualifier: usually related to Ancient Greek rhetoric
glosses: Without technical or artistic knowledge; untechnical.
thrillingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thrilling + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being thrilling.
rizzar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rizzars
form: rizzaring
form: rizzared
form: rizzared
Etymology: Uncertain.
Senses: examples: text: rizzaring haddock
glosses: To dry (especially haddock) in the sun.
rizzared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rizzar
rizzaring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rizzar
rizzars
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rizzar
bascophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bascophones
Senses: examples: text: Sentences like (13) are very difficult to accept. The first one, for instance, is quite incomprehensible out of context, and will be dismissed by any bascophone hearing it without other explanation.
ref: 1989, Bernard Oyharçabal, “Pro-drop and the Resumptive Pronoun Strategy in Basque”, in László Marácz, Pieter Muysken, editors, Configurationality: The Typology of Asymmetries, Dordrecht: Foris Publications, →ISBN, page 69:
text: According to Haritschelhar, nobody is in a position to say how many bascophones there are on the French side of the border, although he suggests a tentative figure of some 80,000 speakers.
ref: 1993, F. Laroussi, J.-B. Marcellesi, “The other languages of France: towards a multilingual policy”, in Carol Sanders, editor, French Today: Language in Its Social Context, Cambridge, Cambs.: Cambridge University Press, published 1995, →ISBN, page 88:
text: ABC municipalities have been divided into five different categories according to their percentages of bascophones, and each category must meet several requirements concerning language.
ref: a. 1998, New Language Planning Newsletter, Mysuru: Central Institute of Indian Languages:
text: ‘Basque-speaking’ is calculated as the sum of the percentages of bilinguals and bascophones.
ref: 2005, Jan Mansvelt Beck, “Euskal Herria: rhetoric of commonness versus uncommon practice”, in Territory and Terror: Conflicting Nationalisms in the Basque Country, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN:
text: Arana preferred a Basque nation of Spanish-speaking but racially Basque inhabitants to a Basque Country of bascophones who were racially impure or non-Basque people: […]
ref: 2011, Ludger Mees, “The Völkisch Appeal: Nazi Germany, the Basques, and the Bretons”, in Sandra Ott, editor, War, Exile, Justice, and Everyday Life, 1936–1946, Reno, Nev.: Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada, Reno, →ISBN, page 255:
text: In the Basque Country, the term euskaldunberri (new bascophone) is considerably older, although it had only been used by the sociologist Gabriel Gatti (2007) in his study on “weak identities”.
ref: 2022, Joan Pujolar, “New speakers: Language and subjectivity”, in Miquel Àngel Pradilla Cardona, editor, Catalan Sociolinguistics: State of the Art and Future Challenges (IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature; 32), Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 282:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Bascophone.
Nazariteship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nazariteship
Etymology: From Nazarite + -ship, a calque of Hebrew נזירות (nzirút, “asceticism, monkhood”), from נזיר (nazír, “nazarite, monk, ascetic”) + ־וּת (-út, “-ness, -ism, -ity, -hood”), from נִזַּר (nizár, “to separate”).
Senses: glosses: The state of being a Nazarite.
bouser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bousers
Etymology: From bouse + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The Memoir accuses both Duncan Forbes and his brother of being bousers in their youth: that the elder brother was, may be true; but the younger had neither time not inclination to merit such a title.
ref: 1815, Major Hugh Robert Duff, “Introduction”, in Culloden Papers, footnote, page ix:
glosses: Obsolete form of boozer.
Synonyms: drunkard
bousers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bouser
unwitch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unwitches
form: unwitching
form: unwitched
form: unwitched
Etymology: From un- + witch.
Senses: examples: text: I was fascinated by Jupiter ; fascinated ; but I will be unwitch'd
ref: 1598, Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Euery Man in His Humour. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: To free from a witch or witchcraft.
unwitched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unwitch
unwitches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unwitch
unwitching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unwitch
binoculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bin- + oculate.
Senses: glosses: Having two eyes.
Antaean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Antaean
form: most Antaean
form: Antæan
Senses: glosses: Relating to Antaeus, a half-giant slain by Hercules in Greek mythology.
glosses: Having superhuman strength, resembling that of Antaeus.
oversaid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oversay
oversay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: oversays
form: oversaying
form: oversaid
form: oversaid
Etymology: From over- + say.
Senses: examples: text: Here you are safe , sad cousin ; if you please , May over-say the circumstance of what You late discours'd
ref: 1639, John Ford, The Lady's Trial:
glosses: To say over again; to repeat.
oversaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oversay
oversays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of oversay
unisonance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See unisonant.
Senses: glosses: the making of a single sound or voice from multiple ones; unison.
lanceolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lanceolar
form: most lanceolar
Etymology: From Latin lanceola (“a little lance”), diminutive of lancea (“lance”). Compare French lancéolaire.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: lanceolate
visard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɪzə(ɹ)d/
rhymes: -ɪzə(ɹ)d
Forms: form: visards
form: visarding
form: visarded
form: visarded
form: vizard
Senses: glosses: To mask.
visard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɪzə(ɹ)d/
rhymes: -ɪzə(ɹ)d
Forms: form: visards
form: vizard
Senses: examples: text: Nor to the motion of a Schoole-boyes tongue:
Nor neuer come in vizard to my friend, […]
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for Cut[h]bert Burby, published 1598, →OCLC; republished as Shakspere’s Loves Labours Lost (Shakspere-Quarto Facsimiles; no. 5), London: W[illiam] Griggs, […], [1880], →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], signature H3, recto:
glosses: A mask.
glosses: An oval mask of black velvet, worn by travelling women in the 16th century to protect their skin from sunburn.
Related terms: vizard
vizzard
visarded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of visard