cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Dickinson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈdɪkɪnsən/
Etymology: From Dickin + -son.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Wright County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Broome County, New York, named after Daniel S. Dickinson.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Franklin County, New York, named after Philemon Dickinson.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Stark County, North Dakota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Galveston County, Texas.
Derived terms: Dickinson County
Dickinsonia
Dickison
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a diminutive form of Dick + -son.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Dixson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Dick + -son.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
granulosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: granuloses
Senses: examples: text: The gross pathologies of granuloses are similar to those of nuclear polyhedroses, but differences occur depending on the types of tissues infected.
ref: 2012, Yoshinori Tanada, Harry K. Kaya, Fernando E. Vega, Insect Pathology, →ISBN, page 211:
text: Larvae of the latter developed granulosis after they had been fed leaves dipped in suspensions of crushed, apparently healthy, final-instar Cambridge larvae.
ref: 2012, Edward Steinhaus, Insect Pathology V1: An Advanced Treatise, →ISBN, page 558:
text: In Cambridge, England, it is very difficult to rear wild Pieris rapae, the small white butterfly, in captivity since a very high proportion die from a granulosis.
ref: 2012, K. Smith, Introduction to Virology, →ISBN, page 107:
text: Each virus particle, as in the case of the nuclear polyhedrosis virus, is surrounded by two membranes, the intimate and developmental membranes. Much less is known about the histopathology of granuloses than polyhedroses.
ref: 2013, Thomas C. Cheng, Current Topics in Comparative Pathobiology - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 27:
glosses: A viral disease that affects many insects.
Derived terms: hypergranulosis
Dixey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈdɪksi/
Etymology: From a medieval diminutive of Dick.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
frenular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the frenulum.
monotriglyph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monotriglyphs
Etymology: From mono- + triglyph.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A kind of intercolumniation in an entablature, in which only one triglyph and two metopes are introduced
Related terms: monotriglyphic
monotriglyphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monotriglyph
suspectable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more suspectable
form: most suspectable
Etymology: From suspect + -able.
Senses: glosses: That may be suspected.
Hickes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hick + the patronymic suffix -s.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Hicken
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a medieval diminutive of Hick.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
Hickin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɪkən
Etymology: From a medieval diminutive of Hick.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
Hicking
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a medieval diminutive of Hick.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
Hicklin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a medieval diminutive of Hick.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
Hickling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hicklings
Etymology: From the Old English personal name *Hicel + -ing (“belonging to”).
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A village and civil parish in North Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG4123).
glosses: A placename:
A village in Rushcliffe borough, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK6929).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Hickling Green
Hickling Heath
Hickling Pastures
Higgitt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a medieval diminutive of Hick.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
Higgon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a medieval diminutive of Hick.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
Hickson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪk.sən/
rhymes: -ɪksən
Forms: form: Hicksons
Etymology: From Hick + -son. Doublet of Higson.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Cass County, North Dakota, United States.
Synonyms: Hick
Hicks
Higgs
Hixon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Surname from Hick + -son.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A village and civil parish in Stafford borough, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK0025).
glosses: An unincorporated community in the Cariboo region of British Columbia, Canada.
glosses: A town in Clark County, Wisconsin, United States.
Hitch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a medieval diminutive of the male give name Richard.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
Hitch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alfred Hitchcock
Hitchcott
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Hitchcock.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
Hedgecock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Hitchcock.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
Hiscock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hiscocks
Etymology: Variant of Hitchcock.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
Hiscoke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Hitchcock.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
Hiscott
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Hitchcock.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
Hitchcox
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hitchcock + patronymic suffix -s.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Hiscocks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Hitchcox.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Hiscox
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Hitchcox.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Hedgecox
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Hitchcox.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Hitchen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a medieval diminutive form of Hitch.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
Hiskett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a medieval diminutive form of Hitch.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
Hitchin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English *Hicce, the name of a tribe.
Senses: glosses: A town in North Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL1829).
Hitchin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a medieval diminutive form of Hitch.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
Hitching
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a medieval diminutive form of Hitch.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
Hitchon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a medieval diminutive form of Hitch.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
Hichens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a medieval diminutive form of Hitch + the patronymic suffix -s.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Hitchens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a medieval diminutive form of Hitch + the patronymic suffix -s.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Derived terms: Hitchslap
Hitchings
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a medieval diminutive form of Hitch + the patronymic suffix -s.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Hitchins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a medieval diminutive form of Hitch + the patronymic suffix -s.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Hitches
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hitch + the patronymic suffix -s.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Hitchinson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hitchin + -son.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Higson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪɡ.sən/
rhymes: -ɪɡsən
Etymology: From Hick + -son. Doublet of Hickson.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
munsee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: munsees
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of munshi.
Icke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Hick, a medieval diminutive of Richard.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
Reacher
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A contraction of Richard.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Riches
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Rich, a diminutive of Richard + the patronymic suffix -s.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Ricks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Rick + the patronymic suffix -s.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Rix
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Rick + the patronymic suffix -s.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A commune in Jura department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
glosses: A commune in Nièvre department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
Rickson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Rick + -son.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Rixon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Rick + -son.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A suburban settlement in Sturminster Newton parish, Dorset, England (OS grid ref ST7914).
Rickards
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Rickard, a medieval variant of Richard + the patronymic suffix -s.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Rickett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a medieval diminutive of Richard.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
trispinose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + spinose.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having three spines.
unispinose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + spinose.
Senses: glosses: Bearing a single spine.
Ricketts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Rickett, a medieval diminutive of Richard + the patronymic suffix -s.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Ritson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪt.sən/
rhymes: -ɪtsən
Etymology: From a contraction of Richard + -son.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
fustercluck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fusterclucks
Senses: examples: text: God, what an unbelievable fustercluck, she thought, shaking her head from side to side on her pile of pillows as she remembered Sophie's tear-streaked face as she ran down the block and out of sight.
ref: 2009, Jennifer Banash, In Too Deep, page 225:
text: Writers for Gossip Girl have come up with fustercluck, motherchucker, and basshole.
ref: 2010, Ralph Keyes, Euphemania, link:
text: “A fustercluck indeed,” he agreed, and she shrugged as a wet line ran down her spine.
ref: 2011, Andrew Van Wey, Forsaken, link:
glosses: Spoonerism of clusterfuck
fusterclucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fustercluck
what's the big idea
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: I heard you been chatting up my girl. What's the big idea?
text: Hey, what's the big idea, you telling everybody I'd left town?
qualifier: often preceded by hey
glosses: Used to express surprise or dissatisfaction with an action or statement of another person, especially to that person.
game camera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: game cameras
Senses: glosses: A motion-sensitive camera placed on animal trails to photograph passing wildlife.
motherchucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motherchuckers
Etymology: From mother + chucker, as a rhyming bowdlerization of motherfucker. Popularized by the American television series Gossip Girl in the late 2000s, but reportedly used by Britney Spears in a 2005 Details article.
Senses: examples: text: Ordinarily we would say that no one would actually say, as Blair does, "Damn that motherchucker!" […]
ref: 2008 February 9, Jessica Pressler, Chris Rovzar, “Gossip Girl Says ‘Chuck You’ to True Love”, in Daily Intelligencer:
text: "I see a few motherchuckers in the crowd."
ref: 2009, Jason Pinter, The Darkness, Mira, →ISBN:
text: We’ve spent the last four years of our lives cursing the Patrick McMullan Company Website. We love Patrick and the boys dearly, but entire mountain ranges could have formed in the time it took that motherchucker to load.
ref: 2009 July 1, Jada Yuan, “Glory Be! Patrick McMullan Redesigned His Website!”, in New York Magazine:
text: Die Hard has been often imitated but never duplicated. Willis good, Rickman better. Yippee-ki-yay, motherchucker.
ref: 2009 August 21, Stephen King, “Stephen King's Reliable Rentals”, in Entertainment Weekly:
text: Nate being a motherchucker +20 –THEYCALLMESTACEY
ref: 2012 April 20, Sarah Lawson, “Gossip Girl Recap Recap: Salon of the Dead”, in Vulture:
glosses: Motherfucker.
motherchuckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motherchucker
switch pitcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: switch pitchers
Etymology: By analogy with switch hitter.
Senses: examples: text: As the result of a childhood injury, Larry Kimbrough became both a switch hitter and a switch pitcher, and he carried those abilities all the way to the only major leagues available to a black ballplayer in the early 1940s: the Negro League
ref: 2000, Brent P. Kelley, The Negro leagues revisited: conversations with 66 more baseball heroes, →ISBN, page 142:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A pitcher who pitches both right-handed and left-handed.
switch pitchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of switch pitcher
affrontable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more affrontable
form: most affrontable
Etymology: From affront + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be affronted.
Derived terms: unaffrontable
malices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malice
malices
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of malice
homicider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homiciders
Etymology: From homicide + -er.
Senses: examples: text: There were 96 American Indians on whom information was reported and 305 remaining homiciders on which information is available.
ref: 1970, United States. Bureau of Prisons. Office of Research, Abstracts of Research in the Bureau of Prisons, page 74:
glosses: One who commits homicide.
caracoler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caracolers
Etymology: From caracole + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who performs the caracole combat maneuver on horseback.
legionellae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of legionella
petiolate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: petiolated (connected to a stem by means of a petiole)
Derived terms: apetiolate
epetiolate
petiolately
subpetiolate
petiolate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petiolates
Senses: glosses: Such a leaf
blackboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blackboy
conjubilant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From con- + jubilant.
Senses: examples: text: They stand, those halls of Syon, / Conjubilant with song, / And bright with many an angel, / And all the martyr throng.
ref: 1862, John Mason Neale, Mediaeval Hymns and Sequences:
glosses: Shouting together for joy; rejoicing together.
firmless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more firmless
form: most firmless
Etymology: From firm + -less.
Senses: examples: 18th century, Alexander Pope, Verses to Dr. Bolton
Does passion still the firmless mind control?
glosses: Detached from physical substance.
glosses: Infirm; unstable.
glosses: without a firm (company)
tholemod
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tholemod
form: most tholemod
Etymology: From Middle English tholemod, from Old English þolmōd, þolemōd (“forbearing, patient, of a patient disposition; patience, endurance”), equivalent to thole + mood. Cognate with Icelandic þolinmóður (“patient”), Swedish tålmodig (“patient”), Danish tålmodig (“patient”).
Senses: glosses: Patient; long-suffering; forbearing.
ground-effect vehicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ground-effect vehicles
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
transport
glosses: An aircraft that uses aerodynamic ground effect to attain level flight near the surface of water.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Synonym of ground-effect machine.
synonyms: word: ground-effect machine
Synonyms: word: GEM
word: GEV
word: ground-effect machine
sense: ekranoplan
word: ekranoplan
sense: ekranoplan
word: flarecraft
sense: ekranoplan
word: sea skimmer
sense: ekranoplan
word: wing-in-ground-effect vehicle
sense: ekranoplan
word: wing-in-surface-effect ship
Related terms: WISE
thornen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thornen
form: most thornen
Etymology: From Middle English thornen, from Old English þyrnen (“thorny, of thorns”), from Proto-West Germanic *þurnīn, from Proto-Germanic *þurnīnaz (“of thorns”), equivalent to thorn + -en.
Senses: examples: text: In that district it was a favourite remedy for scald head in a baby to hang cotton wool on a "thornen hedge" by moonlight.
ref: 1897, Frederick Hancock, The parish of Selworthy in the county of Somerset, page 233:
glosses: Made of or consisting of thorns.
thornhog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thornhogs
Etymology: From Middle English thornhog, equivalent to thorn + hog.
Senses: glosses: A hedgehog.
futhermucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: futhermuckers
form: fothermucker
Senses: examples: text: "Fuck off, futhermucker."
ref: 1975, Sheila Ballantyne, Norma Jean, the Termite Queen, Doubleday & Company, →ISBN, page 72:
text: "What a dumb futhermucker. What a waste of everybody's time."
ref: 1986, Carol Taylor, A Third Story, Lace Publications, →ISBN, page 81:
text: […] Swelling's going down already. Just hurt like a futhermucker for a few minutes."
ref: 2011, Lisa McMann, Cryer's Cross, Simon Pulse, →ISBN, page 72:
glosses: Spoonerism of motherfucker
futhermuckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of futhermucker
assholedom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From asshole + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: Maybe, he thought, looking for an excuse, the realization of assholedom was the beginning of wisdom.
ref: 2009, John Sandford, Rough Country, link:
glosses: The state or condition of an asshole, or objectionably antisocial person.
Related terms: assholery
assholeness
assholeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From asshole + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Sincere assholeness is not my style so I am just a simple asshole who is not really funny but it is what it is and so I am.
ref: 2011, David Smith, They Ate Peaches, page 80:
glosses: The state of being an asshole.
death rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: death rates
form: deathrate
Senses: synonyms: mortality
mortality rate
antonyms: birth rate
glosses: The number of deaths per given unit of population over a given period of time.
fair-to-middling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fair to middling.
fair to middlin'
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fair to middling.
fair-to-middlin'
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fair to middling.
turn someone's head
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turns someone's head
form: turning someone's head
form: turned someone's head
form: turned someone's head
Senses: examples: text: [I]t was plain that power had turned his head, and he would not be satisfied till all the power and all the wealth rested in his own hands. So he became swollen with pride, forgot it was I that had placed him there, and made preparations to destroy me.
ref: 1901, Jack London, A Hyperborean Brew:
text: I should not want him to make a fortune—let that come later. It could turn his head, at his time of life, and in many ways be a damage to him.
ref: 1906, Mark Twain, chapter 1, in Chapters from My Autobiography:
glosses: To influence someone in a manner that significantly changes his or her behavior.
examples: text: Young men at Hillsborough—many of whom, I felt sure, had a smarter look than I—had bid stubbornly for her favour. I wondered, often, it did not turn her head—this tribute of rustic admiration.
ref: 1900, Irving Bacheller, chapter 20, in Eben Holden: A Tale of the North Country:
text: I often marvel that the women did not turn his head.
ref: 1904, Harold MacGrath, chapter 2, in The Man On The Box:
text: “I can believe I was in love with you,” replied Dad. “But you were different then, Rita. Before Mr Big came along and turned your head with his riches.”
ref: 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: To attract someone's romantic interest.
Synonyms: sense: influence someone in a manner that significantly changes his or her behavior
word: go to someone's head
sense: attract someone's romantic interest
word: light someone's fire
Related terms: turn heads
gemote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: gĕ'mōt
Forms: form: gemotes
Senses: examples: text: But Cnut was of nobler stuff than Æthelred, and his conquest of the realm was followed by the gathering of a new gemote at Oxford to resume the work of reconciliation […]
ref: 1876, John Richard Green, Stray Studies from England and Italy:
text: He expelled the Britons, and fixed the Tamar as their limit Then returning to Exeter, he held therein a gemote, at which certain laws still in existence were promulgated, […]
ref: 1879, A handbook for travellers in Devonshire, 9th edition, John Murray, page 26:
text: Dean Pound somewhere quoting from Freeman, the English historian, the most noted of the Anglo-Saxon myth-makers, cites the examiner in law who insisted that William the Conqueror introduced the feudal system at the gemote at Salisbury in 1086, […]
ref: 1918, Michigan Law Review, volume 16, page 325:
glosses: Alternative form of gemot.
allanerly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of allenarly.
geason
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɡiːzən/
/ˈɡeɪzən/
/ˈɡɛzən/
Forms: form: more geason
form: most geason
form: geazon
form: gaison
form: gessen
Etymology: From Middle English geson, gesene (“rare, scarce”), from Old English gǣsne (“deprived of, wanting, destitute, barren, sterile, dead”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaisnī (“barren, poor”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰē- (“to be gaping, yawn”). Cognate with North Frisian gast (“barren”), Low German güst (“barren”), Old High German geisini, keisini (“lack”).
Senses: examples: text: This white falcon rare and gaison,
This bird shineth so bright.
ref: 16th century, Nicholas Udall, Falcon White:
text: […] ye shal finde many other word to rime with him, bycause such terminations are not geazon […]
ref: 1588, George Puttenham, “Of Proportion”, in The Arte of English Poesie; republished as George Gregory Smith, editor, Elizabethan Critical Essays, volume 2, Oxford University Press, 1937, page 119:
text: Such as this Age, in which all good is geason, […]
ref: 1591, Edmund Spenser, Visions of the Worlds Vanitie:
text: Lectorius, friends are geason now-a-days, / And grow to fume before they taste the fire.
ref: 1594, Thomas Lodge, The Wounds of Civil War, act 2; republished as John Payne Collier, Robert Dodsley, Isaac Reed, editors, A Select Collection of Old Plays, volume 8, London: Septimus Prowett, 1825, page 32:
glosses: Rare; uncommon; scarce.
glosses: Difficult to procure; scant; sparing.
glosses: Unusual; wonderful.
Synonyms: sense: scarce
word: infrequent
word: raresome
word: selcouth
word: rare
abkari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑbˈkɑɹ.i/
Forms: form: abkaris
form: abcaree
form: abkaree
form: abkarry
form: abkary
Etymology: From Persian آبکاری (âbkâri), from آبکار (âbkâr).
Senses: glosses: The manufacture or sale of liquors or drugs.
glosses: A revenue tax on the manufacture or sale of liquors and drugs.
gemoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: gĕ'mo͞ot
Forms: form: gemoots
Senses: examples: text: For an instance of a Gemoot summoned by a King, see […]
ref: 1832, Francis Palgrave, The Rise and Progress of the English Commonwealth, Part 2:
text: 1975, How to form an Odinist Gemoot (ISBN-13: 9780950461311)
glosses: Alternative form of gemot.
Perioikos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Perioikoi
Senses: glosses: A free inhabitant of ancient Laconia who was without citizenship and lived outside the city of Sparta.
Related terms: perioecus
folkmoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: folkmoots
form: folkmot
form: folkmote
Etymology: From Old English folcġemōt (“meeting of the people of a town or district”), equivalent to folk + moot.
Senses: examples: text: To which folke-mote they all with one consent […] Agreed to travell, and their fortunes try.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book IV:
text: Yet even in the seven kingdoms, even in the united kingdom, when there was a general summons to the host, some concentration of the armed folkmoots must have taken place.
ref: 1897, William Stubbs, The Constitutional History of England in Its Origin and Development, 6th edition, volume 1, page 134:
text: If the accused did not appear on the day named for the trial, he was outlawed at the folkmoot.
ref: 1919, F. J. Snell, The Customs of Old England:
text: Since marital, hiring, and other contracts were made in the folkmoots, it is likely that justice was administered there. Thus it may be said that the meeting -places were used for councils of war and the administration of the law.
ref: 1963, James Alexander Robertson, editor, The Hispanic American Historical Review, volume 8, page 463:
text: […] slay Ermanaric in one quick, clean blow, and afterward call a folkmoot to pick a new king who shall be righteous.
ref: 1983, Poul Anderson, Time Patrolman (fiction):
text: The folkmoot retained various responsibilities, but most important business, including dealing with those who failed to attend the chief folkmoots, took place at the husting.
ref: 2003, John Hamilton Baker, The Oxford History of the Laws of England: c. 900-1216, Oxford University Press, page 819:
text: New Zealand Maori in grass skirts, Bavarian oompah bands, and sombrero-wearing Mexican ensembles are only a few of the multicultural treasures you might encounter at Waynesville's Folkmoot USA festival.
ref: 2006, Constance E. Richards, Kenneth L. Richards, Insiders' Guide to North Carolina's Mountains, 8th edition, page 334:
qualifier: or later revived in general usage
glosses: A general meeting (assembly) of the people of a town, district, or shire.
Related terms: entmoot
moot
thing
husting
Abernethy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Abernathy
Etymology: The first part of the name, Aber, is thought to be a Pictish word meaning "confluence," from Proto-Brythonic *aber + the name Nethy, a river in Scotland.
Senses: glosses: A village in Perth and Kinross council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO1816).
glosses: A topographic surname.
Derived terms: Abernethian
Hosford-Abernethy
Abernethy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Abernethies
form: Abernathy
Etymology: The first part of the name, Aber, is thought to be a Pictish word meaning "confluence," from Proto-Brythonic *aber + the name Nethy, a river in Scotland.
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Abernethy biscuit.
bromantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹoʊˈmæntɪk/
ipa: /bɹəʊˈmæntɪk/
Forms: form: more bromantic
form: most bromantic
Etymology: Blend of bro + romantic.
Senses: examples: text: […] for understanding how the bromantic plot […] maintain the primacy of relations between men.
ref: 2014, Michael DeAngelis, Reading the Bromance: Homosocial Relationships in Film and Television, Wayne State University Press:
glosses: Of or relating to bromance.
Coordinate terms: womantic
sismantic
Derived terms: bromantical
lunatum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The lunate bone.
spinulose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spinulose
form: most spinulose
Senses: glosses: Covered with small spines.
spinula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spinulae
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spinule.
spinulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spinula
setiger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsiːtɪdʒə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: setigers
Etymology: From Latin saetiger.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: An annelid having setae; a chaetopod.
glosses: One of the segments on such an annelid.
trilineate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of trilinear.
synonyms: word: trilinear
sublineate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sublineate
form: most sublineate
Etymology: From sub- + lineate.
Senses: glosses: Partly or imperfectly lineate.
giftpack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giftpacks
Etymology: From gift + pack.
Senses: glosses: A package of gifts.
giftbag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giftbags
form: gift bag
Etymology: From gift + bag.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: party bag, goody bag, swag bag
text: Every guest at the party was handed a giftbag on their way out.
text: Every speaker at the conference received a giftbag, which was placed in their hotel room in preparation for their arrival.
hypernyms: bag#Noun
glosses: A bag of gifts.
examples: text: I put her birthday present in a giftbag, and I also threw some candy in there, just for some added fun.
hypernyms: gift-wrap#Noun
giftwrap#Noun
;
bag#Noun
coordinate_terms: wrapping paper
glosses: A bag designed for use in wrapping gifts.
giftbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giftboxes
Etymology: From gift + box.
Senses: examples: text: So Shadow of the Colossus has its gripes: one or two of the colossi phone it in a bit, especially the ones that are only about the size of a bull, which is disappointing when held against flying-snakey-speeding-horsey-leapy-stabby wahey, like a big gift box containing five thousand packing peanuts and a Kinder Surprise.
ref: 2010 August 11 (5:00pm), Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw, “Shadow of the Colossus” reviewed by Zero Punctuation, 3:27–3:42 and 3:56–4:08
glosses: A box of gifts.
giftbags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giftbag
giftpacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giftpack
giftboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giftbox
malnutritional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From malnutrition + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to malnutrition.
overhydration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + hydration.
Senses: glosses: Excessive hydration.
underhydration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From under- + hydration.
Senses: glosses: Inadequate hydration.
brent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛnt
Forms: form: brents
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of brant.
Derived terms: brent goose
brent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛnt
Forms: form: more brent
form: most brent
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of brant.
brent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛnt
Senses: examples: 1485 – Thomas Malory. Le Morte Darthur, Book XIV, Chapter vi, leaf 324v
/ whan the fende felte hym soo charged / he shoke of syr Percyual / and he wente in to the water cryenge and roryng makyng grete sorowe / and it semed vnto hym that the water brente /
When the fiend felt him so charged he shook off Sir Percivale, and he went into the water crying and roaring, making great sorrow, and it seemed unto him that the water brent.
glosses: Obsolete spelling of burnt.
brents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brent
half-boot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-boots
Senses: glosses: A short boot, rising to anywhere from the ankle to halfway up the calf, but no higher.
Related terms: cocker
congress boot
half-boots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half-boot
osteocrania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of osteocranium
osteocranium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪniəm
Forms: form: osteocrania
Etymology: From osteo- + cranium.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The bony cranium, as distinguished from the cartilaginous cranium.
Related terms: osteocranial
petrescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛˈtɹɛsənt/
rhymes: -ɛsənt
Etymology: Latin petra (“rock, stone”), from Ancient Greek.
Senses: examples: text: in the solid substance of the stone; […]this compact and ponderous body was made stony, by the supervention of some petrescent liquor upon porous earth
ref: 1672, Robert Boyle, Origin and Virtues of Gems:
glosses: Petrifying; converting into stone.
leptology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lepto- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: A minute and tedious discourse on trifling things.
glosses: crystallography
nitrogelatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nitrogelatine
Etymology: From nitro- + gelatin.
Senses: glosses: An explosive consisting of guncotton and camphor dissolved in nitroglycerin.
bay salt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bay salts
Senses: examples: text: Take a Male Pike, rub his skin off whil'st he lives, with bay salt, having well cleared the outside, lay him in a large Dish or Tray
ref: 1658, Anonymous, given as "W. M.", The Compleat Cook:
text: bay-salt, which lasted about an eighth part longer than the clear wax
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “IV. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
text: A pan may sometimes be slowly evaporated for the express purpose of obtaining bay-salt
ref: 1839, Andrew Ure, A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines:
glosses: sea salt.
inconversable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inconversable
form: most inconversable
Etymology: From in- + conversable.
Senses: glosses: uncommunicative; reserved
possessioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: possessioners
Etymology: From possession + -er.
Senses: examples: text: 1568-1569, Richard Grafton, Chronicle at Large
possessioners of riches.
text: having been of old freemen and possessioners
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: A possessor; a holder of property.
glosses: A member of any religious community endowed with property in lands, buildings, etc., as contrasted with mendicant friars.
possessioners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of possessioner
epiphytal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From epiphyte + -al.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Archaic form of epiphytic.
lapidescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlæpɪˈdɛsənt/
ipa: /ˌlæpəˈdɛsənt/
rhymes: -ɛsənt
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin lapidēscēns, present participle of lapidēscō (“to petrify”).
Senses: glosses: Capable of petrifying other bodies.
glosses: Capable of being converted into stone.
Related terms: lapidescence
lapidescent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlæpɪˈdɛsənt/
ipa: /ˌlæpəˈdɛsənt/
rhymes: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: lapidescents
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin lapidēscēns, present participle of lapidēscō (“to petrify”).
unordinate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unordinate
form: most unordinate
Etymology: From un- + ordinate.
Senses: glosses: disorderly, irregular
synonyms: inordinate
glosses: inappropriate
Related terms: unordinately
cymoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: sīʹmoid
ipa: /ˈsaɪmɔɪd/
Forms: form: more cymoid
form: most cymoid
form: cymatoid
Etymology: From cyma + -oid.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Resembling a cyma.
cymoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: sīʹmoid
ipa: /ˈsaɪmɔɪd/
Forms: form: more cymoid
form: most cymoid
Etymology: From cyme + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the form of a cyme.
impoliticly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more impoliticly
form: most impoliticly
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of impolitically.
impleadable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more impleadable
form: most impleadable
Etymology: From im- + pleadable.
Senses: examples: text: An impenetrable Iudge, an impleadable Inditement[…]
ref: 1618, Thomas Adams, The Diuells Banket:
glosses: inexcusable; not able to plead or excuse
assot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /əˈsɒt/
Forms: form: more assot
form: most assot
Etymology: From Middle English asoten, assoten, from Old French asoter.
Senses: examples: text: Willy, I ween thou be assot.
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “March. Aegloga Tertia.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC:
glosses: dazed; foolish; infatuated
assot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əˈsɒt/
Forms: form: assots
form: assotting
form: assotted
form: assotted
form: assot
form: assot
Etymology: From Middle English asoten, assoten, from Old French asoter.
Senses: examples: text: Some extasie assotted had his sense, or dazed was his eie.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 22:
glosses: To besot; to befool; to infatuate.
excalceation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin excalceātus + -tion.
Senses: examples: text: the very Law of Excalceation (the pulling off the Shooe) […] had something of Dishonour in it
ref: 1715, Hugo Grotius, John Morrice, Of the Rights of War and Peace:
glosses: The removal of the shoes.
gawbies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gawby
gawby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gawbies
Senses: glosses: A baby.
glosses: A fool.
belibel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: belibels
form: belibeling
form: belibelling
form: belibeled
form: belibeled
form: belibelled
form: belibelled
Etymology: From be- + libel.
Senses: examples: text: See the laziness of posterity ; so far from imitating the industry of their ancestors , that they belibel the pure effects of their pains as hellish achievements
ref: a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC:
glosses: To libel, slander, calumniate.
belibelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of belibel
belibelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of belibel
belibels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of belibel
carlot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑː(ɹ)ˌlɒt/
Forms: form: carlots
Etymology: From car + lot.
Senses: glosses: car park
carlot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑː(ɹ)ˌlɒt/
ipa: /ˈkɑː(ɹ)lət/
ipa: /ˈkɑː(ɹ)ˌlɒt/
Forms: form: carlots
Etymology: From carl.
Senses: examples: text: That the old carlot once was master of.
ref: c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:
glosses: A yokel; a peasant or countryman
carlots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carlot
troyounce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: troyounces
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of troy ounce.
troyounces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of troyounce
stormfinch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stormfinches
Etymology: From storm + finch.
Senses: glosses: The storm petrel.
stormfinches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stormfinch
evangelicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From evangelic + -ity.
Senses: glosses: evangelism
misconclusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misconclusions
Etymology: From mis- + conclusion.
Senses: examples: text: Away then with all the false positions and misconclusions, all the fantastical or wicked thoughts of the world.
ref: c. 1625, Bishop Joseph Hall, The Fashions of the World (sermon)
glosses: An erroneous inference or conclusion.
Synonyms: misinference
misconclusions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misconclusion
Phariseeism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Phariseeisms
Etymology: From Pharisee + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pharisaism.
synonyms: word: pharisaism
reedless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From reed + -less.
Senses: examples: text: a reedless instrument
text: a reedless marsh
glosses: Without a reed or reeds.
buxine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Buxus + -ine
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkaloid obtained from the Buxus sempervirens, or common box tree, identical with bebeerine.
Synonyms: buxina
oxeyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oxeyed
form: most oxeyed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ox-eyed.
rubific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rubific
form: most rubific
Etymology: From Latin ruber (“red”) + facere (“to make”).
Senses: examples: text: The silent skies with strange fire, like a dawn Rubific
ref: 1868, Robert Williams Buchanan, David Gray and other Essays, chiefly on Poetry:
glosses: reddening, making red.
semaphorically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From semaphoric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of a semaphore, or like semaphore.
trundletail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trundletails
form: trendle-tail
form: trindle-tail
Etymology: From trundle + tail.
Senses: examples: text: 15th century, Juliana Berners, Hawking, Hunting, Fouling and Fishing, London: Adam Islip, 1596, “The names of diuers Hounds,”
[…] Trindle tailes, and pricke eared Curres, and small Ladie Puppies, that beare away the fleas and diuers small faults.
text: [A]uant you curs, / Be thy mouth, or blacke, or vvhite, tooth that poyſons if it bite, / Maſtife, grayhoũd [grayhound], mungril, grim-hoũd or ſpaniel, brach or him, / Bobtaile tike, or trũdletaile [trundletail], Tom vvill make them vveep & vvaile, […]
ref: c. 1603–1606 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] His True Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Nathaniel Butter, […], published 1608, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vi], signature [G4], recto:
text: Doe you sneere, you dogs-head, you Trendle tayle!
ref: 1614 November 10 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), Beniamin Iohnson [i.e., Ben Jonson], Bartholmew Fayre: A Comedie, […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot, […], published 1631, →OCLC, Act V, scene ii, page 26:
text: […] what did you take me to be? […] a Woodcock amongst birds, […] amongst Cu[r]s a trindle tale,
ref: a. 1639, John Webster, Appius and Virginia, published 1654, Act III, Scene 1:
glosses: A dog with a rounded, curled-up tail.
trundletails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trundletail
cutinization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cutinizations
Etymology: From cutin + -ization.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: cuticularization
glosses: The conversion of cell walls into a material that repels water, as in cork.
pulverous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pulverous
form: most pulverous
Etymology: Compare Latin pulvereus, from pulvis, pulveris (“dust, powder”).
Senses: synonyms: dusty
powdery
pulverulent
glosses: Resembling or consisting of dust or powder.
saxatile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin saxatilis, from saxum (“a rock”).
Senses: examples: text: a saxatile plant
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Living among rocks.
lignel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lignels
Etymology: From French ligne (“line”), and voxel?
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of the lines along the edge of a voxel, connecting its corners or pointels.
lignels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lignel
pointel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pointels
Etymology: From Old French [Term?], from Latin punctillum (“a little point”). Cognate with Spanish puntilla (“tiptoe; small dagger used in bullfighting”). Doublet of pontil.
Senses: glosses: A sharp instrument; any sharp-pointed thing.
pointel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pointels
Etymology: Blend of point + voxel
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of the eight vertices of a voxel.
pointels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pointel
interpixel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + pixel.
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Between pixels.
intervoxel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + voxel.
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Between voxels.
surfel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈsɜː(ɹ)fəl/
Forms: form: surfels
form: surfelling
form: surfelled
form: surfelled
form: surfle
Etymology: Compare sulfur.
Senses: examples: text: She shall no oftener powder her hair, [or] surfel her cheeks, […] but she shall as often gaze on my picture.
ref: 1633, Iohn Ford [i.e., John Ford], Loues Sacrifice. A Tragedie […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Hugh Beeston, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: To wash with a cosmetic water, said by some to be prepared from sulphur.