cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
spokeshave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spokeshaves
Etymology: From spoke + shave.
Senses: glosses: A hand tool, mainly for woodworking, used to shape and smooth rods and shafts; often used in carving wheel spokes, chair legs, or arrows.
Coordinate terms: english: drawknife
translation: drawknife
word: drawshave
word: plane
spokeshave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spokeshaves
form: spokeshaving
form: spokeshaved
form: spokeshaved
Etymology: From spoke + shave.
Senses: glosses: To shape or smooth with a spokeshave.
coercitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more coercitive
form: most coercitive
Senses: examples: text: coercitive power in laws
ref: 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in All Her General Measures; […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] James Flesher, for Richard Royston […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of coercive.
Derived terms: coercitivity
retries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of retry
retries
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retry
retrying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retry
retrying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪɪŋ
Forms: form: retryings
Senses: examples: text: Only elite litigants could likely afford the time that multiple retryings required.
ref: 2009, Josiah Ober, Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens, page 145:
glosses: The act of something being retried.
retried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retry
recognisably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more recognisably
form: most recognisably
Etymology: From recognisable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a way or manner that is recognisable.
medical doctor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medical doctors
Senses: glosses: A physician; a person who holds a doctoral degree or first professional degree in medicine, and practices in that profession.
Derived terms: MD
M.D.
MBBS
MBBCh
DO
D.O.
medical doctors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of medical doctor
M.D.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: M.D.s
form: MD
Senses: glosses: Medicinae Doctor (Latin): Doctor of Medicine.
topics: law
glosses: Middle District, used in case citations to identify courts, particularly United States Federal courts designated to cover the central part of a multi-district state.
Related terms: C.D.
E.D.
N.D.
S.D.
W.D.
shiten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shitten.
shiten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of shit; alternative spelling of shitten.
kalsomine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kalsomines
Etymology: Trade name.
Senses: examples: text: When the policeman tried to take Gunn into custody he defended himself with a kalsomine brush to the great detriment of the officer's uniform.
ref: 1884 March 21, “Kalsomining An Officer”, in The New York Times:
text: 1840 June 27, "Domestic" section in Preston Chronicle,
The Preston Chronicle reports that Kalsomine, invented by Miss Fanny Corbaux, has "been lately introduced to public notice"
text: The walls and ceiling of the little hall were lined with tongue-and-groove boards that had been, mistakenly, coated with kalsomine.
ref: 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 275:
glosses: Calcimine.
kalsomine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kalsomines
form: kalsomining
form: kalsomined
form: kalsomined
Etymology: Trade name.
Senses: glosses: To calcimine.
remaindering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of remainder
remaindered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of remainder
retrains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retrain
retrained
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retrain
rosins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rosin
rosins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rosin
rosining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rosin
rosined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rosin
demurrer to evidence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demurrers to evidence
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A stop or pause by a party to an action in order to ask the court to determine the question of whether the evidence as it stands ought to be admitted, based on the law of admissibility of evidence.
Venizelos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Greek Βενιζέλος (Venizélos).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Greek surname Βενιζέλος (Venizélos).
Derived terms: Venizelism
Venizelist
cavalletto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cavallettos
form: cavalletti
form: cavaletto
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian cavalletto.
Senses: examples: text: To increase the unloading rate it is possible to use various cavallettos placed over different holds, although the ship-to-ship transfer is the peculiarilty of the cavalletto.
ref: 1983, Patrick Finlay, Coal--trade, transportation and handling:
text: A 240t SWL crane is used to move the cavallettos from hold to hold when discharging to the barge fleet.
ref: 1997, The Motor Ship - Volume 79:
text: The initial stage in Somocar's latest plans was realised with the completion of the first 'Cavalletto', a joint project of Coe & Clerici and the crane manufacturer, Danieli.
ref: 1984, Lloyd's Ship Manager - Volume 5, Issues 5-12, page 65:
qualifier: plural "cavallettos"
glosses: A specialized gantry crane for loading and unloading cargo ships that attaches to and moves along guides on the ship's hatchway.
examples: text: The first introduction to a cavalletto comes at the end of a line of poles.
ref: 1973, Sheila Willcox, The event horse, →ISBN, page 91:
text: By spacing cavalletti equally, you determine the horse's rhythm.
ref: 2010, Gaydell M. Collier, Eleanor F. Prince, Basic Training for Horses, →ISBN, page 195:
text: Cavalletti allow more demands to be made on the legs without compromising the quality of the gaits, namely walk, trot, and canter.
ref: 2018, Ingrid Klimke, Reiner Klimke, Cavalletti for Dressage and Jumping, →ISBN:
qualifier: plural "cavalletti"
glosses: A long pole placed horizontally at a height of 4 to 20 inches from the ground, used in training horses.
glosses: The punishment of being placed in a pillory and whipped.
confectioner's creams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of confectioner's cream
tacticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tacticities
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The relative stereochemistry of adjacent chiral centers within a macromolecule.
telomerization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telomerizations
Etymology: From telomer + -ization.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any reaction that increases the length of a telomer (oligomer) stepwise
Related terms: telomerize
thermoacoustimetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thermo- + acousto- + -metry.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The study of the effects of rising temperature on the acoustic properties of materials
thermodilatometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thermo- + dilatometry.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The measurement of the dimension of a sample when heated in a controlled manner
thermoelectrometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thermo- + electrometry.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The measurement of the electrical characteristics of a substance as it is heated in a controlled manner
Related terms: thermoelectrometer
thermogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermograms
Etymology: From thermo- + -gram.
Senses: glosses: The graphical record produced during thermography; a temperature map of the surface of a body
Synonyms: thermal image
thermal picture
thermic image
thermic picture
thermogravimetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thermo- + gravimetry.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The measurement of the mass of a material as it is heated in a controlled manner.
thermomagnetometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The measurement of the magnetic properties of a material as it is heated in a controlled manner
thermomechanometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thermo- + mechano- + -metry.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The measurement of the mechanical properties of a material as it is heated in a controlled manner.
thermophotometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thermo- + photometry.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The measurement of the optical properties of a material as it is heated in a controlled manner.
thermoptometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thermo- + opto- + -metry.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The measurement of the optical properties of a material as it is heated in a controlled manner.
thermosonimetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The measurement of the sound emitted by a material as it is heated in a controlled manner.
thermomechanical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thermo- + mechanical.
Senses: glosses: Both thermal and mechanical.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of or pertaining to the variation of the mechanical properties of a material with temperature.
Related terms: thermomechanics
thiocarboxylic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thio- + carboxylic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to thiocarboxylic acids or their derivatives
topomerization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: topomerizations
Etymology: From topomer + -ization.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any reaction involving the exchange of identical atoms or ligands to produce a molecule indistinguishable from the starting material
topomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: topomers
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The molecules involved in a topomerization
topotactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more topotactic
form: most topotactic
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a transformation, within a crystal lattice, involving the displacement or exchange of atoms.
torquoselectivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torquoselectivities
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A measure of selectivity in the direction of the conrotatory or disrotatory mode in an electrocyclic reaction
transferability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transferabilities
form: transferrability
form: transferribility
Etymology: From transfer + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: The transferability of his skills was truly startling; the confidence required to sell illegal documents was the same confidence required to sit in an office beneath a framed Harvard diploma and pretend he knew what he was doing until he learned the job.
ref: 2010, Emily St. John Mandel, The Singer’s Gun, Picador (2015), page 99:
glosses: The ability of something to be transferred.
glosses: The capacity of goods to be transported (linked to their value versus bulk).
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The invariance of properties associated with an atom (or fragment) present in a variety of molecules.
Derived terms: non-transferability
stilet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stilets
Senses: glosses: stylet
glosses: stiletto
desinence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛsɪnəns/
ipa: /ˈdɛsənəns/
Forms: form: desinences
Etymology: Borrowed from French désinence, from Latin dēsinentia, present participle of dēsinō (“I stop, end, close, make an end”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A suffix used as an inflection; an ending; inflectional suffix.
Related terms: desinential
lappa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lappas
Etymology: From English lap (“a stroke somewhere between a pull and a sweep”).
Senses: examples: text: When the ball bounced, the open stance was a good preliminary position from which to play the cross-batted swipe or lappa.
ref: 2010, Mukul Kesavan, Keshwani Mukul, Men in White, page 12:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A cross-batted swipe.
lappa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lappas
Senses: examples: text: Asi clutched her child to her, then wrapped the lifeless body in the lappa which was her own skirt.
ref: 1982, Claire Polakoff, African Textiles and Dyeing Techniques, Routledge, →ISBN, page 224:
text: In the colder climates of the Diaspora, women wear leotards, tights or exercise pants under the slip lappa to keep the body warm.
ref: 1997, Nana Akua Kyerewaa Opokuwaa, Akan Protocol: Remembering the Traditions of Our Ancestors, iUniverse edition [self-published], published 2005, →ISBN, page 69:
text: 1998, Love P. Maya, Off the Village Mat: A Novel, 2003 WRITERSWORLD edition [self-published?], →ISBN, page 56,
The lappa was tied over a white short-sleeved lace blouse.
glosses: An African waist scarf.
postil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pŏs'təl
ipa: /ˈpɒstɪl/
ipa: /ˈpɒstəl/
rhymes: -ɒstəl
Forms: form: postils
Etymology: From French postille (“marginal note”), from Late Latin postilla, probably from post illa (verba) (“after those (words)”).
Senses: glosses: A Bible commentary written in its margins.
glosses: A marginal note.
glosses: A short homily or commentary on a passage of Scripture.
glosses: A collection of homilies.
Related terms: apostil
apostille
postil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pŏs'təl
ipa: /ˈpɒstɪl/
ipa: /ˈpɒstəl/
rhymes: -ɒstəl
Forms: form: postils
form: postiling
form: postilling
form: postiled
form: postiled
form: postilled
form: postilled
Etymology: From Late Latin postillo.
Senses: examples: text: postilled in the margin
ref: 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:
glosses: To write marginal or explanatory notes on; to gloss.
glosses: To write postils, or marginal notes; to comment; to postillate.
Derived terms: postiller
pernio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɝnioʊ/
enpr: pûrnʹiō
ipa: /ˈpɜːniəʊ/
Forms: form: perniones
form: pernios
Etymology: From Latin pernio.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of chilblain.
synonyms: word: chilblain
Synonyms: chilblain
perniosis
mesne
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: mēn
ipa: /miːn/
rhymes: -iːn
homophone: mean
homophone: mien
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman mesne, a variant of moien. Doublet of mean.
Senses: examples: text: a mesne lord
text: Thus all the land in the kingdom is supposed to be holden, mediately or immediately, of the sovereign, who is styled the lord paramount, or above all. Such tenants as held under the crown immediately, when they granted out portions of their lands to inferior persons, became also lords with respect to those inferior persons, as they were still tenants with respect to the king; and, thus partaking of a middle nature, were called mesne, or middle, lords. So that if the king granted a manor to A., and he granted a portion of the land to B., now B. was said to hold of A., and A. of the king ... A. was both tenant and lord, or was a mesne lord : and B. was called tenant paravail, or the lowest tenant; being he who was supposed to make avail or profit of the land.
ref: 1767, William Blackstone, “The Rights of Things”, in Commentaries on the Laws of England, volume 2, page 60:
topics: law
glosses: Intermediate.
Derived terms: lord mesne
mesnalty
mesne lord
mesne process
mesne profits
mesne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mēn
ipa: /miːn/
rhymes: -iːn
homophone: mean
homophone: mien
Forms: form: mesnes
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman mesne, a variant of moien. Doublet of mean.
Senses: examples: text: Lord, mesne, and tenant; the tenant holdeth by four pence, and the mesne by twelve pence.
ref: 1628, Sir Edward Coke, Sir Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Charles Butler, Sir Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Earl of Nottingham, The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, Or, A Commentary Upon Littleton, 16th edition, volume 1, L. Hansard & Sons,, published 1809, page 20:
topics: law
glosses: A mesne lord.
knur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
Forms: form: knurs
Etymology: Late Middle English knorre, variant of knarre; see knar (“knot on a tree trunk”).
Cognate with German Knorren (“knurl”) and Danish knor (“knurl”).
Senses: glosses: A knurl.
glosses: The small wooden ball in the game of trap ball, or knurr and spell.
Derived terms: knurry
ghat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɔːt/
ipa: /ɡɑːt/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɡʱaːʈ/
rhymes: -ɔːt
Forms: form: ghats
form: ghât
form: ghát
form: ghaut
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi घाट (ghāṭ, “pier”), from Sanskrit घट्ट (ghaṭṭa, “a landing-place, steps on the side of a river leading to the waters”), from Dravidian. Compare Telugu గట్టు (gaṭṭu, “dam, embankment”), కట్ట (kaṭṭa, “dam, embankment”), derived from కట్టు (kaṭṭu, “to tie”).
Senses: examples: text: The abrupt escarpment of the western Ghats condenses so much of the moisture of the south-west monsoon
ref: 1855, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Flora Indica:
text: Chunks of wood were being built into funeral pyres on the steps of the ghat that went down into the water; four bodies were burning on the ghat steps when we got there.
ref: 2008, Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger, Atlantic, published 2009, page 16:
glosses: A descending path or stairway to a river; a ford or landing-place.
examples: text: And farther south, in the interior of the Peninsula, in the elevated tract from 1200 to 2400 feet above the sea, between the Eastern and Western Ghats
ref: 1885, Edward Balfour, Cyclopaedia of India:
glosses: A mountain range.
glosses: A mountain pass.
glosses: A steep ravine leading to the sea.
examples: text: On the steps of the Manikarnika ghat—the holiest of the city’s stepped riverbanks, upon which Hindu dead are cremated—the fires are already lit, and mourners assemble by the hundred to accompany their loved ones at the end.
ref: 2023 November 30, Oliver Franklin-Wallis, “Inside India’s Gargantuan Mission to Clean the Ganges River”, in Wired, →ISSN:
glosses: A burning-ghat.
patrology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈtɹɒlədʒi/
Forms: form: patrologies
Etymology: From New Latin patrologia.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
synonyms: patristics
glosses: the study of the lives and works (especially the writings) of the Church Fathers.
glosses: a handbook or published collection of patristic literature.
Related terms: patrologist
nowel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nowels
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of noel.
Subadar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from India of Indian origin.
prescious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɛsiəs/
Forms: form: more prescious
form: most prescious
form: præscious
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin praescius.
Senses: examples: text: Whose holy soul the stroke of Fortune fled—
Prescious of ills, and leaving me behind,
To drink the dregs of life by fate assign'd
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Eleventh Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Foreknowing; prescient.
subvene
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: subvenes
form: subvening
form: subvened
form: subvened
Etymology: From Latin subveniō (“come to the aid of”), from sub (“under, up towards”) + veniō (“come”).
Senses: examples: text: A future state must needs subvene to prevent the whole edifice from falling into ruin.
ref: 1738–1741, William Warburton, The Divine Legation of Moses […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II.1, or II.2), London: […] Fletcher Gyles, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To arrive or happen so as to help or support.
glosses: To subsidize or defray.
broddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: broddles
form: broddling
form: broddled
form: broddled
form: brode
Senses: glosses: To poke; to pierce.
synonymicon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synonymicons
Etymology: From New Latin synōnymicon, from Ancient Greek συνωνυμία (sunōnumía, “synonym”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of thesaurus.
synonyms: word: thesaurus
Related terms: synonym
synonymics
synonymizer
synonymy
tikoloshe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tikoloshes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tokoloshe.
bearberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛəb(ə)ɹi/
Forms: form: bearberries
Etymology: From bear + berry.
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes she scrabbled through the drifts on hilltops and found a few wizened bearberries or a handful of rock-tripe, a kind of moss.
ref: 1952, Farley Mowat, People of the Deer, Key Porter, published 2005, page 26:
glosses: Any of four dwarf shrubs of formerly all members of the genus Arctostaphylos, three now assigned to genus Arctous, which principally grow in arctic and subarctic regions and bear edible berries.
glosses: Any of four dwarf shrubs of formerly all members of the genus Arctostaphylos, three now assigned to genus Arctous, which principally grow in arctic and subarctic regions and bear edible berries.
common bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi).
glosses: Any of four dwarf shrubs of formerly all members of the genus Arctostaphylos, three now assigned to genus Arctous, which principally grow in arctic and subarctic regions and bear edible berries.
alpine bearberry, mountain bearberry, black bearberry (Arctous alpina, syn. Arctostaphylos alpinus)
glosses: Any of four dwarf shrubs of formerly all members of the genus Arctostaphylos, three now assigned to genus Arctous, which principally grow in arctic and subarctic regions and bear edible berries.
red bearberry (Arctous rubra, syn. Arctostaphylos rubra)
glosses: Any of four dwarf shrubs of formerly all members of the genus Arctostaphylos, three now assigned to genus Arctous, which principally grow in arctic and subarctic regions and bear edible berries.
A similar berry of temperate south-central China (Arctous microphylla).
glosses: Pacific madrone (Arbutus menziesii).
Synonyms: sense: Arctostaphylos
word: bear's-grape
sense: Arctostaphylos
word: uva ursi
Derived terms: taxonomic: Arctostaphylos alpina
word: mountain bearberry
plew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plews
Etymology: From Canadian French, from French poilu (“hairy”). Doublet of poilu.
Senses: examples: text: The cured "plew" of the adult beaver weighed about a pound and a half and at best would fetch from four to six dollars a pound at the mountain rendezvous
ref: 1967, John Arkas Hawgood, America's Western Frontiers: The Exploration and Settlement, page 96:
text: "The days when a good plew fetched six dollars, beaver or kitten, is over," he grumbled. "The beaver trade's rubbed out, Lank.
ref: 2001, Armstrong Sperry, Wagons Westward: The Old Trail to Santa Fe, page 7:
text: The price for a pint was a beaver plew or an Indian buffalo robe. Coffee and gunpowder were a plew or a robe a pound, blankets fifteen plews apiece,
ref: 2005, Ralph Moody, Stanley Galli, Kit Carson And The Wild Frontier, page 46:
glosses: beaver pelt
plew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plews
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of plough.
subsultory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subsultory
form: most subsultory
form: subsaltory
Etymology: From New Latin subsultōrius, as subsultim (“with leaps”) from subsilire (“to spring up”), from sub (“under”) + salire (“to leap”).
Senses: glosses: Bounding; leaping; moving by sudden leaps or starts.
Derived terms: subsultorily
bidarka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bidarkas
form: baidar
form: bidarkee
form: bidarki
form: bidarky
Etymology: From Russian байда́рка (bajdárka).
Senses: glosses: A kayak constructed by covering a light wooden frame (lashed together with sinew) in sea lion hides.
Synonyms: iqyax
disme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /daɪm/
Forms: form: dismes
Etymology: From Middle French dixme, Old French disme (“tenth, tithe”), from Latin decimus (“tenth”). Doublet of dime.
Senses: glosses: A dime minted in 1792.
examples: text: Since the first sword was drawn about this question, Ev'ry tithe soul 'mongst many thousand dismes, Hath been as dear as Helen.
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
text: a. 1734, John Ayliffe, Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani.
The pope began to exercise his new rapines by a compliance with king Edward, in granting him two years’ disme from the clergy.
text: I have heard say, that a writ of right of dismes is given by the statute of Westm. 2, and that speaketh only of dismes, and not of pensions.
ref: 1886, Christopher Saint German, The Doctor and Student:
glosses: A tenth; a tenth part; a tithe.
skewback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skewbacks
Etymology: From skew + back.
Senses: examples: text: The avalanche shelter itself consists of a series of heavily reinforced arches, supported by substantial piers on the cliff-side, and on skewbacks cut deep into the rock on the other.
ref: 1943 March and April, “A British Avalanche Shelter”, in Railway Magazine, page 80:
topics: architecture
glosses: The side of an arch; the course of masonry on the top of an abutment with a slope for the base of the arch to rest against.
gobemouche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gobemouches
form: gobe-mouche
Etymology: From French gobemouche. See gober (“to swallow whole”) and mouche (“fly”).
Senses: glosses: A naive, gullible person.
fungate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fungates
form: fungating
form: fungated
form: fungated
Etymology: From fungus + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To become like a fungus, as in appearance or in growth rate or pattern.
lotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -əʊtɪk
Forms: form: more lotic
form: most lotic
Etymology: From Latin lotus, past participle of lavare (“to wash”), + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: This particular area is subject to the transition from a more lotic environment to the lentic environment existing in the pool area.
ref: 1981, M. G. Tesmer, D. R. Wefring, “Annual Macroinvertebrate Sampling - A Low-cost Tool for Ecological Assessment of Effluent Impact”, in J. M. Bates, C. I. Weber, editors, Ecological Assessments of Effluent Impacts on Communities of Indigenous Aquatic Organisms, page 268:
text: Turning now to more lotic environments, Norelius (1967) and Bronmark and Malmqvist (1982) have studied populations of Anodonta anita and Unio pictorum inhabiting Swedish lake outlets.
ref: 2000, Robert T. Dillon, The Ecology of Freshwater Molluscs, page 26:
text: 2003, J. Kolding, B. Musando, N. Songore, Inshore Fishing and Fish Population Changes in Lake Kariba, Eyolf Jul-Larsen (editor), Management, co-management or no management?: major dilemmas in southern African freshwater fisheries, 2: Case studies, page 71,
The rheophilic species, Chiloglanis neumanii, Opsaridium zambezense (and possibly also Leptoglanis rotundiceps) are now confined to the tributaries or the two more lotic western basins (Balon, 1974a, 1974b).
text: Among the main tributaries of the French Rhône River (Arve, Guiers, Ain, Saône, Isère, Eyrieux, Drôme, Ardeche, Durance, Gard), Berahou (1993) considered the lower Ain as one of the most lotic.
ref: 2009, Klement Tockner, Urs Uehlinger, Christopher T. Robinson, Rivers of Europe, unnumbered page:
glosses: Characterised by flowing water; swiftly flowing; concerned with flowing rivers, streams, etc.
examples: text: The stream-dwelling species are among the most lotic of anisopterous dragonflies.
ref: 1975, J. G. Needham, A Manual of the Dragonflies of North America, page 94:
text: Waugoshance point is an ideal consolidated substrate, wave zone habitat, and this was evidenced by the more lotic benthic fauna found there.
ref: 1986, Ronald Rossmann, editor, Impact of the Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant, page 244:
text: Very few lotic insects are strong swimmers, probably because of the energy expenditure required to swim against a current.
ref: 2006, Timothy D. Schowalter, Insect Ecology: An Ecosystem Approach, page 43:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Living in flowing water; adapted to life in flowing water.
Hypernyms: aquatic
limnic
Hyponyms: riverine
fluvial
estuarine
Coordinate terms: lentic
riparian
orthicon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthicons
Senses: glosses: An early TV camera tube. (Abbreviation of orthoconoscope).
kainga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kaingas
form: kaik
form: kaika
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori kāinga, probably from kā (“to burn, be alight”) + -nga (“deverbal noun suffix”).
Senses: examples: text: When I write that scores of houses have been burnt, whole villages renovated, kaingas fenced in, poakas and dogs fenced out […]
ref: 1904, Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives..., New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives, page 62:
text: He's not on the first beach round from the kaika.
ref: 1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Penguin, published 1986, page 235:
glosses: A Maori village.
ambiloquy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ambiloquies
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin ambiloquium, from ambo (“two”) + loquor (“speak”).
Senses: glosses: Ambiguous language.
mammee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mammees
Etymology: Haitian mamey.
Senses: glosses: An American fruit tree, Mammea americana.
glosses: Its large fragrant fruit, with a thick tough ring surrounding bright yellow pulp.
Derived terms: mammee apple
red mammee
posey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: posier
form: posiest
Etymology: From pose + -y.
Senses: examples: text: […] I missed one of Freda's main revelations because I got distracted by the posey glide she was making across the room […]
ref: 1994, Theatre Record, volume 14, numbers 9-16, page 896:
glosses: Pretentious; posturing.
Derived terms: posily
indicible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more indicible
form: most indicible
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin indicibilis.
Senses: examples: text: The indicible nature of God has perturbed preachers throughout history.
glosses: indescribable
Keltic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: We have found that this same powerful accent belongs to the other great Western branch of our Indo-European stock, the Keltic, and that therefore Keltic speech and verse throbs with the same tripudic rhythm of the double accent as Italic […]
ref: 1923, Thomas Fitzhugh, The Pyrrhic Accent and Rhythm of Latin and Keltic:
glosses: Rare spelling of Celtic.
Shemitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃəˈmɪ.tɪk/
ipa: /ʃəˈmɪ.tɪk/
ipa: [ʃəˈmɪ.ɾɪk]
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to Shem, the oldest son of Noah
glosses: Semitic
Aramæan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aramæans
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Aramaean.
Aramæan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Aramæan
form: most Aramæan
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Aramaean.
Aramæan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Aramaean.
subligaculum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subligacula
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin subligāculum.
Senses: glosses: A kind of underwear worn in Ancient Rome.
Related terms: subligaria
sica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sicas
form: sicae
Etymology: From Latin sīca.
Senses: examples: text: [...] representation of a sheathed sickle on two fragments of a limestone plaque from Siristat (Figure 12). The plaque has not survived and only a sketch made by Jüthner records it. The publishers thought it showed a gladiatorial sica[…]
ref: 1996, Richard Ashton, Studies in Ancient Coinage from Turkey, British Inst of Archaeology at:
text: He had been honing the blades of sica daggers when Marie was brought in, work that could only be done in the secrecy of night. The huddle broke up and four Sicarii left, including the man with the nervous eyes.
ref: 2004 April 19, Junius Podrug, Dark Passage, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 302:
text: We growled as short sica daggers flashed from the folds of many robes.
ref: 2016 August 29, Kevin Logan, Actual Love: A Novel Inspired By True Events, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:
glosses: A curved dagger used in Ancient Roman times, associated with the Thracian and Illyrians, gladiators, and Sicarii.
Related terms: Sicarius
sativa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈti va/
ipa: /səˈti və/
Etymology: Ellipsis of translingual Cannabis sativa (“sativa form of marijuana”), from Latin sativa (“cultivated”)
Senses: glosses: Cannabis sativa, a widely consumed form of cannabis.
Coordinate terms: sense: species
word: indica
misadvise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misadvises
form: misadvising
form: misadvised
form: misadvised
Etymology: From Middle English misavisen, and also from mis- + advise.
Senses: examples: text: Expel from your confidence, men who have never ceased to misadvise you!
ref: The Works of Alexander Hamilton, p. 234
glosses: To give bad advice
misally
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misallies
form: misallying
form: misallied
form: misallied
Etymology: From mis- + ally.
Senses: examples: text: 'Tis my beliefwhen, things are misallied,
The sooner they part company the better.
ref: 1861, C. J. Hempel, Friedrich Schiller, Complete Works. Ed. with Careful Rev. and New Tr., page 423:
glosses: To wrongly join together; to wrongly ally with or to.
examples: text: Despotism, ... misled him to place nearly all his family on thrones, ... and misally himself with a foreign princess, whose family and country were his unappeasable enemies.
ref: 1845, Charles Jared Ingersoll, History of the second war between the United States of America and Great Britain, page 278:
text: If whites were threatened with moral deformation when they misallied with blacks, and even risked transmitting not only darkened skin, but black blood “that would attack in France the very heart of the nation,” blacks also found ...
ref: 1996, Joan Dayan, Haiti, History, and the Gods, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 240:
glosses: To marry badly; to marry an inferior
Thrax
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: One of the reputed sons of Ares.
suboptimisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suboptimisations
Etymology: From sub- + optimisation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of suboptimization.
suboptimization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suboptimizations
Etymology: From sub- + optimization.
Senses: glosses: The optimization of a subunit (or series of subunits) of an organization without good coordination with other subunits, resulting in the whole organisation's outcome or output being less than optimal.
tritactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + tactic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a tactic polymer that has three sites of stereoisomerism in its chain
trochoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔɪdəl
Forms: form: more trochoidal
form: most trochoidal
Etymology: From trochoid + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or shaped like a trochoid.
trochoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trochoids
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τροχοειδής (trokhoeidḗs), from τροχός (trokhós, “wheel”) + εἶδος (eîdos, “form, image”).
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The curve traced by a point on a circle as it rolls along a straight line
topics: biology
malacology
natural-sciences
glosses: An organism or fossil with a trochoid shell (especially one in the gastropod family Trochidae), or the shell itself.
trochoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trochoid
form: most trochoid
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τροχοειδής (trokhoeidḗs), from τροχός (trokhós, “wheel”) + εἶδος (eîdos, “form, image”).
Senses: glosses: Capable of rolling.
glosses: Allowing rotation.
topics: biology
malacology
natural-sciences
glosses: High-spired; conical.
raw_tags: of a shell or fossil
tropilidene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tropilidenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The hydrocarbon cyclohepta-1,3,5-triene, or any of its derivatives
turbidimetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more turbidimetric
form: most turbidimetric
form: turbidimetrical
Etymology: From turbid + -i- + -metric.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to turbidimetry or turbidimeters.
Synonyms: turbimetric
Derived terms: turbidimetrically
ulosonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: ketoaldonic
Derived terms: ulosonic acid
unactivated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unactivated
form: most unactivated
Etymology: From un- + activated.
Senses: examples: text: unactivated networks
text: unactivated clotting factor molecules
glosses: Not activated; (often, especially) never yet activated.
Related terms: english: active then deactivated; never yet activated; nearly synonymous but often with different emphasis of versus
translation: active then deactivated; never yet activated; nearly synonymous but often with different emphasis of versus
word: inactivated
english: active then deactivated; never yet activated; nearly synonymous but often with different emphasis of versus
translation: active then deactivated; never yet activated; nearly synonymous but often with different emphasis of versus
word: deactivated
word: disactivated
urethan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urethans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of urethane.
viologen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: viologens
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of quaternary ammonium salts derived from 4,4'-bipyridine
Derived terms: oligoviologen
volatilizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: volatilizers
Etymology: From volatile + -izer.
Senses: glosses: Any substance added to something to increase its volatilization.
volumic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /vɒlˈjuːmɪk/
Etymology: From volume + -ic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing any measure obtained by dividing a physical quantity by a volume.
Derived terms: equivolumic
Related terms: massic
cavalletti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cavalletto
edisonade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: edisonades
Etymology: From Edison + -ade, coined by Canadian author John Clute in 1993, after inventor Thomas Edison.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A genre of science fiction and adventure fiction featuring a brilliant robust inventor, engineer or scientist hero who has an adventure in the wilds of the world, created from the mid-19th century to early 20th century, mostly American.
wikipedia: Thomas Edison
Coordinate terms: english: European science-fiction genre of the same period
translation: European science-fiction genre of the same period
word: scientific romance
Related terms: robinsonade
steampunk
gaslight romance
space opera
robinsonade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɑbɪnsəˈneɪd/
ipa: /ˌɹɒbɪnsəˈneɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: robinsonades
form: Robinsonade
Etymology: Borrowed from German Robinsonade, analyzable in English as Robinson + -ade, named after fictional character Robinson Crusoe, from Daniel Defoe’s 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe.
Senses: examples: text: Much, perhaps most, Minecraft fiction follows the robinsonade template, emphasizing the day-to-day life of a character, including nonhuman characters, striving to survive and thrive in a recognizably Minecraftian world by utilizing its resources.
ref: 2020, Michael T. Wilson, “Minecraft Fiction”, in Anne H. Stevens, Molly C. O’Donnell, editors, The Microgenre: A Quick Look at Small Culture, Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN:
glosses: A genre of adventure fiction where a hero is stranded alone on a desert island and has to survive with their own wits.
wikipedia: Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
Derived terms: edisonade
Related terms: Robinson Crusoe
FRA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FRAs
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of forward-rate agreement.
alternate history
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of alternative history.
synonyms: word: alternative history
inner peace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Peace of mind.
reefing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reefings
Senses: examples: text: I will not detain the reader with the contents of our sea-log, which is full of tackings and reefings, of setting and taking in of sails, and many other manoeuvres[…].
ref: 1852, Charles Barter, The Dorp and the Veld: or, Six Months in Natal, page 248:
text: As matters were, our three girls never could be in our kitchen at one time without reefings and manœuvrings of their apparel which much impeded any other labor, and caused some loss of temper;[…].
ref: 1868 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, “Our Second Girl”, in Atlantic Monthly, volume 21, page 53:
text: Many had the bald-headed sail rigging, so crews would not have to go aloft in the winds to do dangerous reefings.
ref: 2005, John S. Bohne, In the Shadow of the Moon, page 28:
glosses: The process of reefing (taking in a sail); an act of reefing; also used of clothing.
examples: text: Alluvial goldfields and quartz reefings are in its vicinity, and good indications of coal.
ref: 1924, Newspaper Press Directory, page 387:
text: […]instead of taking a “leap in the dark” — a mistake which impulsive young men sometimes make in other relations of life, as well as in quartz reefings.
ref: 1977, William Kelly, Life in Victoria: or, Victoria in 1853, and Victoria in 1858, page 218:
glosses: A reef (seam of quartz).
Derived terms: reefing bowsprit
reefing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reef
reefed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reef
reefed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reefed
form: most reefed
Senses: examples: text: The mainsail was "scandalised" - a nautical mode of describing a sail reefed at both ends[.]
ref: 1887, Mrs. Dominic D. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 16:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Having part of a sail tied up in order to adapt the size of the sail to the force of the wind.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: space flight
glosses: Semi-deployed, with the canopy initially restricted from fully opening, in order to avoid subjecting the canopy to excessive air loads or the payload to excessive g-forces from fully deploying at high airspeed.
raw_tags: of a parachute
Derived terms: close-reefed
unreefed
rumpuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rumpus
rumpuses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rumpus
recapitulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recapitulation
respells
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of respell
respelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of respell
racquetballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of racquetball
revisits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of revisit
revisits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of revisit
rutabagas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rutabaga
raceways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raceway
naturalistic fallacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naturalistic fallacies
Etymology: Introduced by British philosopher G. E. Moore in his 1903 book Principia Ethica.
Senses: examples: text: No, we do not have to put moral reasoning in a special category and use transcendental premises, because the posing of the naturalistic fallacy is itself a fallacy. For if ought is not is, what is?
ref: 1998 April, Edward O. Wilson, “The Biological Basis of Morality”, in The Atlantic:
text: It is easy to fall prey to the naturalistic fallacy, which suggests that because the companies are successful, they must also be right.
ref: 2018, Shoshana Zuboff, chapter 11, in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism:
synonyms: appeal to nature
glosses: The fallacious belief that something is automatically good because it is natural or automatically bad because it is unnatural.
examples: text: Yet a mistake of this simple kind has commonly been made about good. It may be true that all things which are good are also something else, just as it is true that all things which are yellow produce a certain kind of vibration in the light. And it is a fact, that Ethics aims at discovering what are those other properties belonging to all things which are good. But far too many philosophers have thought that when they named those other properties they were actually defining good; that these properties, in fact, were simply not other, but absolutely and entirely the same with goodness. This view I propose to call the naturalistic fallacy and of it I shall now endeavour to dispose.
ref: 1903, G. E. Moore, Principia Ethica:
glosses: Any attempt to define "good" verbally, instead of treating it as an undefined term, in terms of which other terms are defined.
Related terms: is-ought problem
Ruhr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹʊɚ/
ipa: /ɹɝ/
ipa: /ɹʊə/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
Etymology: From German Ruhr.
Senses: glosses: A river in North Rhine-Westphalia, a branch of the river Rhine and its basin.
glosses: An urban area of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.