cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
virtuall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: [H]is ſenſes flame / Flovv'd from his parts, vvith force ſo virtuall, / It fir'd vvith ſence things meere inſenſuall.
ref: 1598, George Chapman, “Third Sestyad”, in Christopher Marlo[w]e, George Chapman, Hero and Leander: […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Richard Hawkins: […], published 1629, →OCLC:
text: Take an Apple, &c. and pricke it vvith a Pin full of Holes, not deepe, and ſmeare it a little vvith Sacke, or Cinnamon vvater, or Spirit of vvine, euery day for ten dayes, to ſee if the Virtuall Heat of the VVine, or Strong VVaters, vvill not Mature it.
ref: 1631, Francis [Bacon], “IV. Century. [Experiments in Consort Touching Maturation, and the Accelerating thereof. And First Touching the Maturation and Quickening of Drinks. And Next Touching the Maturation of Fruits..]”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC, paragraph 326, page 84:
text: VVater, being contiguous vvith Aire, Cooleth it, but Moiſteneth it not, except it Vapour. The Cauſe is, for that Heat, and Cold haue a Virtuall Tranſition, vvithout Communication of Subſtance; but Moiſture not: […]
ref: 1631, Francis [Bacon], “IX. Century. [Experiment Solitary, Touching the Working of Water vpon Aire Contiguous.]”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC, paragraph 865, page 223:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of virtual.
Beige Book
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Beige Book
Etymology: From its colour.
Senses: glosses: The "Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions", a report published by the United States Federal Reserve Board eight times a year.
unrevenued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + revenue + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: But he that will mould a modern Bishop into a primitive, must yeeld him to be elected by the popular voyce, undiocest, unrevenu'd, unlorded [...]
ref: 1641 May, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavses that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC; republished in Will Taliaferro Hale, editor, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England (Yale Studies in English; LIV), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916, →OCLC, page 20:
glosses: Not having a revenue.
maidenship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maidenships
Etymology: From maiden + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: though at this day of KENT alone is left unto her , as whose maidenship is vehemently suspected , and holiness utterly denied
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: The state of being a maiden; virginity.
Synonyms: maidenhood
maidenships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maidenship
intelligencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intelligency
intelligency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intelligencies
Senses: examples: text: how then should we attribute it unto Intelligencies so pure
ref: 1649, John Evelyn, Of Liberty and Servitude:
glosses: Obsolete form of intelligence.
unpleaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + pleaded.
Senses: examples: text: an unpleaded excuse
glosses: Not used as a plea; not urged.
examples: text: an unpleaded lawsuit
glosses: Not supported by pleas; undefended.
manuscriptal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From manuscript + -al.
Senses: examples: text: manuscriptal evidence
text: manuscriptal authority
glosses: Of or pertaining to a manuscript or manuscripts.
Synonyms: manuscriptural
overleather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + leather.
Senses: examples: text: such shooes as my toes looke through the ouer-leather.
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act INDUCTION, scene i]:
glosses: upper leather
ogdoad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɒɡ.dəʊ.æd/
Forms: form: ogdoads
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὀγδοάς (ogdoás, “eight, a group of eight”).
Senses: examples: text: Probably these, as in the other systems, made the second Ogdoad; and these, with other astral influence, borrowed from the Tsabaism of the region, the twelve signs of the zodiac, and the thirty-six Decani
ref: 1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity:
synonyms: octet
ogdoas
glosses: A thing made up of eight parts.
ogdoads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ogdoad
hyperthyrion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin hyperthyrion, from Ancient Greek ὑπερθύριον (huperthúrion).
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: That part of the architrave which is over a door or window.
chymous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈkaɪməs/
Etymology: From chyme + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: chymous mass
glosses: Of or pertaining to chyme.
premeditately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From premeditate + -ly.
Senses: examples: May 11 1792 Edmund Burke, speech in the House of Commons
[…] premeditately betray him
glosses: With premeditation.
rattlehead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rattleheads
Etymology: From rattle + head.
Senses: synonyms: rattlepate
glosses: Someone who makes empty or noisy conversation; a chatterer.
rattleheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rattlehead
ictic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin ictus (“a blow”).
Senses: examples: text: It is not, on one hand, the power of omnipotence, or of a naked, ictic force, falling in secretly regenerative blows, like a slung shot in the night.
ref: 1858, Horace Bushnell, Sermons for the New Life:
glosses: Pertaining to, or caused by, a blow; sudden; abrupt.
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: of a syllable in verse, carrying the beat.
meteorometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meteorometers
Etymology: From meteoro- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An apparatus that automatically transmits atmospheric measurements to a central station.
examples: text: By gravitometer and meteorometer readings, Curt located the few solid bodies in the cloud
ref: 2013, Edmond Hamilton, The Magician of Mars, page .:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A device for locating meteors.
meteorometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meteorometer
fleeringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fleeringly
form: most fleeringly
Etymology: From fleering + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a fleering manner; scornfully; with derision.
syphilization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syphilizations
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: inoculation with material from a syphilitic lesion, especially when employed as a preventive measure
glosses: infection with syphilis
syphilizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syphilization
foundationer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foundationers
Etymology: From foundation + -er.
Senses: hyponyms: colleger
glosses: One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.
foundationers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foundationer
elkwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From elk + wood.
Senses: glosses: The soft, spongy wood of Magnolia grandiflora or related species.
unwont
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unwont
form: most unwont
Etymology: From un- + wont.
Senses: examples: text: I am unwont to press my favours, or to deal with priests who require entreaty, when gifts are held out to them.
ref: 1829 May 2, [Walter Scott], Anne of Geierstein; or, The Maiden of the Mist. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Company] for Cadell and Co., […]; London: Simpkin and Marshall, […], →OCLC:
glosses: unwonted; unused; unaccustomed
raw_tags: followed by "to"
attorneyism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attorneyisms
Etymology: From attorney + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The practice, peculiarities or doctrines of attorneys.
attorneyisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attorneyism
magneticness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From magnetic + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being magnetic; magnetism.
reprobance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: curse his better Angell from his side ,
And fall to Reprobance
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
glosses: reprobation
unfrankable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + frankable.
Senses: examples: text: unfrankable dividends
text: unfrankable earnings
glosses: Not frankable; not eligible for being posted free of charge.
examples: text: unfrankable distribution
topics: business
finance
glosses: not frankable; not eligible for franking.
imputrescible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more imputrescible
form: most imputrescible
Etymology: From im- + putrescible.
Senses: glosses: Not putrescible, not subject to decay.
ovulist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ovulists
Etymology: From ovule + -ist.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A believer in the theory (ovism or ovulism) that an organism is entirely preformed in the egg, and that at the time of fecundation the spermatozoa simply gives the impetus which caused the unfolding of the egg, in which all generations are enclosed one within the other.
Synonyms: ovist
Coordinate terms: preformationism
spermism
ovulists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ovulist
Tenonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /təˈnəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /təˈnoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Tenonian
form: most Tenonian
Etymology: From Tenon + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Tenonian lymph space
text: Tenonian cavity
glosses: Of or pertaining to Jacques-René Tenon (1724-1816), French anatomist.
Derived terms: Tenonian capsule
xenotropism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being xenotropic.
dishonorary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dishonorary
form: most dishonorary
Senses: examples: text: authorizing something to be done respecting another , which is dishonorary to himself
ref: 1812, Noah Worcester, Bible News:
glosses: Causing dishonour; tending to disgrace.
flaxy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æksi
Forms: form: more flaxy
form: most flaxy
Etymology: From flax + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The Flaxie, having whiteneſſe, appertaines to Temperance, because it makes Candidam & mundam animam.
ref: 1634, Miles Sandys, Prudence:
glosses: Like flax; flaxen.
xanthogenic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid, CS₂C₂H₅OH, formed from the decomposition of potassic xanthogenate.
xenoplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From xenoplasty + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to xenoplasty.
sheepily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sheepily
form: most sheepily
Etymology: From sheepy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of a sheep; sheepishly.
xenoplastically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From xenoplastic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of xenoplasty.
xenoplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From xeno- + -plasty.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Transplantation between different species or genera.
hemisection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemisections
Etymology: From hemi- + section.
Senses: examples: text: perform a hemisection of the spinal cord
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A division along the mesial plane or median plane.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of the parts thus divided.
Related terms: hemisect
hemisections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemisection
diagraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diagraphs
Etymology: From Ancient Greek διαγραφή (diagraphḗ).
Senses: glosses: A drawing instrument that combines a protractor and scale.
diagraphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diagraph
dicksucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dicksuckers
form: dick sucker
Etymology: From dick + sucker.
Senses: examples: text: Richard is a jizz-loving dicksucker.
synonyms: fellator
cocksucker
pole-smoker
qualifier: literal
glosses: One who performs fellatio.
examples: text: Shut up, dicksucker. Nobody likes you.
glosses: Term of abuse.
incivilization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + civilization.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of uncivilization.
dicebox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diceboxes
form: dice box
form: dice-box
Etymology: From dice + box.
Senses: examples: text: […] there is a sort of chivalry among the knights of the dice-box: the fame of great players is known all over Europe.
ref: 1844, William Makepeace Thackeray, Barry Lyndon, Chapter:
text: For Corinius, who gave not a fig for music or dirges, but liked well of carding and dicing, had brought forth his dice box to play with the son of Corund.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 32:
text: The houses looked as if they had been shaken out of a dice box on to the land and stayed just where they lit.
ref: 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 9, in Klee Wyck:
topics: card-games
gambling
games
glosses: A box from which dice are thrown in gaming.
diceboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dicebox
temptability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tempt + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being temptable; susceptibility to temptation.
waywiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈweɪˌwaɪ.zɚ/
Forms: form: waywisers
Etymology: Compare German Wegweiser (“a waymark, a guide”), from Weg (“way”) + weisen (“to show, direct”).
Senses: examples: text: I went to see Colonel Blount, who showed me the application of the "Waywiser" to a coach, exactly measuring the miles and showing them by an index as we went along.
ref: 1656, John Evelyn, Diary:
text: The Emperor Rudolphus II had a curious waywiser or odometer which is attributed to Schissler.
ref: 1902, Alice Morse Earle, Sun Dials and Roses of Yesterday:
text: Therefore, Elector Augustus did all he could to promote the development of mechanical waywisers that would be able to do this work automatically.
ref: 2009, Wolfram Dolz, “The Waywisers of Elector Augustus of Saxony and Their New Use in the Survey of Saxon Postal Roads”, in European Collections of Scientific Instruments, 1550-1750, page 44:
glosses: An instrument for measuring distance travelled, such as an odometer, pedometer, perambulator, etc.
examples: text: Not being accustomed to this cruciform movement, I was not able, by the waywiser, to determine the real direction of the balloon, and on this account M. Robertson suffered to escape a considerable quantity of gas; on which we again fell till the barometer stood at 29 inches, about 50 minutes past seven.
ref: 1832, Thomas Forster, Annals of Some Remarkable Aërial and Alpine Voyages:
text: THE Waywiser is an instrument whereby a man may steer himself where there is no path, or underground, in a mine; or find his way if he have lost it.
ref: 1859, Frederick Robert Augustus Glover, The Polymeter, Or Quintant:
text: The purpose of the waywiser was to enable a navigator to keep a track of a ship's location by measuring and recording the speed and direction of its journey.
ref: 2002, Stephen Inwood, The Man Who Knew Too Much:
glosses: An instrument for determining direction (and possibly other aspects of one's travel as well).
examples: text: We have not sought to make a treatise, but only to set up a waywiser or signpost to show the road the law is taking .
ref: 1931, Justice of the Peace and Local Government Review, page 461:
text: In previous volumes we have often given a few words of help to the prospective reader, intended as a sort of waywiser to guide him through those pages not always possible to lighten by some memorable illustration .
ref: 1974, Joseph Needham, Science and Civilisation in China, page xxxiii:
text: This is the research question. This is the waywiser.
ref: 2021, Shane Chalmers, Sundhya Pahuja, Routledge Handbook of International Law and the Humanities:
glosses: A guide; A means of determining the direction in which to proceed.
waywisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waywiser
lorcha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɔɹʃə/
other: /ˈlɔɹt͡ʃə/
other: /ˈlɔːtʃə/
Forms: form: lorchas
Etymology: From Portuguese lorcha, of unclear origin; see the Portuguese entry for more.
Senses: examples: text: At the same time, the fact must not be lost sight of, that the primary cause of the war was the affair on the lorcha "Arrow."
ref: 1901, Charles S. Leavenworth, The Arrow War with China:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A kind of light vessel used on the coast of China, having the hull built on a European model, and the rigging like that of a Chinese junk.
lorchas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lorcha
geocyclic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From geo- + cyclic.
Senses: examples: text: The geocyclic machine was a type of planetarium in the 1800s
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or illustrating the revolutions of the Earth.
glosses: Circling the Earth periodically.
misdivide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misdivides
form: misdividing
form: misdivided
form: misdivided
Etymology: From mis- + divide.
Senses: glosses: To divide wrongly.
Related terms: misdivision
misdivided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misdivide
misdivides
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misdivide
misdividing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misdivide
indescriptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more indescriptive
form: most indescriptive
Etymology: From in- + descriptive.
Senses: glosses: Not descriptive.
herapathites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of herapathite
iodoquinine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iodo- + quinine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An iodide of quinine, the base of herapathite.
likewize
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: The whole legiſlature likewize acts az a court for the trial of public delinquents.
ref: 1790, Noah Webster, A Collection of Essays and Fugitiv Writings, pages 340–341:
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of likewise.
vertuously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more vertuously
form: most vertuously
Etymology: From vertuous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of virtuously.
inobtainable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inobtainable
form: most inobtainable
Etymology: From in- + obtainable.
Senses: glosses: Not able to be obtained.
Frauncis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Latin.
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Related terms: Fraunce
Fraunces
Gemaric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: gemaric
Etymology: From Gemara + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Gemara.
flectional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flectional
form: most flectional
form: flexional
Etymology: From flection + -al.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to flection; serving to bend or vary, specifically, pertaining to the terminal variation of words; inflectional.
it is a wise child that knows his own father
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: * From act 2, scene 2 of The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare.
* From The Odyssey, translated by Samuel Butler.
Senses: examples: text: "My mother," answered Telemachus, "tells me I am son to Ulysses, but it is a wise child that knows his own father."
ref: 1900, Samuel Butler, The Odyssey:
glosses: One can never be sure of one's paternity.
flexional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flexional
form: most flexional
Etymology: From flexion + -al.
Senses: glosses: Dated form of flectional.
crossnumber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crossnumbers
Etymology: From cross + number, modelled on crossword.
Senses: glosses: A puzzle that resembles a crossword but is to be filled with numbers rather than words, the numbers being clued either arithmetically or by general knowledge (such as the year of a historical event).
crossnumbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crossnumber
vygour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vygours
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of vigour.
cunning folk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: professional or semi-professional practitioners of magic (who were often charlatans) who were active from at least the 15th up until the early 20th century.
Synonyms: word: conjurers
word: pellars
word: white witch
word: wise men
word: wise women
word: wizards
Hyponyms: cunning man
cunning woman
Yooper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈjuːpəɹ/
Forms: form: Yoopers
Etymology: From U.P. (“Upper Peninsula”) + -er.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Hypernyms: Michigander
Michiganian
foredraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foredrafts
form: fore draft
Etymology: From fore + draft.
Senses: examples: Farm containing messuage, barns, stable, buildings, gardens, foldyard and rickyard (1.1.39), the lane or Foredraft … — Shropshire Archives, 1835
He returned at last, and pointing to a tree that stood over on the far side of the foredraft which led up to the farm,… — A Modern Antaeus, 1901
We would have scurried across the farmyard, scattering the flustered fowl as we went, then down the foredraft to wait by the gate… — Richard P. Mayer, The Young Gongoozler, 2010
glosses: Land leading from a dwelling to a road or field.
examples: If the connections to the two plenums are air-tite, then there will be a back draft in one stream and a foredraft … — HVAC-Talk, 2006
Not phased by trucks or light winds. You drift into their foredraft and then back out of their backdraft as one solid unit … — TundraTalk, Towing Report, 2007
The freight, after passing through Brick Station, would switch onto a trunk line and skirt the yards on its way north to Chicago. He listened intently, and picked up the foredraft of its cattle cars. — C.K. Robin, Judas Goat: A Fable
glosses: A current of air that flows forward
examples: ... wherein said foredraft part includes at least a moorage hull part, — Floating offshore structure : U.S. Patent Number 4,519,728, 1985
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The draft at the fore perpendicular. Also "fore draft".
balls of steel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: nerves of steel
glosses: Courage, audacity.
bomber seat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bomber seats
Senses: glosses: A lightweight pressed-metal car seat, in the style of classic bomber aircraft.
devilled sausages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From associating hot or spicy food with the Devil; see devil (verb); compare deviled egg(s), deviled ham.
Senses: glosses: A stew of sausages, onions, tomatoes, gravy and spices.
tyy
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Elongated form of ty.
Kingdom of Bahrain
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Kingdom of Bahrain
Senses: glosses: Official name of Bahrain: an island country in West Asia, in the Persian Gulf.
skio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skios
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of skeo.
disked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disk
disking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disk
illitterate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more illitterate
form: most illitterate
Senses: examples: text: The Romans had a time once every year, when their Slaves might freely ſpeake their minds, twere hard if the free borne people of England, with whom the voyce of Truth for theſe many yeares, even againſt the proverb, hath not bin heard but in corners, after all your Monkiſh prohibitions, and expurgatorious indexes, your gags and ſnaffles, your proud Imprimaturs not to be obtain’d without the ſhallow ſurview, but not ſhallow hand of ſome mercenary, narrow Soul’d, and illitterate Chaplain; […]
ref: 1641, [John Milton], Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus, London: […] [Richard Oulton and Gregory Dexter] for Thomas Vnderhill, […], →OCLC, pages 7–8:
text: And whoever doth not thus addreſs himſelf, can no more Judge, then any one could of the Revelations then made by the Spirit to the Prophets of thoſe Firſt Times, when they met in thoſe Prophetical Exerciſes, without the Communication of the ſame Spirit to themſelves; or then an Illitterate, or unknowing Perſon in any Science or Art, Can Judge of the Exercitations of the moſt knowing Perſons, or Artiſts, when they meet together for the Communication of their moſt Elaborate Exercitations therein: […]
ref: 1697, T[homas] Beverley, An Apology for the Hope of the Kingdom of Christ, Appearing within This Approaching Year, 1697. […], London: […] Will[iam] Marshal […], and John Marshal […], →OCLC, page 19:
text: Now the perſons, whom our bleſſed Saviour choſe for his apoſtles, were twelve, honeſt, poor, illitterate men, of no power, influence, or authority, of no learning, eloquence, or addreſs, called up from low trades to be miniſters of the goſpel, from humble fiſhers to be (4) fiſhers of men. […] Learning might have made ſome amends for their want of authority, or authority might have made ſome amends for their want of learning; but poor and illitterate too they were ſo far from being aſſiſted by either, that they were vehemently oppoſed by both.
ref: 1760 January 20, Thomas Newton, On Our Saviour’s Choice of His Apostles. A Sermon Preached in Lambeth Chapel […], London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson […], →OCLC, pages 7 and 16:
glosses: Obsolete form of illiterate.
percipiendum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin percipiendum.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: That which is to be perceived.
maudlins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maudlin
melilot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛlɪlɒt/
Forms: form: melilots
Etymology: From Latin melilōtos, from Ancient Greek μελίλωτος (melílōtos), from μέλι (méli, “honey”) + λωτός (lōtós, “lotus”); later reinforced by Old French mellilote.
Senses: examples: text: Melilot boiled in wine and applied mollifies all hard tumours and inflammations that happen in the eyes or other parts of the body, as the fundament or privy parts of man or woman.
ref: 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society, published 2007, page 187:
glosses: A fragrant plant of the genus Melilotus, often having small yellow or white flowers.
Synonyms: word: sweet clover
Derived terms: melilotic acid
gomoku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 五目 (gomoku).
Senses: synonyms: gobang
five-in-a-row
hyponyms: renju
glosses: An abstract strategy board game, played with pieces from the game go (black and white stones) on a go board with 19×19 intersections, or as a paper-and-pencil game. The winner is the first player to achieve an unbroken sequence of five of their pieces in a row, a column or a diagonal.
shareholders' meeting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shareholders' meetings
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A meeting of all shareholders of a company, usually held at least annually to approve the accounts and elect the members of the board.
Synonyms: annual general meeting
Siculo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Latin Siculī + -o-.
Senses: examples: text: […] much Siculo-Arabic poetry is clearly lost, perhaps irremediably […]
ref: 1987, María Rosa Menocal, The Arabic role in medieval literary history, page 133:
glosses: Relating to Sicily or the Sicilian people, language, or culture.
glosses: Relating to the Siculian people, language or culture.
ungrave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ungraves
form: ungraving
form: ungraved
form: ungraved
Etymology: From un- + grave.
Senses: examples: text: I scorn to ungrave thy dust
ref: 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: see at disentomb
hypernyms: unearth
dig up
glosses: To raise or remove from the grave.
ungraved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ungrave
turbidly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more turbidly
form: most turbidly
Etymology: From turbid + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a turbid manner; with muddiness or confusion.
examples: text: One of great merit turbidly resents them.
ref: 1728, Edward Young, A True Estimate of Human Life. in Which the Passions Are Considered in a New Light:
glosses: proudly; haughtily
omiletical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more omiletical
form: most omiletical
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of homiletical.
whinner
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: whinners
form: whinnering
form: whinnered
form: whinnered
Senses: glosses: To whinny.
whinnered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of whinner
whinnering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of whinner
whinners
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of whinner
scorchest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: scorch + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of scorch
scorchingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scorching + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being scorching; extreme heat.
euctical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈjuːk.tɪk.əl/
Forms: form: more euctical
form: most euctical
Senses: examples: text: sacrifices […] distinguished into expiatory, euctical, and eucharistical
ref: 1745, Edmund Law, Considerations on the State of the World with regard to the Theory of Religion:
glosses: Expecting a wish; supplicatory.
publishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: publishments
Etymology: From publish + -ment.
Senses: glosses: publication.
glosses: A public notice of intended marriage, previously required by the laws of some states of New England.
publishments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of publishment
shahin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shahins
Senses: glosses: The shaheen falcon.
shahins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shahin
shaheen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shaheens
Senses: glosses: The shaheen falcon
shaheens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shaheen
Heracleonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Heracleonites
Etymology: From Heracleon + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A follower of Heracleon of Alexandria, who offered mystical and allegorical interpretations of Scripture.
Heracleonites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Heracleonite
romancist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: romancists
Etymology: From romance + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A romancer or romanticist.
romancists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of romancist
spadicose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spadicose
form: most spadicose
Senses: glosses: Synonym of spadiceous.
synonyms: word: spadiceous
expolish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: expolishes
form: expolishing
form: expolished
form: expolished
Etymology: Compare Latin expolire. See polish.
Senses: examples: text: To polish, expolish, paint, and staine
ref: 1624, Thomas Heywood, Gynaikeion:
glosses: To polish thoroughly.
rynd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rynds
form: rhynd
Etymology: From Middle English rynd, rynde, ryne, from Middle Dutch rijn, rine (“rynd”) or Middle Low German rîn, rîne (“rynd”).
Senses: glosses: A piece of iron crossing the hole in the upper millstone, by which the stone is supported on the spindle.
rynds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rynd
iridize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: iridizes
form: iridizing
form: iridized
form: iridized
Senses: examples: text: to iridize a gold pen
glosses: To point or tip with iridium.
examples: text: to iridize glass
text: iridized platinum
glosses: To make iridescent.
iridized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of iridize
iridizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of iridize
iridizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of iridize
rascallion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rascallions
form: rascalion
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of rapscallion.
rascallions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rascallion
crapefish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We saw the codfish here in all the stages of preparation for the table and the market; the stockfish, dried in the open air, without salt; crapefish, salted and pressed
ref: 1856, Elisha Kent Kane, Arctic Explorations:
glosses: Salted codfish hardened by pressure.
nanpie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanpies
Senses: examples: text: An' twea 'r three Nanpies chatt'rin' owre her head.
ref: 1800, Thomas Browne, Poems on Several Occasions, page 160:
text: T'jerney wer lead'd forrard teah wi' an immense amount o' pleazure; in fakt, ivvery number i' t' nine gat theresense run up ta t' heeist pitch o' joyful expecktashun, fer all yan o' t' lot had a soart o' misgivin', becos he sed hede seen fer three da's hand runnin' nine Nanpies, whitch wer a bad sine, he sed—
ref: 1874, Nattie Nydds, T'Nidderdill Olminac, an'ivverybody's Kalinder fer 1875, page 172:
text: The unusual appearance of nanpies in a place is said to be ominous.
ref: 1901, Eliza Gutch, Examples of Printed Folk-lore Concerning the North Riding:
text: You see, he kept all nations o' wild birds an' wild animals down at his house; he'd linnets an' nanpies i' cages, and an ark full o' pricky-back urchins.
ref: 2022, F. W. Moorman, More Tales of the Ridings:
glosses: The magpie.
nanpie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Nanpie, the name in local Dai dialect for a sauce-like dish made with fresh ingredients and spices, is one such creation.
ref: 2019 September 5, “Flavorful Origins trailor: Nanpie”, in China Culture.org:
text: Indulge in the delightful flavors of Chinese cuisine with our Nanpie recipe.
ref: 2023, “Nanpie-Crispy Chinese Pancakes”, in Fusion Food, archived from the original on 13 Mar 2024:
text: Nanpie or nanmi is a spicy and sour Dai dipping sauce that is prepared using a mortar and pestle — the ingredients are crushed until they turn into a mash.
ref: 2024, “Eat Local in Yunnan”, in Taste Atlas:
glosses: A traditional Dai spicy and sour paste-like side dish made by combining vegetables, herbs and spices in a mortar and pestle.
nanpies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanpie
overlargeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From overlarge + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being overlarge; excessive size or bulk.
serrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛɹəs/
Forms: form: more serrous
form: most serrous
Etymology: Latin serra (“a saw”), + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: The silhouetted treeline gave the horizon a serrous appearance.
text: if while they hum we lay our finger on the back or other parts, for thereupon will be felt a serrous or jarring motion, like that which happeneth while we blow on the teeth of a comb through paper
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
text: Now bending, rising, rolling to the blast, Now serrous rustling to th' inconstant breeze...
ref: 1859, John D. Bryant, Redemption: A Poem, Philadelphia: John Penington & Son, page 57:
text: The central and convex part had subsided some four hundred feet, forming a vast concave, and leaving a high, serrous, black ledge around the circumference of the crater.
ref: 1871, Rev. Titus Coan, “On Kilauea and Mauna Loa”, in The American Journal of Science (III), volume 2, number 12, page 454:
text: The thunder cannons loudly roared, And lightning lanced like pain, But staunch they stood, in serrous file; I saw no more for rain.
ref: 1932, Bertha Raffetto, “A Mountain Storm”, in Westward: A Magazine of Verse, volume 2, number 10, page 15:
text: A serrous bract subtends each floral bud. Occasionally a bracteole is also present.
ref: 1964, Proceedings of the National Institute of Sciences of India: Biological Sciences, volume 30, National Institute of Sciences of India, page 264:
text: The asphalt was serrous, littered with glass.
ref: 2013, Fiona Maazel, Woke Up Lonely: A Novel, Graywolf Press:
glosses: Like the teeth of a saw; jagged.
overpress
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overpresses
form: overpressing
form: overpressed
form: overpressed
Etymology: From over- + press.
Senses: examples: text: Deare heart forbeare to glance thine eye aſide, / VVhat needſt thou vvound vvith cunning vvhen thy might / Is more then my ore-preſt defence can bide?
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 139”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC, signature I, verso:
text: overpress'd spirits
ref: c. 1607–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, [George Wilkins?], The Late, and Much Admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: […] [William White and Thomas Creede] for Henry Gosson, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
glosses: To bear upon (someone or something) with irresistible force; to crush, to overwhelm.
glosses: To overcome by importunity.
overpressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overpress
overpresses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overpress
overpressing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overpress
nowthe
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of nouthe.
Laker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lakers
Etymology: From lake + -er.
Senses: glosses: A Lakist; one of the Lake Poets.
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A player for the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team
Laker
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From lake + -er.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Lakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Laker
Lakist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lake + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or reminsicent of, the Lake Poets.
Lakist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lakists
Etymology: From lake + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Lake Poets, a group of English Romantic poets from the Lake District.
Synonyms: Laker
Lakists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lakist
rascalion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rascalions
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of rapscallion.
rascalions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rascalion
ginnet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ginnets
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of jennet.
ginnets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ginnet
necronite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: necrolite
glosses: A kind of foul-smelling feldspar.
reprobacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈpɹɒbəsi/
Senses: glosses: reprobation
equibalance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From equi- + balance.
Senses: glosses: Equal weight; equiponderance.
equibalance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: equibalances
form: equibalancing
form: equibalanced
form: equibalanced
Etymology: From equi- + balance.
Senses: glosses: To make of equal weight; to counterbalance.
Synonyms: equiponderate
equibalanced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of equibalance
equibalances
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of equibalance
equibalancing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of equibalance
hypogyn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypogyns
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any hypogynous plant.
hypogyns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypogyn
myriare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myriares
Etymology: Borrowed from French myriare. See myria- and are (as in hectare).
Senses: glosses: 10,000 ares, or one square kilometre.
myriares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myriare
Thomasian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Thomasian
form: most Thomasian
Etymology: From Thomas + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Since the early 1970s, Finch has been the principal innovator in Welsh poetry, the most genuine successor to Dylan Thomas; but instead of florid, drunken Thomasian rhetoric, Finch has favored a variety of tight sober structures[…]
ref: 2001, Richard Kostelanetz, H. R. Brittain, A dictionary of the avant-gardes, page 209:
glosses: Of or pertaining to Dylan Thomas (1914–1953), Welsh poet and writer.
Mars brown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Presumably from the colour of the planet Mars.
Senses: glosses: A bright, somewhat yellowish brown.
pervicaciousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pervicacious + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: It is pervicaciousness to deny, that he created matter also.
ref: 1692, Richard Bentley, Eight Sermons Preach'd at the Honourable Robert Boyle's Lecture:
glosses: The quality of being pervicacious.
entitatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more entitatively
form: most entitatively
Etymology: From entitative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an entitative manner or context.
masulah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: masulahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of masula.
masulahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of masulah
defeasibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From defeasible + -ness.
Senses: glosses: defeasibility
paroxysmally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more paroxysmally
form: most paroxysmally
Etymology: From paroxysmal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a paroxysmal manner.
morganatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From morganatic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a morganatic manner.
psephisma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psephismata
Etymology: From Latin psēphisma, and its source, Ancient Greek ψήφισμα (psḗphisma).
Senses: examples: text: The ruin of the antient democracies was, that they ruled […] by occasional decrees, psephismata.
ref: 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France:
qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: A psephism.
psephismata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psephisma
incompossibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incompossibilities
Senses: glosses: The quality of being incompossible.
incompossibilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incompossibility
inaudibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inaudible + -ness.
Senses: glosses: inaudibility; the state or quality of being inaudible.
nontraceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + traceable.
Senses: glosses: Not traceable.
traceableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From traceable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being traceable.
phimotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phimotic
form: most phimotic
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to, or afflicted with, phimosis.
Derived terms: paraphimotic
reculture
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recultures
form: reculturing
form: recultured
form: recultured
Etymology: From re- + culture.
Senses: examples: to reculture a troubled school
glosses: To change the culture of (a social institution).
examples: text: The colonies in each well were pooled and recultured for characterization and storage.
ref: 2015 August 29, “Generation of SNCA Cell Models Using Zinc Finger Nuclease (ZFN) Technology for Efficient High-Throughput Drug Screening”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: To culture again or anew.
crowdies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crowdie
glosses: plural of crowdy
removedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈmuːvɪdnɪs/
Etymology: From removed + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I have eyes under my service which look upon his removedness
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
glosses: The quality of being removed; distance.
breezefly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breezeflies
Etymology: From breeze + fly.
Senses: glosses: The horsefly or gadfly.
Synonyms: breese
brize
breezeflies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breezefly
pshawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pshaw
pshawed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pshaw
divemasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of divemaster
eurythmies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eurythmy
tetrachlorocuprates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetrachlorocuprate
bladesmithing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From blade + smithing.
Senses: examples: text: Diamond took an interest in bladesmithing in high school because it allowed him to use his hands to make a physical product.
ref: 2025 April 29, Grace Call, “Where Art Meets Alloy”, in UC Davis College of Engineering:
glosses: The work of a bladesmith; the manufacture of knives and swords.