cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unturn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unturns
form: unturning
form: unturned
form: unturned
Etymology: From un- + turn.
Senses: examples: text: to unturn a key
text: Think you he nought but prison walls did see,
Till, so unwilling, thou unturn'dst the key ?
ref: 1817, John Keats, Sonnet written on the day that Mr. Leigh Hunt left Prison:
glosses: To turn in a reverse way, especially so as to open something.
unturning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unturn
unturns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unturn
riskful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more riskful
form: most riskful
Etymology: From risk + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: I am well aware how riskful a die I throw, in hazarding this partial publication
ref: 1788, Alexander Geddes, Proposals for printing ... a new translation of the Holy Bible:
glosses: Full of risks; risky.
swarded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɔɹdɪd/
ipa: /ˈswɔːdɪd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dɪd
Etymology: From sward + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: But within this swarded circle, into which the lime-walk brings us —
Whence the beeches rounded greenly, stand away in reverent fear;
I will let no music enter, saving what the fountain sings us […]
ref: 1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Lady Geraldine's Courtship:
glosses: Covered with sward.
congenialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: congenializes
form: congenializing
form: congenialized
form: congenialized
Etymology: From congenial + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To become or make congenial.
congenialized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of congenialize
congenializes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of congenialize
congenializing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of congenialize
uncongenially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uncongenially
form: most uncongenially
Etymology: From uncongenial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an uncongenial manner.
gaijin card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaijin cards
Senses: glosses: An identity card given to aliens who were resident in Japan, in use until 2012.
brachycatalectic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktɪk
Forms: form: brachycatalectics
Etymology: From brachy- + catalectic.
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A verse that is two syllables short for a metre.
brachycatalectics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brachycatalectic
compliable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more compliable
form: most compliable
Etymology: From comply + -able.
Senses: glosses: bendable; able to bend
examples: text: another compliable mind
ref: 1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC:
text: The Jews […] had made their religion compliable, and accommodated to their passions.
ref: 1746, John Jortin, Discourses Concerning the Truth of the Christian Religion:
glosses: Capable of yielding to another, or willing to do so; compliant.
bardship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bardships
Etymology: From bard + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The state of being a bard.
bracteal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bracteal
form: most bracteal
Etymology: Compare French bractéal.
Senses: synonyms: bractiform
glosses: Having the nature or appearance of a bract.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to bracts.
crown imperial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crown imperials
Senses: glosses: Fritillaria imperialis, a plant of the lily family.
vernility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vernile + -ity, from Latin vernilitas.
Senses: examples: text: Still, though the people were thus unarmed, and therefore totally incapable of the least opposition, Argyle and Leslie spread their rebels, under the command of the adjutantgeneral Sir James Turner; whose vernility, added to-a certain species […]
ref: 1838, Lachlan MacLean, An Historical and Genealogical Account of the Clan Maclean:
glosses: Fawning or obsequious behaviour; servility.
satoyama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: satoyamas
form: satoyama
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 里山 (satoyama).
Senses: glosses: A border zone or area between mountain foothills and arable flat land in Japan.
guideboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guideboards
Etymology: From guide + board.
Senses: examples: text: they cannot go astray so long as they carry their guideboard about with them - a delusion we often practise upon ourselves with our high and mighty reason
ref: 1871, James Russell Lowell, My Study Windows:
glosses: A board, as upon a guidepost bearing road directions.
guideboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guideboard
impetratory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more impetratory
form: most impetratory
Senses: examples: text: It follows then that the celebration of this sacrifice be, in its proportion, an instrument of applying the proper sacrifice to all the purposes for which it was first designed. It is ministerially, and by application, an instrument propitiatory; it is eucharistical; it is an homage and an act of adoration, and it is impetratory, and obtains for us and for the whole church, all the benefits of the sacrifice, which is now celebrated and applied...
ref: 1816, Jeremy Taylor, “XLX, 4”, in Discourses:
synonyms: impetrative
glosses: begging; imploratory
parelectronomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: the parelectronomic part of a muscle
glosses: Of or relating to parelectronomy.
rinser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rinsers
Etymology: From rinse + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, rinses.
glosses: A small additional kitchen sink beside the main sink, used for rinsing items.
rinsers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rinser
couplable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: coupleable
Etymology: From couple + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being coupled to something else.
fibrinoplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: fibrinoplastic activity
text: fibrinoplastic substance
glosses: Like fibrinoplastin; capable of forming fibrin when brought in contact with fibrinogen.
recuperable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more recuperable
form: most recuperable
Etymology: From Middle English recuperable, from Medieval Latin recuperābilis and Old French recuperable.
Senses: examples: text: recuperable data
text: Therfore, if thou yet by counsaile arte recuperable, / Flee thou from idlenesse and alway be stable.
ref: 1531, Thomas Elyot, “The seconde and thirde decay of lernyng amonge gentilmen”, in The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →OCLC, 1st boke, folio 59, recto:
glosses: recoverable
Derived terms: unrecuperable
unrecuperably
Related terms: irrecuperable
irrecuperably
recuperate
santonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: santonates
Etymology: From santonic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt of santonic acid.
santonates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of santonate
ectypography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔκτυπος (éktupos, “relief”) + -graphy. Compare ectype.
Senses: glosses: A method of etching in which the design upon the plate is produced in relief.
graduateship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graduateships
Etymology: From graduate + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: finish his circuit in an English Concordance and a topic folio , the gatherings and savings of a sober graduateship
ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC:
glosses: The state of being a graduate.
examples: text: That is an arrogant, outright condemnation of the entire Nigerian university studentship and graduateship, especially those who have graduated after satisfying college/university requirements for a minimum of four years
ref: 2012, Jubril Olabode Aka, Great Presidents of Nigerian 4th Republic::
glosses: Collectively, those who have graduated
lancination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lancinations
Senses: examples: , Chapter "An Exhortation to the Imitation of Christ"
He that considers with what affections and lancinations of spirit, with what effusions of love, Jesus prayed […]
glosses: A tearing or laceration.
lancinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lancination
sedulousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sedulous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being sedulous.
fantasticalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fantasticality
fantasticality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ælɪti
Forms: form: fantasticalities
Etymology: From fantastical + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being fantastical.
glosses: Something that is fantastical.
longipennine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more longipennine
form: most longipennine
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: longipennate
glosses: Of or pertaining to the former order Longipennes, various long-winged birds
rendible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See render.
Senses: glosses: Able to be rendered or yielded up.
glosses: Able to be translated.
rendible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rend + -ible.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being rent or torn.
bibacious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bibacious
form: most bibacious
Etymology: From Latin bibax, bibacis, from bibere. See bib.
Senses: glosses: Addicted to drinking alcohol; alcoholic
Synonyms: bibulous
Related terms: bibation
bibativeness
bibulous
impoliticness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From impolitic + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being impolitic.
interlamination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interlaminations
Etymology: From inter- + lamination.
Senses: examples: text: Interlamination resistance is of interest in laminated core structures as the flow of eddy currents between laminations is a function of this resistance.
ref: 1955, United States Steel Corporation, Electrical Steel Sheets, page 224:
text: The transitions are by rather uniform and gradual changes in the relative abundance of minerals in the component layers and by small-scale interlamination of layers of markedly different composition; gradation by gradual change is perhaps predominant.
ref: 1962, Alfred H. Chidester, Petrology and Geochemistry of Selected Talc-Bearing Ultramafic Rock and Adjacent Country Rocks in North-Central Vermont, page 48:
text: Interlamination faults were also simulated and analysed using FEM.
ref: 2006, Danillo Makuc, Makx Berlec, Konrad Lenasi, “Investigation of ELCID Testing Using FEM Analysis and Test Core Measurements”, in Andrzej Krawczyk, Sławomir Wiak, Xose M. Lopez-Fernandez, editors, Electromagnetic Fields in Mechatronics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, page 199:
text: The pore sizes of the heterogeneous PCHs are between the microsized zeolite (with a pore size of less than 1 nm) and mesosized materials (with pre sizes of 2-50 nm), so that the heavy oil, biological molecules, and other macromolecules can enter the interlamination of PCHs for processing and selective catalysis.
ref: 2014, P.S. Liu, G.F. Chen, Porous Materials: Processing and Applications, page 260:
glosses: The state or process of being interlaminated.
interlaminations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interlamination
emption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin emptio, from emere (“to buy”).
Senses: examples: text: There is a diſpute among the lawyers, whe ther Glaucus's exchanging the golden armour with the brazen one of Tydides, was emption or commutation.
ref: 1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of ancient coins, weights and measures:
text: After the deperdition of Indagator, having an appetency still further to pervstigate the frithy occident; being still an agamist, and not wishing to be any longer a pedaneous viator, nor to be solivagant, I brought about the emption of a yaud, partly by numismatic mutuation, and partly by a hypothecation of my fusee and argental horologe.
ref: 1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 28:
glosses: The act of buying; purchase.
Derived terms: emptional
green-stall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green-stalls
Senses: examples: text: [H]e even wiſhed her […] to turn a penny by keeping a green-ſtall.
ref: 1798, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, “[Maria: or, The] Wrongs of Woman”, in W[illiam] Godwin, editor, Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. […], volume I, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […]; and G[eorge,] G[eorge] and J[ohn] Robinson, […], →OCLC, chapter VII, pages 157–158:
glosses: A stall selling fresh vegetables.
green-stalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of green-stall
isocrymal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From isocryme + -al.
Senses: examples: an isocrymal chart
glosses: Relating to isocrymes.
isocrymal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isocrymals
Etymology: From isocryme + -al.
Senses: glosses: An isocryme.
drooper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: droopers
Etymology: From droop + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, droops.
droopers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drooper
scribblingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more scribblingly
form: most scribblingly
Etymology: From scribbling + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Hooker's sermons […] were so scribblingly written that nobody could read three words together in them.
ref: 1867, The American journal of education: Volume 17, page 316:
glosses: In a scribbling manner.
criosphinx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: criosphinxes
Etymology: Ancient Greek κριός (kriós, “ram”) + Σφίγξ (Sphínx, “Sphinx”), from σφίγγω (sphíngō, “to squeeze”)
Senses: glosses: A sphinx with the head of a ram.
Related terms: androsphinx
hieracosphinx
criosphinxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of criosphinx
phlogistication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phlogistications
Senses: examples: text: When [Henry Cavendish] commenced those researches, he found an opinion prevailing, that the production of fixed air, or carbonic acid, is the invariable result of what he called the phlogistication, and we should call the deoxidation, of atmospheric air.
ref: 1810, George Wilson, M.D., F.R.D.E., “General Sketch of Cavendish's Scientific Researches and Discoveries”, in The Life of the Honᵇˡᵉ Henry Cavendish, page 43:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The act or process of combining with phlogiston.
Related terms: dephlogistication
phlogisticate
phlogistications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phlogistication
shruff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare scruff and scurf.
Senses: glosses: Rubbish, especially the dross or refuse of metals.
glosses: Light, dry wood, or material used for fuel.
immetrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more immetrical
form: most immetrical
Etymology: From im- + metrical.
Senses: examples: text: French and Italian most immetrical , Their many syllables in harsh collision
ref: 1611, George Chapman, "To the Reader" (poem attached to Iliad)
text: An alteration here, leaving immetrical a line already so by turning "this letter is for you" into "these letters are for you," for no apparent reason in the text, can be regarded only as one of the changes made for change's sake.
ref: 1932, John Mackinnon Robertson, The Shakespeare Canon: The origination of "Henry V.", page 127:
glosses: Not metrical or rhythmical.
proteanly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more proteanly
form: most proteanly
Etymology: From protean + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Which matter of the universe is always substantially the same , and neither more nor less , but only Proteanly transformed into different shapes
ref: 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:
glosses: In a protean manner.
cosignificative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: co-significative
Etymology: From co- + significative.
Senses: qualifier: quite rare
glosses: Having the same meaning, synonymous.
horologiography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From horologium + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: The scientific description of timepieces.
glosses: The art of constructing clocks or dials; horography.
strictured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stricture + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: a strictured bowel
text: a strictured duct
glosses: Affected with a stricture.
anaclastics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See anaclastic and -ics.
Senses: examples: text: During these two centuries, the interest shown in the study of burning mirrors is an essential part of the comprehension of the development of catoptrics, anaclastics and dioptrics
ref: 2017, Azzedine Boudrioua, Roshdi Rashed, Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan, Light-Based Science:
glosses: The part of optics that deals with the refraction of light.
Synonyms: dioptrics
deglutitory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˌɡluːˈtɪʃəɹi/
Senses: examples: text: Thus, hemiplegic patients are hemiplegic in deglutitory movements also and are ready to misswallow.
ref: 1981, Muscular Dystrophy Abstracts - Volume 25, page 46:
glosses: Serving for, or aiding in, deglutition (swallowing).
landleaper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: landleapers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of landlouper.
synonyms: word: landlouper
landleapers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of landleaper
snakestone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snakestones
Etymology: From snake + stone.
Senses: glosses: A kind of hone slate or whetstone obtained in Scotland.
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: An ammonite (because of its coiled form).
glosses: A usually porous substance made from charred bones, earth, etc. and believed to cure snakebites.
snakestones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snakestone
speeching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speechings
Etymology: From speech + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act of making a speech.
speeching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From speech + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of speech
speechings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speeching
fetterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fetterers
Etymology: From fetter + -er.
Senses: examples: text: "But when the ice our streams did fetter,"
Which was the fetterer? We may guess, but not from the grammar.
ref: 1828, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
glosses: One who fetters.
fetterers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fetterer
braggartly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more braggartly
form: most braggartly
Etymology: From braggart + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Like a braggart; boastful.
razor-backed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more razor-backed
form: most razor-backed
Senses: examples: a razor-backed hog
a razor-backed perch
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a sharp, lean, or thin back.
Related terms: razorback
influxious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more influxious
form: most influxious
Etymology: From influx + -ious.
Senses: examples: text: an influxious power to make impressions upon their humours
ref: 1640, I. H. [i.e., James Howell], ΔΕΝΔΡΟΛΟΓΊΑ [DENDROLOGIA]. Dodona’s Grove, or, The Vocall Forrest, London: […] T[homas] B[adger] for H. Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC:
glosses: influential
insanability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The state of being insanable, or impossible to cure.
syngraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪŋɡɹæf/
/ˈsɪŋɡɹɑːf/
Forms: form: syngraphs
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin syngrapha.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A document signed by both or all of the parties to a contract or bond.
syngraphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syngraph
indefatigation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Arabian Geographers[…] holding themselves not to be inferior (as indeed they were not) either to the Indefatigation or Skill of the Greek Geographers, they hoped to have the beginning of Longitude taken from them
ref: 1663, John Gregory, The Description and Use of the Terrestrial Globe:
glosses: The quality of being indefatigable; tirelessness.
decumbently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkʌmbəntli/
ipa: /dɪˈkʊmbəntli/
Etymology: From decumbent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a decumbent manner
with a reclining posture.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: In a decumbent manner
lying on the ground with tips turned upwards
encradle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: encradles
form: encradling
form: encradled
form: encradled
Etymology: From en- + cradle.
Senses: examples: text: Begin from first where He encradled was, / In simple cratch, wrapt in a wad of hay.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, A Hymne of Heavenly Love:
glosses: To lay in a cradle, or as in a cradle.
encradled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of encradle
encradles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of encradle
encradling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of encradle
indusial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See indusium.
Senses: examples: indusial limestone
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or containing the petrified cases of the larvae of certain insects.
pryingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pryingly
form: most pryingly
Etymology: From prying + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a prying manner.
clothes-press
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clothes-presses
Etymology: From clothes + press.
Senses: examples: text: All of our hotel rooms offer coffee-making facilities and a clothes-press.
glosses: A receptacle for clothes.
clothespresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clothespress
boiler cupboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boiler cupboards
Senses: glosses: An airing cupboard.
prelusively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From prelusive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: A tradition, or whatever it was, that had flowered prelusively in the Princess herself—well, Amerigo's very discretions were his way of taking account of it.
ref: 1904, Henry James, The Golden Bowl:
glosses: In a prelusive manner.
agented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From agent + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: becoming an agented author
ref: 2006, Ann Rittenberg, Laura Whitcomb, Dennis Lehane, Your first novel:
glosses: Having an agent.
antilibel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antilibel
form: most antilibel
Etymology: From anti- + libel.
Senses: examples: text: By far the most frequent use of antilibel wording comes in stories involving criminal offenses (oops, make that alleged criminal offenses).
ref: 1985, David Keith Cohler, Broadcast journalism:
glosses: Opposing or countering libel.
muconate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muconates
Etymology: From muconic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt of muconic acid.
Derived terms: chloromuconate
muconates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muconate
plesiomorphous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Nearly alike in form.
glosses: Crystallizing in similar forms but differing in chemical composition.
tributariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tributary + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being tributary.
mismate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mismates
form: mismating
form: mismated
form: mismated
Etymology: From mis- + mate.
Senses: examples: text: to mismated shoes
text: a mismated couple
text: in beekeeping, a mismated queen
glosses: To mate or match wrongly or unsuitably; mismatch.
mismates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mismate
mismating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mismate
mismating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mismatings
Senses: glosses: An unsuitable or incorrect mating between organisms.
gnomonologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gnomonology
gnomonology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gnomonologies
Senses: glosses: A treatise on gnomonics.
polygastrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polygastric
bivalvular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + valvular.
Senses: glosses: Having two valves.
showish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈʃəʊ.ɪʃ/
Forms: form: more showish
form: most showish
Etymology: From show + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The doctor must needs die rich, he had great dealings in his way for many years; if he had no family coat, you had as good use the escutcheons of the company, they are as showish, and will look as magnificent, as if he was descended from the blood-royal.
ref: 1708, Squire Bickerstaff Detected, John Partridge:
glosses: showy; ostentatious
caranx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caranxes
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Caranx.
Senses: glosses: Any member of the fish genus Caranx; jacks, trevallies, or kingfishes.
caranxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caranx
defamingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more defamingly
form: most defamingly
Etymology: From defaming + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: defamatorily
glosses: In a defamatory manner.
fulgidities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fulgidity
fulgidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fulgidities
Etymology: From fulgid + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The ceruleous canopy was merging into fulgidity from the ascension of Phoebus—every entity about me seemed to revel in the universal resuscitation.
ref: 1870, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant: In the East:
glosses: splendour; resplendence; effulgence
montoir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: montoirs
Etymology: From French, from monter (“to mount”). See montant.
Senses: glosses: A stone or block used in mounting a horse.
Synonyms: horseblock
horse block
montoirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of montoir
Christmastides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Christmastide
parsoned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From parson + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Provided with a parson.
examples: married but not parsoned
glosses: Having undergone a church ceremony under a parson.
cosmoramic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cosmorama + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: cosmoramic pictures
text: cosmoramic awesomeness
text: cosmoramic lens
glosses: Of or pertaining to a cosmorama.
angulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more angulous
form: most angulous
Etymology: From Latin angulosus. Compare French anguleux.
Senses: examples: text: held together by hooks and angulous involutions
ref: 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC:
glosses: angular; having corners
Derived terms: angulosity
rareripe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: rare-ripe
form: ratheripe
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: ripening early (said most commonly of peaches and onions)
examples: text: He is quite smart enough. I sometimes fear that he is one of the little rare-ripe sort that are smarter at about five than ever after.
ref: 1846 October 2, Abraham Lincoln, letter to Joshua F. Speed
glosses: maturing too quickly; taking on the trappings of maturity before one is emotionally developed
raw_tags: of a person
rareripe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rareripes
form: rare-ripe
form: ratheripe
Senses: glosses: An agricultural plant that ripens early.
rareripes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rareripe
slipboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slipboard
chlorometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chloro- + -metry.
Senses: glosses: The process of testing the bleaching power of any combination of chlorine.
glosses: The use of a chlorometer to measure the amount of chlorine in a substance.
falcer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: falcers
Etymology: From Latin falx, falcis (“a sickle”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the mandibles of a spider.
falcers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of falcer
transpositive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: transpositive language
text: transpositive category
glosses: Made or done by transposition.
glosses: Capable of being transposed.
sphygmophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sphygmophones
Etymology: From sphygmo- + -phone.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: An electrical instrument for determining by ear the rhythm of the pulse of a person at a distance.
sphygmophones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sphygmophone
dissympathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪmpəθi
Etymology: From dis- + sympathy.
Senses: glosses: Lack of sympathy; indifference.
consubstantiality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consubstantialities
Etymology: Compare French consubstantialité.
Senses: examples: text: His […] consubstantiality with the Father
ref: 1654, H[enry] Hammond, Of Fundamentals in a Notion Referring to Practise, London: […] J[ames] Flesher for Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The quality of being consubstantial.
hagiologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hagiologists
Etymology: From hagiology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Hagiologists have related it without scruple, and during many ages it was believed without hesitation
ref: 1829, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Sir Thomas More: or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A writer on the lives of the saints; a hagiographer.
hagiologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hagiologist
doctorally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From doctoral + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: doctorally prepared nurses
glosses: in the manner of a doctor, or up to a doctorate level
inextricableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inextricable + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: inextricability
glosses: The state of being inextricable.
water flag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water flags
Senses: glosses: A European iris with bright yellow flowers, Iris pseudacorus.
water flags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water flag
adipoceration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From adipocere + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of changing into adipocere.
inhabitiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈhæbɪtɪvnəs/
Etymology: From inhabitive + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: what the phrenologists call inhabitiveness
ref: 1853–1864, James Russell Lowell, “(please specify the page)”, in Fireside Travels, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1864, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of inhabitativeness.
petrifactive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌpɛtɹɪˈfæktɪv/
Senses: glosses: Having the quality of converting organic matter into stone; petrifying.
examples: text: petrifactive changes
text: Hereof in ſubterraneous cavities, and under the earth there are many [objects resembling unicorns' horns] to be found in ſeverall parts of Germany; which are but the Lapideſcencies and petrifactive mutations of hard bodies; [...]
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, “Of Unicorns Horn”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 137:
glosses: Pertaining to, or characterized by, petrifaction.
bobbish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bobbish
form: most bobbish
Etymology: From bob + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: "The pigs is well," said Mr. Squeers, "the cows is well, and the boys is bobbish. Young Sprouter has been a-winking, has he? I'll wink him when I get back."
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
text: “How do you do, Mr. Huxter,” the Prince of Fairoaks said in his most princely manner—“I hope you are very well.”
“Pretty bobbish, thanky.”
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 47, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
glosses: Hearty; in good spirits.
Derived terms: bobbishly
inacquaintance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + acquaintance.
Senses: examples: text: […] so in asthma, where there is no expuition, or the expuition does not appear till the paroxysm is subsiding, we ought, I think, in fair reason, rather to acknowledge or inacquaintance with the actual cause than to place our faith in one that has so little to support it.
ref: 1823, John Mason Good, The Study of Medicine, volume 1, page 380:
text: He could scarcely have advanced a theory indicating a more unfortunate inacquaintance with the subject.
ref: 1849 January 24, George Stanley Faber, “The Sacred Calendar of Prophecy”, in The Theological and Literary Journal, volume 1, page 407:
text: It is a form of which George Eliot seems especially fond: her young ladies refuse the most ineligible offers out of devotion to their aunts; her young gentlemen have all the arduous inacquaintance with Latin which their education requires […]
ref: 2013, David Carroll, George Eliot: The Critical Heritage, page 233:
glosses: Lack of acquaintance; ignorance.
taintlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more taintlessly
form: most taintlessly
Etymology: From taintless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a taintless manner.
bluffy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bluffy
form: most bluffy
Etymology: From bluff + -y.
Senses: examples: text: bluffy valley
glosses: Having bluffs, or bold steep banks.
glosses: tending to be bluff (brusque).
examples: text: The check-raise looks very bluffy (although you know better than to check-raise bluff on these types of boards against stubborn opponents).
ref: 2010, Tri Nguyen, Aaron Davis, The Poker Blueprint:
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Inclined to bluff; bluffing.
smileth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: smile + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of smile
chrysogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chryso- + -gen.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A yellow crystalline substance extracted from crude anthracene.
diffission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See diffind.
Senses: examples: text: As we know, there cases of pleuris , even where there is great amount of diffision, with comparatively little dyspnea, and dyspnea is a treacherous symptom to base youself on
ref: 1899, Transactions of the Louisiana State Medical Society, page 200:
text: The amount cleared by back-diffision depends on blood flow.
ref: 1993, Robert Thayer Sataloff, Joseph Sataloff, Occupational Hearing Loss, page 468:
text: In HIE, WM lesions are characterized by hyperintense foci on T1WI [157] with or without restricthed ^([sic]) diffision [158].
ref: 2019, Michelangelo Mancuso, Thomas Klopstock, Diagnosis and Management of Mitochondrial Disorders, page 309:
glosses: The act of cleaving or splitting.
herbescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsənt
Etymology: From Latin herbescens, present participle of herbescere.
Senses: glosses: Growing into herbs.
rattleheaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rattleheaded
form: most rattleheaded
Etymology: From rattle + headed.
Senses: glosses: noisy
glosses: giddy; unsteady
preadmonition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preadmonitions
Etymology: From pre- + admonition.
Senses: glosses: Previous warning or admonition; forewarning.
preadmonitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preadmonition
dumpish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dumpish
form: most dumpish
Etymology: From dump + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Stupid, dull.
examples: text: But at last they found, she was but in a deepe study, and dumpish retracting into her selfe, exercising her minde, and preparing her voice[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter XII, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: VVhat a devil makes thee in ſo muſty a humour? Thou art as dull and dumpiſh as a fellovv that had been drunk over night vvith Ale, and had done nothing but drunk Coffee, talked Politicks, and read Gazettes all this morning.
ref: 1672, Thomas Shadwell, The Miser: A Comedy, […], London: […] Thomas Collins and John Ford, […], →OCLC, Act I, page 1:
text: Mrs Inconſiderate, alſo replyed, ſaying, avvay vvith ſuch Fantaſtical Fools from the Tovvn, a good riddance, for my par[t], I ſay, of her. Should ſhe ſtay vvhere ſhe dvvels, and retain this her mind, vvho could live quietly by her? for ſhe vvill either be dumpiſh or unneighbourly, or talk of ſuch matters as no vviſe body can abide: […]
ref: 1684, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress. From This World to That which is to Come: The Second Part. […], London: […] Nathaniel Ponder […], →OCLC, page 17:
glosses: Melancholy, sad.
Derived terms: dumpishly
dumpishness
undumpish
arenulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more arenulous
form: most arenulous
Etymology: From Latin arenula (“fine sand”), diminutive of arena.
Senses: glosses: Containing or resembling sand.
sea willow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea willows
Senses: glosses: Any of various species of soft coral with long flexible branches.
sea willows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea willow
isothermobath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isothermobaths
Etymology: From iso- + thermo- + Ancient Greek βαθύς (bathús, “deep”) (see bathy-).
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
oceanography
glosses: A line drawn through points of equal temperature in a vertical section of the ocean.
Derived terms: isothermobathic
Related terms: isobathytherm
isothermobaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isothermobath
urostea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urosteon
urosteon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urostea
Etymology: From New Latin ūrosteon, from Ancient Greek οὐρᾱ́ (ourā́, “tail”) + ὀστέον (ostéon, “bone”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A median ossification at the back of the lophosteon in the sternum of some birds.
unpostmarked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + postmarked.
Senses: glosses: Without a postmark.
flutter the dovecote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌflʌtə ðə ˈdʌvkɒt/
ipa: /ˌflʌtɚ ðə ˈdʌvkɑt/
ipa: [-ɾɚ-]
Forms: form: flutters the dovecote
form: fluttering the dovecote
form: fluttered the dovecote
form: fluttered the dovecote
form: flutter the dovecot
form: flutter the dovecotes
Etymology: Possibly from Coriolanus (written c. 1608–1609; published 1623) by the English playwright William Shakespeare (1564–1616), Act V, scene vi (spelling modernized): “[L]ike an eagle in a dovecote, I / Fluttered your Volcians in Corioles.”
Senses: glosses: To create a disturbance, usually within a group of people who are generally placid and unexcited.
wikipedia: Coriolanus
William Shakespeare
Derived terms: english: probably
translation: probably
word: flutter in the dovecote
Related terms: put the cat among the pigeons
flutter the dovecotes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flutters the dovecotes
form: fluttering the dovecotes
form: fluttered the dovecotes
form: fluttered the dovecotes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flutter the dovecote.
flutters the dovecote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flutter the dovecote
fluttering the dovecote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flutter the dovecote
fluttered the dovecote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flutter the dovecote
ayu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑːjuː/
Forms: form: ayus
Etymology: From Japanese 鮎 (ayu, “sweetfish”).
Senses: glosses: A sweetfish, an amphidromous fish of East Asia, the only member of its genus and family, Plecoglossus altivelis, named and prized for its sweet-tasting flesh. It is a game fish and is also subject to extensive aquaculture.
Synonyms: ai
big labor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big labour
form: Big Labor
form: Big Labour
Senses: examples: text: Some fear that Big Labor will one day form its own party and attempt to capture government.
ref: 1955 December 19, “Editorial: Is “Big Labor” Good or Bad?”, in Life, retrieved 17 Dec 2011, page 28:
text: Among U.S. city governments, few have been more strongly controlled by big labor than Minneapolis (pop. 560700)
ref: 1957 June 24, “National Affairs: Defeat for Labor”, in Time:
text: The political battles raging in states across America are cast as about whether big labor retains its considerable clout. . . . The reality is that the U.S. labor movement has steadily lost influence, politically, socially and economically.
ref: 2011 March 6, Albert R. Hunt, “In the U.S., Big Labor Just Isn't That Big”, in New York Times, retrieved 17 Dec 2011:
glosses: Large trade unions or labor unions collectively, understood as having significant economic, political, or societal influence.
Related terms: big business
big government
big pharma
Big Labor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of big labor.
Big Labour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of big labor.
big labour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of big labor.
Swarga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈswɑːɹɡə/
/ˈswʌɹɡə/
Etymology: From Hindi स्वर्ग (svarg, “heaven”), ultimately from Sanskrit स्वर्ग (svarga, “heaven”).
Senses: glosses: Heaven, Paradise
glosses: Indra's abode
Synonyms: Heaven
Paradise
Shangri-La
in safe hands
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Don't worry: I gave the necklace to a friend of mine. It's in safe hands.
text: I told the president that I'm glad the future of the country is in safe hands.
glosses: In the possession of, or protected by, someone who can be trusted.
bust a nut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: busts a nut
form: busting a nut
form: busted a nut
form: busted a nut
form: bust a nut
form: bust a nut
Senses: examples: text: Genter was so excited he like to bust a nut. He had a telephone plugged in at the table and called people up.
ref: 1938, Richard Hallas, You Play the Black and the Red Comes Up, page 74:
synonyms: word: blow a nut
word: bust#Verb
word: nut#Verb
word: blow one's load
word: blow one's wad
word: blow a nut
word: breed
word: bust
word: bust a nut
word: come
word: cream
word: cum
word: ejaculate
word: explode
word: get off
word: go off
word: jizz
word: juice
word: nut
word: pop
word: shoot a rope
word: shoot off
word: shoot one's load
word: shoot one's wad
word: skeet
word: spray one's shorts
word: sprog
word: spoof
word: splooge
word: spooge
word: spunk
word: spurt
glosses: To ejaculate.
synonyms: bust one's balls
bust one's butt
glosses: To work very hard; to put in a lot of effort.
Related terms: do one's nut
Green Monday
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Clean Monday, in Cyprus, the seventh Monday before Easter, used as the beginning of Lent in Greek Orthodoxy.
synonyms: word: Clean Monday
extra: the seventh Monday before Easter, used as the beginning of Lent in Greek Orthodoxy
word: in Cyprus
extra: the seventh Monday before Easter, used as the beginning of Lent in Greek Orthodoxy
Related terms: Green Thursday
Green Monday
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From green in its sense of “environmentally friendly”.
Senses: topics: business
marketing
glosses: The Monday before Christmas, used as a shopping event to order last-minute gifts for shipping before Christmas Day.
Related terms: word: Super Saturday
word: Cyber Monday
english: busy market day
translation: busy market day
word: Black Friday
word: Black Friday
english: bad market day
translation: bad market day
word: Black Monday
appendiculae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of appendicula
appendiculas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of appendicula
bohea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈboʊ̯.hi/
Forms: form: boheas
form: Bohea
Etymology: Borrowed from Hokkien 武夷 (Bú-î) or 武夷茶 (Bú-î-tê, “Bohea tea”), named after the Bohea Hills or in Hokkien 武夷山 (Bú-î-soaⁿ), also known as Wuyi Mountains from Mandarin 武夷山 (Wǔyíshān), in Fujian where the tea is grown. Compare French bou.
Senses: examples: text: The breath of the roses, mingled with the fragrant bohea, which stood just made on the little breakfast-table.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 71–72:
glosses: A black tea from Fujian, China.
wikipedia: Wuyi Mountains
viables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of viable
tech up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: techs up
form: teching up
form: teched up
form: teched up
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: To upgrade to a higher technology level.
imba
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪmbə/
Forms: form: more imba
form: most imba
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:imba.
topics: video-games
glosses: Clipping of imbalanced.
Related terms: english: underpowered
translation: underpowered
word: UP
english: overpowered
translation: overpowered
word: OP
word: nerf