cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
peel away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: peels away
form: peeling away
form: peeled away
form: peeled away
Senses: examples: text: Six minutes later, Mertesacker peeled away from Gallas to meet Walcott's right-wing cross with a superb header.
ref: 2012 November 17, “Arsenal 5-2 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To separate off from the main body; to move off to one side (as in troop movements on a parade ground or in an organized retreat, or columns in a procession).
examples: text: All the paint had peeled away.
glosses: To become separate through peeling.
examples: text: Though mixed martial arts has successfully peeled away fans from boxing (a sport that's lost any compelling champions and much of its dignity) and WWE (a "sport" that’s always existed in quotation marks) it's had trouble shaking its reputation as "human cockfighting."
ref: 2002 April 19, Scott Tobias, “Fightville”, in The A.V. Club:
text: It wasn't all sunshine and rainbows for the Japanese, though, although the first U.S. Navy strike force had... decidedly-mixed results; the Avengers in that group got lost and went after the cruiser Tone on their way back (missing), and the Wildcats got neatly peeled away by a single flight of Zeros, leaving the Dauntlesses wide open to another dozen Japanese fighters.
ref: 2021 February 3, Drachinifel, 14:49 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - Santa Cruz (IJN 2 : 2 USN), archived from the original on 04 Dec 2022:
glosses: To take away from something else.
glosses: To burn out while accelerating and rapidly depart; to peel off, peel out.
raw_tags: of an automobile or its driver
train up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: trains up
form: training up
form: trained up
form: trained up
Senses: examples: text: “I am impressed, young Frank,” began the master criminal. “Breaking into my house in the dead of night. You are a boy after my own heart. You need to come and live here with me and your mother. I could be the father you never had. I could train you up. Teach you everything I know. You could become a master criminal like me. One day all this could be yours.”
ref: 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
text: Initially, software faults delayed their introduction. Now the issue is with getting enough drivers trained up.
ref: 2025 October 1, “SWR 'Arterios' are finally on the move”, in RAIL, number 1045, page 37:
glosses: To train or educate.
price in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prices in
form: pricing in
form: priced in
form: priced in
Senses: examples: text: The recent interest rate change was anticipated and has been priced in to the value of the stock by the market.
glosses: To include (the costs of a possible future event, especially a negative one) in an estimation of the total value of something.
Related terms: factor in
aubergiste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aubergistes
Etymology: From French aubergiste.
Senses: glosses: An innkeeper or landlord in French-speaking countries.
beej
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beejes
Etymology: From how the letters b and j are pronounced together as a word.
Senses: glosses: BJ, a blowjob
Beej
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈbiːd͡ʒ/
Etymology: From how the letters b and j are pronounced together as a word.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name BJ.
Billy Jean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Billie Jean
form: Billyjean
Senses: glosses: A compound female given name originating as a coinage.
Bobby Joe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A compound male given name originating as a coinage.
Billy Bob
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Billybob
Senses: glosses: A double male given name.
fiveway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fiveways
Etymology: From five + way.
Senses: glosses: Something occurring between five; something with quintuple features.
fiveways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fiveway
feller-buncher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feller-bunchers
form: feller buncher
Senses: topics: business
forestry
glosses: A motorized vehicle, used in logging, that can rapidly cut, gather and fell trees.
feller buncher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feller bunchers
Senses: examples: text: Down through the clearing, thereʼs a feller buncher, snatching batches of small trunks, delimbing them, and bucking the logs to fixed lengths.
ref: 2018, Richard Powers, The Overstory, Vintage (2019), page 304:
glosses: Alternative form of feller-buncher.
scruncher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌntʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: scrunchers
Etymology: From scrunch + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who scrunches.
cocktail bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cocktail bars
Senses: glosses: A drinking establishment that specializes in cocktails.
Related terms: wine bar
autofiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autofictions
Etymology: Borrowed from French autofiction, blend of autobiography + fiction.
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand, autofiction has afforded many writers a means to deal with the self in a way that straddles the genres of classic literature and goes beyond its culturally determined norms. Autofiction reveals existential motives for writing, raising them to the status of components in the autobiographical debate.
ref: 2019, Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf, editor, Handbook of Autobiography / Autofiction, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 245:
synonyms: faction
glosses: A blend of autobiography and fiction; faction.
Derived terms: autofictional
autogestion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French autogestion.
Senses: glosses: self-management (joint control by workers and management)
Boanerges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Boanergeses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Βοανεργές (Boanergés), apparently from Aramaic בני רגז (bəney rəgaz, literally “sons of rage”), traditionally glossed as "sons of thunder". However, Maurice Casey argues that it is simply a misreading of Aramaic r‘am "thunder" (due to the similarity of z to the final m). This is supported by one Syriac translation of the name as bnay ra‘mâ. This appellation was given by Christ to two of his disciples, James and John (cf. Mark 3:17).
Senses: examples: text: The groom is a Boanerges, rants twice as loud and twice as long as my Phoenix, and is, of course, in the estimate of the fanatics, twice as clever a fellow.
ref: 1835, Chandler Robbins Gilman, Legends of a log cabin, page 121:
text: I have sat under Boanerges when he has specifically addressed himself to us — us, the infants — and at this present writing I hear his lumbering jocularity (which never amused us, though we basely pretended that it did), and I behold his big round face, and I look up the inside of his outstretched coat-sleeve as if it were a telescope with the stopper on, and I hate him with an unwholesome hatred for two hours.
ref: c. 1861, Charles Dickens, chapter IX, in The Uncommercial Traveller:
glosses: A vociferous preacher or orator.
Boanergeses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Boanerges
pancratiastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The Wrestler's Chaplet - Mix'd with tbe great Pancratiastick Crown
ref: 1749, Gilbert West, Odes of Pindar:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the pancratium.
lepidodendroid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lepidodendroid
form: most lepidodendroid
Etymology: From Lepidodendron + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Belonging to Lepidodendron.
lepidodendroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lepidodendroids
Etymology: From Lepidodendron + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lepidodendrid.
lepidodendroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lepidodendroid
darkeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: Translation is knowne from death to life from darkeness to light from yᵉ power of Saton to god againe […] — George Fox.
glosses: Obsolete spelling of darkness.
revertee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revertees
Etymology: From revert + -ee.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: One whose estate or land is reverted.
revertees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of revertee
aubergistes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aubergiste
autofictions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autofiction
malurid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malurids
Senses: examples: text: Only a few of the 26 malurids have been studied sufficiently closely to reveal their social organization.
ref: 1990, I. Rowley, E. Russell, “1: Splendid Fairy-wrens: demonstrating the importance of longevity”, in Peter B. Stacey, Walter D. Koenig, editors, Cooperative Breeding in Birds: Long Term Studies of Ecology and Behaviour, page 3:
text: A number of typical riparian, reed-dwelling, woodland and tall open forest species that forage in the shrub and ground layers were possibly reduced in abundance and absent (e.g. muscicapids, cuculids, malurids, acanthizids, sylviids).
ref: 1991, Queensland Naturalists' Club, Queensland Naturalist, volumes 31-35, page 56:
text: Fairywrens and Grasswrens, an account of the malurids by well-known ornithologists Ian Rowley and Eleanor Russell, is more than a field guide, but illustrated in guide style, three species to a plate, by Marsack.
ref: 2001, Penny Olsen, Feather and Brush: Three Centuries of Australian Bird Art, page 98:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any bird of the family Maluridae, insectivorous passerine birds endemic to Australia and New Guinea.
Synonyms: sense: any species of family Maluridae
word: malurid wren
sense: any species of family Maluridae
word: Australasian wren
Hypernyms: meliphagoid
Hyponyms: sense: bird of family Maluridae
word: emu-wren
sense: bird of family Maluridae
word: fairywren
sense: bird of family Maluridae
word: grasswren
malurids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malurid
emu-wren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emu-wrens
Senses: glosses: Any of several Australian passerine birds in the genus Stipiturus with long barbless tail feathers like those of the emu.
grasswren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grasswrens
form: grass wren
Etymology: From grass + wren.
Senses: glosses: Any of the birds in the malurid genus Amytornis.
Hypernyms: malurid
Australasian wren
Hyponyms: rufous grasswren
grasswrens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grasswren
pityroid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pityroid
form: most pityroid
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πίτυρον (píturon, “bran”) + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: The ointment may also be applied drugs about whose ultimate destiny in the in pityroid and seborrhoic alopecia
ref: 1899, Merck's Archives:
glosses: Having the form of, or resembling, bran.
equivalvular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From equi- + valvular.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: equivalve
Derived terms: inequivalvular
Maurist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Maurists
Etymology: From Maur + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Congregation of St. Maur, a scholarly group of French Benedictines established in 1621.
Maurists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Maurist
Maurism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Maur + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The doctrines or actions of the Maurists.
Bollandism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Bolland + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The doctrines or actions of the Bollandists.
paradisal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /paɹəˈdʌɪs(ə)l/
ipa: /paɹəˈdʌɪz(ə)l/
Forms: form: more paradisal
form: most paradisal
Etymology: From paradise + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The garden had been planted by the god Yahweh, who had caused a spring to gush forth in the eastern desert to create a paradisal oasis.
ref: 2009, Karen Armstrong, The Case for God, Vintage, published 2010, page 35:
glosses: Like paradise; paradisiacal.
crowd control
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crowd-control
form: crowdcontrol
form: CC
Senses: glosses: The supervision and control of a crowd of people, to keep the crowd orderly.
topics: video-games
glosses: The intentional impairing or disabling of multiple targets, often through the use of abilities or effects.
Derived terms: crowd control barrier
Related terms: crowd controller
crowd controler
crowd control
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crowd controls
form: crowd controlling
form: crowd controlled
form: crowd controlled
form: crowd-control
form: crowdcontrol
form: CC
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: To impair or disable multiple targets, often through the use of abilities or effects.
group leader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: group leaders
form: groupleader
Senses: examples: text: The team was composed of the following people: […] 2. Mr. H. Gsänger, marketing economist (groupleader)
ref: 1975, Hans Gsänger, How to Make Co-operative Marketing Viable. The Case of Sweet Orange Marketing in Thailand (Schriftenreihe des Fachbereichs Internationale Agrarentwicklung der Technischen Universität Berlin; 4), page 1:
text: Merely checking a file to ascertain whether the groupleader had issued a prior oral warning cannot possibly be characterized as an “independent invention” of the complaint.
ref: 1983, Labor Cases, volume 98, Commerce Clearing House, page 18-600b:
text: Campers might be required, for example, to get checked out by their groupleader or head counselor before proceeding to receive medical attention.
ref: 2006, Mark S. Richman, The Ultimate Camp Counselor Manual. (How to Survive and Succeed Magnificently at Summer Camp), 2nd edition, New York · Lincoln · Shanghai: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 48:
glosses: A person who assigns tasks at a workplace or joint activity and thus maintains the impression of placing themself above other people hierarchically.
sales advisor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sales advisors
Senses: glosses: A sales assistant.
sales rep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sales reps
Senses: glosses: Clipping of sales representative.
sales representative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sales representatives
Senses: synonyms: sales rep
glosses: A sales assistant representing the company outside the place of business.
Related terms: salesperson
shop assistant
sales force
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sales forces
Senses: glosses: A team of salespersons.
sales team
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sales teams
Senses: glosses: A team of salespersons.
Synonyms: sales force
antonomastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin antonomasticus, Ancient Greek ἀντονομασία (antonomasía, “antonomasia”).
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or characterized by, antonomasia.
Related terms: antonomastically
antonomastically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From antonomastic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In terms of, or by means of, antonomasia.
albolith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: albolite
form: albalith
Etymology: From Latin albus (“white”) + -lith.
Senses: glosses: A kind of cement consisting mostly of magnesia and silica.
adminicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more adminicular
form: most adminicular
Etymology: From Latin adminiculō (“to prop up, support”) + -ar.
Senses: examples: text: He came: he found the islanders beside themselves at this unwelcome resurrection of the dead and the detested; he was shown, as adminicular of testimony
ref: 1896, Robert Louis Stevenson, Records of a Family of Engineers:
synonyms: adminiculary
glosses: Supplying help; auxiliary; corroborative; explanatory.
taliation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Just Heav'n this Taliation did decree, / That Treaſon Treaſon's deadly Scourge ſhould be.
ref: 1702, Joseph Beaumont, “Canto XVII. The Cheat. Stanza 26.”, in Charles Beaumont, editor, Psyche, or Love’s Mystery, […], 2nd edition, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] University-Press, for Tho[mas] Bennet, […], →OCLC, page 160, column 1:
glosses: Synonym of retaliation.
synonyms: word: retaliation
connubialities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of connubiality
connubiality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: connubialities
Etymology: From connubial + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being connubial.
examples: text: some slight connubialities which had begun to pass between Mr. and Mrs. Browdie.
ref: 1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 42, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC:
glosses: Something characteristic of the conjugal state; an expression of connubial tenderness.
pregravate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pregravates
form: pregravating
form: pregravated
form: pregravated
Etymology: From Latin praegravatus, past participle of praegravare (“to be heavy upon”), from praegravis (“very heavy”).
Senses: examples: text: The clog that the body brings with it cannot but pregravate and trouble the soul in all her performances
ref: 1651 (indicated as 1652), Joseph Hall, “The Invisible World Discovered to Spiritual Eyes, and Reduced to Useful Meditation. […]”, in Josiah Pratt, editor, The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D. […], volume VI (Devotional Works), London: […] C[harles] Whittingham, […]; for Williams and Smith, […], published 1808, →OCLC:
text: The clear s Vision of God, which they say is, tota merces, beholding him s face to face, namely, so far as a finite Being (for so our Humane Nature continues still, though glorified) may be capable to apprehend of that Majesty, which is Infinite, in this advanced condition, the Soul (which is here clogg'd, and drossy, and much pregravated by the Body, subject to corruption) shall beatifically see God, as he is, in the full fplendor of his immortal glory;
ref: 1672, “The Crown of Righteousness”, in Θρηνοι̂κος: the House of Mourning, page 603:
text: Heavier Bodies pregravate
ref: 1718, Edward Strother, Criticon Febrium, Or, A Critical Essay on Fevers:
text: Indeed, the aporia shall become pregravated with an new enigma.
ref: 2013, B.G. Bergo, Levinas between Ethics and Politics, page 183:
text: I think you shouldn't pregravate her .
ref: 2024, Yağmur D. Kızılkoca, Bald Blind Cats:
glosses: To bear down; to depress.
menaccanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: menaccanites
Etymology: From Menaccan + -ite, after the place in Cornwall where it was first found.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A black or steel-grey mineral consisting chiefly of the oxides of iron and titanium.
Synonyms: ilmenite
Derived terms: menaccanitic
menaccanites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of menaccanite
bitterweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bitterweeds
Etymology: From bitter + weed.
Senses: glosses: Any plant in the genus Ambrosia, especially Ambrosia artemisiifolia (common ragweed).
glosses: The plant Helenium amarum (yellow sneezeweed).
glosses: Parthenium hysterophorus (false ragweed)
glosses: Artemisia tripartita subsp. tripartita (syn. Artemisia trifida; threetip sagebrush)
glosses: Picris rhagadioloides (syn. Picris sprengeriana; tall oxtongue)
glosses: Tetraneuris spp.
bitterweeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bitterweed
overslid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overslide
overslide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overslides
form: oversliding
form: overslid
form: overslid
Etymology: From over- + slide.
Senses: examples: a runner oversliding the base in a baseball game
glosses: To slide over or past.
overslides
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overslide
oversliding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overslide
outbreast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outbreasts
form: outbreasting
form: outbreasted
form: outbreasted
Etymology: From out- + breast.
Senses: glosses: To surpass in singing; to sing better than.
Synonyms: outsing
outbreasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outbreast
outbreasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outbreast
outbreasts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outbreast
uncarnated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + carnate + -ed.
Senses: synonyms: uncarnate
glosses: Divested of flesh; taken from one's body; made spiritual.
heptade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heptades
Etymology: Compare French heptade. See heptad.
Senses: glosses: A sum or group of seven.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An atom, radical or element having a combining power of seven.
heptades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heptade
consonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more consonous
form: most consonous
Etymology: From Latin consonus. See consonant.
Senses: examples: text: consonous consonants
text: consonous letters
text: consonous names
text: consonous sounds
glosses: concordant in sound; harmonious
sundrily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sundrily
form: most sundrily
Etymology: From sundry + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In sundry ways; variously.
devest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: devests
form: devesting
form: devested
form: devested
Etymology: From Middle French devester (“strip of possessions”), from Old French desvestir, from des- (“dis-”) + vestir (“to clothe”).
Senses: examples: text: Devesting them for bed
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 II, scene iii]:
glosses: To divest; to undress.
topics: law
glosses: To take away, as an authority, title, etc., to deprive; to alienate, as an estate.
topics: law
glosses: To be taken away, lost, or alienated, as a title or an estate.
Derived terms: divest
devested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of devest
devesting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of devest
devests
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of devest
dispair
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˌdɪsˈpɛə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: dispairs
form: dispairing
form: dispaired
form: dispaired
Etymology: From dis- + pair.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: unpair; decouple, uncouple
text: dispaired twins
text: Forgive me, Lady, I have deſtroyed Gerrard, and thee; rebell'd againſt heavens ordinance; diſ-pair'd two doves, made 'em ſit mourning; [...]
ref: c. 1608–1613, Nathan Field, John Fletcher, “Four Playes, or Morall Representations, in One”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, [The Triumph of Love, scene v], page 37, column 1:
hypernyms: disassociate
separate
;
split up
break up
break apart
glosses: To separate (a pair).
Related terms: word: disparate
alt: es
word: desparejar
dispaired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dispair
dispairing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dispair
dispairs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dispair
Hanja
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: hanja
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of hanja.
ejoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Malay ijuk.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of gomuti.
synonyms: word: gomuti
consulary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The Consularie regiment [imperium consulare] was annuall.
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book II.]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of consular.
boletic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: fumaric acid
boletate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boletates
Etymology: From boletic + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt or ester of boletic acid; a fumarate.
boletates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boletate
phryganeid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phryganeids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the family Phryganeidae of caddis flies.
phryganeids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phryganeid
leafmold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leafmolds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of leaf mold.
leafmolds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leafmold
leafmoulds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leafmould
leafloves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leaflove
drumly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹʌmli/
rhymes: -ʌmli
Forms: form: drumlier
form: more drumly
form: drumliest
form: most drumly
Etymology: Compare droumy.
Senses: examples: text: Now we cross the Arrow, swift as its name portends; roaring and foaming deep down in its drumly channel.
ref: 1887, James Inglis, chapter 15, in Our New Zealand Cousins:
text: But salmon may escape the coquettish charms of the trolling-hook, may safely run the gauntlet of the parallel canoes and their howling, tamanous-cap wearers; the spear, misguided in the drumly gleam, may glance harmless from scale-armed shoulders: still other perils await them.
ref: 1853, Theodore Winthrop, chapter 3, in The Canoe and the Saddle:
text: Ye banks, and braes, and streams around
The castle o’ Montgomery,
Green be your woods, and fair your flowers,
Your waters never drumlie!
ref: 1786, Robert Burns, “Highland Mary”, in Songs and Ballads:
glosses: turbid; muddy
intrafusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From intra- + Latin fundere, fusum (“to pour”).
Senses: examples: text: intrafusion of blood
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: infusion (The operation of introducing a substance into a blood vessel).
imbenching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imbenchings
Etymology: From im- + bench + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: the base of the heart of the altar, which rested upon the upper imbenching or settle
ref: 1762, John Parkhurst, An Hebrew and English Lexicon: Without Points:
glosses: A raised work like a bench.
imbenchings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imbenching
filacer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filacers
Etymology: From Old English filace (“a file or thread on which the records of the courts of justice were strung”), from French filasse (“tow of flax or hemp”), from Latin fīlum (“thread”).
Senses: examples: text: When actions are brought in the Courts of King's Bench or Common Pleas, founded upon original writs issuing out of the Courts of Chancery (which writs, as stated in the Report of the 9th of April 1816, it is the duty of the Cursitors to make out) it has been the practice in certain cases for the Filacers of the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas respectively, to receive from the Suitors the King's fines (if any) and also the fees payable to the Cursitors in respect of such original writs, and afterwards to account to the Cursitors for the fines and fees so received.
ref: 1817 December 20, House of Commons of the United Kingdom, “Second Report of the Commissioners for Examining into the Duties, Salaries and Emoluments, of the Officers, Clerks and Ministers, of the Several Courts of Justice, in England, Wales, and Berwick-upon-Tweed;—as to the Court of Chancery”, in Reports from Committees: Fever; Ireland; Courts of Justice: Session 27 January – 10 June, 1818, volume VII, [London]: [s.n.], published 6 April 1818, →OCLC, page 172:
topics: law
glosses: A former officer in the English Court of Common Pleas and the Court of King's Bench, so called because he filed the writs on which he made out process
filacers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filacer
stranguries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strangury
stranguric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From strangury + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or afflicted with, strangury.
strangurious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin stranguriosus.
Senses: examples: text: [I]n about ſix VVeeks or tvvo Months, the Dyſentery gave Truce, in vvhich Time I vvas often fretted vvith ſtrangurious Symptoms.
ref: 1732 October 1 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Dr. Cranstoun, “The Objections against a Regimen, Especially a Milk, Seed, and Vegetable Diet, Considered. The Case of the Learned and Ingenous Dr. Cranstoun, in a Letter to the Author at His Desire, in Dr. Cranstoun’s Own Words.”, in George Cheyne, The English Malady: Or, A Treatise of Nervous Diseases of All Kinds, […], London: […] G[eorge] Strahan […]; Bath, Somerset: J. Leake, published 1733, →OCLC, part III (Containing Variety of Cases that Illustrate and Confirm the Foregoing Method of Cure. […]), page 321:
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: stranguric
glosses: Of or pertaining to strangury.
churchdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: churchdoms
Etymology: From church + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: Whatsoever Church pretendeth to a new beginning, pretendeth at the same time to a new Churchdome, and whatsoever is so new is none.
ref: 1659, John Pearson, An Exposition of the Creed:
text: When a preacher knows that, if he should be turned from his church to-morrow, there are other paying fields of activity for him, he is not going to bow before any of the petty or the strong bosses of churchdom.
ref: 1922, “The Pastor”, in Homiletic Review, volume 84, page 34:
text: Like Malaysia, the work of individual evangelists who largely became active without having institutional ties to any missionary or ecclesiastical organization was instrumental for the emergence of indigenous churchdoms in the Netherlands Indies.
ref: 2010, Susanne Schröter, Christianity in Indonesia: Perspectives of Power, page 70:
glosses: The institution, government, or authority of a church.
churchdoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of churchdom
churchlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From churchless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of churches.
examples: text: Among the several causes of churchlessness, he finds, the most important is the lack of a true familiarity in the Church's approach to us in its liturgy, in its sacraments, in the whole form in which it manifests itself on earth.
ref: 1963, Edward Schillebeeckx, Christ, the Sacrament of the Encounter with God, page 201:
text: Whatever the reason for their churchlessness, there are many Indians who consider themselves followers of Jesus but feel no need to demonstrate that commitment through the act of joining a church.
ref: 2011, Douglas Jacobsen, The World's Christians, page 126:
glosses: Failure to attend a church.
shaveable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shaveable
form: most shaveable
Etymology: From shave + -able.
Senses: examples: text: For my part, I think we ought to rejoice that this same beard is of real tangible shaveable hair.
ref: 1863, Jemima Montgomery Tautphoeus, At Odds: Volume 2, page 253:
text: In this new decade, diapers morphed into status symbols. The industry became overrun with a new generation of marketing geniuses. Youngsters not yet of a shaveable age,^([sic]) spewed forth designer diapers with the regularity of Old Faithful.
ref: 2001, Kim Bolton, Chris Wave, Conversations at the Girlville Diner:
glosses: Capable of being (easily) shaved.
attunedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From attuned + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being attuned.
Santee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Santees
form: Santee
Etymology: Borrowed from Lakota Isáŋyathi or Isáŋathi ("knife"), originating from the name of a lake in present-day Minnesota.
Senses: glosses: A member of a Sioux group of Native Americans residing in the extreme east of the Dakotas, Minnesota, and northern Iowa.
Santee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A city in San Diego County, California, United States.
Santees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Santee
cumulose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cumulose
form: most cumulose
Etymology: From cumulus.
Senses: examples: text: a cumulose soil
glosses: Full of heaps, or accumulating in heaps.
attunable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more attunable
form: most attunable
Etymology: From attune + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being attuned.
album graecum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin, literally, “Greek white”.
Senses: glosses: The dung of dogs or hyenas, turned white by exposure to air, formerly used in dressing leather and in medicine.
disserviceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disserviceable
form: most disserviceable
Etymology: From dis- + serviceable.
Senses: examples: text: […]if there be any one supernumerary, or weak, or any-wise disserviceable[…]
ref: 1711, [Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury], Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times:
glosses: Calculated to do disservice or harm; not serviceable; injurious.
Related terms: disserviceableness
disserviceably
bergmeal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bergmehl
Etymology: From German Berg (“mountain”) + Mehl (“meal”).
Senses: examples: text: Bergmeal was sometimes mixed into food during times of scarcity in Lapland and Sweden.
glosses: An earthy substance, resembling fine flour, composed of the shells of infusoria.
glosses: mountain meal
bombic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin bombyx (“silk, silkworm”): compare French bombique.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid obtained from the silkworm, now found to be acetic acid.
shonkily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more shonkily
form: most shonkily
Etymology: From shonky + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a shonky manner.
shonkiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shonky + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being shonky.
skirr
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: skirrs
form: skirring
form: skirred
form: skirred
Senses: examples: text: … while at the same moment, whir-r-r! up sprung a bevy of twenty quail, at least, startling me for the moment by the thick whirring of their wings, and skirring over the underwood right toward Archer.
ref: 1851, Frank Forester, (Please provide the book title or journal name), HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2006:
text: Our left wing, when they occupied the hills, saw four or five hundred Turks 'skirr away' in one body, and the machine-gunners found a target.
ref: 1919, EJ Thompson, Beyond Baghdad, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2006:
glosses: To leave hastily; to flee, especially with a whirring sound
examples: text: ... but that they had no thought to let the thing go unnoticed was quickly evidenced by the skirring of motors upon the landing-stage and the quick shooting airward of a long-lined patrol boat.
ref: 1920, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Thuvia, Maiden of Mars, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008:
glosses: To make a whirring sound.
examples: text: The gates of Granada once more poured forth legions of light scouring cavalry, which skirred the country up to the very gates of the Christian fortresses, sweeping off flocks and herds.
ref: 1851, Washington Irving, Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2009:
glosses: To search about in, scour
examples: text: I had flown in a helicopter with Javits and Bobby Kennedy. I was skirring around New York like an ephemerid, my jacket lined with jolly psychedelic green.
ref: 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 51:
glosses: to pass over quickly, skim
centrifical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of centrifugal.
heddled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: […]all reproduced in Ananda Coomaraswamy's Medieval Sinhalese Art are ordinary twill weaves which are produced with little effort on a multi-heddled handloom.
ref: 1950, Observer Annual, page 29:
text: It is difficult to decide with von Stokar, that such twills were woven on a four-heddled loom (6).
ref: 1964, Robert James Forbes, Studies in Ancient Technology, 5 (1957), page 227:
text: Necessary and productive as a many-heddled loom is, there is something basic and satisfying about covering each warp thread by hand, in a tapestry or needle technique.
ref: 1967, Jean Verseput Wilson, Weaving is for Anyone, page 15:
text: 1986, Howard L. Needles, S. Haig Zeronian, Historic Textile and Paper Materials: Conservation and Characterization, Advances in Chemistry Series, American Chemical Society, page 271,
Once a heddled loom is used, the spiraling encircling action of twining is no longer feasible.
glosses: That uses heddles.
raw_tags: of a loom
Derived terms: unheddled
heddled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of heddle
heddling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of heddle
oesophagal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of esophageal.
esophagal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of esophageal.
frowey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more frowey
form: most frowey
Etymology: See frow (adjective).
Senses: topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
glosses: Working smoothly or without splitting.
raw_tags: of timber
glosses: Rancid.
raw_tags: of butter
smell-feast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsmɛlfiːst/
ipa: /ˈsmɛlˌfist/
Forms: form: smell-feasts
Etymology: From smell (verb) + feast (noun).
Senses: examples: text: Paraſites, were called ſoche ſmellefeaſtes as would ſeeke to be free geaſtes at richemens tables.
ref: 1564 February, Erasmus, “The Saiynges of Alexander the Greate”, in Nicolas Udall [i.e., Nicholas Udall], transl., Apophthegmes, that is to Saie, Prompte, Quicke, Wittie and Sentẽcious Saiynges, […], London: […] Ihon Kingston, →OCLC, book II, folio 144, recto, paragraph 38:
text: Origen ſpeaks of the religation of theſe Dæmons near their Statues, vvhether by Magical incantation, or that, like ſo many ſmell-Feaſts, they hankered near the Altars, to enjoy the nidorous fumes of the Sacrifices, […]
ref: 1664, H[enry] More, chapter VII, in A Modest Enquiry into the Mystery of Iniquity, […], London: […] J[ames] Flesher for W[illiam] Morden […], →OCLC, book I, page 21:
text: She [the ant] lives upon her Ovvn, Honeſtly Gotten and Poſſeſs'd, vvithout either Envy or Violence; VVhereas the Fly is an Intruder, and a Common Smell-Feaſt, that Spunges upon Other peoples Trenchers.
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “[The Fables of Æsop, &c.] Fab[le] XXXIV. An Ant and a Fly [Reflexion].”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC, page 33:
text: [W]ho has a ſtupid Intellect, a Broken memory, and a blaſted vvit, and (vvhich is vvorſe than all) a Blind and a Benighted Conſcience, but the Intemperate and Luxurious, the Epicure and the Smell-feaſt?
ref: 1693 November 8 (date delivered; Gregorian calendar); first published 1698, Robert South, “A Sermon Preached at Christ-Church in Oxford before the University, Octob. 29. 1693.”, in Twelve Sermons upon Several Subjects and Occasions, volume III, London: […] Tho[mas] Warren for Thomas Bennet […], →OCLC, page 94:
text: The smell-feasts rouse them at the hint / There's cookery in a certain dwelling-place!
ref: 1869, Robert Browning, “VIII. Dominus Hyacinthus de Archangelis.”, in The Ring and the Book. […], volume III, London: Smith, Elder and Co., →OCLC, page 92, lines 39–40:
synonyms: word: bloodsucker
word: bummer
word: freeloader
word: free rider
word: gadfly
word: leech
word: mooch
word: moocher
word: parasite
word: scrounge
word: scrounger
word: scunge
word: smell-feast
word: sponge
word: sponger
word: sucker
word: trencher mate
glosses: One who is apt to find and frequent places where good food is available; especially one who comes uninvited to a meal; a parasite; a sponger.
smell-feasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smell-feast
Atellan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Atellan
form: most Atellan
Etymology: From Latin Atellanus, from Atella (“an ancient town of the Osci, in Campania”).
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Atella in ancient Italy.
Atellan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Atellans
Etymology: From Latin Atellanus, from Atella (“an ancient town of the Osci, in Campania”).
Senses: glosses: A kind of farcical drama performed at Atella.
glosses: Someone from Atella
Atellans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Atellan
loreal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: loral
Etymology: From lore + -al.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the lore.
Derived terms: cantholoreal
loreal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: loreals
Etymology: From lore + -al.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the loreal scales.
loral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹəl
Forms: form: loreal
Etymology: From lore + -al.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the lore.
Derived terms: supraloral
perfectional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /pə(ɹ)ˈfɛkʃənəl/
Forms: form: more perfectional
form: most perfectional
Etymology: From perfection + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Life eternal may be looked upon under three considerations; as initial; as partial; and as perfectional.
ref: 1659, John Pearson, Exposition of the Creed:
glosses: Of or relating to perfection; characterized by perfection.
caffetannic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: caffeic + tannic + acid.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A supposed compound found in coffee beans, once thought to be a kind of tannin obtained from coffee beans, now regarded as a mixture of chlorogenic acid and other stuff.
Eleaticism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Eleatic + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The Eleatic doctrine.
liedertafel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liedertafels
Etymology: Borrowed from German Liedertafel (literally “song table”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A male choir.
liedertafels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liedertafel
troopial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: troopials
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of troupial.
troopials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of troopial
stoneweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stone + weed.
Senses: glosses: Any plant of the genus Lithospermum, herbs having a fruit composed of four stony nutlets.
lithospermum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithospermums
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant of the genus Lithospermum.
Synonyms: stoneseed
stoneweed
lithospermums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lithospermum
stoneseed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stoneseeds
Etymology: From stone + seed.
Senses: glosses: Any plant of the genus Lithospermum, herbs having a fruit composed of four stony nutlets.
clearout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clearouts
Etymology: Deverbal from clear out.
Senses: examples: text: But tries from Marlie Packer and Amy Cokayne pulled Mitchell's side clear before Khalfaoui saw her dangerous ruck clearout upgraded to a red card by the television match official 'bunker' system.
ref: 2024 April 27, Alastair Telfer, “England beat France to seal Grand Slam hat-trick”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Alternative form of clear-out.
clearouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clearout
roughhew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: roughhews
form: roughhewing
form: roughhewed
form: roughhewed
form: roughhewn
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rough-hew.
roughhewed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of roughhew
roughhewing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of roughhew
roughhews
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of roughhew
meconin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meconic + -in? Compare French méconine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A substance regarded as an anhydride of meconinic acid, found in opium.
lymphangial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See lymphangeitis.
Senses: examples: text: lymphangial module
text: lymphangial structure
text: lymphangial tract
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: lymphatic
Derived terms: endolymphangial
perilymphangial
particularist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈtɪkjʊləɹɪst/
Forms: form: particularists
Etymology: From particular + -ist, after French particulariste.
Senses: examples: text: On this point there was no difference between mercantilists and feudalists, between crowned planners and vested interests, between centralizing bureaucrats and conservative particularists.
ref: 1957 [1944], Karl Polanyi, chapter 6, in The Great Transformation, Beacon Press: Boston, page 70:
glosses: One who holds to particularism.