cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
wa'n't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɒnt/
ipa: /wənt/
Forms: form: wan't
Senses: examples: text: My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter III, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: "You're soft, Jane," said Miranda once; "you allers was soft, and you allers will be. If 't wa'n't for me keeping you stiffened up, I b'lieve you 'd leak out o' the house into the dooryard."
ref: 1903, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of wasn't; compare wadn't.
variolous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin variolosus, from variola (“smallpox”): compare French varioleux.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to smallpox.
Synonyms: variolar
variolic
Derived terms: antivariolous
batrachomyomachies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of batrachomyomachy
batrachomyomachy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbæ.tɹə.koʊ.maɪˈɑ.mə.ki/
Forms: form: batrachomyomachies
Etymology: From Batrachomyomachia (Ancient Greek βάτραχος, frog, μῦς, mouse, and μάχη, battle), a comic epic parodying the Iliad in which a diving frog accidentally drowns a mouse riding on his back, prompting a war between the species.
Senses: examples: text: "And all 'prentice-boys, The bold lads shall fight first, with good quarterstaves, in Bideford Market, till all heads are broken; and the head which is not broken, let the back belong to it pay the penalty of the noble member's cowardice. After which grand tournament, to which that of Tottenham shall be but a flea-bite and a batrachomyomachy——"
ref: 1855, Charles Kingsley, chapter V, in Westward Ho!: Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC:
text: Between these two kinds there rages a natural warfare as worthy of a burlesque poet as any batrachomyomachy that ever was fought out. It is no bad sport to watch through a magnifying glass the reciprocal attack and defence of their little lines of battle and posts of vantage.
ref: 1899, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Under the Microscope, Under the Microscope:
text: Among mammals, stoats and weasels have been mentioned as likely allies, in this batrachomyomachy where the frogs are men, but the alliance, certainly in the case of stoats, would prove dangerous.
ref: 1917, “Nature's Police Force”, in The Living Age, volume 294, Boston: The Living Age Company, page 698:
glosses: A petty quarrel.
wikipedia: Batrachomyomachia
Related terms: batrachomyomachian
batrachomyomachize
underskinker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underskinkers
Etymology: From under- + skinker.
Senses: glosses: An assistant barperson or tavern worker.
underskinkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underskinker
fullage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fullages
Etymology: From full + -age.
Senses: examples: text: the tuckeage and fullage of wolen cloth
ref: 1665, Dud Dudley, Mettallum Martis:
glosses: The fulling or cleansing cloth.
glosses: The fee paid for such a service
fullages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fullage
otterless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From otter + -less.
Senses: examples: text: In the upper canyon wildlife biologists lean over a holding crate, open the latches, and release ten sleek river otters that, they hope, will reclaim Desolation — nearly otterless during the past century...
ref: 2000, Richard F. Fleck, A Colorado River reader:
glosses: Without otters.
medusiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more medusiform
form: most medusiform
Etymology: From medusa + -iform.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Resembling a medusa in shape or structure.
miszealous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more miszealous
form: most miszealous
Etymology: From mis- + zealous.
Senses: glosses: mistakenly or fakely zealous
overcunning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overcunning
form: most overcunning
Etymology: From over- + cunning.
Senses: glosses: Excessively cunning.
Derived terms: overcunningly
oculiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oculiform
form: most oculiform
Etymology: From Latin oculus (“the eye”) + -form.
Senses: examples: an oculiform pebble
glosses: Having the shape of an eye
keckling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of keckle
trickshot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trickshots
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of trick shot.
heeey
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Elongated form of hey.
cyanopolyynes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyanopolyyne
cyanopolyyne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyanopolyynes
Etymology: From cyano + polyyne.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of long-chain acetylenic nitriles, some of which have been observed in interstellar space.
ferrogel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferrogels
Etymology: From ferro- + gel.
Senses: glosses: A hydrogel, containing magnetite particles, that has unique magnetoelastic properties
magnetoroton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnetorotons
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A characteristic excitation of the states associated with the fractional quantum Hall effect.
temporiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: temporisers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of temporizer.
singleworld
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: single-world
Etymology: From single + world.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Relating to the form of the universe in which the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is rejected.
rustre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rustres
Etymology: From French rustre, from German Raute.
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A lozenge with a smaller round hole in the centre, showing the field (rarely used).
kick to the curb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kicks to the curb
form: kicking to the curb
form: kicked to the curb
form: kicked to the curb
form: kick to the kerb
Senses: examples: text: And now the boys are lining up 'cause they hear we got swagger
But we kick 'em to the curb unless they look like Mick Jagger.
ref: 2009, Kesha, Tik Tok:
text: If Cook is to take Apple to crazy new heights, history says he needs to kick Jobs to the curb.
ref: 2014 October 20, “Tim Cook Can't Succeed Running Steve Jobs's Company”, in Newsweek:
glosses: To dismiss or reject in a humiliating manner.
mealtides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mealtide
meal-tide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meal-tides
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mealtide.
meal-tides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meal-tide
firm power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: the guaranteed power provided by a power plant or transmission system
nonfirm power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: power provided by a power plant or system over and above the firm power
luverly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more luverly
form: most luverly
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of lovely.
alumnis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alumni
Epirots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Epirot
water spot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water spots
Senses: glosses: An area of mineral deposits left behind after a wet object dries in the air.
fossil water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fossil waters
Senses: glosses: Water that has remained in an aquifer for a long timespan, usually thousands or millions of years.
water year
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water years
Senses: topics: geography
hydrology
natural-sciences
glosses: The timespan between October 1 and September 30 of the next year, differing from the calendar year because part of the precipitation that falls in late autumn and winter accumulates as snow and does not drain until the following spring or summer.
murmurations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of murmuration
doubly labeled water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Deuterium oxide-18 (D₂¹⁸O or ²H₂¹⁸O) is one kind of doubly labeled water.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Water where both the hydrogen and oxygen atoms have been replaced by less common isotopes.
wikipedia: doubly labeled water
Related terms: deuterium
deuterium oxide
heavy water
oxygen-17
oxygen-18
tritiated water
catchwater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catchwaters
Etymology: From catch + water.
Senses: glosses: A device which captures surface runoff for use as a water supply.
watermaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watermakers
Etymology: From water + maker.
Senses: glosses: A device which generates potable water by performing reverse osmosis on seawater.
oxymuriatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oxy- + muriatic: compare French oxymuriatique.
Senses: examples: text: oxymuriatic acid
text: oxymuriatic gas
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to, or consisting of, oxygen and hydrochloric acid.
Derived terms: hyperoxymuriatic
oxymuriatic acid
catchwaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catchwater
beamful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beamful
form: most beamful
Etymology: From beam + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Let each succeeding page Still boast those charms, and luminate the age; So shall thy beamful fires with light divine, Rise to the sphere, and there triumphant shine.
ref: 1929, Walter Jerrold, Clare Armstrong Bridgman Jerrold, Five Queer Women, page 236:
text: And Monsieur Le Donkey's pleased beam is twice as beamful as it was over the stage business with the sauce.
ref: 1941, George Jean Nathan, The bachelor life, page 120:
text: I can recall the tall, slender man-boy, with the large beamful eyes, soft brown beard and moustache, long swinging stride, careless dress, lounging habits, and incessant oratory.
ref: 2001, Meg Tasker, Struggle and storm: the life and death of Francis Adams, page 57:
glosses: Beamy; radiant; luminous.
beamful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beamfuls
Etymology: From beam + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Phialai of similar size would be divided into convenient " beamfuls " or weighing-lots.
ref: 1944, Hesperia, page 186:
text: Susan committed those confused, tragic eyes of hers to me, fixing on rhy stare, perhaps for some optical beamful of compassion.
ref: 1981, National Lampoon - Volume 2, Issues 30-41, page 184:
text: Behind the olde worlde postcard village, the timbers are rotting away by the beamful and the corpses are piling up.
ref: 2006, Lisa Selvidge, The Trials of Tricia Blake, page 9:
text: He set off to get some words take some mysteries: he cut a field of reindeer open a big beamful of squirrels; from there he got many words— all of them useless.
ref: 2008, Elias Lönnrot, The Kalevala:
text: A rider on a horse approaches: a torch attached to saddle or bridle illuminates a beamful of plummeting needles of rain, as if to reveal them rather than clarify the way forward for the rider.
ref: 2011, Tim Pears, Landed, page 205:
glosses: A quantity in a beam (of wood, of light, etc)
limitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more limitive
form: most limitive
Etymology: From limit + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: a limitive law
glosses: Involving or setting a limit; limiting.
oblationer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oblationers
Etymology: From oblation + -er.
Senses: examples: text: presents himself an oblationer before the Almighty
ref: 1660, H[enry] More, An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness; […], London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for W[illiam] Morden […], →OCLC:
glosses: One who makes an offering as an act of worship or reverence.
oblationers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oblationer
overbookish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overbookish
form: most overbookish
Etymology: From over- + bookish.
Senses: glosses: Excessively bookish.
depeculation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: depeculations
Etymology: From Latin depeculari, past participle depeculatus (“to rob”). See peculate.
Senses: examples: text: depeculation of the public treasure
ref: 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan:
glosses: robbery or embezzlement.
depeculations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of depeculation
omosternal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the omosternum.
paoli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paolo
paolo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paoli
Etymology: Italian
Senses: glosses: An old Italian silver coin.
interganglionic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + ganglionic.
Senses: examples: text: interganglionic cords
text: interganglionic partition
text: interganglionic nerve fibre
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Between, and/or joining, the ganglions.
reenslave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reenslaves
form: reenslaving
form: reenslaved
form: reenslaved
form: reënslave
form: re-enslave
Etymology: From re- + enslave.
Senses: examples: text: They want to crush the revolution and re-enslave the entire population.
ref: 2007 January 20, Leslie Feinberg, “1970s Cold War gay-bashers condemn Cuba”, in Workers World:
glosses: To enslave again.
Derived terms: reenslavement
reenslaved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reenslave
reenslaves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reenslave
reenslaving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reenslave
pitchpenny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pitch penny
form: pitch-penny
Etymology: From pitch + penny.
Senses: glosses: An old game in which players attempt to throw pennies into a hole.
cloisteral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cloisteral
form: most cloisteral
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cloistral.
hard of thinking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hard of thinking
form: most hard of thinking
Etymology: Modelled on hard of hearing.
Senses: glosses: Having difficulty in thinking; stupid.
illiquidities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of illiquidity
fountain water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fountain waters
form: fountainwater
Senses: glosses: The water of a fountain.
fountainwater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fountain water.
dodgeballer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dodgeballers
Etymology: From dodgeball + -er.
Senses: glosses: A player of dodgeball.
dodgeballers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dodgeballer
walk on water
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: walks on water
form: walking on water
form: walked on water
form: walked on water
Etymology: From the miracle of Jesus walking on water, described in the Gospels.
Senses: examples: text: He may be rich and influential, but he can't walk on water.
text: After the day I had today, I feel like I could walk on water.
text: Oh, I've walked on water, run through fire / Can't seem to feel it anymore
ref: 1979, “New Dawn Fades”, in Ian Curtis (lyrics), Unknown Pleasures, performed by Joy Division:
text: Six years ago, McCormack was walking on water as the cop who cracked the Quaker case.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 29:
glosses: To perform godlike or superhuman feats.
raw_tags: in hypothetical constructions
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see walk, water.
mud water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mud waters
form: mudwater
Senses: glosses: The water contained in mud.
mudwater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mudwaters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mud water.
waterfree
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: water-free
Etymology: From water + -free.
Senses: glosses: Free of water.
-furter
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /fərtər/
Etymology: From the final element of frankfurter. Compare -burger.
Senses: examples: krautfurter
chickenfurter
turkeyfurter
shrimpfurter
glosses: German-style food, especially wursts or sausages.
slickwater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From slick + water.
Senses: glosses: Water with chemical additives used in hydraulic fracturing.
water jet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water jets
form: waterjet
Senses: glosses: A jet of water; especially:
One so forceful and focused that it can cut much like a saw, laser cutter, or wire EDM.
glosses: A jet of water; especially:
One forceful enough to serve as a propulsion system for watercraft: synonym of pump-jet.
Related terms: jet boat
jetboat
jet ski
jetski
jet wash
jetwash
waterjet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waterjets
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of water jet.
remarriageable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more remarriageable
form: most remarriageable
Etymology: From re- + marriage + -able.
Senses: glosses: Suitable for remarriage.
Playfair
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Playfairs
Etymology: * (craters): The craters are Named after Scottish mathematician, scientist and C of S minister John Playfair
* (cipher): The cipher is Named after British Lord, baron, politician and scientist Lyon Playfair, who popularized the cipher.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A placename
glosses: A placename
A number of craters in Solar System.
A crater in Mars, Solar System.
synonyms: Playfair Crater
Crater Playfair
glosses: A placename
A number of craters in Solar System.
A crater in Moon, Earth-Moon System, Solar System.
synonyms: Playfair Crater
Crater Playfair
Derived terms: Crater Playfair
Playfair cipher
Playfair crater
Playfair Crater
Playfairian
playfairite
Playfair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Playfairs
Etymology: * (craters): The craters are Named after Scottish mathematician, scientist and C of S minister John Playfair
* (cipher): The cipher is Named after British Lord, baron, politician and scientist Lyon Playfair, who popularized the cipher.
Senses: topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of Playfair cipher.
examples: text: Here's a cipher message. Probably Playfair.
ref: 1932, Dorothy Sayers, Have His Carcase:
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: an encryption using the Playfair cipher
examples: text: But what about Playfair puzzles ? One must reckon to solve at least three of the Playfair clues independently before cracking the code and getting checking to help with solving the fourth .
ref: 1977, Games & Puzzles:
text: see title
ref: 2021 December 22, Azed, “No. 2,740 ‘Christmas Playfair’ - Competition Puzzle”, in The Guardian^(https://uploads.guim.co.uk/2024/12/21/AZ_2740_(22nd_December).pdf):
qualifier: crosswording
glosses: A form of crossword in which some words must be encrypted with a Playfair cipher before being inserted into the grid, and solvers must deduce the codeword and the encrypted clues.
epiphonemata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epiphonema
epiphenomenalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epiphenomenalism
still water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: still waters
Senses: synonyms: flat water
flat
still
antonyms: sparkling water#Noun
sparkling#Noun
fizzy water#Noun
carbonated water#Noun
glosses: Water with no carbonation, served or sold as drinking water.
glosses: A serving of still water.
topics: geography
hydrology
natural-sciences
synonyms: standing water
glosses: Surface water with no current, especially when stagnant.
Related terms: still wine
manuaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manuary
spadoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spado
remorsefulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From remorseful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being remorseful.
throweth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: throw + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of throw
butt chin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butt chins
form: butt-chin
Etymology: From its resemblance to the buttocks.
Senses: examples: text: Still looking lost and confused, Clive scratched his butt-chin, looked me in the eye with both pupils constricted, and full of uncertainty, he stammered as he fired yet another question.
ref: 2011, C. Lazarus, Father on the Loose!:
text: Katie immediately noticed a deep cleft in his chin. “Butt chin” was what the kids at school called it.
ref: 2010, Scott Pratt, Injustice for All:
text: Alex barked a laugh, surprising both of them. "Butt chin? What does that mean?"
"It's got a crack in it, like a butt. Daddy had the butt chin, too."
ref: 2010, Beth Williamson, Unbridled:
text: Aria sneaked a peek at Sean. Her eyes kept gravitating toward the little cleft in his chin. Ali used to call them "butt chins," but it was actually pretty cute.
ref: 2008, Sara Shepard, Flawless, page 206:
text: His most distinctive feature was his cleft chin. Some people jokingly referred to it as a “butt chin.” Sheppard's dimpled chin wasn't at all unsightly.
ref: 2007, Nancy Taylor Rosenberg, Sullivan's Evidence, page 334:
text: He had a cleft chin, or as Matt whispered to me, a butt chin.
ref: 2006, Carol Weston, Melanie in Manhattan, page 261:
text: He bent down slowly and got so close to my face, I could see the lines in his glossy, unchapped lips and the stubbled hairs in the crack of his butt-chin.
page 123
And I told him everything; his perfect teeth glistened, a dimple flattered his flawless butt-chin.
ref: 2004, Justin Hocking, Jeffrey Knutson, Jared Jacang Maher, Life and Limb: Skateboarders Write from the Deep End page 107
text: "I guess he does have a butt chin."
ref: 2004, Hailey Abbot, Summer Boys, page 79:
text: He had a chin on him, a butt-chin, with a dimple in it.
ref: 1995, John Sandford, Night Prey:
glosses: A cleft chin.
butt chins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butt chin
cleft chin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cleft chins
Etymology: From cleft + chin. Compare Middle English clove chynne (“cleft chin”, literally “cloven chin”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: bum chin
butt chin
chin cleft
chin dimple
superhero chin
mental cleft
glosses: The presence of a genetic trait in which a fissure in the lower jaw causes a visible dimple in the center of the chin.
hemiplegics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemiplegic
pigs in the parlour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Before 1968, what little coverage there was of Irish affairs was of the traditional 'pigs in the parlour' kind.
ref: 1986, Yonah Alexander, Alan O'Day, Ireland's terrorist dilemma, page 111:
glosses: An allegory for a backward rural society.
universology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From universe + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Andrews . . . also finds three primitive laws or fundamental principles of universology, which he calls Unism, Duism, and Trinism.
ref: 1872, “Contemporary Literature: Theology and Philosophy,”, in Westminster Review, volume 98, page 101:
glosses: The science of the universe.
Related terms: universological
universologist
protosilicate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protosilicates
Etymology: From proto- + silicate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A silicate formed with the lowest proportion of silicic acid, or having only one atom of silicon in the molecule.
protosilicates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protosilicate
gutturalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gutturalisms
Etymology: From guttural + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: to reassert the languishing gutturalism of h and (we may add) of r.
ref: 1871, John Earle, The Philology of the English Tongue:
glosses: The quality of being guttural.
gutturalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gutturalism
incorruptly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more incorruptly
form: most incorruptly
Etymology: From incorrupt + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: To come within the narrowneſs of Houſhold-Government, obſervation will ſhew us many deep Counſellors of State and Judges do demean themſelves incorruptly in the ſettl'd courſe of Affairs, and many worthy Preachers upright in their Lives […].
ref: 1642, John Milton, The Reason of Church-Government Urg’d against Prelaty; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 203:
synonyms: uncorruptly
glosses: Not corruptly; without corruption.
wellhole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wellholes
Etymology: From well + hole.
Senses: glosses: The open space in a floor, to accommodate a staircase.
examples: text: well-holes of the stairs and chimney
ref: 1846, W. M. Buchanan, The Dictionary of Science and Technical Terms Used in Philosophy, Literature...:
glosses: The open space left beyond the ends of the steps of a staircase.
glosses: A cavity which receives a counterbalancing weight in certain mechanical contrivances, and is adapted also for other purposes.
wellholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wellhole
defrayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: defrayers
Etymology: From defray + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who defrays; one who pays off expenses.
defrayers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of defrayer
flisk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɪsk/
rhymes: -ɪsk
Forms: form: flisks
Senses: glosses: A caper; a spring; a whim.
glosses: A comb with large teeth.
flisk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɪsk/
rhymes: -ɪsk
Forms: form: flisks
form: flisking
form: flisked
form: flisked
Senses: examples: text: flit away the he flisking flies.
ref: 1579, Stephen Gosson, The Schoole of Abuse:
text: She flisked past me down the dale, / And, ah ! her cheek was painted pale " And wild , as is the wintry gale " That whistles thro ' the glade . " Three times I wander'd round the height , " My little flock to find , " I saw her wrath[…]
ref: 1791, John Learmont, Poems, Pastoral, Satirical, Tragic, and Comic, page 40:
text: ... elves and fairies flisk a jig in, To waning moon:
ref: 1878, William Nicholson, The poetical works of William Nicholson, with a memoir by M. McL. Harper, page 125:
glosses: To frisk; to skip; to caper; to move quickly or restlessly.
examples: text: 'The wind got up east, and sent us a flisking rain.' Marianne Spry.—1888. S. B. G. To flisk is to sprinkle with fine spray; […]
ref: 1889, Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, page 93:
text: […] from everyone she had ever known, it seemed, except Jess who was out in his caped smock and leggings in a flisking rain, swearing[…]
ref: 1990, Margery Forester, Rapid Falcons, →ISBN, page 73:
text: Streams and rivers in York could be wild and whimsical, drowning […] Cath stood on shore, her cloak heavy and damp. Flisked with water.
ref: 1997, Marly Youmans, Catherwood, Harper Perennial, →ISBN, page 84:
glosses: To flick or sprinkle (with or as if with water).
Derived terms: flisky
flisks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flisk
lateritious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lateritious
form: most lateritious
form: latericious
Etymology: From Latin latericius, from later (“brick”).
Senses: examples: text: lateritious sediment in urine
text: lateritious deposit
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of the reddish color of bricks.
unbosomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unbosomers
Etymology: From unbosom + -er.
Senses: examples: text: unbosomer of secrets
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
glosses: One who unbosoms, or discloses.
unbosomers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unbosomer
rorifluent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rorifluent
form: most rorifluent
Etymology: From Latin ros, roris (“dew”) + fluens, present participle of fluere (“to flow”).
Senses: glosses: flowing with dew
outbeg
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outbegs
form: outbegging
form: outbegged
form: outbegged
Etymology: From out- + beg.
Senses: glosses: To surpass in begging.
outbegged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outbeg
outbegging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outbeg
outbegs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outbeg
oversearch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: oversearches
form: oversearching
form: oversearched
form: oversearched
Etymology: From over- + search.
Senses: examples: text: To oversearch the fearful ocean
ref: 1861, Robert Greene, George Peele, Alexander Dyce, The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Robert Greene & George Peele, page 89:
glosses: To search all over.
examples: text: But people undersearch far more than they oversearch: We tend to explore situations less thoroughly than our own goals recommend!
ref: 1995, David Perkins, Outsmarting IQ: The Emerging Science of Learnable Intelligence:
text: Oversearching: If you look long enough and hard enough for any particular pattern in a data set, the more you look, the more likely you are to find it—whether it's meaningful or not.
ref: 2003, Dorian Pyle, Business Modeling and Data Mining, page 363:
glosses: To search excessively.
oversearched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oversearch
oversearches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of oversearch
oversearching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oversearch
herehence
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From here + hence.
Senses: glosses: henceforth.
Related terms: —
henceafter
henceforth
henceforward
henceforwards
hencefrom
hereabout
hereabouts
hereabove
hereafter
hereafters
hereagainst
hereamong
hereanent
hereat
hereaway
herebefore
hereby
herefor
herefore
hereforth
hereforward
hereforwards
herefrom
hereinabove
hereinafter
hereinbefore
hereinbelow
hereinelsewhere
hereinsoever
hereinto
hereinunder
heremid
hereof
hereon
hereout
hereover
herethrough
herethroughout
hereto
heretofore
hereunto
hereupon
herewith
herewithal
herewithin
herewithout
hitherto
hitherunto
hitherward
hitherwards
howbeit
however
howso
howsoever
howsomedever
howsomever
thataway
thatwise
thenceafter
thenceforth
thenceforward
thenceforwards
thencefrom
thenceout
thereabout
thereabouts
thereabove
thereacross
thereafter
thereafters
thereagain
thereagainst
therealong
thereamong
thereamongst
thereanent
therearound
thereat
thereaway
therebefore
therebeside
therebetween
therebeyond
thereby
therever
therefor
therefore
thereforth
therefrom
therehence
thereinabove
thereinafter
thereinbefore
thereinbelow
thereinto
thereinunder
theremid
thereof
thereon
thereout
thereover
theresoever
therethrough
therethroughout
thereto
theretofore
thereunto
thereup
thereupon
therewith
therewithal
therewithin
therewithout
thisaway
thiswise
thitherinsoever
thitherto
thitherward
thitherwards
whatever
whatso
whatsoever
whatsomedever
whatsomever
whatwise
whenabout
whenabouts
whenas
whenever
whenso
whensoever
whensomever
whenceafter
whencever
whenceforth
whenceforward
whencefrom
whenceward
whencewards
whereabout
whereabouts
whereabove
whereafter
whereafters
whereagainst
wherealong
whereamong
whereamongst
whereanent
wherearound
whereas
whereat
whereaway
wherebefore
wherebeside
wherebetween
wherebeyond
whereby
wherever
wherefor
wherefore
whereforth
wherefrom
wherehence
whereinabove
whereinafter
whereinbefore
whereinbelow
whereinsoever
whereinto
whereinunder
wheremid
whereof
whereon
whereout
whereover
whereso
wheresoever
wheresomever
wherethrough
wherethroughout
whereto
wheretofore
whereunto
whereup
whereupon
wherewith
wherewithal
wherewithin
wherewithout
whitherever
whitherinsoever
whitherso
whitherto
whithertofore
whitherward
whitherwards
whyever
whyfor
whyso
whysoever
1. Scottish2. from Middle English mid3. old dialectal form
biznaga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biznagas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bisnaga (“plant of celery family”).
tallowish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tallowish
form: most tallowish
Etymology: From tallow + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Reminiscent of tallow.
biznagas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biznaga
toxiphobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toxiphobias
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of toxicophobia.
toxiphobias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toxiphobia
valure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: valures
Etymology: From Middle English valure, from Old French valeur, valur, from Latin valor, reshaped as if suffixed with -ure. Doublet of valour.
Senses: examples: text: [H]auing before their compaſſionate ſenſe ſo paſſionate a ſpectacle, of a young man, of great beautie, beautified with great honour, honored by great valure, made of ineſtimable valure, by the noble vſing of it, to lye there languiſhing, vnder the arreſt of death, […]
ref: a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “[The Thirde Booke] The Publike Griefe Amplified. […]”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC, folio 349, recto:
english: The New Arcadia
translation: The New Arcadia
text: Thus he [Toyotomi Hideyoshi], which in his youth had vſed to cut wood and carry it into the Market to ſell for his daily ſuſtenance, for his valure promoted in militarie honours, at laſt became the greateſt Monarch that Iapon had ſeene in eight hundred yeares, […]
ref: 1613, Samuel Purchas, “[Asia.] Of the Islands of Iapon, and Their Religions.”, in Purchas His Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in All Ages and Places Discouered, from the Creation vnto this Present. […], London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, book V (Of the East-Indies: And of the Seas and Ilands about Asia, with Their Religions), page 442:
glosses: Value.
valures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of valure
kiddier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of kiddy: more kiddy
kiddier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kiddiers
Etymology: Compare Old Swedish kyta (“to truck”).
Senses: examples: text: Every person[…]not[…]being in Service wth any Kyddyer or Carryor of any Corne Grayne or Meale.
ref: 1562-1563, Acts of Queen Elizabeth:
glosses: A huckster; a cadger.
glosses: A pork butcher.
kiddiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kiddier
autophagi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- (“by oneself”) + Latin -phagus (“eater”, plural -phagī). The attested Ancient Greek αὐτοφάγος (autophágos) would have meant "self-devouring, autophagous".
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Birds that are able to run about and obtain their own food as soon as they are hatched.
Coordinate terms: insessores
flowerlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From flowerless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: And, to this bare and innutritious place have I, after years of flowerlessness, removed my great old bush of Chimonanthus fragrans from the Terrace Wall.
ref: 1909, Reginald Farrer, In a Yorkshire Garden:
glosses: The absence of flowers.
withdrawer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: withdrawers
Etymology: From withdraw + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who withdraws.
withdrawers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of withdrawer
unmeetness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unmeet + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unmeet.
unmeetly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈmiːtli/
Forms: form: more unmeetly
form: most unmeetly
Etymology: From unmeet + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: they met / With a faire Mayden clad in mourning weed, / Upon a mangy jade unmeetely set […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Yet there are noble passages in his later poems: and even the latest have their own peculiar charm of serenity and kindliness,—a tranquil sunset, as it were, succeeding not unmeetly to the fiery splendours of his noontide course.
ref: 1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 3, page 28:
glosses: In an unmeet way; unbecomingly.
foinery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From foin + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: By chaunce, in Livias modest company; / When, after the god-saving ceremony, / For want of talke-stuffe, fals to foinery; / Out goes his rapier, and to Livia / He shewes the ward by puncta reversa
ref: 1599, W. Kinsayder or Theriomastix [pseudonyms; John Marston], The Scourge of Villanie. […], London: […] I[ames] R[oberts], →OCLC; republished as G[eorge] B[agshawe] Harrison, editor, The Scourge of Villanie (The Bodley Head Quartos; 13), London: John Lane, The Bodley Head […]; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Company, 1925, →OCLC:
glosses: Thrusting with the foil; fencing with the point of the sword, as distinguished from broadsword play.
rampier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rampiers
Senses: glosses: A rampart.
rampiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rampier
glaucomatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more glaucomatous
form: most glaucomatous
Senses: glosses: Affected by glaucoma.
Derived terms: antiglaucomatous
nonglaucomatous
otopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of otopathy
otopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: otopathies
Etymology: From ot- + -pathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any disease of the ear
Related terms: otopathogen
dick snot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: dick + snot
Senses: examples: text: Al buries his face under those balls and starts tongue lapping at Henry's guiche while Henry's cock slides over Al's face, leaving a trail of dick snot along his furry cheek.
ref: 2004, Greg Wharton, M. Christian, Love Under Foot: An Erotic Celebration of Feet:
text: The drip was getting worse, and now it had picked up its friend Itch. And now I was getting increasingly mad every time I had to squeeze dick snot out of myself each time I took a piss.
ref: 2008, Justin Skrakowski, Strongman, page 6:
text: Okay, so what a bukkake party consists of is: one guy (or a gal, if she's straight...and a very, very good sport), either sitting or lying down while a number (any number really...the more the merrier!) of other guys shoot their dick snot all over his (or her) face and chest. That's it. That's how a bukkake party works. So simple, not even Martha Stewart could fuck it up!
ref: 2010, Rick R. Reed, Tales from the Sexual Underground, page 103:
glosses: semen
Synonyms: semen
alnagers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alnager
hevea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heveas
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: Tire executives say that global demand for tires, which use as much as 70 percent of the world’s rubber supply, will expand as less developed nations industrialize, requiring roughly 21 million additional acres of hevea, the source of natural rubber, by 2024.
ref: 2015 August 18, Diane Cardwell, “Making Tires From a Desert Shrub Found in the U.S.”, in New York Times:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Hevea of flowering plants in the spurge family, including the economically important rubber tree Hevea brasiliensis.
internasal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪzəl
Etymology: From inter- + nasal.
Senses: examples: the internasal cartilage
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Between the nasal cavities.
internasal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪzəl
Forms: form: internasals
Etymology: From inter- + nasal.
Senses: glosses: Any of the scales on top of a snake's head between the scales that surround the nostrils.
rhapsoder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhapsoders
Senses: glosses: A rhapsodist.
rhapsoders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhapsoder
heveas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hevea
Mahovos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Russian?
Senses: examples: text: For this purpose, on the axes of the friction wheels which sustain the Mahovos, there is a second pair of wheels somewhat smaller, and nearer the middle, which ordinarily run out of contact with anything.
ref: 1869, Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard, Machinery and Processes of the Industrial Arts, page 160:
text: Among other important novelties in mechanical science exhibited at the Paris Exposition of 1867, and brought to our notice by the admirable report of Dr. Barnard, of Columbia College, is one called the "mahovos," the invention of a Russian engineer, which, it is though, contains the germ of an important improvement.
ref: 1870, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume 40, page 933:
text: The Mahovo is the name given by the inventor, Captain C. Von Schubersky, of Russia, to an adaptation of the fly-wheel to accumulate a reserve of force to be used at intervals when a greater power is needed.
ref: 1884, Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary, volume 1:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A device for saving power in stopping and starting a railroad car, by means of a heavy flywheel.
kiss-curl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kiss-curls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kiss curl.
goblinize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goblinizes
form: goblinizing
form: goblinized
form: goblinized
Etymology: From goblin + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Once goblinized, Herodias joins them, doomed still to bear about the [John the] Baptist's head; […]
ref: 1870, James Russell Lowell, “Witchcraft”, in Among My Books, Boston, Mass.: Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, page 118:
glosses: To transform (someone) into a goblin.
goblinized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of goblinize
goblinizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of goblinize
goblinizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of goblinize
overrank
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overrank
form: most overrank
Etymology: From over- + rank.
Senses: glosses: Too rank or luxuriant.
overrank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overranks
form: overranking
form: overranked
form: overranked
Etymology: From over- + rank.
Senses: glosses: To rank excessively high
openworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of openwork
catchdrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catchdrains
Etymology: From catch + drain.
Senses: synonyms: catchwater drain
glosses: A ditch or drain along the side of a hill or canal, to catch the surface water as it runs off.
catchdrains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catchdrain
cock snot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cock-snot
Senses: examples: text: The guard bounced his cock up, and the cock-snot dolloped onto the floor. Without instruction, Mark lowered his head beneath the towering statue and licked the creamy blob of lubrication up.
ref: 2006, John Patrick, Secret Passions:
glosses: semen
Synonyms: semen
cunt bucket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cunt buckets
Senses: examples: text: What's with this cunt bucket? (That's what my muver call women she don't like, cunt buckets. I kinda get it and I kinda don't get it, but I like the way it sounds so I say it too.)
ref: 1996, The New Yorker, Volume 72, Issues 6-13
text: Fat cunt bucket slut! Nigger pig bitch. He done quit me. He done left me 'cause of you .
ref: 1999, Janice Liddell, Yakini Belinda Kemp, Arms Akimbo, page 141
glosses: Alternative form of cuntbucket.
cunt buckets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cunt bucket
a piacere
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian a piacere.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: At pleasure.
Synonyms: ad libitum
ad lib
evernic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Evernia + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The silver-salt, AgO, C₁₈H₉O₇, is obtained as a white precipitate, on addition of nitrate of protoxide of silver to everninate of ammonia. If evernic acid be boiled with strong alcohol, containng a few pieces of caustic potassa, until the whole is perfectly dissolved, and carbonic acid be passed into the liquid until the potassa is neutralized, and the liquid be then concentrated, long, brown, prismatic crystals are deposited, after some time (the mother-liquor containing orcin); these may be obtained pure by washing with water, and recrystallization from alcohol.
ref: 1850, Justus Freiherr von Liebig, Annual Report of the Progress of Chemistry, page 71:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the lichen genus Evernia, the oakmoss lichens or ring lichens.
Derived terms: evernic acid
uronology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Perhaps from uro- + -n- + -ology or from Greek οὖρον (oûron) + -ology.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The branch of medicine that deals with urine.