cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
calycine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more calycine
form: most calycine
form: calycinal
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Resembling or relating to a calyx.
maos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mao
petiolated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From petiole + -ated.
Senses: examples: text: a petiolated leaf
text: the petiolated abdomen of certain Hymenoptera
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: petiolate
glosses: Having a petiole
Derived terms: subpetiolated
bungaloft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bungalofts
Etymology: Blend of bungalow + loft.
Senses: glosses: A bungalow with a loft.
bungalofts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bungaloft
kick bollocks scramble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kick bollocks scrambles
Senses: examples: text: As the project came to an end, it was all a bit of a kick bollocks scramble.
text: So it's a kick bollocks scramble to try and get funding in place, to get all the contracts, to get everything agreed.
ref: 2013, David Hesmondhalgh, Sarah Baker, Creative Labour: Media Work in Three Cultural Industries, page 99:
glosses: A free for all or panic situation.
boldly go where no man has gone before
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: boldly goes where no man has gone before
form: boldly going where no man has gone before
form: boldly went where no man has gone before
form: boldly gone where no man has gone before
Etymology: A line from the opening sequence of the Star Trek TV series.
Senses: examples: text: While Strauss would not exactly be boldly going where no man has gone before if he led England to victories this year in away Test series against Pakistan, Sri Lanka and India, he set foot on an airbus to Dubai knowing that 2012 represents the last great examination of his side.
ref: 2012 January 2, Paul Newman, “Tough Trek ahead but Strauss' men know winning in Asia is the final frontier”, in the Mail online:
text: E-Racer Based loosely upon one of the original Rutan designs, the airplane goes where no man has gone before. In the first place, the composite canard machine is the first known example of the Rutan Long-EZ clones to have
ref: 1998 April, Budd Davisson, “Skyburners”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 165, page 68:
text: These were the voyages of Scott, Amundsen, Shackleton and Mawson, Nordenskjold, Borchgrevink, de Gerlache and von Drygalski, Filchner, Shirase, Bruce and Bull, national heroes most of them, who boldly went where no man had gone before.
ref: 1990, John Stewart, Antarctica: an encyclopedia: Volume 1:
glosses: To break new ground.
Spock ears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Pointy ears, resembling those of Spock, a Star Trek character.
bustaurant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bustaurants
Etymology: Blend of bus + restaurant.
Senses: examples: text: But when Mr. Schick and his business partner, Blake Tally, decided to open Le Truc, a San Francisco "bustaurant," with a gourmet kitchen and dedicated seating area inside a converted school bus, the two quickly learned that the kitchens in food trucks are very different from their brick-and-mortar equivalents.
ref: 2011 January 14, Todd Lappin, “The Vehicle of Street Food Is Getting an Overhaul”, in The New York Times:
glosses: An eat-in restaurant situated inside a converted bus.
bustaurants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bustaurant
melanure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melanures
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μελάνουρος (melánouros, “saddled sea bream”) from μελανός (melanós) (genitive of μέλας (mélas, “black”)) + οὐρά (ourá, “tail”).
Senses: glosses: A small fish of the Mediterranean, saddled seabream (Oblada melanura)
bordman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bordmen
Etymology: bordar (or perhaps bord (“a board”)) + -man
Senses: glosses: A bordar
glosses: a tenant in bordage.
bordmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bordman
gadman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gadmen
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of goadman.
gadmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gadman
geoheliocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to geoheliocentrism.
geoheliocentrism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geo-heliocentrism
form: geoheliocentricism
Etymology: From geo- + helio- + -centrism.
Senses: glosses: An early model of the solar system that put Earth at the centre, and had Sun and Moon orbiting the Earth with other planets revolving about the Sun.
Hyponyms: Tychonian system
Tychonic system
Related terms: geoheliocentric
heliocentrism
somedeal
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Forms: form: somdel
form: somedele
form: sumdeal
form: sumdel
form: sumdele
Etymology: From Middle English somdel, sumdel (“somewhat, to an extent, in some measure; part, portion, a bit, small amount; in ~ this instance, this case”), equivalent to some + deal.
Senses: glosses: Some part; a portion, something; some.
somedeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: somdel
form: somedele
form: sumdeal
form: sumdel
form: sumdele
Etymology: From Middle English somdel, sumdel (“somewhat, to an extent, in some measure; part, portion, a bit, small amount; in ~ this instance, this case”), equivalent to some + deal.
Senses: examples: text: In Ethiopia all the rivers and all the waters be trouble, and they be somedeal salt for the great heat that is there.
ref: 1964, John Mandeville (original), Travels of John Mandeville (edited version)
text: Curfew Street, and though we know he was somedeal hurt in that matter, we cannot see why he should not do homage in leal and duteous sort.
ref: 1828, The Fair Maid of Perth, Large Print edition, Echo Library, published 2006, →ISBN, page 270:
text: A great, sweet lady like you wouldn't think it, of course, but it's a godsend at times for a lone woman when she's ugly enough to turn cream sour, and somedeal crooked o' the body into the bargain.
ref: 1917, George W. Gough, “Chapter V, the Ancient High House”, in Julian Hawthorne, editor, The Yeoman Adventurer, Reprint edition, Echo Library, published 2005, →ISBN, page 27:
glosses: In some measure or degree; somewhat, partly, partially
caules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caulis
sumdel
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: somdel
form: sumdeal
form: sumdele
Etymology: From Middle English sumdel.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of somedeal.
halones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternating transparent and opaque white rings which are seen outside the blastoderm, on the surface of the developing egg of the hen and other birds.
Lambert pine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lambert pines
Etymology: So called from Lambert, an English botanist.
Senses: glosses: sugar pine, found on the west coast of North America from Baja California to Oregon (Pinus lambertiana).
Lambert pines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lambert pine
respection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈspɛkʃən/
Etymology: Compare Latin respectio.
Senses: examples: 1527 (original date - this quote is from a later version), William Tyndale, The parable of the wicked mammon
without difference or respection of persons
glosses: respect; regard
fristing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪstɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English fristing, frestynge, equivalent to frist + -ing.
Senses: glosses: A delay; suspension; postponement.
fristing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪstɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English fristing, frestynge, equivalent to frist + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of frist
disard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disards
Senses: examples: text: bid a disard or a mad man go take hellebor
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of dizzard.
disards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disard
preedy
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more preedy
form: most preedy
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of pretty.
refluctuation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refluctuations
Etymology: From re- + fluctuation.
Senses: examples: text: Now the Reason, or rather the Cause from whence this Imbecility or Weakness of the Head did proceed is, for as much as there is a Penury or lake of Spirits by their Refluctuation to their proper Fountain and Center, and that occasion'd by Sleep, they are not so quickly and readily distributed and diffused again through the Organs of the Senses.
ref: 1681, William Salmon, Iatrica: seu, Praxis Medendi. The practice of curing, page 98:
text: And it is more probable, that the Impressions made upon our Organs produce an Undulation and Refluctuation of the Spirits, or of Newton's materia subtilis in the Nervous Fibrils, which reaching the Sensorium, gives us the Ideas of objects; than that these Ideas should be excited by these Vibrations themselves."
ref: 1752, William Porterfield, “An Essay concerning the Motions of our Eyes”, in Medical Essays and Observations, volume 3, page 165:
text: It is striking that the "sensorial motions" do not hinge on vibration or the flow of the spirit like the inflowing of animal spirits through the nerves to the muscles ("The sensorial motions...are not here supposed to be flutuations or refluctuation of the spirit of animation; nor are they supposed to be vibrations or revibrations") , but on the motions “peculiar to life."
ref: 2016, Hisao Ishizuka, Fiber, Medicine, and Culture in the British Enlightenment, page 145:
glosses: A flowing back; refluence; ebbing.
examples: text: […] production during years of stress, and its comparative refluctuation when social conditions are easy and prosperous.
ref: 1946, Studio: An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art, page 54:
text: But he is not even sure that this is the real spring of his hesitancy, it is rather the refluctuation of old emotions; and he would prefer to escape.
ref: 1956, Advocate - Volumes 140-142, page 20:
glosses: A return or resurgence.
Related terms: refluctuate
enforcive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more enforcive
form: most enforcive
Etymology: From enforce + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: But faith, doſt thou not ſomevvhat excuſe my ſometimes incontinency vvith her enforciue beauties.
ref: 1605, Iohn Marston [i.e., John Marston], The Dutch Courtezan. […], London: […] T[homas] P[urfoot] for Iohn Hodgets, […], →OCLC, Act I, scene ii:
glosses: Serving to enforce or constrain; compulsive.
Derived terms: enforcively
phanerocrystalline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phanero- + crystalline.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Visibly crystalline.
raw_tags: of rocks
Related terms: cryptocrystalline
phanerite
phaneritic
brookweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brookweeds
Etymology: From brook + weed.
Senses: glosses: A small white-flowered herb (Samolus valerandi) usually found in wet places; the water pimpernel.
brookweeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brookweed
ecclesiarch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecclesiarchs
Etymology: Latin ecclesiarcha, from Ancient Greek.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: An official of the Eastern Church, equivalent to a sacristan in the Western Church.
ecclesiarchs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecclesiarch
marketstead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marketsteads
Etymology: From market + stead.
Senses: examples: text: Putting their Vaward on, and their best Archers plac’d
The Market-sted about, and them so fitly laid.
ref: 1622, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 1 p. 44:
glosses: A marketplace.
marketsteads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marketstead
sleepwaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sleepwakers
Etymology: From sleep + waker.
Senses: examples: text: I once asked a sleepwaker whether she could perceive any analogy between animal and mineral magnetism, when she replied, ' There is an analogy — but the latter is of a coarser nature.'
ref: 1842 March, Chauncy Hare Townshend, “Facts in Mesmerism, or Animal Magnetism”, in The New Jerusalem Magazine, volume 15, number 175, page 269:
text: Another sleepwaker informed her magnetiser that if he would breathe upon his hand, and then lay it on her forehead, his power would be increased.
ref: 1845 March 29, Charles Radclyffe Hall, “On the Rise, Progress, and Mysteries of Mesmerism”, in The Lancet, volume 1, page 234:
text: A lady present when Mademoiselle M——had been mesmerized by me, went up to the sleepwaker and spoke to her for some time.
ref: 1877, Clairvoyancy, Mind-reading, Psychomancy, and Soul-charming, page 39:
glosses: One in a state of magnetic or mesmeric sleep; someone in a hypnotic trance.
examples: text: As I have before said, he had been, in shildhood, a natural sleepwaker; and I now add , on the testimony of his father, that he would sometimes rise in the night, take out his flute, ( an instru- ment which he was studying professionally,) place music before him, and play from notes, continuing to turn over the leaves of the music-book correctly, although his eyes were closely shut.
ref: 1840, Chauncy Hare Townshend, Facts in Mesmerism, page 236:
text: He begins to speak, arises from his bed, walks about, and now becomes a sleepwaker.
ref: 1860, Karl Freiherr von Reichenbach, Somnambulism and Cramp, page 238:
text: In addition, about 4 million Americans are occasional or habitual sleepwakers.
ref: 1965, Science Digest, volume 58, page 37:
glosses: A sleepwalker; one who walks in their sleep.
Related terms: sleepwalker
sleepwakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sleepwaker
tumefaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tumefactions
Etymology: From Latin tumefaciō.
Compare French tuméfaction.
Senses: examples: text: Tumefaction, (lat[in]) a cauſing to ſwell.
ref: [1658, Edward Phillips, compiler, “Tumefaction”, in The New World of English Words: Or, A General Dictionary: […], London: […] E. Tyler, for Nath[aniel] Brook […], →OCLC, column 1:
text: 1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay concerning the Nature of Aliments, London: J. Tonson, Chapter 6, Prop. 2, p. 152,
The common Signs and Effects of weak Fibres are Paleness, Smoothness, Coldness of the Skin, Colour of the Blood not Florid (for what maketh that is a strong action of the Solids) a weak Pulse, Tumefactions in the whole Body or Parts, Stagnation of Humours […]
text: The livid tumefaction spread over the leg, with blisters here and there, whence there oozed a black liquid. Matters were taking a serious turn.
ref: 1886, Gustave Flaubert, chapter 11, in Eleanor Marx-Aveling, transl., Madame Bovary, New York: Knopf, published 1919, page 226:
text: Uttering these words, she squeezed my hand, which was now entwined with hers a scant millimeter from the straining tumefaction in my lap […].
ref: 1979, William Styron, chapter 7, in Sophie’s Choice, New York: Bantam, published 1983, page 209:
glosses: The process or result of tumefying, swelling, or rising into a tumour.
Related terms: tumescence
tumid
tumour
tumefactions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tumefaction
loxodromy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loxodromies
Etymology: Compare French loxodromie.
Senses: glosses: The science of loxodromics.
concavoconcave
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: concavo-concave
Etymology: From concave + -o- + concave.
Senses: examples: text: concavoconcave form
text: concavoconcave lens
text: concavoconcave shape
glosses: Concave or hollow on both sides.
Related terms: concavo-convex
convexoconcave
convexoconvex
disinclose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disincloses
form: disinclosing
form: disinclosed
form: disinclosed
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of disenclose.
disinclosed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disinclose
disincloses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disinclose
disinclosing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disinclose
glibbery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more glibbery
form: most glibbery
Etymology: From Low German glibberig, glibberich (“slippery”). or Dutch glibberig (“slippery”).
Senses: examples: text: His love is glibbery; there is no hold on't.
ref: c. 1599, John Marston, Antonio and Mellida:
glosses: Slippery; changeable.
examples: text: Thy lubrical and glibbery muse.
ref: 1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act I, scene v:
glosses: Moving easily; nimble; voluble.
enamelar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: enamellar
Senses: glosses: Consisting of enamel; resembling enamel; smooth; glossy.
cashmerette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cashmerettes
Etymology: From cashmere + -ette.
Senses: glosses: A kind of dress-goods, made with a soft and glossy surface like cashmere.
cashmerettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cashmerette
parablastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From parablast + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: parablastic mesoblast
text: parablastic growth
text: the parablastic cells
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the parablast.
preception
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pɹəˈsɛpʃən/
/pɹɪˈsɛpʃən/
Forms: form: preceptions
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin praeceptiō.
Senses: examples: text: Their Leo calls these words a Preception
ref: 1620, Joseph Hall, The Honour of the Married Clergy:
glosses: A preconception or presupposition.
preceptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preception
sea hog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea hogs
form: seahog
form: sea-hog
Etymology: From sea + hog.
Senses: examples: text: "[O]ne would have judged from its motley hues, exhibiting the consistence and appearance of variegated fancy soap, that it was the flesh of the porpoise or sea-hog, and had been an inhabitant of the ocean rather than of the stye."
ref: 1890, Willis J. Abbot, chapter 24, in The Naval History of the United States, volume 1:
text: The story of the transformation of the mariners is supposed by Bochart to have been founded on the adventure of certain merchants from the coast of Etruria, whose vessel had the figure of a dolphin at the prow, or rather of the fish called ‘tursio,’ probably the porpoise, or sea-hog.
ref: 1899, Henry Thomas Riley (translator), Ovid (author), The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Book 3, Fable 8 (translator's explanation)
glosses: The porpoise.
sea hogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea hog
illusionable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more illusionable
form: most illusionable
Etymology: From illusion + -able.
Senses: glosses: Liable to illusion; easily duped or convinced
imbound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: imbounds
form: imbounding
form: imbounded
form: imbounded
Etymology: From im- + bound.
Senses: examples: text: Be guilty of the stealing that sweet breath
Which was imbounded in this beauteous clay
ref: c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
synonyms: embound
glosses: To enclose in limits; to shut in.
imbounded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of imbound
imbounding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of imbound
imbounds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of imbound
water mole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water moles
form: watermole
Etymology: From water + mole.
Senses: glosses: A shrew mole.
synonyms: duck mole
glosses: platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus).
glosses: A desman (Desmana moschata or Galemys pyrenaicus).
water moles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water mole
fytte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fyttes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of fit (“section of a poem or ballad”).
fyttes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fytte
bartery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: there was onely barterie or change of wares, and commodities amongst most nations
ref: 1605, M. N. [pseudonym; William Camden], Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine, […], London: […] G[eorge] E[ld] for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:
glosses: barter
extruction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extructions
Etymology: Latin exstructio.
Senses: examples: text: [O]f Famous Temples of the Romans, their Palaces, Baths, Theatres, and Buildings of all kindes, vve meet unqueſtionably vvith the Ruines in every part of this Kingdome; but not ſo much as vvith the leaſt pieces of broken Craggs, of the extruction of the Danes in any place thereof, vvhich can juſtly be ſaid Theirs.
ref: 1665, John Webb, A Vindication of Stone-Heng Restored: […], London: […] R[alph] Davenport for Tho[mas] Bassett, […], →OCLC, page 232:
glosses: A building up; a construction.
fouty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fouty
form: most fouty
Etymology: Compare French foutu, past participle of foutre; Old French foutu (“scoundrel”). See fouter.
Senses: examples: 1770s, William Hamilton (translator), Blind Harry (original), The Life Surprising Adventures and Heroic Actions of Sir William Wallace
fouty fellows
glosses: used as an intensifier despicable
Related terms: foutra
rimous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rimous
form: most rimous
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of rimose.
irrecognition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ir- + recognition.
Senses: examples: text: This exquisite irrecognition of any law antecedent to the oral or declaratory , struck so irresistibly upon the fancy of all who heard it
ref: 1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A failure to recognize; absence of recognition.
humilitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: humilitudes
Senses: examples: text: [S]hew much humility, and some familiarity. . . . for high humilitudes take such deep root in the minds of the multitude (who are more easily won by unprofitable courtesies, than curious benefits) that I advise thee not to affect nor neglect popularities.
ref: c. 1586, Sir Henry Sydney, "A Letter from Sir Henry Sydney to his Son Sir Philip Sydney" (reprinted in The Orthodox Churchman's Magazine, 1805, vol. 9, p. 361)
text: [A] pretended Invaſion made upon the Liberties of the People vvas complained of the Deputy-Governour, vvas moſt Irregularly call'd forth unto an Ignominous Hearing before them in a vaſt Aſſembly; vvhereto vvith a Sagacious Humilitude he conſented, although he ſhevv'd them hovv he might have Refuſed it.
ref: 1702, Cotton Mather, “[Book II (Ecclesiasum Clypei. […]).] Chapter IV. Nehemias Americanus. The Life of John Winthrop, Esq; Governour of the Massachuset Colony.”, in Magnalia Christi Americana: Or, the Ecclesiastical History of New-England, from Its First Planting in the Year 1620. unto the Year of Our Lord, 1698. […], London: […] Thomas Parkhurst, […], →OCLC, § 9, page 13, column 1:
text: The attending spirits that waited the voice of justice fell prostrate down, but Robin, as by superior force impelled, raised his awe-inspired eyes in deep humilitude to the centre of this bright concave.
ref: 1817, Alicia M'Gennis, Strathbogie; or, The Recluse of Glenmorris, page 180:
text: "[H]enceforth I shall come into your exalted presence with bare-headed humilitude."
ref: 1915, Credo Fitch Harris, chapter 23, in Sunlight Patch:
glosses: Humility.
glairin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From glair + -in.
Senses: examples: text: Berzelius supposes humus to contain humic acid, humin, crednic and apocrenic acid, and traces of glairin.
ref: 1842, Edward Hitchcock, Elementary Geology, page 221:
text: The glairin is described by Thomson as a peculiar substance which has been observed in certain sulphureous mineral waters, and was first noticed by Vauquelin ( Ann. de Chim. XXXIX. 173) , who described several of its properties and considered it analogous to gelatin.
ref: 1842, Justus Freiherr von Liebig, Lyon Playfair Baron Playfair, John White Webster, Chemistry in Its Application to Agriculture and Physiology, page 34:
text: He states that the glairin of the sulphuretted water of Aix, in Savoy, is white, but slightly soluble in water, and more soluble in concentrated acids, from which it may be precipitated in bluish-white flakes.
ref: 1852, Justus Liebig, Annual Report of the Progress of Chemistry and the Allied Sciences, page 431:
text: The glairin or baregin found in almost all the hot sulphuretted waters of the Pyrenees, is a very complex substance, consisting of the remains of animal and vegetable matter, together with various inorganic substances, such as crystals of sulphur, iron pyrites, silica, &c.
ref: 1883, Journal - Chemical Society, London - Volume 44, page 302:
glosses: A glairy viscous substance that forms on the surface of certain mineral waters, or covers the sides of their enclosures.
Synonyms: baregin
zoogene
eluctation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eluctations
Etymology: From Latin eluctatio.
Senses: examples: text: Ye do, in common, sue to God for us, as your poor fellow-members, for our happy eluctation out of those miseries and temptations
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: There is nothing more acceptable unto the ingenious world than this noble eluctation of truth
ref: 1643, Thomas Browne, Religio Medici:
text: July 1, 1627, John Donne, Sermon preached at Chilsey
if I be with him in his afflictions, I shall be with him in his eluctations, in his victory, in his triumph
glosses: A struggling out of any difficulty.
romekin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: romekins
form: romkin
Etymology: Compare rummer and ramekin.
Senses: examples: text: VVine, ever flovving in large Saxon Romekins / About my board; […]
ref: 1634 (first performance), William D’avenant [i.e., William Davenant], The Wits: A Comedie; […], published 1636; republished in Two Excellent Plays: […], London: […] G. Bedel, and T[homas] Collins, […], 1665, →OCLC, Act IV, page 68:
glosses: A drinking-cup.
romekins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of romekin
orbation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɔː(ɹ)ˈbeɪʃən/
Etymology: Latin orbatio.
Senses: examples: text: How much more easy had the want of a son been, than the miscarriage! barrenness, than orbation?
ref: 1612–1626, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volume (please specify |volume=II, V, or VI), London, →OCLC:
glosses: The state of being orbate, or deprived of parents or children; privation, in general; bereavement.
Americanistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more Americanistically
form: most Americanistically
Etymology: American + -istically
Senses: examples: text: So the phenomenon of idolatry that she inspired in the gentle sex in the United States corresponded hyperbolically, that is, Americanistically, to that which more or less occurred in all other countries.
ref: 1930, Theatre Guild, Stage: Volume 8, page 18:
text: Now after many years, with the help of notes and some of my early papers, I am endeavoring to reconstruct what happened at this stage of my contact with Americanistically-oriented ethnobotany.
ref: 1985, Årstryck, page 27:
text: This reference work, sociologically and Americanistically oriented, does not altogether neglect women.
ref: 1981, Jacob Rader Marcus, The American Jewish woman, 1654-1980, page 193:
text: Gates has rightly likened gumbo to the ancient Roman satura lanx, the 'full plate' of mixed edibles, sweet or sour, ie forced meat, farce-meat, stuffing, sausage-meat — what Americanistically Gates calls 'hash' - which is one etymological root of satire, and which traditionally helps define the rich mix of that genre of writing.
ref: 2002, Valentine Cunningham, Reading After Theory, page 25:
glosses: In an American manner; in the manner of or relating to America or Americans.
Related terms: Americanism
Americanist
mungrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mungrels
Senses: examples: text: But if this twig be made of wood
That will hold tack, I'll make the fur
Fly 'bout the ears of that old cur;
And th' other mungrel vermin, Ralph,
That brav'd us all in his behalf.
ref: 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:
glosses: Archaic form of mongrel.
mungrels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mungrel
hallidome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of halidom (“holiness”).
osteographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of osteography
osteography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: osteographies
Etymology: From osteo- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: The scientific description of bones; osteology.
dreul
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dreuls
form: dreuling
form: dreuled
form: dreuled
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of drool.
dreuled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dreul
dreuling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dreul
dreuls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dreul
lime-twigged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lime-twigged
form: most lime-twigged
Etymology: From lime-twig + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Beset with snares.
examples: text: have their Conſultations lime-twigg'd with Quirks and Sophiſms of Philoſmophical Perſmons
ref: 1679, Lancelot Addison, The Life and Death of Mahumed:
glosses: Ensnared, as with birdlime.
dottard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dottards
Senses: examples: text: And for great trees , we see almost all overgrown trees in churchyards , or near ancient buildings , and the like , are pollards , or dottards , and not trees at their full height
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “VI. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
synonyms: rampike
glosses: An old, decayed tree.
dottards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dottard
albertype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: albertypes
Etymology: From Albert + -type, from the name of the inventor, Josef Albert, from Munich.
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A picture printed from a kind of gelatine-coated plate produced by means of a photographic negative.
albertypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of albertype
tubiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tubiform
form: most tubiform
Etymology: From tube + -iform.
Senses: examples: tubiform cells
glosses: Having the form of a tube.
baxter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baxters
form: bakester
Etymology: From Middle English bakestere, bakestre, bakistre, from Old English bæcestre, feminine of bæcere (“baker”). See baker, as bake + -ster.
Senses: examples: text: It isn't the city bakers who are guilty of making underweight loaves or overcharging for them; it's the women baxters.
ref: 2016, Toni Mount, A Year in the Life of Medieval England, →ISBN:
glosses: A baker (originally, a female baker).
baxters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baxter
reindent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reindents
form: reindenting
form: reindented
form: reindented
Etymology: From re- + indent.
Senses: examples: text: After the word layout is changed, you must go back and reindent the text.
glosses: To indent again.
runholder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌnhəʊldə/
ipa: /ˈɹʌnˌhoʊldəɹ/
ipa: /ˈɹanhɐʉldə/
Forms: form: runholders
Etymology: From run (“rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep”) + holder. Run (noun) is derived from run (“(chiefly Australia, New Zealand) to allow (cattle, sheep, etc.) to graze and move freely on land; to raise (livestock)”, verb).
Senses: examples: text: Edward Stafford […] was a member of the Anglo-Irish gentry and had arrived in Nelson in 1843 to become a runholder.
ref: 2003, Michael King, The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Penguin, published 2023, page 193:
glosses: A person who leases or owns a run (“rural landholding for farming”), especially one for raising sheep.
Related terms: run
runholding
lesser vestibular glands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Skene's gland
periurethral glands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Skene's glands
Skene glands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Skene's glands
paraurethral gland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paraurethral glands
Senses: glosses: Skene's gland
female prostate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: female prostates
Senses: glosses: Skene's glands
female prostates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of female prostate
coordinatize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coordinatizes
form: coordinatizing
form: coordinatized
form: coordinatized
Etymology: From coordinate + -ize.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: to apply coordinates to a system
coordinatizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coordinatize
coordinatized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coordinatize
coordinatizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coordinatize
coordinatizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coordinatization
sea-hog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea-hogs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sea hog.
gravo-acute accent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: grä'vōəkyo͞otʹ ăkʹsənt
ipa: /ˌɡɹɑːvəʊəˈkjuːt ˈæksənt/
Etymology: From gravo- + acute + accent.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Walker does triumphantly claim the discovery of the inverted circumflex accent, or the downward and upward continued movement. Yet, if it is correctly inferred from the dates of publication, and from Mr. Walker’s rather derisive allusion to Mr. Steele’s essay, that the latter author preceded him, he might have found, in Mr. Steele’s gravo-acute accent, proof of the real existence of his newly found function of the voice.
ref: 1827, James Rush, The Philosophy of the Human Voice, pages ix–x:
text: ( ˘ ) Gravo-acute accent, or gravo-acute circumflex.
ref: 1841, Andrew Comstock, “Explanation of the characters used in the exercises in reading and declamation”, in A System of Elocution, page 200:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
media
phonology
publishing
sciences
typography
glosses: A dipping tone, or the diacritic that denotes it, similar in form to the breve (˘) and the háček (ˇ).
gravo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: enpr: gräʹvō
ipa: /ˈɡɹɑːvəʊ/
Etymology: From gravity.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: gravity
gravo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: enpr: gräʹvō
ipa: /ˈɡɹɑːvəʊ/
Etymology: grave + -o-
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: grave (accent)
imidazolates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imidazolate
terfluorenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terfluorene
fundamental groups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fundamental group
dunnekin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dunnekins
form: dunegan
form: dunnakin
form: dunikin
form: dunniken
form: dunnyken
Etymology: From the addition of kin or ken, a pejorative form of house, to some form of danna, an obsolete slang for shit.
Senses: glosses: An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
Synonyms: dunny
outhouse
Derived terms: dunny
polyzwitterions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyzwitterion
allodial titles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allodial title
concordancers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concordancer
iminoacetic acids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iminoacetic acid
filter feeders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filter-feeders
Senses: glosses: plural of filter feeder
infaunas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infauna
infaunae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infauna
filter-feeders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filter-feeder
troy ounces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of troy ounce
mortalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mortalizes
form: mortalizing
form: mortalized
form: mortalized
Etymology: From mortal + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make mortal.
Related terms: immortalize
mortalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mortalize
mortalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mortalize
mortalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mortalize
myricyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From myricin + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hypothetical radical regarded as the essential residue of myricin.
Synonyms: melissyl
infeeble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: infeebles
form: infeebling
form: infeebled
form: infeebled
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of enfeeble.
infeebled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of infeeble
infeebles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of infeeble
infeebling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of infeeble
clovered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From clover + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Flocks thick nibbling through the clovered vale
ref: a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
glosses: Covered with clover.
misteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mistery
mistery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misteries
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of mystery (“a trade”).
tautophonical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tautophonical
form: most tautophonical
Senses: synonyms: tautophonic
glosses: Pertaining to, or characterized by, tautophony; repeating the same sound.
rundles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rundle
hyponastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyponastic
form: most hyponastic
Etymology: From hypo- + Ancient Greek ναστός (nastós, “pressed close”), from νάσσω (nássō).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Bending upwards as a result of hyponasty, caused by unequal growth.
Derived terms: hyponastically
Related terms: epinastic
inverted circumflex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inverted circumflexes
Etymology: From its earliest attested use as an idiomatic phrase in 1810, inverted circumflex was first used to denote a dipping tone — an inversion of the peaking tone denoted by ⟨῀⟩, the Ancient Greek περισπωμένη (perispōménē), commonly translated as “circumflex” — thence the name was applied to diacritics which marked such a dipping tone and, by extension, other tones to which it was suited; finally, due to such a diacritic’s resemblance to the háček, the name came to be applied to it as well.
Senses: examples: text: The inflection, which begins upward and ends downward on the same syllable, called the circumflexed slide, is exemplified by the proper utterance of the word they in the succeeding instance:
Not he, but they are in fault.
And the inflection, which is just the reverse of this, namely, which begins downward and ends upward, called the inverted circumflex, may be instanced by the same word in Italic, as follows:
They tell us to be moderate; — but they, they are to wallow in profusion.
ref: 1810, Benjamin Humphrey Smart, A Practical Grammar of English Pronunciation, page 335:
text: Mr. Walker does triumphantly claim the discovery of the inverted circumflex accent, or the downward and upward continued movement.
[…]
Greek and Roman writers tell us, indefinitely, of the acute, grave, and circumflex movements; and these, with the newly described inverted circumflex, have, at a recent date, first been formally regarded, in the art of speaking the English language.
ref: 1827, James Rush, The Philosophy of the Human Voice, pages ix and x
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A dipping tone.
examples: text: This rising inflection will be indicated by an inverted circumflex ( ˇ ) being placed over the last syllable in the clause that bears the primary accent.
ref: 1844, An Introduction to the Art of Reading, page 107:
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Any diacritic obtained by rotating a circumflex (ˆ) 180°.
examples: text: In this way c surmounted by an inverted circumflex accent stands for our sound of ch, which in Russian, Polish, or Servian words, we usually see spelled cz.
ref: 1876, Appletons’ Journal, XV, page 511:
glosses: A háček.
full metal jackets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of full metal jacket
phit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phits
head_nr: 1
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
head_nr: 2
glosses: Abbreviation of physical unit of information transfer.
phits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phit
foveates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of foveate
four on the floor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of four-on-the-floor.
get the vapors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets the vapors
form: getting the vapors
form: got the vapors
form: gotten the vapors
Senses: glosses: to be about to faint
mellay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mellays
Senses: examples: text: He rode the mellay, lord of the ringing lists
ref: 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page number, or |part=Prologue, I to VII, or conclusion)”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of melee.
mellays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mellay
wage scale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wage scales
Senses: examples: text: The contract also calls for establishing a wage scale that would start newly hired employees at salaries equal to 66 percent of existing pay rates.
ref: 1986 July 26, “Delta's Pilots Reach Tentative 3-Year Pact”, in New York Times, retrieved 19 Jan 2012:
text: A wage scale should reflect job and performance differences fairly, or else firms risk alienating their staff.
ref: 2007 November 26, Laura Blue, “Success Depends on Others Failing”, in Time:
topics: business
qualifier: labor relations
glosses: A system of remuneration for workers which specifies levels of payment based on set criteria, such as the skill levels of the various jobs or the number of years of experience possessed by workers.
audio cassettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of audio cassette
belta
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more belta
form: most belta
Senses: examples: text: It's pure belta, like!
translation: It's totally amazing!
english: It's totally amazing!
related: word: belter
glosses: Fantastic; excellent.
cornland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cornlands
Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], equivalent to corn + land.
Senses: glosses: land used for or suitable for the growing of corn
bench jockeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bench jockey
brandscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brandscapes
Etymology: Blend of brand + landscape. Anthropologist John Sherry is credited with coining term in 1986.
Senses: examples: text: By now it should come as no surprise that the targets of these influential campaigns are three of the most familiar and best-tended logos on the brandscape: the Swoosh, the Shell and the Arches.
ref: 2000, Naomi Klein, No Logo, Vintage Canada, →ISBN, page 365:
glosses: The range of brands available in the market or a specific market segment, especially considered collectively as a cultural phenomenon.
Related terms: brandscaping
brandscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brandscape
silver foil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silver foils
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see silver, foil.
glosses: aluminium foil
Synonyms: silver paper
unreachable code
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: dead code
glosses: Code that can never be reached during program execution because no part of the program calls it or branches to it.
Euclidean planes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Euclidean plane
Euclidean groups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Euclidean group
brandwidth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of brand + bandwidth.
Senses: glosses: The level of brand recognition or market share enjoyed by a product, service, or company.
lily pads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lily pad
heteropaternal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hetero- + paternal.
Senses: examples: text: Identical twins are more common than heteropaternal twins, and less common than fraternal twins.
ref: 2008, Hannah Holmes, The Well-Dressed Ape: A Natural History of Myself, Random House, →ISBN, page 188:
glosses: Of different fathers.