cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
gainfuller
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of gainful: more gainful
gratefuller
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of grateful: more grateful
harmfuller
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of harmful: more harmful
hatefuller
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Oh, can misfortune come in hatefuller shape?
ref: 1922, “The Persians”, in Geoffrey Montagu Cookson, transl., Four Plays of Aeschylus, page 77:
glosses: comparative form of hateful: more hateful
healthfuller
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of healthful: more healthful
helpfuller
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of helpful: more helpful
hopefuller
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: such knowledge, for the daughter of Andrew Undershaft, will clearly lead to something hopefuller than distributing bread and treacle at the expense of Bodger.
ref: 1907, George Bernard Shaw, “Preface to Major Barbara”, in Pygmalion and 3 Other Plays, published 2004, page 24:
glosses: comparative form of hopeful: more hopeful
joyfuller
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of joyful: more joyful
mirthfuller
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of mirthful: more mirthful
painfuller
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of painful: more painful
peacefuller
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of peaceful: more peaceful
playfuller
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of playful: more playful
plentifuller
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: plentifuler
Senses: examples: text: In no man is there a plentifuller vein of cunning, nor of a finer kind.
ref: 1864, Thomas Carlyle, chapter IX, in History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume IV, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book XV, page 128:
glosses: comparative form of plentiful: more plentiful
betterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: betterers
Etymology: From better + -er (agent noun suffix).
Senses: glosses: One who betters, makes something better.
betterer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From better + -er (comparative suffix).
Senses: glosses: comparative form of better: more better
glosses: better
Related terms: bestest
bettererer
buj
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bujj (“heroin”).
mournfuller
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Crossing the Park on the line to Diana’s house he met Miss Paynham, who grieved to say that Mrs. Warwick could not give her a sitting; and, in a still mournfuller tone, imagined he would find her at home, and alone by this time.
ref: 1890, George Meredith, chapter XXIX, in Diana of the Crossways, page 272:
glosses: comparative form of mournful: more mournful
indefensively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more indefensively
form: most indefensively
Etymology: From indefensive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner that is indefensive.
negociation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: negociations
Senses: examples: text: [T]he young gentleman […] left the doctor to himself, to conduct the negociation with Loftus.
ref: 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “Relating how Doctor Toole and Captain Devereux Went on a Moonlight Errand”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 89:
text: Among the wealthy families, early marriages were the rule, and the matches were often made even before the girls had reached their teens. In all cases where eligible matchams, i.e. cousins or sons of mothers' brothers or fathers' sisters were available, preference was accorded to them — almost as a matter of right. In the absence of any such, a young man of equal caste was fixed on, and negociations with his relations commenced. The paper then described these negociations, dwelling at length on the arrangements entered into with regard to dowry, and then proceeding to tell of all the feasts and ceremonies connected with a Moorish marriage.
ref: 1888, “Marriage Customs of the Moors of Ceylon”, in The Folk-Lore Journal:
text: The negociations that were going on for a settlement of the question have practically fallen through
ref: 1909, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Letter to Leo Tolstoy:
text: K. Richard was taken prisoner at the end of that year, and Savary saw a new opportunity. He was in the forefront of the negociations for the king's release, for he claimed cousinship with the Emperor Henry.
At the beginning of the new year the pope made another move in the game. Finding the interdict unavailing, he threatened to excommunicate the king in person. John replied as before by opening negociations.
ref: 1921, Joseph Armitage Robinson, Bishop Jocelin and the Interdict:
text: Any dispute which may arise between any two or more States Parties to this Convention concerning the interpretation or application of this Convention, which is not settled by negociation shall at the request of the parties to the dispute be referred, failing other means of settling the dispute, to the International Court of Justice for decision.
ref: 1960, United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organization, Convention against Discrimination in Education, Article 8
glosses: Obsolete form of negotiation.
relick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relicks
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of relic.
relick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: relicks
form: relicking
form: relicked
form: relicked
Etymology: From re- + lick.
Senses: examples: text: The envelope, though, hadn't been sealed properly and he lifted it to his mouth to re-lick the gummed edge.
ref: 2014, Robert Ryan, The Dead Can Wait:
glosses: To lick again.
relicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relick
bisket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biskets
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of biscuit.
biskets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bisket
Chișinău
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɪʃɪˈnaʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
Forms: form: Chisinau
form: Kishinyov
form: Kishinev
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Chișinău.
Senses: glosses: A municipality, the capital city of Moldova.
better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Cuomo described the Dinkins endorsement as politically significant, but it is unclear just how much it matters. . . . "Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick," to borrow one of the former Mayor's favorite maxims.
ref: 1994 October 7, Todd S. Purdum, “The 1994 Campaign: After Wary Weeks, Dinkins Announces Support for Cuomo”, in New York Times, retrieved 13 Sep 2015:
synonyms: better than a kick in the teeth
glosses: Better than nothing; not unsatisfactory but also not a reason for enthusiastic excitement.
Synonyms: better than a poke in the eye
better than a poke in the eye with a burnt stick
better than a poke in the eye with a rusty nail
better than a poke in the eye with a shitty stick
procuracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈprɒkjʊrəsi/
ipa: /ˈprɒkjərəsi/
ipa: /ˈprɑkjərəsi/
Forms: form: procuracies
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English procuracie, from Anglo-Norman procuracie, from Latin prōcūrātia, analyzed as procure + -cy (“office of”). Doublet of proxy.
Senses: glosses: The office of a procurator.
Synonyms: procuratorate
Related terms: procurator
procuratorate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌpɹɒkjʊˈɹeɪtəɹɪt/
Forms: form: procuratorates
Etymology: From Medieval Latin prōcūrātorātus. By surface analysis, procurator + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office).
Senses: glosses: The office of a procurator.
Synonyms: procuracy
snape
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sneɪp/
rhymes: -eɪp
Forms: form: snapes
form: snaping
form: snaped
form: snaped
Etymology: Origin obscure. Perhaps from snape, a dialectal variant of sneap (“to nip, bite, pinch”). More at sneap.
Senses: examples: text: It had to be accurately cut and trimmed, and its upper edge scored to suit the snaping of every beam end.
ref: 2000, William L. Crothers, The American-built Clipper Ship, 1850-1856, International Marine, page 265:
topics: business
manufacturing
nautical
shipbuilding
transport
glosses: To bevel the end of a timber to fit against an inclined surface.
snape
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sneɪp/
rhymes: -eɪp
Forms: form: snapes
form: snaping
form: snaped
form: snaped
Etymology: From Middle English snaipen (“to injure; of sleet or snow: to nip; to criticize, rebuke, revile”) [and other forms], from Old Norse sneypa (“to disgrace, dishonour; to outrage”), from Proto-Germanic *snupaną, *snubaną (“to cut; to snap”); further origin unknown. Doublet of sneap.
Senses: glosses: To check or curtail (the growth of something); also, to check or curtail the growth of (a plant, etc.).
examples: text: The colnel (sic) I dont think like him much. I undirstand (sic) he was always snaping him.
ref: 1861, Terry A. Johnston, Him on One Side and Me on the Other, Univ. of South Carolina Press, p48, 1999 (quoting Alexander Campbell)
glosses: Synonym of sneap (“to check or abruptly reprove (someone); to chide, to rebuke, to reprimand”).
synonyms: word: sneap
extra: (“to check or abruptly reprove (someone); to chide, to rebuke, to reprimand”)
examples: text: He saw nothing, heard nothing, rushed on, he knew not whither, snaping, and uttering hoarse cries.
ref: 1871, John Esten Cooke, Out of the Foam:
text: I imagine her prodding my flab and snaping, "There's nothing there — get rid of that!"
ref: 2001, Joan Raphael-Leff, Pregnancy: The Inside Story, Karnac Books, page 22:
glosses: To chide, to rebuke, to reprimand.
coactor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coactors
form: co-actor
Etymology: From co- + actor.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An organism that participates in coaction
glosses: A joint actor; one who acts with other people in some enterprise
Synonyms: coactee
scorewriter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scorewriters
Etymology: From score + writer.
Senses: glosses: A computer program for creating and editing musical scores.
Related terms: scorereader
scorewriters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scorewriter
pseudomilitary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + military.
Senses: examples: text: His trademark was pseudomilitary attire that replaced the customary tailcoat with a uniform complete with a short and stiff jacket, shining brass buttons, a tight belt, a helmet, and a pair of light gloves.
ref: 2009, Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht, Sound diplomacy, page 89:
glosses: Apparently, but not actually, military.
nonfancy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + fancy.
Senses: examples: text: When traditional, nonfancy English dishes are done well, they're super- satisfying and delicious.
ref: 2006, Donald Olson, London for Dummies, page 24:
glosses: Not fancy.
duned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dune + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The banks are duned and are nearly 40 feet above the lake.
ref: 1912, William Mumford Gregory, Geological report on Arenac County, number 11, page 76:
text: These are related to positioning of the meter array on the form of the duned bed.
ref: 1971, Royal Astronomical Society, The Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, volume 22, page 153:
text: Duned coasts appear where sand accumulates on a beach faster than the waves can move the material alongshore.
ref: 1975, Joel S. Watkins, Michael L. Bottino, Marie Morisawa, Our Geological Environment, page 226:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Featuring or formed into dunes.
apatheticness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From apathetic + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Apathy, quality of being apathetic.
albuminoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more albuminoidal
form: most albuminoidal
Etymology: From albuminoid + -al.
Senses: examples: text: albuminoidal substance
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: albuminoid
glosses: Of the nature of an albuminoid.
vendition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: venditions
Etymology: Latin venditio: compare French vendition.
Senses: glosses: The act of vending or selling; sale.
venditions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vendition
attendancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attendancy
attendancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attendancies
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of attendance.
glosses: A retinue.
glosses: Relative position.
witworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: witworms
Etymology: From wit + worm.
Senses: examples: text: What hast thou done With thy poor innocent self […]Thus to come forth, so suddenly, a wit-worm?
ref: 1611, Ben[jamin] Jonson, Catiline His Conspiracy, London: […] [William Stansby?] for Walter Burre, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
text: Sentimental misses long for poetry— dandies crave the latest fashions— politicasters fatten on battles and revolutions— witworms want anecdotes— censors snap at editorial paragraphs— gossips devour scandal— merchants derive sustenance from ship-news, and hypochondriacs from death— old maids and bachelors smack their labia over the marriages — weather-wises look out for squalls, and pinchfists and pickpockets for the state of stocks — and so on cum multis aliis — ad infinitum.
ref: 1824, Theodore Sedgwick Fay, “Editorial Miseries”, in The New York Mirror:
text: "By the flesh-hook of Satan!" cried I, "thou are as merry a witworm as ever waged war against dumpishness. […]
ref: 1827, Hilary Quality, edited by D. Wyseman, The Quality Papers, page 158:
text: Such a course, however, when a neighbor is at hand, with leisure, and of the same spirit, would be recommendable to none, save only to those witlings, and witsnappers, and witworms, whose jests, though highly appreciable to themselves, will not pass current among the throng.
ref: 1847 March 7, “Wit and Humor”, in The Yale Literary Magazine, volumes 12-13, page 225:
text: ... the calembour, the scintillating jokesmith and jesting witworm who sets the table in a roar, and lays them in the aisles.
ref: 1977, Heathcote Williams, Hancock's Last Half Hour, page 19:
text: Oh, yes, you must definitely be a witworm!
ref: 2002, Bernadette McCarver Snyder, 130 Fun Facts from God's Wonder-Filled World, page 142:
text: What would he do were he confronted not with an example, but with the thing itself? Turn to a powder, like any other witworm? Oxenstierna had small use for scholars.
ref: 2013, David Stacton, People of the Book:
glosses: One who, or that which, feeds on wit (possibly destroying it).
witworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of witworm
toadish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more toadish
form: most toadish
Etymology: From toad + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: revel in a toadish insensibility
ref: 1869, Mary Frere, Love's Triumph:
text: The only human occupant of the back seat was a toadish little creature. He held out a severely mangled hand, with clawed, yellowish nails.
ref: 2012, Andrew Vachss, Blackjack: A Cross Novel:
glosses: Like a toad.
Synonyms: toadlike
toadly
Related terms: anuran
batrachian
froggish
froggy
froglike
frogly
ranine
salientian
overburdensome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overburdensome
form: most overburdensome
Etymology: From over- + burdensome.
Senses: glosses: Too burdensome.
agalactous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + Ancient Greek γάλα (gála, “milk”) + -ous. Compare galactic.
Senses: glosses: Lacking milk to suckle with.
mutableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mutable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being mutable; mutability.
lycanthropous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lycanthropous
form: most lycanthropous
Senses: glosses: lycanthropic
Massoola boat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Massoola boats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of masoola boat.
Massoola boats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Massoola boat
non obstante
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non obstantes
Etymology: Latin [Term?]
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A clause in old English statutes and letters patent, designating a licence from the Crown to do a thing notwithstanding any laws to the contrary.
Related terms: non obstante veredicto
non obstante
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Etymology: Latin [Term?]
Senses: examples: text: Non obstante the Change of Religion, the Plough-boies, and also the Schooleboies will keep-up and retain their old Ceremonies and Customes and priviledges.
ref: 1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 40:
glosses: notwithstanding, regardless of, despite
non obstantes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non obstante
oncotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oncotomies
Etymology: From onco- + -tomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The opening of an abscess, or the removal of a tumour, with a cutting instrument.
anthropoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anthropoidal
form: most anthropoidal
Senses: glosses: anthropoid
oad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊd/
homophone: ode
homophone: owed
Senses: examples: text: No Logwood mixe with Oad or other Stuf in dying, upon penalty of twenty pounds, and Pillory
ref: 1681, Justices of the Peace, The Complete Justice:
glosses: Obsolete form of woad.
verticities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verticity
verticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verticities
Etymology: Compare French verticité. See vertex.
Senses: examples: text: I hardly believe he hath from elder times unknown the verticity of the loadstone.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The quality or power of turning; revolution; rotation.
glosses: An alleged tendency to move around or toward the North or South Pole.
hotcockles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hot cockles.
bibliothec
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bibliothecs
Etymology: An Anglicisation either of bibliotheca (from the Old English biblioþece) or of its etymon, the Latin bibliothēca (“library”, “collection of books”); compare French bibliothèque.
Senses: glosses: A library.
examples: text: But if they, who are of this Opinion, would but Reflect a little upon the Materials which the Learn’d Men of this Age have afforded by their Bibliothecs, Hiſtorical Dictionaries and Journals, they would quickly perceive their Miſtake. By their Bibliothecs I do not here mean their Libraries, but their Elaborate Compoſures Publiſh’d under that Title, ſuch as the New Eccleſiaſtical Bibliothec of M. Du Pin, wherein we have an Abſtract of all the Works of the Eccleſiaſtical Writers, who have liv’d ſince the Birth of our Saviour till the Beginning of the laſt Age; which truly is a Work of ſuch Labour and Learning, that it is deſervedly eſteem’d one of the beſt Eccleſiaſtical Hiſtories that ever the World had.
ref: 1708, George Mackenzie, The Lives and Characters of the moſt Eminent Writers of the Scots Nation, volume I, preface, page ii:
glosses: A bibliographer’s catalogue.
bibliothecs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bibliothec
worm-shell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: worm-shells
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of worm shell.
worm-shells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of worm-shell
dispondee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dispondees
Etymology: Latin dispondeus, from Ancient Greek [Term?].
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A double spondee; a metrical foot consisting of four long syllables.
dispondees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dispondee
misfaith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misfaiths
Etymology: From mis- + faith.
Senses: examples: text: A woman and not trusted, doubtless I / Might feel some sudden turn of anger born / Of your misfaith; […]
ref: 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Vivien”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 121:
glosses: Lack of faith; distrust.
glosses: Bad or misplaced religious belief.
camphorate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camphorates
Etymology: From camphoric acid + -ate (“salt or ester”). Compare French camphorate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt of camphoric acid.
camphorate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: camphorates
form: camphorating
form: camphorated
form: camphorated
Etymology: From camphor + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To treat or impregnate with camphor.
camphorate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: camphorated
Etymology: From camphor + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Combined or impregnated with camphor.
camphorates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of camphorate
deleteriousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From deleterious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being deleterious.
impunctualities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impunctuality
impunctuality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impunctualities
Etymology: From im- + punctuality.
Senses: examples: text: It is believed, owing to the impunctuality of collections, that in no part of the United States does fair lending at private interest, upon real security, net six per cent.
ref: 1790, Alexander Hamilton, First Report on the Public Credit:
glosses: Failure to be punctual; unpunctuality.
solanidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solanidines
Etymology: See solanine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkaloid produced by the decomposition of solanine and chaconine.
Related terms: solanidanine
solanidines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of solanidine
virtuosoship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: virtuosoships
Etymology: From virtuoso + -ship.
Senses: examples: 1759, Richard Hurd, Bishop of Worcester, Moral and Political Dialogues
If any thing further employ his attention, it is perhaps a little virtuosoship. He inquires after fine pictures, fine statues, fine buildings.
glosses: The status, pursuits, or occupation of a virtuoso.
virtuosoships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of virtuosoship
murtherer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: murtherers
Etymology: From earlier murther (“murder”) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: A Murtherer, a Revolter, and a Robber.
ref: 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 71:
glosses: A murderer.
murtherers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of murtherer
electropolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From electro- + polar.
Senses: examples: text: an electropolar atom
text: an electropolar conductor
glosses: Possessing electrical polarity; having positive and negative charges at opposite ends
glosses: Of or pertaining to electrical polarity
Related terms: electropolarity
nucleole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nucleoles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nucleolus.
nucleoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nucleole
effeminize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: effeminizes
form: effeminizing
form: effeminized
form: effeminized
Senses: glosses: To make effeminate.
Derived terms: effeminization
effeminized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of effeminize
effeminizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of effeminize
effeminizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of effeminize
debouchure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈbuːʃə/
ipa: /dɪˈbuːʃɪə/
Forms: form: debouchures
form: débouchure
Etymology: French [Term?]
Senses: synonyms: debouchment
glosses: The outward opening of a river, creek, valley, or strait.
debouchures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of debouchure
invulgar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more invulgar
form: most invulgar
Etymology: From in- + vulgar.
Senses: examples: text: the sad parents this lost Infant ow'd,
Were as invulgar as their fruit was fair
ref: 1604, Michael Drayton, Moses in a Map of his Miracles:
glosses: Not vulgar; refined; elegant.
postexistent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + existent.
Senses: examples: text: For as for that conceit of Anaxagoras, of pre and post-existent atoms, endued with all those several forms and qualities of bodies ingenerably and incorruptibly, it was nothing but an adulteration of the genuine Atomical philosophy […]
ref: 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:
text: But the full meaning of this manifestation was revealed only when the postexistent Christ came to live in his followers.
ref: 1972, W. Nicol, The Sēmeia in the fourth gospel: Tradition and redaction, page 137:
glosses: existing or living afterward
legislatorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: more legislatorial
form: most legislatorial
Senses: examples: text: legislatorial trial
text: legislatorial tinkering
glosses: Of or pertaining to a legislator or legislature.
Derived terms: legislatorially
whitsour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whitsours
Etymology: From white and sour.
Senses: glosses: A variety of summer apple (apple harvested in summer).
whitsours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whitsour
delingo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delingos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of deling (“kind of hammock conveyance”).
upplucking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uppluck
upplight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uppluck
upplucks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uppluck
upplucked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uppluck
interdentil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interdentils
Etymology: From inter- + dentil.
Senses: examples: text: the interdentil, or space which separates them [the dentils]
ref: 1833, John Billington, The Architectural Director:
topics: architecture
glosses: The space between two dentils.
interdentils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interdentil
wranglesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wranglesome
form: most wranglesome
Etymology: From wrangle + -some.
Senses: examples: text: They remind one of wranglesome children- perpetually plotting , and counterplotting against each other
ref: 1830, John Fanning Watson, Annals of Philadelphia:
text: “Dinna be so wranglesome, Lael Click. It doesna become you.” She shot back, “I'm not the only wranglesome one here!”
ref: 2009, Laura Frantz, The Frontiersman's Daughter:
text: Pike got drunk and was very “wranglesome.”
ref: 2013, George Francis Dow, Slave Ships and Slaving:
glosses: Characterised or marked by wrangling; inclined to wrangle or squabble; quarrelsome.
metritides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metritis
metritis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /miˈtɹaɪtɪs/
Forms: form: metritides
Etymology: From metr- + -itis.
Senses: examples: text: The conjunctive tissue, young and succulent, then becomes hard and fibrous, and the uterus, on section, is pale, indurated and devoid of blood; that is chronic metritis which has reached the second period, or period of induration.
ref: 1888, Georges Apostoli, On a New Treatment of Chronic Metritis:
text: The use of systemic antibiotics is justified and often required for metritis that causes systemic illness.
ref: 2008, Thomas J. Divers, Rebhun's Diseases of Dairy Cattle, page 411:
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: uteritis
hysteritis
hypernyms: metropathy
<
inflammation
<
condition
glosses: Inflammation of the uterus.
Derived terms: mesometritis
parametritis
Related terms: endometriosis
pyknometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyknometers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pycnometer.
pyknometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyknometer
burnie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burnies
Etymology: From burn + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: But, Willie, set your fit to mine, / An' cock your crest, / We'll gar our streams an' burnies shine / Up wi' the best.
ref: 1785, Robert Burns, Epistle To William Simson Schoolmaster, Ochiltree:
text: c. 1820s, James Hogg, "Sing on, Sing on, My Bonnie Bird"
A bramble shade around our head,
A burnie popplin by
glosses: A small brook.
burnies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burnie
gnathopodite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gnathopodites
Etymology: From gnatho- + podite.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any leg-like appendage of a crustacean that is modified to serve as a jaw.
Hyponyms: maxilliped
gnathopodites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gnathopodite
paramiographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paramiographers
Etymology: From Ancient Greek παροιμίᾱ (paroimíā, “proverb”) + -grapher.
Senses: examples: text: A collection of Danish proverbs, accompanied by a French translation, was printed at Copenhagen, in a quarto volume, 1761. England may boast of no inferior paramiographers. The grave and judicious Camden, the religious Herbert, the entertaining Howel, the facetious Fuller, and the laborious Ray, with others, have preserved our national sayings.
ref: 1835, I[saac] D'Israeli, “The Philosophy of Proverbs”, in Curiosities of Literature (Collection of Ancient and Modern British Authors; 75), volume 3, Paris: Baudry's European Library, page 64:
text: Metaphor is regarded as the most important and wide spread figure of speech in poetry and proverbs. It is an imaginary comparison of one thing or idea or action rather than direct statement. Indeed paramiographers believe that all proverbs are metaphorical.
ref: 2009 April, C. Arinola Akinmade, “Figures of Association and Sound in some Nigerian Proverbs: Examples from Ondo Culture”, in African Research Review, volume 3, number 3, →ISSN, page 124:
text: Nowadays paramiographers take interest in this genre not only in the English language but also in other languages. Exemplarily, an authoritative researcher Anna T. Litovkina also studies Russian and Hungarian anti-proverbs in tandem with R. Vargha (Katalin Vargha) and D. Boronkai (Dora Boronkai).
ref: 2022, Dzhamilya M. Khuchbarova, Alla G. Sokolova, Magomed I. Magomedov, “Usage of Anglo-American Anti-Proverbs in Economic Discourse”, in Vladimir I. Karasik, Evgeniya V. Ponomarenko, editors, Topical Issues of Linguistics and Teaching Methods in Business and Professional Communication – TILTM 2022 (European Proceedings of Educational Sciences; 4), London: European Publisher Ltd., →DOI, →ISBN, page 357:
glosses: A collector or writer of proverbs.
paramiographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paramiographer
kinesitherapies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kinesitherapy
kinesitherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kinesitherapies
Senses: glosses: Synonym of kinesiotherapy
synonyms: word: kinesiotherapy
admirance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare Old French admirance.
Senses: examples: text: Much greater than was ever in her weeting,
With great Admirance inwardly was mov'd
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: admiration
neurocentral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + central.
Senses: examples: the neurocentral suture
topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: Between the neural arch and the centrum of a vertebra.
heartgrief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From heart + grief.
Senses: examples: text: Although thir drudge, to be thir fool or jeſter, / And in my midſt of ſorrow and heart-grief / To ſhew them feats, and play before thir god, / The worſt of al indignities, yet on me / Joyn'd with extream contempt? [...]
ref: 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, pages 79–80, lines 1349–1353:
text: It was a heartgrief to him to give up the young man, for he had reared him from the baptism water, and he had been a faithful servant unto him up to this day.
ref: 2021, Wilhelm Meinhold, Sidonia, the Sorceress:
glosses: heartache; sorrow
uncenturied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uncentury
uncentury
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uncenturies
form: uncenturying
form: uncenturied
form: uncenturied
Etymology: From un- + century.
Senses: examples: text: It has first to uncentury itself.
ref: 1833, Henry Drummond, Natural Law in the Spiritual World:
glosses: To remove from its actual century.
witful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more witful
form: most witful
Etymology: From Middle English witful (“wise; sagacious; cunning; ingenious”), equivalent to wit + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: 'Tis passing miraculous that your dull and blind worship should so suddenly turn both sightful and witful
ref: 1613, George Chapman, The Mask of the Middle Temple and Lincoln's Inn:
text: Do not directly ask him to buy. As one master salesman whom the author knows puts it, to do so is "brutal." It is, to say the least, not witful, and what is not witful is not good salesmanship.
ref: 1917, Arthur Frederick Sheldon, The Science of Business:
text: […] the most witful, th-that it's hopeless I'm not witful.
ref: 1998, Andy Warhol, a: A Novel:
text: l love you, she said. l find it splendid to have dropped you like a witful lobster into this boiling pot.
ref: 2008, Jesse Ball, Samedi the Deafness - Page 135:
text: I AM LIKING HARRY. HIS MANIFESTATIONS ARE RED. THEY ARE WITFUL. "Witful?" WITFUL = FULL OF WIT? "I see," Harry said. "He thinks we're funny." FUNNY = FULL OF FUN? "Not exactly," Norman said. "We entities have the concept of . . ." He trailed off. How was he going to explain "funny"?
ref: 2012, Michael Crichton, Sphere - Page 260:
text: And some fear hides beneath the guise of all things physically-affecting and effecting which we try with an enthusiasm unsurpassed and a witful dexterity unrivalled, to craft into some spurious raison d'être.
ref: 2013, Valerie Stephens, Stillborn To Life - Page 5:
glosses: Full of or possessing wit; wise; sensible
Derived terms: witfully
witfulness
stifftail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stifftails
Etymology: From stiff + tail.
Senses: glosses: Any of various ducks whose tails have stiff feathers, including the ruddy duck.
Related terms: stiff-tailed duck
stifftails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stifftail
ruddy duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ruddy ducks
Etymology: From ruddy (“reddish”) + duck, referring to the rust-coloured body of the male.
Senses: examples: text: Except when migrating, the ruddy duck seldom flies.[…]If disturbed by a predator, the ruddy duck dives to escape.
ref: 2004, Laurie E. Likoff, The Encyclopedia of Birds, volume 1, page 802:
text: Since hybridization with the ruddy duck could lead to extinction of the white-headed duck, Spain began to kill its ruddy ducks. Trials to eliminate ruddy ducks from the U.K. began in 1999, and were overseen by a euphemistically named White-headed Duck Task Force.
ref: 2008, Roslyn M. Frank, Body, Language, and Mind: Sociocultural situatedness, volume 2, page 170:
text: The decision was taken, supported by conservation organizations, that it was necessary to save the white-headed duck species by exterminating all members of the ruddy duck species in Europe, which meant mainly in the UK, where there were an estimated 6000 ruddy ducks in 2000.
ref: 2010, Jacky Turner, Animal Breeding, Welfare and Society, unnumbered page:
glosses: Oxyura jamaicensis, a small stifftail duck, the male of which has a rust-coloured body.
Synonyms: sleepyhead
oxyurid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxyurids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the order Oxyurida of nematode worms.
oxyurids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxyurid
leucaniline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leucanilines
Etymology: From leuco- + aniline.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A colourless crystalline organic base, obtained from rosaniline by reduction, and also from other sources.
leucanilines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leucaniline
tipulary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Compare French tipulaire.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to the tipulas.
tensegrities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tensegrity
triphasically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From triphasic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In three phases.
biphasically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From biphasic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In two phases.
REM rebound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: REM rebounds
Senses: glosses: The increase in frequency, duration and depth of REM sleep after periods of sleep deprivation.
homolosine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of homolographic + sine
Senses: topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: Being or employing a particular pseudocylindrical, equal-area, composite projection used for world maps.
gnomonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /nəʊˈmɒnɪk/
Etymology: From Latin gnōmonicus, Ancient Greek γνωμονικός (gnōmonikós, “judging by rule”). Compare French gnomonique. See gnomon.
Senses: topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: Showing all great circles as straight lines, and thus preserving the shortest distances between any two locations.
Derived terms: gnomonic projection
equirectangular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From equi- + rectangular.
Senses: topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: Mapping meridians to equally-spaced vertical straight lines, and circles of latitude to evenly-spread horizontal straight lines.
retrosnub
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From retro- + snub.
Senses: examples: great retrosnub icosidodecahedron
small retrosnub icosicosidodecahedron
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Derived from a simpler, regular polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces in the back.
honeycomb conjecture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The proven conjecture that a regular hexagonal grid, or honeycomb, is the best way to divide a surface into regions of equal area with the smallest total perimeter.
intermundane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + mundane.
Senses: examples: text: intermundane spaces
ref: 1706, John Locke, Elements of Natural Philosophy:
text: Worlds cannot be without an intermundane relationship
ref: 1858, George MacDonald, Phantastes:
glosses: Between worlds or planets.