cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
reprive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈpɹaɪv/
Forms: form: reprives
form: repriving
form: reprived
form: reprived
Senses: examples: text: I am reprived to the beginning of that week
ref: 1655, James Howell, “To Sir Edward B. Knigh”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of reprieve.
reprive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈpɹaɪv/
Forms: form: reprives
form: repriving
form: reprived
form: reprived
Etymology: re- + Latin privare (“to deprive”).
Senses: examples: text: How that my lord from her I would reprive
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To take back or away.
reprived
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reprive
reprives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reprive
repriving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reprive
tithonicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tithonic + -ity.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The state or property of being tithonic; actinism.
wincopipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wincopipes
Senses: examples: text: There is a small red flower in the stubble fields which country people call the wincopipe; which if it open in the morning you may be sure of a fair day to follow
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: The pimpernel flower, Anagallis arvensis.
wincopipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wincopipe
whistlewing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whistlewings
Etymology: From whistle + wing?
Senses: glosses: The common goldeneye, Bucephala clangula
whistlewings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whistlewing
wither-wrung
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From withers and wrong.
Senses: examples: text: They learned the heart-breaking cussedness of camp-kitchens and camels and the depravity of an E. P. tent and a wither-wrung mule.
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, The Drums of the Fore and Aft:
glosses: Injured or hurt in the withers, as a horse.
desynonymize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: desynonymizes
form: desynonymizing
form: desynonymized
form: desynonymized
Etymology: From de- + synonymize.
Senses: examples: text: It is not, I own, easy to conceive a more opposite translation of the Greek Phantasia, than the Latin Imaginatio; but it is equally true that in all societies there exists an instinct of growth, a certain collective, unconscious good sense working progressively to desynonymize those words originally of the same meaning, which the conflux of dialects had supplied to the more homogeneous languages, as the Greek and German: […]
ref: 1817, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “The Lyrical Ballads with the Preface—Mr. [William] Wordsworth’s Earlier Poems—On Fancy and Imagination—The Investigation of the Distinction Important to the Fine Arts”, in Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, volume I, London: Rest Fenner, […], →OCLC, page 87:
glosses: To deprive of synonymous character; to cause no longer to be synonyms.
desynonymized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of desynonymize
desynonymizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of desynonymize
desynonymizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of desynonymize
santol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: santols
Etymology: Borrowed from Tagalog santol, likely from Malay sentul. Compare Pangasinan pantol.
Senses: glosses: A tropical Asian tree (Sandoricum koetjape).
glosses: The fruit of this tree.
matress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matresses
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of mattress.
matresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matress
dongas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of donga
cfu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of CFU.
adding machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adding machines
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: accounting machine, bookkeeping machine, tabulator
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glosses: A simple mechanical or electromechanical calculator that performs simple calculations, such as addition or subtraction. It aids repetitive arithmetic, as compared with unaided human effort. It cannot do advanced functions like a scientific calculator can.
Related terms: add value machine
abacus
arithmometer
cash register
comptometer
Pascaline
betall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: betalls
form: betalling
form: betalled
form: betalled
Etymology: Probably from Dutch betalen (“to pay”), equivalent to be- + tale. Compare also German bezahlen (“to pay”) and Swedish betala (“to pay”).
Senses: examples: text: And you will love me, kiss me, and be my secret sweetheart. Your husband will not know. I will give you money, and your husband will not have to betall, to pay for your lodgings or your food.
ref: 1980, Jill L. Levenson, A critical edition of the anonymous Elizabethan play "The Weakest goeth to the wall":
glosses: To pay; count out money.
cyberpark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberparks
Etymology: From cyber- + park.
Senses: glosses: An area or industrial center devoted to computing or technology companies.
cybervigilantism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + vigilantism.
Senses: glosses: vigilantism that occurs on the internet
take leave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes leave
form: taking leave
form: took leave
form: taken leave
Senses: examples: text: Romney had already taken leave from Bain Capital by the time the American Pad & Paper layoffs took place.
ref: 2011 March, W James Antle III, “Front-runner Failure”, in American Spectator, volume 44, number 2, page 12:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, leave.
examples: text: So after learning a great deal about iron founding and much more about pike fishing, one regretfully took leave of a shop full of kindly characters and proceeded to a worse lot of odours in the brass foundry.
ref: 1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 343:
text: Rincon had taken leave of the king in early May
ref: 1990 August, Linda Abbott with Marsha Frey, “Fatal diplomacy”, in History Today, volume 40, number 8, page 10:
text: Those who hadn't already taken leave at Javier Lopez's last time up, turned for the exits, not taking the time to cast one last signature boo.
ref: 1995 October 12, Furman Bisher, “Little fanfare for Cincinnati”, in Atlanta Journal Constitution:
text: Lili takes leave with a kiss, and says hi to a young man sitting alone, sulking on a bench outside. / That's Jeannie's boyfriend
ref: 1999 Spring, Judith Grossman, “How Aliens Think.”, in Ploughshares, volume 25, number 1, page 146:
glosses: To depart.
Derived terms: take one's leave
take leave of one's senses
take French leave
crushability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From crush + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The property of being capable of being crushed.
cognomination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cognominations
Etymology: Latin cognominatio.
Senses: glosses: A cognomen, surname
calyptrolith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calyptroliths
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A coccolith that is in the form of a basket, often with an excrescence in its center.
coadjuvancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From co- + adjuvancy.
Senses: examples: text: the coldness of the earth some concurrence or coadjuvancy
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: cooperation; mutual effort
commotal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From commote + -al.
Senses: examples: text: There is general agreement that commotal centres included some form of nucleated village.
ref: 2018, Mary Aris, Rhosyr: Its History and Topography in the Age of the Welsh Princes, page 66:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a commote (a secular division of land in medieval Wales).
allocutive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Relating to the marking of addressees in the grammar of a sentence whether or not they are actants in it.
caecostomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caecostomies
form: cæcostomy
form: cecostomy
Etymology: From caecum + -stomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: An operation involving bringing the caecum through the abdominal wall, most often by a tube, and opening it for drainage or decompression, usually to treat an obstruction of the colon.
tags off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tag off
tagging off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tag off
tagged off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tag off
sovereign immunity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sovereign immunities
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A legal doctrine by which the sovereign or state cannot commit a legal wrong and is immune from civil suit or criminal prosecution.
Synonyms: english: applicable only where the government is a monarchy
translation: applicable only where the government is a monarchy
word: crown immunity
sovereign immunities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sovereign immunity
civil suit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: civil suits
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A lawsuit; an action filed in a court of law to recover for injury wrongfully caused by another.
Synonyms: civil case
civil suits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of civil suit
crown immunity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crown immunities
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A legal doctrine by which the royal sovereign or royally governed state cannot commit a legal wrong and is immune from civil suit or criminal prosecution.
Synonyms: english: applicable whether the state is a monarchy or not
translation: applicable whether the state is a monarchy or not
word: sovereign immunity
crown immunities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crown immunity
icetray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: icetrays
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ice tray.
ice tray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice trays
form: icetray
Senses: glosses: A household item usually in the form of a plastic or metal device with a series of indentations such that the item may be easily filled with water (or another liquid) for the purpose of being placed in a freezer, from which it will later be removed, at which point it will contain easily separable ice cubes (or frozen cubes of whatever liquid was placed in it).
Synonyms: ice cube tray
ice trays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ice tray
ice cube tray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice cube trays
form: ice-cube tray
form: icecube tray
Senses: glosses: An ice tray.
ice cube trays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ice cube tray
icetrays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of icetray (alternative spelling of ice trays).
icecube tray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: icecube trays
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ice cube tray.
skin mags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skin mag
skinmag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skinmags
Senses: examples: text: Nor does she stop at the basically aesthetic sense in which a bank of garish skinmag covers is violent, or the propensity of pornography to (in her tellingly prim phrase) "offend sensibility."
ref: 1991, Michael S. Kimmel, Men Confront Pornography, link:
text: Just after getting out of college he found one like that in a skinmag he kept around a long time: long wavy brown Rossetti hair, a rainbow butterfly tattoo on her thigh, looking out smoldering from the middle of a twilight apartment […]
ref: 1996, Fred Pfail, What they tell you to forget: a novella and stories, link:
glosses: Alternative form of skin mag.
icecube trays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of icecube tray (alternative spelling of ice cube trays).
skinmags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skinmag
icecube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: icecubes
Senses: examples: text: She began to listen for the clunk and drop of the icecubes again— She fought it off.
ref: 2011, Stephen King, The Stand: Complete and uncut edition, page 298:
glosses: Alternative form of ice cube.
icecubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of icecube (alternative spelling of ice cubes).
tea trays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tea tray
teatray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teatrays
Senses: examples: text: What's more, too, my dear, I'll buy a new table, cover, a new teatray, and we'll have the teapot used every night, for just see what an order it's got me
ref: 1849, Eliza Cook, Eliza Cook's journal: Volume 1, page 25:
glosses: Alternative spelling of tea tray.
teatrays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teatray (alternative spelling of tea trays).
kept men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kept man
kept women
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kept woman
bestrut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bestruts
form: bestrutting
form: bestrutted
form: bestrutted
Etymology: From be- + strut.
Senses: glosses: To distend.
weiners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weiner
aquaspinning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aqua- + spinning, referring to the motion of the wheels.
Senses: glosses: A form of exercise using an exercise bicycle immersed in water
bungee jumpers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bungee jumper
bungee cords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bungee cord
Melisha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
bungee ropes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bungee rope
bungee lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bungee line
Varuzhan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /vəˈɹuʒən/
Forms: form: Varoujan
Etymology: From Armenian Վարուժան (Varužan).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Armenian male given name Վարուժան (Varužan).
Related terms: Varuzh
Varouj
antecedent phrase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antecedent phrases
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: the first phrase in a period
antecedent phrases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antecedent phrase
consequent phrase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consequent phrases
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: the second phrase in a period
consequent phrases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of consequent phrase
hepatosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hepatoses
Etymology: From hepato- + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: any functional disorder of the liver
Derived terms: steatohepatosis
chiltoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chiltomas
Etymology: From Spanish chiltoma, from Nahuatl [Term?].
Senses: glosses: Any sweet pepper.
chiltomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chiltoma
chilacayote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chilacayotes
Etymology: From Classical Nahuatl; see below.
Senses: synonyms: seven-year melon
fig-leaf gourd
Asian pumpkin
black seed squash
Malabar gourd
glosses: Any of species Cucurbita ficifolia of squashes native to and domesticated in the New World, cultivated worldwide in warm climates.
Related terms: chilaca
euthyroidism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From euthyroid + -ism.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Normal functioning of the thyroid or the physiological state as a result thereof, usually determined by the level of TSH and other thyroid-related functions.
chilacayotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chilacayote
imberb
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more imberb
form: most imberb
Etymology: From French imberbe, from Latin imberbis.
Senses: examples: text: He was a very young man with pale hair to which heavy oiling had given a curious greyish colour, and a face of such childish contour and so imberb that he looked like a little boy playing at grown-ups.
ref: 1923, Aldous Huxley, Antic Hay:
text: Think of the hundreds of imberb boys and impubert girls it had needed to placate the Cretan minotaur!
ref: 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 972:
glosses: Beardless.
morphinomane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morphinomanes
Etymology: From morphine + -mane, after French morphinomane.
Senses: examples: text: He was nodding slowly with the mandarin-like nodding of the morphinomane – though he was not one in real fact.
ref: 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 985-6
glosses: Someone who is addicted to morphine.
Synonyms: morphinomaniac
morphinomanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morphinomane
peach palm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peach palms
Senses: synonyms: word: peewah
word: pupunha
glosses: A South American palm tree with fleshy, edible fruit (Bactris gasipaes).
peach palms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peach palm
Ariostan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ariostan
form: most Ariostan
Etymology: From Ariosto + -an.
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: Characteristic of the Italian poet Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533).
locust beans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of locust bean
Chinese unicorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chinese unicorns
Senses: glosses: A kirin.
Chinese unicorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chinese unicorn
Asianic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Asianic
form: most Asianic
Etymology: From Asian + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Asian.
glosses: Describing any of several unrelated languages spoken in Asia Minor and surrounding areas.
intransparent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more intransparent
form: most intransparent
Etymology: From in- + transparent.
Senses: glosses: Not transparent
Synonyms: nontransparent
opaque
untransparent
untransparent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untransparent
form: most untransparent
Etymology: From un- + transparent.
Senses: synonyms: nontransparent
intransparent
glosses: Not transparent.
Derived terms: untransparently
deconvolution microscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A mathematical method used to sharpen images by analyzing a series of images from different focal planes
focal plane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: focal planes
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any plane perpendicular to the axis of a lens or mirror.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Such a plane, in a camera, microscope etc, in which the real image is in focus.
real image
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: real images
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The image formed by light rays converging from a convex lens or concave mirror
Related terms: virtual image
Basedow's disease
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named for German physician Karl Adolph von Basedow.
Senses: glosses: Graves' disease
wikipedia: Karl Adolph von Basedow
nuclear envelope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nuclear envelopes
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: nuclear membrane
nuclear membrane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nuclear membranes
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A double lipid bilayer that surrounds the nucleus in eukaryotic cells; it contains the genetic material (DNA).
Synonyms: nuclear envelope
Related terms: cell membrane
cell sap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This region, which includes a transparent, or rarely colored, watery substance known as the cell sap, is called the vacuole, a term that comes from the Latin word for “empty.”
ref: 2009, Randy O. Wayne, Plant Cell Biology: From Astronomy to Zoology, page 101:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The liquid enclosed inside the vacuole of a plant cell.
bezzo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bezzi
Etymology: From Italian bezzo.
Senses: glosses: An old silver Venetian coin worth half a soldo.
transport vesicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transport vesicles
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: a vesicle that transports molecules or nutrients within a cell
imperatorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: more imperatorial
form: most imperatorial
Etymology: Latin imperatorius.
Senses: examples: text: imperatorial graces
glosses: Commanding; authoritative.
examples: text: imperatorial acclamation
text: Gaul and Illyricum , Britain and Spain , had all furnished the first Cæsar with imperatorial laurels
ref: 1850-1862, Charles Merivale, A History of the Romans under the Empire:
glosses: Relating to an emperor, especially of Ancient Rome.
Derived terms: imperatorially
irisated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more irisated
form: most irisated
Etymology: From iris + -ated. Compare French irisé and irisate.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting the prismatic colours; iridescent.
irremeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪˈɹɛm.i.ə.bəl/
Forms: form: more irremeable
form: most irremeable
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin irremeābilis, from in- (“not”) + remeābilis (“returning”), from remeō. Compare French irréméable. See remeant.
Senses: examples: text: an irremeable way
text: Oh , thou hast given me such a glimpse of hell ,
So pushed me forward even to the brink
Of that irremeable burning gulf
ref: 1690, [John] Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number):
text: th' irremeable flood
ref: 1715–1720, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, “Book 23”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:
glosses: Admitting no return.
solpugid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solpugids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any arachnid of the order Solifugae
solpugids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of solpugid
encomber
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: encombers
form: encombering
form: encombered
form: encombered
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of encumber.
encombered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of encomber
encombering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of encomber
encombers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of encomber
highty-tighty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more highty-tighty
form: most highty-tighty
Senses: examples: text: "La, William, don't be so highty-tighty with us. We're not men. We can't fight you," Miss Jane said.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of hoity-toity.
inthronized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inthronize
inthronizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inthronize
inthronizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inthronize
sea drake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea drakes
Senses: examples: text: When, after the death of the son, Beowulf and his companions pursued the mother into her retreat, they found the water full of sea-drakes and serpents (wyrm-cynnes fela), and nicers lying on the banks.
ref: 1834 July, “The National Fairy Mythology of England”, in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, volume 10, page 53:
text: Sea drakes are also known to travel up the Rhone river to spawn in Lake Geneva, creating a hazard for shipping.
ref: 2011, Jason Rice, Brent Evanger, Kingdoms of Legend: Knights of France, page 23:
text: The sea drake uncoiled from the palace as they approached .
ref: 2020, Natalie Grey, Saira & the Dragon's Egg:
text: The monster, a subspecies of dragon, was a sea drake.
ref: 2024, Hagure Metabo, A Livid Lady's Guide to Getting Even:
topics: fantasy
glosses: A sea dragon.
examples: text: The gardener found birds frozen to their branches, yet at the base of the same tree, a flock of sea-drakes and hens were perfectly unharmed!
ref: 2024, David Marcum, The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories - Part XLIV:
glosses: The pewit gull, or sea cormorant (Corvus marinus)
examples: text: Another of our regular visiters from the North is the EIDER DUCK , which furnishes the fine down that is so valuable an article of commerce. On our coast this bird is commonly known by the name of the SEA DRAKE.
ref: 1832, The New-England Magazine - Volume 2, page 103:
text: They are universally known as "Sea-ducks," the males being always distinguished as "Sea-drakes."
ref: 1862, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, page 240:
text: That is why, when looking for the cock-a-wee, the harlequin, or any of the big sea drakes, I may sometimes, like Wordsworth, " Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.
ref: 1963, The Narragansett Naturalist - Volumes 6-9, page 5:
glosses: A male eider.
sea drakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea drake
deleble
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin delebilis.
Senses: examples: text: For pens, ſo uſefull for Scholars to note the remarkables they read, with an impreſſion eaſily deleble without prejudice to the book.
ref: a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, “Cumberland”, in The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC, page 215:
glosses: Obsolete form of delible.
mediety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mɪˈdaɪ.ɪti/
Forms: form: medieties
Etymology: From the late Middle English medietee (“a half”), borrowed from the Classical Latin medietās. Doublet of moiety.
Senses: examples: text: [creatures] made up of man and bird: the human mediety variously placed not only above, but below
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
text: The rectory of Pakefield was in medieties from a period before the Norman Conquest, each mediety having its patron, who presented to his portion upon every vacancy in succession, and not in alternate patronage;
ref: 1846, Alfred Inigo Suckling, The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk, page 282:
glosses: The middle part; half; moiety.
glosses: Any function that splits an interval into equal-length subintervals.
morbillous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more morbillous
form: most morbillous
Etymology: Latin morbilli (“measles”), diminutive of Latin morbus (“disease”) + -ous: compare French morbilleux.
Senses: examples: text: morbillous ophthalmia
text: morbillous contagion
text: morbillous catarrh
glosses: Resembling or relating to measles.
relicted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin relictus, past participle.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Left uncovered, as land by recession of water
secondary cell wall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secondary cell walls
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A structure situated between the primary cell wall and the plasma membrane of plant cells
impregn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɹiːn/
Forms: form: impregns
form: impregning
form: impregned
form: impregned
Etymology: First attested in the early 15ᵗʰ century, in Middle English; from Middle English impregnen (“to make a woman pregnant, impregnate”), from Old French enpreignier, enpreigner (French imprégner), ultimately from Medieval Latin impraegnō. Doublet of impregnate.
Senses: examples: text: his perswasive words, impregn’d
With Reason
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: Semele doth Bacchus bear / Impregned of Jove.
ref: 1642, Henry More, The Life of the Soul:
text: Th' unfruitful rock, itself impregn'd by thee,⁠ / In dark retirement forms the lucid stone.
ref: a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
glosses: To impregnate; to make fruitful.
wikipedia: Middle English
impregned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of impregn
impregning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of impregn
impregns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of impregn
rudity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rudities
Etymology: From rude + -ity, from Middle English ruditee, ruditē, from Old French rudete, from Latin ruditas (“ignorance”), from rudis (“rude, illiterate”). First use appears c. 1450.
Senses: glosses: Rudeness; ignorance.
temporalties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of temporalty
temporalty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: temporalties
Etymology: See temporality.
Senses: examples: 1606-1609, Robert Abbot, A Defence of the Reformed Catholic of Mr. William Perkins
Whereas you alleadge your Catholickely affected in euerie degree not of the Temporalty : only but also of the Clergie, hardly the highest degrees of honour to be expected.
glosses: The laity; secular people.
glosses: A secular possession; a temporality.
engrasp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: engrasps
form: engrasping
form: engrasped
form: engrasped
Etymology: From en- + grasp?
Senses: examples: text: Now gan Pyrochles wex as wood as hee,
And him affronted with impatient might :
So both together fiers engrasped bee ,
Whiles Guyon standing by their uncouth strife does see
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To grasp; to grip, to take hold of.
engrasped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of engrasp
engrasping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of engrasp
engrasps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of engrasp
oliban
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒlɪban/
Etymology: From Middle French oliban. Doublet of olibanum.
Senses: glosses: Olibanum.
protamin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protamins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of protamine.
citess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: citesses
form: cittess
Etymology: From cit + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A city woman; a female citizen.
primary cell wall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primary cell walls
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The semipermeable outer cell wall of plant cells.
citesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of citess
legionries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of legionry
legionry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: legionries
Etymology: From legion + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: to drive away
From earth the dark , infernal legionry
Of superstition , ignorance , and hell
ref: 1827, Robert Pollok, The Course of Time:
glosses: A body of legions; legions collectively.
pulsive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pulsive
form: most pulsive
Senses: examples: text: What I here speak is forced from my lips / By the pulsive strain of conscience.
ref: 1600 or 1601 (date written), I. M. [i.e., John Marston], Antonios Reuenge. The Second Part. […], London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, and are to be soulde [by Matthew Lownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: Tending to compel; compulsory.
Derived terms: pulsivity
hydrotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hydrotic
form: most hydrotic
Etymology: Ancient Greek [Term?]
Senses: glosses: Causing a discharge of water or phlegm.
Related terms: antihydrotic
hydrotic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrotics
Etymology: Ancient Greek [Term?]
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A hydrotic medicine.
hydrotics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrotic
maintainor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maintainors
Etymology: Old French mainteneor, French mainteneur.
Senses: examples: text: […]as well the receptor and maintainor, as that rebel or person so recepted, or maintained, be taken, reputed and adjudged
ref: 1786, James G. Butler, The Statutes at Large:
topics: law
glosses: One who, not being an interested party, maintains a cause depending between others, by furnishing money, etc., to either party.
maintainors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maintainor
shattery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shattery
form: most shattery
Etymology: From shatter + -y.
Senses: examples: text: shattery material
glosses: Easily shattered; not compact; loose of texture; brittle.
molewarp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molewarps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mouldwarp.
molewarps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of molewarp
radius vector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radii vectores
form: radius vectors
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
synonyms: position vector
glosses: Of a point, a vector going from the origin to that point; equivalently, the transpose of the point.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: An ideal straight line joining the center of an attracting body with that of a body describing an orbit around it, as a line joining the sun and a planet or comet, or a planet and its satellite.
radius vectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radius vector
dispathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dispathy
dispathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɪspəθi/
Forms: form: dispathies
Etymology: From dyspathy by confusion with the prefix dis-.
Senses: examples: text: many discrepancies and some dispathies between us
ref: 1829, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Sir Thomas More: or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of dyspathy.
searce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɑːs/
ipa: /sɜːs/
ipa: /sɑɹs/
ipa: /sɚs/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)s
rhymes: -ɜːs
Forms: form: searces
form: sarse
Etymology: From Middle English sarse, probably from Anglo-Norman cerche, *cerce, from Late Latin *circa.
Traditionally derived from Old French saas (Late Latin *saetāceus (pannus) (“(cloth) made of bristles”)), but this does not explain the -r- or the final -e of the Middle English form; intrusive -r- before /s/ is sometimes found in Middle English, but one would expect etymological r-less forms to appear alongside such forms.
Senses: examples: text: Yet will our selfe overweening sift his divinitie through our searce [translating estamine]: whence are engendred all the vanities and errours wherewith the world is so full-fraught[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: A sieve; a strainer.
searce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɑːs/
ipa: /sɜːs/
ipa: /sɑɹs/
ipa: /sɚs/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)s
rhymes: -ɜːs
Forms: form: searces
form: searcing
form: searced
form: searced
form: sarse
Etymology: From Middle English sarse, probably from Anglo-Norman cerche, *cerce, from Late Latin *circa.
Traditionally derived from Old French saas (Late Latin *saetāceus (pannus) (“(cloth) made of bristles”)), but this does not explain the -r- or the final -e of the Middle English form; intrusive -r- before /s/ is sometimes found in Middle English, but one would expect etymological r-less forms to appear alongside such forms.
Senses: examples: text: My next Difficulty was to make a Sieve, or Searſe, to dreſs my meal, and to part it from the Bran and the Huſk, without which I did not ſee it poſſible I could have any Bread. […] I had nothing like the neceſſary Things to make it with—I mean fine thin Canvas, or Stuff, to ſearſe the Meal through.
ref: 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, page 144:
glosses: To sift (through a sieve); to bolt.
searced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of searce
searces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of searce
searcing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of searce
enthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛnˈθɛtɪk/
ipa: /ɪnˈ-/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐνθετικός (enthetikós, “fit for implanting”), from ἐντίθημι (entíthēmi, “put in”).
Senses: examples: text: an enthetic disease like syphilis
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Caused by a morbific pathogen implanted in the system.
persulphocyanogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: thiocyanogen
Synonyms: pseudosulphocyanogen
perthiocyanogen
sulphocyanogen
concludency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Here are certain considerable Objections against those things that are delivered in the precedent Chapters , and against the concludency or evidence of those Reasons
ref: a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:
glosses: deduction from premises; inference; conclusion
enchannel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enchannels
form: enchanneling
form: enchannelling
form: enchanneled
form: enchanneled
form: enchannelled
form: enchannelled
Etymology: From en- + channel.
Senses: examples: 1848, D. Brewster, "Mrs. Somerville's Physical Geography" (review), in The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art
Its waters were enchanneled.
glosses: To channel (literally or figuratively).
enchanneled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enchannel
enchanneling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enchannel
enchannels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enchannel
inergetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inergetically
form: most inergetically
Etymology: From inergetic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: Without energy; not energetically.
precontract
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: precontracts
form: pre-contract
Etymology: From pre- + contract.
Senses: examples: text: Two grounds are surmised , by opposite parties : a pre-contract with Percy , Earl of Northumberland ; and an adulterous intercourse of Henry , many years preceding , with Anne's sister , Mary Boleyn.
ref: 1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani: Or, A Commentary, by Way of Supplement to the Canons and Constitutions of the Church of England. […], London: […] D. Leach, and sold by John Walthoe […], →OCLC:
text: A followed in the Federal courts , to the precontract , valid by the Constitution and laws judice of holders for value who acquired their of a State
ref: 1867, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Digest of the Reports of the United States Courts and Acts of Congress:
topics: law
glosses: A contract preceding another, especially a contract of marriage which, according to the ancient law, rendered void a subsequent marriage solemnized in violation of it.
precontract
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: precontracts
form: precontracting
form: precontracted
form: precontracted
form: pre-contract
Etymology: From pre- + contract.
Senses: glosses: To contract prior to another process.
glosses: To make a previous contract.
precontracts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of precontract
snakeneck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snakenecks
Etymology: From snake + neck?
Senses: glosses: The snakebird (Any bird of genus Anhinga)
snakenecks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snakeneck
middle lamella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The intercellular material, composed mostly of pectin, that facilitates adhesion between neighbouring plant cells
defeatured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more defeatured
form: most defeatured
Etymology: From de- + feature + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Changed in features; deformed.
defeatured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From de- + feature + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Features when defeatured in the […] way I have described.
ref: 1839, Thomas De Quincey, William Wordsworth:
glosses: past participle of defeature
diacoustics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dia- + acoustics. Compare French diacoustique.
Senses: glosses: The science concerned with the properties of sound as affected by passing through different mediums; diaphonics.
dorsel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)səl
Forms: form: dorsels
Etymology: See dosser.
Senses: glosses: A pannier.
glosses: Alternative form of dorsal
dorsels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dorsel
haum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haums
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of haulm (a stalk)
haums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haum
cointension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From co- + intension.
Senses: examples: text: 3:6 and 6:12 are relations of cointension.
text: semantic cointension
text: 1870-1880, Herbert Spencer, Principles of Psychology
If their intensities are equal , they must be called cointense; and the equality of their intensities is cointension
glosses: The condition of being of equal in intensity; applied to relations.
insulsity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin insulsitas.
Senses: glosses: lack of taste, insipidity
glosses: stupidity, foolishness or dullness
muscology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin muscus (“moss”) + -logy.
Senses: glosses: bryology
Derived terms: muscologist
overpicture
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overpictures
form: overpicturing
form: overpictured
form: overpictured
Etymology: From over- + picture.
Senses: examples: text: O'er-picturing that Venus
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
glosses: To surpass nature in the picture or representation of; describe or portray with exaggeration.
Related terms: overexaggerate
overpictured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overpicture
overpictures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overpicture
overpicturing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overpicture
churchwardenship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: churchwardenships
Etymology: From churchwarden + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The role or office of a churchwarden.
churchwardenships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of churchwardenship
hemiditone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemiditones
Etymology: From hemi- + ditone.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: semiditone
qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: The lesser third.
hemiditones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemiditone
direption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dɪˈɹɛpʃən/
/daɪˈɹɛpʃən/
Forms: form: direptions
Etymology: From Latin dīreptio, from dīripiō (“tear asunder, plunder”), from dis- + rapiō (“seize, carry off”).
Senses: examples: text: [T]heir hoſtile oppreſsions vvere increaſed by their domeſticke vexations, for that the vvhole Countrey by theſe continuall direptions, vvas utterly depriued of the ſtaffe of foode, hauing nothing left to prolong their life, but that only vvhat they got in hunting.
ref: 1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “But First of the Downe-fall of Britaine”, in The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], London: […] William Hall and John Beale, for John Sudbury and George Humble, […], →OCLC, book VII ([The Saxons] […]), paragraph 2, page 281, column 2:
text: committing many direptions and outrages
ref: 1641, Thomas Heywood, The Life of Merlin: Surnamed Ambrosius:
glosses: The act of despoiling, plundering, or snatching away.
disseizure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disseizures
Senses: glosses: Disseizin.
traunt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: traunts
form: traunting
form: traunted
form: traunted
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of trant.