cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
craunch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: craunches
Etymology: See crunch.
Senses: examples: text: He sat down to write, and occupied himself with certain papers, until there was a far-off sound of wheels: some vehicle was slowly entering the great gates; a craunch upon the gravel sweep.
ref: 1867, Once a Week, page 242:
glosses: A grinding or crunching sound.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A portion of a stratum or vein left in excavating to support the roof.
craunched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of craunch
craunches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of craunch
craunching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of craunch
humanate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: First attested in 1551; borrowed from Late Latin hūmanātus, from hūmanus + -ātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: But of your saying it followeth, that the bread is humanate or incarnate[…]
ref: c. 1551, Thomas Cranmer, An Answer to a Crafty and Sophistical Cavillation devised by Stephen Gadiner:
glosses: Imbued with humanity.
Derived terms: humanation
myotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more myotic
form: most myotic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of miotic.
myotic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myotics
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of miotic.
myotics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myotic
flying machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flying machines
Senses: glosses: Early term for an aircraft; a machine for flying in (gerund); a machine that flies (participial adjective)
dentilation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dentilations
Senses: glosses: dentition
Related terms: dentil
dentilated
dentilations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dentilation
disgarrison
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disgarrisons
form: disgarrisoning
form: disgarrisoned
form: disgarrisoned
Etymology: From dis- + garrison.
Senses: examples: text: The[…]discouerers of my desire, disgarisond my thoughts of wonted fancies.
ref: 1594, J. Dickenson, Arisbas:
glosses: To deprive of a garrison.
disgarrisoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disgarrison
disgarrisoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disgarrison
disgarrisons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disgarrison
pronaoi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pronaos
pronaoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pronaos
promythia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of promythium
epimythia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epimythium
Peloponnesian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Peloponnesian
form: most Peloponnesian
Etymology: From Latin Peloponnesius, from Peloponnesus, from Ancient Greek Πελοπόννησος (Pelopónnēsos, literally “the island of Pelops”).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Peloponnesus, or southern peninsula of Greece.
Peloponnesian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Peloponnesians
Etymology: From Latin Peloponnesius, from Peloponnesus, from Ancient Greek Πελοπόννησος (Pelopónnēsos, literally “the island of Pelops”).
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the Peloponnesus.
Peloponnesians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Peloponnesian
immaterialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: immaterializes
form: immaterializing
form: immaterialized
form: immaterialized
Etymology: From immaterial + -ize. Compare French immatérialiser.
Senses: glosses: To render immaterial or incorporeal.
immaterialized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of immaterialize
immaterializes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of immaterialize
immaterializing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of immaterialize
appendication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: appendications
Etymology: From appendic- + -ation.
Senses: glosses: An appendage; attachment; something added; an extra part.
appendications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of appendication
dedicatories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dedicatory
elidable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From elide + -able.
Senses: examples: text: an elidable vowel
text: […] and its being expired, and attaining Possession, are matters of Fact, requiring Probation, which are improper for an Inquest, and elidable, by a reply of Payment, or Intromission within the Legall, and Strowan was Served with Reservation of the Marquess Right, as accords of the Law.
ref: 1687, The Decisions of the Lords of Council & Session, volume 2, page 871:
text: That Sheridan himself did ever read out this couplet as it must inevitably be read if his theory be right, I do not believe; but if he did not, then the superfluous syllables, claimed by him, would not be sounded; that is to say, unconsciously, and in spite of himself, he would elide the elidable ones, and cut out the mute.
ref: 1878, Gilbert Conway, A Treatise on Versification, page 92:
synonyms: elidible
glosses: Capable of being elided.
Derived terms: nonelidable
unelidable
synaeretic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪnəˈɹɛtɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Forms: form: synæretic
form: synairetic
form: syneretic
Etymology: From synaeresis + -etic.
Senses: topics: communications
human-sciences
journalism
linguistics
literature
media
phonetics
phonology
poetry
prosody
publishing
sciences
writing
glosses: Relating to:
synaeresis (the contraction of two vowels into a diphthong or a long vowel)
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to:
synaeresis (the separating out of the liquid from a gel)
synaereses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synaeresis
reverberatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more reverberatingly
form: most reverberatingly
Etymology: From reverberating + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Music thundered reverberatingly out of the church organ.
glosses: So as to reverberate; with echoes.
costimulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of costimulation
costimulators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of costimulator
costimulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: costimulates
form: costimulating
form: costimulated
form: costimulated
Etymology: From co- + stimulate.
Senses: glosses: To take part in the co-stimulation of a process.
costimulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of costimulate
costimulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of costimulate
costimulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of costimulate
zinostatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Shortened form of Streptomyces carzinostaticus, the bacteria from which it is isolated, and -in.
Senses: glosses: A particular antineoplastic drug.
Derived terms: zinostatin stimalamer
cuntishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cuntish + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: They were like old women with their fucking stupidity; their absolute cuntishness seemed to cling to them like shit to a blanket.
ref: 2009, Martina Cole, Close:
glosses: The quality of being cuntish.
laveer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈvɪə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: laveers
form: laveering
form: laveered
form: laveered
Etymology: From Dutch laveren.
Senses: examples: text: But those that 'gainst stiff Gales laveering go
Must be at once resolv'd and skilful too.
ref: 1660, [John] Dryden, Astraea Redux:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To beat against the wind; to tack.
laveered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of laveer
laveering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of laveer
laveers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of laveer
subrecoil
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + recoil.
Senses: glosses: Below the "recoil limit", the lowest temperature reachable in traditional forms of laser cooling.
immie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immies
Etymology: Diminutive of imitation agate, + -ie. Compare aggie.
Senses: glosses: A marble (small ball used in children's games).
immies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immie
glosses: plural of immy
bettable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bettable
form: most bettable
Etymology: From bet + -able.
Senses: glosses: Suitable for betting; capable of being gambled.
wagerable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wagerable
form: most wagerable
Etymology: From wager + -able.
Senses: glosses: Suitable for wagering; capable of being gambled.
keepsies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From keep + -sies. Compare backsies, halfsies, swapsies.
Senses: examples: text: We'll be playing for keepsies.
glosses: The act of keeping something, especially something wagered as part of a game.
halfplanar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From half + planar.
Senses: glosses: Relating to half-planes.
quitsies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From quit + -sies.
Senses: glosses: Permission to leave a game (of marbles, etc.) without forfeit or penalty.
oilies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oily
oners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oner
twoer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twoers
Etymology: From two + -er.
Senses: examples: text: As the word implies the glarneys were glass marbles, but no ball out of an old mineral-water bottle was ever dignified by receiving the name, though such balls were not despised possessions, and had the rank of twoers.
ref: 1953, Julian Franklyn, The Cockney: a survey of London life and language:
glosses: A glass marble in children's games, slightly larger and more valuable than a oner.
glosses: A conker that has won two matches.
twoers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twoer
Lake Michigan-Huron
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lake Huron-Michigan
Senses: examples: text: As backwater from Lake Erie raises the level of Lake St. Clair, so backwater from Lake St. Clair raises the level of Lake Michigan-Huron.
ref: 1910, US Congress, Report of the International Waterways Commission on the Regulation of Lake Erie, page 10:
text: The inflow to Lake Michigan–Huron, through the St. Marys River, from Lake Superior was determined each day... Similarly, the outflow from Lake Michigan–Huron to Lake Erie was determined for each day...
ref: 1922, John Hayford, Effects of Winds and of Barometric Pressures on the Great Lakes, Carnegie Institution of Washington, page 28:
text: Contrary to popular belief, the largest lake in the world is not Lake Superior but mighty Lake Michigan-Huron, which is a single hydrological unit linked at the Straits of Mackinac. Of all the Great Lakes, Michigan-Huron is the least regulated...
ref: 2004, Canadian geographic, volume 124, Royal Canadian Geographical Society, page 96:
text: Of the Great Lakes, Lake Michigan-Huron had the highest water levels in midsummer and Lake Superior, in early fall.
ref: 2006, Magnuson, Kratz, & Benson, Long-term dynamics of lakes in the landscape, page 132:
glosses: One of the Great Lakes of North America. Hydrologically a single lake, its two basins are traditionally counted as separate lakes, Lake Michigan and Lake Huron.
Lake Huron-Michigan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lake Michigan-Huron
Senses: examples: text: Lake Huron-Michigan, at 45,300 mi² / 117,400 km² is technically the world's largest freshwater lake. This is because what have traditionally been called Lake Huron and Lake Michigan are really giant lobes of a single lake connected by the five mile wide Strait of Mackinac.
ref: 2002, Department of Environmental Quality, State of Michigan, “Great Lakes Map”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: One of the Great Lakes of North America. Hydrologically a single lake, its two basins are traditionally counted as separate lakes, Lake Huron and Lake Michigan.
fanger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fangers
Etymology: From Middle English fanger, equivalent to fang + -er. Cognate with Old High German fangari (“fanger; one who takes”), German Fänger (“catcher”).
Senses: glosses: A receiver.
glosses: A helper; protector.
čiriklo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /t͡ʃiɹiklo/
Etymology: Borrowed from Romani ćiriklo (“bird, sparrow; háček”); compare ̼ (seagull).
Senses: examples: text: Preyotization is indicated by means of the “čiriklo” ˇ.
ref: 1990, Roma, Roma Publications, page 43:
text: Palatalisation of d, l, n, t is marked only by a čiriklo (ˇ) (term coined by M. Courtiade).
ref: 1995, Yaron Matras, editor, Romani in Contact, J. Benjamins, →ISBN, page 197, →ISBN:
text: RS follows standard East European practice of using the wedge (haček, čiriklo) to indicate the strident palatals (š, ž, č, ǆ).
ref: 1997, Victor A. Friedman, “Linguistic form and content in the Romani-language press of the Republic of Macedonia”, in Yaron Matras, Peter Bakker, Hristo Kyuchukov, editors, The Typology and Dialectology of Romani, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 185, →ISBN:
text: j or haček (čiriklo) over following vowel
ref: 2003, Victor A. Friedman, Turkish in Macedonia and Beyond, page 157:
glosses: A háček (marking palatalisation when written atop a consonant, iotation when written atop a vowel).
raw_tags: in reference to the diacritics used in Romani
clicka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: All rising tones (a sequence of low-tone plus high-tone on one syllable) are marked with clicka ˇ above the syllable affected.
ref: 1980, The Bible Translator, United Bible Societies, XXXI-XXXIII, page 222:
text: Accents for other languages include the macron, breve, overdot, angstrom and caron (sometimes called hacek or clicka).
ref: 1988, John Negru, Computer Typesetting, Van Nostrand Reinhold, →ISBN, page 60, →ISBN:
glosses: A háček.
clicka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A clique, group, gang.
retrograde inversions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retrograde inversion
frog marches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frog march
frog marches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of frog march
frog marching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of frog march
frog marched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of frog march
fount of honour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: founts of honour
form: fount of honor
Senses: glosses: A fons honorum; a person with the right to confer titles of nobility
founts of honour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fount of honour
fount of honor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: founts of honor
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fount of honour; fons honorum
founts of honor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fount of honor
gig-lamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gig-lamps
Etymology: From gig + lamp.
Senses: examples: text: But once on the more secure purchase of the macadamised main road, their driver turned off his gig-lamps and let the passengers swell slowly into drowsy sleep as he set sail for distant Avignon.
ref: 1985, Lawrence Durrell, Quinx (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1257:
glosses: Either of the lamps on either side of a gig carriage; a headlamp.
glosses: Spectacles.
expediential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪkˌspiːdiˈɛnʃəl/
Forms: form: more expediential
form: most expediential
Senses: examples: text: an expediential policy
text: calculating, expediential understanding
ref: 1826, Julius Hare, Guesses at Truth by Two Brothers:
glosses: Governed by expediency; seeking advantage.
Related terms: expedientially
huswifely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more huswifely
form: most huswifely
Etymology: From huswife + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Besydes that it is false that vnac[t]yfe men lede a quiete lyfe for els it must be that the lyfe of women were more quietous than that of men as they that syt watchyng at home occupied in huswifely occupations.
ref: c. 1528, Thomas Wyatt, Tho. Wyatis Translatyon of Plutarckes Boke, Of the Quyete of Mynde, London: Richard Pynson:
text: 1568, Matthew Parker et al. (translators), Bishops’ Bible, Proverbs 12.4,
A huswifely woman is a crowne vnto her husbande: but she that behaueth her selfe vnhonestly, is as corruption in his bones.
text: 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Henry Cripps, Partition 3, Section 2, Member 5, Subsection 3, pp. 649-650,
In taking a dowre thou loosest thy liberty, hazardest thine estate; thou hadst better haue taken a good huswifely maid in her smocke.
text: 1816, William Hazlitt, “The Recruiting Officer,” review published in The Examiner, 3 March, 1816, in A View of the English Stage; or, A Series of Dramatic Criticisms, London: John Warren, 1821, p. 246,
We ought not to omit, that she cries her chickens in a good shrill huswifely market-voice, as if she would drive a good bargain with them.
glosses: Like or of a huswife; capable; economical; prudent.
huswifely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more huswifely
form: most huswifely
Etymology: From huswife + -ly.
Senses: examples: 1573, Thomas Tusser, Fiue Hundreth Points of Good Husbandry, London: Richard Tottill, “Enstructions to Huswiferie,”
This care hath a huswife all daye in her hed,
that all thing in season be huswifely fed.
glosses: In the manner of a huswife; capably; economically; prudently.
Related terms: housewifely
weasiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From weasy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: where is a suitableness, there is no weasiness
ref: 1678, William Strong, A discourse of the two covenants:
glosses: Quality or state of being weasy; full feeding; sensual indulgence.
worble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: worbles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wormil.
worbles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of worble
pesage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pesages
Etymology: From French pesage, from peser (“to weigh”).
Senses: glosses: A fee or toll paid for the weighing of merchandise.
pesages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pesage
planetoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔɪdəl
Etymology: From planetoid + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a planetoid.
putid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈpjuːtɪd/
Forms: form: more putid
form: most putid
Etymology: From Latin putidus. Compare French putide. Compare putrid.
Senses: examples: text: Memorials of their putid Rottenneſſe
ref: 1651, Joseph Beaumont, Psyche:
text: thy putid muse
ref: 1659, Henry More, The Immortality of the Soul:
glosses: rotten; fetid; stinking; base; worthless
ministracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: ministration
toyingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more toyingly
form: most toyingly
Etymology: From toying + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: jestingly
mockingly
playfully
glosses: In a toying manner; so as to toy with someone or something.
dilucid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /daɪˈl(j)uːsɪd/
/dɪˈl(j)uːsɪd/
Forms: form: more dilucid
form: most dilucid
Etymology: From Latin dilucidus, from dilucere (“to be light enough to tell objects apart”). See lucid.
Senses: examples: text: an ambiguous, or not so perspicuous and dilucide description of Lawes
ref: 1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC:
glosses: clear or lucid
Related terms: dilucidation
dilucidity
dilucidly
selfist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From self + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: To do this, you should have sympathy for all humanity, and this cannot be done as long as you are a selfish or even selfist person.
ref: 2012, Zadmehr Torabi, Amerrycountry: Autorabiography, page 44:
text: To be selfist, one must presume divergence of interest.
ref: 2015, John P. Powelson, The Institutions of Economic Growth, page 149:
text: Separateness in selfist thought is transmogrified into a perverted freedom (or set of freedoms), themselves devoid of attendant responsibilities.
ref: 2018, Michael J. DeValve, Tammy S. Garland, Elizabeth Q. Wright, A Unified Theory of Justice and Crime, page 7:
glosses: Believing in or practicing selfism.
selfist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selfists
Etymology: From self + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he pretentious wiſdom, and the knowing cautions of men—reputed to be of high ſtanding in phyſiological ſcience, but whoſe philoſophy, as it is that of the materialiſt, ſo does it prompt them to palliate, or even to juſtify, the practices of licentious ſelfiſts.
ref: 1860, Isaac Taylor, “Essay I. Ultimate Civilization.”, in Ultimate Civilization and Other Essays, London: Bell and Daldy […], →OCLC, part I, section VIII, pages 96–97:
text: We have in the priests and elders the selfist prosperous in his schemes, and untouched, unhurt. We have in Judas the selfist wounded and disappointed, beginning to " eat of the fruit of his own way, and to be filled with his own devices."
ref: 1846, The Christian guardian (and Church of England magazine)., page 306:
text: Since a punctualist (or an episodic) believes that the self does not last for long, a puncualist who is also a selfist has pertty much the same problems as a reductionist in justifying future-oriented egoistic concern.
ref: 2009, Jay L. Garfield, Tom J.F. Tillemans, Mario D'Amato, Pointing at the Moon: Buddhism, Logic, Analytic Philosophy, page 121:
glosses: A selfish person.
examples: text: The selfist uses himself to achieve his goals, whereas the selfish uses others to achieve his goals. The selfist gets to a point where he simply must gather up all that is generated by his name and work so that he may properly organize his life; the selfist simply needs time to himself.
ref: 2013, KRS-One, The Gospel of Hip Hop: The First Instrument:
text: The selfist, on the other hand, believes that those same persons wield power to their own advantage only, and care little or not at all about the aspirations of their constituents.
ref: 2015, John P. Powelson, The Institutions of Economic Growth, page 149:
text: To remedy this , she developed the idea of being a "selfist" (not to be confused with selfish), whose needs are just as important as her family's. A selfist ensures that she is well taken care of, too.
ref: 2023, Jennifer Breheny Wallace, Never Enough, page 237:
glosses: A proponent of selfism; One who believes in their right and their responsibility to look after their own needs and desires.
selfists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of selfist
undenary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: In base (radix) eleven.
Synonyms: undecimal
undecimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Based upon the number eleven
Synonyms: undenary
Related terms: undecic
dedecorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dedecorous
form: most dedecorous
Etymology: From Latin dedecorus. See decorous.
Senses: examples: text: he took courage to proceed to greater and more dedecorous and base practises
ref: 1664, James Howell, Florus Hungaricus Or The history of Hungaria and Transylvania:
glosses: disgraceful; unbecoming
recapacitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recapacitates
form: recapacitating
form: recapacitated
form: recapacitated
Etymology: From re- + capacitate.
Senses: examples: February 13 1703, Francis Atterbury, letter to Bishop Trelawny
persons recapacitating themselves by taking the oaths
glosses: To qualify again; to confer capacity on again.
recapacitated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recapacitate
recapacitates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recapacitate
recapacitating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recapacitate
disopinion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dis- + opinion.
Senses: examples: text: There are thoughts belonging to the understanding, assenting and dissenting thoughts, belief and disopinion.
ref: 1640, Edward Reynolds, A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man:
glosses: Absence or difference of belief; disbelief.
canticoy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canticoys
form: cantico
form: kantikoy
Etymology: From an Algonquian (probably Lenape) language; compare Unami këntke (“he dances”) and English cantico.
Senses: examples: text: The Indians denied us going to the town on excuse of a canticoy. We lodged in the woods that night.
ref: 1906, Richard C. Adams, A Brief History of the Delaware Indians, page 17:
text: […] as long as M. Poincaré keeps up his canticoys, so long will that disturbance increase.
ref: 1923, The Freeman, volume 6, page 457:
glosses: A social gathering, usually for dancing.
canticoys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canticoy
maxillomandibular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪbjʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From maxillo- + mandibular.
Senses: examples: the maxillomandibular nerve
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the maxilla and mandible.
bezzle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bezzles
form: bezzling
form: bezzled
form: bezzled
Etymology: From Middle English besilen, from Old French besiler, besillier (“to mistreat, pillage”); or shortened from English embezzle.
Senses: glosses: To plunder; to lay waste to, in riot.
glosses: To drink to excess; to revel.
glosses: To squander.
bezzle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bezzles
Etymology: Coined by John Kenneth Galbraith, from embezzle.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The level or proportion of financial sector activity that consists of hidden embezzlement, varying in step with the business cycle.
examples: text: That word is bezzle. It describes the period in which an embezzler has stolen a man's money but the victim does not yet realize he's been swindled.
ref: 2015 December 3, Tracy Alloway, “There's Been a Bezzle-Fueled Boom in Bonds”, in Markets, Bloomberg News, retrieved 16 Aug 2021:
text: Uber is a bezzle ("the magic interval when a confidence trickster knows he has the money he has appropriated but the victim does not yet understand that he has lost it"). Every bezzle ends.
ref: 2021 August 10, Cory Doctorow, “End of the Line for Uber”, in Pluralistic, Cory Doctorow, retrieved 16 Aug 2021:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The time between when a confidence trickster has stolen money from an unsuspecting person and when that person realizes the money has been stolen.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The difference between the short-term or current market value of an asset and its true long-term worth.
bezzled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bezzle
bezzles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bezzle
bezzling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bezzle
deprecable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈdɛp.ɹə.kə.bl̩/
Forms: form: more deprecable
form: most deprecable
Etymology: Latin deprecabilis (“exorable”).
Senses: examples: text: 1649, King Charles I (attributed), Eikon Basilike
book upon the temporall destruction of the greatest King, as far less deprecable than the eternall damnation of the meanest Subject
glosses: That may or should be deprecated.
olivaster
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more olivaster
form: most olivaster
Etymology: From French olivastre (attested by 1575; compare modern French olivâtre). For more, see olive, -aster.
Senses: examples: text: Of colour, they are rather black than olivaster and that their arms and legs are chained with manilios and armlets of silver, brass, ivory and the like
ref: 1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC:
glosses: Of the color of the olive; tawny.
gelatigenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gelatin + -genous.
Senses: examples: text: the gelatigenous tissues
glosses: Producing or yielding gelatin.
Synonyms: gelatiniferous
subcrystalline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + crystalline.
Senses: examples: text: subcrystalline limestone
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Imperfectly crystallized.
pactional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From paction + -al.
Senses: examples: text: For the several duties that by God's Ordinance are to be performed by persons that stand in mutual relation either to other, are not pactional and conditional, as are the leagues and agreements made between Princes […]
ref: a. 1663, Robert Sanderson, The Case of a Rash Vow:
glosses: Of the nature of, or by means of, a pact.
Derived terms: pactionally
recto-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: rect-
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting a New Latin combining form, indirectly from Latin rectum by the same path whence also English rectum (which see).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: rectum
wikipedia: classical compound
international scientific vocabulary
Hypernyms: procto-
anorectal
Coordinate terms: ano-
cinchonaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌsɪŋkəˈneɪʃəs/
Etymology: From cinchona + -aceous.
Senses: examples: text: cinchonaceous tree
text: cinchonaceous gland
glosses: Pertaining to, or derived from, cinchona (the plant or the medicine).
synonymize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /sɪˈnɒnɪˌmaɪz/
Forms: form: synonymizes
form: synonymizing
form: synonymized
form: synonymized
Etymology: From synonym + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: This word fortis we may synonymize after all these fashions: stout, hardy, valiant, doughty, courageous, adventurous, brave, bold, daring, intrepid.
ref: c. 1605, William Camden, Remains concerning Britain : their languages, names, surnames, allusions, anagramms, armories, moneys, impreses, apparel, artillerie, wise speeches, provervs, poesies, epitaphs:
antonyms: antonymize
glosses: To express by a synonym or synonyms.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: To identify two taxonomic terms as synonyms, thus equating two potentially disparate categories.
synonymized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of synonymize
synonymizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of synonymize
synonymizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of synonymize
Pnyx
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪks/
ipa: /ˈpnɪks/
homophone: nicks
homophone: nix
homophone: Nyx stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɪks
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πνύξ (Pnúx); since ancient times it has been claimed the word is derived from πυκνός (puknós, “close-packed; dense; thick”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *puḱ- (“to press together”), but the Oxford English Dictionary considers this a folk etymology with no evidence supporting it.
Senses: qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: A hill in Athens west of the Acropolis with a stone platform and steps set into its side, which was used as the meeting place of the democratic assembly in Ancient Greece.
wikipedia: Oxford English Dictionary
cerographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cerography
cerography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: cerographies
Etymology: From cero- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: The art of making characters or designs in, or with, wax.
glosses: A method of making stereotype plates from inscribed sheets of wax.
Derived terms: cerographist
wirble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɜː(ɹ)bəl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)bəl
Forms: form: wirbles
form: wirbling
form: wirbled
form: wirbled
Etymology: Compare burble, whirl.
Senses: examples: text: The waters went wirbling above and around.
ref: 1860, Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, Lucile:
glosses: To whirl; to eddy.
wirbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wirble
wirbles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wirble
wirbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wirble
spinnerule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spinnerules
Etymology: From spinner + -ule.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: spinning tube
glosses: One of the small tubes on the spinnerets of spiders.
spinnerules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spinnerule
bachelorism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bachelorisms
Etymology: From bachelor + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Often, I say, have I wavered in my faith as to the unapproachable beatitude of bachelorism, when dining out, for example, at a well-appointed marital menage.
ref: 1863, Secrets of My Office, by a Bill Broker, page 313:
glosses: Bachelorhood.
examples: text: As he could not be prevailed on to give any account of himself in our introduction, I will take the opportunity of his confinement, while his back is turned, to give a slight sketch of his character;—fertile in whim-whams and bachelorisms, but rich in many of the sterling qualities of our nature.
ref: 1807 April 18, Washington (as "Anthony Evergreen") Irving, “Salmagundi, no. VIII”, in The Complete Works of Washington Irving, M. S. Schmerler, published 1835, page 33:
glosses: A manner or peculiarity belonging to bachelors.
bachelorisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bachelorism
perpension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perpensions
Etymology: See perpend.
Senses: examples: text: unto reasonable perpensions it hath no place in some sciences
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Careful consideration; pondering.
perpensions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perpension
subintestinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + intestinal.
Senses: examples: text: subintestinal vein
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the intestine.
pratingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pratingly
form: most pratingly
Etymology: From prating + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With idle or long-winded talk; with loquacity.
permiscible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more permiscible
form: most permiscible
Etymology: From Latin permiscere (“to mingle”), from per + miscere (“to mix”).
Senses: glosses: Capable of being mixed.
dictatorian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dictatorian
form: most dictatorian
Senses: examples: text: dictatorian council
text: dictatorian power
glosses: dictatorial
be mum
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: is mum
form: being mum
form: was mum
form: been mum
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of be mother.
oneitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wʌnˈaɪtɪs/
Etymology: From one + -itis.
Senses: examples: text: Oneitis is more likely to attack chicks than dudes for reasons of biological conditioning, habitation, mother-child relationship and other scientific crap.
ref: 2008, Zander Martin, The Players:
text: But in the past eight months, I hadn't felt even a tremor of oneitis. In fact, every woman I met seemed disposable and replaceable.
ref: 2011, Neil Strauss, The Game and Rules of the Game:
glosses: Attraction towards a single potential partner to the exclusion of other possible partners.
forty-spot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forty-spots
Senses: glosses: Pardalotus quadragintus, the forty-spotted pardalote, a rare Tasmanian bird.
forty-spots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forty-spot
camisated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin camisia.
Senses: examples: text: […] Rombert was leaning against a tree, his eye bent closely upon the wrinkled and inexpressive face of the camisated Dutartre.
ref: 1835, Henry Edward Van Winkle, Rombert: a tale of Carolina, volume 2, page 126:
text: […] his dearly beloved wife, Innanui te po, who, tradition further adds, wore that invaluable article of apparel, "unmentionable to ears polite;" a deprivation that has descended to the present camisated sans culotte descendants.
ref: 1838, Joel Samuel Polack, New Zealand: Being a Narrative of Travels and Adventures during a residence in that country between the years 1831 and 1837, volume 1, page 357:
text: The Dutch have a method of granting commissions by dressing these camisated nobles with a duck-shirt and trousers, and discharge three muskets as an inaugural confirmation.
ref: 1841, Colonial Magazine and Commercial-maritime Journal:
glosses: Dressed with a shirt over the other garments.
Related terms: camisole
delirifacient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more delirifacient
form: most delirifacient
Etymology: From delirium + Latin faciens, facientis, present participle of facere (“to make”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Producing, or tending to produce, delirium.
delirifacient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delirifacients
Etymology: From delirium + Latin faciens, facientis, present participle of facere (“to make”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any substance that tends to cause delirium.
delirifacients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delirifacient
inustion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inustions
Etymology: See ustion.
Senses: examples: text: Is that memory that is seated in the Mundane spirit of man , by a strong impression , or inustion of any phantasme , or outward sensible object , upon that spirit
ref: a. 1687, Henry More, The Interpretation Generall:
glosses: The act of burning or branding.
inustions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inustion
circuiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circuiters
Etymology: From circuit + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Having previously assured their fellow circuiters that no discourtesy was intended them, they resolved upon bold measures […]
ref: 1860, R. H. Whitelocke, Memoirs, Biographical and Historical of Bulstrode Whitelocke:
glosses: One who travels a circuit, such as a circuit judge.
Related terms: short-circuiter
circuiters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circuiter
tasimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tasimeters
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τάσις (tásis, “stretching, extension”) + -meter.
Senses: examples: text: The eclipse offered the opportunity to test the tasimeter, and Edison promptly headed west for the July 29 event.
ref: 2007, Martin Woodside, Thomas Alva Edison:
glosses: An instrument for detecting or measuring minute extension or movements of solid bodies. It consists of a small rod or disk of carbon forming part of an electrical circuit, whose resistance (varied by the changes of pressure produced by the movements of the object to be measured) causes variations in the strength of the current, which are indicated by a sensitive galvanometer.
Derived terms: microtasimeter
tasimetric
tasimeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tasimeter
preknowledge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + knowledge.
Senses: glosses: prior knowledge
rivalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rivality
rivality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rivalities
Etymology: From rival + -ity, from Latin rivalitas: compare French rivalité.
Senses: glosses: rivalry; competition
outdream
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outdreams
form: outdreaming
form: outdreamed
form: outdreamed
form: outdreamt
form: outdreamt
Etymology: From out- + dream.
Senses: glosses: To surpass in dreams or imagination.
outdreaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outdream
outdreams
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outdream
outdreamed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outdream
outdreamt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outdream
stickful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stickfuls
form: sticksful
Etymology: From stick + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: That first morning it took me half an hour to set my first stickful, a dozen lines.
ref: 1970, Hal Borland, Country editor's boy, page 55:
text: Stickful after stickful is placed on this galley, until it also is full.
ref: 1980, John Southward, Practical Printing: A Handbook to the Art of Typography, page 82:
text: Football stories may be divided into three general classes: the brief summary story of a stickful or a trifle more; the usual football story of a half column or less; and the long story that may be run through a column or more, depending upon the importance of the game.
ref: 2009, Phillip J. Morledge, Getting the Scoop:
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: As much type as fills a composing stick.
examples: text: I started with old headman and passed a good smoking hot stickful of meat to everyone, about twenty or twenty-five of them altogether in the order what I guessed their ages was.
ref: 1965, John Conrad Bushman, Scope/reading: guide 1, page 138:
text: If you scoop a stickful up and then tap the stick smartly on the edge of the pot, most of it will fall off the stick.
ref: 1985, Ian J. Kirby, Woodworking - Volume 1, page 59:
text: And Elsie the Elk looked as if she had mange, and the candy floss had gone up to eighty-five pence for a mean little stickful, and the bus ride was rotten because the driver wouldn't let them open the windows all the way, or sing at all loudly.
ref: 2001, Anne Fine, Crummy Mummy and Me:
text: Frank stuck a dollop onto the end of his stick and pushed it into the gap that surrounded Bob. “Ooooh.”, Bob cried, “That tickles!” Stickful after stickful, Frank went about his work, whistling as he did so.
ref: 2018, Simon J Stephens, Frank the Ferret’s (secret) Four Counties Adventure:
glosses: An amount that is held on one stick.
sticksful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stickful
stickfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stickful
tubiporite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tubiporites
Etymology: From tubipore + -ite.
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Any fossil coral of the genus †Syringopora consisting of a cluster of upright tubes united together by small transverse tubules.
tubiporites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tubiporite
opiniatreties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opiniatrety
opiniatrety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opiniatreties
form: opiniatry
Etymology: Compare French.
Senses: glosses: opinionatedness
disinvolve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disinvolves
form: disinvolving
form: disinvolved
form: disinvolved
Etymology: From dis- + involve.
Senses: examples: text: And for that second sense, it is indeed disinvolved of those former Difficulties
ref: 1672, Henry More, A brief Reply to a late Answer to Dr. Henry More his antidote against Idolatry:
text: And for thee Creation universal calls aloud To disinvolve the moral world, and give To nature's renovation brighter charms.
ref: 1745, Edward Young, The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality:
text: This furnishes us with a multitude of cognitions, which. although they are not more than elucidations or explanations of that which had already been though in our conceptions (although in a confused manner) still, at least according to the form, are prized as new introspetions, notwithstanding that so far as respects their matter or content, they do not extend the conceptions which we have, but only disinvolve them .
ref: 1848, Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, page 7:
text: Constable and Turner were needed to reassert the potentialities of natural colour and to disinvolve the miracle of light from the good taste of academic tone.
ref: 2017, Edward Thomas, British Country Life in Autumn and Winter:
glosses: To uncover; to unfold or unroll; to disentangle.
examples: text: Given a variety of urgent and vital global problems requiring attention and co-operation of the super-powers and the world communitiy in their solution, can the super-powers take a decision to disinvolve themselves from the Viet-Nam-Indo-China tangle and to use all their influence with the local parties concerned to facilitate such disinvolvement?
ref: 1966, Select Documents on International Affairs, page 123:
text: Has the author processed his subject in such a way as to exclude, to pacify, to disinvolve the reader?
ref: 1974, Virgil Grillo, Charles Dickens' Sketches by Boz: End in the Beginning, page 56:
text: I was never physically attracted to Al, and I was comfortable with him for two reasons: I genuinely respected his intelligence and wanted to learn fro him and discuss music and literature and philosophy with him; also I knew it would take him weeks to make any physical overtures, and it would, at such a time in the future, be simple to disinvolve myself. As yet, we haven't even held hands!
ref: 2012, Susan Sontag, Reborn: Early Diaries 1947-1963:
text: Disinvolve yourself, if you can come to it, disinvolve, dissociate, hold a watching brief.
ref: 2015, Stevie Smith, Over The Frontier:
glosses: To terminate the involvement of.
disinvolved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disinvolve
disinvolves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disinvolve
disinvolving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disinvolve