cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
faldage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faldages
Etymology: From Latin faldagium, from Old English fald (whence English fold). Compare foldage.
Senses: examples: text: It was decided , in a case where the lord of a manor had liberty of faldage and a fold-course for 300 sheep over certain closes within the manor, that the lessee of these rights could not feed his own sheep over these closes
ref: 1868, Charles Isaac Elton, A Treatise on Commons and Wastelands:
topics: law
glosses: A privilege of setting up, and moving about, folds for sheep, in any fields within manors, in order to manure them; often reserved to himself by the lord of the manor.
topics: law
glosses: A fee paid for exemption from this.
inhive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + hive.
Senses: examples: text: Set the inhive feeder on the bottom, insert the follower board right behind it, cover with bars, and close the hive.
ref: 2018, Kim Flottum, The Backyard Beekeeper:
glosses: Inside a hive
inhive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inhives
form: inhiving
form: inhived
form: inhived
Etymology: From in- + hive.
Senses: synonyms: hive
enhive
glosses: To place in a hive, or as if in a hive.
inhived
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inhive
inhives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inhive
inhiving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inhive
unnest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unnests
form: unnesting
form: unnested
form: unnested
Etymology: From un- + nest.
Senses: synonyms: disnest
glosses: To dislodge from a nest.
examples: text: The eye unnested from the head, cannot see
ref: 1629, Thomas Adams, Sermons:
text: She unnested the coffee cans and used the top one as an ashtray.
ref: 1988, Edmund White, chapter 1, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994:
glosses: To separate objects that have been nested or placed one inside the other.
Synonyms: unnestle
unnesting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unnest
unnests
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unnest
didelphid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /daɪˈdɛlfɪd/
Forms: form: didelphids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A member of Didelphidae; opossum
didelphids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of didelphid
photopsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photopsies
Senses: glosses: photopsia
xylophonically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From xylophonic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: A fox trot idyl of the Orient, xylophonically told and played in excellent tempo.
ref: 1919, The Judge: Volume 77:
text: […] while the dishes on the bed tray clinked xylophonically against one another.
ref: 2001, Dean Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye:
text: Alf re-lays them two by two, first levelling their sandy beds, and I listen to them chinking xylophonically as he locks them into each other.
ref: 2007, Ronald Blythe, Out of the Valley: Another Year at Wormingford, page 16:
glosses: As if by a xylophone.
beslubber
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beslubbers
form: beslubbering
form: beslubbered
form: beslubbered
Senses: examples: text: Then straight she came to me, beslubber'd with tears,
And told me she'd have me, if I'd cease her fears
ref: 1809, William Oxberry, The Theatrical Banquet, or the Actor's Budget:
text: He rolled to his feet, cursing at the coating of slime beslubbering his newly laundered jacket
ref: 2018, Alex Stewart, A Fistful of Elven Gold:
glosses: Alternative form of beslobber.
beslubbered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of beslubber
beslubbering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beslubber
beslubbers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beslubber
decylic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From decyl + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to the decyl radical
home-speaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Our Saviour , […]was Lord to express his indoctrinating power in what sort himn best seemed ; sometimes by a mild and familiar converse ; sometimes with plain and impartiall home-speaking
ref: 1642 April, John Milton, An Apology for Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC:
glosses: Direct, forcible, and effective speaking.
paradigmatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paradigmatic
humectation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: humectations
Etymology: Latin humectatio: compare French humectation.
Senses: examples: text: The cure of such an effect must be performed by two means, that is, evacuation and cooling with humectation.
ref: 1649, Ambrose Parey, Thomas Johnson (trans.), The Workes of that Famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey, page 55, London: Richard Cotes and Willi Du-gard OCLC 13170477
text: That which is concreted by exsiccation or expression of humidity, will be resolved by humectification, as earth, dirt and clay.
ref: 1658, Sir Thomas Brown, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edward Dod OCLC 216753971
text: It hath been observed by the ancients, that plates of metal, and especially of brass, applied presently to a blow, will keep it down from swelling. The cause is repercussion, without humectiation, or entrance of any body.
ref: 1730, Francis Bacon, The Works of Francis Bacon, volume 3, page 180, London: Impensis R. OCLC 13621903
text: Thereafter, humectation of soil was recorded in the autumn, following rains.
ref: 2005, M. Ghrab, K. Gargouri, M. Ayadi, H. Bentaher, “Water saving in olive orchids: root-zone drying strategy”, in A. Bari, editor, Assessment of Plant Genetic Resources for Water-use Efficiency, Bioversity International, →ISBN, page 36:
text: Emollients are useful in spa services because of their three main properties: occlusion, lubrication, and humectation.
ref: 2009, Steve Capellini, The Complete Spa Book for Massage Therapists, Cengage Learning, →ISBN:
text: Substitutive treatment (artificial tears) is the most useful medication. It tries to recover for a short time the humectation, osmolarity and lubrication of the ocular surface, although the etiologic causes persist.
ref: 2011, Samuel Boyd, Angela Maria Gutierrez, James P. McCulley, Atlas and Text of Corneal Pathology and Surgery, Jaypee Brothers, →ISBN:
glosses: moistening.
humectations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of humectation
inapprehensive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inapprehensive
form: most inapprehensive
Etymology: From in- + apprehensive.
Senses: examples: text: men become senseless of the evils of mankind , inapprehensive of the troubles of their brethren
ref: 1651–1653, Jer[emy] Taylor, ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC:
synonyms: unapprehensive
glosses: Not apprehensive; regardless; unconcerned.
Derived terms: inapprehensively
inapprehensiveness
gynecian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: examples: text: gynecian hospital
glosses: Of or relating to women.
Mussulmanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Mussulman + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Muslim
astay
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /əˈsteɪ/
Etymology: From a- + stay?
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Of an anchor, such that in heaving it, an acute angle is formed between the cable and the surface of the water.
diaphanotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diaphanotypes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek διαφανής (diaphanḗs, “transparent”) + -type.
Senses: glosses: A colour photograph produced by superimposing a translucent coloured positive over a strong uncoloured one.
diaphanotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diaphanotype
ingulfment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ingulfments
Etymology: From ingulf + -ment.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of engulfment.
ingulfments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ingulfment
interpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɪntə(ɹ)ˌpɔɪnt/
Forms: form: interpoints
Etymology: A variant of interpunct
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Synonym of interpunct ⟨·⟩.
synonyms: word: interpunct
extra: ·
interpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɪntə(ɹ)ˌpɔɪnt/
/ˌɪntə(ɹ)ˈpɔɪnt/
/ˈɪntə(ɹ)ˌpɔɪnt/
Forms: form: interpoints
form: interpointing
form: interpointed
form: interpointed
Etymology: From inter- + point.
Senses: examples: text: Her heart commands, her words should pass out first, / And then her sighs should interpoint her words; / The whiles her eyes out into tears should burst.
ref: 1595, Samuel Daniel, “(please specify the folio number)”, in The First Fowre Bookes of the Ciuile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke, London: […] P[eter] Short for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:
glosses: To mark with stops or pauses; to punctuate.
interpointed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of interpoint
interpointing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of interpoint
interpoints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interpoint
interpoints
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of interpoint
gonimous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
lichenology
natural-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to, or containing, gonidia or gonimia, as that part of a lichen which contains the green or chlorophyll-bearing cells.
exauthoration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin exauctoratio.
Senses: examples: text: exauctoration of the power of superiors
ref: 1651–1653, Jer[emy] Taylor, ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC:
glosses: Deprivation of authority or dignity; degradation.
Related terms: exauthorate
subquadruple
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + quadruple.
Senses: examples: text: As one of these under pulleys abates half of that heaviness of the weight, and causes the power to be in a subduple proportion; so two of them abate half of that which remains, and cause a subquadruple proportion, three a sextuple, four a suboctuple.
ref: 1648, John Wilkins, Mathematical Magick:
glosses: Containing one part of four; in the ratio of one to four.
orphaline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of orpheline.
hask
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hasks
Etymology: See hassock.
Senses: examples: text: But nowe ſadde Winter welked hath the day, / And Phœbus weary of his yerely taſ-ke: / Yſtabled hath his ſteedes in lowlye laye / And taken vp his ynne in Fiſhes haſ-ke.
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Nouember. Ægloga Vndecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 44, verso:
text: The ioyfull Sunne, whom cloudy winters ſpight,/ Had ſhut from vs in watry fiſhes haske, / Returnes againe to lend the world his light
ref: 1621, Davisons Poems, Or, A Poeticall Rapsodie, London: Printed by B. A. for Roger Iackson, III.VII.6, page 176:
text: Then till the ſun, which yet in fiſhes haſks, / Or watry urn, impounds his fainting head
ref: a. 1650, Phineas Fletcher, “The Works of P. Fletcher: To my beloved Cousin, W. R. Esquire. Calend. Januar.”, in Robert Anderson, editor, Poets of Great Britain, volume IV, london: Printed for John & Arthur Arch, published 1795, page 462, lines 19–20:
glosses: A basket made of flags or rushes, as for carrying fish.
hask
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hasks
form: hasking
form: hasked
form: hasked
Senses: examples: text: "You never mind me," returned the trainer, who had been carrying around a couple of spare footballs all the morning, as if afraid some one would steal them. "You just play your 'ardest, that's hall I hask of you."
ref: 1897, James Barnes, “Chapter 13”, in A Princetonian:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of ask.
hasks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hask
lomonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: laumontite
thermobatteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thermobattery
thermobattery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermobatteries
Etymology: From thermo- + battery.
Senses: glosses: A thermoelectric battery; a thermopile.
haustellate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See Haustellata.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a haustellum, or sucking proboscis.
haustellate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haustellates
Etymology: See Haustellata.
Senses: examples: text: Bees form part of that section of insects called mandibulate insects, i.e., insects which eat with jaws, in contradistinction to the haustellates, or insects which suck up liquid food through a trunk .
ref: 1853, John George Wood, Bees, page 19:
glosses: A haustellate insect.
haustellates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haustellate
nouch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nouches
Etymology: See ouche.
Senses: glosses: An ouche; a jewel.
nouches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nouch
semiquintile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semiquintiles
Etymology: From semi- + quintile.
Senses: topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An aspect of the planets when distant from each other half of the quintile, or thirty-six degrees.
semiquintiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semiquintile
collationed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of collation
bogglish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bogglish
form: most bogglish
Etymology: From boggle + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: So, I’m feeling a bit bogglish or a bit skittish today. I’ve got lots of grown up stuff to do involving going places, talking to people and making ‘phone calls
ref: 2012 June 22, Helen Lapping, “Bit of a bogglish day….”, in HL Writing Blog, retrieved 30 Sep 2012:
glosses: Uncertain, doubtful; skittish
Related terms: boggler
imparalleled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more imparalleled
form: most imparalleled
Etymology: From im- + paralleled.
Senses: glosses: unparalleled
lamprel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lamprels
Senses: glosses: The lamprey.
lamprels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lamprel
scolopendrine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scolopendrine
form: most scolopendrine
Etymology: From Scolopendra + -ine.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: scolopendrous
glosses: Belonging to, or pertaining to the Scolopendra, a genus of centipedes.
trichopterous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trichopterous
form: most trichopterous
Etymology: From Trichoptera + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: trichopteran
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characterizing the Trichoptera.
princehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: princehoods
form: princehead
Etymology: From Middle English pryncehood, princehode, princehod, princehed, equivalent to prince + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The state, quality, or condition of being a prince
glosses: The rank or office of a prince
glosses: princeliness
rectangled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rectangle + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: To find the Area of a Rectangled Quadrangle. We measure Areas, by the Superficies of any Square measure
ref: 1729, Johann Jacob HAINLIN, Synopsis mathematica universalis: or, A brief system of the mathematics, for young students ... By [or rather, translated by] Venterus Mandey, page 228:
glosses: rectangular
glosses: tangled (from a rebracketing of "rectangle" as "rec tangle")
ravenala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ravenalas
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Ravenala, from Malagasy ravinala, from ravina (“leaf”) + ala (“forest”).
Senses: synonyms: traveller's tree
traveller's palm
glosses: Any plant of the genus Ravenala.
ravenalas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ravenala
scioptics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The art or process of exhibiting luminous images, especially those of external objects, in a darkened room, by arrangements of lenses or mirrors.
isopepsin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iso- + pepsin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Pepsin modified by exposure to a temperature of 40 to 60°C.
moted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mote + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: [B]ut most she loath'd the hour / When the thick-moted sunbeam lay / Athwart the chambers, and the day / Was sloping toward his western bower.
ref: 1830 June, Alfred Tennyson, “Mariana”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, stanza VII, page 14:
text: The still air/To her astonished gaze grew all instinct,/Moted with airy forms for ever drawn/Up, by some genial influence.
ref: 1856, Edith MAY (pseud. [i.e. Anna Drinkwater]), Poems ... Illustrated, etc. Edited, with a preface, by N. P. Willis, page 109:
text: The streets were warm with heavy-moted sunshine.
ref: 1969, Edmund Schiddel, Good Time Coming:
text: Ensconced, God-like, in his enclosed cab high above the floor, the operator pilots that quiet flight through the dust-moted sun of the shed's interior
ref: 2000, John Maxtone-Graham, Liners to the Sun, Sheridan House, Inc., →ISBN, page 39:
text: Sea-dreaming in the moted air,/A siren lithe and debonair
ref: 2011, Golgotha Press, 10 Classic Epics, BookCaps Study Guides, →ISBN:
text: Inside, the sunbeams were moted with dust, scarcely moving, so that she imagined all the air in the room was filled with it, the soft detritus of blankets years unwashed, walls years unpainted, floors years unvarnished.
ref: 2013 March 1, Philip Temple, I Am Always With You, Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited, →ISBN:
glosses: Filled with motes, or fine floating dust.
ruthenious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ruthenium + -ous.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: ruthenic
glosses: Pertaining to, or containing, ruthenium
populaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of populace
outtop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outtops
form: outtopping
form: outtopped
form: outtopped
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of out-top.
outtopped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outtop
outtopping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outtop
outtops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outtop
perisarc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perisarcs
Etymology: From peri- + Ancient Greek σάρξ (sárx, “flesh”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The outer hardened integument that covers most hydrozoan coelenterates.
Derived terms: perisarcal
perisarcs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perisarc
inframaxillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪləɹi
-æksɪlɛəɹi
Etymology: From infra- + maxillary.
Senses: examples: text: the inframaxillary nerve
text: inframaxillary plates
text: inframaxillary teeth
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Under the lower jaw; submaxillary.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the lower jaw.
riotise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌɪətʌɪz/
Forms: form: riotize
Etymology: From riot + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: Which stately manner whenas they did see, / The image of superfluous riotize, / Exceeding much the state of meane degree, / They greatly wondred whence so sumptuous guize / Might be maintayned […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Wild excess; revelry, riotousness.
enhunger
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enhungers
form: enhungering
form: enhungered
form: enhungered
Etymology: From en- + hunger.
Senses: examples: text: Those animal passions which vice had […] enhungered to feed on innocence and life.
ref: 1836, James Martineau, The Rationale of Religious Enquiry:
text: February 1860, Dr. John C. Peters, "The Late Reforms in Pathology and Therapeutics", in Homoepathic Journal
such small quantities of food as would enhunger, if not almost starve a hearty person
glosses: To make hungry.
enhungered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enhunger
enhungering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enhunger
enhungers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enhunger
gib boom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gib booms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jib boom.
gib booms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gib boom
hyperorganic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + organic.
Senses: examples: text: The still immanent or purely mental act of will : what for distinction's sake I would call the hyperorganic volition to move
ref: a. 1856, William Hamilton, Philosophy:
glosses: Extremely organic.
bihydroguret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bihydrogurets
Etymology: From bi- + hydroguret.
Senses: examples: text: bihydroguret of carbon
text: bihydroguret of phosphorus
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound of two atoms of hydrogen with one atom of some other substance; a compound of two parts of hydrogen with one part of another substance (by weight or by volume).
Related terms: dihydride
inscroll
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inscrolls
form: inscrolling
form: inscrolled
form: inscrolled
form: inscrol
Etymology: From in- + scroll.
Senses: examples: text: Your answere had not beene inscrold.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:
glosses: To write on a scroll; to record.
inscrolled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inscroll
inscrolling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inscroll
inscrolls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inscroll
refrainment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refrainments
Etymology: From refrain + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of refraining.
oglio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oglios
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of olio.
oglios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oglio
cantonize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cantonizes
form: cantonizing
form: cantonized
form: cantonized
Etymology: From canton + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To divide into cantons or small districts.
Derived terms: cantonization
cantonized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cantonize
cantonizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cantonize
cantonizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cantonize
displode
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: displodes
form: disploding
form: disploded
form: disploded
Etymology: From Latin displōdō, from dis- + plaudō.
Senses: examples: text: disploding engines
ref: 1858, Edward Young, The Complaint: or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality:
glosses: To burst with a loud bang; to explode.
examples: text: In posture to displode their second tire / Of thunder.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, 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:
glosses: To burst; to cause to explode.
Related terms: displosion
disploded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of displode
displodes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of displode
disploding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of displode
guiac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of guaiac.
Derived terms: guiacol
intentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: intentation of the crime
ref: 1612–1626, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volume (please specify |volume=II, V, or VI), London, →OCLC:
glosses: intention
nascal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nascals
Etymology: French nascale.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A kind of pessary of medicated wool or cotton.
nascals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nascal
somatical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more somatical
form: most somatical
Senses: glosses: somatic
brokerly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more brokerly
form: most brokerly
Etymology: From broker + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: A brokerly slave,
ref: 1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: mean (money-pinching) or servile
sacerdotally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sacerdotally
form: most sacerdotally
Etymology: From sacerdotal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: 1720, Samuel Parker, Biblioteca Biblica, Oxford: William and John Innys, Volume I, Part 2, Occasional Annotation 30, “The Pillar of Jacob,” p. 608,
[…] first he Blessed the Place Sacerdotally, setting it apart by Solemn Rites for a Place of Divine Worship […]
text: Some ladies went a dozen times in the day to hear mass, but paid little attention to what was going on sacerdotally.
ref: 1883 September 29, “Some Things of Old Spain”, in All the Year Round, volume 32, number 774, page 369:
text: Pickerbaugh assigned to them the chief booth, on the platform once sacerdotally occupied by the Reverend Mr. Sunday.
ref: 1925, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 23, in Arrowsmith, New York: Harcourt, Brace, published 1945, page 259:
text: Here I saw for the first time, in any number to speak of, the Mission-boys, the converted Natives, half sacerdotally attired, whatever office they might be filling […]
ref: 1937, Karen Blixen, Out of Africa, London: Putnam, published 1948, Part 5, Chapter 2:
synonyms: priestly
glosses: In a sacerdotal manner, in the manner of a priest.
white-heart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white-hearts
Senses: glosses: A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
Related terms: blackheart
white-hearts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white-heart
atmologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atmologists
Etymology: From atmology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone versed in atmology.
atmologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atmologist
tetterous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tetterous
form: most tetterous
Etymology: From tetter + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: tetterous eruptions
glosses: Having the character of, or pertaining to, tetter (the skin condition).
fatiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more fatiferous
form: most fatiferous
Etymology: From Latin fatifer, from fatum (“fate”) + ferre (“to bear, bring”).
Senses: glosses: Fate-bringing; deadly; destructive.
sermonet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sermonets
form: sermonette
Etymology: From sermon + -et.
Senses: glosses: A short sermon.
sermonets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sermonet
throw good money after bad
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: throws good money after bad
form: throwing good money after bad
form: threw good money after bad
form: thrown good money after bad
Senses: coordinate_terms: cut one's losses
glosses: To waste money in a fruitless attempt to recoup losses previously incurred.
Related terms: bad money drives out good
chase pennies with dollars
in for a penny, in for a pound
martingale
sunk costs fallacy
nurn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nurns
form: nurning
form: nurned
form: nurned
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of norn.
astronomick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more astronomick
form: most astronomick
Etymology: From astronomy + -ick.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of astronomic.
agarick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agaricks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of agaric.
agrestick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more agrestick
form: most agrestick
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of agrestic.
aromatick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aromatick
form: most aromatick
Senses: examples: text: For in the Rites of funeration they did use to anoint the dead body, with Aromatick Spices and Oyntments, before they buried them.
ref: 1693, Sir Norman Knatchbull, Annotations upon some difficult texts in all the books of the New Testament:
glosses: Obsolete form of aromatic.
aromatick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aromaticks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of aromatic.
bombastick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bombastick
form: most bombastick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of bombastic.
ecstatick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ecstatick
form: most ecstatick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of ecstatic.
elastick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more elastick
form: most elastick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of elastic.
graphick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more graphick
form: most graphick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of graphic.
diabolified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of diabolify
diabolifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of diabolify
diabolify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: diabolifies
form: diabolifying
form: diabolified
form: diabolified
Etymology: From Latin diabolus (“devil”) + -fy.
Senses: examples: text: a. 1658, Anthony Farindon, a sermon
One faction turneth them againſt another; the Lutherane againſt the Calviniſt, and diabolifieth him
glosses: To ascribe diabolical qualities to; to change into, or represent as, a devil.
diabolifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of diabolify
ichthyopterygium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ichthyopterygia
Etymology: From New Latin ichthyopterygium, from Ancient Greek ἰχθύς (ikhthús, “fish”) + πτερύγιον (pterúgion, “fin”). By surface analysis, ichthyo- + pterygium.
Senses: examples: text: As already stated, they are used more like limbs for walking than fins for swimming, but this physiological resemblance to the limbs of the higher animals is not borne out by a morphological one; the fin is an ichthyopterygium, and shows no tendency towards modification in the direction of a cheiropterygium.
ref: 1892, “On the Anatomy and Physiology of Protopterus annectens”, in The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, volume 30, pages 109–230:
text: […]whether the tetrapod limb be derived from an ichthyopterygium like that of the shark, or an archipterygium like that of Ceratodus, or a reduced archipterygium like that of Eusthenopteron[…]
ref: 1913, Robert Broom, “On the origin of the cheiropterygium”, in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, volume 32, pages 459–464:
text: The various adaptations of the ichthyopterygium to locomotion have little bearing on the question of homology.
ref: 1923, William King Gregory, Roy Waldo Miner, and Gladwyn Kingsley Noble, “The carpus of Eryops and the structure of the primitive chiropterygium”, in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, volume 48, pages 279–288:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: fish fin.
mingleable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mingle + -able.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he oyle of Turpentine, though a lighter Liquor then vvater, and not mingleable vvith it, does by leaning upon the Surface of the External vvater, preſs up the vvater vvithin the pipe, to a far greater height then that of the External vvater it ſelf: […]
ref: 1666, Robert Boyle, “Paradox IV”, in Hydrostatical Paradoxes, Made out by New Experiments, (for the Most Part Physical and Easie.), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] William Hall for Richard Davis, →OCLC, page 97:
glosses: That can be mingled.
immixable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more immixable
form: most immixable
Etymology: From im- + mixable.
Senses: examples: text: Get a glasse sphere , fill it with such liquors as may be clear of the same colour , immixable , such as are oyl of tartar , and spirit of wine
ref: 1648, John Wilkins, Mathematical Magick:
glosses: Not mixable.
retinea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retineum
idiotick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more idiotick
form: most idiotick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of idiotic.
retineum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retinea
Etymology: From New Latin retineum, from Medieval Latin retina. By surface analysis, retin(a) + -eum.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Part of the eye of an invertebrate which corresponds in function with the retina of a vertebrate, hypothetical membrane resembling the retina.
cerebrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cerebrum + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: cerebric acid
glosses: A non-phosphorized nitrogenous substance, obtained from brain and nerve tissue by extraction with boiling alcohol. It is uncertain whether it exists as such in nerve tissue, or is a product of the decomposition of some more complex substance.
Derived terms: homocerebrin
metroscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metroscopes
Etymology: From metro- + -scope.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A modification of the stethoscope, for directly auscultating the uterus from the vagina.
glosses: Any of various other measuring devices, such as for thickness.
metroscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metroscope
nonphosphorized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + phosphorized.
Senses: glosses: Not phosphorized.
phosphorless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phosphor + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without phosphor.
poetick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more poetick
form: most poetick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of poetic.
ascetick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ascetick
form: most ascetick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of ascetic.
ascetick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asceticks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of ascetic.
mimetick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mimetick
form: most mimetick
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of mimetic.
Geocentric Coordinate Time
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Geocentric Co-ordinate Time
Senses: examples: text: In some recent papers (for example: Ashby and Bertotti 1983, 1984) the satellite motion is treated in the local inertial geocentric reference frame with geocentric coordinate time being an independent argument.
ref: 1983, Heinrich Karl Eichhorn, Robert Jay Leacock, editors, Astrometric Techniques: Proceedings of the 109th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union held in Gainesville, Florida, U.S.A., 9–12 January 1984, Reidel, published 1986, →ISBN, page 24, →ISBN:
glosses: A coordinate time standard intended to be used as the independent variable of time for all calculations pertaining to precession, nutation, the Moon, and artificial satellites of the Earth, equivalent to the proper time experienced by a clock at rest in a coordinate frame co-moving with the center of the Earth.
now and again
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: I still go swimming now and again, but not as often as when I was a child.
synonyms: word: every now and again
word: every now and then
word: now and then
word: betweentimes
word: occasionally
word: sometimes
word: intermittently
glosses: Synonym of occasionally, sometimes, intermittently.
muriated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: We purposely, and in transitu only , take notice here of the pickl'd , muriated , or otherwise prepared herbs
ref: 1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Put in brine.
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Combined or impregnated with muriatic acid (hydrochloric acid).
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: Prepared with silver chloride through the agency of common salt.
acceleratively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From accelerative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an accelerative manner or context.
doxologize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: doxologizes
form: doxologizing
form: doxologized
form: doxologized
Etymology: From doxology + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To give praise to God with a doxology
doxologized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of doxologize
doxologizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of doxologize
doxologizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of doxologize
walty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈwɔːlti/
/ˈwɒlti/
Forms: form: more walty
form: most walty
Etymology: Compare walt (“to roll”).
Senses: examples: text: This ship is so crank and walty
I fear our grave she will be!
ref: 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Phantom Ship:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Liable to roll over; tippy.
ironick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ironick
form: most ironick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of ironic.
litrameter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: litrameters
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek λῑ́τρᾱ (lī́trā, “a pound”) + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for measuring the specific gravity of liquids by the height to which they rise in vertical tubes under a definite air pressure.
litrameters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of litrameter
chariotee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chariotees
head_nr: 1
Senses: head_nr: 1
glosses: A light, covered, four-wheeled carriage with two seats.
Related terms: coachee
chariotees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chariotee
peripatetick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more peripatetick
form: most peripatetick
Senses: examples: text: That the Aristotelian Physiology cannot boast it-self the proper Author of any one Invention; is prægnant evidence of its infecundous deficiency: And 'twould puzzle the Schools to point at any considerable discovery, made by the direct, sole manuduction of Peripatetick Principles.
ref: 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of peripatetic.
peripatetick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peripateticks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of peripatetic.
deceptory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more deceptory
form: most deceptory
Etymology: From Latin deceptorius, from decipere.
Senses: glosses: deceptive
piperaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Piperaceae + -ous
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the order of plants, Piperaceae, of which the pepper is the type.
arcual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: arcual shape
text: arcual measure
text: The arcual measure of an angle is that in which the unit angle has its measuring arc equal to the radius of the circle.
glosses: Of or pertaining to an arc.
ouranography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of uranography.
disbench
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disbenches
form: disbenching
form: disbenched
form: disbenched
Etymology: From dis- + bench.
Senses: examples: text: My words disbenched you not.
ref: c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
glosses: To drive from a bench or seat.
examples: text: The benchers also have the power to disbench and disbar for misconduct.
ref: 1991, John H. Baker, The Inner Temple: A Brief Historical Description:
topics: law
glosses: To deprive (a bencher) of his privileges.
Derived terms: disbenchment
disbenched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disbench
disbenches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disbench
disbenching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disbench
indamaged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + damaged.
Senses: synonyms: undamaged
glosses: Not damaged.
indamaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From in- + damaged.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of indamage
infeoff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: infeoffs
form: infeoffing
form: infeoffed
form: infeoffed
form: infeft
form: infeft
Senses: examples: text: [I]n February 1648, in a letter to [Thomas] Fairfax's secretary, [Robert] Overton expresses pleasure that the king's servants have been removed and suggests that it would 'prove a happy privation if the Father would please to dispossess him of three transitory kingdoms to infeoff him in an eternal one'.
ref: 1648 February, Barbara Taft, “‘They that Persew Perfaction on Earth …’: The Political Progress of Robert Overton”, in Ian Gentles, John Morrill, Blair Worden, editors, Soldiers, Writers and Statesmen of the English Revolution, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, published 1998, →ISBN, page 289:
text: [H]e alleged farther that his predecessors had been infeft, at the Conquest, in the lands of Alfric son of Wisgar, who was Lord of that Hundred, as may be read in Domesday Book by all persons.
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):
text: The deed by which a fee is brought into existence, or by which the superior authorizes a person to hold lands of him as his vassal, and entitles the vassal to be put in personal possession of such lands, is called a Feu-charter. It consists in general of the following clauses. [...] 10. Precept of Sasine, by which the superior empowers the vassal to be infeft.
ref: 1847, John Hill Burton, “Constitution of Rights in Land”, in Manual of the Law of Scotland. … The Law of Private Rights and Obligations, 2nd enlarged edition, Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, […]; London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., →OCLC, part II (The Various Classes of Property and Their Respective Tenures), section 3 (Feu-charter), page 54:
text: … while a minor he received a dispensation and special license from the king, dated 8 Jan. 1608, upon which by a precept from chancery he was infeft in all the lands possessed by his father on 26, 27, 28 and 29 April.
ref: 1885, Dictionary of National Biography, Robert Monro
text: Not only had a vassal to be infeft when a grant was made or confirmed: a successor had to be infeft when he took up his inheritance.
ref: [1980?], Ann Morton, Gordon Donaldson, British National Archives and the Local Historian: A Guide to Official Record Publications (Helps for Students of History; 88), London: Historical Association, →ISBN, page 46:
glosses: Alternative form of enfeoff.
infeoffed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of infeoff
infeoffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of infeoff
infeoffs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of infeoff
orchal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orchals
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of orchil.
orchals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orchal
mope-eyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mope-eyed
form: most mope-eyed
Senses: examples: text: What a mope-eyed ass was I, I could not know her!
ref: c. 1621, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Pilgrim”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: Don't grope around in the dark like the foolish, mope-eyed man - playing “blind man's-buff”, as it were, with your business interests
ref: 1891, “advert for Portland Oregonian”, in Printers' Ink:
synonyms: purblind
glosses: short-sighted
outsaw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of outsee
outsee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outsees
form: outseeing
form: outsaw
form: outseen
Etymology: From out- + see.
Senses: glosses: To see beyond
glosses: to surpass in vision or foresight.
outseeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outsee
outseen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of outsee
outsees
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outsee
endosarc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From endo- + Ancient Greek σάρξ (sárx, “flesh”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Entoplasm.
Related terms: coenosarc
perisarc