cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sideral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin sīderālis.
Senses: examples: text: Theſe changes in the Heav’ns, though ſlow, produc’d / Like change on Sea and Land, ſideral blaſt, / Vapour, and Miſt, and Exhalation hot, / Corrupt and Peſtilent: […]
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC, signature [Mm3], verso, lines 692–695:
glosses: Dated form of sidereal.
Derived terms: sideral time
bugwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bugworts
Etymology: From bug + wort.
Senses: glosses: The plant bugbane.
crystallogeny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From crystallo- + -geny.
Senses: glosses: A branch of science relating to the production of crystals.
broadspreading
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more broadspreading
form: most broadspreading
Etymology: From broad + spreading.
Senses: examples: text: the broadspreading branches of an old oak tree
glosses: Spreading widely.
Related terms: broadspread
finicalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of finicality
finicality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finicalities
Etymology: From finical + -ity.
Senses: synonyms: finickiness
glosses: The quality of being finical.
Teutonicism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Teutonicisms
Etymology: From Teutonic + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A phrase, word or custom peculiar to the Teutons.
glosses: A phrase, word or custom peculiar to Germany as opposed to other German-speaking countries and areas.
Synonyms: Germanism
Related terms: Teutonism
Teutonicisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Teutonicism
endearedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endearednesses
Etymology: From endeared + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being endeared.
endearednesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endearedness
snobling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snoblings
Etymology: From snob + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: In either of which cases, you see, dear Snobling, that though the parson would not have been authorised, yet he might have been excused for interfering.
ref: 1846 February 28 – 1847 February 27, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, “On Clerical Snobs and Snobbishness”, in The Book of Snobs, London: Punch Office, […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 47:
glosses: A little snob.
snoblings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snobling
luciferously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more luciferously
form: most luciferously
Etymology: From luciferous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a luciferous manner.
ornitholite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ornitholites
Etymology: From ornitho- + -lite.
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: The fossil remains of a bird.
glosses: A stone of various colours bearing the figures of birds.
ornitholites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ornitholite
appeachment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: appeachments
Etymology: From appeach + -ment.
Senses: glosses: accusation
elapsion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The act of elapsing; elapse
complotment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: complotments
Etymology: From complot + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of plotting together; ganging up
complotments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of complotment
supraethmoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛθmɔɪd
Etymology: From supra- + ethmoid.
Senses: examples: text: supraethmoid process of fish
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Above, or on the dorsal side of, the ethmoid bone or cartilage.
supraethmoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛθmɔɪd
Forms: form: supraethmoids
Etymology: From supra- + ethmoid.
inthronizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inthronization
Mechitarist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌmɛkɪˈtɑɹɪst/
/ˈmɛkɪtɑːɹɪst/
Forms: form: Mechitarists
form: Mekhitarist
Etymology: From Mechitar + -ist, named after Mechitar of Sebaste, the founder.
Senses: glosses: A member of a congregation of Benedictine monks of the Armenian Catholic Church established in 1717 by Abbot Mekhitar of Sebaste on the island of San Lazzaro, south of Venice.
Mechitarists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mechitarist
embassadorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more embassadorial
form: most embassadorial
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of ambassadorial.
Mekhitarist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mekhitarists
Etymology: From Mekhitar + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mechitarist.
Mekhitarists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mekhitarist
pulmocutaneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin pulmo (“a lung”) + English cutaneous.
Senses: examples: text: the pulmocutaneous arteries of the frog
text: pulmocutaneous arch
text: pulmocutaneous circuit
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or connecting the lungs and the skin.
incorporal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin incorporalis. See in- (“not”) + corporal, and compare incorporeal.
Senses: examples: text: whether this light be substantial, corporal, or incorporal
ref: 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):
glosses: Obsolete form of incorporeal.
Derived terms: incorporally
holloa
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hollo.
holloa
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: holloas
form: holloaing
form: holloaed
form: holloaed
Senses: examples: text: The mob in the meantime holloaed out, "No Corn Bill!" While they were proceeding in this manner, a cry was raised that "the Piccadilly butchers were coming."
ref: 1875, The Law Magazine and Review, page 554:
glosses: Alternative form of hollo.
holloaed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of holloa
holloaing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of holloa
holloas
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of holloa
misderive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misderives
form: misderiving
form: misderived
form: misderived
Etymology: From mis- + derive.
Senses: glosses: To derive erroneously.
examples: text: […] this practice of impropriation, which was first set on foot by unjust and sacrilegious bulls from Rome, is justly offensive both to God and good men; as misderiving the well-meant devotions of charitable and pious souls into a wrong channel.
ref: 1649, Joseph Hall, Resolutions and Decisions of Divers Practicall cases of Conscience:
glosses: To turn or divert improperly; to misdirect.
Related terms: misderivation
misderived
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misderive
misderives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misderive
misderiving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misderive
phonetization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phonetizations
Senses: synonyms: phoneticization
glosses: The art or process of representing sounds by phonetic signs.
phonetizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phonetization
fouter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfuː.tə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈfu.tɚ/
ipa: [ˈfu.ɾɚ]
rhymes: -uːtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: fouters
Etymology: From French foutre (“to lecher”), Latin futuere. Compare fouty.
Senses: examples: text: The astonish'd tailor
[…]swearing he was better stuff
Than sick a fouter.
ref: 1780-1808, John Mayne, The Siller Gun:
glosses: A despicable fellow.
glosses: An act of sexual intercourse.
Derived terms: footer
fouter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfuː.tə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈfu.tɚ/
ipa: [ˈfu.ɾɚ]
rhymes: -uːtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: fouters
form: foutering
form: foutered
form: foutered
Etymology: From French foutre (“to lecher”), Latin futuere. Compare fouty.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of footer (“meddle or waste time”).
fouters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fouter
fouters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fouter
intermixedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more intermixedly
form: most intermixedly
Etymology: From intermixed + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an intermixed manner.
payens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of payen
iterance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: iteration
panelwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From panel + work.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: wainscotting
pedanties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedanty
pedanty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedanties
Etymology: Apparently from pedant + -y.
Senses: examples: text: [Y]ou cite them to appeare for certaine Paragogicall contempts, before a capricious Pædantie of hot-liver’d Grammarians.
ref: 1641, [John Milton], Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus, London: […] [Richard Oulton and Gregory Dexter] for Thomas Vnderhill, […], →OCLC, page 6:
glosses: A group or clique of pedants.
eugenin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A colourless, crystalline substance extracted from oil of cloves; clove camphor.
Derived terms: noreugenin
mesiad
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mesio- (“mesion”) + -ad.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Toward, or on the side toward, the mesial plane.
Related terms: laterad
irretractile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more irretractile
form: most irretractile
Etymology: From ir- + retractile.
Senses: glosses: Not retractile.
examples: text: Rectractile and Irretractile (Elastic and Inelastic)
ref: a. 1856, William Hamilton, Philosophy:
glosses: Not tractile or ductile.
reenjoyment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + enjoyment.
Senses: glosses: Repeated enjoyment.
Related terms: reenjoy
Flaundrish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Flaundrish
form: most Flaundrish
Etymology: From Middle English fflaundrisshe, Flanderisch, Flandrich, flaunderich, Flaundrissh, Flaundryssh; equivalent to Flanders + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Flemish
mingledly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more mingledly
form: most mingledly
Etymology: From mingled + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a mixed or muddled manner; confusedly.
archprimate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archprimates
Etymology: From arch- + primate.
Senses: examples: text: For the peace and good of the church is not terminated in the schismless estate of one or two kingdoms, but should be provided for by the joint consultation of all reformed Christendom, that all controversy may end in the final pronounce or canon of one archprimate or protestant pope.
ref: 1642, John Milton, The Reason of Church Government, Urged Against Prelaty, Book I, Ch. VI:
glosses: The chief primate of a Christian church.
archprimates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archprimate
nyctophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nyctophiles
Etymology: From nycto- (“night”) + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: He reads—he writes—late into the night. It's his way. He's a night person. A 'nyctophile' he calls himself.
ref: 1973, Garson Kanin, A Thousand Summers, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 17:
text: Altogether, these four varieties of nyctophiles chewed great hunks out of my sleeping time, and accounted for many of my less charitable thoughts, during the hours that the "general populace" was enjoying restful "shut-eye"'.
ref: 2000, Brad Houston, Too Young to Die, Victoria, B.C.: Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 224:
text: Britain will not see a total solar eclipse until September 23, 2090, but there are a plethora of partial eclipses in the meantime to keep nyctophiles content.
ref: 2017 August 7, “When is the next full solar eclipse in the UK?”, in The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Jan 2023:
synonyms: nyctophiliac
antonyms: nyctophobe
glosses: Someone who loves the night or darkness.
examples: text: Case 25. The Nycteres of Africa, and the Petalias of Java; the Nyctophiles of Australia; the Barbastelles and long-eared bats of Europe; and the true bat and Scotophiles, which are scattered over different parts of the world, and the Lasiures of America.
ref: 1843, Synopsis, or Guide Book to the British Museum, London: George Woodfall and Son, page 29:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the Australian bats of the genus Nyctophilus.
Related terms: nyctophilia
nyctophilic
heliophile
photophile
nyctophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nyctophile
preaudience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + audience, i.e. the right to be heard before another.
Senses: examples: text: A patent of precedence is sometimes granted cedence to barristers , which entitles them to such rank and preaudience as are assigned in their respective patents
ref: 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
topics: law
glosses: Precedence of rank at the bar among lawyers.
Illuminatism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Illuminism
rostella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛlə
Senses: glosses: plural of rostellum
rostellum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛləm
Forms: form: rostella
form: rostellums
Etymology: From Latin, diminutive of rostrum (“beak”).
Senses: examples: the rostellum of the stigma of violets, or of the operculum of many mosses
glosses: A small beak-like process or extension; a small rostrum.
examples: text: 1922, John Christopher Willis, "Orchidacea", entry in A Manual and Dictionary of the Flowering Plants and Ferns, page 471,
The rostellum has an outer firm pouch, inside which is the viscid substance to which are firmly attached the caudicles of the pollinia. An insect entering the fl. probes the spur of the labellum and its back comes into contact with the rostellum and depresses the pouch, causing the viscid substance to adhere to the insect.
text: In many orchids there is a discrete "viscidium," or sticky pad, formed by the rostellum.
ref: 1993, Robert L. Dressler, Phylogeny and Classification of the Orchid Family, page 45:
text: 2005, Orchids of Manitoba: A Field Guide, Native Orchid Conservation Inc., page 20,
The third stigma is sterile and has developed into the rostellum, a sticky structure that aids in pollination by attaching the pollen to insects.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A projecting part of the column in the flower of an orchid that separates the male stamen from the female gynoecium.
examples: text: The morphology of the scolex, particularly the rostellum, is also useful in diagnosis; T.^([Taenia]) saginata has no rostellum and its scolex bears no hooks, making it easily distinguishable from T. solium, which has an armed rostellum.
ref: 2005, Burton Jerome Bogitsh, Clint Earl Carter, Thomas N. Oeltmann, editors, Human Parasitology, page 273:
text: The scolex exhibits a retractable rostellum with crowns of recurved thorn-like hooks and four cup-like suckers.
ref: 2008, Dwight D. Bowman, Charles M. Hendrix, David S. Lindsay, Stephen C. Barr, Feline Clinical Parasitology, page 216:
text: Some species also possess an anteriorly projecting rostellum, which may or may not be armed with one or more rows of hooks. The rostellum can be retracted into the rostellar sac within the scolex.
ref: 2012, Thomas C. Cheng, General Parasitology, page 405:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A retractable protruding part at the anterior end of a soft-bodied tapeworm; the scolex from which it protrudes is often armed with hooks which serve to keep it in place attached to the host.
Related terms: rostellar
sipple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sipples
form: sippling
form: sippled
form: sippled
form: sirple
Etymology: From sip + -le (frequentative suffix).
Senses: examples: text: There settled a brief moment of silence while Mademoiselle and the Baroness sippled their exotic beverage and Keresztváry sucked down another petit four while staring into space, having apparently finished more than one cup of tea.
ref: 2014, Christian Vago, The Rotted Garden: Volume One, page 59:
text: You had better drink a bottle of wine on any particular occasion, than sit and soak and sipple at an English pint every day.
ref: 1837, Walter Scott, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. (ed. John Gibson Lockhart), volume 6, Letter to Cornet Scott 7th August, 1819, page 115:
glosses: To drink by taking frequent sips
Related terms: sirple
sippled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sipple
sipples
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sipple
sippling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sipple
woosy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more woosy
form: most woosy
Etymology: From Middle English *wosy, equivalent to ooze + -y. Cognate with Old Frisian wasie (“miry”). More at ooze.
Senses: examples: text: Besides, what is she else, but a foule woosie Marsh,
ref: 1622, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 25 p. 109:
glosses: oozy; wet
examples: text: Just as he leaned in to embrace his joy, he felt a little woosy, he didn't know what it was, and almost as quick as it came, it was gon' .
ref: 2011, Dr Anita Dix-McLaughlin, Crimson and Scarlet, page 56:
text: He was woosy, but in the morning he was fine and there were no problems.
ref: 2012, B. Jtol, Righteous Vision, page 149:
text: All those thoughts of pinning him down were making her knees go woosy.
ref: 2021, Jahanvi Singh, Bottle Cup of Emotions, page 92:
glosses: Alternative form of woozy.
examples: text: Any woosy words like social justice , equity or concepts like ' barriers ' get red penned out.
ref: 2007, Jill Blackmore, Judyth Sachs, Performing and Reforming Leaders, page 70:
text: The gal who kicked your woosy little butt is my ex-wife.
ref: 2008, Mark Stellinga, My Sentiments Exactly, page 258:
text: One spit from the cat sent the dog backing up. "Woosy,” Rachel said. “Or smart, not sure which.”
ref: 2023, Janie Owens, Jessica Brimer, Debbie De Louise, Sleuths and Surprises:
glosses: Alternative form of wussy.
woosy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woosies
Etymology: From Middle English *wosy, equivalent to ooze + -y. Cognate with Old Frisian wasie (“miry”). More at ooze.
Senses: examples: text: Hoover was a 'woosy'.
ref: 2010, David Heaukulani, The Reficul Parallax: Godsquad Genesis, page 65:
text: Over here, you big woosy!
ref: 2014, Dale Osborne, Cavin Wright, The Quest:
text: Whereupon, Kalchelik kicked him up the backside and told him not to be such a soggy-hearted woosy—this was a hygiene unit, not a bloomin' convent.
ref: 2021, Malcolm J Wardlaw, Death by Decent Society:
glosses: Alternative form of wussy.
intempestively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more intempestively
form: most intempestively
Etymology: From intempestive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: intempestively rayl at
ref: 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
glosses: unseasonably; at the wrong time
Synonyms: inopportunely
ruffin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɹʌfɪn/
Forms: form: more ruffin
form: most ruffin
Etymology: See ruffian.
Senses: examples: text: His ruffin raiment all was staind with blood.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 34:
glosses: disordered
ruffin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹʌfɪn/
Forms: form: ruffins
Etymology: See ruffian.
Senses: examples: text: So I jest called out to know what was up, and found it was Miss Vanholte's cowboys, who had been forced into the store by them rascally ruffins.
ref: 1890, Emma E. Hornibrook, Queen of the ranche; or, Life in the Far west, page 150:
glosses: A ruffian.
detortion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: detortions
form: detorsion
Senses: examples: text: But often, when thy face [i.e., that of a horse] is turned from the stable, thou hast an unaccountable desire to place it in the position occupied by thy tail: thou stoppest, coughest, shyest, and erst, with swift detorsion, turnest round, then, with sidelong glance of my magic caduceus, ominously wagging between the horizon and thy ample sides, I incite thee on, but rarely does thy pace more than trot, from home.
ref: 1835 January 23 (date written), Frederic James Post, “A Discourse Touching Rides and Riding”, in Extracts from the Diary and Other Manuscripts of the Late Frederic James Post, of Islington. […], London: […] [James Moyes] for private circulation, published 1838, →OCLC, pages 331–332:
glosses: The act of detorting, or the state of being detorted; a twisting or warping.
tarrace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tarraces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of trass.
tarraces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tarrace
misguidingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more misguidingly
form: most misguidingly
Etymology: From misguiding + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: From there, everything I had so misguidingly been looking to achieve began to unfold for me
ref: 2018, Andrea Owen, How to Stop Feeling Like Sh*t:
text: The misguidingly named 'New Bridge', has linked the western end of Île de la Cité with both riverbanks since 1607
ref: 2018, Lonely Planet Paris:
synonyms: misleadingly
glosses: So as to misguide.
irregeneracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ir- + regeneracy.
Senses: glosses: unregeneracy
winter-proud
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more winter-proud
form: most winter-proud
Senses: examples: text: by some it [the wheat in the Weald]is considered to be too strong and forward, and therefore in danger of becoming winter proud
ref: 1847, The Farmer's Magazine:
text: If winter wheat were all drilled by the 10th of September, the entire fall would be at the farmer's disposal for clearing the land and sowing spring crops early. The crop could not become winter-proud, or be laid by the summer rains. The harvest would be from two to three weeks earlier.
ref: 1883 July 24, James Cheesman, “Selection in Grain-Growing”, in Popular Science Monthly:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: Having too strong or luxuriant a growth for winter.
homestall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homestalls
Etymology: From Middle English homstal, hamstal, from Old English hāmsteall (“homestead; residence”), equivalent to home + stall.
Senses: examples: text: Thy cocoas and bananas, palms and yams,
And homestall thatched with leaves
ref: 1782–1785, William Cowper, “(please specify the page)”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC:
glosses: Place of a home; homestead.
homestalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homestall
overhigh
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overhigh
form: most overhigh
Etymology: From Old English [Term?].
Senses: glosses: Too high; excessively high.
Derived terms: overhighly
hydroxanthic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hydro- + xanthic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: persulphocyanic
adhortatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more adhortatory
form: most adhortatory
Senses: examples: 1697-1698, John Potter, Archæologia Græca
They, who run into errors unwittingly, shall not be arraign'd in the publick Court, but some adhortatory Lessons of their Duty are to be privately inculcated.
glosses: Containing counsel or warning; advisory.
incogitant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈkɒd͡ʒɪtənt/
Forms: form: more incogitant
form: most incogitant
Etymology: From Latin incogitans, from in- (“not”) + cogitans, present participle of cogitare (“to think”). See cogitate.
Senses: examples: text: The Barr will bluſh at this moſt incogitant woodcock
ref: 1645 March 14 (Gregorian calendar), J[ohn] M[ilton], Colasterion: A Reply to a Nameles Answer against The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce. […], [London?]: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 25:
text: Men are careleſs and incogitant
ref: 1698, John Goodman, Winter-Evening Conference […] , eleventh edition, London: Printed by W. B. for Dan Brown […] , published 1720, page 187:
glosses: thoughtless; inconsiderate
Derived terms: incogitantly
improgressive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: more improgressive
form: most improgressive
Etymology: From im- + progressive.
Senses: examples: text: The texture of “The Enormous Room” is keyed-up and rather loose, at once frenetic and static, the notations as wandering and improgressive as day after day in prison must be.
ref: 2020 July 21, David Bromwich, “An American Poet Shaped by the Futility and Sadism of War”, in The New York Times:
text: Cathedral cities in England, imperial cities without manufactures in Germany, are all in an improgressive condition. The public employments of every class in such places continue the same from generation to generation.
ref: 1824, Thomas De Quincey, “Goethe”, in London Magazine:
synonyms: unprogressive
glosses: Not progressive.
Derived terms: improgressively
improgressiveness
timeling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timelings
Etymology: From time + -ling.
Senses: glosses: A timeserver (person who conforms to current opinions)
topics: fantasy
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Someone capable of time travel, or who exists on a certain time plane
timelings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of timeling
enomoties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enomoty
enomoty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enomoties
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐνωμοτία (enōmotía).
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: A band of sworn soldiers; a division of the Spartan army ranging from twenty-five to thirty-six men, bound together by oath.
meterage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meterages
form: metreage
Etymology: From meter + -age.
Senses: glosses: The act of measuring, such as of the weight of imports and exports, or the consumption of electricity.
glosses: The cost of measuring.
unportrayable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unportrayable
form: most unportrayable
Etymology: From un- + portrayable.
Senses: examples: text: High Risk is an anthology of unpredictable, politically unportrayable dualities.
ref: 1991 May 4, Mary Dowd, “Risky Business”, in Gay Community News, page 9:
glosses: That cannot be portrayed.
irrepresentable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more irrepresentable
form: most irrepresentable
Etymology: From ir- + representable.
Senses: glosses: Not capable of being represented or portrayed.
Derived terms: irrepresentableness
gratiolin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Gratiola + -in
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: One of the essential principles of the hedge hyssop (Gratiola officinalis).
Synonyms: gratioside
theosophize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: theosophizes
form: theosophizing
form: theosophized
form: theosophized
form: theosophise
Etymology: From theosophy + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To practice theosophy.
theosophized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of theosophize
theosophizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of theosophize
theosophizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of theosophize
compromissorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more compromissorial
form: most compromissorial
Senses: examples: text: our compromissorial ambassadors would consent to impale the Liberties of their country and apply the attainder of proscription to the representative men
ref: 1864, Alexander Hamilton Bullock, The Relations of the Educated Man with American Nationality:
glosses: Relating to compromise.
treadwheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: treadwheels
Etymology: From tread + wheel.
Senses: examples: text: It is so deep no man can draw the buckets on a winch, but they must have an ass inside a treadwheel to hoist them up.
ref: [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, “A Funeral”, in Moonfleet (Arnold’s English Literature Series), London: Edward Arnold & Co., →OCLC, page 148:
glosses: A large wheel turned by treading, climbing, or pushing with the feet upon its periphery, as for example in a treadmill.
Synonyms: walking wheel
treadwheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of treadwheel
brait
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: braits
Etymology: Compare Welsh brith, feminine braith (“variegated”), Irish breá (“fine, comely”).
Senses: glosses: A diamond in the rough; an uncut diamond.
braits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brait
rasorable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rasorable
form: most rasorable
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of razorable.
transmutual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + mutual.
Senses: examples: text: In this respect the present Dissenters have the advantage over their earlier predecessors; but on the other hand they utterly evacuate the Scriptural commands against schism; take away all sense and significance from the article respecting the Catholic Church; and in consequence degrade the discipline itself into mere club-regulations or the by-laws of different lodges; — that very discipline, the capability of exercising which in its own specific nature without superinduction of a destructive and transmutual opposite, is the fairest and firmest support of their cause.
ref: 1829, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, notes on Baxter's Life of Himself:
glosses: reciprocal; commutual
wreathen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From wreath + -en.
Senses: examples: text: wreathen work of pure gold
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 18:22:
glosses: Twisted; made into a wreath.
anemographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Produced by an anemograph; of or pertaining to anemography.
Derived terms: anemographically
bird-eyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: quick-sighted
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: having eyes of a bird, or similar thereto.
periodoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: periodoscopes
Etymology: From period + -scope.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A table or other means of calculating the menstrual cycle.
periodoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of periodoscope
phene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfiːn/
Forms: form: phenes
Etymology: Proposed 1836 by French scientist Auguste Laurent as an alternative name for benzene, from French phène, from Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō, “bring to light, cause to appear, show”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Benzene.
examples: text: This phene has a dominant influence on phosphorus acquisition.
ref: 2011 May 24, Jonathan P. Lynch, “Root Phenes for Enhanced Soil Exploration and Phosphorus Acquisition: Tools for Future Crops”, in Plant Physiology:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
synonyms: character
coordinate_terms: gene
glosses: A genetically determined phenotype.
Derived terms: thiophene
Related terms: -phane
phen-
pheno-
phenomenon
phenotype
thecasporous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From theca + -sporous.
Senses: examples: text: thecasporous fungi
text: thecasporous fruit
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the spores in thecae, or cases.
tyranness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tyrannesses
Etymology: From tyrant + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: that proud tyranness
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 46:
text: From the vulgar croud
Though superstition, tyranness abhorr'd,
The reverence due to this majestic pair
With threats and execration still demands;
ref: 1744, Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of the Imagination:
glosses: Obsolete form of tyrantess.
tyrannesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tyranness
attendment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈtɛndmənt/
Forms: form: attendments
Etymology: Compare Old French atendement.
Senses: examples: text: the uncomfortable attendments of hell
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A concomitant circumstance.
attendments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attendment
rectiserial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From recti- + serial.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Arranged in exactly vertical ranks, as leaves on stems.
Related terms: curviserial
Esculapian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Esculapian
form: most Esculapian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Aesculapian.
Esculapian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Esculapians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Aesculapian.
Esculapians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Esculapian
shebander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shebanders
form: shabander
form: shabunder
form: shahbandar
form: shebunder
Etymology: From Persian شاهبندر (šâhbandar, “harbormaster”)
Senses: glosses: A harbourmaster in the Southeast Asia.
Cerinthian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cerinthians
Etymology: From Cerinthus + -ian, named after its Jewish founder, Cerinthus.
Senses: examples: 1845-1852, Walter Hook, Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Biography
There were some among the Cerinthians, who absolutely denied the resurrection of the dead
glosses: One of an ancient religious sect that attempted to unite the doctrines of Christ with the opinions of the Jews and Gnostics.
Cerinthian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Cerinthian
form: most Cerinthian
Etymology: From Cerinthus + -ian, named after its Jewish founder, Cerinthus.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Cerinthus or the Cerinthian sect.
Cerinthians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cerinthian
gleety
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɡliːti/
Forms: form: more gleety
form: most gleety
Etymology: From gleet + -y.
Senses: examples: text: the Flesh within the Ulcer was livid, and in some parts of a blackish colour , and discharged a gleety Matter
ref: 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], →OCLC:
glosses: ichorous; thin; limpid
gunnie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: If there are no “deads” brought by hand the filling does not shrink from the back of the gunnie, but deads soon settle and lose a tenth of the height.
ref: 1911, Mining Journal, volume 94, page 811:
topics: business
mining
glosses: The space left by the removal of ore.
proscriptional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more proscriptional
form: most proscriptional
Etymology: From proscription + -al.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of proscriptive.
lithophyse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithophyses
Etymology: Ancient Greek [Term?]
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A spherulitic cavity, often with concentric chambers, observed in some volcanic rocks, such as rhyolitic lavas.
lithophyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lithophyse
redeliberate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: redeliberates
form: redeliberating
form: redeliberated
form: redeliberated
Etymology: From re- + deliberate.
Senses: glosses: To deliberate again; to reconsider.
redeliberated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of redeliberate
redeliberates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of redeliberate
redeliberating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of redeliberate
metazoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metazoa
form: metazoons
Etymology: From the singular form of translingual Metazoa.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the Metazoa.
Related terms: metazoan
metazoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metazoon
rubidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A nitrogenous base homologous with pyridine, obtained from coal tar as an oily liquid, C₁₁H₁₇N.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any metameric compound in the same group as the above.
subglumaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + glumaceous.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat glumaceous.
interadditive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + additive.
Senses: examples: text: interadditive clause
text: interadditive partition
glosses: Added or placed between the parts of another thing.
underaid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underaids
form: underaiding
form: underaided
form: underaided
Etymology: From under- + aid.
Senses: glosses: To aid clandestinely.
glosses: To give insufficient aid.
underaided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underaid
underaiding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underaid
underaids
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underaid
whiteback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whitebacks
Etymology: From white + back.
Senses: examples: text: […], slopehead,. whiteback, thunder duck, and gourmet's delight have been used to characterize the canvasback which has been described as the gold standard by which other species are compared .
ref: 1978, North Dakota Outdoors - Volumes 41-42, page 7:
glosses: Various species that have a white back, including:
A wild duck, the canvasback (Aythya valisineria)
examples: text: The creation of managed habitats shows that most duck species will take to them, the main exceptions being the Pygmy Goose and the Whiteback Duck.
ref: 1972, Bulletin - International Waterfowl Research Bureau, page 68:
glosses: Various species that have a white back, including:
The white-backed duck. (Thalassornis leuconotus)
examples: text: One snake-necked Whiteback teeters on the head then, steady, dips into the socket.
ref: 1999, Alice Friman, Zoo, page 6:
text: The whiteback is a close relative of a vulture you may have seen in Africa.
ref: 2012, Richard Ives, Of Tigers and Men:
text: The grass rippled and whispered, a mystery on this windless day, and an uneasieness settled over me as the whitebacks rose clumsily into the air, abandoning their carrion.
ref: 2013, George Makana Clark, The Raw Man, page 168:
glosses: Various species that have a white back, including:
The white-backed griffon vulture (Gyps africanus)
examples: text: In the early 20th centruy the number of white-backs was fairly large, though not recognized as a bree, these Baltic landrace cattle accounted for about 10% of the national herd.
ref: 2024, Marleen Felius, Cattle Breeds of the World, page 122:
glosses: Various species that have a white back, including:
A Lithuanian breed of cattle, (Lietuvos baltnugariai galvijai)
examples: text: Overall, the downgrading has favored FBB and, in particular, whiteback folding boxboard, which can offer a very good whiteness and therefore good print qualities compared with SBB .
ref: 1997, PIMA's, page 21:
text: It will give Amcor Cartonboard the ability to produce superior quality whiteback board to that currently made at Petrie, opening up new market opportunities for the company.
ref: 2003, Appita Journal, page 9:
text: It produces grayback and whiteback coated duplex of 250-400 gsm.
ref: 2008, Paper Technology, page 54:
coordinate_terms: greyback
glosses: A type of paperboard used in packaging that has a smooth white surface on one side and a brown or unbleached surface on the other side.
examples: text: The whiteback navy jeans were selected most often;
ref: 1961, Research Bulletin - Issues 871-880, page 23:
text: Of heavy-weight, 111/4-oz. whiteback denim, with the fabric strengthened with 25 percent DuPont 420 nylon, the jeans will not wear or wash white, the company said.
ref: 1962, The Boys' Outfitter - Volume 77, page 103:
text: Vat-dyed whiteback denim stays colorfast .
ref: 1971, Montgomery Ward Catalog, page 479:
glosses: A type of denim that is indigo on one side, and pale on the back.
whiteback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whitebacks
Etymology: Blend of white + wetback.
Senses: examples: text: With only a head full of figures and a pocket full of indigestion tablets, a "whiteback" CPA emerges from the Rio Grande hoping for a better life in Mexico.
ref: 1979, Tony Hendra, Christopher Cerf, Peter Elbling ·, The 80s: A Look Back at the Tumultuous Decade, 1980-1989, page 159:
text: The " whiteback" joke is from Charlie Hill's appearance on The Tonight Show and is republished in Kenneth Lincoln's book Indian Humor as follows: " the first English immigrants were illegal aliens —' Whitebacks, we call 'em.'
ref: 1997, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, page 23:
text: Canadians are a friendly, open people. Therefore, their first instinct is to welcome the "whitebacks” from south of the border.
ref: 2011, Philip J. Romero, Your Macroeconomic Edge, page 69:
glosses: A white immigrant, especially one moving to or from the United States.
whitebacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whiteback
premonishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: premonishments
Etymology: From premonish + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: Now , after these premonishments I will come to the Compartition it self
ref: 1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC:
glosses: Previous warning or admonition; forewarning.
speculatist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speculatists
Etymology: From speculate + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The very ingenious speculatist, Mr. Hume, seems to wish as well as think, that as death is unavoidable by the political as well as the animal body, the British constitution may die in the arms of despotism.
ref: 1795, Vicesimus Knox, The Spirit of Despotism:
text: The objections of these speculatists, if its forces do not quadrate with their theories, are as valid against such an old and beneficent government as against the most violent tyranny or the greenest usurpation.
ref: 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford, published 2009, page 58:
glosses: Someone who makes speculative theories or deals in abstract ideas; a theorist.
speculatists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speculatist
panderous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more panderous
form: most panderous
Etymology: From pander + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or relating to a pander; illicit, debauching.
trilevel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + level.
Senses: examples: the trilevel US antiterrorism program
glosses: Of three levels.
furbisher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: furbishers
Etymology: From Middle English furbisshour, from Middle French fourbisseur; equivalent to furbish + -er. Compare French fourbisseur.
Senses: glosses: Someone who furbishes.
furbishers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of furbisher
tri-level
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of trilevel.
immalleable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more immalleable
form: most immalleable
Etymology: From im- + malleable.
Senses: glosses: Not malleable.
Neocomian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin Neocomum (“Neuchâtel”) + -ian.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Lower Greensand.
blockheadism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blockheadisms
Etymology: From blockhead + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Robespierre, when he heard of it, broke out into something almost like swearing at the brutish blockheadism of this Hébert[.]
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter VII, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume III (The Guillotine), London: James Fraser, […], →OCLC, book IV (Terror), page 272:
glosses: The character or behaviour of a blockhead; stupidity or idiocy.
blockheadisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blockheadism
coachmanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From coachman + -ship.
Senses: glosses: Skill in driving a coach (the old vehicle).
deliveress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deliveresses
Etymology: From deliver + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: Joan d'Arc, armed also like a cavalier, with boots and spurs, her hair dishevelled, as the deliveress of the town from our countrymen, when they besieged it
ref: 1644 May 1 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for April 21 1644]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC:
text: Approach, encompassing Death—strong Deliveress! / When it is so—when thou hast taken them, I joyously sing the dead, / Lost in the loving, floating ocean of thee, / Laved in the flood of thy bliss, O Death.
ref: 1865 (indicated as 1865–1866), Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps. […] When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d. And Other Pieces, Washington, D.C.: Gibson Brothers, […], →OCLC, canto 16, stanza 21, page 10:
glosses: A female deliverer.
deliveresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deliveress
semicalcareous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛəɹi.əs
Etymology: From semi- + calcareous.
Senses: examples: text: a semicalcareous plant
text: a semicalcareous rock
glosses: Partially calcareous.
spirituosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being spirituous (of liquors).
glosses: The state of being a spirit, i.e. immateriality.