cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
kokoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈkuːn/
homophone: cocoon
Forms: form: kokoons
Etymology: From Tswana kgokoñ.
Senses: examples: text: Mixed squads of kokoons and zebras are practising their wild gambols over the level plain, kicking, frolicking, butting, and pursuing each other with untiring perseverence
ref: 1845, John George Cochrane [editor], The Foreign Quarterly Review:
glosses: A gnu; a brindled gnu.
kokoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈkuːn/
homophone: cocoon
ipa: /koʊˈkuːn/
ipa: /kəˈkuːn/
homophone: cocoon
Forms: form: kokoons
Etymology: From Sinhalese [script needed] (kokuṅ).
Senses: examples: text: The inner yellow bark of the kokoon tree of Ceylon (Kokoona Zeylanica, Thw.) is employed there as a febrifuge and stimulatory, and as a dye.
ref: 1872, Yearbook of Pharmacy: Comprising Abstracts of Papers Relating to Pharmacy, Materia Medica and Chemistry Contributed to British and Foreign Journal...with the Transactions of the British Pharmaceutical Conference, page 32:
text: The kokoon tree from Sri Lanka (Kokoona zeylanica) yields a useful oil.
ref: 2007 October 23, Colin Tudge, The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter, Crown, →ISBN, page 169:
text: CELASTRALES - spindle trees, khat trees, kokoons.
ref: 2012 October 16, Olavi Huikari, The Miracle of Trees, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 54:
synonyms: kokoona
glosses: A tree of the genus Kokoona.
kokoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kokoon
overgreat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overgreat
form: most overgreat
Etymology: From Middle English overgrete; equivalent to over- + great.
Senses: examples: text: an overgreat reduction
text: Oligarchies […] sometimes made men overgreat.
text: He did particularly run over every one of the officers and commanders, and shewed me how I had reason to mistrust every one of them, either for their falsenesse or their overgreat power, being too high to fasten a real friendship in, and did give me a common but a most excellent [saying] to observe in all my life.
ref: 1876, Mynors Bright, Richard Griffin Braybrooke, Samuel Pepys, Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, Esq., Bickers and Son, page 383:
text: "I like it not, fair sir. The weight is overgreat," he whispered to the Prince.
ref: 1906, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel, W. Briggs, page 331:
glosses: Excessively great.
unbeware
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From un- + beware.
Senses: examples: text: He meant[…]To steale upon me in the night and kill me unbeware.
ref: 1565, Arthur Golding, Metamorphosis:
glosses: unawares
underlock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underlocks
Etymology: From under- + lock.
Senses: examples: text: No cloggings, lumps of dirt, or underlocks should be suffered to be rolled up with the fleece, as such a practice is unfair to the purchaser, and by act of parliament there is a heavy penalty attached to those who are convicted of doing it.
ref: 1839, British Farmer's Magazine, volume 3, page 187:
glosses: A lock of wool hanging under the belly of a sheep.
underlocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underlock
outstricken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of outstrike
outstrike
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outstrikes
form: outstriking
form: outstruck
form: outstruck
form: outstricken
Etymology: From out- + strike.
Senses: examples: text: […] This blows my heart:
If swift thought break it not, a swifter mean
Shall outstrike thought: but thought will do’t, I feel.
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi]:
text: Solyman. […] Few Rhodian Knights, making their several stands,
Out-strike Assemblies of our many Hands.
ref: 1659, William Davenant, The Siege of Rhodes, London: Henry Herringman, Part 2, Act 5, p. 50:
glosses: To strike faster or harder than.
outstrikes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outstrike
outstriking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outstrike
outstruck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of outstrike
uncloister
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uncloisters
form: uncloistering
form: uncloistered
form: uncloistered
Etymology: From un- + cloister.
Senses: glosses: To release from a cloister, or from confinement or seclusion; to liberate; to free.
uncloistered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uncloister
uncloistered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not cloistered.
uncloistering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uncloister
uncloisters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uncloister
mistutor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mistutors
form: mistutoring
form: mistutored
form: mistutored
Etymology: From mis- + tutor.
Senses: glosses: To tutor badly or astray.
mistutored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mistutor
mistutoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mistutor
mistutors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mistutor
overfullness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From overfull + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being excessively or abnormally full.
unsatiability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of insatiability.
granitification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From granite + -ification.
Senses: examples: 1838, [unknown author] "Theory of Granite" (review), in The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal
the limestone was also changed in those regions where granitification took place
glosses: The act or process of forming into granite.
uranin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uranium + -in, from its yellowish-green fluorescence, resembling that of uranium glass.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkaline salt of fluorescein, used as a brownish-red dye.
outsport
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outsports
form: outsporting
form: outsported
form: outsported
Etymology: From out- + sport.
Senses: examples: text: not to outsport discretion
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
glosses: To exceed in sporting; to outdo.
outsported
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outsport
outsporting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outsport
outsports
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outsport
sanguiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /saŋˈɡwɪfəɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs
Etymology: From sangui- + -ferous, from Latin sanguis (“blood”).
Senses: examples: text: ‘Today we will begin with an examination of the principal sanguiferous conduits of the leg…’
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 206:
glosses: Conveying blood.
biangular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + angular.
Senses: examples: text: Too long unknown, unmapped and undescribed, a fault block of broad, biangular pattern has recently been outlined lying athwart the lower waters of Drennon Creek in north-eastern Henry County, Kentucky.
ref: 1965, Willard Rouse Jillson, Biangular Faulting in the Outer Bluegrass Region of Northern Kentucky, page 5:
text: X-ray tubes with biangular anode discs are used for dual focus tubes, where there is a need of very small effective focal spot.
ref: 2020, Slavik Tabakov, Franco Milano, Perry Sprawls, Encyclopaedia of Medical Physics, page 87:
glosses: Having two angles or corners.
examples: text: a biangular circle
text: Before proceeding with the Uniform Circle Formation problem, let us consider a less restricted version of that problem, the biangular circle formation: The robots must be placed on the boundary of a circle at intervals forming a biangular configuration (refer to Chapter 3).
ref: 2022, Paola Flocchini, Giuseppe Prencipe, Nicola Santoro, Distributed Computing by Oblivious Mobile Robots, page 87:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having exactly two angular structures, operations, coordinates, or relative positions.
butlerage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butlerages
Etymology: From butler + -age.
Senses: examples: text: There is also another very antient hereditary duty belonging to the crown, called the prisage or butlerage of wines; which is considerably older than the customs, being taken notice of in the great roll of the exchequer, 8 Ric. I. still extant. Prisage was a right of taking two tons of wine from every ship importing into England twenty tons or more; which by Edward I. was exchanged into a duty of 2s for every ton imported by merchant-strangers, and called butlerage, because paid to the king's butler.
ref: 1771, William, Sir Blackstone, “Of the King's Revenue”, in Commentaries on the Laws of England, volume 1, pages 314–315:
topics: law
glosses: A duty formerly paid to the king's butler on every ton of wine imported into England by foreign merchants.
butlerages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butlerage
sorbin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sorb + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An unfermentable sugar, isomeric with glucose, found in the ripe berries of the rowan tree, or sorb.
overfruitful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈfɹuːtfəl/
Forms: form: more overfruitful
form: most overfruitful
Etymology: From over- + fruitful.
Senses: examples: text: Rhyme bounds and circumscribes an overfruitful fancy.
ref: 1668, John Dryden, Essay of Dramatick Poesie:
text: In the Northern colonies shelter had to be sought from the storms and frosts of a rigorous climate. Food had to be gained mainly by the sweat of the brow, out of a soil in many parts not overfruitful, and everywhere needing labor and care.
ref: 1980, Reuben Aldridge Guild, Early history of Brown University, page 19:
glosses: Excessively fruitful.
oxybenzoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oxy- + benzoic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: hydroxybenzoic
weighlock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weighlocks
Etymology: From weigh + lock.
Senses: glosses: A canal lock in which boats were weighed, and their tonnage settled.
weighlocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weighlock
efflation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: efflations
Senses: examples: text: a soft efflation of celestial fire
ref: a. 1718, Thomas Parnell, David:
glosses: A blowing, breathing or puffing out.
Related terms: efflate
efflations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of efflation
jargonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From jargon + -ic.
Senses: examples: jargonic earth
glosses: Of or pertaining to the mineral jargon.
glosses: Of or pertaining to a language to be described as jargon.
somniloquism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: somniloquisms
Senses: synonyms: somniloquy
glosses: sleeptalking
Related terms: somniloquist
somniloquisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of somniloquism
overlip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overlips
Etymology: From Middle English overlippe, equivalent to over- + lip.
Senses: examples: text: They seem to her still so young, hardly more than children, really, even Adam—especially Adam—with that babyishly fat overlip that trembles so when he is excited or upset.
ref: 2010, John Banville, The Infinities, →ISBN:
text: His eyes were closed, his mouth opened. His breathing, irregular for three, then four, then five breaths, returned to its normal, soundless rhythm. Stubbled overlip and wet underlip moved about some final, silent word: […]
ref: 2014, Samuel R. Delany, Tales of Nevèrÿon, →ISBN:
glosses: The upper lip.
glosses: An upper lip that extends too far out and down. (Compare overbite.)
raw_tags: of a dog
Coordinate terms: underlip
overlips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overlip
uncredit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uncredits
form: uncrediting
form: uncredited
form: uncredited
Etymology: From un- + credit.
Senses: examples: text: Then was it Kilvert's design to uncredit the testimony of Pregion
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: To cause to be disbelieved; to discredit.
examples: text: But, unfortunately, if the promises to pay are not fulfilled, the Reparation Commission will later have to un'''credit Germany's account.
ref: 1972, Harold Glenn Moulton, Constantine Edward McGuire, Germany's Capacity to Pay: A Study of the Reparation Problem:
glosses: To deduct the amount of payment that was previously credited to an account.
Related terms: uncredit card
uncrediting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uncredit
uncredits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uncredit
overscrupulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overscrupulous
form: most overscrupulous
Etymology: From over- + scrupulous.
Senses: glosses: Excessively scrupulous.
Derived terms: overscrupulously
overscrupulousness
arrayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arrayers
Etymology: From array + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who arrays.
glosses: An officer who provided soldiers with armour and took care of it.
arrayers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arrayer
overrefinement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overrefinements
Etymology: From over- + refinement.
Senses: glosses: Excessive refinement.
Related terms: overrefine
overrefinements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overrefinement
rombowline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rumbowline
form: rumbowling
form: rhumbowline
Etymology: Uncertain.
Senses: examples: text: It has probably been destroyed altogether, but Rome is a great place for treasuring rubbish and rombowline, and perhaps the old keyboard still exists, with stacks of wooden and metal pipes and bundles of worm- eaten trackers, all piled up together and forgotten in some corner of the crypt, or in some high belfry room or long-closed attic above the gorgeous ceiling of the Basilica.
ref: 1909, F. Marion Crawford, chapter XX, in Stradella: An Old Italian Love Tale, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 348:
text: The port and starboard walls were lined with three-tiered berths so close together that the occupant must enter by assuming a half sitting, half reclining position. In front of each hung a shabby bit of rombowline, dating from antiquity. It is used to keep out the air at night and the light during the day when the sailors sleep.
ref: 1929, Viola Irene Cooper, Windjamming to Fiji, New York: A. L. Burt Company, →OCLC, page 114:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Old, condemned canvas, rope, etc., unfit for use except in chafing gear.
teguexin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teguexins
Etymology: From Nahuatl tecoixin (“lizard”); compare tegu.
Senses: glosses: A large South American lizard with yellowish spots; a gold tegu.
teguexins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teguexin
unguical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin unguis (“a nail or claw”).
Senses: examples: text: : [he] ... picked at and gently lacerated the protruding part of the great toenail, raised the part lacerated to his nostrils and inhaled the odour of the quick, then, with satisfaction, threw away the lacerated unguical fragment.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: ungual
uninfringible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uninfringible
form: most uninfringible
Etymology: From un- + infringible.
Senses: examples: text: an uninfringible monopoly
glosses: That cannot be infringed.
ponticuli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ponticulus
convulsional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more convulsional
form: most convulsional
Etymology: From convulsion + -al.
Senses: examples: January 9 1824, Charles Lamb, letter to Bernard Barton
an occasional convulsional cough
glosses: Pertaining to, or having, convulsions.
Johnsonese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Johnson + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: It is a sort of broken Johnsonese, a barbarous patois, bearing the same relation to the language of Rasselas which the gibberish of the negroes of Jamaica bears to the English of the House of Lords
ref: 1843, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Madame D'Arblay”, in Edinburgh Review:
hypernyms: inkhornism
glosses: The literary style of Dr. Samuel Johnson; an inflated, stilted, or pompous style, affecting classical words.
pontificalia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pontificals (“vestments of a bishop, priest, or pope”).
synonyms: word: pontificals
extra: vestments of a bishop, priest, or pope
dejecter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈdʒɛktə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: dejecters
Etymology: From deject (“cast down”) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The Morall mans dejecters likewise three, / Wine, Woman, and the love of Vanitie.
ref: 1631, “The illustration to the Frontispiece”, in Richard Berkeley, The Felicitie of Man, or, his Summum Bonum:
text: But I found the Errhina or Medicines that purge the Head by the Nostrils […] to be more foolish than these: Likewise solutives or Purgers by Stool, and Bloud-lettings, to be cruel ones; because the dejecters of strength.
ref: 1664, Jan Baptist van Helmont, translated by J. C., Van Helmont’s Workes, […], page 362:
text: This was forty years before tea had been introduced in England, and water was looked upon as a “dejecter of the appetite,” when taken cool and by itself.
ref: 1896 June 4, “Sanitary”, in The Independent, volume 48, number 2479, page 16 (756):
glosses: Something that casts down or diminishes.
dejecters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dejecter
serratirostral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒstɹəl
Etymology: serrate + rostral
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: Having a serrated bill, like that of a toucan.
unmonopolize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unmonopolizes
form: unmonopolizing
form: unmonopolized
form: unmonopolized
Etymology: From un- + monopolize.
Senses: examples: text: and unmonopolizing the rewards of learning and industry, from the greasie clutch of ignorance,
ref: 1641 May, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavses that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC, page 71; republished in (Please provide a date or year):
glosses: To remove a monopoly of.
unmonopolized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unmonopolize
unmonopolizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unmonopolize
unmonopolizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unmonopolize
uræmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of uremic.
cataphonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of catacoustics.
synonyms: word: catacoustics
catacoustics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cata- + acoustics.
Senses: examples: text: The subject of Catacoustics, or the doctrine of reflected sound, is, perhaps, the most unsatisfactory in its results of any branch of physical science.
ref: 1853, J. B. Upham, “A Consideration of some of the Phenomena and Laws of Sound, and their application in the Construction of Buildings designed especially for Musical Effect,”, in American Journal of Science, volume 15, page 224:
glosses: The science which studies reflected sound.
Synonyms: cataphonics
asr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Etymology tree
Arabic عَصْر (ʕaṣr)bor.
English asr
Borrowed from Arabic عَصْر (ʕaṣr).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: afternoon prayer
hypernyms: prayer
glosses: The afternoon Islamic prayer.
atto-meter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atto-meters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of attometre.
atto-meters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atto-meter
atto-metre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atto-metres
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of atto-meter.
atto-metres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atto-metre
atto-mole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atto-moles
Etymology: From atto- + mole.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of attomole.
atto-moles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atto-mole
attomoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attomole
centigrays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centigray
centimoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centimole
centiwatts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centiwatt
decaamperes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decaampere
catastrophal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more catastrophal
form: most catastrophal
Etymology: From catastrophe + -al.
Senses: glosses: Catastrophic.
dekaamperes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dekaampere
dekaseconds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dekasecond
exajoules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exajoule
giga-becquerel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giga-becquerels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gigabecquerel.
gigaamperes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gigaampere
gigacycles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gigacycle
giganewtons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giganewton
fg
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of fk; Censored spelling of fucking.
fg
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Censored spelling of fucking.
fg
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Censored spelling of fucking.
kilo-meter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kilo-meters
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of kilometre.
kilo-meters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kilo-meter
kilo-newton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kilo-newtons
Etymology: From kilo- + newton.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kilonewton.
kilobecquerels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kilobecquerel
kilomoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kilomole
emasculatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more emasculatory
form: most emasculatory
Etymology: From emasculate + -ory.
Senses: glosses: Serving or tending to emasculate (make less virile).
fellable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fellable
form: most fellable
Etymology: From fell + -able.
Senses: examples: text: fellable wood
text: fellable spruce
glosses: Able, or fit, to be felled.
Derived terms: unfellable
jakos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jako
koklass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: koklasses
Etymology: From Nepali फोक्रास (phokrās).
Senses: synonyms: pucras
glosses: A pheasant of India and China, with a long central crest and two lateral crests on the head.
ministress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ministresses
Etymology: From Middle English ministresse; equivalent to minister + -ess. Compare Latin ministrīx.
Senses: examples: text: Thus then at first was beauty sent from heaven,
The lovely ministress of truth and good
In this dark world.
ref: 1744, Mark Akenside, Pleasures of Imagination:
glosses: A woman who ministers.
Synonyms: word: ministrix
Related terms: prime ministress
ministresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ministress
oversorrow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: oversorrows
form: oversorrowing
form: oversorrowed
form: oversorrowed
Etymology: From over- + sorrow.
Senses: examples: text: He, therefore, who by adventuring shall be so happy as with success to light the way of such an expedient liberty and truth as this, shall restore the much-wronged and over-sorrowed state of matrimony, not only to those merciful and lifegiving remedies of Moses, but as much as may be, to that serene and blissful condition it was in at the beginning, and shall deserve of all …
ref: 1826 (original 1643), John Milton, Francis Jenks, A Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton
text: " Ah, Sophia, how you overjoy me!" " Let Riberac take care that I shall not have oversorrowed myself."
ref: 1818, Annabella Plumptre, Tales of wonder, of humour, and of sentiment:
glosses: To grieve or afflict excessively.
Derived terms: oversorrowed
oversorrowing
oversorrowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oversorrow
oversorrowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oversorrow
oversorrows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of oversorrow
underfellow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underfellows
Etymology: From under- + fellow.
Senses: glosses: An underling; a subordinate.
examples: text: the carried him some miles thence, to a house of a principal officer of that country; who, with no more civility, though with much more business, than those under-fellows had showed
ref: a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:
english: The New Arcadia
translation: The New Arcadia
glosses: A mean, low man.
underfellows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underfellow
cathedral ceiling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cathedral ceilings
Senses: examples: text: Big deck, high open-beam cathedral ceiling. A real charmer
ref: 1993 Feb. 12, "Real Estate: Twain Harte Chalet $129,500, Union Democrat (USA), p. 1C (retrieved 27 Oct 2011)
topics: architecture
glosses: A vaulted ceiling that slopes upward from the walls, following the slope of the underside of the roof.
praecordium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: praecordia
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of precordium.
cat-nip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cat-nips
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of catnip.
Hislop
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hislops
Etymology: Variant of Hyslop.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Swisher
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɪʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Swishers
Etymology: Americanized form of German Schweitzer.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
glosses: A city in Johnson County, Iowa, United States.
Derived terms: Swisher County
cattle prod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cattle prods
form: cattle-prod
form: cattleprod
Senses: glosses: A stick designed to goad cows, steers, and similar animals in order to prompt them to move in a desired direction, now usually electrified to administer a stimulating shock to the animal.
examples: text: Social media is only as virtuous as the people using it. With Donald J. Trump in office, using Twitter as a cattle prod to shock the country to attention multiple times a day — often over cultural topics like N.F.L. protests or “Roseanne” — there was a sense that every day on the site was a battle.
ref: 2023 July 10, James Poniewozik, “The Twitter Watch Party Is Over”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Something used to goad or push someone to act.
Synonyms: cattle goad
stock prod
cattle prod
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cattle prods
form: cattle prodding
form: cattle prodded
form: cattle prodded
form: cattle-prod
form: cattleprod
Senses: examples: (They cattle prodded people trying to get them to move, but to no avail.)
(The website locks streams at highest resolution to cattle prod users to pay higher bandwidth fees.)
glosses: To goad or push someone to act.
cattle-prod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cattle-prods
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cattle prod.
cattle-prod
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cattle-prods
form: cattle-prodding
form: cattle-prodded
form: cattle-prodded
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cattle prod.
cattleprod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cattleprods
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cattle prod.
cattle goad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cattle goads
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cattle prod.
synonyms: word: cattle prod
stock prod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stock prods
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cattle prod.
synonyms: word: cattle prod
praetexta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: praetextas
form: praetextae
form: prætexta
Etymology: From Latin praetexta (toga), from praetextus, past participle of praetexere (“to weave before, to fringe, border”); prae (“before”) + texere (“weave”).
Senses: examples: text: The officers who had attended the proceſſion, ſtripped off the robes in which they were dreſſed, and caſt them in the flames. Women crowded to the pile, and threw upon it, as a ſacrifice to the manes of the dead, the ornaments of their own perſons, the gorgets and the prætextas of their children.
ref: 1783, Adam Ferguson, chapter II, in The History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic, volume III, Dublin: Printed for Meſſrs. Price, Whitestone, Colles, […], book V, page 73:
text: It gave to Pompey the Great the privilege of appearing in triumphal robes, and with a golden crown at Circensian games, and with a praetexta and golden crown at theatrical plays.
ref: 1886 October 30, Claverley, “The Origin of the Drama, and Old Dramatic Writers of Tragedy”, in Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, volume 62, number 9,350, Supplement, page 2:
text: In ancient Rome, after a boy celebrated his sixteenth birthday he was considered a man. He threw aside the praetexta worn in his youth, and donned the toga of a full-fledged Roman citizen.
ref: 1896 May 17, “A Chicago Boys First Vote”, in The Sunday Inter Ocean, volume 25, number 54, Chicago, Ill., page 23:
glosses: A white robe with a purple border, worn by a Roman boy before he was entitled to wear the toga virilis, or until about the completion of his fourteenth year, and by girls until their marriage. It was also worn by magistrates and priests.
fosseway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fosseways
Etymology: From fosse + way.
Senses: glosses: A Roman military road built with a fosse or ditch on either side for drainage and defense purposes.
fosseways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fosseway
Kurilian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Kurilian
form: most Kurilian
form: Koorilian
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Kuril Islands.
Kurilian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kurilians
form: Koorilian
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the Kuril Islands.
Derived terms: Kurilian Bobtail
Kurilians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kurilian
overfriezed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From over- + friezed.
Senses: examples: text: on their heads were bonnets all opened at the four quarters, overfriezed with flat gold of damask .
ref: 1830, George Payne Rainsford James, Darnley:
glosses: Covered with a frieze, or as if with a frieze.
oxonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxonates
Etymology: From oxonic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt of oxonic acid.
oxonates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxonate
vapulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vapulations
Etymology: Latin vāpulāre (“to be flogged”).
Senses: examples: text: He all the time begs their Mercy, like an Offender at a Whipping-Post, and beseeches their forbearance; but the more importunate he seems for their favourable usage, the severer Vapulation they are to exercise upon him […].
ref: 1698, Ned Ward, The London Spy, I.2:
glosses: The act of beating or whipping.
vapulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vapulation
enlink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enlinks
form: enlinking
form: enlinked
form: enlinked
Etymology: From en- + link.
Senses: examples: text: Do, with his smirch'd complexion, all fell feats
Enlink'd to waste and desolation ?
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
glosses: To connect together, by, or as if by links.
Derived terms: enlinkment
enlinked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enlink
enlinked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more enlinked
form: most enlinked
Senses: examples: text: that lovely payre, / Enlincked fast in wedlockes loyall bond, / Bold Marinell with Florimell the fayre […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Joined together, linked.
enlinking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enlink
enlinks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enlink
jantily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more jantily
form: most jantily
Etymology: From janty + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of jauntily.
overjump
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overjumps
form: overjumping
form: overjumped
form: overjumped
Etymology: From over- + jump.
Senses: glosses: To jump over.
examples: text: Who did beſeech your loues, for our ſucceſſion, / Cannot ſo lightly ouer-iumpe his death / As leaue his woes revengeleſſe: […]
ref: c. 1603 (date written), Iohn Marston, The Malcontent, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for William Aspley, […], published 1604, →OCLC, Act IV, scene iii:
glosses: To omit or ignore.
glosses: To jump too far or too high.
overjumped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overjump
overjumping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overjump
overjumps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overjump
reputeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reputeless
form: most reputeless
Etymology: From repute + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Opinion, […]left me in reputeless banishment,
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
glosses: Not having good repute; disreputable; disgraceful; inglorious.
prodigus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A prodigal person; a spendthrift.
orpeko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Maasai orpeko, from Swahili upepo (“spirit, wind”).
Senses: examples: text: It turned out that the only sure-fire permanent cure for orpeko was Christian baptism.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 965:
text: Orpeko is vividly perceived by Maasai men and women as an outside force that has entered and disrupted their lives.
ref: 2001, Dorothy L. Hodgson, Once Intrepid Warriors, page 260:
text: Others, such as orpeko among the Maasai people of Tanzania, are relatively recent phenomena that originated with foreign contacts.
ref: 2008, New Encyclopedia of Africa, volume IV:
glosses: A form of spirit possession or spiritual sickness among Maasai people, especially women.
United States of Europe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the United States of Europe
Senses: examples: text: And let us be clear: anything less than a United States of Europe will not be powerful enough to prevent the looming disaster.
ref: 2011, Joschka Fischer, Europeanizing Europe:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A name given to several similar hypothetical scenarios of the unification of Europe, as a single nation and a single federation of states, similar to the United States of America.
angioscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angioscopes
Etymology: From angio- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for examining the capillary vessels of animals and plants.
angioscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angioscope
unsucceedable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsucceedable
form: most unsucceedable
Etymology: From un- + succeed + -able.
Senses: examples: text: And therefore when in the tentation of Christ [Satan] played upon the fallacy, and thought to deceive the Author of truth, the method of this proceeding arose from the uncertainty of his divinity; whereof had he remained assured, he had continued silent; nor would his discretion attempt to unsucceedable a temptation.
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, published 1650, Book I, Chapter 2, p. 5:
glosses: Not able or likely to succeed.
sceletons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sceleton
basiliscs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basilisc
asteriscs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asterisc
arow
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɹoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: a-row
Etymology: From a- + row.
Senses: examples: text: O mistress, mistress, shift and save yourself!
My master and his man are both broke loose,
Beaten the maids a-row and bound the doctor
Whose beard they have singed off with brands of fire
ref: c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
text: , Number 10 “Of Turning,” ¶ 8, p. 184,
And in the middle of the Breadth of the Cross-Greddle is made several holes all arow to receive the Iron Pin set upright in the Treddle.
text: And now the Presses open stand
And ye see them all arow,
But never so more is said of these
Than what is said below.
ref: 1716, “A Description of the Tombs in Westminster-Abby”, in John Dryden, editor, The Third Part of Miscellany Poems, 4th edition, London: Jacob Tonson, page 305:
text: The chairs were all a-row against the walls, with the exception of four or five which stood in a circle round the fire.
ref: 1853, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 8, in Cranford:
glosses: In a row, line, or rank; successively.
categoricalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From categorical + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: But in the mean time […] it looks all ſo like ſubterfuge and inveagling; it is ſo nauſeating and teadious a task, that no man thinks he ovvs the Author ſo much ſervice as to find out the reaſon of his ovvn Categoricalneſs for him.
ref: 1672, [Andrew Marvell], The Rehearsal Transpros’d: Or, Animadversions upon a Late Book, Entituled, A Preface, Shewing what Grounds there are of Fears and Jealousies of Popery, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, pages 57–58:
glosses: The quality of being categorical, absolute, or positive.
senyor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: senyors
Etymology: From Catalan senyor. Doublet of seigneur, seignior, senhor, senior, señor, signore, sir, and sire.
Senses: examples: text: Their relationship was much like that of the patron-client relationships of the senyors and tenants of the past except that, since these senyors had no children, the Deianenc family would be the heirs to the estate they worked.
ref: 1996, Jacqueline Waldren, “The Realities of Paradise”, in Insiders and Outsiders: Paradise and Reality in Mallorca (New Directions in Anthropology; 3), New York, N.Y.; Oxford, Oxfordshire: Berghahn Books, published 2006, →ISBN, pages 26–27:
text: She did not mind the servants gossiping behind the senyors’ backs but did not encourage them.
ref: 2006, Mercè Rodoreda, translated by Josep Miquel Sobrer, “The Servants in Summer”, in A Broken Mirror, London: Daunt Books, →ISBN, part 1, page 104:
text: Afterwards, the senyors opened the doors of their home in Carrer de la Princesa, and all the crème de la crème of Barcelona came to snoop, pay their respects to the happy couple and, while they were there, have a look at the little heiress, who might not be so pretty but she was very rich.
ref: 2015, Care Santos, translated by Julie Wark, “Act II: Cocoa, Sugar and Cinnamon”, in Desire for Chocolate, Richmond, London: Alma Books, →ISBN, page 161:
glosses: A Catalan-speaking gentleman.
gravic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: gravic forces
text: gravic attraction
glosses: gravitational
Derived terms: agravic
somatogravic
inharmoniousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inharmonious + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: the inharmoniousness of a verse
ref: 1768-1777, Abraham Tucker, The Light of Nature Pursued:
glosses: The quality of being inharmonious.
senyors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of senyor
orientality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oriental + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Whose revolution being regular, it hath no power nor efficacy peculiar from its orientality, but equally disperſeth his beams
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The quality of being oriental.
overcostly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overcostly
form: most overcostly
Etymology: From over- + costly.
Senses: examples: text: Philosophy hath indeed armed man for the enduring of all other accidents, whether with patience, or if it be overcostly to be found, with an infallible defeat in conveying her selfe altogether from the sense[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: This doubtless that that they ought to bee many and overcostly, no true Protestant will affirme.
ref: 1641 May, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavses that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC; republished in Will Taliaferro Hale, editor, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England (Yale Studies in English; LIV), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916, →OCLC, page 52:
glosses: Too costly.
residers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resider
transpiratory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: transpirational.
unabsorbable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unabsorbable
form: most unabsorbable
Etymology: From un- + absorbable.
Senses: glosses: Not absorbable.
unbreast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unbreasts
form: unbreasting
form: unbreasted
form: unbreasted
Etymology: From un- + breast.
Senses: examples: text: Could'st thou unmask their pomp, unbreast their heart
ref: 1633, Phineas Fletcher, Piscatorie Eclogues:
text: Alas! the wings of Hope, that soar elate, / On earth fall quivering, soon to faint, and cease, / Leaving the unbreasted clouds to darken and increase.
ref: 1889, Richard Yates Sturges, The Angel of Love: And Other Poems, page 82:
glosses: To disclose or lay open; to unbosom.
unbreasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unbreast
unbreasted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: the unbreasted Amazon warriors
glosses: Having had a breast or breasts removed.
unbreasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unbreast
unbreasts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unbreast
non-pros
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: non-prosses
form: non-prossing
form: non-prossed
form: non-prossed
form: nonpros
Etymology: Short for non prosequitur.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: To decline or fail to prosecute; to allow (a lawsuit) to be dropped.
topics: law
glosses: To enter judgement against (a plaintiff who fails to prosecute).
non-prossed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of non-pros
non-prosses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of non-pros
non-prossing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of non-pros
Mahometanism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mahometan + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: […] in the true style of Mahometanism, [women] are treated as a kind of subordinate beings, and not as a part of the human species, when improveable reason is allowed to be the dignified distinction which raises men above the brute creation, and puts a natural scepter in feeble hand.
ref: 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of Mohammedanism.
wispen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From wisp + -en.
Senses: examples: a wispen garland
glosses: Formed of a wisp; wispy.
wreathy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɹiːði/
Forms: form: more wreathy
form: most wreathy
Etymology: From wreath + -y.
Senses: examples: text: wreathy spires, and cochleary turnings about
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
text: A "wreathy' foliage and concealing shade
ref: 1725–1726, Homer, “Book 6”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:
glosses: twisted; curly; spiral.
castorin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From castor + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A white crystalline substance obtained from castoreum.