cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tombology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tomb + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: The earliest authentic instance of tombology we have been enabled to discover is an inscription completely at variance with all our modern ideas of grave-yard poetry.[…]The melon disease, however, is not the only one which has the honour of a place in the archives of tombology.[…]At Pewsey (from which parish we believe an eminent divine of the present day takes his honoured name)—or Pusey, as some spell it—in Wiltshire, we meet with a most singular combination in the annals of tombology, wherein not only the virtues and the failings, the talents and the artistic skill, of the deceased are stated with more than usual freedom, but her relationship to a distinguished Irish statesman, and also to a certain Lady Jones, appear to be introduced as a sort of guarantee for her happiness in the world to come:—[…]
ref: 1863, B[ourchier] W[rey] Savile, “The End of Man. […]”, in Man; or, The Old and New Philosophy: […], London: Hurst and Blackett, […], pages 261, 279, and 286:
text: (2.) Dr. Lepsius, in his Letters from Egypt, and also in the numerous volumes of folio plates of his Denkmaeler—deeply learned in hieroglyphic Egyptology and tombology.
ref: 1868, “A Clergyman” [William Mackenzie], “Note II.—Works on the Great Pyramid.”, in The Pyramid and the Bible, the Rectitude of the One in Accordance with the Truth of the Other, Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, page 93:
text: There is an even more pronounced political purpose in the tombology of King Tongmyong, regarded as “the ancestral father” of the Koguryo dynasty which flourished around here some 1,500 years ago.
ref: 1995, Asian Bulletin, page 6, column 1:
glosses: The study of tombs.
korymbos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: korymboi
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κόρυμβος (kórumbos).
Senses: glosses: A jewel-studded globe containing the top hair of the ruler of the Sasanian dynasty of Iran, resting on his crown.
Related terms: corymbus
korymboi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of korymbos
kotwalee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kotwalees
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of kotwali.
kotwalees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kotwalee
kotwali
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kotwalis
form: kotwalee
Senses: glosses: A police station.
Related terms: kotwal
kotwalis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kotwali
kriophoros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kriophoroi
Senses: glosses: Synonym of criophore.
synonyms: word: criophore
kriophoroi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kriophoros
isoanabase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isoanabases
Etymology: From iso- + ana- + base.
Senses: examples: text: The northern part is the most important uplift zone in Romania, while the southern part has a similar velocity to the other mountains in Romania. The Dorna Depression, which in the previous map was only outlined, is contoured by isoanabases with values reduced (+ 3.0 mm/y) in the new one.
ref: 1987, Miron N. Popescu, “Maps of recent vertical crustal movements in Romania: Similarities and differences”, in Journal of Geodynamics, volume 8, numbers 2–4, page 132:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An isobase of equal upheaval.
isoanabases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isoanabase
kshatriyahood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From kshatriya + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being a kshatriya.
kulack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kulacks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kulak.
kulacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kulack
kusimansel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌku.səˈmæn.səl/
Forms: form: kusimansels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cusimanse.
kusimansels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kusimansel
felinology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From feline + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: But your chances of killing the cat decrease as the square of the distance increase. This is an axiom in natural philosophy, and a fundamental truth of felinology.
ref: 1878 October 12, “The Cost in Time and Material of Killing a Cat”, in Daily Evening Republican, volume I, number 288, Columbus, Ind., column 2:
text: Country people in going through strange woods blaze a trail so they can retrace their steps. If animals do the same, are they directed by the blazes of sight or scent? Some veterinarian or one versed in “felinology” might help me and I covet his knowledge on the information asked for.
ref: 1954 June 17, B. C. Threadgill, “The Cat Came Back, But How Did He Do It?”, in The Birmingham News, number 82, Birmingham, Ala., column 5:
text: Especially cats, who think they have done Earth’s entire populace a favor just for being cats. Which also exempts them from blame, according to felinology.
ref: 1982 May 5, Jacqueline Toller, “‘Be Kind’ week celebrated all year”, in The Odessa American, volume 57, number 125, Odessa, Tex., page 2C, columns 3–4:
text: But enough of this stomatology (the study of the mouth, not be confused with philematology, the science of kissing). We have bigger fish to fry in ichthyology, biology, cosmology and — break out the cute cat videos — felinology.
ref: 2015 January 27, Darryl Levings, “Frothy Facts: Wired cats, North Korean hairstyles and space gravel; The Kiss of Minutiae”, in The Kansas City Star, Kansas City, Mo., page D1:
text: Make sure to say hello to drummer Barry Higginson, who aside from his musical skills is considered one of the world’s foremost experts on felinology.
ref: 2017 October 5, “10 To Do”, in Edmonton Journal, Edmonton, Alta., section “Uptights”, page B3, column 3:
glosses: The study of cats.
Derived terms: felinological
felinologically
isocatabase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isocatabases
form: isokatabase
Etymology: From iso- + cata- + base.
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, a combination of inclinometer measurement correlated with isocatabase maps in different time sections can be accepted as an optimal methodology for identification of the underground mining influence on slope deformations.
ref: 2012, Marian Marschalko, Işık Yilmaz, Martin Bednárik, Karel Kubečka, “Deformation of slopes as a cause of underground mining activities: three case studies from Ostrava–Karviná coal field (Czech Republic)”, in Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, volume 184, pages 6709–6733:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An isobase of equal subsidence.
isocatabases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isocatabase
isokatabase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isokatabases
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of isocatabase.
isokatabases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isokatabase
stringifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stringifiers
Etymology: From stringify + -er.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A process or algorithm that stringifies.
stringifiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stringifier
wind gauges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wind gauge
kudzu bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kudzu bugs
Senses: glosses: Megacopta cribraria, a shield bug native to India and China.
kudzu bugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kudzu bug
isodapane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isodapanes
Etymology: Borrowed from German Isodapane, coined by Alfred Weber. Equivalent to iso- + Ancient Greek δαπάνη (dapánē, “cost”).
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
coordinate_terms: isotim
glosses: An isoline joining points on a map with the same total transport costs.
wikipedia: Alfred Weber
isodapanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isodapane
nonenactment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + enactment.
Senses: glosses: Failure to enact.
nonendorsement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + endorsement.
Senses: glosses: Failure to endorse.
nonentitative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + entitative.
Senses: glosses: Not entitative.
nonentityism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nonentity + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being a nonentity.
nonepiscopalian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + episcopalian.
Senses: glosses: Not episcopalian.
epistology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin epistola or its etymon Ancient Greek ἐπῐστολή (epĭstolḗ) + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: Chapter Five is an analysis of several poems further to clarify Carew’s ideas, and six, “The Crown of Bays” treats other genres of Carew’s poetry—epistology and elegy.
ref: 1958, The Yale Literary Magazine, page 50:
text: Considered from the point of view of epistology form, ‘To Mr B.B.’ is interesting as a type of deliberative epistle, with a fairly simple structure:[…]
ref: 1959, University Review, page 18:
text: A further methodological problem of Geniza epistology—aside from the paleographic and stylistic obstacles common to Geniza documents generally—stems from the fact that writers of letters and their addressees (then, as today) knew things of which we are ignorant.
ref: 1980, Mark R. Cohen, “The Problem of Origins”, in Jewish Self-Government in Medieval Egypt: The Origins of the Office of the Head of the Jews, CA. 1065-1126, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 46:
text: Sembene uses the epistology form to elicit the female point of view in sensitive issues. These letters are written by female characters revealing their female experiences.
ref: 1994, Helen Chukwuma, editor, Feminism in African Literature: Essays on Criticism, Enugu: New Generation Books, →ISBN, page 96:
text: We can now go some way towards filling this gap in the Nelson epistology. Five new letters to Cornwallis are included in this book, two of which are placed in this section.
ref: 2005, “Friends”, in Colin White, editor, Nelson: The New Letters, The Boydell Press in association with the National Maritime Museum and the Royal Naval Museum, →ISBN, part one (The Man and the Admiral), page 24:
glosses: The study of letters and epistles.
nonenvious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + envious.
Senses: glosses: Not envious.
noneugenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + eugenic.
Senses: glosses: Not eugenic.
nonfavorite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + favorite.
Senses: glosses: Not favorite.
nonfacing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + facing.
Senses: glosses: Not facing.
nonreplacement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + replacement.
Senses: examples: text: If the foregoing details some central historical features of white racial citizenship, recent movements for white nonreplacement are distinguished by a more strongly politicized stance of hegemony: the effort to claim the nation as a white nation, even as demographic shifts erode white numerical majorities.
ref: 2020 December 11, Michael Feola, ““You Will Not Replace Us”: The Melancholic Nationalism of Whiteness”, in Political Theory, volume 49, number 4, →DOI, pages 528-553:
glosses: Failure to replace; absence of replacement.
nonrespirable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + respirable.
Senses: glosses: Not respirable.
nonretraceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + retraceable.
Senses: glosses: Not retraceable.
nonseditious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + seditious.
Senses: glosses: Not seditious.
novitiateship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From novitiate + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The role or status of a novitiate.
nanocephalia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nanocephaly.
nebbuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nebbucks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nebek.
nebbucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nebbuck
needleproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From needle + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Resistant to being punctured by needles.
neoteristic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neoteristic
form: most neoteristic
Senses: glosses: Being or relating to a neoterism.
nidologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nidologists
Etymology: From nidology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies nests.
nidologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nidologist
beriberic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From beriberi + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to the disease beriberi.
bespatterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bespatterers
Etymology: From bespatter + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who bespatters.
bespatterers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bespatterer
bespatterings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bespattering
bestatued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From be- + statue + -ed.
Senses: examples: a bestatued plaza
glosses: Having a statue or statues.
cattess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cattesses
Senses: examples: text: “Original Rhodean goddess,” she intoned. “The Original Asiatic Cattess, the one on which the Sphinxes were modeled!” “What Cattess?” “This cat has sprung out of the walls full-fledged. Look at it. It is sitting in judgment on one hand, yet not fully aware of its human condition on the other, calling with a voice which it does not even recognize as its own! It has immense power! It’s a matter of form, that’s all. It could be a reincarnation, a goddess incarnate, anything![…]” “The Original Cattess has spoken,” said Barbara.
ref: 1962, Daphne Athas, “Barbara”, in Greece by Prejudice, →LCCN, pages 154–155:
text: It would be worth paying admission to see a tomcat meet a cattess wearing Sani-Panties.
ref: 1966, Bil Gilbert, “Pet Yummies”, in Bears in the Ladies’ Room and Other Beastly Pursuits, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, page 187:
text: I remember him, that first evening, declining trifle for pudding: ‘It is the ’orrible custard and the bread of yesterday,’ and also answering my query as to whether the scream of cats in sexual congress on an adjacent Beak Street roof-top was caused by pleasure or pain with: ’Pleasure for the cat, and pain for the cattess’.
ref: 1977, George Melly, Rum, Bum and Concertina, Futura Publications Limited, published 1978, →ISBN, page 80:
text: Some French dude food commanded me to come with him and gave me this ridiculous coiffure and coloured me pink and gave me to a luscious looking cattess who has been very nice to me.[…]Only the cattess is gone and my feline littermate and I have been left to our own devices.[…]Another cattess, kinda pale but formerly tabby, popped out of a book and seems to be hooking up everyone in the castle, including my original cattess.
ref: 2010, Christine Wilson, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Anne Sutton, Rebecca Gresham, Rachael Sharma, Cathrine Garnell, Mara Strydom, Teri Offield, Etta Finta, Clawless: A Soap Opurra for Cats, Authors OnLine Ltd, →ISBN, pages 219–220:
glosses: Alternative spelling of catess.
cattesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cattess
Azerbaijanese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Azerbaijanese
form: most Azerbaijanese
Senses: glosses: Azerbaijani
Azerbaijanese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: People from Azerbaijan.
Mbaye
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mbayes
Etymology: Borrowed from Wolof.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Wolof.
Machiavellianly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more Machiavellianly
form: most Machiavellianly
Etymology: From Machiavellian + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a Machiavellian manner.
Machiavellistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Machiavellistic
form: most Machiavellistic
Senses: glosses: Machiavellian
Machiavellic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Machiavellic
form: most Machiavellic
Senses: glosses: Machiavellian
Machiavellist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Machiavellists
Senses: glosses: A Machiavellian.
Machiavellists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Machiavellist
machinoclast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: machinoclasts
Etymology: From machine + -o- + -clast.
Senses: glosses: A person who destroys machines.
machinoclasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of machinoclast
machinization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: machinizations
Senses: glosses: The process or result of machinizing.
machinizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of machinization
macrochemically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From macrochemical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of macrochemistry.
macrocephalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: macrocephaly
magazinelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magazinelets
Etymology: From magazine + -let.
Senses: examples: text: About Magazinelets: We Print 'Em. Everyone with ideas who can afford from six to twelve dollars once in a while should publish a magazinelet, say once a month, for distribution among their friends and enemies.
ref: 1908, Tomorrow Magazine, page 10:
glosses: A little magazine.
magazinelets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magazinelet
magicalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: magicalizes
form: magicalizing
form: magicalized
form: magicalized
Etymology: From magical + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make magical.
magicalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of magicalize
magicalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of magicalize
magicalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of magicalize
maintainment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From maintain + -ment.
Senses: examples: the construction and subsequent maintainment of a bridge
glosses: maintenance
Pont-y-Gof
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pont-y-Gôf
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SO1610).
nervus intermedius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnɝ.vəs ˌɪn.tɚˈmi.di.əs/
rhymes: -iːdiəs
Forms: form: nervi intermedii
form: intermediate nerve
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin nervus intermedius (“intermediate nerve”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
synonyms: glossopalatine nerve
nerve of Wrisberg
glosses: The branch of the facial nerve that contains sensory and parasympathetic fibers and that supplies the anterior tongue and parts of the palate and fauces.
ambush television
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The reasoning usually goes along the lines: ' Talk shows, which started out innocently, have degenerated into ambush television'.
ref: 2002, Toni Johnson-Woods, Big Bother, page 210:
text: The case had focused attention on “ambush” television and titillating daytime TV tactics, with Schmitz's lawyers arguing that the show misled him into believing he was going to meet the woman of his dreams.
ref: 2005, Sherry Diestler, Becoming a Critical Thinker: A User Friendly Manual, page 132:
text: Having been a former high school cheerleader and beauty queen, Birdee is remembered by everyone and pitied for her embarrassment on "ambush" television.
ref: 2010, Melvin Donalson, Black Directors in Hollywood, page 311:
glosses: A television format in which guests are deliberately tricked into embarrassing or upsetting confrontations.
examples: text: An "ambush" television interview conducted on a public street does not violate the federal wiretap statute.
ref: 1989, LDRC 50-state Survey - Volume 7; Volumes 9-11, page 593:
text: An increasingly controversial incarnation of reality television is the hidden camera show, or “ambush television,” in which a prank is played at the expense of an unsuspecting victim.
ref: 2004, Virginia Sports and Entertainment Law Journal - Volume 4, page 82:
text: Politicians have learned to apply a fixed smile to disguise the blind panic as Chaser representative goes about his line in ambush television.
ref: 2006, The Bulletin - Issues 6527-6535, page 22:
glosses: A television format in which a hidden camera captures a public prank played on unsuspecting people.
Related terms: ambush journalism
nervi intermedii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnɝˌvaɪ ˌɪn.tɚˈmi.diˌaɪ/
Senses: glosses: plural of nervus intermedius
glossopalatine nerve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glossopalatine nerves
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Synonym of nervus intermedius.
synonyms: word: nervus intermedius
hyperphoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to hyperphoria.
hyperphoric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperphorics
Senses: glosses: A person who has hyperphoria.
nerve of Wrisberg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nerves of Wrisberg
Etymology: Named after Heinrich August Wrisberg.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Synonym of nervus intermedius.
synonyms: word: nervus intermedius
topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: A small nerve of the upper arm arising from the brachial plexus and distributed especially to the skin of the medial side.
Synonyms: Wrisberg's nerve
Related terms: Wrisberg's cartilage
hyphaene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyphaenes
Senses: glosses: Any palm of the genus Hyphaene
intermediate nerve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intermediate nerves
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Direct translation form of nervus intermedius.
hypnaesthesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypn- + -aesthesis.
Senses: glosses: drowsiness
Related terms: hypnaesthesic
hypnaesthesic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to hypnaesthesis; drowsy
hypnagogically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a hypnagogic manner
auriculares anteriores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔˌɹɪk.jəˌlɛɹˌiz ænˌtɪɹ.iˈɔɹˌiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of auricularis anterior
isotim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isotims
Etymology: Borrowed from German Isotim, coined by Alfred Weber. Equivalent to iso- + Ancient Greek τιμή (timḗ, “value”).
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
coordinate_terms: isodapane
glosses: An isoline joining points on a map with the same transport costs for a particular product.
wikipedia: Alfred Weber
isotims
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isotim
auriculares posteriores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔˌɹɪk.jəˌlɛɹˌiz poʊˌstɪɹ.iˈɔɹˌiz/
ipa: /-pɑˌstɪɹ-/
Senses: glosses: plural of auricularis posterior
hypochondrial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the hypochondrium (the upper region of the abdomen beneath the lower ribs).
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to hypochondriasis; hypochondriac.
auriculares superiores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔˌɹɪk.jəˌlɛɹˌiz sʊˌpɪɹ.iˈɔɹˌiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of auricularis superior
corrugatores superciliorum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɔɹ.əɡ.əˌtɔɹˌiz ˌsu.pɚˌsɪl.iˈɔɹ.əm/
Senses: glosses: plural of corrugator supercilii
take fright
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes fright
form: taking fright
form: took fright
form: taken fright
Senses: examples: text: Meredith referred to the turnpike or carriage road constructed by the Tredegar Iron Company alongside the tramroad from Penllwyn Mawr to Tredegar, and said there was no fence between the two; he had experienced narrow escapes at times when on horseback, for horses occasionally took fright when meeting locomotives.
ref: 1939 September, Charles E. Lee, “The Sirhowy Valley and its Railways—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 207:
glosses: To suddenly become scared, frightened or panicked.
took fright
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take fright
tephigrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tephigram
belty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more belty
form: most belty
Etymology: From belt + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I recognize now that my voice was changing in middle school because singing in my chest voice was easy (especially in a belty fashion) but singing anything moderately high was challenging.
ref: 2019, Bridget Sweet, Thinking Outside the Voice Box, page 161:
glosses: Sung using a chest voice above the singer's break or passaggio.
Alțina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Alțina.
Senses: glosses: A commune and village in Sibiu County, Romania.
dogess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dogesses
Senses: examples: text: Bitch, a ſhe dog, or dogeſs;
ref: 1785, [Francis Grose], “Bitch”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, London: […] S. Hooper, […]:
text: ‘Well, he is a tall, very dark gentleman; perhaps with a mallet in his hand, for he is fond of playing at pell mell; but you’ll know him chiefly by all the dogs and dogesses by which he is always surrounded.’
ref: 1871, George Gordon Scott, “The “Mulberry-Tree Tavern” and Its Frequenters”, in Clumber Chase, or Love’s Riddle Solved by a Royal Sphinx. A Tale of the Restoration., volume I, London: T[homas] Cautley Newby, […], page 19:
text: I have heretofore expressed my dislike of dogs and dogesses, but to repeat that these creatures are an anachronism—an impertinent arrival, having about the same right of intrusion into our country as polygamy, serpent worship, and the Berserker madness—excellent institutions of their day and generation, but of no practical use in ours.
ref: 1877 December 8, The Country: A Weekly Journal Devoted to the Dog, the Gun, Yachting, and All Out-Door Sports, volume I, number 7, New York, N.Y., page 82, column 2:
text: Look at that animated and lively young lady in conversation with your friend, Mr. Brown-Bear. Her name is Miss English-Terrier. She is one of the smooth-haired dogesses; has a high, round forehead; a quick, intelligent look; all her answers are ready.
ref: 1887 November, Joseph Fraser, “How to Read Men as Open Books”, in The Australian Journal: A Family Newspaper of Literature, Science, and the Arts, volume XXIII, part 270, Melbourne, Vic.: A. H. Massina & Co., […], published 1888, chapter I (A Study of Animal Forms), page 170, column 2:
text: The sea dogs and dogesses who braved all weathers had nosed out those labels, but had so far watched in vain for the chairs to be occupied.
ref: 1920, C. N. Williamson, A. M. Williamson, The Dummy Hand: A Novel, London: Hutchinson & Co., […], page 9:
text: He [David Ray] lives with his wife Judy and dogess Levi in Tucson, Arizona and travels widely giving readings and workshops.
ref: 2002, Allen Cohen, Clive Matson, editors, An Eye for an Eye Makes the Whole World Blind: Poets on 9/11, Regent Press, →ISBN, page 300:
glosses: Alternative spelling of doggess (“female dog”).
dogesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dogess
hypogeocarpous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having fruit beneath the surface of the earth
Bethausen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Bethausen.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Timiș County, Romania.
hypomochlion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypomochlions
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὑπομόχλιον (hupomókhlion) from ὑπο- (hupo-, “under”) + μοχλός (mokhlós, “lever”) + -ιον (-ion)
Senses: glosses: fulcrum
Ghimeș-Făget
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Ghimeș-Făget.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Bacău County, Romania.
hyracid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyracids
Senses: glosses: hyracoid
hyracid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: hyracoid
electrizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: electrifiable
Nocrich
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Nocrich.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Sibiu County, Romania.
electrocortin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: aldosterone
Ilnicki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ilnickis
form: Ilnitski
form: Ilnytskyi
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Ilnicki.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Vlădeni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Vlădeni.
Senses: glosses: A village in Corlăteni, Botoșani County, Romania.
glosses: A commune of Botoșani County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Vlădeni, Botoșani County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Dumbrăvița, Brașov County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Cernătești, Buzău County, Romania.
glosses: A commune of Dâmbovița County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Vlădeni, Dâmbovița County, Romania.
glosses: A commune of Ialomița County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Vlădeni, Ialomița County, Romania.
glosses: A commune of Iași County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Vlădeni, Iași County, Romania.
electrogasdynamics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The transport of ions in a gas
Related terms: electrogasdynamic
electrogild
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: electrogilds
form: electrogilding
form: electrogilded
form: electrogilded
Etymology: From electro- + gild.
Senses: glosses: To electroplate with gold
electrological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From electro- + -logical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to electrology
Ilnytskyi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ilnytskyis
form: Ilnycky
form: Ilnyckyj
form: Ilnytsky
form: Ilnicki
form: Ilnitski
Etymology: From Ukrainian Ільницький (Ilʹnycʹkyj).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Ільницький (Ilʹnycʹkyj).
electrolysable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of electrolyzable.
Ilnitski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ilnitskis
form: Ilnicki
form: Ilnytskyi
Etymology: Respelling of Polish Ilnicki or a transliteration of Russian Ільницький (Ilʹnicʹkij).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
electromagnetical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of electromagnetic.
Ilnyckyj
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ilnyckyjs
form: Ilnycky
form: Ilnytsky
form: Ilnytskyi
form: Ilnicki
form: Ilnitski
Etymology: From Ukrainian Ільницький (Ilʹnycʹkyj).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Ільницький (Ilʹnycʹkyj).
Risdon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Risdons
Etymology: Habitational surname from a place in Devon.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Reichelts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Reichelt
Risdons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Risdon
depressores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdi.pɹɛˈsɔɹˌiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of depressor
Nevils
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nevilses
Etymology: Variant of Neville.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Offers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Offer
Nevilses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Nevils
superior recti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superior rectus
Motl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Motles
Etymology: Borrowed from Czech Motl.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Czech.
inferior recti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inferior rectus
Milanowski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Milanowskis
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Milanowski.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Milanowskis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Milanowski
Motles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Motl
lateral recti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lateral rectus
medial recti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of medial rectus
Mehlman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mehlmans
Etymology: Variant of German Mehlmann.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Mendicino
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mendicinos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Mendicino.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Mendicinos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mendicino
Mehlmans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mehlman
Rogozinski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rogozinskis
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Rogoziński.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Leising
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Leisings
Etymology: Borrowed from German Leising.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: leisingite
cricoarytenoidei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɹaɪ.koʊˌæɹ.ə.tiˈnɔɪ.diˌaɪ/
ipa: /ˌkɹaɪ.koʊ.əˌɹɪt.n̩ˈɔɪ.diˌaɪ/
Senses: glosses: plural of cricoarytenoideus
Mathys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mathyses
Etymology: Borrowed from Swiss German Mathys.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Mathyses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mathys
Leisings
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Leising
Kutner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kutners
Etymology: Variant of German Kuttner.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
cabalas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of cabala
Hucke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Huckes
Etymology: * As an English surname, spelling variant of Huck.
* As a German surname, from huck (“bog”); also from a pet form of the name Hugo.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Huckes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hucke
Kutners
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kutner
McGlory
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McGlorys
Etymology: Variant of McClory.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Chambless
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chamblesses
Etymology: Unexplained. Compare Chambliss.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A ghost town in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
Chamblesses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Chambless
McGlorys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McGlory
Rogozinskis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Rogozinski
Maczkas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Maczka
McKies
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McKie
Ilnickis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ilnicki
Doreys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dorey
Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois.
Senses: glosses: A city in Essonne department, France.
Diggers Rest
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb north-west of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
phenakistoscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: phenakistiscopic
Etymology: From phenakistoscope + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: A modified form of the phenakistoscope, in which the usual figures of horsemen, &c., are replaced in the revolving disk by a double set of highly-coloured circular arcs, all passing through the centre of motion, and intersecting each other, pair and pair, in such a way that the limbs exhibit a slightly different relation in each successive pair, on the same principle as ordinary phenakistoscopic figures are arranged.
ref: 1856, “CHRO’MOTROPE, n.”, in John Ogilvie, editor, A Supplement to the Imperial Dictionary, English, Technological, and Scientific: […], Glasgow; Edinburgh; London: Blackie and Son, […], page 95, column 2:
text: Dear Doctor [Henry G. Wright],—I heard nothing of Mr. [Antoine] Claudet’s paper on the possibility of producing a series of phenakistoscopic figures by means of photography, nor yet of the probability of rendering such appearances more life-like by means of the stereoscope.[…]The phenakistoscopic effect was produced in this wise:—I prepared a kind of paddle-wheel in card-board, with half a dozen floats to it, and upon the front of each of these six floats I pasted one of the stereoscopic pictures—say that intended for the left eye.
ref: 1865 October 16, Henry Mayhew, “On Stereoscopic Phenakistoscopy. To the Editor of the Photographic Journal.”, in Hugh W[elch] Diamond, editor, The Photographic Journal, Being the Journal of the Photographic Society of London. […], volume the ninth, number 162, London: Taylor and Francis, […], page 171, column 2:
text: Also like his peep show forebears, [Émile] Reynaud was interested in stereoscopic moving pictures. To display them, he reverted to phenakistoscopic technology using two drums, each carrying a separate-eye view of the movement.[…]With the phenakistoscopic disk, the left- and right-eye pictures, because they were vertically stacked, did not have equal radii and did not rotate at quite the same speed.
ref: 2007, Ray Zone, “The Peep Show Tradition”, in Stereoscopic Cinema and the Origins of 3-D Film, 1838–1952, The University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 29:
glosses: Of or relating to the phenakistoscope.
phenakistiscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: About the same time, the author had also turned his attention towards the subject, and had practically experienced the difficulty of obtaining together the phenakistiscopic and stereoscopic effects without similar defects.
ref: 1865 September 16, “Science: British Association”, in The Athenæum: Journal of English and Foreign Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts, number 1977, London: […] James Holmes, […] John Francis, section A (Mathematical and Physical Science), page 375, column 1:
text: [Franz von] Uchatius’ experiments with lanterns continued, and by 1853 he had developed a Projecting Phenakistiscope, combining a phenakistiscopic disc with a single magic lantern.
ref: 1971, Gerald Mast, “Birth”, in A Short History of the Movies, New York, N.Y.: Pegasus, →LCCN, page 21:
text: These were the images of course that Muybridge animated using the zoopraxiscope and of which he tried – it seems rather unsuccessfully – to sell engravings, mounted on phenakistiscopic discs, in his hall at the base of the Ferris wheel (Haas 1976: 176).
ref: 2006, Mark Dorrian, “Cityscape with Ferris wheel: Chicago, 1893”, in Christoph Lindner, editor, Urban Space and Cityscapes: Perspectives from Modern and Contemporary Culture, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, part I (Image), page 36:
glosses: Alternative form of phenakistoscopic.
Szikora
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Szikoras
form: Sikora
form: Sykora
Etymology: From Hungarian Szikora, from Proto-Slavic *sykora (“tit (bird)”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Clarkefield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the surname Clarke + field.
Senses: glosses: A town in the City of Hume, north-west of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
3-way
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of three-way.
3-way
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 3-ways
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of three-way.
Agăș
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Agăș.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Bacău County, Romania.
Apahida
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Apahida.
Senses: glosses: A commune and village in Cluj County, Romania.
Juniata
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Tuscola County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village and township in Adams County, Nebraska.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A river in Pennsylvania, which joins the Susquehanna River.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A neighbourhood in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
Four townships in Pennsylvania; in Bedford County, Blair County, Huntingdon County and Perry County.
Derived terms: Juniata County
Fort Wayne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Allen County, Indiana, United States.
bearess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bearesses
Etymology: From bear + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: See, farther, two every-day figures sitting faithfully together like a pair of turtle doves, or a bear and his bearess.[…]The poor horse drew Bear and his Bearess heavily along.
ref: 1842, Mary Howitt, transl., The Neighbours: A Story of Every-Day Life, volume II, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, […], translation of original by Frederika Bremer, pages 149 (chapter XV) and 200 (chapter XVIII):
text: They praised her spirit, and now and then, / The Nurse brought her own little “nevy” Ben, / To play with the future May’ress, / And when he got raps, and taps, and slaps, / Scratches, and pinches, snips, and snaps, / As if from a Tigress or Bearess, / They told him how Lords would court that hand, / And always gave him to understand, / While he rubb’d, poor soul, / His carroty poll, / That his hair had been pull’d by “a Hairess.”
ref: 1842, T[homas] Hood, “Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg. A Golden Legend.”, in The Comic Annual for 1842, London: Henry Colburn, […], section “Her Education”, page 24:
text: For whatever may have been the case with regard to the eminent artiste, there can be no doubt that his keeper, manager, or lessee, was himself an essentially vulgar fellow: by praising what he considered to be the gentility of Mr. Bruin, he was doing, in fact, what the essentially vulgar are prone to do—he was apprehensively insinuating to his companions his claim to the same quality for himself. As with bears and bearesses, so with men and women. The vulgar among them are the most sensitive to the quality of the tune.
ref: 1844 January, John Poole, “Gentility—Vulgarity”, in The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, volume LXX, number CCLXXVII, part the first, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 130:
text: Ah, what tender thoughts must glow / In the budding souls of these / Snow-white virgin bearesses / With their soft and dewy eyes ?
ref: 1914, Herman [George] Scheffauer, transl., Atta Troll, New York, N.Y.: B. W. Huebsch, translation of original by Heinrich Heine, page 141:
text: The animal so driven was Callisto, the bearess. The hunter was Arcas, her son, who failed to recognize her.
ref: 1985, Paul Shepard, Barry Sanders, The Sacred Paw: The Bear in Nature, Myth, and Literature, Viking, →ISBN, page 114:
glosses: Synonym of she-bear.
synonyms: word: she-bear
bearess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bearesses
Etymology: From bearer + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: As it is the only spirit I possess I heed his advice and bring it back to the hotel to find the entire force standing at attention, ready to receive me. I pass on to my room with a procession of bearers and bearesses strung out behind me like the tail of a kite, anything from a tea-tray to the sugar tongs being sufficient excuse for joining the parade.
ref: 1912, Frances Little, The Lady and Sada San: A Sequel to The Lady of the Decoration, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., pages 60–61:
text: Ring bearer and bearess were Larry and Mary Lynn Ayers, Springfield, Va., nephew and niece of the bridegroom.
ref: 1968 April 3, “Greencastle Girl Marries In Arlington, Virginia”, in The Morning Herald, volume XCIV, number 80, Hagerstown, Md.:
text: Some aggressively degenerate Chinese emperors and noblemen used to make a spectacle of their comely female sedan-chair bearers. (Perhaps properly: bearesses or she-bears or bearpersons.)
ref: 1975 December 18, “Tourists main client of China’s dwindling rickshaws”, in The Advocate, Newark, Oh., page 33, column 5:
text: Ring bearess and flower girl were Emily and Elizabeth Goldeman.
ref: 1995 September 19, “Musgrave — Johnson”, in The Ithaca Journal, Ithaca, N.Y., page 6A, column 3:
text: On the other hand, we must say that what distinguishes this “concreteness” is the essential, originary distinction between the “physical” person (the bearer, or bearess of the philosophical discourse) and his or her truly being a philosopher.
ref: 2007, Romano Màdera, Vero Luigi Tarca, “Philosophical Practices as the Valorization and Care for “Beautiful People””, in Philosophy as Life Path: An Introduction to Philosophical Practices, Milan: IPOC di Pietro Condemi, translation of La filosofia come stile di vita: Introduzione alle pratiche filosofiche, →ISBN, pages 186–187:
text: Natalie Ambrusko of Tonawanda, NY was a ring bearess; Katherine Ambrusko of Pittsburgh, PA and Audrey Kefor of Glastonbury, CT were flower girls, all three are cousins of the bride
ref: 2007 December 2, “Hill - Ackers”, in Poughkeepsie Journal, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., page 3I, column 2:
text: The bridesmaids gestured that it was time for the rings and Elizabeth, who was apparently the ring bearess, rose to the occasion.
ref: 2014, Sam Harris, “Promises”, in Ham: Slices of a Life, Gallery Books, →ISBN, page 17:
glosses: A female bearer.
bearesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bearess
Drzymala
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Drzymalas
form: Drzymalla
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Drzymała.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Căpușu Mare
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Căpușu Mare.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Cluj County, Romania.
glosses: A village in Căpușu Mare, Cluj County, Romania.
drop the soap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drops the soap
form: dropping the soap
form: dropped the soap
form: dropped the soap
Etymology: See don't drop the soap.
Senses: glosses: To make oneself available for passive anal sex.
Related terms: don't drop the soap
Nuhaka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: glosses: A small settlement in northern Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.