cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
transprint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: transprints
form: transprinting
form: transprinted
form: transprinted
Etymology: From trans- + print.
Senses: examples: text: In compliance with the suggestion of a judicious friend, the celebrated conclusion of the fourth Book of Paley's Moral and Political Philosophy […] is here transprinted, for the convenience of the reader: […]
ref: 1825, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character on the Several Grounds of Prudence, Morality, and Religion: […], London: […] Thomas Davison, […] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To transfer to the wrong place in printing; to print out of place.
transprinted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of transprint
transprinting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of transprint
transprints
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of transprint
franchisement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: franchisements
Etymology: Compare Old French franchissement.
Senses: examples: text: On his first quest , the which him forth did call,
To weet , to worke Irenaes franchisement
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: That fate which did thy franchisement inforce, And from the depth of danger set thee free,
ref: 1603, Michael Drayton, The Barons' Wars:
glosses: Release; deliverance; freedom
examples: text: And, as sure as this is black upon a white ground, so sure are we of the franchisement of women.
ref: 1851, Constance Agathat Ogilvy, “The Franchisement of Women”, in Ainsworth's magazine:
text: When the barons met King John and demanded franchisement at his hands, was it based upon the plea that they were mentally equal with him?
ref: 1898, Official Report of the Proceedings and Debates of the Utah. Constitutional Convention:
text: The idea is that purpose is but a small and minute technology, albeit extremely potent to the franchisement of the unknown. In other words, you use the success of the proven model —namely, the purpose you have come to accept as your call—and then maximize it by branching off into other areas of interest. However, without first understanding your purpose, franchisement is impossible.
ref: 2015, Dwight C. Grant, Purpose Is Not Enough: Purpose Quantified:
glosses: Right; privilege, especially the right to vote.
franchisements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of franchisement
topstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: topstones
Etymology: From top + stone.
Senses: glosses: A stone that is placed on the top, or which forms the top, e.g. of a henge.
Hyponyms: capstone
topstones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of topstone
overdelighted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overdelighted
form: most overdelighted
Etymology: From over- + delighted.
Senses: glosses: delighted beyond measure; excessively delighted
reverberative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈvɜː.bə.ɹə.tɪv/
ipa: /ɹəˈvɜː.bɹə.tɪv/
ipa: /ɹəˈvɝ.bəˌɹeɪ.tɪv/
Forms: form: more reverberative
form: most reverberative
Etymology: From reverberate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: reverberative effects
text: reverberative sounds
text: This reverberative influence is that which we have intended above, as the influence of the maſs upon its centres.
ref: 1860, Isaac Taylor, “Essay I. Ultimate Civilization.”, in Ultimate Civilization and Other Essays, London: Bell and Daldy […], →OCLC, part I, section VII, page 76:
glosses: Tending to reverberate or reflect.
reconvertible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From re- + convertible.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Capable of being reconverted; convertible again to the original form or condition.
examples: text: reconvertible room
glosses: Able to be reconverted
auxiliarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From auxiliary + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of auxiliarly.
auxiliarly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more auxiliarly
form: most auxiliarly
Etymology: From auxiliar + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: [E]very one of them as they ſavv moſt advantageous to them, took and left the Britiſh Lavves and Cuſtoms or ſome of them, and in ſo doing vvere but vviſe in their Generation, and both ſerved themſelves of, and ſecure themſelves by, the Providences God gave them auxiliarly to them, […]
ref: 1663, Edward Waterhous[e], chapter XVI, in Fortescutus Illustratus; or A Commentary on that Nervous Treatise De Laudibus Legum Angliæ, Written by Sir John Fortescue Knight, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Roycroft for Thomas Dicas […], →OCLC, page 234:
glosses: By way of help.
freebooty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: freebootery
lucerative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of lucrative.
hyoglossi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhaɪ.oʊˈɡlɑˌsaɪ/
ipa: /ˌhaɪ.oʊˈɡlɔˌsaɪ/
Senses: glosses: plural of hyoglossus
hyoglossus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhaɪ.oʊˈɡlɑs.əs/
ipa: /ˌhaɪ.oʊˈɡlɔs.əs/
rhymes: -ɒsəs
rhymes: -ɔːsəs
Forms: form: hyoglossi
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin hyoglōssus, clipping of musculus hyoglōssus (“hyoglossal muscle”).
Senses: examples: text: The Muscles of the Tongue are: the Genio-hyoglossus, which is the protruder; — the Hyoglossus, which is the depressor or retractor, or muscle which draws the tongue in; […]
ref: 1895, Edmond Souchon, Resume of Lectures on Anatomy, page 10:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A flat muscle on either side of the tongue, connecting it with the body and the thyrohyal of the hyoid bone.
Derived terms: hyoglossal
misconceiver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misconceivers
Etymology: From misconceive + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who misconceives.
misconceivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misconceiver
inconcerning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪŋkənˈsɜː(ɹ)nɪŋ/
Forms: form: more inconcerning
form: most inconcerning
Etymology: From in- + concerning.
Senses: examples: text: indifferent and inconcerning matters
ref: 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC:
glosses: unimportant
toothbill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toothbills
Etymology: From tooth + bill.
Senses: glosses: The tooth-billed pigeon (Didunculus strigiostris), a fruit-eating pigeon native to the Samoan Islands, somewhat resembling the extinct dodo.
Synonyms: manumea
toothbills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toothbill
assailer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assailers
Etymology: From Middle English assailour, from Anglo-Norman assaillour; equivalent to assail + -er.
Senses: synonyms: assailant
glosses: Someone who assails
assailers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assailer
festinately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more festinately
form: most festinately
Etymology: From festinate + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Go, tenderness of years; take this key, give enlargement to the swain, bring him festinately hither.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
glosses: In a festinate manner; hastily; hurriedly.
indisciplinable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more indisciplinable
form: most indisciplinable
Etymology: From in- + disciplinable.
Senses: synonyms: undisciplinable
glosses: Not disciplinable; impossible to discipline.
unconcernment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + concern + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: It is he alone who can look Death and Danger in the Face with a rational Unconcernment
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
glosses: Lack of concern; unconcern.
variolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From variola + -ic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: variolous
glosses: Of or pertaining to smallpox
Derived terms: antivariolic
frenzical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more frenzical
form: most frenzical
Etymology: From frenzy + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: […] the coldness of her lover, the loss of her reputation, all contributed to make her miserable, and to encrease the frenzical disposition of her mind.
ref: 1751, John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork, Remarks on the Life and Writings of Jonathan Swift:
glosses: frantic
Derived terms: frenzically
Related terms: frenzy
mollah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mollahs
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of mullah.
mollahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mollah
moolahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moolah
ineffaceably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ineffaceably
form: most ineffaceably
Etymology: From ineffaceable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: My knowledge of my mother is very scanty, but very distinct. Her personal appearance and bearing are ineffaceably stamped upon my memory.
ref: 1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter III, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York; Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC, part I (Life as a Slave), page 52:
glosses: In an ineffaceable manner; in a manner that cannot be removed or erased.
Synonyms: sense: in an ineffaceable manner
word: indelibly
sense: in an ineffaceable manner
word: permanently
Related terms: efface
ineffaceable
unerasably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unerasably
form: most unerasably
Etymology: From unerasable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a way that cannot be erased.
fortitudinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fortitudinous
form: most fortitudinous
Etymology: From fortitude + -in- + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: these fortitudinous heroes are awed by the superior fierceness of the lions and tigers
ref: 1788, Edward Gibbon, chapter LII, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:
text: as brave and fortitudinous a man as any in the king's dominions
ref: 1751 December (indicated as 1752), Henry Fielding, Amelia, volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: […] A[ndrew] Millar […], →OCLC:
glosses: Having fortitude; courageous.
subtorrid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + torrid.
Senses: examples: text: subtorrid regions
glosses: Somewhat torrid.
thrombotically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From thrombotic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In terms of, or by means of, thrombosis.
internity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: 1765–70, Henry Brooke, The Fool of Quality; or, The History of Henry, Earl of Moreland
the darkness of a ruined world, the internityof his ever-living light kindled up an externity of corporal irradiation
glosses: State of being within; interiority.
rigidulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rigidulous
form: most rigidulous
Etymology: From rigid + -ule + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: a rigidulous bristle
text: rigidulous hairs
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Somewhat rigid or stiff.
paijama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paijamas
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of pajama.
paijamas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paijama
attitudinizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attitudinizers
Etymology: From attitudinize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Alsop is a violent attitudinizer, and one of the attitudes he strikes is that of the patrician American, a vanishing breed.
ref: 1976, Saul Bellow, To Jerusalem and Back, New York: Viking Press, page 112:
glosses: One who attitudinizes, or practises poses.
attitudinizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attitudinizer
oscinine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oscinine
form: most oscinine
Etymology: Latin oscen (“songbird”)
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Oscines, or songbirds (birds of the clade Passeri).
Synonyms: oscine
infumated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more infumated
form: most infumated
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a cloudy appearance.
metanephritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Archaic form of metanephric.
spectioneer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spectioneers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of specksioneer.
spectioneers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spectioneer
humbugger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌmbʌɡə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈhəmˌbəɡɚ/
Forms: form: humbuggers
Etymology: From humbug + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Under theſe circumſtances the Humbugger attacks the man whom he has ſelected for his butt; and while he proſtitutes his own candour to the raiſing his good opinion of himſelf too high, he gives the ſignal to every body about him to laugh at him for a coxcomb for doing ſo.
ref: 1772 November, “A Short Dissertation on the Modern Art of Humbugging”, in The Covent-Garden Magazine; or, Amorous Repository: Calculated Solely for the Entertainment of the Polite World, and the Finishing of a Young Gentleman's Education, volume I, London: Printed for the authors; and sold by G. Allen, No. 59, in Pater-noster Row, and all other booksellers in Great-Britain and Ireland, →OCLC, page 176:
text: Here's a Humbugger come, / Will prove the reſt nothing at all, / 'Tis a Jobber, a Factor, / A damn'd Corn Contractor, / Who makes all our Loaves be ſo ſmall; […]
ref: 1796, “The Nine Days Wonder! or the Humbug of Butcher Row. Sung by Mr. Dighton.”, in Songs, &c. in The Spirit of the Grotto. Or an Hour at Weybridge. A Musical Spectacle, as Performed at Sadler's Wells, [London?]: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 12:
glosses: One who humbugs; a cheat or swindler.
transplendency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: the Divine Transplendency appears
ref: 1672, Henry More, A brief Reply to a late Answer to Dr. Henry More his antidote against Idolatry:
text: The Supreme glory dwells there, and there the cherubic forms fly on mystic wheels, and lighten the majestic scene with their transplendency.
ref: 1855, R. K. Ashley, Glances Over the Field of Faith and Reason:
text: that great aureole of white
Transplendency that purifies the sight
ref: 2012, Ephriam Sando, Madonna of the Snows / a Mass for Desdemona:
glosses: The quality or state of being transplendent.
creable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹiːəbəl/
Etymology: From Latin creābilis, from creō (“create”). See create.
Senses: examples: text: [Space] cannot be a created Subſtance; becauſe vve cannot conceive it creable or annihilable; and therefore it carries vvith it an Idea of neceſſary Exiſtence; […]
ref: 1733, I[saac] W[atts], “Essay I. A Fair Enquiry and Debate Concerning Space. Sect[ion] V. Space Cannot be God.”, in Philosophical Essays on Various Subjects, […], London: […] Richard Ford […], and Richard Hett […], →OCLC, page 19:
synonyms: creatable
glosses: Capable of being created.
holostomate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of holostomatous.
infralabial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪbiəl
Etymology: From infra- + labial.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Below the lower lip; said of certain scales of reptiles and fishes.
infralabial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪbiəl
Forms: form: infralabials
Etymology: From infra- + labial.
Senses: glosses: Any scale below the lower lip.
intermittingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intermitting + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Mine, which intermittingly raged for ten years, was rheumatism in the face combined with toothache
ref: 1821 September–October, [Thomas De Quincey], “(please specify the page)”, in Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 2nd edition, London: […] [J. Moyes] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1823, →OCLC:
glosses: With intermissions; at intervals.
Derived terms: unintermittingly
poetship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poetships
Etymology: From poet + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The state or character of a poet.
poetships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poetship
sumph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sumphs
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: examples: text: His daughter, that sumph that was Mistress Bruce, fair jumped as she heard the bang of the door [...].
ref: 1933, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Cloud Howe (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 312:
glosses: A dunce; a blockhead.
Derived terms: sumphish
sumph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sumphs
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of sump (“lowest part of a mineshaft, into which water drains”).
sumphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sumph
turacoverdin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See turaco, verdant, -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A green uroporphyrin pigment found in the feathers of the turaco.
Related terms: turacin
supertragical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supertragical
form: most supertragical
Etymology: From super- + tragical.
Senses: glosses: Highly or excessively tragical.
wesand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wesands
Senses: examples: text: That with the Straint , his Wesand nigh he brast
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of weasand.
wesands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wesand
frostfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frostfishes
form: frostfish
Etymology: From frost + fish. In the case of the tomcod, so called because it is abundant on the New England coast in autumn at about when frost comes.
Senses: glosses: The tomcod.
glosses: The smelt.
glosses: The scabbardfish.
frostfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frostfish
appreciant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more appreciant
form: most appreciant
Senses: glosses: appreciative
fluctuability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: December 4 1793, Horace Walpole, letter to Miss Berry
Dubious, dubious! Such fluctuability is fit only for a stock-jobber
glosses: The capacity or ability to fluctuate.
proceeder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proceeders
Etymology: From proceed + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who proceeds.
proceeders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proceeder
testamental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛntəl
Etymology: Latin testamentalis.
Senses: examples: text: Thy testamental cup I take, / And thus remember thee.
ref: 1825, James Montgomery, “I Will Remember Thee”, in The Christian Psalmist:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a testament; testamentary.
whipstaff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʍɪpstɑːf/
ipa: /ˈwɪpstɑːf/
Forms: form: whipstaffs
form: whipstaves
Etymology: From whip + staff.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A bar, going through the poopdeck, attached perpendicularly to the tiller for steering a ship.
whipstaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whipstaff
whipstaffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whipstaff
oxybromic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oxy- + bromic.
Senses: examples: text: oxybromic acid
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to, or designating, certain compounds of oxygen and bromine.
hygieist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hygieists
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of hygienist.
hygieists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hygieist
inconsideracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inconsiderate + -cy.
Senses: examples: text: This is the common effect of the inconsideracy of youth , against which I beg you will be most carefully upon your guard.
ref: February 16 1748, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, in Letters to His Son, published in 1774
glosses: The quality of being inconsiderate; thoughtlessness.
hydroferricyanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hydro- + ferri- + cyanic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to, or containing, or obtained from, hydrogen, ferric iron, and cyanogen.
Related terms: hydroferricyanic acid
wheyface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheyfaces
form: whey-face
Etymology: From whey + face.
Senses: glosses: One who is pale, as from fear; a coward.
Related terms: whey-faced
wheyfaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wheyface
observership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: observerships
Etymology: From observer + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The office or work of an observer.
glosses: observance
observerships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of observership
Hebraistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more Hebraistically
form: most Hebraistically
Etymology: From Hebraistical + -ly or Hebraistic + -ally; equivalent to Hebra- + -istically.
Senses: examples: 1843-1845, John Kitto, Cyclopaedia of Biblical Literature
[…] which is Hebraistically used in the New Testament.
synonyms: Hebraically
glosses: In a Hebraistic sense or form.
delitigation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: telling-off; brawl
foiler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foilers
Etymology: From foil + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who foils or frustrates.
foilers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foiler
importunable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more importunable
form: most importunable
Etymology: From importune + -able?
Senses: examples: text: [N]o ſooner vvere they left to ſtand vpon their ovvne baſis, but that they felt the vveight of their done vvrongs too importunable for them any longer to beare; […]
ref: 1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “Henrie the Eight of that Name, […]”, in The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], London: […] William Hall and John Beale, for John Sudbury and George Humble, […], →OCLC, book IX ([Englands Monarchs] […]), paragraph 3, page 754, column 1:
glosses: Heavy; insupportable.
keld
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: […] the Otter then that keepes
 In the wild Riuers, in their Bancks and Sleeps,
 And ſeeds on Fish, which vnder water ſtill,
 He with his keld ſeet, and keene teeth doth kill;
 The other two into the Arke doth follow,
 Though his ill ſhape doth cauſe him but to wallow[…]
ref: 1630, Michael Drayton, “Noahs Floud”, in The Muses Elizium Lately Discouered, page 98:
glosses: Having a kell or covering; webbed.
keld
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kelds
Etymology: From Old Norse kelda (“spring”).
Senses: examples: text: Than thou to'nns [turns] doon o' t'left hand an' t'keld's a matter o' tunty yards doon t'bank.
ref: 1870, Atkinson, Lost, page xxii
text: […] locusts and varying climatic conditions ravage the kelds, and much of the land is bad or indifferent.
ref: 1898, Journal of the South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, volumes 1-3, page 170
text: On the outer margins of the Wolds, however, there are […] Foul Sike, Keld Sike, The Kelds, Cold Kelds, Keld Ings, The Swang (a marsh or spongey ground) and The Whams at Settrington, […]
ref: 1898, Transactions of the East Riding Antiquarian Society, volume 6, page 23:
glosses: A marshy place or a spring.
oxamethylane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: methyl oxamate
unshent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unshent
form: most unshent
Etymology: From un- + shent.
Senses: examples: text: Ho! all ye females that would live unshent, / Fly from the reach of Cyned's regiment.
ref: 1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC:
text: Then sprang upon each other / those knights on honor bent, / And each from wounds deep cutting / sought to keep him all unshent.
ref: 1904, George Henry Needler, “How the Margrave was Slain”, in The Niebelungenlied Translated in Rhymed English, Reprint edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2005:
glosses: Not shent; not disgraced; blameless.
weftage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From weft + -age.
Senses: examples: text: And one Example we have (it may be more than one) wherein Nature shews, though not a greater, yet a different Art; and that is the Palm-Net. For whereas in other Plants, the Webb is made betwixt the Lignous-Strings and the Fibers of the Parenchyma, only visible through a Microscope: here the said Strings themselves are Interwoven, and the Weftage apparent to the bare Eye.
ref: 1682, Nehemiah Grew, The Anatomy of Plants (book IV, page 156, section 21)
glosses: texture (of fabric)
Derived terms: interweftage
uncleship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uncleships
Etymology: From uncle + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: Being without a family, I am flattered with these temporary adoptions into a friend's family; I feel a sort of cousinhood, or uncleship, for the season
ref: 1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The state of being an uncle; uncledom
uncleships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uncleship
raisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more raisable
form: most raisable
Etymology: From raise + -able.
Senses: examples: text: raisable roof
text: raisable stakes
text: raisable furniture
text: raisable hand
text: raisable barrier
text: raisable stool
antonyms: unraisable
glosses: Capable of being raised.
creasote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creasotes
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of creosote.
creasote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: creasotes
form: creasoting
form: creasoted
form: creasoted
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of creosote.
creasotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creasote
contrabandism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From contraband + -ism.
Senses: glosses: trading in contraband goods; smuggling
Synonyms: smugglery
smuggling
crocein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: croceins
Etymology: See croceous, + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several synthetic yellow or scarlet dyestuffs that are diazo and sulphonic acid derivatives of benzene and naphthol.
croceins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crocein
metrochrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metrochromes
Etymology: From metro- + -chrome.
Senses: glosses: An instrument with a lantern for measuring colours, used in conjunction with a telescope to note the colours of stars.
Related terms: chromameter
chromometer
metrochromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metrochrome
inquisitorious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inquisitorious
form: most inquisitorious
Senses: examples: text: the land had once enfranchised herself from this impertinent yoke of prelaty , under whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery , no free and splendid wit can flourish
ref: 1642 (indicated as 1641), John Milton, The Reason of Church-governement Urg’d against Prelaty […], London: […] E[dward] G[riffin] for Iohn Rothwell, […], →OCLC:
glosses: inquisitorial.
unbone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unbones
form: unboning
form: unboned
form: unboned
Etymology: From un- + bone.
Senses: glosses: To deprive of bones, as meat; to bone.
examples: text: writhing and unboning their clergy limbs to all the antic and dishonest gestures of Trinculoes
ref: 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC:
glosses: To twist about, as if boneless.
Synonyms: debone
bone
unboned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unbone
unboned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: bone-in
text: an unboned chicken
antonyms: boned#Adjective
deboned#Adjective
boneless
glosses: Not having had the bones removed.
unbones
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unbone
unboning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unbone
distitle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /dɪsˈtaɪtəl/
Forms: form: distitles
form: distitling
form: distitled
form: distitled
Etymology: From dis- + title.
Senses: examples: text: the next way to distitle my selfe of honor
ref: 1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC:
antonyms: entitle
glosses: To deprive of a title or right.
distitled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of distitle
distitles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of distitle
distitling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of distitle
overgreatness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + greatness.
Senses: glosses: excessive greatness
exhalement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exhalements
Etymology: From exhale + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: Nor will polished Amber although it send forth a gross and corporal exhalement, be found a long time defective upon the exactest scales.
ref: 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, II.5:
glosses: Exhalation.
exhalements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exhalement
inhospitableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inhospitable + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Did you know that until very recently, more people had been to the moon than had dived beyond depths of six thousand metres? I think about this often – the inhospitableness of certain places.
ref: 2022, Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea, Picador, page 9:
synonyms: inhospitability
antonyms: hospitability
glosses: The state or quality of being inhospitable.
undecidedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From undecided + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being undecided.
unalignable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + alignable.
Senses: glosses: Not alignable.
leglocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛɡˌlɒks/
Senses: glosses: plural of leglock
fubbery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfʌbəɹi/
Etymology: From fub + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: O no, but dreame the moſt fantaſticall: O heauen: O fubbery, fubbery.
ref: c. 1603 (date written), Iohn Marston, The Malcontent, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for William Aspley, […], published 1604, →OCLC, Act I, scene iii:
glosses: Cheating; deception.
organonymy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From organo- + -nymy.
Senses: examples: text: Designation of Organs - Organonymy
ref: 1882, Burt Green Wilder, Anatomical Technology:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The designation or nomenclature of organs.
evacuatories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of evacuatory
evacuatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From evacuate + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: Consequently, disruption of the evacuatory function of the stomach during the first few days after introduction of cystamine and irradiation was more pronounce than when these factors acted separately.
ref: 1973, I.G. Krasnykh, L. A. Tyutin, “Influence of Certain Radioprotective Preparations on the Motor-Evacuatory Function of the Gastrointestinal Tract of Healthy and Irradiated Rats”, in P.P. Saksonov, B.I. Davydov, editor, Problems of Space Biology, page 95:
text: We have located the origins and mechanisms of violence in the violating unbearable affective experience, which occurs as a consequence of failures of attunement or affective containment and in the projective, evacuatory psychological defences that then arise.
ref: 2006, Richard Mizen, Mark Morris, On Aggression and Violence: An Analytic Perspective:
text: Evacuatory dysfunction may be due to mechanical obstruction or functional etiologies or impaired rectal sensation.
ref: 2010, Andrew P. Zbar, Steven D. Wexner, Coloproctology, page 139:
glosses: Pertaining to evacuation, especially evacuation of the gastrointestinal tract.
evacuatory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evacuatories
Etymology: From evacuate + -ory.
Senses: glosses: A purgative; a laxative.
vitrescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Kärsten and Leske term it a zeolite; but its specific gravity and vitrescence forbid this denomination
ref: 1784, Richard Kirwan, Elements of Mineralogy:
glosses: The quality of being vitreous or glassy.
whisperously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more whisperously
form: most whisperously
Etymology: From whisperous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: whisperingly; in a whispering voice
forelend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /fɔː(ɹ)ˈlɛnd/
Forms: form: forelends
form: forelending
form: forelent
form: forelent
Etymology: From fore- + lend.
Senses: examples: text: As if that life to losse they had forelent
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Foretelling: Spirits mine, swift death shall end ye,
Cruel! if seeing me no tears forelend ye,
Sith but the being in thought sets wide mine eyes
For sobbing out my heart’s full memories.
ref: 1912, Ezra Pound, “Ballate”, in Sonnets and Ballate of Guido Cavalcanti:
glosses: to lend in advance
filaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /fɪˈleɪʃəs/
/faɪˈleɪʃəs/
Forms: form: more filaceous
form: most filaceous
Etymology: Latin fīlum (“thread”) + -aceous.
Senses: examples: text: It is the stalk that maketh the filaceous matter commonly
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
text: this organic layer on the ceramic is the remnants of the fibrin adhesive which appear as a short, filaceous structure of subcellular dimensions
ref: 1991, Mário A. Barbosa, Biomaterials Degradation:
synonyms: filamentous
glosses: Composed of threads, stringy.
rhodanate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhodanates
Etymology: From rhodanic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt of rhodanic acid; a sulphocyanate.
rhodanates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhodanate
lyves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lyfe
foremostly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From foremost + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Norfolk rides foremostly, his crest well known; God and Saint George this day fight on our side
ref: 1607, John Webster, Sir Thomas Wyatt:
glosses: In the foremost place or order; among the foremost.
welwitschia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /wɛlˈwɪt͡ʃɪə/
Forms: form: welwitschias
Etymology: From the genus name Welwitschia, after Austrian explorer and botanist Friedrich Welwitsch.
Senses: glosses: Welwitschia mirabilis, a desert plant of southwest Africa.
wikipedia: Friedrich Welwitsch
Derived terms: welwitschia bug
welwitschias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of welwitschia
appellable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more appellable
form: most appellable
Etymology: From Latin appellāre + -able.
Senses: glosses: appealable
featherly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more featherly
form: most featherly
Etymology: From feather + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Like a feather, or feather; feathery.
gazet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gazets
Etymology: From Italian gazeta, gazzetta, probably diminutive of Latin gaza (“royal treasure”).
Senses: glosses: An old Venetian coin of little value.
gazets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gazet
seemingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From seeming + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: So that, certainly, if it were not for the authority of Aristotle and of his learned followers that presses us on the one side and for the seemingness of those reason we have already mentioned which persuade us on the other side, our very eyes would carry us by stream into this consent, that light is no other thing but the nature and substance of fire, spread far and wide and freed from the mixture of all other gross bodies.
ref: 1644, Kenelm Digby, Two Treatises:
glosses: semblance; fair appearance; plausibility
wheatworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheatworms
Etymology: From wheat + worm.
Senses: glosses: Anguina tritici, a nematode worm that attacks wheat.
Synonyms: sense: Anguina tritici
word: ear-cockle nematode
sense: Anguina tritici
word: seed-gall nematode
sense: Anguina tritici
word: seed and leaf gall nematode
sense: Anguina tritici
word: wheat gall nematode
sense: Anguina tritici
word: wheat seed gall nematode
sense: Anguina tritici
word: wheat seed-gall nematode
sense: Anguina tritici
word: wheat seed and leaf gall nematode
wheatworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wheatworm
Vaishnavism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit वैष्णव (vaiṣṇava, “related to Vishnu”) + -ism.
Senses: synonyms: Vishnuism
glosses: A branch of Hinduism focusing on the worship of Vishnu.
Related terms: Vaishnavist
corruptful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /kəˈɹʌptfəl/
Forms: form: more corruptful
form: most corruptful
Etymology: From corrupt + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: corruptful bribes
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 54:
glosses: corrupt; full of corruption.
philanthropistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more philanthropistic
form: most philanthropistic
Etymology: From philanthropist + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Over the wild-surging chaos, in the leaden air, are only sudden glares of revolutionary lightning; then mere darkness, with philanthropistic phosphorescences, empty meteoric lights[.]
ref: 1851, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling:
glosses: philanthropic (pertaining to, or characteristic of, a philanthropist).
outprize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outprizes
form: outprizing
form: outprized
form: outprized
Etymology: From out- + prize.
Senses: examples: text: Sir, you flatter now, / And do outprize my willing industry: [...]
ref: c. 1604–1626, doubtfully attributed to Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Faithful Friends”, in Henry [William] Weber, editor, The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, in Fourteen Volumes: […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] F[rancis] C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington; […], published 1812, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 7:
glosses: To prize beyond value, or excessively.
examples: text: There is nothing may be compared with a faithfull [friend], neither may the waight of gold and siluer outprise his faith and goodnesse […]
ref: 1596, Thomas Lodge, The Diuel Coniured, London: William Mats:
text: Either your vnparagon'd Miſtirs is dead, or ſhe's out-priz'd by a trifle.
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv], page 372, column 1:
text: I do confesse the Prince for many reasons might not only be allowed but wished a second, and succesfull love; that he may know our Sex have joyes that may outprise his sufferings […]
ref: 1659, Walter Montagu, The Shepherd’s Paradise, London: Thomas Dring, act III, page 63:
glosses: To exceed in value.
outprized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outprize
outprizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outprize
outprizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outprize
nucleolated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: nucleolate
glosses: Having a nucleolus (second inner nucleus).
Derived terms: binucleolated
tubercled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tubercled
form: most tubercled
Etymology: From tubercle + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: a tubercled lung
text: a tubercled plant
text: a tubercled shell
text: a tubercled stalk
glosses: Having, or affected with, tubercles.
specteral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of spectral.
onerosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From onerous + -ity, from Latin onerositas.
Senses: glosses: Onerousness.
examples: text: It may be presumed to be a necessary ingredient in onerosity, that the obligation to be fulfilled is a legal one.
ref: 1845, John Hill Burton, The Law of Bankruptcy, Insolvency, and Mercantile Sequestration, in Scotland, W. Tait, page 145:
qualifier: Scots law
glosses: The legal state of affairs resulting from being done or given in return for receipt of something of value.
Synonyms: burdensomeness
maneating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From man + eating.
Senses: examples: text: Well known maneating tigers were killed in several districts.
ref: 1907, Fur-fish-game, volumes 5-6, page 129:
text: 1959, John Taylor, Maneaters and marauders, snippet
A big maneating croc had appeared in the lagoon of Lifumba
text: They reflect what we are, maneating gods the gods of maneating men, beautiful Olympians the gods of the first humanists.
ref: 1998, Stephen P Fishelman, The Measure of Man, page 84:
glosses: Alternative form of man-eating.
maneating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From man + eating.
Senses: examples: text: Corbett described maneating as the compulsive seeking of human flesh by carnivores
ref: 1993, Arjan Singh, The legend of the maneater, page 83:
text: In general, maneating is only an infinitesimally small factor of mortality amongst people.
ref: 2002, Hans Kruuk, Hunter and hunted: relationships between carnivores and people, page 75:
glosses: The consumption of human flesh by animals
Derived terms: maneater
dirty weekend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dirty weekends
Senses: glosses: A weekend break for a couple, without their children, giving them the opportunity to have sex.
Synonyms: word: Florida honeymoon
metal shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metal shops
Senses: glosses: A class where metalwork is taught.
glosses: The room where these classes take place.
glosses: A shop that deals in metalworking
shop floor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shop floors
form: shopfloor
Senses: glosses: The public area of a retail store, as distinct from rooms for staff such as offices.
glosses: The area of a factory or workshop where the operatives work, as distinct from the administrative areas.
Synonyms: sales floor
floor
Derived terms: shop-floor struggle
Related terms: coalface
hypometabolism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypo- + metabolism.
Senses: glosses: The physiological state of having a decreased rate of metabolic activity
toe scour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Damage caused at the outside base of a dam wall due to overflowing flood waters damaging the foundations.
high scaler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high scalers
Senses: glosses: Any of the dam construction workers who abseiled the canyon walls to prepare the surface for the concrete pour.
balljoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balljoints
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ball joint.
hæmostasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hemostasis.
chronick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chronick
form: most chronick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of chronic.
connexionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From connexional + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Dated form of connectionally.
connectionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: connexionally
Etymology: From connectional + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a connectional manner.
reflectionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: reflexionally
Etymology: From reflectional + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a reflectional manner.
reflexionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From reflexional + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of reflectionally.
reflexional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reflexional
form: most reflexional
Etymology: From reflexion + -al.
Senses: glosses: Dated form of reflectional.
inflexionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From inflexional + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Dated form of inflectionally.
inflectionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: inflexionally
Etymology: From inflectional + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an inflectional manner.
deflexional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more deflexional
form: most deflexional
Etymology: From deflexion + -al.
Senses: glosses: Dated form of deflectional.
rambunxious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rambunxious
form: most rambunxious
Senses: examples: text: "I guess the governor'd be rambunxious, as usual, if I was to ask his permission," the dutiful son remarked; "but he's going away for a few days next week, and mother won't hinder me, I know."
ref: 1873 March, W[illia]m S. Walsh, “How We Watched the Grapes”, in J[ohn] T[ownsend] Trowbridge, Lucy Larcom, editors, Our Young Folks. An Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls, volume IX, number III, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, […], →OCLC, page 181:
glosses: Rare spelling of rambunctious.
prophane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: prophaner
form: more prophane
form: prophanest
form: most prophane
Senses: examples: text: Sneerers and prophane wits may perhaps laugh at her first fright; yet my graver reader, when he considers the time of night, the summons from her bed, and the situation in which she found her master, will highly justify and applaud her conduct […]
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of profane.